Bishara Wakim

Acting

Bishara Wakim

Born — Died

1890-03-05 — 1949-11-30

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

An Egyptian actor, born in the Faggala district of Cairo in 1890, he studied at the French Frere Schools in Bab al-Louq and later enrolled in the Faculty of Law, earning a bachelor's degree. He was nominated for a scholarship to France, but his studies were cut short due to the outbreak of World War I. He began his artistic career with the troupes of Abdel Rahman Rushdi and George Abyad, and then worked with Youssef Wahbi in his troupe. He also worked with Mounira al-Mahdiyya, and starred in numerous films during the 1930s and 1940s, including: (Bisalamtuh Ayez Yitgawz, Al-Bashkawil, Law Kont Ghani, Intisar al-Shabab, and Al-Arees al-Khamis).

Known for

قبلني يا أبي poster
NR

When Arna'out Pasha learns that his son is married to a dancer in secret and that they have a child, he threatens to cut his son off. The son sends his family to Lebanon but as war breaks out, he loses contact with them.

قبلني يا أبي

1947

Khulud poster
NR

A love affair has linked Laila and Mahmoud since their childhood, but at the same time, Hassan, Mahmoud's cousin, falls in love with her, so jealousy and hatred begin to fill his heart towards Mahmoud. Fate wanted to bring Laila and Mahmoud's hearts together and complete their marriage. At their wedding, Hassan tries to kill Mahmoud, but Laila saves him and dies. Years pass and Mahmoud tries to get back what Hassan did to him.

Khulud

1948

The three musketeers poster
7.0

Bahbah, Shiha, and Sanqur are three colleagues working in a newspaper whose editor-in-chief, Amer, stipulates that he should not be married to work there. Each of them was married and concealed his marriage. The three go to a hotel in Helwan to recuperate. There they meet Hosnia, who is searching with her uncle for a wealthy groom, and begins to set her nets on them, and events escalate.

The three musketeers

1940

The Innocent poster
NR

Mohsen is a wealthy, romantic young man who lives in his grandfather's palace. One day, he decides to shelter a number of homeless children in order to reform them. This turns his family against him, expelling him from the palace and filing a quarantine lawsuit against him.

The Innocent

1944

Layla the Country Girl poster
9.0

Laila is a rich rural girl raised by her aunt who succeeds in marrying her off to her son, a doctor who just returned from England. But the doctor lives a reckless life, and he looks down on Laila who turns into a beautiful modern girl after moving to Cairo.

Layla the Country Girl

1941

The Bashmakul poster
9.0

The film's events revolve around the lawyer Mumtaz, who loves flirting with women, despite his marriage, and continues to cheat on his wife, until she decides to teach him a lesson in agreement with her friend, where she pretends to be cheating on him with another man. Will Mumtaz be fooled and believe his wife's betrayal of him? Or will he understand the lesson and stop cheating on her?

The Bashmakul

1940

Film credits

1940s · 55 titles

قبلني يا أبي poster
NR

When Arna'out Pasha learns that his son is married to a dancer in secret and that they have a child, he threatens to cut his son off. The son sends his family to Lebanon but as war breaks out, he loses contact with them.

قبلني يا أبي

1947

Khulud poster
NR

A love affair has linked Laila and Mahmoud since their childhood, but at the same time, Hassan, Mahmoud's cousin, falls in love with her, so jealousy and hatred begin to fill his heart towards Mahmoud. Fate wanted to bring Laila and Mahmoud's hearts together and complete their marriage. At their wedding, Hassan tries to kill Mahmoud, but Laila saves him and dies. Years pass and Mahmoud tries to get back what Hassan did to him.

Khulud

1948

The three musketeers poster
7.0

Bahbah, Shiha, and Sanqur are three colleagues working in a newspaper whose editor-in-chief, Amer, stipulates that he should not be married to work there. Each of them was married and concealed his marriage. The three go to a hotel in Helwan to recuperate. There they meet Hosnia, who is searching with her uncle for a wealthy groom, and begins to set her nets on them, and events escalate.

The three musketeers

1940

The Innocent poster
NR

Mohsen is a wealthy, romantic young man who lives in his grandfather's palace. One day, he decides to shelter a number of homeless children in order to reform them. This turns his family against him, expelling him from the palace and filing a quarantine lawsuit against him.

The Innocent

1944

Layla the Country Girl poster
9.0

Laila is a rich rural girl raised by her aunt who succeeds in marrying her off to her son, a doctor who just returned from England. But the doctor lives a reckless life, and he looks down on Laila who turns into a beautiful modern girl after moving to Cairo.

