Tahiya Cariocca

The Legends of Belly Dance 1947-1976 (2004)

A collection of 16 classic performances by the most prominent Egyptian belly dancers of the 20th century. The selections are from appearances in movies and other shows over a 30 year period. ...

The Garage (1995)

Naima, a guardian of architecture and politicians in a garage, in one of the buildings in Zamalek, who is also the mother of seven children. Raising them. ...

Yatheb Yat'eb (1994)

Hisham, Mokhtar and Medhat, three friends of the university, insist on not succeeding in their studies in the Faculty of Arts for more than 15 years due to the gains they make and fear of graduation and facing life with their material problems. Hisham is p ...

Women Market (1994)

The journalist Nadia investigates the suicide of a girl in a house of ill fame, especially since the sister of the suicide girl rejects the fact that her sister was a prostitute. Meanwhile, Officer Ahmed also tries to uncover the mystery of the incident th ...

Mercedes (1993)

Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, befo ...

Nisa Saealik (1991)

Samia is the wife of the millionaire businessman Adel, whose secretary Maha succeeds in winning him over to marry her and separate from his wife. Souad also holds a grudge against her cousin Samia, and plans to marry Adel after failing six times in her pre ...

Alexandria Again and Forever (1989)

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome a ...

We Share Your Joy (1988)

Mokhtar desperately tries to wed Samia but their inability to find a suitable apartment over the last 8 years stands in the way. His mother-in-law isn't making things any better. ...

The Talisman (1987)

High school teacher Mahmoud lives with his entire family in a tiny apartment. The landlord's attempts to evict them reaches the point of enlisting the Devil's help. ...

Rod El-Farag (1987)

Hussein senses a lot of mystery behind his father's death and his bankruptcy after he was one of the major merchants, and he suspects a competing merchant named Abu Shouma, so he decides to approach him to find out what happened. ...

The Lost (1986)

In order to provide a home for her and her family, Zainab goes to work in an Arab country, and send her savings to her husband, she returns to discover that her husband divorced her and got married in her apartment. She collapses and decides to take reveng ...

Al Sabr fi Al-Malahat (1986)

Kawthar is a drug dealer who throws the accusations on her maid who gets sentenced to life imprisonment. Kawthar adopts the maid's daughter and helps the rest of the children. The daughter grows up and works as a police officer and meets a thief that she b ...

The era of love (1986)

Two friends, Hamdi, an actor in one of the Rod El Farag theaters, and Ezzat the merchant, compete to win the heart of their neighbor Badriya. Hamdi marries her and they work together in a political play. The police chase Hamdi, so he seeks refuge with his ...

Intihar Saheb Al-shaqqa (1986)

Farida lives with her husband and co-worker Hamdy in his family's apartment, while their boss Abdel Aziz falls for Farida. After Hamdy divorces her, Farida marries Abdel Aziz, only to discover that he's a playboy who has a weakness for maids and she decide ...

House of the Poisoned Family (1986)

Sina' learns of the numerous affairs her husband Shakir has had with other women. At this time, she gets to know Hashem, and they become increasingly close. Hashem learns of the dysfunctions within Sina''s family and tries to take advantage of this for his ...

Love has a Final Story (1986)

Refat is a teacher with a heart disease, who marries the poor girl Salwa, despite the opposition of his mother who is trying to persuade him to divorce her in exchange for his share in the inheritance. Salwa resorts to holy people hoping to cure her husban ...

The Pursued (1985)

In the fourth story of the epic of Harafish, Samaha Al-Nagy grandson of Ashour al-Nagy decides to marry Mahlabia. But Al-Qalali the bully of the neighborhood wants to marry her. When Samaha and Mahlabia try to escape, the men of Al-Qalali kill Mahlabia and ...

Adieu Bonaparte (1985)

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a ...

