Abdel Warith Assir
Born in Gammaleyya (popular district in Cairo) to a lawyer father, Abdul Waareth loved reading and became a connoisseur of Arabic Language. Though he joined the faculty of law, yet he left it after his father’s death to take care of their land. Meanwhile as a great fan of acting and arts he joined The George Abyad Troupe in 1912. His first small role was that of actor keen to which he was trained on by actor Mansy Fahmy. Amr Wasfy the troupe manger then gave him the role of an elderly person. The role that never parted him. In 1935, he started acting on the silver screen. Alongside with acting he had a job as a clerk in the ministry of finance. As Abdul Waareth was a talented writer he wrote a big number of radio series and film scripts including “Zeinab”, the cinema speaking version. He also wrote and adapted four plays together with Soulaymaan Nagueeb. Abdul Waareth excelled in the art of speech and taught it at The Higher Institute of Cinema since its establishment in 1959 until 1967. For TV her acted in TV series “Ahlaam al-fata al-taa’er i.e. Dreams of a flying guy”. He received the best script award for “Gonoun al-hobb i.e. Love madness”. He was also awarded the State Award and Medal of Arts by president Sadaat. Through his great talent of speech and intonation he deeply touched the heart and conscience of the audience thus creating his special way of performance and becoming a phenomenal speaker.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1781 |
| Birthday | 1894-09-16 |
| Place of Birth | Egypt |
| Also Known As | عبدالوارث عسر, Abdel Waress Assar, Abdurwarth Ali Esr, Abdurwareth Asar, Abdel-Wareth Asar, Abdel-Warth Essar, Абдель Варесс Ассад, |
1956
The Leech
7.625/8
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...
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The Leech
1972
The Sparrow
6.857/7
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt...
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The Sparrow
1968
Kandil om Hashem
7.333/3
Set in one of Cairo's densely-populated neighborhoods, Sayyida Zeinab, the film showcases beautiful scenes from city life.
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Kandil om Hashem
1969
The People Inside
0/0
Amal, who decided to move away from Cairo in an isolated isolation of Saloum in an attempt to escape the anniversary of her fiancé's death in a car ac...
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The People Inside
1978
Les Misérables
0/0
Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him...
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Les Misérables
1954
Lovers Village
9/1
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...
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Lovers Village
1954
Assaad El Ayam
7/1
Morsi is a government employee and works in one of the companies. The company decides to dispense with his services, but the wedding of his eldest dau...
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Assaad El Ayam
1953
Nafeza A'la Al-Ganna
10/1
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Nafeza A'la Al-Ganna
1954
Sheikh Hassan
0/0
Sheikh Hassan loves Louisa, the sister of his friend's student, they get married against the blessing of their parents. His mother dies of grief at th...
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Sheikh Hassan
1949
Fatma, Marika & Rachel
7.5/2
A wealthy boy is involved with three girls from three different religions: Rachel, a Jew that he lies to and claims to be a Jew himself, Marika, a Gre...
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Fatma, Marika & Rachel
1951
Faik we Rayek
0/0
The singer Raik launches his wife, Ashwaq for the third time, and after a period reviewing himself and wants to restore the taste of his passion, but...
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Faik we Rayek
1956
The Scornful Man
9/1
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 hi...
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The Scornful Man
1958
Abo Hadeed
9/1
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Abo Hadeed
1968
The technical secretary
7/1
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The Shore of Memories
9/1
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1978
Shafiqa and Metwally
6.667/6
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1965
The Mountain
9/1
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The Mountain
1951
Lak Yom Ya Zalem
9/1
With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her money so bad that he kills his friend and proposes to...
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Lak Yom Ya Zalem
1949
Bayoumi Afandi
10/1
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Bayoumi Afandi
1954
Appointment with Happiness
9/2
Ehsan lives with her father, the caretaker of the house of a rich man who comes sporadically to the house to hunt ducks. As Ehsan falls for the rich m...
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Appointment with Happiness
1953
Love In The Darkness
9/1
Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal brother and his mother, his brother steals a sum of money...