Layla the Country Girl

1941

The Bashmakul poster
9.0

The film's events revolve around the lawyer Mumtaz, who loves flirting with women, despite his marriage, and continues to cheat on his wife, until she decides to teach him a lesson in agreement with her friend, where she pretends to be cheating on him with another man. Will Mumtaz be fooled and believe his wife's betrayal of him? Or will he understand the lesson and stop cheating on her?

The Bashmakul

1940

The Princess of the Island poster
9.0

A princess is kidnapped by a greedy and mean Calif. He wants to marry her. Three men set out to rescue her, and with the aid of a ring with a spirit in it they succeed.

The Princess of the Island

1948

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

The Lady's Game poster
7.3

The film takes place in Cairo during the Second World War, where Hassan Abu Tabq (Naguib Al-Rihani) meets the girl Laybeh (Tahiya Karioca), and feelings of love develop between them while Hassan struggles, and things change little by little when a game comes in front of you with a great opportunity to portray a movie star. .

The Lady's Game

1946

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

Confused life poster
NR

A woman is falsely imprisoned for killing a man, she escapes and travels to Lebanon after changing her name, until she is arrested there and imprisoned for the second time, whereupon a professor of forensic psychology attempts to unmask the real criminal who killed that man .

Confused life

1948

A groom from Istanbul poster
NR

Threatened with deprivation of inheritance, Mohsen travels from Istanbul to Cairo to forcefully marry his cousin Samira, who disguises himself as a maid to escape this marriage. He also disguises himself as his servant, but they fall in love.

A groom from Istanbul

1941

The Unknown Past poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Unknown Past

1946

Leila, Daughter of the Poor poster
7.0

Laila lives in the Sayeda Zeinab district. A woman invites her to her palace and introduces her to her fiancé, the young officer Wahid, as the daughter of Pasha Darwish Pasha. Laila is amazed by the palace and the party held there. After a while, Laila turns into a wealthy girl. Wahid's heart falls for Laila. Wahid proposes to Laila from her alleged father, Darwish Pasha, but he discovers her true identity.

Leila, Daughter of the Poor

1945

Laylat Al-Jumea poster
9.0

Uncle Abdel Fattah forces his nephew Anwar to marry so that he does not deprive him of the inheritance. Anwar does marry, but one day he goes with his friend to a cabaret and meets Tahia, the dancer, who brings him back home drunk. The uncle comes to confirm his nephew's marriage and finds Tahia, who claims that she is his wife. When his real wife appears, he introduces her as his friend's wife.

Laylat Al-Jumea

1945

Anbar poster
NR

Vim Anbar is a lyrical comedy film starring Laila Murad and Anwar Wagdy with a group of stars who participated with Laila Murad in singing the song that is dear to my heart. They are Ismail Yassin, Aziz Othman, Mahmoud Shoukoko,

Anbar

1948

If I Was Rich poster
7.5

A poor man suddenly gets rich when he receives big inheritance.

If I Was Rich

1942

Beauty and charm poster
7.0

The film revolves around Jamal, who works as a translator and exchanges feelings of love with the girl Dalal, but the dancer Markad stands in the way of their relationship, which Jamal tries to resist in every way, which prompts Markad to frame him for a murder, and he travels to Italy, where he meets the maestro Cavallo, who gives him the opportunity to showcase his talent.

Beauty and charm

1945

Leila, ghadet el camelia poster
9.0

A night film adapted from the story of Ghada al-Kamiliya produced in 1942 and directed by Togo Mizrahi

Leila, ghadet el camelia

1942

عروسة البحر poster
NR

When a struggling fisherman is dissatisfied with his life, he has a dream about how a mermaid is caught in his net and her tears of misery are turning any metal into gold. But the new wealth that the fisherman achieves becomes the source of his unhappiness.

عروسة البحر

1947

Man of the future poster
NR

Kamel Amel is a man who gains great wealth and moves from a life of poverty to a life of wealth and luxury. This incident arouses the interest of journalist Suhair, who finds in his transformation journalistic material. She contacts him and writes articles about him brimming with sarcasm and mockery, accusing him of He is a foolish millionaire, and a relative who envies his wealth is exploiting these articles and demanding that he be placed under guardianship

Man of the future

1946

The Victory of Youth poster
7.0

Waheed, the young composer, struggles with his sister, the singer Nadia, to make a living. They find work in one of the nightclubs, but the manager expels them because Nadia refuses to sit with the patrons. They suffer from torment and homelessness. Nadia falls in love with the wealthy Mohi, who agrees to marry her, but his mother opposes. As for Waheed, He also loves a rich girl and agrees with her brother to marry her. Mohi marries Nadia without caring about his mother, and Waheed succeeds in presenting the operetta he dreamed of directing.

