
Acting
Soad Hosny
Born — Died
1943-01-26 — 2001-06-21
Place of birth
Bulaq, Cairo, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
68 titles
Soad Hosny (January 26, 1943 - June 21, 2001) was an Egyptian actress born in Cairo to a household known as "the artists' home". Her father was renowned calligrapher Mohamed Hosni. Her half-sister Nagat El Saghira was a famous singer. Soad’s career began at a young age and her talents were first noticed by author Abdelrahman El Khamissy. She's one of the most influential actresses in the Arab world and is known as the "Cinderella of the Screen". Hosny appeared in no less than 9 movies listed in the "Top 100 Egyptian films", compiled in 1996 in celebration of the centenary of Egyptian cinema. Soad was known for her versatility as an actress and her ability to play a wide range of characters,…
Known for
7.0A drama consisting of several separate episodes, each episode discusses a different issue of men and women and their relationship with each other.
He and She Stories
1985
7.9Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.
Eshaet Hob
1960
7.6A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
The Second Wife
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nadia
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أيام معه
1967
6.8In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.
Karnak
1975
Film credits
1980s · 9 titles
6.0A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.
Love in a Jail Cell
1983
7.0In a new tale of the epic of Harafish, an unjust bully controls the alley, whose brother was imprisoned unjustly after he fed the poor without his permission. While in prison, his wife is preparing for a revolution by the poor to demolish this corrupt regime and end the tyranny in the alley.
The Hunger
1986
6.4The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.
The Suspect
1981
10.0A historical epic about the battle of Qadiseya, which was helmed by the Arabian knight Saad Ibn Abi Waqas, and which enabled Muslims from conquering Persia in 636 A.D.
Al-Qadisiyya
1981
NRThe movie deals with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the struggle of the Afghan people against them, through the story of an Afghan girl, a university professor and a religious scholar before the deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan For What?
1984
5.5A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping benefits effortlessly. To calm their rage Sorour is appointed as their representative in the council only to unravel their scam further, so they continue their revolt.
The Third Class
1988
6.2Shehata Abu Kaff, goes to Cairo to play for Zamalek club. The club buys him an apartment, but the owner sells the apartment to him and to another lady.
Stranger In My House
1982
7.6This movie revolves around the story of an innocent girl (Nawal) who was married to a rich and possessive man who still wants her back after their divorce; however she meets a hair stylist (Shoukry) and falls in love with him. They get married but her first husband starts torturing Shoukry so he can leave Nawal but he refuses. Eventually, acts of revenge begins from both Nawal and her ex-husband.
A Dinner Date
1981
5.0Zaatar is a thief who works for Zaghloul the owner of an import and export company. Zaghloul exploits Zaatar and makes him smuggle goods from customs. Zaatar gets to know Siham,the sister of officer Mohammed, and they fall in love and he starts working on his own and competes with Zaghloul.
People Of The Top
1981
1970s · 14 titles
6.8In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.
Karnak
1975
7.4When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the writer seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...?
The Choice
1971
6.7The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their sinful relationship is revealed, she is forced to leave for Asyut, where she becomes the mistress of Al Tarabishi, the supplier of slaves.
Shafiqa and Metwally
1978
6.4Adel is a director of a company and is married to Nabila, the daughter of Medhat, the owner of the company. Adel falls in love with the company employee's princess, reveals her feelings and that he was unfortunate in his life with his wife and that his marriage was an interest in relation to his position. A princess shared the same feelings and married her in secret, but Medhat finds out about them.
Amira.. My Love
1975
4.7A girl leaves behind her past life as a dancer working in Mohammed Ali Street and enters college. Her ambition is to acquire knowledge and to leave behind her former life. She finds herself in a relationship with a young man from an affluent background and thus becomes conflicted between her two lives.
Watch Out for Zuzu
1972
4.0The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.
The People and the Nile
1972
7.4Chief Morsy is a lightkeeper staying at a faraway lighthouse. He marries So'aad and shortly returns to the lighthouse where he recounts to Nour his adventures with women. When he sends his wife a letter with Nour, Morsy grows suspicious of his wife's fidelity. Suspicions nourished by his jealousy.
My Wife & the Dog
1971
6.7Laila and Samia are two best friends ,but things are about to change when Laila moves in with Samia and her husband after the tragic death of Laila's husband.
The Lost Love
1970
6.2Aida's marriage is tested by secrets and cultural clash. Starring Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Yassin and Rushdy Abaza.
Where Is My Mind?
1974
NRNadia is a young girl who's torn between the stances of three men in her life; her artist lover, her conservative brother, and her secular professor Fo'uad Ebaid. Will she be able to create her own path in life apart from their beliefs?
Strangers
1973
6.5The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.
Whom Should We Shoot?
1975
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Mean yekdar al-aziza
1975
7.2In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge on Madiha's father who pressured him to marry her to avoid a scandal.
