Laila Fahmy

Bittersweet (2010)

An Egyptian-American returns to his homeland after twenty years abroad, filled with nostalgia and high hopes. But as he reconnects with his roots, he finds himself caught between two worlds—and begins to experience the reality of a country he thought he ...

Leisure Time (2006)

A group of youngsters; a rich, a poor, a liberal, and a religious, all of them live a life full of turmoil and indecisiveness. The film depicts their lives, their love stories, and their dreams, and how their own hesitation impedes the fulfillment of their ...

Sleepless Nights (2003)

A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leav ...

Volcano of Rage (2002)

Smuggled from the West Bank abroad and during his presence in Egypt a love story is established between him and an Egyptian girl and her family ...

Li Li (2001)

Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire an ...

Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better (1998)

Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. ...

Mabrouk and Bulbul (1998)

Mabrouk, the village idiot and his sister Fatheya inherit a land after the death of their mother. Bolbol moves to Cairo after suffering from her step mother's treatment and becomes a prostitute, when she returns to the village, she meets Mabrouk who was he ...

Honorable mention criminal (1998)

Fouad is caught, imprisoned, and when he comes out of prison decides to life with honor, and refuses the temptation of Mansour to return to robbery. ...

A Message to the Governor (1998)

In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces. Harfoush, a brave knight must deliver a message to the ruler of Egypt to demand military aid in order to resist the enemy. After killing some soldiers, he finds himself in a cave ...

Hysteria (1996)

Zain, a graduate of the Higher Institute of Music, lives with his mother, his brother Ramzi and his sister Houria, who suffers from living conditions after the death of their father 15 years ago, and while the family refuses to marry the neighbor of their ...

Very Hot Day (1995)

A young man who lives abroad, returns to his country Egypt after an absence of 8 years on that very hot day, to spend a short vacation to visit his family in Cairo while calling one of his friends Telefonia is exposed to steal her bag, to chase the thief a ...

Blood on the Asphalt (1992)

Abul Hassan is a clerk in the Ministry of Justice who lives with his three sons: Dr. He praises a prestigious center in an international organization abroad. Walaa works in a hotel, but the children are shocked once that their father accused of stealing th ...

Women (1992)

Azmi is an editor-in-chief of a newspaper. His dealings with people are serious and away from compliments. Norhan, the famous artist, tries to get close to him by giving precious gifts to him and his wife, so that he publishes news about her, but he refus ...

The Death Ward (1989)

Tawfiq 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. ...

The Devil's Plan (1988)

Rahmi discovers that his wife Najwa is in a relationship with his friend Khaled, a writer of crime films. He plans to kill her and agrees with Azzam, who has a criminal record, to carry out the crime, as he covets her great wealth. Rahmi devises a well-tho ...

Hero of Paper (1988)

The film revolves around the cinematographer Rami Qashua, who begins to succeed in the cinema through the texts he writes, but his bad luck imprints it in an unenviable predicament when one of his texts ends up being written by a clerical writer on the typ ...

Dreams of Hind and Camilia (1988)

Hend 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. ...

Bitter Day, Sweet Day (1988)

Aisha is a widow with five children, Sana, Suad, Lamia, Asmaa and Noor. The eldest got married to Orabi the carpenter, and are living in the family's poor house. Orabi starts acting like he's the man of the house, and the other sisters try to find their wa ...

The Wife of an Important Man (1988)

When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people. ...

Wa Yabka El Hob (1987)

Fouad, a wealthy businessman returns to Egypt to carry out a number of investment projects. In Egypt, he meets with Mona and it is love at first sight. The couple gets married and has a child, but due to an accidental mistake, the son loses his life and th ...

Sons and Killers (1987)

When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of ve ...

The Basement (1987)

The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get rich, so she gives in to Dandrawi who gets arrested after one of his buildings collapses. His wife tells Ruqaya's family about her husband's relation with her ...

But Something Remains (1984)

Aziz and his mistress Zinat are able to con an orphan, disabled and wealthy girl called Mona to seize her property. They think of a plan and pretend that Zinat is Aziz's sister and he succeeds in marrying Mona and gets a power of attorney to manage her pro ...

Rayya and Sakina (1983)

In the 1920s, Azouz is a failed actor and his fiancée Folla works as a maid in the house of the chief of police in Alexandria, who's responsible for arresting serial killers Raya and Sakina. When all plans to arrest them by officer Fathi fail, Azzouz and ...

Secondary Student Execution (1982)

Azouz lives with his aunt Hayat and her husband, Navy officer Yahya. Egyptian intelligence suspects the Greek girl Marcel. They recruit Yahya to watch and repeat their meeting. Hayat is killed and Marcel is arrested while leaving the country, they press he ...

