Magda El Khatib
Birthday: Born in 1943-10-02 in Cairo, Egypt
Deathday: 2006-12-16
Magda El Khatib is an Egyptian actor who was born in Cairo in 1943. She began her acting career with a small role in the film “Hob wa Delaa” (Love and Endearment; 1959). El Khatib then went on to play starring roles in a numerous films including “El Bayt El Mela’un” (The Cursed House; 1987) alongside Kamal El Shenawi. Throughout her career, she has appeared in more than 130 works and won several acting awards, including the “Golden Pyramid” for her role in “Dalal Masriya” (Dalal, The Egyptian; 1966), which was her first starring role. El Khatib also won Best Actress for her role in the film “El Tufaha” (The Apple).
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ريا و سكينة
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The story of the lives of sisters Rayya and Sakina, two of the most famous criminals of the 20th century in Egypt as they terrified women and masterminded dozens of deaths. The series presents the circumstances that led them to becoming criminals and the impact of the environment on their future....
يا رجال العالم اتحدوا
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A group of men decide to form an association called "Men of the World Unite" after the roles between women and men are exchanged....
الصحيح ما يطيح
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A social comedy that revolves around Samiha and her son Hilal, and his uncle Dahi’s interference with their lives, until he marries Fawzia, so Hilal tries to convince his mother to marry the divorced Nouf, but his mother rejects the matter, until she recognizes Nabil and everything changes....
امرأة من الصعيد الجواني
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When Fawaz leaves his wife Nawara and his four daughters behind, he heads to Alexandria where he meets a playgirl and ditches his family, leaving Nawara to struggle to provide for her children and help them get a good education....
ريا وسكينة
Character: زينب
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أبيض في أبيض
Character: زينب هانم
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سنوات الشقاء والحب
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Munira falls in love with Sayed who works as a driver for her family. Her family forces her to marry someone else, and Sayed marries his cousin, Amina, who gives him money and he becomes a businessman. He divorces Amina and meets a woman whose family can help him with his projects....
زيزينيا
Character: فرانشيسكا
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أم كلثوم
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Throughout its episodes, the series narrates the biography of the Arab singing lady (Umm Kulthum) since her inception in Sinbillawain and her journey with her father and siblings in singing religious songs on all occasions, through her artistic career and her move to stability in Cairo, and the stories of love that she went through during her life, and her artistic glory until she mastered The lyric scene in Egypt, and the crises she encountered during her artistic work and social life....
أرجوك لا تفهمني بسرعة
Character: نادية
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حكايات من ألف ليلة وليلة
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Ali Baba and the forty thieves are one of the most famous stories and characters with eastern features, and it is one of the well known fairy tales that inspired writers and artists around the world. The story revolves around a simple Arab lumberjack named Ali Baba who accidentally hears the password that opens the door of the cave in which a gang of thieves hide their treasures. Thanks to the password, open Sesame, Ali Baba managed to obtain the treasures hidden in the cave, and his name became...
أهالينا
Character: درية
Set in the 90s , about the relationship between people in this period. It depicts the human side of the Egyptian personality and the moral situations, shedding the light on the concept of family bonding through daily events from the Egyptian street....
النساء قادمون
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In a comic framework, one of the husbands tries to get rid of his wife's control over him, especially since she has a great income, which makes him responsible for home matters and raising the child, and with his feeling of not being important, this husband resort to forming an association, in which he collects the oppressed men from their wives....
رحلة هادئة
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ألف ليلة وليلة: علي بابا والأربعين حرامي
Character: أم حداية
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مسائل عائلية جدا
Character: إنسجام
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العصيان
Character: سعاد
The Disobedience is a series starring Mahmoud Yassin and revolves around a rich and famous figure in the Gharbia, Hamed Al-Gharbawi. He wants to marry Salwa, who appeared recently and says that she is his grandson Al-Gharbawi and has not died, but his mother wants a marriage to Nahed, his cousin....
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The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny
Character: Dr. Magda
Hosny suffers from terrifying nightmares, so he resorts to a psychiatrist to help him...
Alexandria... New York
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An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman named Ginger, the other with America itself....
