Abdel Moneim Basyouni

Acting

Abdel Moneim Basyouni

Born — Died

1923-02-03 — 1975-06-28

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Known for

أشجان poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أشجان

1970

The Three Madmen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Three Madmen

1970

الرقم المجهول poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الرقم المجهول

1969

Return My Heart poster
5.4

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

Return My Heart

1957

Orphans' money poster
7.0

A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.

Orphans' money

1952

Forbidden at the Wedding Night poster
6.9

Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spirit appearing to them trying to spoil their plans.

Forbidden at the Wedding Night

1975

Film credits

1970s · 13 titles

The Three Madmen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Three Madmen

1970

Forbidden at the Wedding Night poster
6.9

Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spirit appearing to them trying to spoil their plans.

Forbidden at the Wedding Night

1975

Hobi Al Awal Wa Al Akhir poster
3.0

Director Mahmoud Salem needs a new face to introduce to his audiences. One day he finds his star, Mona. Offering her the opportunity to be a star, she asks for a chance to ask her fiancé about it. Mahmoud and Mona start to work together and fall for each other. Mona's fiancé feels the vibe coming from them and he leaves her.

Hobi Al Awal Wa Al Akhir

1975

Karnak poster
6.8

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

Karnak

1975

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

Youth in a Storm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Youth in a Storm

1971

The Downtown Apartment poster
NR

In a representation of the housing problem in Egypt, a group of friends reunited by their search for an apartment encounter different problems as Kamal is looking for a place to turn into an art studio and Sherif is trying to find a place where he and his wife can live.

The Downtown Apartment

1975

The Den of the Wicked poster
5.0

A gang that smuggles money abroad always manages to escape the grip of the police, where methods of escape and concealment are high in it, the police decide to push one of its own elements, one of the men known to this gang to work with them from within and can reach the influential elements And effective

The Den of the Wicked

1972

End of the devils poster
NR

Three young guys Ismail, Refaat and Hamada rob the safe of an antique store. After that, they part, and each of them goes his own way. And when they have new financial difficulties, they meet again and agree to rob a bank together.

End of the devils

1970

El Ragol El Monaseeb poster
NR

A Lebanese company sends a representative to the Cairo branch to discover the secret of the branch's losses. This representative disguises himself as a newly transferred messenger. He notices that a love story is developing between the daughter of the failed manager and the public relations employee, and he tries to reveal to the girl what is happening.

El Ragol El Monaseeb

1970

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

Then the sun rises poster
5.0

Two brothers with a rich uncle, who love his two daughters, Faiza and Faouia, are deaf. The father loses all his wealth and the two brothers become poor, pushing Hamed with his sister to Rushdie while traveling abroad in order to obtain a doctorate. A relationship between (Rushdie) and (Suhair), a faithful (faithful) nurse, will arise that appears sinful at its beginning, but (Rushdie) can wake up to his senses and return to his senses.

Then the sun rises

1971

My Wife & the Dog poster
7.4

Chief Morsy is a lightkeeper staying at a faraway lighthouse. He marries So'aad and shortly returns to the lighthouse where he recounts to Nour his adventures with women. When he sends his wife a letter with Nour, Morsy grows suspicious of his wife's fidelity. Suspicions nourished by his jealousy.

My Wife & the Dog

1971

1960s · 15 titles

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

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

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

7 Days in Heaven poster
6.0

In 1960s Egypt, a humble flower seller from Alexandria is drawn into a journalist's social experiment: to impersonate a millionaire’s daughter and spend a week living among Cairo’s elite, exposing the stark divide between classes in a rapidly modernizing society.

7 Days in Heaven

1969

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

Marriage for Half an Hour poster
5.7

Fatma had a crush on Dr. Hosny, a womanizer dentist she met, so she decided to convince him to hire her as his nurse. On the other side, Hosny is in the middle of a love story with Dalia, a Flower Shop owner who hates liars more than anything else.

Marriage for Half an Hour

1969

A Day of My Life poster
8.0

An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.

A Day of My Life

1961

The Student poster
8.0

Mother Khadija (Amina Rizk) works as a maid to raise her daughter Nemat (Shadia). The school principal (Nelly Mazloum) sympathizes with her and gives her a room in her garden to live in with her daughter. Nemat is raised with Mona (Amal Farid), the daughter of the principal. She loves Nemat, the wealthy young man Hassan (Hassan Youssef), but his family rejects their marriage. Nemat is ashamed of her mother's work and runs away from home. Nemat works in several jobs but is subjected to many harassment, and at the same time she continues her relationship with Hassan despite all the pressures around her.

The Student

1961

Girls' Secrets poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Girls' Secrets

1969

An Ordinary Girl poster
10.0

The heroine of the film is a poor girl who dreamed of wealth and a high position in society. By chance, her dreams come true, but wealth does not bring her happiness. The girl refuses the money and returns to her former friends.

An Ordinary Girl

1968

The second groom poster
8.0

Wafaa's husband dies, so she decides to manage the companies he left behind herself, which angers her Upper Egyptian uncle who objects to women working. Wafaa thinks about getting married again to be under the protection of a man who will protect her from her uncle's interference. She chooses the worker Magdy who loves her, but she always rejects him under the pretext of being loyal to her husband. She discovers among her late husband's papers papers proving that he was married.