Mothers in Exile (1981)

Hassouna identifies customs with the businessman Shaheen, who offers him assistance in exchange for facilitating the procedures of his illicit goods. Hasina is lured to get involved in a relationship, and recorded by Shaheen motivated, until Hassouna becom ...

The Illusion (1979)

Magdy, a successful engineer, is shocked by a fateful moment that he cannot forget, which is when one of the workers falls from a great height in front of him. Magdy decides to go to Alexandria, trying to forget that, and there he meets a couple, the husb ...

Let me avenge (1979)

Major's Mahmoud's wife Hoda and their son were killed by a smuggling gang who took revenge on Mahmoud when he arrested some of their members. Mahmoud resigns and decides to search for the perpetrators himself. He kills two of them and goes to jail where he ...

The Invisible Trick (1979)

The story of the death of the Egyptian scientist Rauf is spreading after his disappearance, but his daughter Shahira cooperates with the journalist Sami Wahdan in search of her father, to find him hiding in Beirut for fear of secret papers that include all ...

Laenet Al Zaman (1979)

Attia dispenses with his best friend, Hassan, the printer that he owns. Al-Usta Hassan and the printing press workers confront Attia, who is planning a fire in the printing press, and accuses Fathi Ibn Hassan of the crime of setting the fire until he sepa ...

I Have the Wallet (1978)

After failing in his studies, Atoua turns to pickpocket. He meets his classmate Shukri, who is now the manager of a food company, he promises to find him a job but Atoua feels that he's lying. He steals his wallet and finds documents implicating Shukri and ...

Waraa Al-Shams (1978)

"Behind the Sun" clearly identifies the time identity of his film. ...

The Judge and the Executioner (1978)

(Sherif) is a businessman who shares the company with his partner (Kamal). Kamal's father arrives from abroad and takes (Mahmoud), (Nahid's) fiancé, with him. They go to (Sherif) to offer a deal. Kamal is shocked when he sees his wife (Laila) with his fri ...

The Regret (1978)

Yasmine works in a factory, marveling at the engineer Rauf, who works in the factory without feeling it, agrees with the old Damanhuri to clean his house for a sum of money to help her cope with the burdens of life, but this combination between the factory ...

Meet (1977)

Three young fresh graduates who cannot adapt to their society and feel alienated, (Kamal) the young scientist who does not adapt with the few possibilities to do research that benefit his country, (Mustafa) the young man concerned with the issues of the co ...

A World of Children (1976)

In a comedic form, a love story is shared between the widowed engineer Hilmi Abdelkader (Rushdi Abaza), who works in the field of oil and has eight children from his late wife, the young widow Samia Ahmed and the mother of six children. After a long time t ...

Mean yekdar al-aziza (1975)

A Girl Named Mahmoud (1975)

Hamida dreams of studying at the faculty of commerce and live her life like any ordinary girl, but her narrow minded father wants her to stay at home and wait for her future husband. With the help of her boyfriend Hassan, who is a medical student he arrang ...

Night and Jail Bars (1973)

The wife of a prison warden falls in love with one of his prisoners. ...

A Song on the Passage (1972)

Set during the Six-Day War, the connection between a group of Egyptian soldiers on a passage in the desert and the command center drops. They try to survive despite the enemy attacks and lack of ammunition and supplies. ...

The Mirror (1970)

A government employee named Karim has two beautiful daughters whom he raised well. They are (Karima) and (Hoda). Karima does not care about anything except her clothes and adornments. She hesitates about love and marriage between two people: (Kamal), the w ...

Mottarada Gharameya (1968)

Based on Marc Camoletti's play "Boeing Boeing", the story follows the womanizing exploits of Mounir (Fouad El Mohandes), an air traffic controller juggling five different air-hostess girlfriends from all over the world. His fiancée Mona (Shouweikar), an E ...

The Shortcoming (1967)

Corruption is rampant in the ministry, where one of the capitalists drives everyone to falsify import permits for himself, until three new girls are appointed to work there, and each of them takes a different path. ...

Life is Sweet (1966)

Three young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse. ...

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 ...

The Teenagers (1964)

Al-Ozab Al-Thalatha (1964)

Sherif, the lawyer, and his two friends, Raafat, the famous composer, and Sayed, the veterinarian, are shocked, and they decide together to abandon everything related to Noun Al-Niswa, but Elham decides to enter their lives. ...

The Groom Arrives Tomorrow (1963)

Anayat Hanim succeeded in having a clothing factory after the death of her husband, allowing her to live with her three daughters Samira, a bachelor of commerce, Kawther who cares only about physics, Laila who is not yet 14 years old and very lazy and drea ...

The Little Charmer (1963)

Haniyeh has not seen her father since childhood and therefore does not know how it looks and forced her father's friend Esmat Al-Darmali to lie to her and tell her that he is her father Esmat Al-Damanhouri instead of her real father, and therefore Haniyeh ...