Dawlat Abiad

Acting

Dawlat Abiad

Born — Died

1896-01-29 — 1978-01-04

Place of birth

Asyut, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Known for

Gharam Al-Asyad poster
7.0

Two wealthy brothers have feelings for the stableman's daughter. When the younger son tries to rape her, the girl runs away from the house. A fashion designer takes her in and she becomes a famous model until the older brother runs into her.

Gharam Al-Asyad

1961

Teenagers poster
7.4

Nada meets the pilot officer Adel at a party with her liberal colleague Safaa, and goes out with him in the plane he is piloting. She is absent from school, which causes her problems as the headmistress informs the mother of her daughter’s absence. Adel proposes to her, but her family refuses her marriage to the officer and forces her to get engaged to... Her cousin after insulting and beating her.

Teenagers

1960

abn albalad poster
NR

Fathia marries the wealthy man, Azma Bey, against her will. She suffers from his relationships with women and his constant nights out, so she leaves him and meets a young engineer who succeeds in managing the factories she inherited from her father.

abn albalad

1942

Dunia poster
10.0

Dunia meets the rich, frivolous young man, Mohamed. An illegitimate relationship develops between them and she becomes pregnant with his child. Mohamed disappears and she cannot face anyone with her child, so she decides to kill him. Her secret is revealed and she goes to prison. She decides to take revenge on him and searches for him until she finds him. She hides her past from him, but she is surprised that he shows her his love and decides to marry her and introduces her to his family, which puts her in a conflict between love and revenge. The mother reveals Dunia's past and she decides to commit suicide.

Dunia

1946

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

5001 poster
5.5

The film tells the story of a young man whose life is consumed by poverty and hardship, and who believes that wealth will solve all his problems. A miracle seems to occur when the lottery ticket he bought on a whim—bearing the number 5001, —wins the jackpot. But instead of bringing happiness, his newfound fortune plunges him into a series of misfortunes, turning his life into an unbearable nightmare.

5001

1932

Film credits

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 6 titles

Ghaltet Ab poster
NR

A girl named Souad shows up to her father, who was the result of an affair he had with her mother. The father kept it a secret in fear of his family's reputation. Souad works in a nightclub and when the manager knows the truth of Souad, he starts extorting huge money from the father.

Ghaltet Ab

1952

Sheikh Hassan poster
NR

Sheikh Hassan loves Louisa, the sister of his friend's student, they get married against the blessing of their parents. His mother dies of grief at the separation of her son, so his father pressed him to return home. They're forced to get divorced but Louisa is pregnant with Sheikh Hassan's child.

Sheikh Hassan

1954

The Great Love poster
NR

(Samia) is a married woman with one daughter named (Laila). One day, (Samia) discovers that she has cancer and is close to death. She tries to hide the matter from her husband and daughter all the time, but at the same time she tries to bring her husband (Ahmed) closer to (Elham), his colleague at work, so that she can reassure herself before her death. The matter actually succeeds, even if it makes (Samia) jealous. However, things turn upside down when the doctor discovers the diagnosis is wrong, and she learns that she is not sick.

The Great Love

1957

Men Al-Qalb Lel Qalb poster
NR

Latfa works in cabarets and earns money by hunting and deceiving customers. Sherif Bey, a friend of her late father, helps her in this. She meets a wealthy customer and agrees with her to play the role of his wife in order to get rid of his marriage to a rich, idiot girl imposed on him by his father out of greed for her wealth.

Men Al-Qalb Lel Qalb

1952

The Poor poster
8.0

A friendship relationship develops between the child Mamdouh, the son of a wealthy family, and Fathia, who is from a poor family. Days go by and the two children, Mamdouh and Fathia, separate. Mamdouh becomes an officer in the army, while Fathia, after losing her family, works in a cabaret. Mamdouh and Fathia meet after all these years and return to the memory of the past. So he decides to marry Fathia.

The Poor

1952

ظلموني الحبايب poster
NR

A happy family and a loving father who lavishes his daughter with love. Suddenly, the world changes. The man loses his money after speculating in the stock market. The father dies, but the misfortune that befell her father caused him to lose his fortune after one of the husband's friends set up a plot between him and His wife led to separation and the husband abandoned his wife.

ظلموني الحبايب

1953

1940s · 9 titles

abn albalad poster
NR

Fathia marries the wealthy man, Azma Bey, against her will. She suffers from his relationships with women and his constant nights out, so she leaves him and meets a young engineer who succeeds in managing the factories she inherited from her father.

abn albalad

1942

Dunia poster
10.0

Dunia meets the rich, frivolous young man, Mohamed. An illegitimate relationship develops between them and she becomes pregnant with his child. Mohamed disappears and she cannot face anyone with her child, so she decides to kill him. Her secret is revealed and she goes to prison. She decides to take revenge on him and searches for him until she finds him. She hides her past from him, but she is surprised that he shows her his love and decides to marry her and introduces her to his family, which puts her in a conflict between love and revenge. The mother reveals Dunia's past and she decides to commit suicide.

