Aaidah Riyadh

Acting

Aaidah Riyadh

Born January 23, 1954 · Bulaq, Cairo, Egypt (age 72)

Egyptian actress. She started her artistic career as a dancer in the National Folk Art Group at the age of 14, and then became the first dancer through which she saw the director Ahmed Yassin to perform her first roles in his film (with my greetings to my dear teacher). She then presented several plays including (one for Mon and the other crazy, nut and almonds), as well as television series (glit…

Known For

Ta'aleb AranibTa'aleb Aranib · 1994
Ta'aleb Aranib
1994
Movie
A Very Difficult MissionA Very Difficult Mission · 1987
A Very Difficult Mission
1987
MovieDrama
While drunk Ahmed agrees with Wahid that he kills his stepfather, in return for Ahmed killing Wahid's wife Salwa in order to have her insurance policy. Wahid carries out the agreement, while Ahmed meets Salwa and confess to her the plan.
Kit KatKit Kat · 1991
Kit Kat
7.51991
MovieComedyDrama
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.
Badal FaqedBadal Faqed · 2009
Badal Faqed
7.02009
MovieActionDrama
The film's events revolve around twins separated by days, each of them raised in a different environment. One was adopted by a dancer and lived with her in a poor, marginalized life in a slum area, and the other was adopted by a good, high-ranking family, and the first became a drug dealer and the second a police officer.
Return of the Prodigal SonReturn of the Prodigal Son · 1976
Return of the Prodigal Son
6.41976
MovieDramaMusic
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
Lion HeartLion Heart · 2013
Lion Heart
5.82013
MovieDramaThriller
Kidnapped as a child and raised in the circus, a young lion tamer's tough side emerges when he gets entangled in an underworld murder mystery.
Playing with GiantsPlaying with Giants · 1991
Playing with Giants
7.01991
MovieDramaComedy
When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.
Auntie FaransaAuntie Faransa · 2004
Auntie Faransa
5.12004
MovieComedyDrama
Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the weeping and let her continue her studies.

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