Hussein Reyaad

A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the Egyptian cinema in its golden age. The main story is based on mixing scenes of 21-star from black and white period with other scenes written by and starring Imam so that the final product is the rediscovering of old stars in a new context.

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.

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.

Salwa 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.

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Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.

Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.

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.

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.

Rabi'a al-Adawiyya is a classic film from 1963 based on the life of the early Sufi saint and poet Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, also known as Rabi'a al Basri, in the second Islamic century.

Radwan is a widower who works in the railway quarry warehouse in Suez. The thief Selim comes to rob him one day but finds nothing to steal. Selim's mistress, Aziza, meets Radwan and decides to make him fall for her.

Her grandfather swore not to marry her younger sister until she got married, according to the doctor (Hassan) who was transferred to work in the countryside, and get an argument between them, escalating events.

This film is based on a novel from 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story takes place during WWII and focuses on Al-Madak Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as the microcosm of the world. A barber is in love with a young poor girl, who lives with her mother, and gets a job in an English Army camp to earn enough money for their marriage. But he is not the only one who wants to marry this girl and when the barber returns, she is gone.

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The story of the conflict between one of the poles of feudalism and his oppression to peasants by burning their crops and lands until they're unable to pay their debts. When Bahia's father confronts him, the feudal lord tries to rape her, but Yassin stands up to him.

Professor Mahmoud loves the dancer Samia, who discovered her talent even with the age difference between them, but she treats him as a friend. When singer Adel comes to work with them, Samia is attracted to him, which causes Mahmoud's jealousy, and makes him sign with another casino.

Loyal 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.

Ashwaq marries Khalil, and gives birth to her daughter Fatima. The mayor’s son, Shalabi, throws his net around the wife and convinces her to run away with him. Then, as soon as he leaves her, Khalil’s husband avenges his honor and kills him, so the poor aunt takes charge of Fatima after her father goes to prison. After the aunt's death, the pasha for whom she worked took over her upbringing.

After his release from prison, Mahmoud knows that his wife has divorced him and remarried, so he agrees with Badawy to kidnap her son Hanafy as they make a plot to urge her to return to him.

Osama becomes impotent after a car accident. When he grows distant with his fiancée Salwa, she gets close to the poor singer, Nader, whom she lies to and pretends to be just as poor. As they team up for work, she meets Osama at a party and tries to use Nader to make him jealous.

Mr. Shehata is a family man who lives in Port Said with his tyrannical wife and their children. In a desperate attempt to get relief, he spends most of the time at a coffee shop. The two parents pay no heed to their children's choices in life. What will become of them?

Journalist Mounir and photographer Hassan are assigned to find out a mysterious bandit called Abu al-Dahab in a Bedouin tribe, who's the only witness to a crime. They succeed in finding the daughter of Sheikh Ibrahim, whose sister Laila has been kidnapped by the gang and they try to save her.

Wahid has a friend who works in the drug trade named Abu Al-Ezz. Abu Al-Ezz undertakes a single training in gambling until he loses all of his wealth. After that, he offers him to return his wealth to participate in drug smuggling activities, the police lie in wait for them, except that Wahid causes the killing of his cousin the officer Celal.

Mona falls in love with her college professor Mahmoud despite the fact that he's a married man and many years her senior. Mona is forced to marry another man and leaves Egypt. Years later, Mona returns and finds out that Mahmoud has been hit by a car and is now in a hospital. They meet again and recall their past romance.

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.

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

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.

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.

Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend.

Aziza is a mother of two girls who lives in an alley near the citadel. One of the girls is ambitious and wants to leave the neighbourhood and live like the rich so she works as a bellydancer. The other, Karima, is content with her life and takes care of her sick mother and pays home bills.

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.

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

A family composed of a father who works as a Qanun musician, the son is a drummer, and the daughter is a dancer, all work in a nightclub, but the daughter is the one who pays most of the house expenses. The son meets a young man from a wealthy family, who falls in love with his sister.

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The famous musician, Allam, is the son of his friend Jalal, who loves to sing. Jalal recognizes the singer Siham and connects the love between them and agree to marry. Allam suffers from a knot that has been associated with him for years when he was betrayed by the woman he loved and who does not trust women. But he feels love about arrows and tries to win them. Opposes her marriage to Jalal and at the same time admits her love, Jalal asks Siham, to sacrifice her love for fear of Allam from another shock. However, Allam is aware of the error of what is presented to him, he grows arrows in years, as well as attached to the glory and love for her. Bless their marriage and prepare for the new operetta.

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...

A group of foreign adventurers pretend to be archaeologists so they could look for gold in the Western Desert. They are hosted by a tribe whose leader, Sheikh Fadel, welcomes them, until he discovers the truth and stands up to them.

