Abdel Ghani El Nagdi

Acting

Abdel Ghani El Nagdi

Born — Died

1915-12-06 — 1980-03-20

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

An Egyptian actor and writer, born in the village of Al-Mashaya, one of the centers of Assiut Governorate, in 1915. He began his career in cinema through the film (Mohamed Ali Street) in 1944, and since then he was known for many secondary roles in cinema. His characters varied between the policeman, the naive villager, the street vendor, and many others. He can be recognized through the films (The Green Threshold, The Second Wife, The Laughing Crime, and The Madmen in Bliss). Abdel Ghani El-Nagdy participated in writing the story and screenplay for the film (Agaza Bel-Afyia) and the dialogue for the film (Banat Bahri). He also participated in writing the songs for the film (The Secret in a …

Known for

The Magical Lantern poster
6.6

Mustafa mattress in a textile company, is suffering badly from director Morsi. He is married to a man from the woman who loves money so much, buy Mustafa lantern magic in the month of Ramadan, and when he returns it to the House out of it Elf Afrckoh who tells him that under his command, is asked to Mustafa to become a manager rather than Morsi, Mustafa, Director becomes, and feels that he has become Huda employee in stature he loves. Morsi treated in the same cruelty, trying to Anchorage to understand the secret of wealth and prestige, which landed on the opponent, especially that of senior management to accept the establishment of Morsi.

The Magical Lantern

1960

Kiss Me in the Dark poster
9.0

Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. Lola begins to woo him to forget her life with Aziz, and asks him to work for her.

Kiss Me in the Dark

1959

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

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

Yellow Valley poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yellow Valley

1970

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

Film credits

1970s · 15 titles

Yellow Valley poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yellow Valley

1970

Bela Rahma poster
NR

Sergeant Radwan works in a reformatory for the youth and treats them harshly, until the social worker Karima arrives and treats everyone gently, which angers Radwan, especially as three prisoners, Samir, Abdel Fadil, and Nabil, plan to escape.

Bela Rahma

1971

The Three Madmen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Three Madmen

1970

Searching for a Scandal poster
6.2

As Magdy leaves Upper Egypt for a job, he befriends the playboy Sami who impresses him with his many relationships. After a chance meeting with Hanan, Magdy asks for Sami's help to get close to her, something that Sami is happy to provide and support with previous experiences.

Searching for a Scandal

1973

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

Sweet Trip poster
NR

The story of the young couple Ahmed and Zahra, as Ahmed proposes to Zahra but her father rejects him because he is still a student. Hopelessly trying to be together, the lovebirds elope.

Sweet Trip

1971

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

شيلني وأشيلك poster
NR

Alaa lives and grows up in a forest in Africa, and before the death of his father, the ruler of the African country in which he and his son live recommends the necessity for Alaa to return to Egypt, and after his return Alaa finds it very difficult to adapt to the new situation in which he finds himself, until he finds a girl who teaches him to read And writing, and a love story arises between him and her.

شيلني وأشيلك

1977

Serial Killer of Women poster
NR

Desperate for a fresh story, a journalist decides to look into a mysterious wave of murders in which the victims are all women.

Serial Killer of Women

1970

A World of Children poster
5.0

In a comedic form, a love story is shared between the widowed engineer Hilmi Abdelkader (Rushdi Abaza), who works in the field of oil and has eight children from his late wife, the young widow Samia Ahmed and the mother of six children. After a long time they hide, get married and begin to put in place a system of life at home to make things go smoothly.

A World of Children

1976

Devils and football poster
5.0

The events revolve around the athletic young man Kamal who loves Sanaa and wants to marry her, but her father refuses because he roots for Kamal's rival team. He tries to marry her to Rafik, who secretly works in smuggling. Kamal tries to reveal his truth to marry Sanaa.

Devils and football

1973

My Son poster
NR

Jaber is a professional hitman who decides to repent, but the gang he is affiliated with refuses to let go of him easily.

My Son

1972

The Grandson poster
5.9

The film's events revolve around a family consisting of seven children, and the work discusses the problems of each son, such as Nabila, whose husband refuses to have children and threatens to separate her when he learns of her pregnancy, as well as the problems of university students between ambition and love. The film reviews the difficulties that parents face in bearing the burdens of their children.

The Grandson

1975

Afraid of Something poster
NR

Rashed kidnaps student Ismat and takes her to his house. Before he assaults her, he is surprised by the thief Raoof, who saves her, kills him, and runs away with her. Raoof confesses to Ismat that he is forced to steal in order to obtain the money needed to treat his sick daughter. She sympathizes with him and events continue.