Kaydahonna Azeem (1983)

Teacher Abu Al-Atawf agrees with teacher Atta on the marriage of his son Ibrahim and her daughter Samsim. Abdul Basir, Ibrahim's uncle, goes to bless the bride, and get to knows Attata, who resorted to the lawyer with whom she worked as a writer for twenty ...

Lial (1982)

Naima escapes from her stepfather's house, and works in Sherazade's nightclub who gives her the artistic name 'Layal' and she becomes a famous dancer. She falls in love with journalist Galal and hopes to marry him. ...

Me In His Eyes (1981)

Amal, a poor young woman, is injured in a car accident by the wealthy Adel, who treats her. They get married but problems arise between them because he doesn't work. He refuses to operate the factory left by his father because he was the cause of his dea ...

Do not wrong women (1980)

Fatima works as a maid in the villa of the wealthy Hamouda, kills him and turns herself in to the police. During the interrogation, she refuses to disclose the motive for the murder. During the investigation, lawyer Ahmed discovers that Hamouda was killed ...

The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)

The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in t ...

Caught in a Honey Trap (1977)

After falling in love with a young architect,mayssa shocked to know his involvement with an older woman and the relationship he carries with her,a past of struggling and support ...

Mean yekdar al-aziza (1975)

Karnak (1975)

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate bac ...

Visitor at Dawn (1975)

Rescue police receives a report on the killing of a leftist journalist in her apartment. The prosecutor moves to the scene of the incident and tries to reach the murderer. ...

Al Sokkareya (1973)

The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations ...

Watch Out for Zuzu (1972)

A girl leaves behind her past life as a dancer working in Mohammed Ali Street and enters college. Her ambition is to acquire knowledge and to leave behind her former life. She finds herself in a relationship with a young man from an affluent background and ...

Everyday's Game (1971)

A group of people who come from the countryside to the capital in search of a source of livelihood, including (Shbara), who works as a car caller, gets to know (Inshirah), and they fall in love. (Shbara)'s boss wants (Inshirah) for himself, so he plots to ...

Al-Sarab (1970)

The rich man marries Kamel from Rabab, who discovers after marriage that he is sexually incapacitated, so he resorted to Dr. Amin for his treatment, and it becomes clear to the doctor that Kamel is a shy and introverted young man who lives with his mother ...

Good Morning My Dear Wife (1969)

The work deals with the story of the couple Hassan and Samia, who live happily, and disturbed their lives only some of the harassment of the mother of Samia to Hassan, until the situation changes when they give birth to their child (Hani), to use her mothe ...

The Beggars' Strike (1967)

A musical film that depicts the life of the Egyptian people under the rule of the English colonizer through the revolutionary of the beggars, represented by Shakal who falls in love with the revolutionist Hassanin and helps him combat the colonizer. ...

Khan El-Khalili (1966)

Ahmed is forced to interrupt his studies in order to support his family and for his younger brother (Rushdi) to continue his studies. He moves his family to the Khan Al-Khalili neighborhood, meets the residents of the Khan, and gets to know more about the ...

The Road (1964)

The carefree existence of a spoiled man comes to an end when his mother is arrested. With no education or tangible skills, the man's only salvation lies in finding his mysterious, rich father whom he has never met. Moving from Alexandria to Cairo, the man ...

Kol El Regala Keda (1964)

Abbas Al-Aflatouni (Ismail Yassin), the grocer, went to Alexandria to redeem an olive message, anchovy, and cheese. Fleming arrived at him from Greece, and he was late and went to Locanda to reside there, but he did not find an empty room. Abbas Al-Platoni ...

Mother of the Bride (1963)

This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter ...

Serr el ghaeb (1962)

A wealthy merchant monopolized the grain trade and used to hide it from time to time in order to manipulate its prices in the market, in this way it is a great wealth, suddenly the merchant disappears and leaves his wife who fails to know the secret of his ...

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. ...

Ashour The Lion's Heart (1961)

Ashour studies at a physical education institute, and tries all the time to attract the attention of his colleague Amal at the institute, which he loves, but she doesn't pay attention to him due to the weakness of his physical structure, and Ashour gets to ...

