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Inas El Degheidy

Born March 10, 1953 · Cairo, Egypt (age 73)

Inas El Degheidy is one of the most famous and controversial female directors in the Middle East. A blatant feminist, many of her movies discuss issues that pertain to women and their role in Arab societies and the plight of women in Middle Eastern culture. Most of her characters are empowered females and spread the message that women deserve the same freedoms as men in society. Her films are cri…

Known For

The Red Rose

The Red Rose · 2000

MovieDramaRomance

A love story between (Salah) and (Gamila) ends and years later they meet again after she married Azmi al-Damanhuri,one of the big smugglers. (Gamila) tries to get back with (Salah) but he refuses and Azmi finds out about them and goes through a psychological conflict with them.

Time of the Forbidden

Time of the Forbidden · 1988

Time of the Forbidden

Omaima is a medical student and an active member of the Students' Union, who is arrested for her political activity and released due to the influence of her father. She gets romantically involved with Hisham, and a colleague tries to discredit her.

Let's Dance

Let's Dance · 2006

MovieDramaMusic

A bored lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a dance studio. He secretly starts taking lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

Lobster

Lobster · 1996

MovieDramaComedy

Abbas is an interior architect living in Hurghada. He gets into a quarrel with Ismat, the owner of the villa which Ahmed is working on, that ends with her causing him a permanent disability. When he decides to sue her, her mother Zohira convinces her to marry him.

4-2-4

MovieComedyDrama

Lions Football club Abdul Ghaffar (Amin Al Hunaidi) decides to be a football team of his factory workers, but the disease is severe and recommends his son Mansour (Younis Shalabi), to take over the management of the factory and the team to succeed him and face financial problems, so Mansour turned to his manager and his friend (Samir Ghanem), To develop a plan for the advancement of the team will they succeed?

Mouths and Rabbits

Mouths and Rabbits · 1977

Mouths and Rabbits

MovieDramaRomance

A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.

Disco Disco

Disco Disco · 1994

MovieDramaCrime

In a mixed high school, Sayed Abu Dahab leads a group of students who spend their nights at the disco,spreading among them addiction and customary marriage, and their school principal tries to fix things.

One Woman Is Not Enough

One Woman Is Not Enough · 1990

One Woman Is Not Enough

Journalist Hossam is involved with three different women at the same time. Amira, the charming journalist who's well connected, Reem his rebel revolutionary secretary, and Hanadi the simple lady who's the victim of the collapse of a building.

Filmography

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The Red Rose

The Red Rose · 2000

MovieDramaRomance

A love story between (Salah) and (Gamila) ends and years later they meet again after she married Azmi al-Damanhuri,one of the big smugglers. (Gamila) tries to get back with (Salah) but he refuses and Azmi finds out about them and goes through a psychological conflict with them.

Director

Time of the Forbidden

Time of the Forbidden · 1988

Time of the Forbidden

Omaima is a medical student and an active member of the Students' Union, who is arrested for her political activity and released due to the influence of her father. She gets romantically involved with Hisham, and a colleague tries to discredit her.

Director

Let's Dance

Let's Dance · 2006

MovieDramaMusic

A bored lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a dance studio. He secretly starts taking lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

Producer

Lobster

Lobster · 1996

MovieDramaComedy

Abbas is an interior architect living in Hurghada. He gets into a quarrel with Ismat, the owner of the villa which Ahmed is working on, that ends with her causing him a permanent disability. When he decides to sue her, her mother Zohira convinces her to marry him.

Director

4-2-4

MovieComedyDrama

Lions Football club Abdul Ghaffar (Amin Al Hunaidi) decides to be a football team of his factory workers, but the disease is severe and recommends his son Mansour (Younis Shalabi), to take over the management of the factory and the team to succeed him and face financial problems, so Mansour turned to his manager and his friend (Samir Ghanem), To develop a plan for the advancement of the team will they succeed?

Co-Director

Mouths and Rabbits

Mouths and Rabbits · 1977

Mouths and Rabbits

MovieDramaRomance

A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.

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Disco Disco

Disco Disco · 1994

MovieDramaCrime

In a mixed high school, Sayed Abu Dahab leads a group of students who spend their nights at the disco,spreading among them addiction and customary marriage, and their school principal tries to fix things.

Director

One Woman Is Not Enough

One Woman Is Not Enough · 1990

One Woman Is Not Enough

Journalist Hossam is involved with three different women at the same time. Amira, the charming journalist who's well connected, Reem his rebel revolutionary secretary, and Hanadi the simple lady who's the victim of the collapse of a building.

