Hussein Reyaad

The Wedding Night (1966)

Salwa falls in love with Adel, the carefree young man, but her mother rejects this relationship, preferring him to the serious doctor Magdy, who treats her, and they actually marry to please the mother, but her heart is still attached to Adel. ...

Unfaithful (1965)

Ilham's marriage to a highly successful - and often busy - lawyer is put to the test, and suspicions of infidelity arise. ...

The Mamluks (1965)

After suffering Egyptians from the oppression of the Mamluks and despotism clump the people and organize popular resistance to eliminate them and get rid of the ruling Circassians and the commander of his bodyguards Aybak, joins Alhabiban Ahmad and Qamar r ...

Dearer Than My Life (1965)

Ahmed and Mona who love each other since they were children cannot resume their relationship as their families disapprove of it and the lovers part ways. Years later, they meet again, Ahmed with his two kids, and Mona leading a solitary life. Will they eve ...

The Sin (1965)

Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born. ...

The Missing Son (1964)

As his son goes missing, Sheikh Abdel Fattah does not stop looking for him. The Sheikh is a wealthy man who tries to find his son at any cost. His brother Ismail covets his wealth so when the father finds his lost son, he keeps it a secret out of fear that ...

All for Hanafy (1964)

After his release from prison, Mahmoud knows that his wife has divorced him and remarried, so he agrees with Badawy to kidnap her son Hanafy as they make a plot to urge her to return to him. ...

Shadia Al-Jabal (1964)

Journalist Mounir and photographer Hassan are assigned to find out a mysterious bandit called Abu al-Dahab in a Bedouin tribe, who's the only witness to a crime. They succeed in finding the daughter of Sheikh Ibrahim, whose sister Laila has been kidnapped ...

Alley of The Pestle (1963)

This film is based on a novel from 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story takes place during WWII and focuses on Al-Madak Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as the microcosm of the world. A barber is in love with a y ...

Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya (1963)

The life of a well-known nineteenth-century belly dancer. ...

Saladin (1963)

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade. ...

Rabea Al Adaweiah (1963)

Rabi'a al-Adawiyya is a classic film from 1963 based on the life of the early Sufi saint and poet Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, also known as Rabi'a al Basri, in the second Islamic century. ...

The Miracle (1962)

A relationship of friendship and affection between the journalist Laila and Nuseela, and tries to help her as much as possible in order to live a decent life, and while the teacher intervenes Abbas to disrupt Layla's plans, wanting to continue Nosea Kansha ...

Wives killing association (1962)

A husband and his wife suffer from permanent disputes between them, and the husband notices that all his acquaintances suffer from the same problem with their wives, so he decides to establish a secret society to kill wives, while the wife owns the buildin ...

Beware of Eve (1962)

Her 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. ...

Almaz And Abdo El Hamouly (1962)

Almaz goes from a simple worker to one of the brightest singing stars during the reign of Khedive Ismail. The great singer Abdo Al-Hamuli encouraged him and introduced him to high-end circles. The Khedive wants to keep it for himself. Almaz agrees to give ...

No Understanding (1961)

Mr. Shehata is a family man who lives in Port Said with his tyrannical wife and their children. In a desperate attempt to get relief, he spends most of the time at a coffee shop. The two parents pay no heed to their children's choices in life. What will be ...

Oh Islam (1961)

Set 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. ...

Message To God (1961)

Hussein is a train inspector who feels guilty after a passenger dies during his attempt to escape detection. His daughter, Aisha, battles a lot of existential questions about God. ...

A Man in Our House (1961)

Rebel 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 ha ...

Hayati hi althaman (1961)

A wealthy old man meets a young woman who he gets infatuated with, but he feels that her husband is an obstacle in his way,so he decides to offer him a clinic to keep him busy and then sends him abroad. But when he tries to get closer to the woman,she push ...

The Seven Daughters (1961)

The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and Salwa, fall in love and suffer the agonies of it, only for their dad to try to save them the heartache. ...

Teenagers (1960)

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 pr ...

