Rabi'a al-Adawiyya is a classic film from 1963 based on the life of the early Sufi saint and poet Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, also known as Rabi'a al Basri, in the second Islamic century.
Osama becomes impotent after a car accident. When he grows distant with his fiancée Salwa, she gets close to the poor singer, Nader, whom she lies to and pretends to be just as poor. As they team up for work, she meets Osama at a party and tries to use Nader to make him jealous.
After leaving juvie, Rabie meets a friend who gets him a job at a gambling den. He walks away from the gambling world and has a family but he finds himself forced to go back to his old life after his son gets sick.
Afaf who's driven by greed and envy, following her lover Hamid, she steals money from her father's custody who wokrs for Adham. Her brother Mohsen tries to help her,but she rebels. She tricks Adham into marrying her while she treats his daughter Horyia badly.
Atiat is an orphan who grows up in a palace under the care of a wealthy woman. When the woman discovers that Atiat lost her virginity, she kicks her out, unaware that her own nephew, Fou'ad, is responsible. As Atiat becomes a dancer, she gets accused of a murder, and the judge turns out to be Fou'ad
Hassan is a teacher in a primary school under her hardline head, Mr. Madbouly, Hassan lives with his wife Nadia in happiness despite the passage of seven years without having children. The dispute begins between them because there are no children, one of them suggests that Hassan marry the nader's...
On a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teacher thinks that he killed him by accident. He escapes and meets his daughter and tries to atone for what he thinks he has committed, and he helps her become a famous singer.
Baher is a merchant in love with his serf Wedad who goes bankrupt because his merchandises are stolen. In order to pay his debts Wedad sacrifices herself and decides to sell herself as serf to another wealthy master.
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 from drowning. She had pretended that she was...
Three people ( a police officer, a dancer, and a soccer player) have an accident across the desert road. They're taken to the hospital in critical condition. The doctors are able to rescue them by transplanting them new hearts. The police officer has the heart of a pickpocket and the dancer has the...
Gaber Effendi is a simple employee at Ezbet Omar al-Alfi's, expelled by the head of the family after Jabir discovers that there is fraud in the accounts of the estate. Gaber meets with Berlanti, the wife of Omar Bey's, noting a great similarity between him and her absent husband in India, Omar....
In a desert tribe, Qais falls in love with Layla and recites poems about her. His story is popular in the tribe, but this is against tradition. Another person competes with the lover to ask for Layla Al-Amiriya’s hand and proposes to her. The father agrees. Layla marries against her will, falls...
The wealthy mayor falls in love with a beautiful, flirtatious young girl, marries her in Cairo and visits her weekly. Samira lives with her father, the mayor, and falls in love with her cousin, Youssef. The wife falls in love with Mahmoud, Samira's music teacher, who visits the house regularly and...
Mona is torn between the love she has for Khaled, and her utter abhorrence of the male-dominant practices. When Khaled sweet-talks her into believing he is a liberal man, she marries him, only to be shocked by his real self and his controlling tendencies.
Laila is a beautiful and delicate woman. She lives with her grandfather in the Grand Palace, and he forbids her from going out or meeting strangers. The Pasha travels for Hajj, leaving Laila with her uncle to take care of her. Anwar and his colleague Shafshaq come to fix the broken phone in the...
The famous artist Youssef Fahmy discovers Laila's talent for singing. He encourages her to sing professionally against the wishes of her husband, Wahid, with whom she was living happily, which complicates their relationship.
