
Acting
Farid Shawqy
Born 1920-07-30 · Cairo, Egypt
Farid Muhammad Shawqi Abdo was born in Sheikha al-Bagghala in Sayyida Zainab district .. He obtained a diploma of the Institute of Applied Engineering and a diploma in the Institute of Acting and worked in small roles with the artist (Anwar Wagdy), then he began writing cinematic stories for his films and achieved stardom and became known as the King of the Tarso, the monster of the screen, the King . He wrote many film stories, and worked on stage in many of Rihani's plays, such as (Al-Daloua, The Story of Every Day), and he worked in Lebanese, Syrian and Turkish films, including (The Devil of the Bosphorus, Othman Al-Jabbar). And among the series he worked with, (Curmudgeon and Me, the only witness, Saber, Uncle Saber). He married artist Hoda Sultan and they separated in 1969, then he married Suheir Turk later on. He founded the Union of Artists in 1986. He won the State Prize for the story (They Made Me a Criminals) in 1955 and the Production Prize at the Berlin Festival in 1956 for the film (The Fatwa). He won the State Prize for Production in 1962, the Medal of Flag in 1964, and was honored by the Cairo Festival in 1994. He deservedly deserved the title of King of Tiers or King of Cinema, as he is the star who always renewed himself and got rid of stereotypes.
Acting credits
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Hawk
1950
NREbn Al-Shaitan (Son of the Devil) a disguised serial killer who target men who leave their wives and kids and remarry.
Ebn Al-Shaitan
1969
5.2Ibrahim, the owner of a large car workshop, marries a poor girl called Mahasen, which his brothers fear because of their fear of sharing their inheritance. At the same time, Ismael feels a lot of hatred and hatred toward Ibrahim, who works for him in the workshop, The problems all the time with the pros, but soon change the relationship between Mahasen and Ishmael.
Sleepless Eyes
1981
NRBasbousa is an orphan girl, who has a love affair with Samir, takes advantage of the admiration of Rafat, the manager of Samir, and asks him to promote her fiancé, so he agrees, which arouses the jealousy of one of his colleagues, and he begins to spread rumors.
Ela Al Ma2zoon Ya Habibi
1977
NRAl-Sab' is a humble employee who is having trouble with his boss and his sweetheart's relative who wants to marry her. As he has a dream that he is living a happy life after all his problems were resolved, he decides to face his problems and marry his girl.
El Sab'a Afandi
1951
NRChief Kamel loses his job after an accident. His wife, Widad, works as a secretary for his company's manager. When Kamel suspects his wife's betrayal and divorces her, he leaves with his son to Cairo. Widad marries the manager and the employee Hamdy tries to assault her.
A Handful of Days
1978
7.8Shousha El-Sakka, fears death because it took his wife. He meets with Shehata, and later knows that he is an undertaker assistant and he becomes pessimistic of him ,but when Shehata dies, Shousha is saddened by his passing.
The Water-Carrier Is Dead
1977
6.01950 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.
Baba Amin
1950
6.9A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
The Blazing Sun
1954
7.4Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
Cairo Station
1958
NRFeaturing a tour-de-force performance by sour-faced Abd us-Salim in-Nabulsy as the puffed-up Professor Hamdi, 'the greatest of all scientists, a modern-day Edison, and the overlooked inventor of nasal batteries and youth elixir', whose latest scheme involves projecting the mind beyond the body.
Welcome to Love
1968
6.5Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
Alexandria… Why?
1979
NRBoraie is a blind beggar who is helped by his beautiful daughter Merzouka in making a big fortune. The swindler Sursock convinces Merzouka to steal her father's fortune then leaves her and flees with the money to Alexandria where he becomes the owner of an export and import company.
Marzouka
1985
7.0Hassan enters a mental hospital, claiming madness after stealing a jewelry shop. Naima pretends to be his sister, and meets Adam the head of the nurses and agrees to marry him. Hassan escapes with the help of Adam while Naima takes the jewelry bag and and everyone starts chasing her.
Ana almajnun
1981
NRThe film tells the story of Müfit, a bank manager who lives a happy life with his family, and how his life changes after he meets Kamelya. Müfit is a man who goes to work and comes home every day in a routine manner. One day, he meets Kamelya at a ball. This encounter is the first step that leads Müfit into the gang's web. As Müfit gets to know Kamelya and her brother Memduh, he drifts away from his family. A trap set by Kamelya causes Müfit to drift away from his wife Emine, leading to the complete breakdown of his marriage. Misunderstanding Emine, Müfit leaves home. He leaves the country and starts working as a waiter in nightclubs. Years later, he discovers that Kamelya and Memduh have set the same trap for someone else. The identity of this person will prompt Müfit to take action.
Babaların Günahı
1973
NRSergeant Radwan works in a reformatory for the youth and treats them harshly, until the social worker Karima arrives and treats everyone gently, which angers Radwan, especially as three prisoners, Samir, Abdel Fadil, and Nabil, plan to escape.
Bela Rahma
1971
8.0The film tells the story of a poor man who does everything he can to be with the woman he loves. Osman is an ordinary worker at a nightclub where Yasemin is the lead singer. To win Yasemin's heart, he extorts money from shops. Eventually, he becomes a famous mafia boss. Now he is very rich. However, winning Yasemin's heart will not be as easy as he thinks.
Köle
1972
5.8Set 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.
Oh Islam
1961
6.4After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.
The Beggar
1983
NRA millionaire's daughter goes to Tunisia with her father's secretary, but she refuses to sing at concerts despite her beautiful voice. When she meets a flirty guy who tries to make her fall for him, she decides to teach him a lesson when she learns of his history with women.