Afraid of Something

1979

1960s · 19 titles

The Magical Lantern poster
6.6

Mustafa mattress in a textile company, is suffering badly from director Morsi. He is married to a man from the woman who loves money so much, buy Mustafa lantern magic in the month of Ramadan, and when he returns it to the House out of it Elf Afrckoh who tells him that under his command, is asked to Mustafa to become a manager rather than Morsi, Mustafa, Director becomes, and feels that he has become Huda employee in stature he loves. Morsi treated in the same cruelty, trying to Anchorage to understand the secret of wealth and prestige, which landed on the opponent, especially that of senior management to accept the establishment of Morsi.

The Magical Lantern

1960

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

The Second Wife poster
7.6

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

The Second Wife

1967

30 Days in Prison poster
6.8

Amshir works in a cabaret owned by his wealthy friend Medhat. Medhat is sentenced to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian man named Al-Najawi. Amshir then goes to prison instead of him in exchange for a sum of money.

30 Days in Prison

1966

El Maganeen Fi Naeem poster
8.3

A 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

They're Driving Me Crazy poster
8.0

Ismail sends his sick son and wife to Alexandria and continues his work with the movie star Sawsan as a hairdresser. As Sawsan reports her lover Abbas to the police after a dispute with him, Ismail comes to her house and discovers her body.

They're Driving Me Crazy

1960

Dala ilbanat poster
6.0

An intellectual car breaks down on the road near the house of the simple employee Anwar, so she turns to him to stay with him, and he agrees after insisting, while he was waiting for a visit from the Bashkatib who was going to marry his daughter, which caused him many problems with him. He returns to her to ask her to intervene to convince the bachkateb and tell him the truth of the situation, but Fikri admires him, but her bacha father keeps her away from him and claims that he is threatened with bankruptcy.

Dala ilbanat

1969

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

The Laughing Crime poster
7.3

A 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

Kindar the Invulnerable poster
5.4

An evil bandit kidnaps a sultan's son and raises him but finds the son has magic powers.

Kindar the Invulnerable

1965

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

Diary of a Country Prosecutor poster
7.2

Based on the novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, 1937, Diary of A Country Prosecutor records the daily activities and tribulations of a public official appointed to act as a village justice in the countryside.

Diary of a Country Prosecutor

1969

المراهقة الصغيرة poster
NR

Sou'ad is a beautiful student, who lives with a strict family. When they find out that she loves one of the employees, they prevent her from going to school. A married couple sympathizes with Sou'ad and treats her like a daughter. Sou'ad gets closer to the husband and tries to get his attention.

المراهقة الصغيرة

1966

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

Letter from an Unknown Woman poster
7.0

A famous singer, who is known for being a womanizer, meets his neighbor who is enamored with him and sleeps with her. When she gives birth, she has to leave her past behind and forget about her flippant ex-lover to look after her son.

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1962

Al Moshaghiboun poster
NR

At the door of Al-Hadra prison, three musicians gather in front of the prison, waiting for their friend out of prison, (Amin) who is just heading to an abandoned house to meet his friend (Joseph) the gang leader, and asking him for his right to the crime for which he entered the prison, gives him ten thousand A pound of clothes that he stole from (Nadia), (Youssef) asks him to know the location of the money that (Nadia) stole, and to get closer to her. (Amin) goes with his music colleagues to (Nadia) and asks her to work with her.

Al Moshaghiboun

1965

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

Land of Hypocrisy poster
7.6

A man who is struggling with life's daily problems, especially his troublesome wife, accidentally runs into a man who makes bills that change human behavior, and his life changes.

Land of Hypocrisy

1968

1950s · 23 titles

Kiss Me in the Dark poster
9.0

Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. Lola begins to woo him to forget her life with Aziz, and asks him to work for her.

Kiss Me in the Dark

1959

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 Blazing Sun poster
6.9

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

The Blazing Sun

1954

The Surprises Motel poster
7.0

Two youths open an office for secret police work. A man in the office asks him to look for a dog that his mistress has gone out and lost, while he is staying with her in the hotel where she works as a dancer. The investigators are unable to find the dog and decide to hand over another dog similar to the client. One goes to the hotel to deliver the fake dog dancer after changing his shape to become the same as the missing dog. In the hotel unexpected events occur, so the young man can discover a gang consisting of some of the hotel staff specialized in stealing money. The young man masquerades and searches for this gang and the events follow.

The Surprises Motel

1959

Ismail Yassine Is A Military Policeman poster
7.2

A man loves a dancer in a nightclub and decides to marry her , but he wants her to quit her work. The owners of the nightclub conspire against him by making him join the military police so the dancer can return to work.