Om Hashim's Lamp
Character: Naima
This 1968 film adaptation of Yahya Haqqi's 1943 novel "The Lamp of Om Hashem" explores the liminal space between the modern and traditional worlds. Set in one of Cairo's densely-populated neighborhoods, Sayyida Zeinab, the film showcases beautiful scenes from city life....
A Woman from Cairo
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The tragic life of a woman, Mona, as she divorces her opportunistic husband and gets engaged to Sherif, a tourist company owner. She is in for more tragedies as he decides to emigrate following the defeat in the 1967 War. Mona then crosses paths with Mahmoud. Will it be another heartbreak for her?...
From First Sight
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Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding ceremony....
Hobb wa Dalaa
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غدا سأنتقم
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The End of the World
Character: سوسن
Salma is a TV presenter who accidentally gets involved in the murder of a girl. Unable to move on, she consults a psychiatrist who turns out to be the deceased girl's brother. Will her crime stand in the way of their budding romance?...
Please Give Me This Medicine
Character: Zozo
Magda is upset about her husband's relationship with Rifaat, who suffers from a bad psychological condition. She is forced to resort to a doctor who insists that she needs to visit a psychiatrist to treat her. Magda finally turns to Mustafa, who is trying to help her but is trying to get closer to him....
A traveler without a road
Character: Asrar / Izis
Osama is a visual artist. He decides to travel to Luxor to search for the secrets of the drawings and paintings left by the Pharaohs. Here he is exposed to Antoine's gang, which specializes in stealing antiquities. Osama loses his memory and meets one of the Bedouin tribes. He lives with them, and one of the tribe's girls takes care of him and feels love for him....
Bekaya azraa
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The film takes place in a social drama framework, where (Nabila) works as a teacher in Cairo, and on her first day of work she quarrels with (Hoda), the spoiled and stubborn daughter of the former minister because of the death of her mother when she was young. Abdel Fattah, (Hoda's) father, invites Nabila to apologize to her, but he falls in love with her and marries her....
They Kill Donkeys
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مسرحية عيون ترى فى الظلام
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An Ordinary Girl
Character: Anissa
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....
Silence... We're Rolling
Character: Grandmother (as El Khattib, Magda)
Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist called Lam'ey, so her daughter sets out to expose him with the help of her lover, a driver called Nasser, and the director, Ezz-ElDin who deeply loves Malak....
Melody of Joy
Character: Rawiya
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....
The Cursed House
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A haunted house film that takes queues from more familiar films about a haunted house plagued by supernatural spirits, or it is just a husband trying to drive his wife mad?...
Girls Camp
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In Abu Qir, two adjacent camps are set up, one for boys and one for girls. The supervisors of the two camps, Nadia and Hassan, must find a common ground when they clash over Nadia's strict attempts to keep the students separated by gender, and Hassan's wish to let them enjoy their vacation....
Men Don't Marry Beautiful Women
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Karima hates her big nose that makes men reluctant to marry her. She meets Hussein who hates beautiful women after his beautiful wife cheated on him, so he decides to marry an ugly woman. As they marry, Karima lives happily with her husband and wants to get a nose job....
The Mountain
Character: مريم
A young architect struggles to convince a superstitious community, in thrall to antiquity traffickers, to build houses instead of living in precarious mountain caves....
The House of Female Students
Character: إيمان
Three college girls come from the countryside to pursue different dreams, but they go on different paths and encounter many problems and challenges that irk them....
Imtithal
Character: إمتثال
Emtithal runs away from home after suffering from her stepfather's control, and works as a dancer in a nightclub. She gets close to the nightclub's thug and seduces him, becoming the queen of Emad El-Din Street. But when he discovers that she is having an affair with another young man named Naji and is pregnant with his child out of wedlock, he decides to take revenge on her....
Apartment for Love
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A couple arrive in Damascus for work. As they search for an apartment to get married, they face difficulties that prevent them from finding one....
Something in my Chest
Character: Khairya
Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family....
Hamada Getting Rich
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Hamada is so desperate to get rich that he participates in all TV competitions hoping to win one day. Fate smiles on him and he indeed wins a sum of 1 million dollars. But life is not a wish-granting factory, is it?...
