Writing

Yussef Issa

Born — Died

1914-01-11 — 1974-01-11

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Writing

Credits

26 titles

Known for

Prince of Cunningness poster
6.3

This lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Prince of Cunningness

1964

A Man in Our House poster
6.8

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.

A Man in Our House

1961

The River of Love poster
8.2

Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".

The River of Love

1960

Love In The Darkness poster
9.0

Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal brother and his mother, his brother steals a sum of money and his mother seeks to save him, in the meantime, the brother commits murder out of theft, but fate makes Nemat see Ahmed at the crime scene instead of his brother, to push her and she becomes blind And events escalate.

Love In The Darkness

1953

Melody of Joy poster
8.0

Galal Pasha is a cruel man who drives his only heir, his nephew Ehsan, to run away from his cruelty. As Ehsan falls for the teacher Hanan, Galal has his secretary Ass'ad search for Ehsan to bring him back.

Melody of Joy

1960

Girls of Today poster
6.7

A romantic tale about friendship, sacrifice and true love. Two best friends meet two sisters, Salwa who’s gentle and well-mannered and Laila who’s outgoing and lively, but one of them gets engaged to the wrong sister.

Girls of Today

1956

Behind the camera

Prince of Cunningness poster
6.3

This lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Prince of Cunningness

1964

A Man in Our House poster
6.8

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.

A Man in Our House

1961

The River of Love poster
8.2

Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".

The River of Love

1960

Love In The Darkness poster
9.0

Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal brother and his mother, his brother steals a sum of money and his mother seeks to save him, in the meantime, the brother commits murder out of theft, but fate makes Nemat see Ahmed at the crime scene instead of his brother, to push her and she becomes blind And events escalate.

Love In The Darkness

1953

Melody of Joy poster
8.0

Galal Pasha is a cruel man who drives his only heir, his nephew Ehsan, to run away from his cruelty. As Ehsan falls for the teacher Hanan, Galal has his secretary Ass'ad search for Ehsan to bring him back.

Melody of Joy

1960

Girls of Today poster
6.7

A romantic tale about friendship, sacrifice and true love. Two best friends meet two sisters, Salwa who’s gentle and well-mannered and Laila who’s outgoing and lively, but one of them gets engaged to the wrong sister.

Girls of Today

1956

Mesk and Anbar poster
NR

Musk and his friend are two young men who love two of their cousins. Musk disguises himself as a woman to convince the uncle of the girl he loves and the girl's father that the aunt has returned from abroad. The uncle falls in love with the woman and covets her wealth. He agrees for the two girls to marry Musk and Amber. Amber's uncle comes to compete with the uncle, and the American aunt herself comes from the United States.

Mesk and Anbar

1973

The Open Door poster
6.4

Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.

The Open Door

1963

Wakeful Eyes poster
8.0

Fatima lives with her father who moves from one house to another. She's in love with her neighbor, officer Salah. When she tells her father that Salah wants to marry her, she discovers thathat he's a fugitive from a prison sentence, and that her marriage to Salah will expose her father to imprisonment.

Wakeful Eyes

1956

Rendezvous with a Stranger poster
7.0

A classic Egyptian film noir starring Omar Sharif who is trying to find out the mysterious circumstances under which his brother was killed. This gem also features the belly dancer Samia Gamal and features some of her famous exotic dancing tableaux.

Rendezvous with a Stranger

1959

Love & Pride poster
6.0

After getting dumped by Adel, Zizi marries Hussein just to keep her pride. They agree to get divorced after a while, until she finds out that Hussein is helping her father in his financial crisis without mentioning anything.

Love & Pride

1972

Rule of Time poster
NR

Engineer Adel's journey from Europe ends and he returns to Cairo. He begins searching for his beloved Wedad, whom he had proposed to the wealthy lady, Nemat. The truth becomes clear to him: the girl he proposed to is not Nemat's daughter, but her legitimate daughter is Souad. As for Wedad, she left home to work as a singer on the radio and began to make her artistic path.

Rule of Time

1953

Al-Malak Al-Zalem poster
8.5

When a young child sees her father leaving the room of a murdered woman, she mistakenly believes that he is the killer and testifies against him.