Director

Love in a Jail Cell

Love in a Jail Cell · 1983

Love in a Jail Cell

MovieRomanceDrama

A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.

Co-Director

Cheap Flesh

Cheap Flesh · 1995

The story of three girls, Iikhlas, Tawhida, and Nagfa, who live in the same village, going through the same tough circumstances. As they ask Master Mabrouk to help them find a job or get married, each of them faces a difficult life.

Director

أمواج بلا شاطئ

أمواج بلا شاطئ · 1976

أمواج بلا شاطئ

MovieDramaRomance

A handsome young man called Nader lives a wealthy life with his widowed mother Nazik. When his father's friend Saleh takes over the management of their company, Nader finds out that his mother is in a relationship with Saleh, which drives him into the arms of the prostitute Mimi to take revenge.

Assistant Director

Samiha Badran's Case

Samiha Badran's Case · 1990

Samiha Badran's Case

A journalist known for her stance against corruption and her insistence to unmask its ugly faces whenever and wherever found becomes the target of the corrupt businessman Youssef who weaves a web of lies convincing her that he loves her, only to draw her away from her investigations.

Director

Crazy for a Princess

Crazy for a Princess · 2009

Crazy for a Princess

MovieRomanceComedy

The story revolves around a poor Egyptian young man who is obsessed with Princess Diana, until he comes across a Danish girl who looks like her. As he becomes crazy and starts chasing after her, he tries to save her from an assassination attempt.

Producer

His Sisters

His Sisters · 1976

MovieDramaComedy

Mohsen has three sisters, the eldest is Karima, who hasn't finished her education and stays at home, the second is Laila, studying at the Faculty of Arts, the third is Souad, a high school student who loves to dance folklore. Mohsen tries to dominate his sisters and control their lives while trying to marry his beloved Nawal.

Assistant Director

The Law, Excuse Us

The Law, Excuse Us · 1985

The Law, Excuse Us

Ali and Hoda are a happy couple, on their wedding night Ali reveals that he has a psychological problem that makes him uncapable of sleeping with her.

Story

The Challenge

The Challenge · 1988

When Huda gets released after killing her traitorous husband, it angers his father, Abdul Qawi who fights to prevent her from having custody of her child. Ahmed the lawyer sympathies with her and they get married while Abdul Qawi wants to avenge them.

Director

The Killer

The Killer · 1991

Raped when she was but a child, Ragaa is traumatized, and she vows revenge on all men who seek forbidden pleasure. Akin to a siren, she lures men into distant areas where she kills them, but things aggravate when she murders a senior official.

Director

When Men Cry

When Men Cry · 1984

Saber, is a wealthy merchant who falls in love with the young Soraya, but his son Sherif disapproves. When Saber marries Soraya ,Sherif leaves his father's house and works in a car repair shop. Soraya seizes the wealth of Saber and then divorces him. Sherif decides to have his revenge from Soraya.

Assistant Director

Do not wrong women

Do not wrong women · 1980

Do not wrong women

MovieCrimeDrama

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 with three bullets, while Fatima admits that she shot him with one bullet.

Assistant Director

Night Chat

Night Chat · 1999

A police detective investigates an apartment in which suspicious businesses are taking place, so he disguises himself to work there and succeeds in identifying both those who frequent the apartment and those who run it.

Director

Doubt, My Love

Doubt, My Love · 1979

MovieDramaMusic

Dr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahiga, Abdul Rahim's sister, who interferes in everything. When Rabab becomes pregnant after several years of infertility,Bahiga drives her brother to doubt if he's the father.

Assistant Director

Lial

MovieDramaThriller

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.

Assistant Director

Searching For Freedom

Searching For Freedom · 2005

Searching For Freedom

The film revolves around three Arab girls who travel to France, in search of the freedom they lost in the Arab countries from which they came, each in their own way.

Director

Dantela

Dantela · 1998

Samar, a singer, and Mariam, a lawyer, are childhood friends. One day as she was driving, Samar hits a man and calls Mariam to come to the police station where she is being questioned by Hossam. The three of them are involved in a love triangle as both women try to win Hossam over.

Director

Sheikh hot and bold

Sheikh hot and bold · 2020

Sheikh hot and bold

Inas El Degheidy is back to revive the Sheikh Al-Hara program again, as she hosts a group of prominent and famous personalities on the scene, in order to shine a light on big secrets in their lives and characters in a bold way.