Egyptian actress. She first worked with the Naguib Rihani band, and then worked in film and television since the early 1960s, from her films (mouths and rabbits, Egyptian Hadwat, savages, sons and killers), and in television series (witness and tears, the journey of Mr. Abu El-Ela human, money and sons, Zizinia).
Drama · Music
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
6.41976
Drama
Nawara works as a housemaid for a family closely linked to the Mubarak regime. On the eve of the 2011 revolution the family decides, for safety, to leave the country temporarily and ask her to look after the villa. Flush with cash for expenses, Nawara calls her fiancé Mustafa and the two are soon enjoying a taste of life at the top. Her journey from the alleys of her poor neighborhood to the luxury compound brings with it the worries of the people and their simple dreams—and an experience she could never have imagined.
8.02016
Comedy · Drama
The story of a pharmacist who wants to settle down and get married before reaching the age of thirty, and her family's insistence that she accepts the first groom who proposes, as well as her hilarious stories and experience with the men who propose to her.
7.92010
Drama
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
4.81989
Drama · Fantasy
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 personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.
6.51982
Drama · Romance
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.
7.01977
Drama
The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.
6.62016
Drama
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 whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
6.91972
Crime · Drama
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.
7.72005
Horror · Adventure
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
3.61990
Comedy · Drama
A family participates in a competition to win the title of the “Ideal Family” as a solution to their problems.
3.92010
Drama · Family
Youssef Ibn Abbas wants to marry Salama's daughter Ferial, but they clash with the family's rejection despite the strong friendship between Abbas and Salama. Youssef discovers that his father and Salama were working for Khawaja raising his wealth from smuggling antiquities outside Egypt, after Al-Khawaja's death, he takes the money while Abbas refrains and tries to keep his children away from Salama's sons.
8.41992
Drama · Music
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
6.41976
Drama
Nawara works as a housemaid for a family closely linked to the Mubarak regime. On the eve of the 2011 revolution the family decides, for safety, to leave the country temporarily and ask her to look after the villa. Flush with cash for expenses, Nawara calls her fiancé Mustafa and the two are soon enjoying a taste of life at the top. Her journey from the alleys of her poor neighborhood to the luxury compound brings with it the worries of the people and their simple dreams—and an experience she could never have imagined.
8.02016
Drama
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
4.81989
Drama · Fantasy
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 personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.
6.51982
Drama · Romance
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.
7.01977
Drama
The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.
6.62016
Drama
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 whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
6.91972
Horror · Adventure
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
3.61990
Comedy · Drama
A family participates in a competition to win the title of the “Ideal Family” as a solution to their problems.
3.92010
Comedy
After having no job, Medhat goes to work in a hotel in Sinai and he helps his friend Majid to get a job there. When Majid saves the life of an American tourist, she gives him third of her wealth before she dies, provided that he implements the will for the benefit of Israeli authorities.
5.32001
Drama · Crime
When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of vengeance, his past ghosts still haunt him.
6.71987
Drama
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 and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.
7.51975
History · Drama
Gharib recalls his life’s journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work together in resistance activities.
10.01993
Comedy · Drama
The story of a pharmacist who wants to settle down and get married before reaching the age of thirty, and her family's insistence that she accepts the first groom who proposes, as well as her hilarious stories and experience with the men who propose to her.
7.92010
Crime · Drama
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.
7.72005
Drama · Family
Youssef Ibn Abbas wants to marry Salama's daughter Ferial, but they clash with the family's rejection despite the strong friendship between Abbas and Salama. Youssef discovers that his father and Salama were working for Khawaja raising his wealth from smuggling antiquities outside Egypt, after Al-Khawaja's death, he takes the money while Abbas refrains and tries to keep his children away from Salama's sons.
8.41992
Drama
The series revolves around the two brothers Hafez and Shawqi, the sons of Haj Radwan, whose life paths are completely different, while Shawky indulges in the life of fun and luxury, his brother Hafez is busy working in trade with his father, and begins signs of conflict between them on several levels, and at the same time Hafez marries Dolat, and Shawky from Zainab, to ignite the ground of a new conflict.
9.51983
Drama · Action & Adventure
After Ibrahim Al-Tayer comes out of prison, he returns to stealing, where he smuggles 750 thousand pounds, and hides with the money in a mental hospital in agreement with the hospital's director alone. But when the director dies, Ibrahim escapes with another to hide from the police and gang that wants the money.
8.01978
Drama · Family
In a town called Bahtoon Al-Jabal where the Hawara family lives following many fanatic customs. Sheikh Badar breaks the customary traditions and marries his daughter to a man from outside of the family, prompting her brother to try to kill her.
9.01993
Drama
Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.
6.01997
Music · Drama
Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.
6.01979
Drama
Shehata is a committed employee in a private hospital. He lives with his daughter Nemat and his wife. One day Hussein proposes to his daughter, but the problem is that Shehata is unable to prepare his daughter, which prompts him to ask for an advance from the company. After management refuses, one of the bribed employees takes advantage of the opportunity and offers Shehata received a sum of money in exchange for a trust receipt, which he quickly used against him, especially after Shehata discovered that an incident of embezzlement had occurred.
10.01960
Drama
Mahmoud and Nabila are married couple in their eighties, living alone in their peaceful house. Mahmoud unable to share his wife Nabila their daily life details. Nabila feels so lonely and looks for company.
2018
Drama
a symbolic take on the Jewish occupation of Palestine.
1967
Comedy · Drama
The story revolves around a bus that gets lost in the desert, and the play presents the human models represented by the bus riders and the mistakes and sins of each passenger. When they are about to die of hunger and thirst, each of them declares his repentance and decides to reform himself, so will their positions change after their salvation?
1964
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.
1974
Drama
When a reckless young man loses all his fortune, all his acquaintances turn their back on him, except for his secretary who takes him in. A while after, the man meets with a friend who offers him a job at a company for private security.
5.02002
Drama
The story revolves around the Egyptian police officer (Mahmoud Abdel-Zaher), who is transferred to the Siwa Oasis with his foreign wife, Catherine, who is passionate about Egyptian antiquities. Together they begin a new experience where the past blends with the present.
2017
Drama
Taking place in the vegetable and fruit market, the conflicts within are shown through the story of Sabah, who began her life as a small saleswoman who suffered from poverty and hunger, but she fought through injustice and deprivation until she became one of the top market merchants.
2006
