Hind Rostom

Born: 1929-11-11

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.


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Cairo Station

as Hanuma
Released: 1958-07-31

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central...

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Sleepless

as Kawthar
Released: 1957-10-31

Spoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries...

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The Flirtation of Girls

as كومبارس صامت
Released: 1949-09-22

Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not...

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The Meek

as uncredited
Released: 1975-11-01

Hamdi Hassan is a well-known journalist, admired by a crippled girl named Noha, who was injured...

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The Nun

as Hoda/Sonia
Released: 1965-04-28

Hoda and her sister live in Mount Lebanon, where they have a rest on the road, and through the...

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Banat Hawaa

as One of the secretaries
Released: 1954-03-01

Wahid young painter. He is on his way to participate in his new painting exhibition, shocked by...

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Word of Honour

as Nahed
Released: 1973-03-27

Salem was arrested for a crime he was not involved in. His brother-in-law Kamel has sinned with...

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Eshaet Hob

as Hind Rostom
Released: 1960-11-21

Hussein, 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)
Released: 1959-10-18

Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up...

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Ibn Hamidu

as عزيزة
Released: 1957-08-07

Ebn Hameedo is an undercover police officer who arrives with his colleague Hassan at a fishing...

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Baba Amin

as Sonia
Released: 1950-11-20

1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son...

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Lovers of the Night

as uncredited
Released: 1957-10-03

After his wife cheats on him with his friend, a husband seeks solace in a nightclub where a...

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El Khouroug Min El Guana

as Anan
Released: 1967-03-20

Mukhtar is a musically talented individual who is surrounded by bad friends who make him...

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El Dam Yehen

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-01

"Salwa" (Dariya Ahmad) is a young girl who lives with her father millionaire "Abdul Rahman...

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Three Thieves

as Amina, the butcher's wife
Released: 1966-01-01

Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed,...

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دلوني يا ناس

as سنية
Released: 1954-10-14

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اللقاء الأخير

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-01

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You Are My Love

as نانا (الراقصة)
Released: 1957-09-17

Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance,...

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Sett El Banat

as mounria
Released: 1961-10-29

Mounira (Hend Rostom) thinks that she found the man of her dreams when she marries Khairy...

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Return My Heart

as الراقصة كريمة
Released: 1957-12-10

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a...

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Owner of Few Piasters

as uncredited
Released: 1949-09-26

The three sisters ,Siham, Nabila, Sannia inherit from their late uncle an amount of only five...

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Coward in Love

as Soad Hanim
Released: 1975-06-16

Magdy, the struggling student at the Faculty of Medicine, meets Souad, the wife of his professor...

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Between Heaven and Earth

as ناهد شكري
Released: 1959-11-09

In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie...

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It happened one night

as uncredited
Released: 1954-10-18

A poor girl marries a rich young man, despite the opposition of her father-in-law, and lives a...

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Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital

as Teama
Released: 1958-03-17

The film's story is about his bait and her father, who borrows from the neighborhood teachers...

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Huwa wa el nessaa

as uncredited
Released: 1966-08-31

Alawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand...

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Like A Matchstick

as uncredited
Released: 2016-08-24

A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the...

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The Great Love

as uncredited
Released: 1957-04-29

(Samia) is a married woman with one daughter named (Laila). One day, (Samia) discovers that she...

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Big Teenager

as Sonia
Released: 1961-04-17

Ahmed is a novelist who has passed the age of youth. He spends his life on many romantic...

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Banat Al-Lail

as uncredited
Released: 1955-03-21

Naamit was a young girl live with her parents her dad was poor man and her mother love money so...

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Sayed Darwish

as جليلة
Released: 1966-10-05

A biography about the iconic singer and composer Sayed Darwish, from his childhood in Alexandria...

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Men in the Storm

as Aziza
Released: 1960-02-08

Radwan is a widower who works in the railway quarry warehouse in Suez. The thief Selim comes to...

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Blood on the Nile

as Ghalia
Released: 1961-07-24

The feelings of vengeance turn into forgiveness, when Ghalia falls in love with Awad, who killed...

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Nisaa Fi Hayaty

as Fathiya
Released: 1957-01-31

Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers...

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Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya

as Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
Released: 1963-04-14

Directed by Hassan Al Imam.

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The Charmer

as Aziza
Released: 1958-01-01

An impostor recently got out of prison only to get back into crime life as he embezzles women by...

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The Single Husband

as Azhar
Released: 1966-08-10

Ashour is a polygamist who marries for the tenth time the widow, Azhar, which angers his other...