The second groom

1967

The Impostor poster
9.0

Two brothers, the first is a swindler who asks his brother, who looks like him, to replace him in his business after he is chased by his opponents, the two brothers, one of them is an evil man working in diamond smuggling, while the second is a respectable human being despite his extreme poverty, the evil brother succeeds in entering his brother to the mental hospital, but he decides to get him out of it in order to deceive some gangsters

The Impostor

1961

Khan El-Khalili poster
NR

Ahmed is forced to interrupt his studies in order to support his family and for his younger brother (Rushdi) to continue his studies. He moves his family to the Khan Al-Khalili neighborhood, meets the residents of the Khan, and gets to know more about the teacher, Nono, who lives his life up and down. Rushdie continues his studies despite the frivolous life of entertainment he lives, and Rushdie becomes the only thing that Ahmed has achieved in his life.

Khan El-Khalili

1966

Mama's Secretary poster
NR

Amal is a little child who lost her father goes to a circus and finds a man called shalaby who looks exactly like her father. she starts to call him dad and things escalated quickly.

Mama's Secretary

1969

Ismail Yassine in Prison poster
7.5

Ismail Yassin is in desperate need for money. He borrows from the wrong people, get framed for murder and goes to prison.

Ismail Yassine in Prison

1960

1950s · 31 titles

Return My Heart poster
5.4

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

Return My Heart

1957

Orphans' money poster
7.0

A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.

Orphans' money

1952

حب وإنسانية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

حب وإنسانية

1956

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

The Shore of Memories poster
9.0

Before his death, the captain of the boats, Hussein, calls on his stepson to recommend his real son to him, while his true son is playing around and wreaking havoc, robbing his fiancée of her honor, then letting her flee, and refusing to consummate the marriage.

The Shore of Memories

1955

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

Night Train poster
9.0

Adel and Samia are in love, but her father is in financial trouble , when Adel decides to intervene to repay the man's debts he gets in an accident and wakes up to find his sweetheart has married someone else.

Night Train

1953

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 Thug poster
6.8

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.

The Thug

1957

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

A Woman's Youth poster
7.3

A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.

A Woman's Youth

1956

Samra Sinai poster
8.0

The work deals with the story of the engineer (Adel) who works in an oil company in the Sinai Desert and is married to the daughter of the company manager (Zouzou) who cheats on him with her cousin. As for (Samra), the daughter of the sheik of the tribe, she loves (Adel) and learns of his wife’s betrayal of him, so she goes and warns him, and events escalate.

Samra Sinai

1959

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

Abo El-Dahab poster
9.0

After Abu El-Dahab and Ihsan get married and have a baby, a jealous Al-Atra gets his friend Amina to impersonate Ihsan and reports Abu El-Dahab to the police. As Abu El-Dahab plots to escape from prison, he plans to take revenge on Al-Atra.

Abo El-Dahab

1954

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

Struggle with life poster
10.0

Escaping his father's cruelty and indifference, Magdy leaves the house on a rainy night and a nightclub owner hits him with her car.

Struggle with life

1957

The Sweetness of Love poster
7.0

Shukria is a spoiled girl whose father wants her to marry the singer Nabil, after discovering that he has a rich uncle. Shukria’s father holds a party and invites Nabil so that he can get to know his daughter, but when a girl who loves to sing and dance arrives, Nabil and his uncle fall for her.

The Sweetness of Love

1952

Lovers Village poster
9.0

In one of the villages, a love story develops between Fatima and Abdul Karim, but before marrying her, Shahira, the city girl, ensnares him and makes a mistake with him. Faced with this mistake, he decides to marry her and abandon Fatima. Before the wedding date, Shahira runs away with another lover, which shocks Abdul Karim, and he decides to marry Fatima.

Lovers Village

1954

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

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

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

Appointment with Love poster
6.6

Faten 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

Love of my life poster
9.0

A wealthy, good-for-nothing man wastes his fortune, loses his house and moves in with his private secretary's family. He falls in love with the secretary's daughter. After a few disastrous attempts at salaried employment, he pawns the family ring and buys a taxi cab. The secretary's son's fiancee, a popular singer and actress, is being blackmailed by a hoodlum ex-lover. Our intrepid reformed taxi driver comes to the rescue. A madcap comedy directed by Niazi Mustapha. Songs performed by Sabah.

Love of my life

1958

Tell No One poster
8.0

The film's events revolve around the singer Farid, who is in love with one of the dancers, who decides to travel on an artistic tour. He proposes to her to marry her after she returns from the travel, but he falls under psychological pressure that forces him to marry another girl who also works as a singer. After the dancer returns from the travel, she discovers something... Her lover's marriage, so she leaves him, but later she discovers that things are not as they seem, and that the singer's uncle loves the dancer and wants to marry her.

Tell No One

1952

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

جنة و نار poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

جنة و نار

1952

Life or Death poster
6.8

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.

Life or Death

1954

Crime and Punishment poster
7.0

Former student Hosni is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Hosni struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1957

Almar'a kl shay' poster
NR

A family composed of a father who works as a Qanun musician, the son is a drummer, and the daughter is a dancer, all work in a nightclub, but the daughter is the one who pays most of the house expenses. The son meets a young man from a wealthy family, who falls in love with his sister.

Almar'a kl shay'

1953

الحب الأخير poster
NR

The manager of the Childhood Association gets to know Samira, who provides aid for good, She uses her apartment as a meeting place for friends and is the source of her donations. Samira falls in love with the director of the association, despite knowing that he is married and has children, who go too far in their relationship

الحب الأخير

1959

Miracle from heaven poster
8.0

A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer resort he meets a young woman who made him stop traveling, as he caught a cold while trying to save her from drowning. She had pretended that she was about to drown, and a very fast love developed between them. And her uncle sees them.

Miracle from heaven

1956

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