Aaidah Riyadh

Acting

Aaidah Riyadh

Born 1954-01-23 · Bulaq, Cairo, Egypt

Egyptian actress. She started her artistic career as a dancer in the National Folk Art Group at the age of 14, and then became the first dancer through which she saw the director Ahmed Yassin to perform her first roles in his film (with my greetings to my dear teacher). She then presented several plays including (one for Mon and the other crazy, nut and almonds), as well as television series (glitter clouds, Haret Mahrousa, money and sons, Mard mountain, play love and revenge, nights dream).

Acting credits

A Very Difficult Mission poster
NR

While drunk Ahmed agrees with Wahid that he kills his stepfather, in return for Ahmed killing Wahid's wife Salwa in order to have her insurance policy. Wahid carries out the agreement, while Ahmed meets Salwa and confess to her the plan.

A Very Difficult Mission

1987

Ta'aleb Aranib poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ta'aleb Aranib

1994

Love and Revenge... With a Meat Cleaver poster
NR

The director's final work prior to his early death to chronic liver disease was this gleefully ghoulish horror comedy, which imparted the following straightforward moral: if you smother your wife to death with a bowl of porridge and bury her remains in a shallow grave, purely in order to start a new life with your mistress - then don't be too surprised if your wife returns and is more than a little angry about the situation! Like Shabl's two previous features, the film was released theatrically before also becoming a minor hit on home video.

Love and Revenge... With a Meat Cleaver

1992

In the Heliopolis Flat poster
6.9

Najwa, a music teacher from the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, seizes the opportunity to come to Cairo on a trip with her students to search for Tahany, her first teacher that taught her music and used to live in an apartment in Heliopolis.

In the Heliopolis Flat

2007

Playing with Giants poster
7.0

When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.

Playing with Giants

1991

Lion Heart poster
5.8

Kidnapped as a child and raised in the circus, a young lion tamer's tough side emerges when he gets entangled in an underworld murder mystery.

Lion Heart

2013

Badal Faqed poster
7.0

The film's events revolve around twins separated by days, each of them raised in a different environment. One was adopted by a dancer and lived with her in a poor, marginalized life in a slum area, and the other was adopted by a good, high-ranking family, and the first became a drug dealer and the second a police officer.

Badal Faqed

2009

Kit Kat poster
7.5

Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.

Kit Kat

1991

Hell Underground poster
NR

Zaki Dawoud is a Jewish merchant who trades in leftover WWII weapons in El-Alamein and smuggles them to Israel with the help of the English Colonel Collins. Ghazy is a member of the resistance against the English occupation who is trying to stop the smuggling operation.

Hell Underground

2001

Ard Ard poster
10.0

Three poor girls live in a neighborhood. One of them is called (Firdaws), who breaks off her engagement due to her father's disagreement with (Mohsen), her fiancé. Meanwhile, (Mahassen) suffers from loneliness and takes care of her sick mother. And (Mary) is their Coptic friend who loves (Ramadan), the Muslim, despite their different religions. The film follows the lives of the three girls and the rest of the neighborhood, their relationship with each other, and what happens inside the neighborhood daily.

Ard Ard

1998

El Almany poster
6.1

A registered felon, known as Al-Almany, lives in the slums and tries to find his way out by any means necessary, including criminal acts and harassment.

El Almany

2012

Return of the Prodigal Son poster
6.4

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.

Return of the Prodigal Son

1976

Tata Fell asleep, Tata woke up poster
NR

Tata (Sherif Negm) works as a bartender in a nightclub, and since he lives in dreams and not in reality, he is fired from work. He goes to work for his cousin Maghawri (Shaaban Abdel Rahim), a wedding singer and cinema extras, to help him get a job and discovers that he has a supernatural ability.

Tata Fell asleep, Tata woke up

2007

The Blood of the Innocent poster
5.9

The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and eventually dies in an accident.

The Blood of the Innocent

2005

Kiss Me Not poster
5.3

Fajr is a famous temptation star, and the heroine of the first feature film of a young director. She rejects the kissing scene in the film, which provokes the director and the producer, and everyone tries to reach common ground to complete the film and get out of this dilemma.

Kiss Me Not

2018

The Death Ward poster
5.5

Tawfiq imports spoiled food for children which causes thousands of children to fall ill. Despite the efforts of the journalist Nabila to expose him, he is able to escape abroad, so the officer in charge, Fouad, decides to take the law into his own hands.

The Death Ward

1989

Auntie Faransa poster
5.1

Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the weeping and let her continue her studies.

Auntie Faransa

2004

February 30th poster
2.0

Nader and Nour can't escape their bad luck. Nour, a news correspondent, always ends up stumbling into unlucky situations, and Nader runs into trouble wherever he goes. Suddenly, unexpected events change their lives when they meet.

February 30th

2012

Ibn El Hagg Ahmad poster
3.7

Ahmad’s life goes downhill when he crosses paths with a menacing gang and finds himself teaming up with a young woman to confront them and fight for survival.

Ibn El Hagg Ahmad

2023

Dunia poster
5.1

A young, free-spirited dancer and student of Arabic poetry falls in love with her thesis supervisor while trapped in a relationship with a man who disapproves of her dancing.

Dunia

2006

Dreams of Hind and Camilia poster
6.5

Hend is a young widow who works as a maid, she meets Eid the conman who goes to prison and leaves her pregnant. While Camellia is a divorced maid who supports her unemployed brother and his family in exchange for letting her sleep over in his apartment.

Dreams of Hind and Camilia

1988

The Downfall poster
NR

Hassan and Tawhida work in the phone company. They listen in on calls and discover many secrets and crimes, which makes them blackmail the callers and report them to the police. After making a lot of money, they get married and Tawhida wants them to leave their old ways behind.

The Downfall

1990

Living the Moment poster
NR

The young media graduate Salma escapes a near death car accident by famous announcer Shady. She discovers that he's the boyfriend of her best friend Dina. A love story begins between them, but she tries to walk away while Karim tries to get close to Dina.

Living the Moment

2010

Witty Women poster
NR

Hosni is the owner of a cabaret, he gets used to marrying every time from the dancer who works for him in order to get her money and then abandon her to marry another dancer and so on, but when he reunites three of his victims dancers and get together, they decide together to put a tight plan to take revenge on him for everything he did to them, especially since the side of the cabret has other illegal works in secret.

Witty Women

1991