Dalal Al-Masria
Character: Attiyat / Dalal Al-Masria
Atiat is an orphan who grows up in a palace under the care of a wealthy woman. When the woman discovers that Atiat lost her virginity, she kicks her out, unaware that her own nephew, Fou'ad, is responsible. As Atiat becomes a dancer, she gets accused of a murder, and the judge turns out to be Fou'ad...
Like A Matchstick
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A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the Egyptian cinema in its golden age. The main story is based on mixing scenes of 21-star from black and white period with other scenes written by and starring Imam so that the final product is the rediscovering of old stars in a new context....
His Sisters
Character: Layla ليلى
Mohsen has three sisters, the eldest is Karima, who hasn't finished her education and stays at home, the second is Laila, studying at the Faculty of Arts, the third is Souad, a high school student who loves to dance folklore. Mohsen tries to dominate his sisters and control their lives while trying to marry his beloved Nawal....
Mouths and Rabbits
Character: Rajia
A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information....
Shaqa Mafrousha
Character: Zainab
Zainab moves from Mansoura to Cairo to work as a music teacher, but she faces a problem finding accommodation. She eventually finds accommodation with the dancer (Najaf), but she hides from her that there is a resident during the day, so she sleeps there at night, and the reporter works at night and sleeps in the apartment during the day. The reporter discovers Zainab's residence in the apartment, and troubles begin....
Houseboat No. 70
Character: Souad
Documentary filmmaker Ahmed El Shazly is working on a new film about a cotton gin. When a worker who reveals to him what's happening in the gin is killed, Ahmed and his sweetheart are determined to uncover the truth....
Visitor at Dawn
Character: Nadia Sharif
Rescue police receives a report on the killing of a leftist journalist in her apartment. The prosecutor moves to the scene of the incident and tries to reach the murderer....
Sargeant Shabrawi
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Sergeant Shabrawi is tasked to deliver the thief, Zanati, to prison and Zubaida to the mental hospital. In Cairo, the mission gets interrupted, and everyone is forced to stay at one of Zanati's relatives. Shabrawi gets into trouble when Zanati escapes....
ابن تحية عزوز
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Tahia commits the crime of embezzlement at the instigation of her neighbor, Ahmed, and gives him the money she stole, and she is sentenced to life imprisonment. He uses the money in drug dealing in cooperation with his friend Fawzi and Khalil. Tahia is released, and Ahmed marries her in a customary manner. Tahia gives birth to a child, and Ahmed refuses to attribute it to him. Police crackdowns on drug dealers are active, so they agree to kill the police officer....
Ehtaressy Min El Regal ya Mama
Character: سلوى
Abduljawad is separated from his wife Iglal, and he left her with their children Hashim and Samira. Hussein proposes to Samira, but when Hussein's father insists on meeting Abduljawad, she turns to her brother Hashim, to persuade their father to go and see Igalal who still loves him....
Everyday's Game
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A group of people who come from the countryside to the capital in search of a source of livelihood, including (Shbara), who works as a car caller, gets to know (Inshirah), and they fall in love. (Shbara)’s boss wants (Inshirah) for himself, so he plots to keep him away from her. At the same time (Ainu) deceives the boss's daughter, robs her of her honor, and refuses to marry her, and the conflict continues....
Gossip Over the Nile
Character: Samara Bahjat
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fueled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life....
Forbidden
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Forbidden Photos: First Story (Forbidden)...
The Girls in Summer
Character: فايزة
Loyal to her husband suffers from a weak personality due to strict upbringing, which exposes her to falling into the trap of her husband’s friend. There is another husband who falls in love with the maid and wants to get close to her very much, but he is afraid for his reputation, so he treats her very harshly and harasses her. There is the shy young man who falls in love with her. He falls in love with his neighbor, but she is not convinced by him because of his great shyness....
My Love... Always
Character: May - the liberated poet
Farida yields to the pressure of her father and marries the businessman Osama despite her love for Dr. Ibrahim. She lives with him in Paris a miserable life. Ibrahim succeeds in his work and becomes a famous doctor, while Farida gets divorced and returns to Egypt but a great tragedy awaits her....