Bahia (1960)

The story of the conflict between one of the poles of feudalism and his oppression to peasants by burning their crops and lands until they're unable to pay their debts. When Bahia's father confronts him, the feudal lord tries to rape her, but Yassin stands ...

The Girls in Summer (1960)

Loyal to her husband suffers from a weak personality due to strict upbringing, which exposes her to falling into the trap of her husband's friend. There is another husband who falls in love with the maid and wants to get close to her very much, but he is a ...

Hob Wa Horman (1960)

Osama becomes impotent after a car accident. When he grows distant with his fiancée Salwa, she gets close to the poor singer, Nader, whom she lies to and pretends to be just as poor. As they team up for work, she meets Osama at a party and tries to use Na ...

Melody of Joy (1960)

Galal Pasha is a cruel man who drives his only heir, his nephew Ehsan, to run away from his cruelty. As Ehsan falls for the teacher Hanan, Galal has his secretary Ass'ad search for Ehsan to bring him back. ...

Men in the Storm (1960)

Radwan is a widower who works in the railway quarry warehouse in Suez. The thief Selim comes to rob him one day but finds nothing to steal. Selim's mistress, Aziza, meets Radwan and decides to make him fall for her. ...

The lover (1960)

Ashwaq marries Khalil, and gives birth to her daughter Fatima. The mayor's son, Shalabi, throws his net around the wife and convinces her to run away with him. Then, as soon as he leaves her, Khalil's husband avenges his honor and kills him, so the poor au ...

Divine Love (1960)

The film's events revolve around an engineer in a textile factory who has union activity and falls in love with his colleague in the factory. He tries to win the love of this girl and also the union in the factory, but the girl rejects him. The engineer as ...

Esh El-Gharam (1959)

After an incident where they nearly drown, Medhat and Laila are forced to spend a night on an island. As they grow close, Aida learns that Medhat wants to marry Laila and plots with Gohar to separate the two. When their plots fail, Aida tries to seduce Med ...

Forbidden Women (1959)

Tawfiq, a contractor, and his wife Hafiza have no children so he adopts Ahmed, who then runs his business. As Tawfiq gets involved with a playful woman named Mahasin, Ahmed has an affair with her, unaware of the fact that she is Tawfiq's wife. ...

Umm Ratiba (1959)

Umm Ratiba and her younger brother are suffering from their older brother Abd Al-Sabour's tyranny. Abd Al-Sabour, who's obsessed with sorcery and charlatanism, refuses her marriage to her neighbor and tries to convince them that he will return after his de ...

Sun Never Sets (1959)

The story revolves around Suha, the spoiled and only daughter of her father and engaged to Essam. During a trip she falls from a hill and loses her eyesight, her fiancée abandons her. Suha loses confidence in herself and all the people around her, and ref ...

Katia tarik (1959)

Wahid has a friend who works in the drug trade named Abu Al-Ezz. Abu Al-Ezz undertakes a single training in gambling until he loses all of his wealth. After that, he offers him to return his wealth to participate in drug smuggling activities, the police li ...

Ahlam Al-Banat (1959)

The events of the film center around three girls who share work and livelihood, and each one of them has a dream that dominates her thinking; Where (Rich) dreams all the time about wealth, while (Ahlam) is trying to achieve her artistic ambitions, while (H ...

Hobb wa Dalaa (1959)

Bein Al-Atlal (1959)

Mona falls in love with her college professor Mahmoud despite the fact that he's a married man and many years her senior. Mona is forced to marry another man and leaves Egypt. Years later, Mona returns and finds out that Mahmoud has been hit by a car and i ...

I Am Free (1959)

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women's empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman's search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian. ...

Jamila, the Algerian (1958)

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. Jamil ...

Girl of 17 (1958)

Law student Safaa (Zubaida Tharwat) loves her colleague Kamal (Ahmed Ramzy), and the two want to get married. However, her father Ibrahim (Hussein Riad) opposes this relationship because Kamal's mother, Horia (Zouzou Madi), runs her house as a gambling gro ...

