Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama (May 27, 1931 - January 17, 2015) was an Egyptian actress and producer. Dubbed "The Lady of the Arabic Screen", she was born in El Mansoura, Egypt. Her legendary journey started as a secret statement between a six-year-old girl and her father after they watched a film in their neighborhood theater, at which leading actress and producer Asya Dagher was present. Faten told her father that she felt the audience was applauding her as the leading actress, and her father hugged her with a vision of helping his daughter become a movie star. She won a contest for the most beautiful child in Egypt, and her dad sent her picture to director Muhammad Karim (a pioneer of Egyptian cinema). Karim was looking for a child for his new film with Egyptian musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab. Faten auditioned for and got a role in this movie, Yom said (1940) ("A Happy Day"). She impressed the filmmakers so much during shooting that she was actually given more lines and scenes in the picture than were scripted initially for her. Karim put her under contract, and four years later he gave her a role in a film with Mohamed Abdel Wahab again, Russassa fil Kalb (1944) ("A Bullet in the Heart"). With her third movie with Karim, Dunia (1946), Faten showed filmmakers and audiences alike that she was an actress ready for bigger roles. Her father, along with her family, moved to Cairo to help her in her career. She also began studying her craft at the High Institute of Acting in 1946. Faten left Egypt from 1966-1971 because she resisted the political pressure that was applied to her. She divided her time between Lebanon and London, England. During this period Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser asked some prominent critics and writers to try to persuade her to return to Egypt, saying that "Faten Hamama is a national treasure". Her return to Egypt in 1971 breathed life back into Egyptian cinema. She insisted that her films reflect the values of society through family relationships. Her first film upon return was Witch (a short film) with Salah Zulfikar. Her role in Emberatoriet Meem (1972) ("Empire M") as a widow with six children and the struggles she endured to raise them made the film a success both critically and financially, and she earned a special award from an organization in the Soviet Union when the film was shown at the Moscow International Film Festival. Her film Orid Hallan (1975) ("I Need a Solution") which was produced by Salah Zulfikar was not only a big hit but resulted in changes to Egyptian marriage and divorce laws. Faten Hamama is the fourth Pyramid in Egyptian cinema, a legend in her platinum anniversary, the diamond that remained shining and kept glowing over the decades on the silver screen.

  • Title: Faten Hamama
  • Popularity: 4.666
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-05-27
  • Place of Birth: El Mansoura, Egypt
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  • Also Known As: فاتن حمامة, Faten Ahmed Hamama, The Lady of the Arabic Screen, Faten Hamama, Faten Hamamah
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Faten Hamama Movies

  • 1950
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    I Am the Past

    I Am the Past

    1 1950 HD

    A man enters prison because of his brother-in-law and his mistress. After leaving prison, he searches for them to find them dead in a car accident....

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  • 1949
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    The Lady of the House

    The Lady of the House

    1 1949 HD

    Elham marries Nabil and moves to live with him in his mother's house. Her mother-in-law starts seeing Elham as an intruder while she's the lady of...

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  • 1952
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    Orphans' money

    Orphans' money

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1949
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    كل بيت له راجل

    كل بيت له راجل

    1 1949 HD

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  • 1951
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    أشكى لمين

    أشكى لمين

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1951
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    Farewell My Love

    Farewell My Love

    1 1951 HD

    This love story is about two young lovers who dream of getting married, but they get separated when the young man gets called for the military...

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  • 1952
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    كأس العذاب

    كأس العذاب

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1955
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    Love and Tears

    Love and Tears

    4.8 1955 HD

    A dramatic love story about the daughter of a retired drunk fisherman and a marine officer.

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  • 1952
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    سلوا قلبي

    سلوا قلبي

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Last Night

    The Last Night

    7 1963 HD

    A girl goes to sleep on her wedding night, wakes up 15 years later to find herself living a different life, where people call her by her sister's...

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  • 1958
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    Sayedat el kasr

    Sayedat el kasr

    6.2 1958 HD

    A chance meeting at an auction brings together Sawsan, a working-class girl and Adel, heir to a vast fortune with several estates to his name. This...

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  • 1957
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    Sleepless

    Sleepless

    6.1 1957 HD

    Spoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries to break them apart, spreading lies about her new...

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  • 1961
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    The Sun Will Never Set

    The Sun Will Never Set

    7.5 1961 HD

    An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest...