Dunia

1946

Always in my heart poster
NR

When a young orphan who works as a teacher in an orphanage falls in love with the marine officer Adel, her uptight manager fires her. Forced to work in a disreputable hotel, she is assaulted then arrested on prostitution charges.

Always in my heart

1946

No artwork available
10.0

Fadel and his colleagues Aziz and Hamdi are trying to make their way in life, and they hold advanced degrees, but luck does not crown their endeavor with success. Fadel visits his aunt Alawiya, who runs a private institute for girls in a traditional way, and asks to work in the institute, but she refuses. The three decide to establish a modern institute, similar to the aunt’s institute. To compete with her, to teach girls to be modern.

Wives factory

1941

The secrets of the world poster
NR

An aristocratic girl volunteers with the Red Crescent, where she meets a young doctor. They fall in love and agree to marry, but cruelty of fate forces the girl to marry a rich sheikh. Life becomes difficult for her, so she agrees to commit suicide. But her mother pushes her back when she reveals to her the dangerous secret that the young doctor is not... Except for her brother.

The secrets of the world

1942

A woman's heart poster
7.0

Khairiya is a wealthy girl engaged to her cousin Amin Al-Thara as well. Her family loses this wealth and the girl loses her fiancé, who refused to be paired with a bankrupt girl. She is shocked by charity when she finds her fiancé with another girl and another rich daughter. The family lives the life of the strugglers and the girl recognizes Fayez and is connected with him emotionally, which makes the whole family object to him to put his origin, despite his success in achieving wealth, but marry him because of the patience and ambition and already above the star of her husband and enriched return rich as she was, but her family still intervenes between them and do not agree On this marriage of the social difference between them, a sermon is being made on your brother of a charity of the sister of Fayez's sister.

A woman's heart

1940

The Avenger poster
8.0

Two chemists working at the same laboratory compete over the heart of the daughter of the laboratory owner. When the girl chooses one, the other gets jealous and ploys a scheme that aggravates and leads to a great explosion and an even greater tragedy.

The Avenger

1947

The sad countryside poster
NR

In a village, two children from two conflicting families meet in the village book, and innocent affection brings their hearts together. Love connects a girl from one of the families and a young man from the other family. Love knows no family disputes, and the story continues Disagreements arise, love grows, and the two lovers vow to be a source of peace and affection between the two families.

The sad countryside

1948

قلبي وسيفي poster
NR

Tal'at and Galal are two friends who agree to marry their children, Monir and Samiha, to each other. But Monir is a frivolous boy who gets caught cheating on his exams. Tal'at comes up with the idea of getting Monir to join the army to get straightened out.

قلبي وسيفي

1947

1930s · 7 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

5001 poster
5.5

The film tells the story of a young man whose life is consumed by poverty and hardship, and who believes that wealth will solve all his problems. A miracle seems to occur when the lottery ticket he bought on a whim—bearing the number 5001, —wins the jackpot. But instead of bringing happiness, his newfound fortune plunges him into a series of misfortunes, turning his life into an unbearable nightmare.

5001

1932

El Doctor poster
10.0

Dr. Hamed decides to marry Ehsan. Ehsan travels with her parents to Hamed's town. Her mother is fed up with Hamed's family and opposes Ehsan's marriage to Hamed because they are below their level. Ehsan decides to run away and marry him, but he refuses. Dr. Hamed settles in his town. His sick mother needs a blood transfusion and her blood type matches Ehsan's. She is saved.

El Doctor

1939

The White Rose poster
10.0

Topping the list of 100 Best Egyptian Films, this classic musical melodrama launched the film career of one of Egypt’s greatest singers and composers, Mohamed Abdel Wahhab. Galal Effendi, the son of an impoverished aristocrat, is forced to leave his studies to seek employment. After a short stint as a clerk, however, Galal discovers his musical talents and finds success as a popular singer. Through its story of upward mobility based on merit rather than influence, the film examines the emergence of Egyptian middle-class identity.

The White Rose

1932

Fiancé No. 13 poster
7.0

In light of Zaatar's desperation to get a job, he advertises a job for a human being for rent, so Zazaoua starts doing his usual pranks as he writes a letter claiming that one of the bank managers wants to meet Zaatar in order to give him a job. As Zaatar rushes to meet the manager but gets expelled, the latter stops him a little and decides to offer him marriage to his ugly daughter.

Fiancé No. 13

1933

Zeinab poster
4.5

Zeinab, a simple worker in a farm falls in love with her supervisor but she is forced by her family to marry a rich man

Zeinab

1930

Sons of Aristocrats poster
4.0

Led by his lust and his unrepentant consciousness, Hamdy abandons his family and takes a french lady as his mistress. When his mistress cheats on him, Hamdy shoots her lover in retaliation. After spending his prison sentence, he returns to Egypt, haunted by his sense of guilt.

Sons of Aristocrats

1932

Behind the camera