
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Actor · 1933 – 2014 · Al Fayoum, Egypt
Mariam Mohamed Fakhr Eddine (Arabic: مريم محمد فخر الدين, 8 September 1933 – 3 November 2014) was an Egyptian film and television actress. She was nicknamed the "Beauty of the Screen" (Egyptian Arabic: حسناء الشاشة). Before pursuing a career in acting, she won the title of Most Beautiful Face in a pageant organised by the French-language magazine Image. She was discovered by director Mahmoud Zulfikar, her future husband. Mariam Fakhr Eddine's first film appearance was in the 1951 film A Night of Love and she went on to appear in the films such as Back Again (1957), Sleepless (1957), The Cursed Palace (1962), Soft Hands (1963) and Secret Visit (1981). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she initially found success in larger sentimental roles before transitioning into portraying matriarch late in her career. In 2007, Mariam Fakhr Eddine was cast as Mrs. Aida in the French-Canadian romantic drama film Whatever Lola Wants. She attended the Alexandria International Film Festival in 2009. Until her death in 2014, Fakhr Eddine appeared in more than 200 films. Her younger brother, Youssef Fakhr Eddine, was also a leading actor.
Movies18
Movie6.1DramaA Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.
Whatever Lola wants
2007 · 30 votes
Movie10.0A Turkish take on James Bond.
Ortaşark Yanıyor
1967 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Romance
Adel decides to marry Sawsan despite the opposition of her parents. Adel is under pressure from her father to divorce her. Eventually Adel gives in to her father's threat to imprison him because of his marriage to a minor and divorces her. Sawsan escapes from her home and turns to her friend Mona.
Movie7.0DramaA young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader. Mohamed tries to get the incrimating evidence.
Movie4.0RomanceComedyWafaa (Hanan Turk) is in love with Khalid(mustafa amar), her class-mate at University, but Khalid seems to like her cousin Rania (Mona Zaki) When Wafa finds out about this, she tries to lead Rania towards him
MovieDramaWhile drunk Ahmed agrees with Wahid that he kills his stepfather, in return for Ahmed killing Wahid's wife Salwa in order to have her insurance policy. Wahid carries out the agreement, while Ahmed meets Salwa and confess to her the plan.
MovieRomanceDramaWhen two brothers fall for the same girl, things get more complicated when Adel desires to marry her when she is in love with Sherif. But when it's revealed that Adel is terminally ill, he proposes to Nagwa.
Movie6.3ComedyDramaOfficer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. He knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame.
Movie6.9DramaSet 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.
Movie5.4RomanceDramaIn Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.
Movie9.0DramaCrimeA man and his sister-in-law are suspects in a murder; they do not know that the man's wife is involved.
MovieSadiq is a simple clerk in the office of lawyer Issam intervenes to work the praise of his neighbor and the daughter of the neighborhood, which he loves in silence since childhood as a secretary in the office. Issam gets acquainted with Ola, a decadent girl who is fooled in her family to believe that they are a religious family, even though they manage their apartment for gambling. Issam gets injured in a car accident. He travels with his mother after his recovery to perform Hajj. The officer, who gave the name of praise to his boss before he was unjustly arrested and abandoned Issam after his return. Her relatives and the people of the neighborhood deny her and hold her sincere and stand next to her. Roushdi, who confesses innocence and praises Ola, is arrested and leads to the arrest of Ola and her family and releases praise. Issam asks her hand to reject him in order to abandon her in her ordeal.
Movie6.7ComedyDramaA prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim.
MovieDramaCrimeRashed kidnaps student Ismat and takes her to his house. Before he assaults her, he is surprised by the thief Raoof, who saves her, kills him, and runs away with her. Raoof confesses to Ismat that he is forced to steal in order to obtain the money needed to treat his sick daughter. She sympathizes with him and events continue.
Movie6.3AdventureEssam, a young bedouin who discovers the cruel tyranny of his ruler after people from his tribe are unjustly murdered, decides to overthrow him.
Movie5.5HistoryDramaThe story of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid (592-642) the greatest military leader in the dawn of Islam during the life of prophet Muhammad and his caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar.
Movie6.3DramaRomanceSpoiled 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 mother-in-law and getting involved with a man twice her age.
Movie6.3DramaHorrorWhen it gets dark each evening a virtuous young lady transforms into a notorious flirt but remembers none of it the next day. She is treated by a psychiatrist who tries his best to find the root of her problems and cure her once and for all
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TVDramaWhen Abdel Mutaal Mahjoub is wrongfully accused and imprisoned, and things are made worse when he's presumed dead, he suddenly finds himself secluded, and recollections of his past life come creeping in, making him a prisoner of his own mind.