Salah Abu Seif

Salah Abu Seif

Salah Abu Seif (صلاح أبو سيف‎; 1915 – 1996) was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors. Many of the 41 films he directed, many of which were based on novels by Naguib Mahfouz, are considered Egyptian classics. Known as the Godfather of Egyptian neorealism, Abu Seif pioneered shooting on location - though he also used sets - in places none of his predecessors had dared to visit, like ghurza (the equivalent of old Chinese opium dens), brothels and impoverished areas whose existence had never been officially acknowledged.

  • Title: Salah Abu Seif
  • Popularity: 2.18
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1915-05-10
  • Place of Birth: Egypt
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  • Also Known As: Salah Abou Sayf, Salah Abu Seif, صلاح أبو سيف, Salah Abouseif
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Salah Abu Seif Movies

  • 1956
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    The Leech

    The Leech

    7 1956 HD

    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...

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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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  • 1967
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    The Second Wife

    The Second Wife

    6.9 1967 HD

    A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

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  • 1952
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    Rayya and Sekina

    Rayya and Sekina

    6.9 1952 HD

    In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is...

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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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  • 1973
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    The Bathhouse of Malatily

    The Bathhouse of Malatily

    5.7 1973 HD

    The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and...

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  • 1960
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    A Beginning and an Ending

    A Beginning and an Ending

    7.8 1960 HD

    A film that portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family: three brothers, their sister Nefeesa and their mother after the father’s...

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  • 1957
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    The Thug

    The Thug

    8.7 1957 HD

    Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries...

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  • 1966
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    Cairo 30

    Cairo 30

    7.5 1966 HD

    Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a...

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  • 1954
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    The Beast

    The Beast

    7 1954 HD

    Abdel Sabour was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including...

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  • 1954
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    The Beast

    The Beast

    7 1954 HD

    Abdel Sabour was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including...

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  • 1959
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    Between Heaven and Earth

    Between Heaven and Earth

    8.7 1959 HD

    In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant...

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  • 1968
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    Case 68

    Case 68

    1 1968 HD

    When a committee is formed to serve the people of the neighborhood and Mr. Monjid is chosen head, dispute finds its way to the committee due to their...

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  • 1952
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    Foreman Hassan

    Foreman Hassan

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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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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  • 1947
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    The Avenger

    The Avenger

    9 1947 HD

    Two chemists working at the same laboratory compete over the heart of the daughter of the laboratory owner. When the girl chooses one, the other gets...

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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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  • 1952
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    Rayya and Sekina

    Rayya and Sekina

    6.9 1952 HD

    In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is...

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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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  • 1959
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    I Am Free

    I Am Free

    6.9 1959 HD

    Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the...

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  • 1960
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    The Girls in Summer

    The Girls in Summer

    8 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    Dawn of Islam

    Dawn of Islam

    6 1971 HD

    This is the story of young Hassem, the son of a powerful sheik, set at the beginning of Hegira. When the youngster's uncle is murdered, Hassem...

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  • 1947
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    The Avenger

    The Avenger

    9 1947 HD

    Two chemists working at the same laboratory compete over the heart of the daughter of the laboratory owner. When the girl chooses one, the other gets...

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  • 1981
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    Al-Qadisiyya

    Al-Qadisiyya

    1 1981 HD

    A historical epic about the battle of Qadiseya, which was helmed by the Arabian knight Saad Ibn Abi Waqas, and which enabled Muslims from conquering...

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  • 1977
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    The Water-Carrier Is Dead

    The Water-Carrier Is Dead

    7.9 1977 HD

    The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years...

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  • 1950
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    The Hawk

    The Hawk

    1 1950 HD

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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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  • 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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  • 1957
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    The Empty Pillow

    The Empty Pillow

    7.3 1957 HD

    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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  • 1939
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    The Will

    The Will

    7.2 1939 HD

    The story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr.

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  • 1939
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    The Will

    The Will

    7.2 1939 HD

    The story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr.

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  • 1962
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    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    1 1962 HD

    A famous singer, who is known for being a womanizer, meets his neighbor who is enamored with him and sleeps with her. When she gives birth, she has...

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  • 1952
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    Love Humiliates

    Love Humiliates

    1 1952 HD

    Three girls work in a nightclub, are in a relationship with three men working there. One of them is a singer who loves the dancer and dreams of...

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  • 1959
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    Between Heaven and Earth

    Between Heaven and Earth

    8.7 1959 HD

    In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant...

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  • 1991
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    Citizen Masrey

    Citizen Masrey

    7.2 1991 HD

    The story of Mayor Abdul Razek al-Sharshabi (Omar al-Sharif) when his younger son, Tawfiq (Khalid al-Nabawi) is called for army recruitment, his wife...

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  • 1944
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    Passion and Revenge

    Passion and Revenge

    6.5 1944 HD

    A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process.

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  • 1994
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    Mr. K

    Mr. K

    1 1994 HD

    In villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law Kamel, his son, the singer Fouad, her business...

