Seraj Muneer

Acting

Seraj Muneer

Born — Died

1904-07-15 — 1957-09-13

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Seraag and directors ‘Abbaas Kaamel and Fateen Abdul Wahhaab were born of the same family. He was sent, by his family, to Europe to study medicine, but instead he studied German language. It was Muhammad Kareem, the director whom he met in Germany, who gave his first role in “Zeinab” the silent film. Mouneer joined the Acting Supporters Society and started acting on stage, in films as well as in the radio. He married actor Mimi Shekeeb who remained his wife till the end of his life though at the beginning they suffered a lot from her family’s refusal.

Known for

Tears at night poster
NR

When a rich young man runs away from home due to his stepmother's mistreatment, he meets a beautiful singer who is married to a famous lawyer. His stepmother plots with her lover to kill her husband and blame the young man, so the lawyer takes up the son's case and tries to prove his innocence.( this film is currently lost )

Tears at night

1955

Our Best Days poster
7.4

A poor girl lives on the rooftop of a building. Three young neighbors fall in love with her. The decide to help her when they discover that she is seriously ill and in need of an urgent operation.

Our Best Days

1955

No artwork available
NR

glory 1957

المجد

1957

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts poster
6.2

Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts

1952

Pledge of Love poster
9.0

After completing his studies in Europe, Wahid returns again to his hometown, when his father asks him to go to Cairo so that he can take his job in one of the companies. There he meets the beautiful Nadia, who is in love with an old man in a piano sales and repair shop and thinks that the old man is her father, and tries to To pursue her and win her heart without knowing the truth of the matter.

Pledge of Love

1955

Bnt alshshati poster
9.0

Zainab's father dies, so Mohsen, the owner of the company where Zainab's father worked, marries her to take care of her. At the same time, Mohsen has a relationship with the spoiled Jihan, who is loved by her cousin Jasser, who is arrested in a drug case. Mohsen is not happy with Zainab, so he marries Jihan and they have a child. Jihan feels jealous and asks him to divorce Zainab. Jasser gets out of prison and tries to ruin Jihan's life.

Bnt alshshati

1952

Film credits

1950s · 42 titles

Tears at night poster
NR

When a rich young man runs away from home due to his stepmother's mistreatment, he meets a beautiful singer who is married to a famous lawyer. His stepmother plots with her lover to kill her husband and blame the young man, so the lawyer takes up the son's case and tries to prove his innocence.( this film is currently lost )

Tears at night

1955

Our Best Days poster
7.4

A poor girl lives on the rooftop of a building. Three young neighbors fall in love with her. The decide to help her when they discover that she is seriously ill and in need of an urgent operation.

Our Best Days

1955

No artwork available
NR

glory 1957

المجد

1957

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts poster
6.2

Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts

1952

Pledge of Love poster
9.0

After completing his studies in Europe, Wahid returns again to his hometown, when his father asks him to go to Cairo so that he can take his job in one of the companies. There he meets the beautiful Nadia, who is in love with an old man in a piano sales and repair shop and thinks that the old man is her father, and tries to To pursue her and win her heart without knowing the truth of the matter.

Pledge of Love

1955

Bnt alshshati poster
9.0

Zainab's father dies, so Mohsen, the owner of the company where Zainab's father worked, marries her to take care of her. At the same time, Mohsen has a relationship with the spoiled Jihan, who is loved by her cousin Jasser, who is arrested in a drug case. Mohsen is not happy with Zainab, so he marries Jihan and they have a child. Jihan feels jealous and asks him to divorce Zainab. Jasser gets out of prison and tries to ruin Jihan's life.

Bnt alshshati

1952

Prince of Revenge poster
6.6

Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.

Prince of Revenge

1950

God Is on Our Side poster
7.0

Officer Emad says goodbye to his sweetheart Nadia as he goes to fight in the Palestine war. As the army suffers from a crippling defeat and rumors of bad weapons abound, Emad asks Nadia to search her father's papers for proof, since her father is one of the men who were involved in the weapon deals.

