Said Abou Bakr

Cairo in a Thousand Years (1969)

A play about the history of Cairo. ...

Joys (1968)

Tawfik is in the midst of a financial crisis when his relative dies. As the sole heir, he sells her furniture to pay off his debts, only to discover that she left him a precious jewel inside a piece of furniture. As he tries to retrieve it, a gang goes aft ...

Three Thieves (1966)

Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals from a traitorous wife believing that this is his right, and the second steals a public bus in order to qui ...

A Widow with Three Daughters (1965)

When Mafouz dies, his partner Diab seizes his share, which leaves Mahfouz's family living in poverty. Gawdat, Zahra's fiancé, sleeps with her after she surrenders in the hope that they will get married quickly, but his mother forces him to leave Zahra aft ...

Secret of the Sphinx (1964)

Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too obviou ...

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 ...

Cairo (1963)

An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt. ...

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 ...

Antar: The Black Prince (1961)

Based on the life and legend of Antarah ibn Shaddad, a 6th century poet and hero whose poetic works are considered among the greatest in the Arab language. ...

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. ...

Liqimat Aleaysh (1960)

Fathi and Mohsen are unemployed friends. Mohsen falls in love with Dr. Samia, who offers him a job at her father's farm, but the only condition for the job is that the employee have to be married. ...

Antar Invades the Desert (1960)

Shadad sends his son Antarah to herd sheep after he refuses to acknowledge him as his son because of his dark skin and his mother is a slave and refuses to wed Antarah to his cousin Abla. When Banu Abs is invaded by another tribe, they enlist Antarah's hel ...

Between Heaven and Earth (1959)

In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours. ...

The Big Brother (1958)

While Awad's family believes him to be an honorable man, Awad heads a drug-dealing gang. He tries to keep the balance between his family's image of him and his illegal business dealings. ...

Ismail Yassin for sale! (1958)

The film revolves around a girl who tries to commit suicide because of her family's torture, but another person comes to save her from death. She goes with him to his house and tells him how cruel her family is to her. He tries to reconcile between her and ...

Mid-night driver (1958)

A teacher loves Usta Hassan, the driver of a transport vehicle, and she tries to seduce him in various ways and fails because his heart is occupied with the love of his fiancée. The teacher, the head of a gang, becomes jealous of Usta Hassan because he ha ...

Sageen Abu Za'abal (1957)

The events revolve around an innocent young man who is thrown into prison as a result of a foreign drug dealer's hatred towards him because his mistress loves him. The young man, along with his friend, is able to escape from prison during the raid that was ...

Gharam El Millionaire (1957)

The events revolve around the dancer Salwa, who is considered the first star of the performance troupe she works with. A rumor spreads about Salwa's relationship with a well-known millionaire, and the troupe director seeks to take advantage of that rumor t ...

The Scornful Man (1956)

When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich. ...

The Sky Devils (1956)

Farghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful operation against the Zionist forces during the 1948 war. Orders are issued to paratroopers to land in land seized by the Zionists, and in the plane we learn that e ...

Miracle from heaven (1956)

A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer resort he meets a young woman who made him stop traveling, as he caught a cold while trying to save her fro ...

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 ...

Aziza (1954)

Aziza is a show dancer who's supporting her young sister. She lives in trouble because of the thug who seizes her money and chases her if she tries to escape. Aziza falls in love with sergeant Hassan who works in the region and decides to retire and marry ...

Always With You (1954)

A poor thief assigned her sister to deliver a stolen ring to her lover, but she did not know that the police were tracking her, so she managed to escape from them and had to hide with a man who worked as a train driver and stayed with his friends, and she ...

A Dozen Of Napkins (1954)

The presser of the neighborhood falls in love with the singer living in the villa next to him, while his friend falls in love with her maid. He discovers that a wealthy man is supporting her financially, he tries to compete with him by singing in the night ...

The black knight (1954)

The daughter of two Bedouins who married against the will of the two warring tribes, and were killed by their respective families. The girl found herself in danger, so she took refuge in the city and worked in the circus. After she learns her origin, she r ...

