Rushdy Abaza
Actor · 1926 – 1980 · Al Mansoura, Egypt
An Egyptian actor, born in 1926 to an Italian mother and an Egyptian father. He obtained his baccalaureate from St. Mark's College in Alexandria, but did not complete his university studies due to his love of sports. He began his career in cinema when director Barakat assigned him an important role in the film The Little Millionairess in 1948. In 1950, he traveled to Italy for six months hoping to appear in Italian films, but he was not successful there. Among his most important films are: (A Woman on the Road), The Road, The Road of Hope, The Second Man, Struggle on the Nile, There Is a Man in Our House, and Wife No. 13). He died in 1980 after suffering from brain cancer.
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Movie7.8DramaHistoryEscaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
The Ten Commandments
1956 · 1.9K votes
Movie4.9AdventureHard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
Valley of the Kings
1954 · 23 votes
Movie7.3DramaRomanceHamza "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 capture all the volunteers in the National Guard , Hamza hiding in the house of one of his friend, and Fawzya help him, and she is trying to formation its own cell in order to hit the English forces in the Canal zone.
Movie7.0AdventureIgricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his former enemies against the Amiris. Taken prisoner, he is saved by his young slave, Yasmina, while the Ghafaris are almost completely annihilated. He takes refuge on the ship of the trafficker Mordhom. Having provoked the death of his servant, he is put on trial by Mordhom but acquitted by his peers. Mordhom then lands Igricheff on the coast, and the latter succeeds in saving the Frenchman from an Amiri attack. The two men reconcile and set off on their adventures together.
Fortune carrée
1955 · 2 votes
Movie7.2DramaHistoryDjamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...
Movie6.6ComedyDramaMurad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.
Movie8.3ComedyDramaA madman exposes humanity’s insanity. Andeel leaves a mental hospital after 10 years of treatment are over to face the world again. Whenever he reveals that he used to be a mental patient, he is faced with aggressive suspicion, cruelty and rejection. When a shop owner refuses to hire him, he yells that he is the only one with an official certificate that proves he is actually sane. We follow his miserable search for a job and watch situations in which, over and over again, he gets very close to a decent life just before his unrestrained tongue reveals a side of his madness that freaks people out. Andeel is an honest, kind person who’s good at what he does, but people’s uncontrollable fear of madness makes them want to get rid of him and the uncomfortable state he puts them in, probably because of how normal he seems, just like them, yet how crazy he is, like they fear they might be.
Movie6.6ComedyRomanceHer grandfather swore not to marry her younger sister until she got married, according to the doctor (Hassan) who was transferred to work in the countryside, and get an argument between them, escalating events.
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.
Movie7.1ComedyIn an attempt to rent a room whose owner only rents to girls, Zaghloul and Hassouna dress up as women. As they meet the villa's residents Nagwa and Nahed, the girls end up falling for them.
Movie6.8DramaHistoryRebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.
Movie7.2RomanceDramaNaïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."
Movie5.8WarDramaSet in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.
Movie7.0RomanceDramaWhen a happily married wife meets her old sweetheart Sherif, she rejects his advances but he persists until she goes out to meet him, only for her son to see them together.
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.
Movie6.2DramaAida's marriage is tested by secrets and cultural clash. Starring Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Yassin and Rushdy Abaza.
Movie7.0DramaCorruption is rampant in the ministry, where one of the capitalists drives everyone to falsify import permits for himself, until three new girls are appointed to work there, and each of them takes a different path.
Movie7.0ActionComedySaadawi, Fattouh and Azab, prisoners in Abu Zaabal prison after serving their sentence, decide to repent of a life of crime, and after they get out of prison, they find themselves in a confrontation with teacher Abdul Razek, who refuses to restore the rights to Azab.
Movie8.0RomanceDramaHaniyeh has not seen her father since childhood and therefore does not know how it looks and forced her father's friend Esmat Al-Darmali to lie to her and tell her that he is her father Esmat Al-Damanhouri instead of her real father, and therefore Haniyeh continues to treat Esmat Al-Darmali as his father.
Movie8.0CrimeComedyThree prisoners escape from prison trying each of them to implement a random idea wandering around in his mind, the first tries to steal a smuggling gang, the second tries to retrieve the girlfriend for whom he entered the prison, and the third returns to retrieve what he had hid under a tree.
Movie7.7DramaComedyIsmail lives in a local neighborhood, next to his fiancée and her mother who objects to their relationship because of his work in the police.
Movie5.0ComedyRomanceIn a comedic form, a love story is shared between the widowed engineer Hilmi Abdelkader (Rushdi Abaza), who works in the field of oil and has eight children from his late wife, the young widow Samia Ahmed and the mother of six children. After a long time they hide, get married and begin to put in place a system of life at home to make things go smoothly.
Movie8.0RomanceThrillerJalal works in one of the workshops and studies engineering, and he falls in love with his neighbor, inspiration, and the teacher Qureshi fights him who wants to marry her, and calls for the work that you live with to pay off his debts.