God Is on Our Side

1955

They Made Me a Criminal poster
7.5

Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.

They Made Me a Criminal

1954

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

Ways of the Heart poster
7.0

A poor medical student, falls in love with her wealthy colleague who does not feel her at the beginning. He falls in love with her after he sees the sincerity of her feelings towards him, and asks her to marry him, but there are those who want to keep this marriage from happening

Ways of the Heart

1956

A Glass and a Cigarette poster
8.0

Hoda is a famous dancer who gives up the spotlight to marry and start a family with Mamdouh, a handsome young doctor who is just beginning his career. When Mamdouh's scheming Italian head nurse Yolanda sets her sights on Mamdouh, Hoda's jealousy drives her to drink, ultimately endangering everything she holds dear.

A Glass and a Cigarette

1955

House No. 13 poster
7.7

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

House No. 13

1952

Qattr El-Nada poster
7.5

Dada Qatar An Egyptian film, produced in 1951, starring Anwar Wagdy, Shadia and Ismail Yassin, directed and produced by Anwar Wagdy

Qattr El-Nada

1951

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

My One And Only Love poster
7.2

Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance, provided that the two get married. They decide to get married on paper and separate after receiving the inheritance, but during the honeymoon in Aswan,they fall in love with each other.

My One And Only Love

1957

Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi poster
NR

A biography of the Islamic saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, from his birth in Morocco, to his refusal to marry the girl who loved him, to his journeys to study religion and worship God, to his strength in the face of the hostility he faced and how he triumphed over his enemies with God on his side.

Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi

1953

Days and Nights poster
7.7

An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of his life. When Yehia falls for the beautiful Samia (Iman), he believes he has finally found the woman with whom he could spend the rest of his life. Trouble soon arises, however, when Samia's delinquent stepbrother begins doing everything in his power to sabotage the couple's relationship.

Days and Nights

1955

Afretet Ismaiel Yassin poster
9.0

When a nightclub bellydancer (Katy) is murdered by the nightclub owner's henchmen her ghost wants the killer to be found. Only one problem - she doesn't know who killed her since she was sleeping. Her ghost haunts Ismail Yasin till he agrees to help her find out who's behind the murder.

Afretet Ismaiel Yassin

1954

A Plot poster
7.0

Amina works as a secretary for Murad, who loves her and decides to marry her. But his cousin, Salma, who's after his wealth, succeeds in telling Amina that Murad's father does not approve of the marriage, which causes Amina to be in a bad psychological condition and loses her eyesight.

A Plot

1953

Night Train poster
9.0

Adel and Samia are in love, but her father is in financial trouble , when Adel decides to intervene to repay the man's debts he gets in an accident and wakes up to find his sweetheart has married someone else.

Night Train

1953

A Woman's Youth poster
7.3

A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.

A Woman's Youth

1956

Port Said poster
7.0

The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.

Port Said

1957

Children Of The Streets poster
8.0

Fayez is a married officer who finds a baby and takes him home, until the father of the child knows his place and takes him back and begins to teach him to steal until he joins a gang. The child's mother tries to save him from this fate and asks officer Fayez to help her.

Children Of The Streets

1951

The Great Clown poster
7.0

Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata to marry her. Then the wealthy wife dies and he inherits her fortune, prompting him to think of marrying his old neighbor Asrar.

The Great Clown

1952

They Taught Me Love poster
8.0

Sami comes from the countryside to Cairo to join a girls' school. There, he admires his student Nawal, but he is ashamed to be honest with her about his feelings for her. At the same time, Mamdouh tries to make Nawal love him, whom he meets by chance, so he turns to his friend Sami to help him write a book. Love letters, creating a love triangle.

They Taught Me Love

1957

Shamshon and Leblb poster
6.8

In a local neighborhood, two men try to win the heart of the beautiful Louza. Lebleb is a young man who has a frail body but a bright mind, while Samson has the physical power, but lacks intellect. Who will find his way to her heart first?