The Shore of Love (1961)

Mamdouh, a famous singer, meets Laila on the shores of an Fayum during the shooting of a movie. An Attraction between the two prompts Mamdouh to propose to Laila. However, Laila's Father is reluctant to accept the marriage proposal and asks for some time t ...

Kholkhal habibi (1960)

A café on the road where motorists meet and run by Hafida and leads a gang with Adham, Sanad and Hindawi, her daughter Bahia dances to the pioneers of the cafe and seeks Adham to marry her, but she turns it off. It is the cause of its drowning. ...

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 ...

Samara's Ghost (1959)

An investigation officer feels sad after the death of his beloved Samara, and is tasked with investigating the case of a drug gang, and in the midst of all this, the spirit of his late girlfriend appears again, and many facts are revealed to him. ...

Bayieat alwird (1959)

I won't come back (1959)

After Fathi finishes his scholarship, he buys the required machinery for his factory, while he has an affair with the wife of the factory manager ,Alyia. ...

We the Students (1959)

Three students, Adel, Hassanein, and Samir, face personal struggles. Adel is rejected by his father for loving his neighbor's daughter, Hassanein seeks revenge for his father's murder, and Samir deals with parental neglect after his parents' divorce. Samir ...

The Female Boss (1958)

Based on play Othello of William Shakespear. Hafez try to convice his friend that his wife has been unfaithful. ...

Habibi El Asmar (1958)

A poor girl leaves her fiancé, who works as a mechanic, and be friends a famous dancer, because she loves to dance. A wealthy man admires her, and the dancer persuades the girl to accept his offer of marriage because he will give her fame and glory, but h ...

Beach of Secrets (1958)

Aliya goes back to Port Said to find her brother, who's unknowingly been killed by Mamduh. To keep her quiet, Mamduh poses as her "guardian" while actually getting her in the perfect place to be killed. However, Aliya and Mamduh fall in love. ...

Ana W Omy (1957)

Karima becomes lonely after her parents separate and enrolled in a boarding school. Feelings of deprivation and loneliness increase in (Karima) with the passage of days, and when she reaches the age of puberty, she decides to live with her mother, who lead ...

The Thug (1957)

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to ...

Madame Nawaem (1957)

Zakia is a maid working for the dancer Nawa'im, who is married to Saber, who divorced her three times and needs someone to marry her. While Zakia goes to the doctors, who advise her she needs to perform an operation to become a man. ...

The General Inspector (1956)

The story revolves around the mayor of Morschi married to a dancer whose son was born from his first wife. The mayor exploits the peasantry to achieve his personal ambitions and goals without paying attention to them. After a period, the mayor knows that s ...

Samara (1956)

The smuggler Sultan falls for the dancer Samara. As he gets her involved in his drug business, Samara becomes the one in control of the business. The police send an officer to infiltrate the gang and pose as an escaped convict to bring the gang down. ...

The Leech (1956)

A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by ...

The Great Lady (1956)

She is a comic film starring Ismail Yassin, who plays the role of a monologue who improves his condition after being married by a wealthy woman (Tahia Karioka), who requires her to be in her hands (that is, she has the right to divorce herself at the time ...

Soul lover (1955)

A musician at the beginning of his artistic career, and his neighbor is a dancer. The musician and the dancer are neighbors. The dancer knows one of the men that the musician is her husband, but in reality he is her lover, and that the man is able to help ...

Carnival Bride (1954)

At the Mawlid, a group of brides and knights made of candy stand. One of these brides wishes for her to come to life so that she can practice dancing and singing in the cities, and live a life full of joy. Finally, her dream comes true and she moves on to ...

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 ...

Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi (1953)

A biography of the Islamic saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, from his birth in Morocco, to his refusal to marry the girl who loved him, to his journeys to study religion and worship God, to his strength in the face of the hostility he faced and how he triumphed o ...

