Acting
Amina Rizk
Born April 15, 1910 · Tanta, Egypt
Died August 24, 2003 · aged 93
No biography available.
Known For
First Year of Love · 1976First Year of Love
★ 7.01976
MovieDrama
A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader. Mohamed tries to get the incrimating evidence.
Strawberry War · 1994Strawberry War
1994
MovieComedy
Fardous, nicknamed Farawla, sells flowers on the street, she falls in love with a poor man who sells apples. One day a rich man sees them and decides to give them money in exchange for giving him happiness.
A House in the Air · 1988A House in the Air
1988
MovieDrama
Directed by : Samir Al Asfory
Orphans' money · 1952Orphans' money
★ 7.01952
MovieDramaMusic
A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.
عودي يا أمي · 1961عودي يا أمي
1961
MovieDrama
The Beginning and the End · 1960The Beginning and the End
★ 8.21960
MovieDrama
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
Kit Kat · 1991Kit Kat
★ 7.41991
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.
The Bread Seller · 1953The Bread Seller
★ 9.01953
MovieDramaMusic
A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journey to find her children.
Movies
First Year of Love · 1976First Year of Love
★ 7.01976
MovieDrama
A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader. Mohamed tries to get the incrimating evidence.
Strawberry War · 1994Strawberry War
1994
MovieComedy
Fardous, nicknamed Farawla, sells flowers on the street, she falls in love with a poor man who sells apples. One day a rich man sees them and decides to give them money in exchange for giving him happiness.
A House in the Air · 1988A House in the Air
1988
MovieDrama
Directed by : Samir Al Asfory
Orphans' money · 1952Orphans' money
★ 7.01952
MovieDramaMusic
A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.
عودي يا أمي · 1961عودي يا أمي
1961
MovieDrama
The Beginning and the End · 1960The Beginning and the End
★ 8.21960
MovieDrama
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
Kit Kat · 1991Kit Kat
★ 7.41991
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.
The Bread Seller · 1953The Bread Seller
★ 9.01953
MovieDramaMusic
A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journey to find her children.
The Devils · 1977The Devils
1977
MovieDramaMystery
The story revolves around a national political association in the 1940s, joined by a group of national youth, who see violence as one of the most important means of overthrowing the regime.
Four Girls and an Officer · 1954Four Girls and an Officer
★ 10.01954
MovieComedyDrama
The correctional officer prefers good treatment with the female inmates, while the director prefers the use of cruelty and pressure, and there are four girls admired by the officer, and without intent the four girls ignite the correctional fire and it is an opportunity to escape. A disciplinary board is set up for the officer for his negligence and inability to control them. The man of the four girls encounters and discovers that among them is a girl resembling a rich girl from an ancient family who disappeared from years and the events continued.
Port Said · 1957Port Said
★ 7.01957
MovieDramaWar
The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.
The Water-Carrier Is Dead · 1977The Water-Carrier Is Dead
★ 7.81977
MovieDrama
The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in the pursuit of pleasure because he recognizes that death will bring an end to all enjoyment. They meet and become friends. Through this friendship the water carrier is encouraged to change his morbid way of thinking and to enjoy life.
The Berry and the Cane · 1986The Berry and the Cane
★ 3.01986
Movie
Set in old Cairo, Hassouna (Hamdy Gheith) is a mean thug who collects money from people for protection. He prosecutes Ashour El Nagy's (Ezzat El Alaily) family, who transform from wealth to poverty. Hassouna forces Ashour to divorce his wife and leave the neighborhood, and then tries to marry her.
Women Who Loved Cinema · 2002Women Who Loved Cinema
2002
MovieDocumentary
Six strong-willed women whose adventurous streak changed the face of film industry in early twentieth century Egypt – a time when the country was, despite the liberal ripples, still steeped in conservative tradition. The film shows how these women, different as they were in class and social background, broke taboos and dismissed conventional wisdom to fulfill their overpowering passion for filmmaking. Women Who Loved Cinema takes us to the past and brings us, seamlessly, to the present day. Aziza ... Fatema ... Behidja ... Amina ... Assia … Mary... theirs is a story that will remain indelibly etched in the memory of Egyptian cinema.
El Ragol El Thaalab · 1962El Ragol El Thaalab
1962
Movie
Farid belongs to a large family, but he failed in his studies and joined a drug smuggling gang. He frequents bars and nightclubs and is in a relationship with Zizi, the dancer who was in love with the gang leader, Mr. Basyouni. Farid tries to get rid of Mr. Basyouni to take control of things. Farid marries Hoda, the sister of Omar Abdel Karim, the public prosecutor in the Anti-Narcotics Office.
The Knight & The Princess · 2020The Knight & The Princess
★ 6.02020
MovieAnimationAdventure
The story of the Arab knight Muhammad Bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi who rescued many women and children from pirates in the Indian Ocean. He entered a fierce war against King Dahr who was sharing the spoils with the pirates, with the help of his friend Ziad and his mentor Abu Al-Asud.
The Shame · 1982The Shame
★ 7.41982
MovieDramaThriller
A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.
Blood on the Nile · 1961Blood on the Nile
★ 4.01961
MovieThrillerDrama
The feelings of vengeance turn into forgiveness, when Ghalia falls in love with Awad, who killed her husband. After she finds out that Awad took revenge for his brother after her husband married a dancer and tried to kill her and her son.
