
Acting
Magda is an Egyptian actress. She started her career at the age of 15 using a pseudonym, so that her parents wouldn't know. Her breakthrough came in 1949 in the film “Al Naseh” (The Mentor), after which she went on to become one of the most prominent female actresses in Egyptian cinema history. Her most notable films include “Anf wa Thalath Oyoun” (A Nose and Three Ears), “Jamila” and “Ayna Omry” (Where's my Life?). She got married once to producer Ihab Nafia'a, and has one daughter (Ghada).

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

In the period before Prophet Muhammad's call, events revolve around the dancer Sarah who earns from the money of the pagan pilgrims and both slaves Faris and Habiba, who are subjected to harsh treatment by their masters. Faris and Habiba decide to defend the Prophet and invite him.

After his wife cheats on him with his friend, a husband seeks solace in a nightclub where a dancer and an alcoholic friend try to console him. When the alcoholic friend kills his wife for money, he leaves his daughter under the care of the husband and the dancer.

Waheed (Farid Al Atrache), a famous music composer, meets Wafa' (Faten Hamama), a family member and the daughter of a close friend and relative of his. Wafa' has secretly had a crush on him for years and tries unsuccessfully to show her affection and hint that to Waheed. He thinks her love is nothing more than an expected family member's fondness.

Afaf is a young doctor. Her surgeon husband dies, leaving her with two children, the eldest of whom is no more than five years old. Afaf devotes her life to her work and her two children only, until she meets the engineer Adel, who likes her and she reciprocates the same feelings. Will she give herself up to love and marriage or will she sacrifice herself for the sake of her children?

Djamila, 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...

Hajj Kamel picks up a little boy from the street, whose family and relatives refused to shelter him after the death of his father and mother, and he takes him into his home, so he lives like his son next to his young daughter and son. The real son, Mahrez, grew up with an unknown enmity towards the poor boy, Ghareeb, while the little daughter, Yasmine, loved this boy. When the father dies, the poor boy takes over his work. He continues to take care of Yasmine until the rich young man, Anwar, enters her life.


In one of the villages, a love story develops between Fatima and Abdul Karim, but before marrying her, Shahira, the city girl, ensnares him and makes a mistake with him. Faced with this mistake, he decides to marry her and abandon Fatima. Before the wedding date, Shahira runs away with another lover, which shocks Abdul Karim, and he decides to marry Fatima.


Laila, the daughter of Mazloum Pasha, falls in love with officer Tarek, but he marries his cousin Nevine. As Laila loses her wealth, her father, and her daughter, she starts getting close to Tarek after his wife dies.

Laila, the daughter of Mazloum Pasha, falls in love with officer Tarek, but he marries his cousin Nevine. As Laila loses her wealth, her father, and her daughter, she starts getting close to Tarek after his wife dies.

Laila, the daughter of Mazloum Pasha, falls in love with officer Tarek, but he marries his cousin Nevine. As Laila loses her wealth, her father, and her daughter, she starts getting close to Tarek after his wife dies.

Djamila, 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...

Hamed leaves his hometown and goes to Cairo to work as a gatekeeper in a building. He marries Fathia, who comes to live with him in Cairo. Fathia gradually learns to read and write and she aspires to work in a good job while Alaa who lives in the building tries to woo her.

Ayn Omry is a movie about a teenage girl who decides to get married to an old rich man to break free from her controlling mother and to save the family name after loosing their fortune. But she discovers that her husband is a sick jealous man he locked her with 2 old weird sisters in a distant farmhouse After many years of suffering with her sick husband Aleya decides to leave him.

Doctor Hashem is a womanizer who is torn between three women: Amina, from whom he's constantly escaping while she is madly in love with him, Najwa, whom he loves while she lives with another man, and Rehab, the open-minded free personality. Will he manage to choose one of the three?

Nada meets the pilot officer Adel at a party with her liberal colleague Safaa, and goes out with him in the plane he is piloting. She is absent from school, which causes her problems as the headmistress informs the mother of her daughter’s absence. Adel proposes to her, but her family refuses her marriage to the officer and forces her to get engaged to... Her cousin after insulting and beating her.

In the wake of the June 1967 war, Naamat lives on the hot side of her life, with her husband Abdelkader, the editor of one of the newspapers in which she works as a liberator and abuser with many capabilities, including his articles calling for despair during the war with Israel; That national action is the key to one's personality. So she took care of volunteer work in a hospital, she got to know a group of fighters, including Mahmoud, the lightning officer who has trouble with his wife, and others who gave themselves to serve the homeland.

Amal, a tour guide in Cairo, doesn’t want to get married after witnessing her mother’s divorce, and has decided that all men are no good. With high hopes, she goes to visit the Aswan High Dam where a tourism delegation is. In a chance encounter, she meets civil engineer Ahmed, who intervenes in time to save her life after a near freak accident. After this, Amal must decide what she will do with her life: whether she will return to Cairo and whether to continue graduate studies in America.