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  • 1994
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    Mr. K

    Mr. K

    1 1994 HD

    In villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law Kamel, his son, the singer Fouad, her business...

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  • 1981
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    Al-Qadisiyya

    Al-Qadisiyya

    1 1981 HD

    A historical epic about the battle of Qadiseya, which was helmed by the Arabian knight Saad Ibn Abi Waqas, and which enabled Muslims from conquering...

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  • 1958
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    مجرم في إجازة

    مجرم في إجازة

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1971
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    Dawn of Islam

    Dawn of Islam

    6 1971 HD

    This is the story of young Hassem, the son of a powerful sheik, set at the beginning of Hegira. When the youngster's uncle is murdered, Hassem...

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  • 1968
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    Case 68

    Case 68

    1 1968 HD

    When a committee is formed to serve the people of the neighborhood and Mr. Monjid is chosen head, dispute finds its way to the committee due to their...

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  • 1973
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    The Bathhouse of Malatily

    The Bathhouse of Malatily

    5.7 1973 HD

    The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and...

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  • 1973
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    The Bathhouse of Malatily

    The Bathhouse of Malatily

    5.7 1973 HD

    The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and...

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  • 1976
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    First Year of Love

    First Year of Love

    1 1976 HD

    A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a...

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  • 1957
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    The Thug

    The Thug

    8.7 1957 HD

    Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries...

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  • 1960
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    A Beginning and an Ending

    A Beginning and an Ending

    7.8 1960 HD

    A film that portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family: three brothers, their sister Nefeesa and their mother after the father’s...

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  • 1986
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    The Beginning

    The Beginning

    7.9 1986 HD

    After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all,...

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  • 1986
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    The Beginning

    The Beginning

    7.9 1986 HD

    After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all,...

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  • 1937
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    Salama Is Fine

    Salama Is Fine

    6.8 1937 HD

    A courier is sent to deposit a cash amount to the bank but he arrives late. He goes to a hotel to spend the night and keeps the money in the hotel...

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  • 1952
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    Foreman Hassan

    Foreman Hassan

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    The Leech

    The Leech

    7 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    A Bit of Torment

    A Bit of Torment

    8 1969 HD

    When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but...

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  • 1966
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    Cairo 30

    Cairo 30

    7.5 1966 HD

    Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a...

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  • 1969
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    A Bit of Torment

    A Bit of Torment

    8 1969 HD

    When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but...

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  • 1977
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    Caught in a Honey Trap

    Caught in a Honey Trap

    1 1977 HD

    After falling in love with a young architect,mayssa shocked to know his involvement with an older woman and the relationship he carries with her,a...

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  • 1948
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    The Adventures of Antar and Abla

    The Adventures of Antar and Abla

    1 1948 HD

    Shown in Cannes 1949.

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  • 1949
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    Shari al-bahlawan

    Shari al-bahlawan

    1 1949 HD

    Pretty woman suffer from jealousy of her husband .

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  • 1969
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    Three Women

    Three Women

    1 1969 HD

    Three different stories about three women. Three women, the first (Hana), who loves (Adel), but she meets (Sami) to also fall in love with him, the...

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  • 1960
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    Agony of Love

    Agony of Love

    1 1960 HD

    Amal marries the train driver Mahmoud, who treats her harshly. She feels neglected despite her husband's presence, Mahmoud travels to another city...

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  • 1978
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    The Criminal

    The Criminal

    6 1978 HD

    Monier takes advantage of Zaghloul's naivety to take advantage of his family's financial resources to fund his gambling addiction. But he takes it...

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  • 1978
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    The Criminal

    The Criminal

    6 1978 HD

    Monier takes advantage of Zaghloul's naivety to take advantage of his family's financial resources to fund his gambling addiction. But he takes it...

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  • 1975
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    The Liar

    The Liar

    8 1975 HD

    When Hamdy publishes an investigative report condemning the owner of a textile company and accusing him of embezzlement and bribery, the owner tries...

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  • 1958
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    This is Love

    This is Love

    1 1958 HD

    Hussein is a conservative engineer who finds a perfect wife in Sherifa whom he thinks has never been in love. Ten days into their marriage, he learns...

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  • 2002
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    The Ostrich and the Peacock

    The Ostrich and the Peacock

    6.5 2002 HD

    (Hamdy) and (Samira) married to traditional marriage,and they are not satisfied sexually because of problems rooted with them since childhood. Samira...

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  • 1967
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    The Second Wife

    The Second Wife

    6.9 1967 HD

    A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

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  • 1977
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    Caught in a Honey Trap

    Caught in a Honey Trap

    1 1977 HD

    After falling in love with a young architect,mayssa shocked to know his involvement with an older woman and the relationship he carries with her,a...

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  • 1943
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    Issue of the day

    Issue of the day

    1 1943 HD

    A woman works as an accountant and is preoccupied with her work rather than the affairs of her home and family. She also neglects her duties towards...

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  • 1945
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    Ahlahom

    Ahlahom

    1 1945 HD

    The sweetest of them is a poor girl, but her father is a stingy man. She has been dreaming for a long time of social advancement, and she meets a...

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