Hind Rostom
Hind Rostom was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in Egyptian cinema. She was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria on November 12, 1929, to a middle-class Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her breakthrough was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her known films include Ibn Hamido (1957), Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958) with Farid Shawqi, Salah Abu Seif's Sleepless (1958) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza, Struggle in the Nile (1959) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, dubbed "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She starred in more than 80 movies in her career. She retired from acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best. Rostom would later turn down an offer of one million Egyptian pounds for her biography in December 2002. This offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel that wanted to portray her life story as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors and filmmakers of the past, such as Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Shoukry Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. In 2004, she refused to accept Egypt's State Merit Award in Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the Middle East, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse for them to honor me before Shadia, she deserved it and she was a star for a long time before me", Rostom commented. On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.
Cairo Station
as HanumaQinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central...
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Banat Hawaa
as One of the secretariesWahid young painter. He is on his way to participate in his new painting exhibition, shocked by...
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The Flirtation of Girls
as كومبارس صامتHamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not...
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Three Thieves
as uncreditedThree stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed,...
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Eshaet Hob
as Hind RostomHussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested...
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Struggle on the Nile
as نرجس(الراقصة)Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up...
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El Khouroug Min El Guana
as AnanMukhtar is a musically talented individual who is surrounded by bad friends who make him...
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Coward in Love
as Soad HanimMagdy, the struggling student at the Faculty of Medicine, meets Souad, the wife of his professor...
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Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital
as TeamaThe film's story is about his bait and her father, who borrows from the neighborhood teachers...
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Love letter
as LatifaOn the wedding night of the girl he raised, the singer (Wahid) recalls memories of his love for...
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Word of Honour
as NahedSalem was arrested for a crime he was not involved in. His brother-in-law Kamel has sinned with...
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Baba Amin
as Sonia1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son...
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You Are My Love
as نانا (الراقصة)Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance,...
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Between Heaven and Earth
as ناهد شكريIn the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie...
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Sleepless
as KawtharSpoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries...
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Sweet Aziza
as عزيزةAziza is a beautiful dancer from Mansoura, after she rejects the mayor's son who loves her, he...
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Huwa wa el nessaa
as uncreditedAlawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand...
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Return My Heart
as الراقصة كريمةIn Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a...
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ست البنات
as mounriaMounira (Hend Rostom) thinks that she found the man of her dreams when she marries Khairy...
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Blood on the Nile
as GhaliaThe feelings of vengeance turn into forgiveness, when Ghalia falls in love with Awad, who killed...
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The Big Brother
as RawhayaWhile Awad's family believes him to be an honorable man, Awad heads a drug-dealing gang. He...
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Sayed Darwish
as جليلةA biography about the iconic singer and composer Sayed Darwish, from his childhood in Alexandria...
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Struggle with life
as SamiraEscaping his father's cruelty and indifference, Magdy leaves the house on a rainy night and a...
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The Charmer
as AzizaAn impostor recently got out of prison only to get back into crime life as he embezzles women by...
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It happened one night
as uncreditedA poor girl marries a rich young man, despite the opposition of her father-in-law, and lives a...
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Desire and Loss
as NahedAbdullah, a car driver, is accused in the murder of the thug Magdy and a friend of the Ghanaian...
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Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
as Shafiqa Al-QibtiyaDirected by Hassan Al Imam.
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The Meek
as uncreditedHamdi Hassan is a well-known journalist, admired by a crippled girl named Noha, who was injured...
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Woman on the Margin
as uncreditedA famous actress retires and marries a rich man a customary marriage. Then his family forces him...
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Kiss Me in the Dark
as لولاLula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid ....
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Ibn Hamidu
as عزيزةEbn Hameedo is an undercover police officer who arrives with his colleague Hassan at a fishing...
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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
as FathiyaAhmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers...
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Victory of Love
as uncreditedThe events revolve around the young engineer, Hussein, who suffers from the mad jealousy of his...
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Like A Matchstick
as uncreditedA comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the...
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The Den of the Wicked
as FayzaA gang that smuggles money abroad always manages to escape the grip of the police, where methods...
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Tuha
as توحةMaster Toha had eleven ex-husbands, but she wants to marry Rashad the driver, who refuses to...
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The Greatest Kid in the World
as uncreditedFathi is a university doctor in Beirut University, and his wife, Samia, is a TV presenter who is...
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عواطف
as uncreditedAwatif's mother works as the head of a women's association to help the poor. Awatif accidentally...
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My Beautiful Teacher
as NadiaNadia moves to a secondary school for boys to teach in Cairo. But the students are not letting...
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Women Can’t Lie
as NabwiyaA man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because...
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Flesh
as uncreditedA weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of...
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The Single Husband
as AzharAshour is a polygamist who marries for the tenth time the widow, Azhar, which angers his other...
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El naas makamat
as Daughter of Riad PashaRiyad Pasha frequents a gambling den run by an outlaw with his family. In this den, the Pasha...
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A man and two women
as uncreditedSami is a famous engineer who lives with his wife Laila who cannot have children. The man...
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Owner of Few Piasters
as uncreditedThe three sisters ,Siham, Nabila, Sannia inherit from their late uncle an amount of only five...
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A Husband’s Confession
as ButhainaThis comedy revolves around Wahid, a happily married composer who has a one-off dream about...
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El Dam Yehen
as uncredited"Salwa" (Dariya Ahmad) is a young girl who lives with her father millionaire "Abdul Rahman...
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Banat Al-Lail
as uncreditedNaamit was a young girl live with her parents her dad was poor man and her mother love money so...
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Love In The Darkness
as uncreditedNeamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal...
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The Nun
as Hoda/SoniaHoda and her sister live in Mount Lebanon, where they have a rest on the road, and through the...
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The Surprises Motel
as نبلة الراقصةTwo youths open an office for secret police work. A man in the office asks him to look for a dog...
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the eternal love
as امينةThe film is about a couple who live in a popular area and have a son, the husband works in...
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الحب الأخير
as uncreditedThe manager of the Childhood Association gets to know Samira, who provides aid for good, She...
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Shayateen El Leyl
as RawheyaAtwa takes care of his little brother until he completes his education. Atwa works in a factory...
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Men in the Storm
as AzizaRadwan is a widower who works in the railway quarry warehouse in Suez. The thief Selim comes to...
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Boundless Love
as uncreditedWhen Magdy writes an article about the pianist Nousa, his colleague Sherine grows jealous and...
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Big Teenager
as SoniaAhmed is a novelist who has passed the age of youth. He spends his life on many romantic...
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Soul and body
as uncreditedTwo young friends, one is a musician and singer, and the other is a poet and writer. The singer...
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Bufakkar filli nassini
as uncreditedLaila is a good girl and loves the engineer Hossam, and he wants to submit to her, but her...
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Lovers of the Night
as uncreditedAfter his wife cheats on him with his friend, a husband seeks solace in a nightclub where a...
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