Kouka
Actor · 1917 – 1979 · Cairo, Egypt
Kouka, born Tahia Ibrahim Belal, was an Egyptian dancer and actress.
Movies20
Movie8.0MusicDramaHoda is a famous dancer who gives up the spotlight to marry and start a family with Mamdouh, a handsome young doctor who is just beginning his career. When Mamdouh's scheming Italian head nurse Yolanda sets her sights on Mamdouh, Hoda's jealousy drives her to drink, ultimately endangering everything she holds dear.
Movie6.2AdventureDramaAn unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
Jericho
1937 · 6 votes
Movie7.7Drama"Wahiba - Queen of the Gypsies" - dancing, music, exoticism and forbidden pleasures.
Movie4.8DramaHistoryBased on the life and legend of Antarah ibn Shaddad, a 6th century poet and hero whose poetic works are considered among the greatest in the Arab language.
Movie10.0ActionDramaThe daughter of two Bedouins who married against the will of the two warring tribes, and were killed by their respective families. The girl found herself in danger, so she took refuge in the city and worked in the circus. After she learns her origin, she returns to her tribe, but the tribe rejects her. She falls in love with the son of the tribe’s sheikh. There is a raid on the tribe’s members. The girl tries to participate and wears the clothes of a knight.
Movie6.5ComedyFamilyZizu suffers from wasting his body and his health is ridiculing all around him. Zizu wants to become a sports hero to be a source of pride for the son of his sister Samir, who takes a higher example of his uncle.
Movie8.0ActionDramaAfter Antar's death, the men of the Bani Fazaza tribe take revenge on the men of the Bani Abs tribe, leaving no man from them, and Antar's sister can escape and hide Antar's daughter, raising her to hate her father's enemies until she grows up
MovieHistoryShadad sends his son Antarah to herd sheep after he refuses to acknowledge him as his son because of his dark skin and his mother is a slave and refuses to wed Antarah to his cousin Abla. When Banu Abs is invaded by another tribe, they enlist Antarah's help in exchange for allowing him to marry Abla.
Movie9.0ActionRomanceAntar bin Shaddad is a slave son of a slave mother in the tribe of Bani Abs. His father Shaddad, the tribe's master, refuses to recognize him. Antar falls in love with his cousin Abla, who loves him back, while her uncle refuses this marriage and wants to marry her to another handsome young man named Omara. To get rid of him, her uncle asks for a huge dowry of one hundred red she-camels which only exist in the land of the Ghassanids (on the outskirts of Sham) at King Al-Nu'man. Antar indeed travels there to bring those camels, goes through severe hardships on his journey, then returns to his tribe again to try to win his beloved Abla.
Movie8.7HistoryThe film deals with the life of the Arabian peninsula before Islam emerged, where idolatry, ignorance and corruption spread all over. Then the Mohammedan message of worshiping God alone begins and the difficulties facing Islam and early Muslims starts.
Movie8.0DramaThe work deals with the story of the engineer (Adel) who works in an oil company in the Sinai Desert and is married to the daughter of the company manager (Zouzou) who cheats on him with her cousin. As for (Samra), the daughter of the sheik of the tribe, she loves (Adel) and learns of his wife’s betrayal of him, so she goes and warns him, and events escalate.
Movie5.7MusicDramaBaher is a merchant in love with his serf Wedad who goes bankrupt because his merchandises are stolen. In order to pay his debts Wedad sacrifices herself and decides to sell herself as serf to another wealthy master.
Movie10.0An Arab commits a crime and one of his neighbors is the reason he was sentenced to many years in prison. The Arab decides to take revenge, so as soon as he is released from prison, he kidnaps his daughter Sultana and flees with her to the desert. Years later, he became powerful and influential. A plane crashes next to their tents and the pilot is impressed by Sultana so he carries her to his house. His uncle refuses to let him marry her.
MovieAdventureDramaThe Bedouin Kenoz meets Haroun, a member of a different tribe who is digging a well for his tribesmen. Haroun's efforts are thwarted by the men of Sheikh Fawaz, who aspires to seize the land.
Movie9.0AdventureDramaThe knight and poet Antar fights for his love, Abla.
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Fadel and his colleagues Aziz and Hamdi are trying to make their way in life, and they hold advanced degrees, but luck does not crown their endeavor with success. Fadel visits his aunt Alawiya, who runs a private institute for girls in a traditional way, and asks to work in the institute, but she refuses. The three decide to establish a modern institute, similar to the aunt’s institute. To compete with her, to teach girls to be modern.
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In the atmosphere of the 1948 Palestine War, a young man is shocked when he learns that his wealthy father has decided to marry the girl he is in love with, so he volunteers for the army and participates in the war. In Gaza City, he meets a Palestinian girl, they fall in love and decide to marry, so the father supplies spoiled weapons to the army, which causes the son to lose his sight during an operation.
Movie7.0Rawya is the sister of a young mischievous man who has known the path of crime. One day, the police chase him, and the brother exchanges gunfire with them until he is shot by the officer. She decides to take revenge on her brother. The officer learns what Rawya intended, so he prepares for it and allows her to meet him and get to know him. Rawya hides her brother's story from him. The hatred in the heart turns into love between the officer and Rawya.
Movie9.0Hilal tries to steal the wealth of his cousin, the Upper Egyptian girl, but she succeeds in confronting him, so he tries to take revenge on her by killing her to win that wealth, but she escapes his plan, so her cousin plots a crime and convinces her that she is the murderer, and she falls into the clutches of a hypnotist, who exploits her to collect a fortune by making people believe that he is summoning the spirit of a pharaonic princess.
Movie9.0In a desert tribe, Qais falls in love with Layla and recites poems about her. His story is popular in the tribe, but this is against tradition. Another person competes with the lover to ask for Layla Al-Amiriya’s hand and proposes to her. The father agrees. Layla marries against her will, falls ill, and the lover recites poems about his lost love.