The Victory of Youth

1941

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

Al-anissa Busa poster
8.0

Fouzy Pasha agrees with his daughter that whoever marries her must choose her for her person and love for her, not for her wealth. Indeed, Fouzy Pasha pretends to be bankrupt and even chooses a modest, popular residence and wanders the streets playing the piano while his daughter sings. Love brings his daughter together with a young man from a wealthy family, and the Pasha blesses this love.

Al-anissa Busa

1945

Wahida poster
NR

Wahida is a simple girl who grew up in Jalila Hanem’s house. She loves Mamdouh, Jalila Hanem’s son, and she completely rejects this relationship. She even tries to protect her son from this marriage by banishing Wahida and marrying her to Saadawi. Mamdouh's heart does not accept negotiations and surrenders to sadness until he falls prey to illness.

Wahida

1944

The Fifth Groom poster
10.0

Four greedy men are trying to win over Bahira Hanem. So she pretends to be poor to test the fifth man's feelings.

The Fifth Groom

1942

Al-Haz Al-Sa'eed poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Al-Haz Al-Sa'eed

1945

Jealousy poster
NR

A love story grows between a young athlete and his neighbor. As he dreams of winning a championship, girls begin to chase him, and one seeks to make him fall for her, which generates feelings of jealousy in the heart of his beloved who abandons him.

Jealousy

1946

Qesset Gharam poster
9.0

Jalal lives with Hoda's father and the two children become attached, but fate does not give them time to grow up. Hoda's father, Esmat, dies, leaving them under the control of an evil, unjust man, Shaheen, who seizes Hoda's wealth and they live a harsh life with him until they grow up and decide to escape, but Shaheen chases them with one of his men and Jalal is shot, but he advises Hoda to escape.

Qesset Gharam

1945

Victims of Love poster
7.0

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.

Victims of Love

1944

My Heart is My Guide poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Heart is My Guide

1947

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

Passion and Revenge poster
7.7

A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process.

Passion and Revenge

1944

The Straight Road poster
9.0

A good man who loves his family and devotes himself to taking care of them. A woman intercepts him and takes him into her love. This changes his circumstances and he is distracted by her from his family. He neglects his work and his life is upended. He ends up killing this woman who killed him and betrayed him. Then he immigrates to Sinai, where he lives for a few years. When He returns to his family and finds that the children have grown up and married.

The Straight Road

1943

Layla The Schoolgirl poster
7.0

The strict lawyer Yusuf receives his orphan cousin Laila at his place after she finishes her studies. She brings a fun and cheerful atmosphere to the palace. Yusuf starts embracing life but he falls in love with an unfaithful woman, and Laila tries to advise her.

Layla The Schoolgirl

1941

Divorce of Saad Hanem poster
10.0

Hassan (Farid Shawqi) a playboy, whenever his wife Suad (Aqeela Rateb) on his disdain, throws the right of divorce, until three shots were objects, and it became difficult to retrieve them only through the "analyst", and (Hassan) finds his desired in a poor young man Suad was shocked by her car named Wahid (Anwar Wajdi). The marriage is agreed for one night, but things get complicated after Wahid falls in love with her.

Divorce of Saad Hanem

1948

Casino el latafa poster
10.0

Aziza and Sharifa are two friends. They are married to the two friends, Aziz and Refaat. Aziza suspects her husband's behavior, and her friend supports this suspicion. They concoct a plan. Sharifa sends an unsigned love letter to Aziz Pasha and sets him up on a date in the casino.

Casino el latafa

1945

I'm No Angel poster
7.0

Lawyer Raouf meets Yasriya Hanem, the daughter of Hassan Bey Abu El-Dahab, and falls in love with her and tries to reach her. Raouf bets with his friend that Raouf will marry Yasriya. A quarrel occurs that ends with the friend's lover shooting Raouf. The sound of the bullets restores his cousin's sight and she nurses him. Raouf marries her after he is certain that his love for her is stronger than his love for Yasriya.

I'm No Angel

1946

Hassan & Hassan poster
10.0

Hassan is a taxi driver, and his cousin is also called Hassan, but he is a con man. Hassan the con man marries his cousin, the sister of Hassan the driver. He finds this an opportunity to blackmail his cousin, so he urges him to invest his money in a fake company. They travel to Alexandria and meet the beautiful Houria and the two fall in love with her.