Shamshon and Leblb

1952

The Empty Pillow poster
7.0

Salah, a young college student, falls in love for the first time with Samiha. He spends his nights thinking about her and looking to her face in the “empty pillow” next to him. When she marries someone else, he is devastated and her memory haunts him no matter where he goes.

The Empty Pillow

1957

The Little Doll poster
NR

The Little Doll

The Little Doll

1956

Fortune carrée poster
7.0

Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his former enemies against the Amiris. Taken prisoner, he is saved by his young slave, Yasmina, while the Ghafaris are almost completely annihilated. He takes refuge on the ship of the trafficker Mordhom. Having provoked the death of his servant, he is put on trial by Mordhom but acquitted by his peers. Mordhom then lands Igricheff on the coast, and the latter succeeds in saving the Frenchman from an Amiri attack. The two men reconcile and set off on their adventures together.

Fortune carrée

1955

Samara poster
NR

The smuggler Sultan falls for the dancer Samara. As he gets her involved in his drug business, Samara becomes the one in control of the business. The police send an officer to infiltrate the gang and pose as an escaped convict to bring the gang down.

Samara

1956

Laila Min Omri poster
NR

As a girl falls in love with an agricultural engineer, they sleep together and she gets pregnant. The Engineer must go to Europe for work but leaves behind a document admitting his paternity of the baby. As the girl gives birth, her father flees the country with her to avoid a scandal.

Laila Min Omri

1954

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

The Millionaire poster
8.0

Assem a very rich man, clashes with the young man who was flirting with his wife and kills him. Then, on one of his evenings, he discovers a person who is very similar to him and offers to swap lives.

The Millionaire

1950

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

Gold poster
7.1

Anwar Wagdi plays vagabond musician Alfredo, who comes across an abandoned baby in the night. He tries his best to get our heroes someone to take it and raise it. When that fails, he has no choice but to raise it on his own. He names the child, Dabab, after the beautiful woman he's encountered on the street. Years pass and Dahab grows up to be the Faryuz, who is actually cute, talented and far less grating than our Ms. Temple. Many Chaplinesque hijinks ensue as Alfredo and Dahab play music on the streets, try to scam free food wherever they can and convince the owner of a successful nightclub to let Dahab perform.

Gold

1953

Lady of The Train poster
5.4

Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling debts.

Lady of The Train

1952

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

The Body poster
9.0

A weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of being rich by her daughter after working in a nightclub. She was identified by the wealthy (Amin), the manager of her father's company, Shehata Effendi, and became his mistress. From the company, when the people of the neighborhood saw him went to her mother and stabbed her intended to kill her, but she survived death, and became blind, and entered the prison. The daughter identified the lawyer (Hussein) and loved him, and severed her relationship with (Amin), and on the day of her marriage discovered that he was the son of (Amin), and returned to dance and play and alcohol until she got asthma, and then hit a car, broke her foot, sustained permanent disability, and lost her savings, She returned to the neighborhood with her blind mother, and her father came out of the prison and reunion, and then Han (Hussein), he came to marry her, but the fate was closer to him.

The Body

1955

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

The Stranger poster
9.0

Hajj Kamel picks up a little boy from the street, whose family and relatives refused to shelter him after the death of his father and mother, and he takes him into his home, so he lives like his son next to his young daughter and son. The real son, Mahrez, grew up with an unknown enmity towards the poor boy, Ghareeb, while the little daughter, Yasmine, loved this boy. When the father dies, the poor boy takes over his work. He continues to take care of Yasmine until the rich young man, Anwar, enters her life.

