Hussain Ismael

Acting

Hussain Ismael

Born — Died

1922-10-29 — 1974-07-25

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

The Egyptian actor Hussein Ismaeil was born on the 29th of October 1922. He was known for his supernumeraries' roles where he presented the Barber, the butcher and the concierge. His brother Abdel Monien Ismaeil was one of his competitors in the artistic field...He passed away on the 25th of July 1974.

Known for

الرقم المجهول poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الرقم المجهول

1969

Shall I Kill My Husband? poster
10.0

As the husband goes out for work, a man sneaks into the house and informs the wife that her husband is a murderer and a fugitive from justice. He makes her choose between signing a contract selling him one of her buildings, or having him report her husband.

Shall I Kill My Husband?

1958

Cairo Station poster
7.4

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.

Cairo Station

1958

My Sister poster
5.0

A man takes an escort to live with him in a rural area and convince them that she is his sister.

My Sister

1971

Sweet and Naughty poster
9.0

A film producer who agrees with one of the directors to direct a movie, assigning the movie starring to Noussa, then filming is delayed and disputes arise between Noussa and the film's hero, as they both try to manage a mold for the other, so that they fall in love together and insist on completing filming after changing the story of the movie.

Sweet and Naughty

1968

The Barred Road poster
8.5

Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.

The Barred Road

1958

Film credits

1970s · 8 titles

1960s · 37 titles

Sweet and Naughty poster
9.0

A film producer who agrees with one of the directors to direct a movie, assigning the movie starring to Noussa, then filming is delayed and disputes arise between Noussa and the film's hero, as they both try to manage a mold for the other, so that they fall in love together and insist on completing filming after changing the story of the movie.

Sweet and Naughty

1968

Eshaet Hob poster
7.9

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

Eshaet Hob

1960

Agony of Love poster
7.0

Amal marries the train driver Mahmoud, who treats her harshly. She feels neglected despite her husband's presence, Mahmoud travels to another city and asks his assistant Hassan to look after his wife. During his absence, Amal expresses admiration for Hassan's morals, which soon turns into a special love.

Agony of Love

1960

My Wife the General Manager poster
6.8

A married couple ends up working at the same company where the wife is a general director. This arouses the suspicion of their co-workers who do not know they are married.

My Wife the General Manager

1966

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

Mottarada Gharameya poster
6.7

Based on Marc Camoletti's play "Boeing Boeing", the story follows the womanizing exploits of Mounir (Fouad El Mohandes), an air traffic controller juggling five different air-hostess girlfriends from all over the world. His fiancée Mona (Shouweikar), an Egyptian air-hostess, threatens to dump him if he doesn't quit his playboy lifestyle. Mounir thus decides to seek help from a prominent - albeit sexually frustrated - psychiatrist (Abdel Moneim Madbouly).

Mottarada Gharameya

1968

The Storm over Arabia poster
8.0

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.

The Storm over Arabia

1961

El mughammerun el talata poster
NR

Three teenage friends spend their time on adventures and neglect their studies, they are asked to the army to perform military service, they succeed in training and study during service. After the end of the military service, they decide to benefit from what they studied in the army by participating in the resistance of the Englishmen in the channel, and he spoke to them more serious and exciting adventures.

El mughammerun el talata

1965

Soft Hands poster
6.7

A prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim.

Soft Hands

1963

The Game of Love and Marriage poster
7.0

Ameria is shocked when she finds out her husband is cheating on her, so she decides to commit suicide, but the taxi driver saves her and takes her with him.

The Game of Love and Marriage

1964

The Three Devils poster
7.0

Saadawi, Fattouh and Azab, prisoners in Abu Zaabal prison after serving their sentence, decide to repent of a life of crime, and after they get out of prison, they find themselves in a confrontation with teacher Abdul Razek, who refuses to restore the rights to Azab.

The Three Devils

1964

Kholkhal habibi poster
10.0

A café on the road where motorists meet and run by Hafida and leads a gang with Adham, Sanad and Hindawi, her daughter Bahia dances to the pioneers of the cafe and seeks Adham to marry her, but she turns it off. It is the cause of its drowning.

Kholkhal habibi

1960

The River of Love poster
8.2

Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".

The River of Love

1960

The Shortcoming poster
7.0

Corruption is rampant in the ministry, where one of the capitalists drives everyone to falsify import permits for himself, until three new girls are appointed to work there, and each of them takes a different path.

