Kamal Hussein

Acting

Kamal Hussein

Born 1927-09-10 · Egypt

Acting credits

Zohrah poster
NR

Khurshid tries to marry Bahigha, the daughter Arfy Pasha, who rejects the idea of their marriage for the difference in their social status. Khurshid is able to cause the Pasha to fall into a financial crisis which leads him to have a severe heart attack.

Zohrah

1947

The Beginning and the End poster
8.2

Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.

The Beginning and the End

1960

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

Lahalibo poster
10.0

Elham is a young dancer whose misogynist grandfather refuses to acknowledge. Elham disguises herself as a man and goes to stay with her grandfather, while continuing to work as a dancer. As she falls for Amir, a surprise turns everything upside down.

Lahalibo

1949

Al-Nemr poster
9.0

Darwish is a casino worker, apparently a good man, but he is originally the head of a drug trafficking gang under the nom de guerre "Tiger", and he behaves brutally with his men and his opponents. Salah the policeman is assigned the task of knowing the truth of the tiger, he disguises himself as a journalist, visits the casino and falls in love with Faten, the daughter of Tiger.

Al-Nemr

1952

We the Students poster
6.7

Three students, Adel, Hassanein, and Samir, face personal struggles. Adel is rejected by his father for loving his neighbor’s daughter, Hassanein seeks revenge for his father’s murder, and Samir deals with parental neglect after his parents’ divorce. Samir’s relationship with a maid leads to complications, prompting him to seek help from a dancer, Gamalat, for an abortion. The trio robs a bar for abortion money but finds it insufficient. Saidyh dies during the abortion, and Gamalat’s call to neighbors and the police results in their arrest and a fifteen-year prison sentence.

We the Students

1959

My Children poster
8.0

The wife dies and leaves behind three children and their father. The maid begins to set her nets on him, until she marries him after her divorce from her first husband. The maid dies and the daughter is accused, and at the last minute the real killer is revealed, who is the maid’s brother.

My Children

1951

The Emperor poster
5.7

The story deals with the journey of Zinham, a young man who fled Egypt from Upper Egypt in search of a living, climbs up in organized crime and drug smuggling. His friend, Ibrahim, takes part in the crime journey. When he becomes one of the biggest drug smugglers (heroin) Who is in control of her market in Egypt in alliance with an Israeli smuggler, marries a dancer after he gets rid of Slim, the drug dealer who worked for him at the beginning of his career. He turns to liquidate everyone who stands in his way. He becomes drug addict and kills his close friend. (Ibrahim), after doubting the betrayal of his wife dancing with him.

The Emperor

1990

The Curse poster
7.0

Journalist Hamdi enters the mental hospital, claiming that he is mentally disturbed to investigate a journalistic precedent by discovering the secret of the killing of a patient, who shows some changes as a result of his integration, but he reaches the killer.

The Curse

1984

Children Of The Streets poster
8.0

Fayez is a married officer who finds a baby and takes him home, until the father of the child knows his place and takes him back and begins to teach him to steal until he joins a gang. The child's mother tries to save him from this fate and asks officer Fayez to help her.

Children Of The Streets

1951

Days and Nights poster
7.7

An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of his life. When Yehia falls for the beautiful Samia (Iman), he believes he has finally found the woman with whom he could spend the rest of his life. Trouble soon arises, however, when Samia's delinquent stepbrother begins doing everything in his power to sabotage the couple's relationship.

Days and Nights

1955

Ya habibi poster
8.0

Jalal works in one of the workshops and studies engineering, and he falls in love with his neighbor, inspiration, and the teacher Qureshi fights him who wants to marry her, and calls for the work that you live with to pay off his debts.

Ya habibi

1960

Big Teenager poster
8.0

Ahmed is a novelist who has passed the age of youth. He spends his life on many romantic adventures, until Ahmed meets a beautiful girl who is the daughter of the caretaker of his estate that he owns. Ahmed discovers that this girl is very impressed by the romantic stories he writes, so he decides to ask her for marriage. Will she agree?

Big Teenager

1961

Alkhataya poster
7.0

Hussein and Ahmad are brothers. Hussein falls in love with a colleague, but his father mysteriously decides that Ahmad should marry her instead.

Alkhataya

1962

Rendezvous with a Stranger poster
7.0

A classic Egyptian film noir starring Omar Sharif who is trying to find out the mysterious circumstances under which his brother was killed. This gem also features the belly dancer Samia Gamal and features some of her famous exotic dancing tableaux.

Rendezvous with a Stranger

1959

A Marriage in Danger poster
8.0

Ahmed (Ahmed Ramzy) is a hard-working young man in love with Samira (Nadia Lotfy), a girl from a wealthy family. Both want to get married, but Samira's aunt rejects, given Ahmed's social status. Meanwhile, a belly dancer in love with Ahmed is trying to keep them apart.

A Marriage in Danger

1963

Iidini eaqlak poster
NR

After Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful Cairene girl, both Jazar and Ghoneim become jealous, so they decide to travel to Cairo in order to search for Cairene girls for marriage, but they fall into a series of strange paradoxes, including falling into the hands of a professional fraudster. They worked in a doctor's house as servants.

Iidini eaqlak

1952

Asef Lil Ezaag poster
NR

In an exciting, suspenseful drama, the events revolve around a young man who is successful in his work, but he has some ambitions that are never fulfilled, in addition to his strong relationship with his father who always encourages him, and mysterious phone calls haunt him. When he tries to achieve his ambition and falls in love with a girl, he has a very violent surprise that almost destroys his entire psychological being.

Asef Lil Ezaag

1988

Girls Are Sweet poster
7.0

Abbas Abu al-Dahab calls his wife Karima after giving birth to three daughters because he dreams of the child who will inherit his work and manage it after him. He will marry another woman called Gamalat. When the father gets sick, the father finds all the help of his daughters.

Girls Are Sweet

1951

Laila, Daughter of the Beach poster
NR

The film revolves around the fisherman Mohsen, who wishes to marry Laila, the daughter of his employer, Al-Reis Aweis. One day, a young man arrives in town to work with Al-Reis Aweis. The young man learns of Mohsen's plan to marry Laila and fires Mohsen from his job. However, Mohsen later finds work in the arts, and things develop for both Laila and Mohsen after their separation.

Laila, Daughter of the Beach

1959

The Landlord poster
NR

Set in the 1980s, a landlord promises people to give each and every one of them an apartment if they help with the construction work. When the building is all set up, though, it turns out that he is a fraud.

The Landlord

1988

Spring Fantasies poster
8.0

A girl develops a psychological complex after witnessing her mother giving birth to her second child, leading her to reject marriage and suffer from nervous breakdowns. During her treatment, she falls in love with her treating physician, but he doesn't reciprocate her feelings openly due to a problem he's had.

Spring Fantasies

1955

The Unknown Man poster
NR

Safia is a beautiful girl from the countryside, who is loved by two men: Rashwan, the mayor's son, and Hamid, the poor young man. Her father approves her marriage to Rashwan, but Rashwan soon changes his mind, as he tries to get close to Hamdiya, Hamid's sister.

The Unknown Man

1965

No artwork available
NR

The Master Builder a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen

The Master Builder

1980