Child For rent (1953)

(Zaatar) works with (Mulabbasa) in the acting troupe managed by (Jawhar). When (Jawhar) learns about the story of (Nagati Pasha's) son who disappeared twenty years ago and has not been found, (Jawhar) offers (Zaatar) to impersonate the son, and Zaatar in t ...

What's My Fault (1953)

Dr. Magdy marries Laila, the daughter of a wealthy family, in spite of the opposition of Laila's mother, who wanted her to marry a wealthy man. She uses her wicked nephew to create disputes between Laila and Magdy. ...

Hamido (1953)

Habib qalbi (1952)

Samir and Fathi are friends. Samir is a famous musician and Fathi works as an employee in a humble job. Fathi meets Nahid, who has a beautiful voice and introduces her to his friend Samir in order to discover her. Samir admires her and decides to compose f ...

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 ...

The Poor (1952)

A friendship relationship develops between the child Mamdouh, the son of a wealthy family, and Fathia, who is from a poor family. Days go by and the two children, Mamdouh and Fathia, separate. Mamdouh becomes an officer in the army, while Fathia, after los ...

According to Your Taste (1952)

On his wedding day,a young man finds himself accused of being the father of a child he knows nothings about. The child's grandfather asks him to marry his daughter, and the young man is trying to find a way to make his bride believe that he's innocent. ...

Al Montaser (1952)

Sohair, a belly dancer, meets Monir, a laborer, and falls in love with him. She strives to turn Monir into a celebrity, and uses a professional coach to turn him into a boxing champion. Monir attracts the attention of Elham, a rich woman who loves to befri ...

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 ...

Al Sabr Gameel (1951)

Ezzat and Dorriya are two khatibs, who have a lot of jealousy and quarrels between them despite the love that unites them. ...

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 ...

Faik we Rayek (1951)

The singer Raik launches his wife, Ashwaq for the third time, and after a period reviewing himself and wants to restore the taste of his passion, but there must be an analyst to come back with his life razor Ahwaq, asks the desires of Fayek to be the analy ...

My Mother in Law is an Atomic Bomb (1951)

The film revolves around a happy couple, but the wife's mother works to spoil the relationship between the couple, and indeed succeeded in spoiling the relationship and was divorced despite the couple's love for each other, and also succeeded in marrying h ...

My Father Deceived Me (1951)

Lady Feyrouz (1951)

Fayrouz Hanem is a minor girl, but at the same time she is the owner of property that she inherited from her late father and mother. She has been appointed as a guardian for her money, and some poor people live in her property, but the guardian wants to ev ...

Ayyam Chababi (1950)

A rich young man takes advantage of a girl and abandons her after she gives birth to face life on her own with her child. After several years, his guilty conscience brings him back to her and their son. ...

A Dancer's Infatuation (1950)

A budding singer falls in love with his colleague in the dance troupe and they agree to get married. A famous dancer joins the troupe and falls in love with the singer, but he rejects her. The dancer decides to take revenge and create a quarrel between him ...

El-Batal (1950)

The hero is an Egyptian film produced in 1950, starring Tahia Karioka, Ismail Yassin and Shadia, directed by Hilmi Rafla ...

Shore of Love (1950)

Leila Mourad one of the Orient's Divas stars in this classic musical romance as a poor girl who marries a wealthy young man while others try to break them apart. ...

Beware of Pickpockets (1949)

Mandil Al-Helw (1949)

Ouqbal El Bakari (1949)

The Big House (1949)

A courtesan sets her net around a great surgeon, chasing and seducing him until she succeeds in trapping him. The doctor abandons his wife and neglects his work and patients. His wife learns of her desire for a divorce, so he marries the courtesan and live ...

The Peasant's Son (1948)

Hussein is a young villager who dreams of becoming a famous singer because of his beautiful voice, which makes his cousin Ghobashi drives a wedge between him and his love Sitita. Hussein travels to Cairo in search of opportunity, he finds his chance in a s ...