Sunset and Sunrise
1970
NRA wife is forced to marry a man she does not love, even though there is a love relationship between her and another young man. After several years, the revolution declared this false social situation, as it tries to resist and eliminate it. Here it clashes with the traditions and the laws of the surrounding community.
Past Love
1973
1960s · 35 titles
7.9Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.
Eshaet Hob
1960
7.6A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
The Second Wife
1967
8.0When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but his protégé, the sculptor Sherif, also falls for her and competes with Ahmed to win her favor.
A Bit of Torment
1969
7.0Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. The second is a secretary with designs on her boss, even though he too is married. Having learned from her friends' experiences, the third takes an altogether different path.
The Tale of Three Girls
1968
7.0Samiha catches the acting bug while engaged to the neglectful and food-obsessed Salah who spends most of his time cooking. When a handsome film and television director announces a contest to select Egypt's next star, Samiha becomes determined to win it...even if she has to pretend to be thirteen years old.
Too Young for Love
1966
7.3A comedy about a television director who gets provoked by his uncle to avenge his dead father, but he prefers to let things go and get married to Layla. But he then gets informed that one of the members of the family who killed his father was released form prison and is planning to kill him.
The Laughing Crime
1963
8.0Salwa (Soad Hosni) secretly loves Waheed (Mohamed Sultan) . While Waheed loves Nadia (Nadia Lotfy). Meanwhile, Kamal (Moharram Fouad) falls in love with Nadia too, and keeps his love discreet .But when he knows that his friend ,Waheed, loves her, he decides to keep a distance from Nadia.
Men Gheir Ma'ad
1962
7.0Samya is a girl who is on the look for her white knight. First, she falls for the anchor Ahmed but after he proposes, she finds herself falling for the athlete Mokhtar. Then she falls for Dr. Galal, only to find herself unable to choose between the three of them.
3 Men and a Woman
1960
7.0On the night of the wedding of Mohamed (Shukry Sarhan) with Adela (Souad Hosny), a letter arrives to Mohamed benefits that he was promoted and so moved to work in the Jabal "Ataka", but her mother, Aziza (Mary Munib) opposed her daughter from going with her husband to his place of work ,so Mohamed travels alone, Adila challenged her mother and follow her husband.
Hekayet Gawaz
1964
8.0Hoda, a student in a boarding school, is neglected by her father at the behest of his wife. On her vacation, she spends time with her father. Her stepmother and her daughter, Sanaa, treat her badly. When Sanaa's fiancé Farid sees Hoda, he falls for her, as he feels that Sanaa is a reckless girl.
The Headmaster Woman
1968
6.7Noha and Ahmed are in love but face a series of complications before getting married due to their traditional parents
Marriage on the Modern Way
1968
7.5A good-hearted young man who's his family's sole source of financial support falls in love with his neighbor, all while he has to resist the temptations of the leader of a gang specializing in customs clearance. Will he succumb to the temptations or preserve his morality?
Why Am I Living
1961
7.0The film's events revolve around Abdo (Ahmed Mazhar), who works as a teacher in a girls' school instead of his colleague Jamal (Omar Al-Hariri), who has gained wide popularity among the girls, especially Attiyat (Souad Hosni). Abdo marries his student Atiyat, but their marital relationship experiences a lot of tension because of Abdo's constant suspicion of his wife and his belief that she is having an affair with Jamal.
Ghosn Al-Zaytoun
1962
7.0A young engineer whose wife dies in a car accident, and leaves his young daughter, and because he is an petroleum engineer, he has to be absent from the house, so he brings a maid to the house, and takes her with him to his home in Suez where he works, on one of the nights he drunk, the engineer rapes the maid, and when she carries the fetus he requests Among them is the speed of getting rid of it, and when he presents it to the doctor, the latter informs him that abortion is dangerous for her life, which puts the man in a crisis.
The Place of Weeping Lovers
1966
NRThree teenage friends spend their time on adventures and neglect their studies, they are asked to the army to perform military service, they succeed in training and study during service. After the end of the military service, they decide to benefit from what they studied in the army by participating in the resistance of the Englishmen in the channel, and he spoke to them more serious and exciting adventures.
El mughammerun el talata
1965
6.3(Elham and Salwa) two chemical engineers, have been appointed to the Oil Company (Cairo) but are seeking to work in the desert to explore new oil wells, but the company only sends men there. The desert, having progressed to work as two men because of the company's system of accepting only men's travel on these missions, recognizes their colleagues in the desert and lives with them as two men
For Men Only
1964
9.0The student Nawal meets the writer Ahmed Sharaf El-Din, who is looking for a new face for a new film he wants to write. She learns to dance, sing and drink. She meets the director Raouf. In the middle of the first experience and her encouragement of Ahmed, the director casts his net on her. Her mother dies, and Nawal lives with Ahmed but refuses to marry him, hoping to become a famous star.
El dow' El khafet
1961
8.0A beautiful woman looking for a rich husband but her greed causes her in problems .