This is Love (1958)

Hussein is a conservative engineer who finds a perfect wife in Sherifa whom he thinks has never been in love. Ten days into their marriage, he learns that she had a past affair, and he merely regards her as a fallen woman. ...

The Love Street (1958)

A poor graduated singer struggling to get his chance, disguises into an old music teacher to work in a girl's school. A bet is launched between two of the leading students to trap this teacher into their affection. ...

Ghaltet Habibi (1958)

Salah and his cousin Souad promise to marry each other. Salah's uncle asks him to collect revenue from the citadel where he meets Aziza, the flirtatious girl who succeeds in seducing him. Aziza tells him that she's pregnant with his child. Salah becomes to ...

Hob Min Narr (1958)

Two young men, Ahmed and Mohamed, who live in Port Said, develop feelings for the same girl, Najaf. However, when the Tripartite Aggression reaches Port Said, they abandon life trivialities and join the militants as Najaf joins the Red Crescent; the three ...

Little devil (1958)

A girl runs away from her strict father's house and is found by a traveling clown who works with the circus. She works with him to collect money from the spectators. She quickly grows up with him and works with him in all of his shows. ...

Return My Heart (1957)

In 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 gro ...

Lovers of the Night (1957)

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 ...

House of Forbidden Pleasures (1957)

Escaping the cruelty of the streets, Na'ima turns to a lady who runs a den for vice and gambling. Na'ima becomes a totally different person as she invents a new identity for herself, but when she meets Hasanin, other considerations have to be taken into ac ...

Port Said (1957)

The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistan ...

The Suspect (1957)

A broke gambler plans with the manager of a gambling hall to steal money from the safe of a pharmaceutical company that another gambler works for. The gambler betrays his partner , and kills him and mutilates his face. After the doctor leaves his room, eve ...

Our Green land (1956)

The peasant lives with his wife and child a happy life on an estate owned by a feudal lord, who seeks to seize the three acres owned by the peasant. The feudal lord sees the young peasant's wife and is impressed by her. He rents the peasant ten acres of hi ...

The Stranger (1956)

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, ...

Struggle in the Harbor (1956)

Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend. ...

Who's The Murderer? (1956)

Adel is a young man who works as an agent for the prosecution. He is a newcomer to this work. There is a murder in one of the nightclubs where they find the director of the hall dead, drowned in his blood with his stone. Adel is ordered to investigate this ...

The City's Revolt (1955)

Fatima's mother dies after giving birth to her. Her father observes that the women in her family die when they put their first children. And to avoid this fate her father keeps her away from any man. But Fatima falls in love with Ahmed. ...

Al-Jasad (1955)

A weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of being rich by her daughter after working in a nightclub. She was identified by the wealthy (Amin), the manager of her father's company, Shehata Effendi, and became ...

Dearer Than My Eyes (1955)

A fire cause deform a young man's face causing his fiancee to aversion him and leave him ; then he meets a blind girl and create an admiration between them but he afraid if she regains her sight leave him like his former fiancee ...

Banat Al-Lail (1955)

Naamit was a young girl live with her parents her dad was poor man and her mother love money so her mom want her to be a dancer to make a lot of money and it's up to a conflict between mother & father for who'll care of her? ...

Melody of Devotion (1955)

The famous musician, Allam, is the son of his friend Jalal, who loves to sing. Jalal recognizes the singer Siham and connects the love between them and agree to marry. Allam suffers from a knot that has been associated with him for years when he was betray ...

Dawn (1955)

Amin is a railway station worker, his daughter Fajr is engaged to his friend's son. When Amin's friend the postman goes to visit him, his leg gets stuck at the railway, Amin becomes torn between saving his friend and sacrificing the passengers on the train ...

God Is on Our Side (1955)

Officer Emad says goodbye to his sweetheart Nadia as he goes to fight in the Palestine war. As the army suffers from a crippling defeat and rumors of bad weapons abound, Emad asks Nadia to search her father's papers for proof, since her father is one of th ...

Appointment with Happiness (1954)

Ehsan lives with her father, the caretaker of the house of a rich man who comes sporadically to the house to hunt ducks. As Ehsan falls for the rich man, he rapes her while drunk. ...