Love and madness (1948)

The film revolves around a young country man who loves singing and only sings at occasions in the countryside, but his uncle hates this hobby, so the young man travels to Cairo to find an opportunity to become a singer. ...

The Princess of the Island (1948)

A princess is kidnapped by a greedy and mean Calif. He wants to marry her. Three men set out to rescue her, and with the aid of a ring with a spirit in it they succeed. ...

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 ...

Ma'adarsh (1946)

The film revolves around a young musician who decides to pursue a career in art against his father's wishes, who throws him out of his home. The son decides to fight for his dream and meets a dancer in the nightclub where he works, and they fall in love. H ...

Laylat Al-Jumea (1945)

Uncle Abdel Fattah forces his nephew Anwar to marry so that he does not deprive him of the inheritance. Anwar does marry, but one day he goes with his friend to a cabaret and meets Tahia, the dancer, who brings him back home drunk. The uncle comes to confi ...

Naduja (1944)

Khurshid Pasha lost his daughter Nadia in Sudan fifteen years ago. He fled to Egypt with his secretary Murad. He advised him to search for her while he was on his deathbed. Murad intends to search for Nadia so that the wealth does not go to relatives. Mura ...

Hanan (1944)

(Hassan), the simple contractor, lives a happy life with his wife (Amina) and his daughter (Laila). He succeeds in his work, becomes a wealthy contractor, and meets (Murad) Bey and they start a company. (Nima), (Murad's) playful sister, tries to lure (Hass ...

The invisibility cap (1944)

Teacher Abbas Samkari dreams of getting rich. He finds an invisibility cap and uses it to pay off his debts and follow everyone around him without anyone seeing him. However, the cap falls into the hands of thieves, who misuse it. ...

Dreams of the Youth (1942)

Farid is a young man of wealthy origin, but he is unemployed. He meets his neighbor, Ilham, who loves playing the piano. He teaches him to her, and their relationship develops, but a dancer falls in love with him and tries to separate the two lovers. ...

Finally I got married (1942)

The events of the film take place in a dramatic social context, where a playboy young man from a wealthy family lives with his rich, sterile uncle. Circumstances force him to work, and with his salary not meeting the requirements he is accustomed to, he ac ...

Women are in danger (1942)

The story of the film revolves around a married woman with children who discovers that her husband is cheating on her, and the same thing happens with the wives of her husband's friends, so they all decide to leave the marital bed as a discipline for their ...

I Love Wrongdoing (1942)

Badawyia is a younger dancer who dreams of stardom. She meets the young doctor, Elwy, and they fall in love. A director asks her to be the star of his new movie, but when Elwy asks her to marry him, his father disapproves. ...

Layla the Country Girl (1941)

Laila is a rich rural girl raised by her aunt who succeeds in marrying her off to her son, a doctor who just returned from England. But the doctor lives a reckless life, and he looks down on Laila who turns into a beautiful modern girl after moving to Cair ...

Dananeir (1940)

A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown. ...

The Bashmakul (1940)

The film's events revolve around the lawyer Mumtaz, who loves flirting with women, despite his marriage, and continues to cheat on his wife, until she decides to teach him a lesson in agreement with her friend, where she pretends to be cheating on him with ...

In a rainy night (1939)

The Night Watchman (1936)

After struggling to find work, Osman gets a job as a guard, but when the store gets robbed, Osman is fired. Meanwhile, Azzouz, the store owner, and Osman develop a friendship. ...

The Female Boss (1958)

Based on play Othello of William Shakespear. Hafez try to convice his friend that his wife has been unfaithful. ...

Naduja (1944)

Khurshid Pasha lost his daughter Nadia in Sudan fifteen years ago. He fled to Egypt with his secretary Murad. He advised him to search for her while he was on his deathbed. Murad intends to search for Nadia so that the wealth does not go to relatives. Mura ...