
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
7.4Qinawi, 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
الرقم المجهول
1969
10.0As 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
8.5Faiza 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
7.0Amal 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
7.9Hussein, 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
Film credits
1970s · 6 titles
8.3Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.
The Land
1970
5.0A man takes an escort to live with him in a rural area and convince them that she is his sister.
My Sister
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Three Madmen
1970
4.0The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.
The People and the Nile
1972
6.0Fahmy is an ardent believer in horoscopes and manages his life according to them. When a fortune-teller convinces him that his life is connected to a Virgo who has a black birthmark, he discovers that the girl in question is Nana, his friend Adel's fiancée.
Virgo
1970
9.0Richard Harrison is Mike Spencer, a cop whose girlfriend is killed by drug dealers after she stumbles onto their operation during a fashion show. He goes undercover as a photographer to catch the people responsible.
You Can Do a Lot with 7 Women
1972
1960s · 36 titles
7.0Amal 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
7.9Hussein, 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
8.2Set 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Banat bahari
1960
6.8A 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
6.3This lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Cunningness
1964
7.7Aziza 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
6.7A 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
8.0A 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
8.0After 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
5.8Set 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
6.0The life paths of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad during the period of the British occupation, and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution, starting with the family's patriarch who lives a double life, his son Fahmy who joins a secret political organization, and the older son Yassin who follows his father's footsteps in pursuing women.
Between Two Palaces
1964
6.8Rebel 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
10.0Atia 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
8.0When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but his protégé, the sculptor Sherif, also falls for her and competes with Ahmed to win her favor.
A Bit of Torment
1969
7.0Three 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
8.2Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
The River of Love
1960
10.0Exploiting 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
NRThe work deals with the story of the couple Hassan and Samia, who live happily, and disturbed their lives only some of the harassment of the mother of Samia to Hassan, until the situation changes when they give birth to their child (Hani), to use her mother Samia to care for the young and live with them at home and events escalate.
Good Morning My Dear Wife
1969
NRBahiya 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
8.5The story revolves around the singer (Dalal) who works in a cabaret. Many men fall in love with her, but she prefers the wealthy (Mustafa). She marries him and moves to live with him on his estate. (Mustafa's) mother, who wanted her son to marry his cousin, is shocked. When she is injured in an accident, a doctor comes to treat her and meets Dalal, as he was one of her former clients. The doctor proposes to (Mustafa's) cousin, and (Dalal) refuses this marriage, which will reveal her past. She decides to kill the doctor to preserve her past from her husband's family.
Wife from the Street
1960
7.3A comedy about a television director who gets provoked by his uncle to avenge his dead father, but he prefers to let things go and get married to Layla. But he then gets informed that one of the members of the family who killed his father was released form prison and is planning to kill him.
The Laughing Crime
1963
NRWhen a hardworking girl meets the love of her life, her happiness is ruined when she discovers that her sweetheart is the son of the owner of the company where she works and his wealthy family adamantly opposes their marriage.
Love for Everyone
1965
6.7Based 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
8.3A madman exposes humanity’s insanity. Andeel leaves a mental hospital after 10 years of treatment are over to face the world again. Whenever he reveals that he used to be a mental patient, he is faced with aggressive suspicion, cruelty and rejection. When a shop owner refuses to hire him, he yells that he is the only one with an official certificate that proves he is actually sane. We follow his miserable search for a job and watch situations in which, over and over again, he gets very close to a decent life just before his unrestrained tongue reveals a side of his madness that freaks people out. Andeel is an honest, kind person who’s good at what he does, but people’s uncontrollable fear of madness makes them want to get rid of him and the uncomfortable state he puts them in, probably because of how normal he seems, just like them, yet how crazy he is, like they fear they might be.
El Maganeen Fi Naeem
1963
7.0Corruption 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
7.0Alawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand the nature of his profession, and seems very jealous over him, as it does not lead him to the requirements of the home as he likes, which causes Alawi to spend most of his time outside the home, while during his discharge he plays one of the plays invading Dosa, Which finds her innocence something different from his wife, and feelings of love grow between the two, the wife knows about the relationship, so she requests a divorce, and the women crowd with him after separating from his wife.
Huwa wa el nessaa
1966
6.9This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.
Mother of the Bride
1963
7.0Ameria 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
7.8As a result of Saleh's preoccupation with his work, his wife Aida suffers from loneliness. She turns to watching films and starts impersonating the characters of the heroines she sees in the films, which gets her husband into many troubles and with the help of his friends he tries to make her stop.
My Wife's Ghost
1968
NRMagdy is an engineer at the High Dam. He travels to Cairo to take some time off with his family. But his wife Dr.Laila, is too busy with her work, which drives him to spend time with his neighbor Elham, taking advantage of her husband's absence, and things develop rapidly
Love Vacation
1967
8.0A house in Abbaseya is divided into two parts: the first is the basement, where poor people live and dream of ascending the social ladder, while in the other part the rich residents live. Although both worlds are extremely distant, they are only bound by romance, as the film follows love affairs between contrasting characters from both worlds.
People Downstairs
1960
10.0A 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
6.6Her grandfather swore not to marry her younger sister until she got married, according to the doctor (Hassan) who was transferred to work in the countryside, and get an argument between them, escalating events.
Beware of Eve
1962
8.0A beautiful woman looking for a rich husband but her greed causes her in problems .
Gharamiat emaraa
1960
NRThe events revolve around the two friends Salem and Suleiman, who work in the same government interest, and travel on a trip to Alexandria, where they meet the two journalists, Dina and Amina, to fall in love with them, and discover the presence of a thief with them on the trip, so will they be able to detect him?
Wellness leave
1966
1950s · 18 titles
7.4Qinawi, 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
10.0As 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
8.5Faiza 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
7.0Ismail 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
7.2Naïve 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
7.8This 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
5.5The 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
6.7A romantic tale about friendship, sacrifice and true love. Two best friends meet two sisters, Salwa who’s gentle and well-mannered and Laila who’s outgoing and lively, but one of them gets engaged to the wrong sister.
Girls of Today
1956
NRMaster Toha had eleven ex-husbands, but she wants to marry Rashad the driver, who refuses to marry her. Toha attempts to pressure him through his sister but he also refuses, eventually deciding to hire a killer to get rid of him unless he submits himself.
Tuha
1958
9.0Al-Hanash wants to marry the daughter of Jaber, his assistant in drug trafficking, in exchange for covering up Jabir's killing of Abu Hadid. But Amina refuses this marriage, and she is in a relationship with Hassan Ibn Abu Hadid.
Abo Hadeed
1958
9.0When 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
NRThe film revolves around a girl who tries to commit suicide because of her family's torture, but another person comes to save her from death. She goes with him to his house and tells him how cruel her family is to her. He tries to reconcile between her and her family, but he gets into trouble with her family and decides to marry the girl.
Ismail Yassin for sale!
1958
7.5Sultan 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
9.0A 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
8.6In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.
Between Heaven and Earth
1959
6.7Part 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
6.5The 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
6.6Faten Hamama plays Nawal, a journalist who meets Samir, a young man whom she encourages to pursue a singing career. His career takes off while Nawal's health deteriorates.
Appointment with Love
1956