Victory of Love (1954)

The events revolve around the young engineer, Hussein, who suffers from the mad jealousy of his wife and is accused of a murder he had nothing to do with, which destroys his family life. ...

Life or Death (1954)

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief offic ...

Lovers Village (1954)

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 weddin ...

Al-Malak Al-Zalem (1954)

When a young child sees her father leaving the room of a murdered woman, she mistakenly believes that he is the killer and testifies against him. ...

Raqsat Al Wadah (1954)

A poor maid loves her wealthy young master and she becomes pregnant. The head of the family seeks to make her marry a lawless man to give the newborn girl his name. Time passes and the girl becomes a dancer in nightclubs, and falls in love with a wealthy y ...

Love letter (1954)

On the wedding night of the girl he raised, the singer (Wahid) recalls memories of his love for her mother, whom he loved at the beginning of his life and wanted to marry, but her father refused because of the social difference between them, and after one ...

I Am Love (1954)

The engineer Nagy returns from his travels abroad when he meets Olfat whom he falls in love with and shares his feelings towards her with her. However, she is suddenly not to be found which leads him to search for her everywhere. ...

Qolob El Nas (1954)

Conditions worsen for the wealthy husband after he marries one of the dancers. He decides to divorce his wife, so he enrolls his daughter in a boarding school so that she can be away from her mother. The father loses his wealth and works in a menial job. B ...

Appointment with Life (1953)

Amal and her friend Fatima are happily in love with Ahmed and Dr. Mamdouh respectively. After it is discovered that Amal has a debilitating condition, her father attempts to keep it a secret. ...

Almar'a kl shay' (1953)

A family composed of a father who works as a Qanun musician, the son is a drummer, and the daughter is a dancer, all work in a nightclub, but the daughter is the one who pays most of the house expenses. The son meets a young man from a wealthy family, who ...

Ibn el harra (1953)

Jalal is a successful engineer who loves his neighbor Laila, the granddaughter of a pasha, but he hides his love for fear of social differences. Her uncle supervises her money, even though he is a gambler. Laila's cousin, a reckless young man, covets marry ...

The Bread Seller (1953)

A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journ ...

Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool (1953)

In a historical story, the film narrates the life story of Bilal bin Rabah, the great muezzin who suffered a difficult life and great torment until the emergence of Islam and the most famous of his Islam at the hands of the Prophet, may God bless him and g ...

Love In The Darkness (1953)

Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal brother and his mother, his brother steals a sum of money and his mother seeks to save him, in the meantime, the brother commits murder out of theft, but fate makes ...

Fi Sharaa Meen (1953)

Zakia is a reckless woman who pushes her husband to deal in drugs in order to provide the money she needs. Her husband is arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. Zakia decides that she and her daughter Lawahez should live with her sister Aisha. Zaki ...

Melody of My Love (1953)

When a musician's family faces financial difficulty, the daughter starts working as a singer in a nightclub owned by her mother's lover. When she learns about her mother's affair, the girl claims that she's in a relationship with the nightclub's owner in o ...

El Zuhur El Fatina (1952)

Aziza is a mother of two girls who lives in an alley near the citadel. One of the girls is ambitious and wants to leave the neighbourhood and live like the rich so she works as a bellydancer. The other, Karima, is content with her life and takes care of he ...

Foreman Hassan (1952)

Hassan, a worker in a lathe workshop, is dissatisfied with his livelihood and his harsh financial conditions. One high society woman comes to him in the workshop where he works. She admires him and invites him to her villa to complete and install the decor ...

Isalu kalbi (1952)

A wealthy girl falls in love with a famous actor, but her father refuses to complete the relationship out of respect for family traditions. The actor withdraws from her life out of respect for her family, and pretends to be in a relationship with a dancer. ...

Ghadab El Waledain (1952)

One of the office boys in a company succeeds in finding a job for his newly graduated son at his employer. But the son is ashamed of his father's job. He meets a dancer, and marries her despite his father's opposition, causing a surprise to change the cour ...