The Shortcoming

1967

The Cursed Palace poster
6.2

The daughter of a wealthy man is tormented by visions of her father's death while a struggle over inheritance plays out.

The Cursed Palace

1962

لا تذكريني poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

لا تذكريني

1961

Woman on the Margin poster
NR

A famous actress retires and marries a rich man a customary marriage. Then his family forces him to divorce her. He waits till she gives birth and steals the marriage paper and escapes. Then she kills him with his new wife and is sentenced to imprisonment and her child is adopted by a family.

Woman on the Margin

1963

Prince of Cunningness poster
6.3

This lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Prince of Cunningness

1964

Oh Islam poster
5.8

Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.

Oh Islam

1961

Chakawet rejala poster
6.5

A rich young man named Ahmed falls in love with a poor girl called Farida, but he does not know that she is poor. To make a plan to present it to his family by hiring a group of compars to reunite the personalities of the wealthy unique family.

Chakawet rejala

1966

Bit of Fear poster
6.9

Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.

Bit of Fear

1969

Arouss el Nil poster
5.9

When an oil engineer starts digging for oil in Luxor he disturbs the spirits of ancient Egyptians buried there. A spirit, Last Bride of the Nile, is sent to get him to stop the drilling.

Arouss el Nil

1963

No Tears poster
7.0

On one of his trips, Wahid, a forty-year-old journalist, meets Sawsan, a young flight attendant. Admiration grows between them, and love grows, but the age difference between them is an obstacle, as she fears repeating the experience of her mother, who married her father, who was twenty years older than her, and then he died. Sawsan falls ill and is admitted to a hospital, and Wahid goes to visit her. The mother is surprised that he is her lover, whom she loved when she was young, and was unable to marry him.

No Tears

1961

Ebn El-Hetta poster
10.0

Exploiting the great resemblance between Ashour El-Aaghati and actor Farid Shawky, director Mahmoud Al-Badrawi decides to use him in many scenes. At the same time, Ashour relates to his neighbor Najat and decides to marry despite all the attempts of the master, the owner of the cafe, to stand in the way of their love. At the same time, a painful accident occurs to the artist Farid, leading to his death, and director Mahmoud decides to use Ashour as an alternative, declaring that the actor will not die.

Ebn El-Hetta

1968

The Tale of Three Girls poster
7.0

Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. The second is a secretary with designs on her boss, even though he too is married. Having learned from her friends' experiences, the third takes an altogether different path.

The Tale of Three Girls

1968

Souq El Selah poster
NR

Bahiya decides to take revenge after her brother's death at the hands of a drug gang. She exploits the love of Sayed, a gang member, to achieve her revenge, but the gang leader, Shukoura, stands in their way.

Souq El Selah

1960

The Sin poster
7.7

Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.

The Sin

1965

Al-modeer Al-Fanni poster
8.0

After he gets fired from his job as a teacher, Hamouda works in a company, and soon discovers that the manager is doing illegal work. He's offered to take part in the fraud and scheme, he quickly learns the ropes and becomes wealthy.

Al-modeer Al-Fanni

1965

Alforsan Althalatha poster
10.0

The film revolves around the pious and devout lawyer (Saleh), who writes about his beliefs and principles in a magazine called (Lights of Virtue), but the magazine is not popular. At the same time, he insists on marrying his daughter to Sheikh (Fadel), even though she loves her cousin (Nabil). After a while, one of Saleh's relatives, who used to work as a dancer, dies, and he inherits the nightclub she owned, which changes many of the principles he used to believe in before.

Alforsan Althalatha

1962

A Man in Our House poster
6.8

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.

A Man in Our House

1961

Struggle of the Heroes poster
6.4

A difficult period in Egypt in the year 1947, when the villages of Egypt attacked cholera. A doctor (Shukri), who tried to serve the villagers to save them from poverty and hunger, is appointed in a village. (Adel Bey) The feudal lord of the village exploits its people to work on his land as forced labor and whoever objects to hand him over to a mental hospital, taking advantage of his influence.

Struggle of the Heroes

1962

نورا poster
NR

A career-focused journalist crosses paths with Noura, a good-hearted young woman who suffers from societal pressures and issues. As Mahmoud tries to save her from going down a path of sin, he learns the story of her family and her struggle to provide for her ill sister.

