
Acting
Sayed el Araby
Egypt
He was an Egyptian actor who debuted in the fifties and played secondary roles in films and TV series. Due to his strong physique, he played the role of the thug, the soldier, and the gang member. He is known for the films Heaven and Hell (1952), The Mushroom (1997), and the TV series The Black Cat (1964), and Trip of the Million (1984).
Acting credits
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
10.0Wahid Safwat is a playwright known for his many female relationships. Wahid meets the rising singer Laila and flirts with her, but she rejects him, so he decides to ensnare her and hides his true identity from her, that he is a famous novelist. The events unfold in a framework of comedic situations.
Love and suffering
1961
7.7Ismail lives in a local neighborhood, next to his fiancée and her mother who objects to their relationship because of his work in the police.
Ismail Yassine in the Police
1956
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
7.1Ebn 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
6.3This lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Cunningness
1964
8.8Sergeant 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
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
6.0Asfour, a worker in a zoo, falls in love with Dalal, Heshmat's fiancée, who loves Adel and at the same time Waheba loves Asfour, he doesn’t know this and still trying with Dalal .
إسماعيل يس في جنينة الحيوانات
1957
9.0Poor young man Mahmoud Fathi electrician and loves music and composing, live in the same House orphan girl Delilah who loves him and trading love, in its composition towards renewal and which does not correspond to respond, he discovers that his girlfriend is sick with TB and to cure her needs a large amount so he agrees to sing Method does not satisfy him to provide, the girl decides to sacrifice herself, committing suicide to free him from this situation and to live his art. Captured by a wealthy Lady insists, intellectual Hanim resume career.
Dalila
1956
6.8Ahmed who work as a teacher rent an apartment in Abbas the vicious butcher Building in Al-Hussein district in Cairo who lives with his pregnant wife and beautiful sister, soon Ahmed falls in love with Aziza, so he asked Aziza's brother For Her Hand In Marriage but he refused & accused he is only interested in her money.
Lady Aziza
1961
5.5The events of the film take place in a comedic sarcastic framework when a young man thinks that he will die within a few weeks, and decides to get rid of his life quickly, and agrees with a thief who came to steal his house to kill him inattention in exchange for an amount of money, then the doctor assures him of his safety, so he tries to escape From the thief who chases him everywhere to implement the agreement, and at the same time he falls in love with a beautiful girl and decides to join her, and the events and paradoxes follow
Please, kill me
1965
NRA gang looks for Napoleon's treasure and many conflicts arise among its members. When Azama finds the map leading to the treasure, he keeps it at his safe. Following Tanashy's murder, his furniture is sold in an auction where Reda buys it and gets into unimaginable troubles.
Reda Bond
1970
9.0A lawyer tries to realize what crime is, and whether it is inherited or as a result of upbringing and the environment, and the lawyer comes up with a criminal and decides to treat him well and prepare him with all the appropriate circumstances.
A criminal on leave
1958
6.9Based 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
7.0Wahid has a friend who works in the drug trade named Abu Al-Ezz. Abu Al-Ezz undertakes a single training in gambling until he loses all of his wealth. After that, he offers him to return his wealth to participate in drug smuggling activities, the police lie in wait for them, except that Wahid causes the killing of his cousin the officer Celal.
Katia tarik
1959
NRAmal 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
7.0Former 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
حياة خطرة
1971
8.5Two college students live together in Cairo. As they fall for their neighbor Mona, they start to compete to win her favor which stirs up trouble.
Shakket Al-Talaba
1967
7.5A good-hearted young man who's his family's sole source of financial support falls in love with his neighbor, all while he has to resist the temptations of the leader of a gang specializing in customs clearance. Will he succumb to the temptations or preserve his morality?
Why Am I Living
1961
6.7The story of friendship on the eve of the free officers' revolution: Youssef, an unprincipled journalist, whose star rises thanks to his connections, and Shawki, an idealist man committed to social justice
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
نساء وذئاب
1966
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