
Directing
Inas El Degheidy
Born 1953-03-10 · Cairo, Egypt
Inas El Degheidy is one of the most famous and controversial female directors in the Middle East. A blatant feminist, many of her movies discuss issues that pertain to women and their role in Arab societies and the plight of women in Middle Eastern culture. Most of her characters are empowered females and spread the message that women deserve the same freedoms as men in society. Her films are criticized by conservatives as being too risqué and racy.
Acting credits
7.0A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.
Mouths and Rabbits
1977
NRJournalist Hossam is involved with three different women at the same time. Amira, the charming journalist who's well connected, Reem his rebel revolutionary secretary, and Hanadi the simple lady who's the victim of the collapse of a building.
One Woman Is Not Enough
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Iraq International Awards
2023
Behind the camera
NROmaima is a medical student and an active member of the Students' Union, who is arrested for her political activity and released due to the influence of her father. She gets romantically involved with Hisham, and a colleague tries to discredit her.
Time of the Forbidden
1988
NROmaima is a medical student and an active member of the Students' Union, who is arrested for her political activity and released due to the influence of her father. She gets romantically involved with Hisham, and a colleague tries to discredit her.
Time of the Forbidden
1988
NRA love story between (Salah) and (Gamila) ends and years later they meet again after she married Azmi al-Damanhuri,one of the big smugglers. (Gamila) tries to get back with (Salah) but he refuses and Azmi finds out about them and goes through a psychological conflict with them.
The Red Rose
2000
6.0The story of three girls, Iikhlas, Tawhida, and Nagfa, who live in the same village, going through the same tough circumstances. As they ask Master Mabrouk to help them find a job or get married, each of them faces a difficult life.
Cheap Flesh
1995
NRJournalist Hossam is involved with three different women at the same time. Amira, the charming journalist who's well connected, Reem his rebel revolutionary secretary, and Hanadi the simple lady who's the victim of the collapse of a building.
One Woman Is Not Enough
1990
5.4Abbas is an interior architect living in Hurghada. He gets into a quarrel with Ismat, the owner of the villa which Ahmed is working on, that ends with her causing him a permanent disability. When he decides to sue her, her mother Zohira convinces her to marry him.
Lobster
1996
5.0A bored lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a dance studio. He secretly starts taking lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Let's Dance
2006
5.0A bored lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a dance studio. He secretly starts taking lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Let's Dance
2006
NRIn a mixed high school, Sayed Abu Dahab leads a group of students who spend their nights at the disco,spreading among them addiction and customary marriage, and their school principal tries to fix things.
Disco Disco
1994
5.7Samar, a singer, and Mariam, a lawyer, are childhood friends. One day as she was driving, Samar hits a man and calls Mariam to come to the police station where she is being questioned by Hossam. The three of them are involved in a love triangle as both women try to win Hossam over.
Dantela
1998
5.7Samar, a singer, and Mariam, a lawyer, are childhood friends. One day as she was driving, Samar hits a man and calls Mariam to come to the police station where she is being questioned by Hossam. The three of them are involved in a love triangle as both women try to win Hossam over.
Dantela
1998
NRWhen Huda gets released after killing her traitorous husband, it angers his father, Abdul Qawi who fights to prevent her from having custody of her child. Ahmed the lawyer sympathies with her and they get married while Abdul Qawi wants to avenge them.
The Challenge
1988
NRA journalist known for her stance against corruption and her insistence to unmask its ugly faces whenever and wherever found becomes the target of the corrupt businessman Youssef who weaves a web of lies convincing her that he loves her, only to draw her away from her investigations.
Samiha Badran's Case
1990
6.0Ali and Hoda are a happy couple, on their wedding night Ali reveals that he has a psychological problem that makes him uncapable of sleeping with her.
The Law, Excuse Us
1985
4.4Jamila falls in love with Raouf, a handsome young man and a friend of Nancy at first sight, to the extent that she gives herself to him.
Journals of a Teenager
2002
4.4Jamila falls in love with Raouf, a handsome young man and a friend of Nancy at first sight, to the extent that she gives herself to him.
Journals of a Teenager
2002
NRRaped when she was but a child, Ragaa is traumatized, and she vows revenge on all men who seek forbidden pleasure. Akin to a siren, she lures men into distant areas where she kills them, but things aggravate when she murders a senior official.
The Killer
1991
NRA police detective investigates an apartment in which suspicious businesses are taking place, so he disguises himself to work there and succeeds in identifying both those who frequent the apartment and those who run it.
Night Chat
1999
NRThe story revolves around a poor Egyptian young man who is obsessed with Princess Diana, until he comes across a Danish girl who looks like her. As he becomes crazy and starts chasing after her, he tries to save her from an assassination attempt.
Crazy for a Princess
2009
NRThe story revolves around a poor Egyptian young man who is obsessed with Princess Diana, until he comes across a Danish girl who looks like her. As he becomes crazy and starts chasing after her, he tries to save her from an assassination attempt.
Crazy for a Princess
2009
4.3The film revolves around three Arab girls who travel to France, in search of the freedom they lost in the Arab countries from which they came, each in their own way.
Searching For Freedom
2005
4.3The film revolves around three Arab girls who travel to France, in search of the freedom they lost in the Arab countries from which they came, each in their own way.
Searching For Freedom
2005