Naima ElSoghier

Acting

Naima ElSoghier

Born — Died

1931-12-25 — 1991-10-20

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Na’eema El Soghayar was born in Alexandria on the 31st of December, 1931. Her full name is Na’eema ‘Abd Al Maguid ‘Abd Al Gawad and she started out as a monologist performing next to her husband Mohamed El Soghayar before both worked together in Ibrahim Hamouda and Isma’il Yassin’s troupe. After her husband passed away, Na’eema transitioned to cinema where she portrayed the role of the cruel mother at times and the role of the cautious mother at other times. Amongst her most famous roles was a part in “al-Shaqa men Haqq al-Zawgah” (“The Wife Holds the Right to the Flat”). Na’eema devoted herself to cinema works and did not seek stage or television performances as vigorously.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 30 titles

دقات على بابي poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

دقات على بابي

1989

Troublemaker poster
7.6

Azza escapes from her family’s home after being incessantly harassed by her stepfather. On her journey, she meets Medhat and agrees to live in his house, where she meets Magda and they become friends. Things get complicated when Magda dies and Azza pretends to be her.

Troublemaker

1980

Adieu Bonaparte poster
5.9

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet and falls in love with two young Egyptian brothers, reflecting complex themes of colonial desire, affection, and personal connection.

Adieu Bonaparte

1985

A man killed by love poster
NR

Causes the killing of a gypsy man. He seduces him and marries her and begins to turn his life

A man killed by love

1986

Karakon On The Street poster
6.8

Sharif, his wife Su'ad, their daughter Sarah, their son Hany and his mother are all living in the shelters after their house was demolished. Due to the inhumane standard of living in the shelters, they go to live in the courtyard of the family house. Unfortunately they find another person living there. Sharif designs and builds a wooden cabin to live in the street. He is subjected to many harassment.

Karakon On The Street

1986

The Girls' Reformatory poster
6.0

Naima is detained in the juvenile's house, proves her good behavior and is sent to a hospital to learn nursing.

The Girls' Reformatory

1984

Clash of the Grandchildren poster
7.2

A grandfather dies and leaves his wealth to the best married grandson. Grandmother Zahira insists on carrying out his will, which causes a struggle between the grandchildren to get the fortune. The three grandchildren represent the various facets of strength: money, mind, and muscles.

Clash of the Grandchildren

1989

Ramadan On The Volcano poster
6.1

Ramadan is a poor young employee who wants to marry his fiancée Alia but can't afford it. He plans to steal and hide the employees' salary bag, then turn himself in and serve his sentence so that he can get married after. Upon his release, he finds out that another gang stole the money bag.

Ramadan On The Volcano

1985

Love in a Jail Cell poster
6.0

A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.

Love in a Jail Cell

1983

Halal and Haram poster
NR

Seham and Mawaheb work in the factory of the wealthy Safwat during the day and in a brothel at night. Seham does not succeed in ensnaring Safwat after she hides her true identity from him, but the ghosts of the past continue to haunt her.

Halal and Haram

1985

صورة عائلية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

صورة عائلية

1982

El Shaweesh Hassan poster
NR

Hassan Shawish simple hope to find an apartment and marry his fiancée, which competes to win her cousin is well. In his work, he has to sneak into a drug gang and his life changes afterwards.

El Shaweesh Hassan

1988

The Basement poster
6.0

The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get rich, so she gives in to Dandrawi who gets arrested after one of his buildings collapses. His wife tells Ruqaya's family about her husband's relation with her and Youssef is determined to kill him.

The Basement

1987

The Talisman poster
3.6

High school teacher Mahmoud lives with his entire family in a tiny apartment. The landlord's attempts to evict them reaches the point of enlisting the Devil’s help.

The Talisman

1987

Karakib poster
NR

Sayed and Alawiya, a husband and wife of employees, face life with a modest salary. His co-worker dies, so he goes to his family to offer his services and help them in completing the pension procedures, but after a while the situation of his co-worker’s family changes from poverty to wealth, and behind this move is that his co-worker has security. On his life insurance policy. Sid decides to insure his life.

Karakib

1989

The Suspect poster
6.4

The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.

