
Aaidah Riyadh
Actor · b. 1954 · Bulaq, Cairo, Egypt
Egyptian actress. She started her artistic career as a dancer in the National Folk Art Group at the age of 14, and then became the first dancer through which she saw the director Ahmed Yassin to perform her first roles in his film (with my greetings to my dear teacher). She then presented several plays including (one for Mon and the other crazy, nut and almonds), as well as television series (glitter clouds, Haret Mahrousa, money and sons, Mard mountain, play love and revenge, nights dream).
Movies18
MovieComedyHorrorThe director's final work prior to his early death to chronic liver disease was this gleefully ghoulish horror comedy, which imparted the following straightforward moral: if you smother your wife to death with a bowl of porridge and bury her remains in a shallow grave, purely in order to start a new life with your mistress - then don't be too surprised if your wife returns and is more than a little angry about the situation! Like Shabl's two previous features, the film was released theatrically before also becoming a minor hit on home video.
Movie6.8ActionDramaThe film's events revolve around twins separated by days, each of them raised in a different environment. One was adopted by a dancer and lived with her in a poor, marginalized life in a slum area, and the other was adopted by a good, high-ranking family, and the first became a drug dealer and the second a police officer.
Movie6.8DramaComedyWhen Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.
Movie6.7RomanceDramaNajwa, a music teacher from the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, seizes the opportunity to come to Cairo on a trip with her students to search for Tahany, her first teacher that taught her music and used to live in an apartment in Heliopolis.
Movie5.4DramaThrillerKidnapped as a child and raised in the circus, a young lion tamer's tough side emerges when he gets entangled in an underworld murder mystery.
Movie3.2FamilyDramaNader and Nour can't escape their bad luck. Nour, a news correspondent, always ends up stumbling into unlucky situations, and Nader runs into trouble wherever he goes. Suddenly, unexpected events change their lives when they meet.
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.
Movie6.4DramaMusicFreed 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.
Movie6.5DramaHend is a young widow who works as a maid, she meets Eid the conman who goes to prison and leaves her pregnant. While Camellia is a divorced maid who supports her unemployed brother and his family in exchange for letting her sleep over in his apartment.
Movie5.6DramaThe unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and eventually dies in an accident.
Movie5.6DramaMany characters of different backgrounds with various problems have their lives intertwine, as they come together through the one thing that unites them; their love of Egypt as Egypt wins the African Cup.
Movie5.9ComedyFajr is a famous temptation star, and the heroine of the first feature film of a young director. She rejects the kissing scene in the film, which provokes the director and the producer, and everyone tries to reach common ground to complete the film and get out of this dilemma.
Movie7.4ComedyDramaSheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.
Movie3.9ComedyAhmad’s life goes downhill when he crosses paths with a menacing gang and finds himself teaming up with a young woman to confront them and fight for survival.
Movie7.0ComedyFamilyA young man in his fourth decade looking for a job to marry his beloved after many years of engagement, but every time he faces bad luck and enters him into a problem that soon comes out of them and then falls in another, where he worked in one of the jobs, drivers and buffet worker, then A driver for a NPC member, he falls into many strange and comical paradoxes.
Movie5.3DramaWhen Jannah escapes from her abusive husband and returns back to Cairo, she decides to reopen her father's atelier in Naama Bay where she meets a group of young people trying to work in Sharm el-Sheikh. As she falls in love with one of them, she starts to suspect that her husband is on her tail.
Movie1.5ComedyA group of residents of a building in a neighborhood wakes up to discover that everyone has disappeared, and only they remain, so they begin an arduous journey to restore the neighborhood to the way it was and bring its residents back.
Movie5.5ThrillerDramaTawfiq imports spoiled food for children which causes thousands of children to fall ill. Despite the efforts of the journalist Nabila to expose him, he is able to escape abroad, so the officer in charge, Fouad, decides to take the law into his own hands.
Series16
TV8.1DramaA sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.
TVDramaDr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.
TV7.0DramaSci-Fi & FantasyA merchant has three children; Salem, Salim, and Gawdar. However, the life of the last son, Gawdar, becomes complicated, and he comes into conflict with the enemy Shimoun to reach the four treasures of the wiseman Shamardal.
TV3.5DramaThe events take place inside a marble factory in the Shaq Al-Tha'ban area, where Fahd works as a marble craftsman in the factory, after escaping from his family in Upper Egypt due to being subjected to injustice. He then falls in love with his colleague (Kanaria), but the competition between him and her father in the marble market poses major obstacles to their relationship.
TV8.0Action & AdventureComedyHogan, a young man who lives in a slum, is known for his super strength abilities. He moves cars with his bare hands, twists metal coins with his fingers and he is a popular eater of glass. When he climbs the social ladder, his life changes completely.
TV7.0DramaLeh Laa?! is a female-led Egyptian anthology drama that stands out for its candid exploration of women’s autonomy and social constraints. The first season follows Alia, a privileged young woman who breaks away from a controlling mother and an arranged marriage to define her own path. Each subsequent season introduces a new story — from adoption to divorce — combining emotional realism with sharp, contemporary social commentary. Featuring Amina Khalil, Menna Shalaby and Nelly Karim.
TVDramaA drama thriller about a rising artist who reaches the top of stardom, gradually turning into one of the celebrities of society. But there is always a price for fame that have to be paid, when a murder takes places and she gets involved.
TVDramaIn a dramatic context, the events of the series deal with the changes of the social relations between the Shazli family members and its head, Mahmoud, from the Royal era until the events of 1952.
TV7.9Action & AdventureDramaThe series revolves around a young law school graduate Nasser (Mohammed Ramadan) who lives in the Sabbatiyah area, seeking to join the judiciary. In conflicts with a major arms dealer
TV6.0DramaA businessman decides to return home after ten years abroad, during which time he's achieved all the success and wealth in the world. After a fateful accident, he loses his memory and struggles to know his true self and identity, as each episode unveils a further piece of the puzzle.
TV8.0ComedyTwo brothers whose family lives a simple life, seek to achieve success in their work. Their father, who works in the Antiquities Authority, decides to steal a treasure from a tomb, but a curse turns him into something new every time, so everyone starts looking for a solution to this curse.
TV6.2ComedyEach of the episodes in this series discusses a different topic in this comedy drama.
TV8.4DramaFamilyYoussef 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.
TV9.0Drama
TV7.3DramaDuring an Uber ride, Ezzat, a shy and unmarried driver, meets Mayar, a woman divorced three times who refuses to remarry. As events unfold, Ezzat becomes entangled in her personal life, and their emotions unexpectedly intertwine. Things get complicated as Ezzat and Mayar find themselves facing tough decisions that will determine the future of their relationship.
TV7.6DramaThe story of Metwalli who started his life from nothing, working for a textile merchant who trusted him a lot. After the merchant's death, Metwali marries his widow and soon controls her entire wealth. He becomes one of the biggest textiles merchants, and then marries one wife after another.