Gharamiat emaraa
1960
7.0The carefree existence of a spoiled man comes to an end when his mother is arrested. With no education or tangible skills, the man’s only salvation lies in finding his mysterious, rich father whom he has never met. Moving from Alexandria to Cairo, the man becomes embroiled in an affair, while also falling for a pure-hearted journalist who is attempting to assist him in his aimless, futile journey. Adapted from Naguib Mahfouz’s 1964 novel of the same title.
The Road
1964
9.0Salwa falls in love with Adel, the carefree young man, but her mother rejects this relationship, preferring him to the serious doctor Magdy, who treats her, and they actually marry to please the mother, but her heart is still attached to Adel.
The Wedding Night
1966
7.5The everyday lives, loves and dreams of a slightly kooky modern middle-class Egyptian family in the early 1960's.
Aaela Zeze
1963
6.3When it gets dark each evening a virtuous young lady transforms into a notorious flirt but remembers none of it the next day. She is treated by a psychiatrist who tries his best to find the root of her problems and cure her once and for all
The Well of Deprivation
1969
7.0Madiha, a student at the acting institute, is forced to disguise herself as a young man named Ismat to work in the music band formed by her three brothers. Hoda, the daughter of the club owner, falls in love with this young man, and her father announces her engagement to him. Things become complicated when the club owner asks Madiha, while she is in her true personality, to... She helps him make his wife jealous by acting as his new wife to discipline his condescending wife, and Madiha is forced to agree in order to ensure that her brothers continue working in the club.
Shabab Magnoun Geddan
1967
8.0The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and Salwa, fall in love and suffer the agonies of it, only for their dad to try to save them the heartache.
The Seven Daughters
1961
NRAbu Firas al-Hamdani is a famous Arab poet from the princes of the Hamdani state, as he is known for his equestrian and courage, he lives between the court of Prince Seif al-Dawla, and people love him everywhere. Who competes with Firas for the love of Naglaa.
Fares Bani Hemdan
1966
7.0After the ambassador travels abroad, the servant takes advantage of this opportunity and impersonates him.
His Excellency, The Ambassador
1966
8.3Loyal to her husband suffers from a weak personality due to strict upbringing, which exposes her to falling into the trap of her husband’s friend. There is another husband who falls in love with the maid and wants to get close to her very much, but he is afraid for his reputation, so he treats her very harshly and harasses her. There is the shy young man who falls in love with her. He falls in love with his neighbor, but she is not convinced by him because of his great shyness.
The Girls in Summer
1960
7.0Ameria is shocked when she finds out her husband is cheating on her, so she decides to commit suicide, but the taxi driver saves her and takes her with him.
The Game of Love and Marriage
1964
NRNadia is jealous of her husband in a satisfactory way, she discovers that he is in a relationship with a dancer and she falls into a psychological crisis that goes after her to a psychiatrist, finds her suffering from a double personality, exploits this medical analysis and recoils another personality and claims that she is related to another person, and in fact she relates to her previous fiancé and meets him and ignores her husband .
Eve and the monkey
1968
NRAfter Ismail’s father Ismail is killed, and his mother marries the owner of the company that his dead father worked for, Ahmed turns away to get to know Rouhia, marry her, and live in peace, until the imprisoned Rouhia’s father escapes, to cause a series of surprises.
Serr el hareba
1963
7.6Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.
Cairo 30
1966
6.0The twins (Nadia and Mona) live in peace in Cairo with their father, a university professor, and their French mother. While Nadia is shy, Mona is bold and free. Nadia is exposed to a fire accident, and the father dies, so the family is forced to travel to France, where Mona also dies, but after... Nadia writes to Dr. Medhat with a picture of Mona, and he is about to come to France to see her, so Nadia falls into trouble for fear of discovering her true nature.
Nadia
1969
8.0The story of a family torn apart; the son goes to prison instead of his father for drug trafficking. While the other son marries a bad- tempered woman who abuses her mother-in-law forcing her to flee to work as a maid at a hospital.
Dearest Beloved
1961
9.0A film producer who agrees with one of the directors to direct a movie, assigning the movie starring to Noussa, then filming is delayed and disputes arise between Noussa and the film's hero, as they both try to manage a mold for the other, so that they fall in love together and insist on completing filming after changing the story of the movie.
Sweet and Naughty
1968
6.0A group of stage actors who hate Ahmed Aluwi, the rich young man, starts attacking him in the magazines; when Ahemd knows about that, he decides to check the situation himself and he falls in love with one the actress over there; he pretends to be a poor simple actor, just to be near her; she starts responding to him without knowing his true identity.
The Showgirl
1969
Series credits
7.0A drama consisting of several separate episodes, each episode discusses a different issue of men and women and their relationship with each other.
He and She Stories
1985
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nadia
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أيام معه
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
الحب الضائع
1969
NRNo synopsis available yet.
من أنا؟
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
النورس
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
لا شيء يهم
1964