The Suspect

1981

Banat Haretna poster
NR

The film revolves around Aziza, Gamalat and Lawahez (Boussy, Elham Shaheen and Dalal Abdel Aziz), three friends from a working-class neighborhood who work in the bag trade with Mrs. Nazaga. A disagreement occurs between them and they leave work with her, so a famous bag trader and her assistant Harbi exploit them to travel to Europe under the pretext of buying evening dresses. In reality, drugs are smuggled in their bags without their knowledge, and on one of their trips they are arrested.

Banat Haretna

1987

The Piper poster
6.6

Al-Zamar Hassan is on the run after he was an Engineering student and presented a play with the acting team in the Faculty that the authorities didn't like. He moves from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety. He settles in the village of Araba becoming a vendor in a grocery store.

The Piper

1985

The Bey Doorman poster
6.5

Abdel Samea goes to Egypt with his wife and children looking for a job so he works as a doorman, and by being smart he works as a broker until he makes a lot of money

The Bey Doorman

1987

Save Whatever is Possible poster
NR

(Nabil) returns to Egypt after an absence of 18 years to recover his father's palace after the guard has been lifted from him, gets to know the school (Amal), be surprised by his friend (Omar) who has become wealthy from the drug trade and becomes an influential businessman, (Omar) succeeds in attracting ( Nabil) to his world. And he turns his evening to the palace, which turns into a den of delinquency

Save Whatever is Possible

1985

Streets of Fire poster
5.5

In the 1940s, the policeman Imam moves to Cairo to work in an area devoted to prostitution. There he falls in love with the prostitute Nusse who works with the bully Jalal without knowing that she is practicing this profession. He is defended by an imam who beats an English soldier who tries to intercept her and assault her. He is tried and dismissed from service, then returns to live in the neighborhood and look for work, and becomes a pimp, a quarrel between him and Jalal al-Fatwa. Each trying to prove his strength and impose his power.

Streets of Fire

1984

Don't Lose Your Mind poster
8.0

Wael is a psychiatry student by day and nightclub worker, he gets acquainted with Salwa in the hospital where he trains and falls in love with her. He feels that there's a big story behind her admission to the hospital and tries to help her despite all the obstacles she faces.

Don't Lose Your Mind

1985

Sleepless Eyes poster
5.2

Ibrahim, 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

Wedad, The Belly Dancer poster
NR

(Wedad) is a dancer in her aunt's cafe in Naja Hammadi, and once the prince (Yusuf), known for his corruption and injustice, arrives at his palace in Naja Hammadi, and sees Widad and asks her to dance for him at a private party, and tries to rape her but she succeeds in running away from him, and she tries to take revenge with the help of officer (Hassan).

Wedad, The Belly Dancer

1983

Monsters Run poster
6.7

Said and Nabil are friends. Said can't have children, and Dr. Nabil decides to help him by transplanting part of the brain of poor man Abdul Qawi to him, who suffers from severe fatigue after the operation, while Said is unable to have children despite the success of the operation.

Monsters Run

1987

Arbab Sawabeq poster
8.0

Businessman Salem receives a phone call from an unknown person threatening him with death if he does not give him an amount of money, so that the police, in cooperation with Salem and the repentant pickpocket Zaki, draw up a plan to place him in their fist and succeed in their mission, so Salem is surprised that the accused is Shawqi's business manager.

Arbab Sawabeq

1988

Lial poster
4.0

Naima escapes from her stepfather's house, and works in Sherazade's nightclub who gives her the artistic name 'Layal' and she becomes a famous dancer. She falls in love with journalist Galal and hopes to marry him.

Lial

1982

We Share Your Joy poster
NR

Mokhtar desperately tries to wed Samia but their inability to find a suitable apartment over the last 8 years stands in the way. His mother-in-law isn't making things any better.

We Share Your Joy

1988

صراع العشاق poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

صراع العشاق

1981

نواعم poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

نواعم

1988

1970s · 20 titles

Alexandria… Why? poster
6.5

Amid 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

Karnak poster
6.8

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

Karnak

1975

I Want a Solution poster
7.5

It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.

I Want a Solution

1975

Forbidden at the Wedding Night poster
6.9

Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spirit appearing to them trying to spoil their plans.

Forbidden at the Wedding Night

1975

The Malatily Bathhouse poster
5.5

The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.

