Movies: Thuraya Fakhry

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 si...

The story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr....

In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours....

A corrupt grocer in a traditional Cairene neighborhood enters into an alliance with comprador merchants. Their goal is to hoard scarce commodities during the World WAR II, and then to sell them at vastly inflated prices. Eventually the grocer's neigh...

Two friends are married and happy, and each of them has his own life ideas. The first believes that he must limit children and be content with his only child. He forces his wife to take medication so that she will not have children again. As for the ...

An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of his life. When Yehia falls for the beautiful Samia (Iman), he believes ...

Romeo and Juliet set in 1940's Egypt. Two families are feuding but their children love each other, thus rejecting the premise that love is forbidden between them....

Adel dedicates his life to supporting the farmers, which his wife Hoda, who lives a life of luxury and extravagance, objects to, while her sister Malak Masaei supports Adel, so Hoda suspects that there is something between them....

Doria is a student in a boarding school. She falls in love with an arrogant young man who decides to follow the straight path out of his love for her. However, they discover that her mother works in a nightclub, and their fates separate them....

Muslims and Crusaders conclude a truce during Richard the Lionheart's illness, and young Arabs seize this opportunity to join their armies in Jerusalem. Among them is Saif al-Din, who hides his identity, which Prince Khalid knows. The young man heads...

Before his death, Mansour Pasha writes over his wealth to his two sons Omar and Othman; as the latter drowns, his wife gets a boy and claims he is Othman's son to ensure her share in the inheritance. When the boy grows older, he befriends Rashad, Oma...

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. N...

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Nabila is a singer whose brother constantly takes her money for gambling. When his debts accumulate, he tries to make her marry the theater owner to avoid going to jail, till she meets Raouf and theyey fall in love but face many difficulties....

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Salwa falls in love with Adel, the carefree young man, but her mother rejects this relationship, preferring him to the serious doctor Magdy, who treats her, and they actually marry to please the mother, but her heart is still attached to Adel....

A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him to travel to work in Paris...

An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage....

One of Ahmed's relatives dies and leaves him a huge fortune to inherit, but on one condition, which is to search for a widow to marry, and he continues to search again and again for someone suitable for the task....

The daughter of a wealthy man is tormented by visions of her father's death while a struggle over inheritance plays out....