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A Husband’s Confession

as Buthaina
Released: 1964-10-12

This comedy revolves around Wahid, a happily married composer who has a one-off dream about...

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The second groom

as Wafaa Hanem
Released: 1967-02-06

Wafaa's husband dies, so she decides to manage the companies he left behind herself, which...

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Desire and Loss

as Nahed
Released: 1973-04-23

Abdullah, a car driver, is accused in the murder of the thug Magdy and a friend of the Ghanaian...

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The Victory of Islam

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-02

Directed by Ahmed El Touki.

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Aljusd

as uncredited
Released: 1955-07-25

A weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of...

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El naas makamat

as Daughter of Riad Pasha
Released: 1954-07-05

Riyad Pasha frequents a gambling den run by an outlaw with his family. In this den, the Pasha...

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Women Can’t Lie

as Nabwiya
Released: 1954-10-11

A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because...

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Love letter

as Latifa
Released: 1954-03-22

On the wedding night of the girl he raised, the singer (Wahid) recalls memories of his love for...

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Love Crime

as uncredited
Released: 1955-01-01

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The Greatest Kid in the World

as uncredited
Released: 1972-05-01

Fathi is a university doctor in Beirut University, and his wife, Samia, is a TV presenter who is...

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Awattif

as uncredited
Released: 1958-08-20

Awatif's mother works as the head of a women's association to help the poor. Awatif accidentally...

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Victory of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1954-12-27

The events revolve around the young engineer, Hussein, who suffers from the mad jealousy of his...

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طريق الأبطال

as نور عبدالله
Released: 1961-03-13

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Me, My daughter and Love

as uncredited
Released: 1974-04-18

Quoting the novel (Lolita) by Vladimir Nabokov, the film revolves around (Ahmed), who owns a...

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The Den of the Wicked

as Fayza
Released: 1972-10-16

A gang that smuggles money abroad always manages to escape the grip of the police, where methods...

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Sweet Aziza

as عزيزة
Released: 1969-09-01

Aziza is a beautiful dancer from Mansoura, after she rejects the mayor's son who loves her, he...

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Woman on the Margin

as uncredited
Released: 1963-10-13

A famous actress retires and marries a rich man a customary marriage. Then his family forces him...

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My Beautiful Teacher

as Nadia
Released: 1971-11-15

Nadia moves to a secondary school for boys to teach in Cairo. But the students are not letting...

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رجل بلا قلب

as عايدة
Released: 1960-10-17

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The Big Brother

as Rawhaya
Released: 1958-11-24

While Awad's family believes him to be an honorable man, Awad heads a drug-dealing gang. He...

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Tuha

as توحة
Released: 1958-04-17

Master Toha had eleven ex-husbands, but she wants to marry Rashad the driver, who refuses to...

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طريق السعادة

as هند
Released: 1953-04-16

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Shayateen El Leyl

as Rawheya
Released: 1966-03-30

Atwa takes care of his little brother until he completes his education. Atwa works in a factory...

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The Silent Love

as uncredited
Released: 1958-10-13

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The Surprises Motel

as نبلة الراقصة
Released: 1959-03-16

Two youths open an office for secret police work. A man in the office asks him to look for a dog...

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Love In The Darkness

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-08

Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal...

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Soul and body

as uncredited
Released: 1948-10-04

Two young friends, one is a musician and singer, and the other is a poet and writer. The singer...

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the eternal love

as امينة
Released: 1965-01-30

The film is about a couple who live in a popular area and have a son, the husband works in...

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Boundless Love

as uncredited
Released: 1960-02-15

When Magdy writes an article about the pianist Nousa, his colleague Sherine grows jealous and...

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A man and two women

as uncredited
Released: 1966-04-26

Sami is a famous engineer who lives with his wife Laila who cannot have children. The man...

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Tofahet Adam

as Gamila
Released: 1966-04-27

The story revolves around the girl (Jalila), who lives with her stepfather who asks her to steal...

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My Life is Hell

as uncredited
Released: 1979-04-19

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Struggle with life

as Samira
Released: 1957-10-14

Escaping his father's cruelty and indifference, Magdy leaves the house on a rainy night and a...

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Fatouma

as Fatima
Released: 1961-08-24

Fatima learns from Dr. Wahid Farid that her husband left her a letter before his death,...

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Bufakkar filli nassini

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-01

Laila is a good girl and loves the engineer Hossam, and he wants to submit to her, but her...

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الحب الأخير

as uncredited
Released: 1959-09-29

The manager of the Childhood Association gets to know Samira, who provides aid for good, She...

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Kiss Me in the Dark

as لولا
Released: 1959-01-01

Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid ....

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