Rihlat El Saada
1966
7.0Because of his recklessness, Ahmed divorces his wife for the third time, but he wants to return to her again, so they search for a solution, until they find Ustaz Hassan, and Ahmed agrees with him to marry his wife Laila for one day, but because of Ustaz Hassan's brother, the marriage extends for several days, during which Laila discovers Hassan's noble personality and wishes for him to be her husband.
Gouz Meraty
1961
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Raghba wa hiqd wa intiqam
1986
9.0A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.
The Thugs of El-Husseiniya
1954
NRA hooker decides to repent after she gets married and gives birth, but when she discovers that her husband is an addict, she convinces two of her friends to steal some jewelry, but things do not go well after the apartment owner and her child were killed during the robbery. Making her accused of a crime she didn't commit.
Dilapidated Woman
1992
Behind the camera
NRA father with three children: (Amin) a lawyer, (Salem) a police officer, (Medhat) who hopes to be an engineer but did not succeed in his studies. They go to Cairo at the beginning of the school year after spending the vacation on their father’s farm, with their mother and their aunt’s daughter (Karima). The father is extremely cruel to his children, and in the city, both Amin and Salem are busy with their work, while Medhat fails in his studies and lives a frivolous life, and events continue.
Kollohom Awlady
1962
8.8Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.
Rassif Nemra 5
1956
8.8Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.
Rassif Nemra 5
1956
NRAging Constable Hassan (Farid Shawqi) continues to work hard in the Department of Drug Control while devoting himself to raising his son and daughter. He then discovers that the son became a drugug addict through a junkie dancer, so he intervenes in order to save his son.
Shaweesh Noss El-leil
1991
5.4A lawyer falls in love with a woman her meets in Faiyum, but she lies to him to test his love.
I, He and She
1964
7.0The 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
3.0Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from.
Les Misérables
1978
9.0Two brothers, the first is a swindler who asks his brother, who looks like him, to replace him in his business after he is chased by his opponents, the two brothers, one of them is an evil man working in diamond smuggling, while the second is a respectable human being despite his extreme poverty, the evil brother succeeds in entering his brother to the mental hospital, but he decides to get him out of it in order to deceive some gangsters
The Impostor
1961
NREnas (Magda El Khatib) and her husband Adel (Youssef Shaaban) covet her father Galal's (Farid Shawqi) wealth. As for her younger sister Hala (Yousra), she is kind to him and loves Khaled (Hatem Zulfikar). Galal marries Laila. Adel finds a document proving that his father-in-law Galal spent some time years ago in a mental hospital. Thus, Adel can obtain a power of attorney from his wife to seize his father-in-law's money and property.
Hakamt El-Mahkama
1981
NRA successful neurosurgeon challenges death with God's help and his knowledge in operations with a success rate of no more than 5%. He also helps others and solves the problems of the poor. But he faces the most difficult operation that turns his life upside down. What is this operation? And why does he lose everything in the face of this challenge?
Don't cry, my love of life
1979
NRSayed Masoud, an employee at the insurance company, has one last chance to save his face in front of his manager in the company due to his successive losses, and now he must deal with a boxer and protect him from any harm.
Akher Forsa
1962
5.7Abu Rabie agrees to be the guardian of the land given by Haj Ragheb to his niece Yasmin, but Osman Bey and Murad try to seize the land in all ways, like arranging a rift between Abu Rabie and Yasmin, and Murad's attempt to make Yasmin love him. Will their plan succeed?
Abou Rabiea
1973
9.0When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich.
The Scornful Man
1956
9.0When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich.
The Scornful Man
1956
7.3Hamido (Farid Shawqi) works as a fisherman at sea, but he also deals in drugs by sea. Hamido and Saadia (Hoda Sultan) live in a great love story, but the teacher Qarsh (Mahmoud El-Meligy) does not leave them alone.
Hamido
1953
7.5Sultan 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
NRAhmed, a taxi driver, returns a forgotten handbag to Yasmine, a nightclub singer, earning her gratitude. As she's pressured by her boss and pursued by Mokhtar, her son Ezzat runs away. Bringing Ezzat back, draws Ahmed and Yasmine closer.
Life Cabaret
1977
NR(Hassan) is a young man who suffers from a psychological complex due to betrayal that he has lived with since his childhood, so he does not like women, but a beautiful girl can make him fall in love with her, and he sees life as rosy through her, and after several months the wife changes, and the husband becomes suspicious, and discovers that his wife is cheating on him, his feeling of depression increases and he decides to take revenge on her.
Fugitive
1968
10.0Barai discovers a great scam, where he throws himself in front of cars and starts blackmailing the driver who hit him, and takes money from him. Barai realizes that this kind of work is better than the other jobs he has previously done. Barai collides with a car driven by the director of a company, and starts blackmailing him, then he discovers that the director is cheating on his wife, so he threatens to reveal his secret.
Al-Mohtal
1954
NRNoha is preparing to marry a young diplomat , but then finds herself charged in a murder case. Her father,the former police officer, discovers that the one behind the crime is her twin sister who he thought died while she's living with a gang. Her father tries to bring her back home.
Ah and Ah From Sharbat
1992
NRA 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.
Almar'a kl shay'
1953
NRUnaware that she is the daughter of Mr. Shawkat, the CEO, Ahmed gets into an argument with Nahid. When the two meet in Alexandria coincidentally, Nahid disguises herself as a peasant and works a scheme to teach Ahmed an unforgettable lesson.
Date with the Beloved
1971
7.0Salem was arrested for a crime he was not involved in. His brother-in-law Kamel has sinned with a young girl who becomes pregnant, so Salem takes her to have an abortion but she dies during the operation. When Salem knows that his wife is in critical condition,he wants to see her and tell her the truth.
Word of Honour
1973