The Stranger

1956

Lady Pickpocket poster
8.0

A girl who is placed by circumstances in corrupt circumstances, learns the craft of pickpocketing, joins a gang that exploits her work, and after a period of narrowing the life of corruption and hate being in this gang

Lady Pickpocket

1953

1940s · 13 titles

My Father’s secret poster
NR

Young Fouad, the son of Adel Pasha, travels abroad to continue his studies. During his absence, Adel Pasha assaults Amina, the widow of Attia, the overseer of his estate. When she tells him she is pregnant, he cruelly expels her from the estate. Homeless and destitute, Amina gives birth to a baby girl named Nihad. On the very same day, Mounira, the wife of the Pasha's secretary, gives birth to her own child, Mahrous. Years pass, and fate intertwines the lives of the two children born on the same day. As secrets from the past begin to unravel, the true identity of the father comes to light, revealing the hidden secret that will change everyone's destiny.

My Father’s secret

1946

Hanan poster
NR

(Hassan), the simple contractor, lives a happy life with his wife (Amina) and his daughter (Laila). He succeeds in his work, becomes a wealthy contractor, and meets (Murad) Bey and they start a company. (Nima), (Murad's) playful sister, tries to lure (Hassan) into... She falls into her trap, and succeeds in doing so in order to cover up the suspicious actions of her brother (Murad). Hassan leaves his wife (Amina) and divorces her. His daughter, Laila, and her fiancé, Aziz, try to expose Naama and Murad and reunite the family.

Hanan

1944

Mr. Omar poster
7.3

Gaber Effendi is a simple employee at Ezbet Omar al-Alfi's, expelled by the head of the family after Jabir discovers that there is fraud in the accounts of the estate. Gaber meets with Berlanti, the wife of Omar Bey's, noting a great similarity between him and her absent husband in India, Omar. Following the advice of a legal advisor, Omar Bey's family believes that he is still alive and living in India. By chance, Jaber Effendi goes to Omar's house and is seen by the family and gets married, but Omar finds out the truth and tries to exploit the resemblance to seize wealth, but ultimately fails.

Mr. Omar

1941

Abu Zeid el Hilali poster
7.0

Abu Zayd al-Hilali's son and wife escape and years later, after his son has grown into a powerful and idealistic man, a battle between the two tribes starts. The son fights his father but is not aware who he is fighting. The Banu Hilalis defeat the Banu Zahlanis. Back home, Abu Zayd is greeted as a hero. A huge war then starts with the Zirids, who had abandoned Shiism. The Banu Hilalis weaken the Zirid state and plunder their lands.

Abu Zeid el Hilali

1947

بنات الريف poster
NR

After the young man Mohsen deceives the rural girl, Saniya, he abandons her and accuses her of stealing the ring. She is arrested and imprisoned, and gives birth to their son. Years pass, the boy grows up, and is accused of a robbery and murder case. Fate wills that Mohsen take a stand The executioner and the judge recognize Saniya and ask her for forgiveness.

بنات الريف

1945

Love never dies poster
10.0

Raqia loves her neighbor Fouad and they promise to get married, but unfortunately for the girl, her father and mother divorce. Her uncle comes to live with her and she finds his fanaticism very difficult, which forces her to leave the house and seek refuge with her father. She finds him tolerant, but her stepmother causes trouble between her and Fouad and attracts him to her. Raqia gets the chance to take revenge and exposes her frivolous stepmother.

Love never dies

1948

The great artist poster
NR

Madiha falls in love with the theater actor Nabil Rushdi, and they decide to get married despite her brother's objection to the marriage. He is shot and injured, and the actor's livelihood is cut short, and his life becomes miserable, even though his wife does not complain.

The great artist

1945

Les Misérables poster
8.0

Victor Hugo's classic novel of Jean Valjean, pursued through the years by an unbending foe, the cruel lawman Javert.

Les Misérables

1943

Chair of Confession poster
NR

Cardinal Giovanni (Yusuf Wehbe) falls into a difficult moral position, when (Estonzzi) confesses to him that he has committed a murder, and after the disappearance of (Estonzzi), the accused, Juliano, the brother of the real accused, is accused of using the Cardinal in a major confusion between his religious duty The one who is obliged not to divulge what he admitted (Estonzazi), and among his human conscience, who dictates that he testify in order to absolve the accused of being unjustly acquitted.