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  • 1952
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    Immortal Song

    Immortal Song

    1 1952 HD

    Waheed (Farid Al Atrache), a famous music composer, meets Wafa' (Faten Hamama), a family member and the daughter of a close friend and relative of...

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  • 1950
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    Ethics for Sale

    Ethics for Sale

    1 1950 HD

    A fantastical story about a husband who is troubled by mother-in-law, until he meets a man who sells morals in the form of powders. As he buys the...

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  • 1949
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    Bayoumi Afandi

    Bayoumi Afandi

    1 1949 HD

    The film revolves around Bayoumi Mustafa Saati, a simple man whom all people love for his safety and skill in his work. He succeeds in working in a...

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  • 2016
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    Like A Matchstick

    Like A Matchstick

    7 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    The Blazing Sun

    The Blazing Sun

    7 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    The Nightingale's Prayer

    The Nightingale's Prayer

    7.8 1959 HD

    This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer...

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  • 1963
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    Cairo

    Cairo

    4.7 1963 HD

    An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.

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  • 1951
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    Son of the Nile

    Son of the Nile

    7 1951 HD

    Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he...

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  • 1946
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    Dunia

    Dunia

    1 1946 HD

    Dunia meets the rich, frivolous young man, Mohamed. An illegitimate relationship develops between them and she becomes pregnant with his child....

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  • 1950
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    Baba Amin

    Baba Amin

    6.6 1950 HD

    1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk...

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  • 1972
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    Empire M

    Empire M

    6.1 1972 HD

    Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students....

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  • 1952
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    House No. 13

    House No. 13

    6.5 1952 HD

    Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

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  • 1953
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    Aisha

    Aisha

    1 1953 HD

    Madbouly forces his daughter to sell lottery tickets in cafes, while her two brothers work in the field of pickpocketing. The wealthy Yahya meets...

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  • 1951
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    Your Day Will Come

    Your Day Will Come

    1 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1951
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    أنا بنت ناس

    أنا بنت ناس

    1 1951 HD

    A delicate girl grows up with a poor family despite her wealthy origins. She marries a guy who sympathizes with her before she finds out the truth...

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  • 1951
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    أسرار الناس

    أسرار الناس

    1 1951 HD

    After serving his prison sentence, Mansour is released but tries to seduce the wife of the man who helped him to get released, so he plans to get rid...

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  • 1946
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    Malak alrahma

    Malak alrahma

    6 1946 HD

    The film revolves around a social drama about a wealthy Circassian (Fouad Bey) who lives with his wife and daughter, and a conspiracy is hatched...

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  • 1977
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    Mouths and Rabbits

    Mouths and Rabbits

    7.6 1977 HD

    A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between...

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  • 1963
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    The Open Door

    The Open Door

    6 1963 HD

    Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian...

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  • 1948
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    Immortality

    Immortality

    1 1948 HD

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  • 1953
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    Appointment with Life

    Appointment with Life

    6 1953 HD

    Amal and her friend Fatima are happily in love with Ahmed and Dr. Mamdouh respectively. After it is discovered that Amal has a debilitating...

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  • 1956
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    Appointment with Love

    Appointment with Love

    6.7 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Qolob El Nas

    Qolob El Nas

    1 1954 HD

    Conditions worsen for the wealthy husband after he marries one of the dancers. He decides to divorce his wife, so he enrolls his daughter in a...

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  • 1960
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    The River of Love

    The River of Love

    8 1960 HD

    Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".

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  • 1946
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    Angels in Hell

    Angels in Hell

    1 1946 HD

    As a father doubts his paternity to his daughter, he leaves her as she falls prey to a pickpocketing gang. Years pass by, and the father confirms...

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  • 1958
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    The Barred Road

    The Barred Road

    7 1958 HD

    Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies...

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  • 1952
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    Professor Fatima

    Professor Fatima

    7 1952 HD

    The film's events take place in a comedic context, as Fatima (Faten Hamama) opens a law office. Her fiancé, Adel (Kamal El-Shenawy), refuses...

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  • 1975
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    I Want a Solution

    I Want a Solution

    1 1975 HD

    It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court...

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  • 1963
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    No Time for Love

    No Time for Love

    6.5 1963 HD

    Hamza "a member of the volunteer National Guard" meets up with the teacher Fawzya "Faten", after the fire of Cairo broke out, the British trying to...