The Malatily Bathhouse

1973

Al Sokkareya poster
NR

The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.

Al Sokkareya

1973

No artwork available
5.5

An anthology of two highly experimental apocalyptic fantasy dramas with sci-fi and psychological horror elements. Originally intended to comprise a third story, 'Sifr' ['Zero'], directed by Nagi Angelo, the film was banned outright by the Egyptian censors and may not have had its domestic premiere until it was broadcast on satellite television in November 2012.

Two - One - Zero

1974

And it was love poster
5.0

A remake of Henry Barakat’s "Have Mercy" 1959.

And it was love

1974

The Name Caller poster
NR

Hamed leaves his hometown and goes to Cairo to work as a gatekeeper in a building. He marries Fathia, who comes to live with him in Cairo. Fathia gradually learns to read and write and she aspires to work in a good job while Alaa who lives in the building tries to woo her.

The Name Caller

1975

Legs In Mud poster
NR

Fardous is in prison for stealing a watch. She shares a cell with Samia, who works in a show band and is wrongly arrested in a brothel and Mona who accidentally killed a child with her car. When Fardous comes out, she works in Asfour's poultry farm, but leaves it when he and his son compete to marry her.

Legs In Mud

1976

Sonya and the Madman poster
3.0

An adaptation of “Crime and Punishment", a young educated man's descent into madness and paranoia after committing a crime, and finding comfort in the company of kind-hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.

Sonya and the Madman

1977

Imtithal poster
NR

Emtithal runs away from home after suffering from her stepfather's control, and works as a dancer in a nightclub. She gets close to the nightclub's thug and seduces him, becoming the queen of Emad El-Din Street. But when he discovers that she is having an affair with another young man named Naji and is pregnant with his child out of wedlock, he decides to take revenge on her.

Imtithal

1972

Shafiqa and Metwally poster
6.7

The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their sinful relationship is revealed, she is forced to leave for Asyut, where she becomes the mistress of Al Tarabishi, the supplier of slaves.

Shafiqa and Metwally

1978

Storm of Tears poster
NR

When Essam refuses to marry Aziza who is pregnant with his baby, Aziza dies in childbirth and asks her old neighbor to look after her child, Hedaya. Years pass by, and the girl grows up and gets unknowingly involved with her father's family.

Storm of Tears

1979

A House Without Tenderness poster
NR

Mother Fatima controls her children. Her eldest son Essam challenges her and urges his brothers to stand up to her. Essam falls for his neighbor, Suhair, who is already married to Usta Rajab. She shares the same feelings, and they agree to marry after she gets divorced.

A House Without Tenderness

1976

We Don't Sow the Thorns poster
6.5

Sayida lives a life full of tragedies, starting with her escape from her stepmother who treated her like a servant, her attempt to flee Abbas who keeps chasing her, her suffering from her husband who seizes her money and her involvement with a prostitution ring.

We Don't Sow the Thorns

1970

The Lottery Ticket Thief poster
NR

Confusion ensues when a man wins the lottery with a ticket he hadn't realized was stolen at the time he bought it.

The Lottery Ticket Thief

1970

Al-Karawan Loh Shafayef poster
NR

Hussein and Qasim participate in a dance group with Karawan. Debts accumulate on the group, which leads to the separation of the two partners. Each of them goes to the teacher Tafeeda. A dispute occurs between Hussein and the nanny. At the time, Qasim goes to borrow money and finds the nanny murdered. Hussein's wife sees a person coming out of the nanny's house who looks like her husband, so she believes that he is the killer. He is arrested and his lawyer friend tries to find out the truth, but he disappears, because at the same time that the nanny was murdered, he was cheating on him with his wife.

Al-Karawan Loh Shafayef

1976

Something in My Chest poster
7.0

Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.

Something in My Chest

1971

And Life Is Back poster
9.0

The story revolves around a couple who separate from each other despite the strong love story that brought them together. They deposit their only son in a boarding school, and the parents visit him at school every week, alternating between them. One day, Alaa goes out and does not find his father waiting for him as usual. A gang kidnaps him from in front of the school. The parents report the incident to the police and search for their kidnapped son.

And Life Is Back

1976

1960s · 4 titles

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