The River of Love · 1960The River of Love
★ 8.31960
MovieDramaRomance
Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
Lobster · 1996Lobster
★ 5.41996
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.
The Fair · 1989The Fair
★ 4.61989
MovieDramaThriller
The child (Barakat) from his mother gets lost in the crowd of the birth, to be kidnapped by the seller (Ali al-Araj) and taken to his home and called (Ibrahim), to grow up in an environment of all criminality, and involved working with a smuggling gang, and travel with them to Greece to carry out an operation, to change his life .
The Nightingale's Prayer · 1959The Nightingale's Prayer
★ 7.81959
MovieDramaRomance
This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
Mothers in Exile · 1981Mothers in Exile
★ 7.01981
MovieDrama
Hassouna identifies customs with the businessman Shaheen, who offers him assistance in exchange for facilitating the procedures of his illicit goods. Hasina is lured to get involved in a relationship, and recorded by Shaheen motivated, until Hassouna becomes at their disposal, Shahine Hassouna claims that his wife, threatens him with tape and acquiesces to him for fear of the scandal, and agrees to facilitate his suspicious operations, but after an innocent injustice at customs as a result of Hassouna's corruption, He then dies, wakes up his conscience, surrenders himself, reports on Shaheen and the rest of his corrupt partners to purify himself, and his deceased colleague is considered.
Storm over the countryside · 1941Storm over the countryside
1941
Movie
Health Inspector Dr. Ashraf gets into many problems because of his work in one of the villages where he went to work, as he becomes an obstacle in the path of the health barber, mayor, and perfumer in the country. Everyone practices quackery and sorcery, and the challenge before them increases after the village is afflicted with the plague.
TV Shows
Al Sera Al Helalya · 1997Al Sera Al Helalya
1997
Series
It takes about the movement of the Hilali Tribe from the Arabic peninsula to the nowadays Tunisia. It takes about the adventures of Abu Zaid which are a mixture of facts and myths with a glimpse of glory on the hero's cunning and wisdom.
محمد رسول الله · 1980محمد رسول الله
★ 9.01980
SeriesDrama
Opera Aida · 2000Opera Aida
2000
SeriesDrama
Sayed Abdel Hafiz, famously known as Sayed Opera, is a lawyer famous for the schemes that he uses to defend criminals and drug traffickers. Aida is a skilled doctor who lives in a simple house after her father lost his wealth because of one of Sayed's tricks, until the paths of Opera and Aida cross.
Blessed Signs · 1987Blessed Signs
1987
SeriesDrama
Abo El-Maaty buys a piece of land to cultivate it. A film crew comes to shoot near the farm, but the film star Salwa has an accident and Abo El-Maaty takes her to his farm to take care of her. She discovers that no one there knows who she is and becomes impressed by the simple life they're living.
Dreams Of El Tayer Boy · 1978Dreams Of El Tayer Boy
★ 8.01978
SeriesDrama
After Ibrahim Al-Tayer comes out of prison, he returns to stealing, where he smuggles 750 thousand pounds, and hides with the money in a mental hospital in agreement with the hospital's director alone. But when the director dies, Ibrahim escapes with another to hide from the police and gang that wants the money.
Harun Al Rashid · 1997Harun Al Rashid
★ 9.01997
SeriesDrama
The story of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, which depicts the era of the Abbasid state and its historical glory, focusing on the personal life of the Abbasid caliph who was famous for his infatuation with women, and shedding light on his amorous exploits and the feuds of the harem inside the palace.
Justice Has Many Faces · 2001Justice Has Many Faces
★ 7.02001
SeriesDrama
Gaber Ma'moun Nassar, a famous businessman with a good reputation among people, lives a quiet life with his wife and daughter. Throughout his whole life, he has tried to hide the fact that he is an illegitimate child. When a murder occurs and he gets investigated, it reveals his hidden secrets.
ناس ولاد ناس · 1993ناس ولاد ناس
1993
SeriesDramaComedy
The sea said · 1982The sea said
★ 1.01982
SeriesDrama
Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.
Aunt Safiya & the Monastery · 1996Aunt Safiya & the Monastery
1996
SeriesDrama
Safiya loves Harby but marries his uncle Asran after she finds that he loves another. After the mayor plots against Harby and Asran, he kills Asran and Harby is arrested. Safiya decides to raise her son Hassan to take revenge for his father and kill Harby after his release from prison.
The Days · 1979The Days
1979
Series
The series chronicles the life of Taha Hussein, The Dean of Arabic Literature, as he leaves the countryside to get a better education, and then leaves Egypt to France where he meets Susan whom he marries later.
من قصص الأنبياء · 1998من قصص الأنبياء
1998
Series
Price of Fear · 1988Price of Fear
1988
SeriesDrama
The events revolve around (Jaber), who returns to his town after several years he spent expatriate, and falls in love with (noble) despite his circumstances, and then the villagers live in terror because of a defect in the oil wells.
مخلوق اسمه المرأة · 1990مخلوق اسمه المرأة
★ 7.01990
SeriesDrama
Fire’s bird · 1987Fire’s bird
1987
SeriesDrama
A tale of betrayal and greed.
مع ايقاف التنفيذ · 1985مع ايقاف التنفيذ
1985
SeriesDrama