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 her former fiancé decides to have revenge.
Salwa is a girl whose father died and her grandfather takes care of her. After her mother grows, her mother requests that she live with her. The mother gets sick and is taken to the hospital. To stay with her mother who expels her because she will marry.
In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses...
Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. Lola begins to woo him to forget her life with Aziz, and asks him to work for her.
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 him but the thug won't let her go.
Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.
A difficult period in Egypt in the year 1947, when the villages of Egypt attacked cholera. A doctor (Shukri), who tried to serve the villagers to save them from poverty and hunger, is appointed in a village. (Adel Bey) The feudal lord of the village exploits its people to work on his land as forced...
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 his youth and vitality and lures him into...
A singer who works in a nightclub, and seeks to retire from this world, meets a poor young man who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage, so she accepts, and leaves the world of cabarets and the two live a happy life. The woman appears to be very loyal, as she serves her disabled...
Fayez is a married officer who finds a baby and takes him home, until the father of the child knows his place and takes him back and begins to teach him to steal until he joins a gang. The child's mother tries to save him from this fate and asks officer Fayez to help her.
Sunniyeh, the poor girl, lives with her mother sewing, and during the delivery of Suniyeh one of her mother's clients ’gowns, who runs a den of immoral acts, called (Madame Southi), so that one of her friends admires Sunnah and asks her to work with them, to refuse, but her mother is ill and...
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 every pilot has a story.
An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy),...
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 her sick mother and pays home bills.
The tragic life of a woman, Mona, as she divorces her opportunistic husband and gets engaged to Sherif, a tourist company owner. She is in for more tragedies as he decides to emigrate following the defeat in the 1967 War. Mona then crosses paths with Mahmoud. Will it be another heartbreak for her?
When Zomorod Agha dies leaving a huge fortune, the heirs are shocked to learn that Falafel the beggar shall be responsible for giving them their shares after confirming their morality and their worthiness of the money.