Al-Malak Al-Zalem

1954

Pity My Tears poster
10.0

When Amal's father falls on hard times, he sells his land to his neighbor, Mamdouh, who falls in love with Amal. But Amal is in a relationship with Mourad who starts avoiding her after he learns of her father's crisis, prompting Mamdouh to confess his love for Amal and ask for her hand in marriage.

Pity My Tears

1954

Men Gheir Ma'ad poster
8.0

Salwa (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

العمر أيام poster
NR

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العمر أيام

1964

العمر أيام poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

العمر أيام

1964

Flowers of Love poster
NR

Latif, Abdul-Ghani’s son, asks to marry Elham, Tayseer’s daughter. Elham refuses this marriage. Latif spreads rumors about Elham’s behavior, and Tayseer has no choice but to file a case against Abdul-Ghani, demanding large compensation. Latif agrees with his cousin Maher, who works in the field of civil aviation, to represent The role of passionate love and the lover to inspire.

Flowers of Love

1951

Appointment with Life poster
6.5

Amal and her friend Fatima are happily in love with Ahmed and Dr. Mamdouh respectively. After it is discovered that Amal has a debilitating condition, her father attempts to keep it a secret.

Appointment with Life

1953

The Iland's Devil poster
5.0

A man breaks into Nagy's house and burns classified documents. Ali Baba, Nagy's friend, tells him about the incident, and then Nagy dies in mysterious circumstances. However, all fingers point to Ali Baba as the main suspect. Meanwhile Laila arrives to uncover her cousin's murder.

The Iland's Devil

1978

A Husband’s Confession poster
5.3

This comedy revolves around Wahid, a happily married composer who has a one-off dream about kissing Boussa, his gorgeous neighbor and his wife Latifah’s best friend. He feels guilty, and foolishly confesses this to Latifah, who naturally becomes suspicious and concludes he and Boussa are having an affair. The misunderstandings worsen tenfold when Latifah lets her parents in on the situation.

A Husband’s Confession

1964

Shore of Love poster
NR

Nawal is involved in a boating accident near an island at sea. She wakes up to find herself in the care of two brothers, Ghassan and Adel. They soon discover that she has lost her memory, and both of them fall in love with her, each trying to get closer to her. Nawal eventually falls for Ghassan. When Adel consults a doctor to understand her condition, the doctor informs him that if she regains her memory, she will no longer recognize either of them. Despite this, Adel continues to search for clues about her past and eventually discovers that she has a sister in Egypt who closely resembles her.

Shore of Love

1977

The Shore of Love poster
8.0

Mamdouh, a famous singer, meets Laila on the shores of an Fayum during the shooting of a movie. An Attraction between the two prompts Mamdouh to propose to Laila. However, Laila's Father is reluctant to accept the marriage proposal and asks for some time to think. Laila then discovers that her mother Rawhey is not dead as she was led to believe, and is in fact a belly dancer in a nightclub. Laila's father tries to guide her mother back on the right track for the sake of their daughter's reputation and her future as Mamdouh's wife, but the owner of the nightclub where Laila's mother works starts to blackmail everyone concerned. Mamdouh starts to become suspicious of Laila's odd behaviour seeking comfort from his cousin Soheir who loves him. Will Mamdouh discover the truth, or will he marry his cousin Soheir?

The Shore of Love

1961

Love Has No Cure poster
6.7

Latif and Khafif are two friends who work together, but they get fired after making a mistake. Latif wins the lottery at a horse race because of a mistake from a girl, so he searches for her to thank her.

Love Has No Cure

1952

Appointment with Happiness poster
9.0

Ehsan lives with her father, the caretaker of the house of a rich man who comes sporadically to the house to hunt ducks. As Ehsan falls for the rich man, he rapes her while drunk. Ehsan discovers that she is pregnant and escapes to Cairo where she gives birth to her daughter

Appointment with Happiness

1954

My Love Story poster
9.0

A famous singer who abstains from marriage meets a girl at a charity party and they fall in love with each other. He proposes to her and everyone agrees, but the authorities invade their lives and the girl marries the king of the country. Farid collapses and falls ill. Do you think the girl will marry Farid and leave the Emir of the country? Or will Farid fall into the well of loneliness and illness?

My Love Story

1955