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Love In The Darkness
1953
Wafaa
0/0
Amina lives in Al-Saqqa neighborhood. She becomes seriously ill and is forced to be transferred to Dr. Jasser’s hospital, where his son, Dr. Kamal, tr...
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Wafaa
1956
Wakeful Eyes
8/1
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Wakeful Eyes
1964
Adham Al-Sharqawi
10/1
The story of the Arabic Robin Hood, the legendary local hero Adham Al-Sharqawi who persisted in resisting the British occupation for years and tried t...
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Adham Al-Sharqawi
1966
Khan El-Khalili
0/0
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Khan El-Khalili
1952
Professor Fatima
7.5/2
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Professor Fatima
1952
Foreman Hassan
9/1
Hassan, a worker in a lathe workshop, is dissatisfied with his livelihood and his harsh financial conditions. One high society woman comes to him in t...
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Foreman Hassan
1952
Where Did You Get This
9/1
The story revolves around Wahid, a medical student, who lives with a scientist who invented a chemical compound that makes him invisible. The fact tha...
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Where Did You Get This
1963
Alley of The Pestle
6.25/4
This film is based on a novel from 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story takes place during WWII and focuses on Al-Madak Alley, a t...
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Alley of The Pestle
1945
Salamah
10/1
The events of the film revolve in the era of the Umayyad dynasty, around the shepherd (Salama), who has a charming voice and has a love relationship w...
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Salamah
1951
Adam and Eve
8/1
Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza, in one night. Over time, the lives of the two sisters...
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Adam and Eve
1958
Mid-night driver
0/0
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 wi...
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Mid-night driver
1957
Ismail Yassine In the Navy
8/4
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1955
My Love Story
9/1
A famous singer who abstains from marriage meets a girl at a charity party and they fall in love with each other. He proposes to her and everyone agre...
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My Love Story
1955
Melody of Devotion
8/2
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Melody of Devotion
1978
Desire and Price
0/0
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Desire and Price
1957
Land of Peace
10/1
The film takes place in Palestine and portrays the lives of freedom fighters trying to free their village from the control of the Israelis. Ahmed (Oma...
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1974
الأخوة الأعداء
8/1
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الأخوة الأعداء
1954
Four Girls and an Officer
10/1
The correctional officer prefers good treatment with the female inmates, while the director prefers the use of cruelty and pressure, and there are fou...
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Four Girls and an Officer
1954
Pity My Tears
10/1
When Amal's father falls on hard times, he sells his land to his neighbor, Mamdouh, who falls in love with Amal. But Amal is in a relationship with Mo...
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Pity My Tears
1954
The Madness Of Love
8/1
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The Madness Of Love
1957
Leila Raheeba
8.333/3
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Leila Raheeba
1953
Fi Sharaa Meen
7/1
Zakia is a reckless woman who pushes her husband to deal in drugs in order to provide the money she needs. Her husband is arrested and sentenced to te...
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Fi Sharaa Meen
1953
طريق السعادة
0/0
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1930
Zeinab
4.5/2
Zeinab, a simple worker in a farm falls in love with her supervisor but she is forced by her family to marry a rich man
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Zeinab
1941
Wives factory
10/1
Fadel and his colleagues Aziz and Hamdi are trying to make their way in life, and they hold advanced degrees, but luck does not crown their endeavor w...
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Wives factory
1951
Hokm Elqawi
10/1
Medhat and Kassem are partners who find themselves at odds when Kassem first dissolves their partnership then commits a murder and frames Medhat for i...
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Hokm Elqawi
1956
Land of Dreams
7.5/2
The engineer Ahmed works in the land of Abdel Sattar Bey. He falls in love with his daughter Amina
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Land of Dreams
1952
Zeinab
7/1
An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasant girl, falls in love with Ibrahim al-Khouli, who...
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Zeinab
1946
The Public Prosecutor
7/3
A tough-on-crime public prosecutor's world is turned upside down when his son is accused of murdering a dancer.
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The Public Prosecutor
1955
Anklet Ring
9.333/3
A homeless girl after her father dies, lives on the kindness of an old man who checks up on her. He invites her to live as a maid in his house. She st...