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  • 1988
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    Bitter Day, Sweet Day

    Bitter Day, Sweet Day

    6.7 1988 HD

    Aisha is a widow with five children, Sana, Suad, Lamia, Asmaa and Noor. The eldest got married to Orabi the carpenter, and are living in the family's...

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  • 1948
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    The Two Orphans

    The Two Orphans

    1 1948 HD

    On his way home one day, Morsi finds a child at the side of a road. He feels sorry for her, and takes her home with him to raise alongside his own...

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  • 1940
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    Happy Day

    Happy Day

    8 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    الملاك الظالم

    الملاك الظالم

    1 1954 HD

    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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  • 1955
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    Our Best Days

    Our Best Days

    6.7 1955 HD

    A poor girl lives on the rooftop of a building. Three young neighbors fall in love with her. The decide to help her when they discover that she is...

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  • 1947
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    Abu Zeid el Hilali

    Abu Zeid el Hilali

    1 1947 HD

    Abu Zayd al-Hilali's son and wife escape and years later, after his son has grown into a powerful and idealistic man, a battle between the two tribes...

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  • 1950
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    Zalamoni El Nas

    Zalamoni El Nas

    1 1950 HD

    Taher Sharaf, a simple employee in a company, is wrongfully accused of embezzlement, despite the fact that the son of the company owner is the actual...

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  • 1965
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    The Sin

    The Sin

    7.8 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    بين الأطلال

    بين الأطلال

    1 1959 HD

    Mona falls in love with her college professor Mahmoud despite the fact that he's a married man and many years her senior. Mona is forced to marry...

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  • 1944
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    A Bullet in the Heart

    A Bullet in the Heart

    7 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    Sands of Gold

    Sands of Gold

    1 1971 HD

    Tarek loves his cousin Zubaida and travels to Spain to work in bullfighting under a pseudonym. Zubaida comes to Spain in search of her lover, but...

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  • 1971
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    The Thin Thread

    The Thin Thread

    6.5 1971 HD

    A poor girl (Mona) who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the...

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  • 1969
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    Big Love

    Big Love

    6 1969 HD

    A poor girl develops a crush on a famous singer, so waits for the perfect opportunity to prove her love to him - but when he loves her back the...

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  • 1952
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    The Time of Miracles

    The Time of Miracles

    1 1952 HD

    A woman aspires to get rich and surrenders to a wealthy old man who will marry her. The wife has a daughter from another man who denies her...

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  • 1962
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    The Miracle

    The Miracle

    1 1962 HD

    A relationship of friendship and affection between the journalist Laila and Nuseela, and tries to help her as much as possible in order to live a...

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  • 1984
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    The Night Of Fatima's Arrest

    The Night Of Fatima's Arrest

    8 1984 HD

    Galal sends men from the mental hospital to Port Said to arrest his sister Fatma, using his political position, accusing her of insanity. Fatma...

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  • 1961
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    I Won't Confess

    I Won't Confess

    1 1961 HD

    Four months after Ahmed was the chief witness in a murder case, his wife receives a blackmail letter accusing him of the crime.

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  • 1954
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    Traces in the Sand

    Traces in the Sand

    9 1954 HD

    A man suffering from delirium because of the secrets he hides.

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  • 1955
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    God Is on Our Side

    God Is on Our Side

    1 1955 HD

    Officer Emad says goodbye to his sweetheart Nadia as he goes to fight in the Palestine war. As the army suffers from a crippling defeat and rumors of...

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  • 1952
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    The Great Clown

    The Great Clown

    1 1952 HD

    Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata...

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  • 1993
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    Land of Dreams

    Land of Dreams

    7.5 1993 HD

    Narges prepares for immigration to America to join her kids, but she loses her passport before the flight, and sets out to search for it in the...

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  • 1957
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    I'll Never Cry

    I'll Never Cry

    1 1957 HD

    The family of Abu Taqiyya holds the hostility to the pasha who obtained their land from a public auction. This pasha has a daughter who falls in love...

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  • 1957
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    Tarek Al Amal

    Tarek Al Amal

    8 1957 HD

    Sunniyeh, the poor girl, lives with her mother sewing, and during the delivery of Suniyeh one of her mother's clients ’gowns, who runs a den of...

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  • 1949
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    Chair of Confession

    Chair of Confession

    1 1949 HD

    Cardinal Giovanni (Yusuf Wehbe) falls into a difficult moral position, when (Estonzzi) confesses to him that he has committed a murder, and after the...