El Dam Yehen (1952)

"Salwa" (Dariya Ahmad) is a young girl who lives with her father millionaire "Abdul Rahman Shukri" (Hussein Riyad), his wife "Suad" (Mimi Shakib) and her daughter "Al-Atef" (Sameha Ayoub). ...

killer mother (1952)

A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window around him with the help of her boyfriend until she marries him out of the greed for his wealth, and actually this is done without the knowledge of the wife a ...

People's secrets (1951)

After serving his prison sentence, Mansour is released but tries to seduce the wife of the man who helped him to get released, so he plans to get rid of him. ...

Baba Amin (1950)

1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin's friend Mabrouk convinces Amin to invest his life savings in a project, which he promises, will get him rich. Amin agrees but forg ...

Prince of Revenge (1950)

Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo. ...

El avocato Madiha (1950)

Muhammad Effendi is a graduate of the College of Agriculture and adheres to traditions. He works as the caretaker of Jaber Pasha's estate, and his sister Madiha is a lawyer. She refuses to live in the countryside and marry her cousin and decides to run awa ...

Heaven's Justice (1948)

An honest employee finds himself in a tough situation when he is accused of killing his manager due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His wife is forced to work at a nightclub to provide for their children. ...

El taisha (1946)

After the death of (Shaker Bey), half of the factory goes to (Kamel) the hardworking man in his work, and the other half to (Samira) the daughter, and at the same time (Sami), Kamel's younger brother, falls in love with (Luwabed), but because Loobed is loo ...

The Public Prosecutor (1946)

A tough-on-crime public prosecutor's world is turned upside down when his son is accused of murdering a dancer. ...

The Bedouin Layla (1944)

Layla and Al-Buraq are cousins who pledge their love to each other, but the tribal Sheikh covets Layla. As he plots her kidnapping, he locks her up in the king's palace, but Al-Buraq comes to the rescue. ...

Love From Heaven (1943)

Samia, a paralyzed girl, falls in love with an engineer, but she rejects his proposal, thinking that he pities her. At the same time, she tempts him to marry her cousin, a playboy, so he can actually marry her. A senior doctor treats Samia, and she recover ...

Al-Sharid (1942)

In Cairo in 1914, two friends meet two girls from behind the Yashmak. They are Nima, Muhammad's sister, and her friend Hosnia. The two young men fall in love, but the girl proposes to another young man, which shocks Hassan, so his friend stands next to him ...

On the stage of life (1942)

Both Rushdie and Ramzia work in the field of social activism, and they try to help Wafayah, Ramzia's sister, who is engaged to a traitorous man. They spread a rumor that Wafayah is suffering from tuberculosis, causing the marriage project to fail. Then Rus ...

Storm over the countryside (1941)

Health Inspector Dr. Ashraf gets into many problems because of his work in one of the villages where he went to work, as he becomes an obstacle in the path of the health barber, mayor, and perfumer in the country. Everyone practices quackery and sorcery, a ...

Lasheen (1938)

Lachin, commander of the Army of One rulers, manages the affairs of governance prime minister, who traded Bakot parish while the ruling does not offer nor a delay in something a multi-female relations spineless, "Lachin" trying ruling alert to the tricks o ...

Salama Is Fine (1937)

A courier is sent to deposit a cash amount to the bank but he arrives late. He goes to a hotel to spend the night and keeps the money in the hotel safe, but he gets confused with the Prince of Kandahar and who admires him and insists on keeping this confus ...

Layla the Desert Girl (1937)

Ziyad and Omar plot to kidnap the Bedouin girl Layla with the help of Kasry, to get back at Layla's cousin Al-Buraq. The playful Abla tells Al-Buraq that Layla's father has sold her to Kasry, while Kasry fails to win Layla's affection. ...

His Excellency Kish Kish Bey (1931)

(Keshkesh Bey) loves raising Arabian horses, and so does his neighbor, and they compete in this regard. A letter comes to Keshkesh Bey, the mayor of Kafr El-Ballas, carrying an invitation to participate in a major horse competition. Keshkesh Bey is overwhe ...