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Anklet Ring
1939
El Doctor
10/1
Dr. Hamed decides to marry Ehsan. Ehsan travels with her parents to Hamed's town. Her mother is fed up with Hamed's family and opposes Ehsan's marriag...
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El Doctor
1957
The Empty Pillow
7.5/4
Salah, a young college student, falls in love for the first time with Samiha. He spends his nights thinking about her and looking to her face in the “...
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The Empty Pillow
1942
Love Is Forbidden
8/2
Romeo and Juliet set in 1940's Egypt. Two families are feuding but their children love each other, thus rejecting the premise that love is forbidden b...
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Love Is Forbidden
1935
Tears of Love
8/1
A young man with a talent for singing cannot find his way in it. He finds work as a driver for a pasha, and by chance discovers that this pasha is try...
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Tears of Love
1938
Long Live Love!
8/1
Mohamed Fathy rents a new apartment facing the palace of Taher Pasha, Nadia's father. A misunderstanding occurs between Fathy and Nadia, and he discov...
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Long Live Love!
1940
Happy Day
8/3
Muhammad Kamal, a simple young man on the tram, meets a girl he loves and shares his feelings with her, but her father objects to this relationship be...
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Happy Day
1944
A Bullet in the Heart
8.5/2
Muhammad Karim directed adaptation of Tawfiq Al-Hakim's play.
Mohsen is a reckless young man who has many relationships. He meets the girl of his dre...
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A Bullet in the Heart
1979
Alexandria… Why?
6.464/28
Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with H...
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Alexandria… Why?
1954
The Blazing Sun
7.014/37
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 k...
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The Blazing Sun
1949
The Flirtation of Girls
7.133/15
Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels p...
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The Flirtation of Girls
1976
The Sinners
6.2/5
Actress Sanaa Kamel is found murdered on her bed, and an investigation starts, taking into account everyone of the guests she hosted at her apartment...
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The Sinners
1952
Shamshon and Leblb
6.75/4
The story revolves around (Llbb), who lives quietly in a popular neighborhood, and wins from his restaurant, goes to the village of Luzah (daughter of...
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Shamshon and Leblb
1979
Aqwa Min Al-Ayam
8/2
Haniyeh exchanges love with Ismail, and refuses Morsi, who wants to marry her. Morsi rapes Haniyeh and is forced to agree to marry him and live with h...
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Aqwa Min Al-Ayam
1956
The General Inspector
5.7/3
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...
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The General Inspector
1956
Dalila
9/1
Poor 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...
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Dalila
1954
Always With You
10/1
A poor thief assigned her sister to deliver a stolen ring to her lover, but she did not know that the police were tracking her, so she managed to esca...
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Always With You
1962
Ghosn Al-Zaytoun
7/1
The film's events revolve around Abdo (Ahmed Mazhar), who works as a teacher in a girls' school instead of his colleague Jamal (Omar Al-Hariri), who h...
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Ghosn Al-Zaytoun
1970
The Land
8.205/39
Set 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....
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The Land
1963
Bent 16
6/1
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Bent 16
1961
Mawa'ed Ma' Almady
8/1
Hamdi (Salah Zulfikar), the son of a factory owner, falls in love with Fatima (Mariam Fakhr El-Din), the daughter of one of the factory workers. Hamdi...
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Mawa'ed Ma' Almady
1979
Don't cry, my love of life
0/0
A successful neurosurgeon challenges death with God's help and his knowledge in operations with a success rate of no more than 5%. He also helps other...
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Don't cry, my love of life
1952
Bnt alshshati
9/1
Zainab's father dies, so Mohsen, the owner of the company where Zainab's father worked, marries her to take care of her. At the same time, Mohsen has...
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Bnt alshshati
1955
Life's Wishes
8/1
The film revolves around a lawyer who inherits a huge fortune and falls in love with his neighbor, but her family refuses to complete this marriage an...
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Life's Wishes
1946
I'm No Angel
7/1
Lawyer Raouf meets Yasriya Hanem, the daughter of Hassan Bey Abu El-Dahab, and falls in love with her and tries to reach her. Raouf bets with his frie...