نورا

1967

Melody of Joy poster
8.0

Galal Pasha is a cruel man who drives his only heir, his nephew Ehsan, to run away from his cruelty. As Ehsan falls for the teacher Hanan, Galal has his secretary Ass'ad search for Ehsan to bring him back.

Melody of Joy

1960

El Ragel Da Hayganeni poster
10.0

Atia is an overly kind man whose wife abandons him due to his weak personality. He meets a greedy producer who plans to exploit a wealthy woman to produce a movie for him, only for Atia to discover that the wealthy woman is his wife whom he hasn't seen in years.

El Ragel Da Hayganeni

1967

Mansion of Longing poster
6.2

10 years after Fahmy died, Ahmed Abdel Gawad returned to his normal life. He falls for Zanouba who is in love with his son Yassin. As Zanouba marries Yassin, Kamal's idealism is compromised when Aida abandons him for a wealthy guy.

Mansion of Longing

1966

Utmost Joy poster
NR

A group of Egyptian soldiers returns from the Yemen War, including Men'em who promises his friends a grand wedding. As Sheikh Hassan claims to be an acquaintance of artists, he gets in trouble when it is discovered that belly dancer Nagwa Fouad doesn't know him.

Utmost Joy

1963

عودي يا أمي poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عودي يا أمي

1961

1950s · 15 titles

Shall I Kill My Husband? poster
10.0

As the husband goes out for work, a man sneaks into the house and informs the wife that her husband is a murderer and a fugitive from justice. He makes her choose between signing a contract selling him one of her buildings, or having him report her husband.

Shall I Kill My Husband?

1958

Cairo Station poster
7.4

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.

Cairo Station

1958

The Barred Road poster
8.5

Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.

The Barred Road

1958

Ismail Yassine in the Air Force poster
7.0

Ismail El Ghandoor works as a stuntman and a small time actor in movies. He falls in love with a young belly dancer, Soheir who dreams of being the wife of a pilot. Ismail dresses up in his brother Hussein’s clothes as a pilot in the force while his brother is away on his honeymoon. When Hussein returns the truth is revealed, and each of them goes back to his real job. Will Soheir accept the real Ismail or will she continue to pursue her dream of marrying a pilot?

Ismail Yassine in the Air Force

1959

The Scornful Man poster
9.0

When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich.

The Scornful Man

1956

Conflict in the Nile poster
7.2

Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."

Conflict in the Nile

1959

Khalid ibn el Walid poster
5.5

The story of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid (592-642) the greatest military leader in the dawn of Islam during the life of prophet Muhammad and his caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar.

Khalid ibn el Walid

1958

I Am Free poster
6.7

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.

I Am Free

1959

Abul Eyoun Garia poster
9.0

German brain surgeon von Robin Stop will perform the most serious surgery, a replacement of human brain to another human brain, buys from the gang an Egyptian woman and then the first operation in Egypt is to replace her brain with the brain of his wife flirt, we see the wise woman has turned into a playful foreign lady, and see his wife She has turned into an honest lady.

Abul Eyoun Garia

1958

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya poster
9.0

A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya

1954

The Nightingale's Prayer poster
7.8

This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.

The Nightingale's Prayer

1959

Forever Yours poster
8.0

A young employee tries to cover for his colleague, whom he loves, after he discovers that she embezzled money from the company they work in. As he gets accused of her crime, he gets involved in her husband's murder and tries to escape.

Forever Yours

1959

My Wife's Suitor poster
6.5

The jobless Somaa is happily married to Lola. He finds a job as a secretary at a fashion house owned by the spinster Howayda, who lives with her brother Fawzy. But as the job requires that the secretary be single, Somaa claims he is. When Lola finds out, she asks Somaa to quit, but he refuses, so she starts working as a model for Howayda, whereupon Fawzy falls for Lola and proposes to her.

My Wife's Suitor

1959

Ghaltet El Omr poster
7.0

Dr. Sami is subjected to harassment and arrogance from his wife, Munira. One of his patients is the singer Nadia, who visits his clinic for treatment. From here, Dr. Sami feels how gentle Nadia is. Dr. Sami's conditions change, and he even becomes preoccupied with Munira. Munira tries to find out the reason for this change, but fails to bring him back home, so she begins to spread rumors and scandals about him.

Ghaltet El Omr

1953

They Made Me a Criminal poster
7.5

Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.

They Made Me a Criminal

1954

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