Ismail Yassine Is A Military Policeman

1958

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

Aziza poster
5.8

Aziza is a show dancer who's supporting her young sister. She lives in trouble because of the thug who seizes her money and chases her if she tries to escape. Aziza falls in love with sergeant Hassan who works in the region and decides to retire and marry him but the thug won't let her go.

Aziza

1954

Son of Hamido poster
7.1

Ebn Hameedo is an undercover police officer who arrives with his colleague Hassan at a fishing area near Suez where drug trafficking is practiced. They meet two sisters, Azeeza, the younger, and Hameeda, the older maiden. They rent a room in their father’s house and fall in love with the two girls. Their love could have led to marriage had it not been for al-Baaz Effendi who wanted to marry Azeeza and tried to get rid of Hassan. Al-Baaz is also involved in the narcotics business. so they track him down in order to catch the rest of the gang.

Son of Hamido

1957

Rassif Nemra 5 poster
8.8

Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.

Rassif Nemra 5

1956

The General Inspector poster
5.7

The story revolves around the mayor of Morschi married to a dancer whose son was born from his first wife. The mayor exploits the peasantry to achieve his personal ambitions and goals without paying attention to them. After a period, the mayor knows that someone from the ministry will search him, The mayor believes that one of them is the inspector-general of the ministry and approaches him, exploiting the other person to deceive the mayor with his friend and asking him for many bribes.

The General Inspector

1956

Soultan poster
8.0

The story revolves around Sultan, the poor child who grows up and becomes a military correspondent at an elite brigade. He enjoys the sympathy of the police officer, the son of the general, unlike the rest of the house.

Soultan

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 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

Women Can’t Lie poster
7.5

A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him to travel to work in Paris

Women Can’t Lie

1954

Ismail Yassine in the Army poster
7.6

He comes to Ismail to summon for recruitment, and finds it difficult to implement the orders that are given to him in the army, and from here many funny situations arise, as Ismail lives in a love story, but there are those who compete with him for the love of the girl he loves

Ismail Yassine in the Army

1955

My One And Only Love poster
7.2

Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance, provided that the two get married. They decide to get married on paper and separate after receiving the inheritance, but during the honeymoon in Aswan,they fall in love with each other.

My One And Only Love

1957

Laila Min Omri poster
NR

As a girl falls in love with an agricultural engineer, they sleep together and she gets pregnant. The Engineer must go to Europe for work but leaves behind a document admitting his paternity of the baby. As the girl gives birth, her father flees the country with her to avoid a scandal.

Laila Min Omri

1954

Mid-night driver poster
NR

A teacher loves Usta Hassan, the driver of a transport vehicle, and she tries to seduce him in various ways and fails because his heart is occupied with the love of his fiancée. The teacher, the head of a gang, becomes jealous of Usta Hassan because he has the teacher’s love, so he clashes with him, but Usta Hassan overpowers him, and when Hassan refuses to respond to the teacher’s desires, she tries to destroy him. .

Mid-night driver

1958

Between Heaven and Earth poster
8.6

In 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

Aisha poster
10.0

Madbouly forces his daughter to sell lottery tickets in cafes, while her two brothers work in the field of pickpocketing. The wealthy Yahya meets Aisha and is sympathetic to her because he finds her very similar to the daughter he lost. The wealthy negotiates with Madbouly to take care of his daughter Aisha in his home and to educate and raise her in the best possible way. In exchange for a monthly salary.

Aisha

1953

Miss Hanafi poster
6.3

Working class Hassan and the rich Hanafi are rivals for Nawaeim's love. Going to the hospital to be treated for a horrible wedding night stomach pain, Hanafi receives an accidental sex change operation. After months of recuperation, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life as an unattractive, mannish woman named Fifi. She becomes the opposite of Hanafi. Where he was brusque, she is flirtatious.

Miss Hanafi

1954

Festival of love poster
NR

Drunk and boarding a ship to Beirut, Sambuksa, a young artist, falls for Najwa, the daughter of the head of the Folk Art Lover's Group, and they get married. The next morning when their hangover ends, Sambuksa decides to divorce Najwa, but she tries to lure him in and reignite their spark of love.

Festival of love

1958

Faeil Khayr poster
7.0

A poor young man loves art and music. There is a love relationship between him and a rich girl. This girl appreciates his art and creation. Her father rejects this relationship, but stands in her way and declares that he does not agree with their marriage. His argument is that the young man is still in the first path of art. His daughter in case the artist stabilizes materially

Faeil Khayr

1953

1940s · 2 titles

Behind the camera