Khali min El-Cholesterol
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Ayyoub is a young man who works in the advertizing field; thanks to his autistic mother who helps him to find new ideas. His boss tries to divert his ideas to be exploited in an illegal way. Ayyoub does not give up and decides to take revenge on his boss....
The Champion
Character: Umm Houda
On the eve of the 1919 revolution in Egypt, the friendship between Houda al-Najjar, who likes boxing, Petro, who likes to sing, and the good worker of the printing press, believes in revolution. Fatima, the sister of Houda, is in love with Hussain, and they marry. The revolution takes place, and Houda dreams of shaking hands with its leader, Saad Zaghloul, and dreams of participating in the 1924 Olympics as a boxer. Hasan is imprisoned for his involvement in resisting the British occupation, and...
Dreams Of Our Age
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group of friends helping their friend to start her project in sharm el sheikh...
The Villainous Returns
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The film revolves around the wife, Estefaqah and her husband Jebel, both of whom earn their living from theft. During the process of stealing one of the villas, she was arrested while her husband fled, and he began to believe that he would take care of her son and wait for her when she was released from prison. She was found guilty of life imprisonment, and was surprised that Jebel was not interested in the prison and did not ask about her. After leaving after serving her sentence, she searches ...
Marriage for Half an Hour
Character: Dalia
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....
O Lovely Life
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Batta, Sakina, and Nawal .. Three friendly girls, neighbors from one lane, with similar difficult social conditions and also the dream of marriage before spinsterhood....
Honorable mention criminal
Character: Samia
Fouad is caught, imprisoned, and when he comes out of prison decides to life with honor, and refuses the temptation of Mansour to return to robbery. Fouad is unfairly accused of stealing a bank, but the police chase him, he escapes with the real culprit and discovers that she is a thief who steals for her daughter's treatment...
Best Laid Plans!
Character: Om Nfeesa
Three marginal figures who live on the roof overlooking an open-air cinema, strive to find work that would help them to live. Desperate as they are, they decide to rob a small bank branch imitating a foreign film that they watched at the open-air cinema....
Mansion of Longing
Character: Aida Shaddad
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....
13 lies
Character: Camilla
Camellia is suspicious of her husband Ahmed because of his actions and his obsession with his whims and Ahmed fakes stories every time she finds out about him....
A Girl Called Apple
Character: Qadriya
Zeenat, who everyone calls apple for her beauty, suffers from the domination of her boss Qadriya, who can't have kids despite her ninth marriage to Fouad. Qadriya asks Zeenat's husband Hassan to divorce his wife ,so that Zeenat marries Fouad for nine months and when she gives birth, Qadryia adopts the child....
Sit El Sitat
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Abdel Aziz returned to Cairo from an Arab country where he worked there. He goes to his aunt's apartment, discovers that she has become an apartment for prostitution, and denies her apartment owner that she is his aunt, and when he learns that he has a fortune that changes her attitude. Lula tries to convince Abdel Aziz to take her away and marry her. Abdel Aziz is able to persuade them to turn the apartment into a pension, but they also run it in prostitution....
The Escape from El-Khanka
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The teacher Mustafa turns to the TV anchor Nashwa to complain about her brother, who seized a piece of land he owns and installed a large refrigerator to store meat. When Nashwa tells her brother, he decides to get rid of Mustafa and send his sister to a mental hospital....
Mothers in Exile
Character: Qadriya
Hassouna identifies customs with the businessman Shaheen, who offers him assistance in exchange for facilitating the procedures of his illicit goods. Hasina is lured to get involved in a relationship, and recorded by Shaheen motivated, until Hassouna becomes at their disposal, Shahine Hassouna claims that his wife, threatens him with tape and acquiesces to him for fear of the scandal, and agrees to facilitate his suspicious operations, but after an innocent injustice at customs as a result of Ha...
The Hallucination Kingdom
Character: فاطمة
Master Qaddoura (Hassan Abdeen) is a big drug dealer in Alexandria, and officer Kamel (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) is trying to catch him. He recruits brothers Morsi and Hassanein (Hussein Fahmy and Said Saleh) who work in the port ,along with Fatima (Magda El-Khatib) who wants to revenge Qaddoura for his involvement in her brother's murder....