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I'm No Angel
1946
Ashab El Saadah
10/1
A wealthy man with a circle of friends falls seriously ill. The son quickly arrives with his fiancée, who discovers that he left her in a hotel and we...
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Ashab El Saadah
1948
Love never dies
10/1
Raqia loves her neighbor Fouad and they promise to get married, but unfortunately for the girl, her father and mother divorce. Her uncle comes to live...
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Love never dies
Nahed
8/1
A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relatives who tried to ruin this marriage and they actua...
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Nahed
1959
Heart of Gold
9/1
One day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is killed, which causes her to suffer a nervous shock. After...
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Heart of Gold
1942
Finally I got married
0/0
The events of the film take place in a dramatic social context, where a playboy young man from a wealthy family lives with his rich, sterile uncle. Ci...
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Finally I got married
1948
Samson the mighty
7/1
The mighty Samson decides to take revenge on the ruler who assassinated his bride on their wedding night, and succeeds in expelling him from the count...
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Samson the mighty
1948
Anbar
0/0
Vim Anbar is a lyrical comedy film starring Laila Murad and Anwar Wagdy with a group of stars who participated with Laila Murad in singing the song th...
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Anbar
1960
شجرة العائلة
0/0
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شجرة العائلة
1954
Al-Malak Al-Zalem
10/1
When a young child sees her father leaving the room of a murdered woman, she mistakenly believes that he is the killer and testifies against him.
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Al-Malak Al-Zalem
1949
The Big House
7/1
A courtesan sets her net around a great surgeon, chasing and seducing him until she succeeds in trapping him. The doctor abandons his wife and neglect...
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The Big House
1953
Appointment with Life
6.5/2
Amal and her friend Fatima are happily in love with Ahmed and Dr. Mamdouh respectively. After it is discovered that Amal has a debilitating condition,...
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Appointment with Life
1942
Eayida
7/1
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Eayida
1956
The Stranger
9/1
Hajj Kamel picks up a little boy from the street, whose family and relatives refused to shelter him after the death of his father and mother, and he t...
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The Stranger
1956
Confused Hearts
0/0
A girl inherits from her mother the estate that she owned. After getting fed up from her stepmother's bad treatment, she decides to flee to Lebanon wi...
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Confused Hearts
1956
A Voice from the Past
8/2
Hamdi, a young boy meets his mother in a dream. She tells hims three things that are going to happen in the future.
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A Voice from the Past
1955
Bahr El Gharam
8/1
Tona is a beautiful girl living in a coastal city and loves the fisherman Amin, but the wife of the head of the fishermen loves Amin and wants to keep...
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Bahr El Gharam
1979
Storm of Tears
0/0
When Essam refuses to marry Aziza who is pregnant with his baby, Aziza dies in childbirth and asks her old neighbor to look after her child, Hedaya. Y...
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Storm of Tears
1973
The Woman Who Defeated the Devil
0/0
Shafiqa is a maid and everyone treats her very harshly, she falls in love with the Mahmoud who loves an actress. She agrees with Adham to give him her...
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The Woman Who Defeated the Devil
1953
بعد الوداع
0/0
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بعد الوداع
1954
Laila Min Omri
0/0
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 b...
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Laila Min Omri
1956
Zanuba
10/1
(Atiya Abu Hadid) is a thug and a thief who leads a gang to commit his crimes. He loves one of the neighborhood girls (Naana’a), who is engaged to her...
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Zanuba
1955
Tears at night
0/0
When a rich young man runs away from home due to his stepmother's mistreatment, he meets a beautiful singer who is married to a famous lawyer. His ste...
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Tears at night
1955
الميعاد
0/0
On the importance of integrity in life, Kamal, a poor engineer, is forced to work as a secretary, while his friend Nazmi pretends to be wealthy in ord...
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الميعاد
1976
The Message
8.6/45
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The Message
1972
Wild Flowers
0/0
The story discusses the issue of immigration among young Egyptians in the 1960s and 1970s. As Nader and Amira prepare to emigrate abroad, they begin t...
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Wild Flowers
1977
Sonya and the Madman
3/3
An adaptation of “Crime and Punishment", a young educated man's descent into madness and paranoia after committing a crime, and finding comfort in the...
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