Hassan & Hassan

1945

Cry in the night poster
NR

The wife does not protect the honor of her wealthy husband, so she enters into a shameful relationship with an immoral man without the husband’s knowledge. During one of her trips, she takes her lover to the estate. The maid discovers this betrayal, but does not announce it at the time.

Cry in the night

1940

The red mask poster
NR

A singer meets a young doctor and hides the truth about her work. When he learns the truth, he leaves her and travels abroad to continue his graduate studies, unaware that the singer is the one paying for his expenses.

The red mask

1947

Serving Two Masters poster
NR

Shoman Pasha discovers that there is an upholsterer named Master Abbas who looks just like him. The Pasha decides to switch places with Abbas after he gets fed up with his life and its restrictions, just as the upholsterer gets tired of living a life of poverty and need.

Serving Two Masters

1946

Layla, Daughter of the Rich poster
7.0

Laila is a wealthy girl, with a father who has no will and a domineering wife. Her stepmother tries to marry her to his son so that the wealth does not go outside them. Laila decides to flee, and causes an accident with her car. Everyone thinks she is dead, but she ends up in a village, and a journalist sympathizes with her.

Layla, Daughter of the Rich

1946

Laylat Al-farah poster
NR

A man divorces his wife and his daughter Salma lives with him. However, he marries a playful young girl who cheats on him with a theater actor called Riyad, who brags about his infidelity to his friend, the playwright Hazem. Salma happens to meet Hazem on the same train, as she was traveling to her father’s estate and he was going to visit his friend Riyad. At the estate, Salma learns about her stepmother's betrayal.

Laylat Al-farah

1942

The Mind is on a Vacation poster
10.0

When a rich young man meets and falls for an aristocratic girl, he claims that he's a driver in order to get a job with her family. He finds that she is engaged to a fraudulent young man who's after her money, and that she is in fact trying to save her family from bankruptcy.

The Mind is on a Vacation

1947

Mindful people poster
NR

One of the European explorers wrote to his friend Hamdi Bey that there were mummy graves on the outskirts of Alexandria that had not yet been discovered. Hamdi invited him to attend, along with his wife and some of his friends. One of Hamdi’s friends saw that the number of guests was 13, a number that the Europeans were pessimistic about, so he asked one of the house servants to attend. By playing the role of the Sultan of a fictional country.

Mindful people

1940

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

Omm el Saad poster
10.0

Overnight, the situation changes from one extreme to another. This is what happened to Umm Al-Saad after she accepted to live in humiliation in her wealthy uncle’s palace and work as a maid, to the point that she was accused of theft and his wife threw her out. But fate decreed that her innocence would be revealed after the illness of the uncle became severe, and his wife and children neglected him.

Omm el Saad

1946

The invisibility cap poster
NR

Teacher Abbas Samkari dreams of getting rich. He finds an invisibility cap and uses it to pay off his debts and follow everyone around him without anyone seeing him. However, the cap falls into the hands of thieves, who misuse it.

The invisibility cap

1944

Bent Zawat poster
NR

Ibrahim believed that his upbringing in the Pasha's palace would make him a member of the family, but his dreams were shattered after the Pasha's daughter refused to marry him due to the difference in social level between them. Ibrahim seeks revenge through work, collecting a large fortune and taking revenge on the Pasha's daughter.

Bent Zawat

1942

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

غرام بدوية poster
NR

A Bedouin girl falls for the son of a Pasha, but her family opposes the match and ends up forcing her to marry her sweetheart's father. With the two lovers so close to each other, the elderly husband soon comes to learn that his wife is in love with his son.

غرام بدوية

1946

I Love Wrongdoing poster
8.3

Badawyia is a younger dancer who dreams of stardom. She meets the young doctor, Elwy, and they fall in love. A director asks her to be the star of his new movie, but when Elwy asks her to marry him, his father disapproves.

I Love Wrongdoing

1942

Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi poster
NR

Muslims and Crusaders conclude a truce during Richard the Lionheart's illness, and young Arabs seize this opportunity to join their armies in Jerusalem. Among them is Saif al-Din, who hides his identity, which Prince Khalid knows. The young man heads towards Jerusalem and gains the trust of the Sultan.

Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi

1941

No artwork available
NR

As Nabil falls in love with Elham, a dancer who hides the truth about her profession, he marries her despite his mother’s opposition. But as Elham suffers from Nabil's concern for traditions, she meets another man and falls into temptation.

The First Love

1945

1930s · 3 titles