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  • 1953
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    Money slaves

    Money slaves

    1 1953 HD

    Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with murder and is sentenced to imprisonment. Before going...

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  • 1979
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    A Tale Behind Every Door

    A Tale Behind Every Door

    1 1979 HD

    (A tale behind every door) A television movie consisting of four short films, written by the great writer Tawfiq Al-Hakim and writer Katia Thabet, in...

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  • 1974
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    Habibati

    Habibati

    1 1974 HD

    A lonely Egyptian immigrant young man lives in a room in a building in Lebanon, barely keeps up with his daily expenses by selling of his fine art...

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  • 1954
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    Always With You

    Always With You

    1 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    El Zuhur El Fatina

    El Zuhur El Fatina

    9 1952 HD

    Aziza is a mother of two girls who lives in an alley near the citadel. One of the girls is ambitious and wants to leave the neighbourhood and live...

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  • 1956
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    Dark Waters

    Dark Waters

    6.2 1956 HD

    Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love,...

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  • 1953
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    Love In The Darkness

    Love In The Darkness

    1 1953 HD

    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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  • 1979
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    No Consolation For Women

    No Consolation For Women

    1 1979 HD

    Rawya and her husband Hamdi get separated and she goes with her daughter to live in her father's home while Hamdi marries the young Mervat. Rawya...

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  • 1958
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    The Virgin Wife

    The Virgin Wife

    1 1958 HD

    Mona meets Magdy and Fouad in Alexandria and falls in love with Fouad who loves her back, but Magdy asks her to marry him and her mother agrees...

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  • 1956
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    Ways of the Heart

    Ways of the Heart

    1 1956 HD

    A poor medical student, falls in love with her wealthy colleague who does not feel her at the beginning. He falls in love with her after he sees the...

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  • 1963
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    Shadow of Treason

    Shadow of Treason

    5.2 1963 HD

    Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard come detective, giving him a list...

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  • 1966
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    Something in My Life

    Something in My Life

    1 1966 HD

    Aida lives a quiet life with her much older husband. When she meets the young doctor Ahmed at the train station in Alexandria, they fall in love, but...

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  • 1965
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    The Confession

    The Confession

    1 1965 HD

    Ahmed and Nawal are childhood sweethearts. When Ahmed suddenly moves to Cairo and loses touch with Nawal, she marries his older brother Ibrahim....

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  • 1954
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    Pity My Tears

    Pity My Tears

    1 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Appointment with Happiness

    Appointment with Happiness

    1 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Story of a Lifetime

    Story of a Lifetime

    1 1965 HD

    Musician Farid lives a careless life, actress Laila loves him but he does not feel it, while those around him try to bring him closer to Laila, Nadia...

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  • 1958
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    Till We Meet

    Till We Meet

    1 1958 HD

    As a young actress falls in love with a famous writer, she finds herself facing a dilemma when he proposes to her and she is torn between her...

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  • 1973
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    The Song of Death

    The Song of Death

    8 1973 HD

    The son refuses to take revenge for his father, so the mother orders one of her relatives to kill her son. She'll know it's done through a song

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  • 1972
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    I Want This Man

    I Want This Man

    1 1972 HD

    A woman who believes that there’s nothing wrong with the idea of ​​a woman proposing to a man, goes to a lawyer and tries to convince him...

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  • 1971
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    Witch

    Witch

    1 1971 HD

    Delusions dominate Souad's mind and she believes that she can be with the person she loves through magic, so she puts a piece of sugar for her...

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  • 1957
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    Land of Peace

    Land of Peace

    1 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Punishment

    Punishment

    1 1948 HD

    The trio of a Wife and her lover plotting a murder for her husband. Their maid gets into Jail instead of them. This maid had a daughter that gets to...

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  • 1948
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    Towards glory

    Towards glory

    1 1948 HD

    Khaled, a self-made university student, suffers from the treatment of his father, Abdel Aziz Bey, and the plots of his stepmother, Munira, and her...

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  • 1953
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    Appointment with Life

    Appointment with Life

    6 1953 HD

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  • 1979
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    A Tale Behind Every Door

    A Tale Behind Every Door

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1955
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    Love and Tears

    Love and Tears

    4.8 1955 HD

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1991
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    Conscience of Teacher Hekmat

    Conscience of Teacher Hekmat

    1 1991 HD

    Hekmat, the principal of a school for girls, tries to put her educational theory into effect across all the schools in Alexandria, but she faces a...

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