Wife of five men
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Afaf is a psychopath, who escapes from her Samnoudi husband on her wedding night, then later meets with two other people and agrees with each of them separately to marry, but she escapes when the moments of the Qur’an come, and the same behavior is repeated with the fourth from which she also escapes, and husbands begin to present Communications on charges of polygamy....
The Warm Embrace
Character: سحر منصور
Madiha is an air hostess ,who failed twice in marriage and prefers to live alone with the same freedom as men. She meets Soliman and he misbehaves with her, but she teaches him an unforgettablele lesson. Fate sends her Hassan who wants to marry her but family ,society and tradition stand in the way....
Real Dreams
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Mariam is living a troubled life with her husband Ahmed, suddenly her life turned to a nightmare after she dreams of crimes she discovered that it's a real crime after she wakes up, she decides not to sleep anymore....
The Three Friends
Character: Nadia
Three friends are arrested after committing an accident with their car. After finishing their sentence, they become partners with the owner of a decoration workshop. But he deceives them and spends the money in gambling. They force him to sign a waiver of his workshop but he wants to get it back....
An Egyptian Story
Character: The Sister
After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personaliti...
In summer, we must love
Character: Magy
A psychiatrist and his orderly take four male patients to a beach resort in Alexandria to help them integrate into the society and overcome their mental illnesses....
Sweet Killing
Character: Sanaa
An estimable lawyer is assigned a case where a wealthy businesswoman is accused of murder. When the lawyer sides with the convicted woman whom she learns is innocent, the actual culprits track her down in an attempt to ruin her life....
The Headmaster Woman
Character: سناء
Hoda, a student in a boarding school, is neglected by her father at the behest of his wife. On her vacation, she spends time with her father. Her stepmother and her daughter, Sanaa, treat her badly. When Sanaa's fiancé Farid sees Hoda, he falls for her, as he feels that Sanaa is a reckless girl....
مجانين بالوراثة
Character: ليلي
Jaafar publishes an advertisement for a financial reward for Al-Fermawi who served in his company and was an example of integrity and honesty, or for one of his sons who bears his name. Four people with the same name come forward, one of them is a good man, another an imbecile, a third is a swindler, and a fourth painter. The reward will be given to who is single, to marry jaafar’s daughter Laila...
Tawheeda
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A love affair links Tawhida and Hussein, who travels abroad to improve his financial situation. Tawhida becomes pregnant and is forced to marry a wealthy man to cover up the scandal, but Hussein's return changes the course of her life....
Back Streets
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Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student demonstrations, Saad who engages in political activity against the British occupation, to Abdel Azis who loves Raja, the dancer....
Downtown Girls
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The film takes place inside the world of Downtown that is full of stories and many social relations,through two girls,one is a hairdresser and the other is a saleswoman in a clothing store....
Shantat Hamza
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Hamza is a small employee who works as a collector and is characterized by his honesty, and finds himself in a predicament he was not waiting for, when some thieves hid an amount of money they stole from a rich man in his bag, while the police were chasing them, and after escaping from the police, they searched for Hamza and chased him without knowing in order to get them back. The money they stashed....
زهرة الصبار
Character: أمنية
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The Woman and the Law
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The young woman, the young lawyer, is sacrificed to the mother, who works as a nurse in a hospital with her health and youth in order to devote herself to raising her only daughter. She hopes to become a doctor. The teacher is the owner of the house where the mother lives and her daughter looks forward to marrying the daughter....
Hakamt El-Mahkama
Character: Enas
Enas (Magda El Khatib) and her husband Adel (Youssef Shaaban) covet her father Galal's (Farid Shawqi) wealth. As for her younger sister Hala (Yousra), she is kind to him and loves Khaled (Hatem Zulfikar). Galal marries Laila. Adel finds a document proving that his father-in-law Galal spent some time years ago in a mental hospital. Thus, Adel can obtain a power of attorney from his wife to seize his father-in-law's money and property....
Lamada
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Lamia is an active girl also known as Lamada, who graduates from university, but fails to find a job and finds herself unemployed for several years. She takes matters into her own hands and decides to go into the desert with a few friends to cultivate a patch of it and build a community of their own. However, this angers some senior officials and they try to seize their project....