Hassan El Emam
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An Egyptian director, born in Mansoura in 1919. He started his career as an assistant director to Youssef Wahbi. He began working in a period when the audience preferred melodrama...Read more and tragic stories, which he excelled in creating. Although his films were popular, the critics were always attacking him. He made his directorial debut with the 1946 movie Angels of Hell. Among his most famous films during that period are The Two Orphans (1948),People Have Wronged Me (1950). In 1962 El Imam moved to a different stage in his career, as he replaced director Salah Abu Seif in directing the movie Between the Two Palaces, based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz, which marked the beginning of his adapting Naguib Mahfouz's work. He followed it with Midaq Alley (1963),and The Palace of Desire (1966). He was always accused of ruining Mahfouz's novels in his adaptations. In the seventies, El Imam went on to direct a different type of films, mostly musicals, due to the resounding success of his movie Watch Out For Zuzu (1972),which played in theaters for nearly a year. He cowrote the scripts and dialogues for a large number of his films, most of which were taken from French popular novels, although he always mentioned the sources of his films in the credits. El Imam died in Cairo on January 29, 1988, leaving behind a film legacy that exceeded 100 movies.
The Den Of Pleasures
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Naima resorts to a woman in society, to escape the cruelty of the street, only to discover that this woman, or (Sitt Hanem) as everyone calls her, runs a den of vice and gambling. Naima is forced to work with her and her name is later changed to (Dalal),so everything in her life changes when She gets to know Hassanein and falls in love with him, but fate has a surprise in store for them that they did not expect.Love and Pride
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Zizi's father is exposed to a severe crisis, and Zizi introduces Hussein as her fiancé and marries him just to preserve her pride after Adel abandons her. After marriage, Zizi tells Hussein that she does not love him, so he agrees with her to divorce after an appropriate period. During this period, Zizi learns that Hussein is helping her father in his financial crisis without mentioning anything to her.Zawga min elsharea
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Singer Dalal works in a cabaret, and marries wealthy man Mustafa and moves to his estate with his mother. When Mustafa s mother gets injured in an accident, the doctor who comes to more treat her, recognizes Dalal, as he was one of her former clients. She decides to get rid of him to keep her past hidden.Bread Seller
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The husband dies and leaves his wife, Khadija, and their two children, Nemat and Sami. She goes to live with a relative of theirs. She is arrested on charges of burning down the factory where her husband worked. This crime was planned by President Abdul Hakim after Khadija refused to marry him. She becomes insane and is hospitalized for ten years until her memory returns. She begins a journey to search for Nemat and Sami.Torment Over Smiling Lips
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Shahira enters into a long struggle between reason and emotion, as she is in love with (Issam),her childhood friend, and they have been waiting for their marriage together since childhood, until it appears that (Mustafa) is the successful businessman in her life, and with him a bright future full of luxury, while she must choose and give priority to her emotion or her reason. She refuses and tries to keep all the data.Mohammed Ali Street
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Naima, the dancer, lives with her stepmother, a scholar who loves money. Naima gets to know the singer, Ismail Gaber, and love connects their hearts, but the stepmother objects to this marriage, as the poverty of this novice singer does not enable her to obtain money, and she chooses (Naima) has a rich husband and pressures her to accept him. Naima is forced to marry the wealthy villager (Shaaban),who treats her poorly, but (Naima) leaves him and runs away.Homeless Children
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Fayez is a married officer with two children. He finds an infant, takes him and takes care of him, until the child’s father finds out where he is and takes him back and begins teaching him to steal until he joins the gang. The child’s mother tries to save him from this fate, but her husband tries to kill her, so she tries to enlist the help of Officer Fayez to help her. Events continue.The Lady of the House
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Elham marries Nabil and moves to live with him in his mother’s house. Troubles begin between the mother-in-law and Elham. The mother-in-law sees Elham as an outsider, while she is the woman of the house. The situation gets worse for Nabil. His mother urges him to marry another woman because Elham has not given birth and seeks to marry him to Madiha, his friend Elham. .Lawahiz
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Laozah is a well-known dancer and singer in the world of nightclubs. Her father, the teacher Azab, and her mother are sentenced to prison. When she decides to visit them, her mother tells her that the teacher Azab is not her real father, but rather that she is the daughter of another man.Prosecution Demands Innocence
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Ahmed, the prosecutor, enters into a conflict with his old friend, Raafat, the contractor, who covets Ahmed’s fiancée, Naamat, and conspires to break off the engagement in order to marry her. Ahmed suffers a severe psychological shock that leads to him having a double personality. He defends the law in the morning and turns into a criminal character called Al-Prince in the evening.The Two Orphans
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While returning at night, Hajj (Morsi) finds a baby girl on the side of the road. He takes pity on her, and takes her with him to his home to raise her with his daughter (Suniya). The relationship between the two girls strengthens over the years, until Hajj (Morsi) dies, and their paths of life separate. After a long and difficult quest, while Saniya falls in love with a rich man and plans to marry him, Nemat falls into the grip of a domineering woman who leads a number of beggars and pickpockets.Graveyards for Rent
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Ahmed is an engineer, living with his wife Nabila, their son and sister in a cheap hotel after their house is taken down. After living in the hotel becomes a financial burden , the family members decide to live in the yard of a grave, while suffering from many problems and harassment.Saedat El Rigal
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A singer working in a nightclub, retires and marries a poor man ,but her husband feels that he can t make her happy so he s forced to embezzle a sum of money from the company where he works, and goes to jail. And in the face of tough living conditions,she returns to work in the bar.Virgins Hearts
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A former Pasha lives in his estate with his daughter, while his son lives with his mistress in Cairo. In the same estate, a poor doctor lives who travels to Cairo and tries to reconcile the son with his father. When he returns to the estate ,he makes the Pasha thinks that his son would like to see him.Mr. Omar
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Jaber (Naguib Al-Rayhani) works as an employee in Omar Al-Alfy's estate, and is expelled from his job after he discovers a lot of manipulation and forgery in the estate's revenues and expenses. After he travels to Cairo in search of work, pure coincidence leads him to reach the home of Omar Al-Alfi's family, which prompts family members to think that he is their long-absent son (Omar) due to the great similarity between them.Awatif
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Awatif s mother works as the head of a women s association to help the poor. Awatif accidentally finds a letter that shows that she had an illegitimate brother from her mother before she married her father. She goes to meet him and he blackmails her to give him money to save her mother s reputation.Alhabu aleazim
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Samia is a married woman. She discovers that she has cancer and is about to die, and hides it from her husband and daughter,while trying to bring her husband Ahmed and his more co worker Elham together. But things turn upside down when she discovers the diagnosis is wrong, and that she s not sick.