Chair of Confession

1949

The great sacrifice poster
NR

A dedicated nanny is loyal to her employers that she sacrifices herself to keep the family together. She gets accused of having an affair with the family's son, after he is caught with his sister-in-law, only for the nanny to take the fall.

The great sacrifice

1947

Malak alrahma poster
7.5

The film revolves around a social drama about a wealthy Circassian (Fouad Bey) who lives with his wife and daughter, and a conspiracy is hatched against him by a con man named (Kazem) and his lover (Al Hasnaa) to seize his wealth. They devise a plan that enables them to get to know the family so that they can begin to separate the family with their malicious tricks. And the events follow.

Malak alrahma

1946

Antar and Abla poster
9.0

Antar bin Shaddad is a slave son of a slave mother in the tribe of Bani Abs. His father Shaddad, the tribe's master, refuses to recognize him. Antar falls in love with his cousin Abla, who loves him back, while her uncle refuses this marriage and wants to marry her to another handsome young man named Omara. To get rid of him, her uncle asks for a huge dowry of one hundred red she-camels which only exist in the land of the Ghassanids (on the outskirts of Sham) at King Al-Nu'man. Antar indeed travels there to bring those camels, goes through severe hardships on his journey, then returns to his tribe again to try to win his beloved Abla.

Antar and Abla

1945

Hababa poster
NR

Prince Zayed is in love with one of his maids, who is his son's nanny, and his entourage succeeds in keeping her away from him. The prince becomes Khalifa, and life was not good without her, so he searches for her until he can find her. The loyal slave girl takes poison so as not to cause her master any trouble.

Hababa

1944

1930s · 4 titles

The Rebel Line poster
9.0

Tagline: A story of honor that made him a criminal.. and made the criminal a national hero. Khattab works in a quarry to marry Fouton, daughter of Sheikh Yassin. Every Thursday he returns to his village for his mother and fiancée. One day a collapse closes the quarry early, his return uncovers his mother's betrayal with a young man. He takes revenge but to protect her name, claims the man was a thief. The law sees only a murderer. In prison he meets Mansour El-Minyawi, saves him from murder, both are transferred for retrial when their lorry overturns in the mountains. They escape. Will Khattab stay a fugitive or become a legend? The secret of the dark mountains and the British train is why the occupation banned this film in 1932.

The Rebel Line

1932

Under Sealed Orders poster
5.0

In a Near East land, a German company building waterworks and mining copper is threatened by foreign interests.When the chief engineer is framed for a murder, the nephew of the ambassador makes a heroic sacrifice.

Under Sealed Orders

1938

Fortsetzung folgt poster
8.0

The writer Viktor Borg is always in arrears with his manuscripts, much to the annoyance of his publisher, editor and friend Otto. Without further ado, Otto announces the arrival of Viktor’s new murder mystery, which is to appear in the “Illustrierten Woche” in installments. When Viktor attends a magician’s performance with Otto, in which a woman in a glass box disappears, Viktor comes up with the idea for the first chapter of his mystery: In his novel, the woman stays disappeared and is the victim of a crime. During the magician’s performance the next evening, the young woman, Dolly Marlow, really does disappear and things progress exactly as Viktor described in his installments.

Fortsetzung folgt

1938

No artwork available
6.0

In a made-up country somewhere in northern Europe: In the armaments factory F.N.G., an important drawing is copied and passed on to the enemy. Suspicion falls on the chief engineer Alexander Nica and his assistant Laurenz. Both are placed before the court; accused by the night watchman Bruns; and sentenced to death for industrial espionage. Before sentencing, however, Nica succeeds in getting away. Now he’s trying to find proof to convince the court of his and Laurenz’ innocence.

Red Orchids

1938

Behind the camera