Hassan, frustrated by poverty, becomes involved with a wealthy woman and eventually abandons his family for her.

1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk convinces Amin to invest his life savings in a project, which he promises, will get him rich. Amin agrees but forgets to take a receipt. Amin suddenly dies and watches on from the after life.

After his wife cheats on him with his friend, a husband seeks solace in a nightclub where a dancer and an alcoholic friend try to console him. When the alcoholic friend kills his wife for money, he leaves his daughter under the care of the husband and the dancer.

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.

A girl runs away from her strict father's house and is found by a traveling clown who works with the circus. She works with him to collect money from the spectators. She quickly grows up with him and works with him in all of his shows.

Jalal is a successful engineer who loves his neighbor Laila, the granddaughter of a pasha, but he hides his love for fear of social differences. Her uncle supervises her money, even though he is a gambler. Laila's cousin, a reckless young man, covets marrying her to seize her money. He learns by chance that Jalal loves Laila, so he tricks them both, and seizes the money from both of them.

A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journey to find her children.

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Salah and his cousin Souad promise to marry each other. Salah’s uncle asks him to collect revenue from the citadel where he meets Aziza, the flirtatious girl who succeeds in seducing him. Aziza tells him that she's pregnant with his child. Salah becomes torn between his love for Souad, and his attraction for Aziza.

The peasant lives with his wife and child a happy life on an estate owned by a feudal lord, who seeks to seize the three acres owned by the peasant. The feudal lord sees the young peasant's wife and is impressed by her. He rents the peasant ten acres of his land for a small sum and sends him to Cairo, where he tries to be alone with his wife, and events escalate.

Two young men, Ahmed and Mohamed, who live in Port Said, develop feelings for the same girl, Najaf. However, when the Tripartite Aggression reaches Port Said, they abandon life trivialities and join the militants as Najaf joins the Red Crescent; the three unite for a single patriotic cause.

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A broke gambler plans with the manager of a gambling hall to steal money from the safe of a pharmaceutical company that another gambler works for. The gambler betrays his partner , and kills him and mutilates his face. After the doctor leaves his room, everyone thinks that he killed the gambler because of the hatred that existed between them.

When a musician's family faces financial difficulty, the daughter starts working as a singer in a nightclub owned by her mother's lover. When she learns about her mother's affair, the girl claims that she's in a relationship with the nightclub's owner in order to save her mother's reputation.

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.

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.

Umm Ratiba and her younger brother are suffering from their older brother Abd Al-Sabour's tyranny. Abd Al-Sabour, who's obsessed with sorcery and charlatanism, refuses her marriage to her neighbor and tries to convince them that he will return after his death to make sure they're following his orders.

A poor maid loves her wealthy young master and she becomes pregnant. The head of the family seeks to make her marry a lawless man to give the newborn girl his name. Time passes and the girl becomes a dancer in nightclubs, and falls in love with a wealthy young man who knows who is her real father .

The events of the film center around three girls who share work and livelihood, and each one of them has a dream that dominates her thinking; Where (Rich) dreams all the time about wealth, while (Ahlam) is trying to achieve her artistic ambitions, while (Hoda) searches for love and stability, and each of the three girls follows different life paths in their continuous attempts to achieve these dreams.

An honest employee finds himself in a tough situation when he is accused of killing his manager due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His wife is forced to work at a nightclub to provide for their children.

After the death of (Shaker Bey), half of the factory goes to (Kamel) the hardworking man in his work, and the other half to (Samira) the daughter, and at the same time (Sami), Kamel's younger brother, falls in love with (Luwabed), but because Loobed is looking hard for a life of luxury, she turns to Kamel to convince him that she loves him, and already marries him, and after marriage, Waout tries to put her hands on the factory, especially after she betrayed her husband with (Farid) Samira's husband, who owns half of the factory, and exploits this to blackmail him.

Health Inspector Dr. Ashraf gets into many problems because of his work in one of the villages where he went to work, as he becomes an obstacle in the path of the health barber, mayor, and perfumer in the country. Everyone practices quackery and sorcery, and the challenge before them increases after the village is afflicted with the plague.

Lachin, commander of the Army of One rulers, manages the affairs of governance prime minister, who traded Bakot parish while the ruling does not offer nor a delay in something a multi-female relations spineless, "Lachin" trying ruling alert to the tricks of the prime minister, is arrested "Lachin" charges Gwighth going to love him and he loves the ruling and filed in prison. Erupts people who had been fed up with the unjust actions of Prime Minister and took advantage of the famine to seize power, the release of Lachin the hands of the people and justice prevail in the country.