Taxi of Love (1954)

When one of the girls takes a taxi, a love story develops between her and the taxi driver. Their meetings occur many times and she asks him to propose marriage to her, but he refuses due to the difference in social level. So she resorts to the trick of dis ...

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. ...

Lady of The Train (1952)

Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling d ...

I Want To Get Married (1952)

The events of the film revolve around the singer (Nour) and her great confusion between (Samir), who loves her with all his heart but does not propose marriage to her, and his rich uncle, who considers her his lover but does not decide to marry her either, ...

Professor Fatima (1952)

The film's events take place in a comedic context, as Fatima (Faten Hamama) opens a law office. Her fiancé, Adel (Kamal El-Shenawy), refuses to agree to her work because he does not believe in her ability to succeed and a woman's inability to work as a la ...

A Night of Love (1951)

Laila is an abandoned girl who was raised in an orphanage. She works as a nurse, but her colleagues plot to expel her from the hospital. She meets a wealthy young man who wants to marry her, but his father refuses after he learns her secret. She tries to f ...

Lak Yom Ya Zalem (1951)

With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her money so bad that he kills his friend and proposes to his newly-widowed wife. ...

Come and Greet (1951)

An Egyptian romantic comedy film produced in 1951, the story and dialogue of Abu al-Saud al-Abiari and directed by Helmi Rafla and starring Farid al-Atrash, Samia Jamal, Ismail Yassin, Abdel Salam al-Nabulsi, Abdul Fattah al-Qasri and Farid Shawqi. ...

Adam and Eve (1951)

Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza, in one night. Over time, the lives of the two sisters differ after marriage, and each of them tries to find happiness. ...

El Sab'a Afandi (1951)

Al-Sab' is a humble employee who is having trouble with his boss and his sweetheart's relative who wants to marry her. As he has a dream that he is living a happy life after all his problems were resolved, he decides to face his problems and marry his girl ...

The Last Lie (1950)

Samir is a singer living happily with his jealous wife Samira. However, His ex-girlfriend Kiki wants to relive their relationship again, but he refuses because he is afraid of Samira's violent reaction. Kiki seeks the help of an Indian Maharaja and asks hi ...

Eid Night (1949)

Yasmina, Shushu, and Soso are three siblings trying to make a living by working in a nightclub. When Yasmina gets gambling money from a smitten Adel, she is insistent that the money is a debt that needs to be repaid. ...

The Flirtation of Girls (1949)

Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a pr ...

Anbar (1948)

Vim Anbar is a lyrical comedy film starring Laila Murad and Anwar Wagdy with a group of stars who participated with Laila Murad in singing the song that is dear to my heart. ...

My Heart is My Guide (1947)

Sunset (1947)

A family pushes their daughter Nadia into prostitution for money. One day, two young men hit her with their car, and when they find out what she does for a living, they make a bet on which one will succeed in getting her to clean up her act. ...

The Love of My Life (1947)

Mamdouh travels to Cairo to realize his dreams as a singer. There, he falls in love with a dancer who leaves him in search of a better future. ...

Layla, Daughter of the Rich (1946)

Laila is a wealthy girl, with a father who has no will and a domineering wife. Her stepmother tries to marry her to his son so that the wealth does not go outside them. Laila decides to flee, and causes an accident with her car. Everyone thinks she is dead ...

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 Lady's Game (1946)

The film takes place in Cairo during the Second World War, where Hassan Abu Tabq (Naguib Al-Rihani) meets the girl Laybeh (Tahiya Karioca), and feelings of love develop between them while Hassan struggles, and things change little by little when a game com ...

The worker (1943)

Al-Asti Ahmed works as a worker in one of the major factories. He is a staunch defender of workers' rights, and the rest of the workers rally around him in order to defend their cause and rights. However, the factory owners try all the time to plot one mac ...

Happy Day (1940)

Muhammad Kamal, a simple young man on the tram, meets a girl he loves and shares his feelings with her, but her father objects to this relationship because of the poverty of this singer. ...

The White Rose (1932)

Topping the list of 100 Best Egyptian Films, this classic musical melodrama launched the film career of one of Egypt's greatest singers and composers, Mohamed Abdel Wahhab. Galal Effendi, the son of an impoverished aristocrat, is forced to leave his studie ...