Movies: Abdel Meguid Shukry

  • 1942
    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1942)

    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

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    Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures. He tries to solve his financial problems with thehe contents of the cave, but as Qasim enters the pi...

    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
  • 1951
    Nehayet Qessa

    Nehayet Qessa (1951)

    Nehayet Qessa

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    The work deals with the story of a young writer who writes a story about a girl who loves her cousin and seeks to marry him, but her father opposes this marriage, so she marries another young man in a sham marriage, to please her father, and her rela...

    Nehayet Qessa
  • 1953
    Faeil Khayr

    Faeil Khayr (1953)

    Faeil Khayr

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    A poor young man loves art and music. There is a love relationship between him and a rich girl. This girl appreciates his art and creation. Her father rejects this relationship, but stands in her way and declares that he does not agree with their mar...

    Faeil Khayr
  • 1950
    Yasmine

    Yasmine (1950)

    Yasmine

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    Yasmine is the daughter of a wealthy man who was not interested in females, so he left her at the door of an orphanage. She grows up in the orphanage, then runs away from it to join a gang of children. She meets a musician who tries to protect her, s...

    Yasmine
  • 1944
    Passion and Revenge

    Passion and Revenge (1944)

    Passion and Revenge

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    A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process....

    Passion and Revenge
  • 1943
    The Straight Road

    The Straight Road (1943)

    The Straight Road

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    A good man who loves his family and devotes himself to taking care of them. A woman intercepts him and takes him into her love. This changes his circumstances and he is distracted by her from his family. He neglects his work and his life is upended. ...

    The Straight Road
  • 1937
    Hymn of Hope

    Hymn of Hope (1937)

    Hymn of Hope

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    Directed by Ahmed Badrakhan....

    Hymn of Hope
  • 1940
    The Life of Darkness

    The Life of Darkness (1940)

    The Life of Darkness

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    A middle-class family. The son gets a law degree and wants his son to be a lawyer, but the son wants to be a novelist. The son is surrounded by bad friends, so he is led by them into a life of debauchery and slips into the abyss, betrays trust, misap...

    The Life of Darkness
  • 1945
    Ambassador of Hell

    Ambassador of Hell (1945)

    Ambassador of Hell

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    The devil appears to a poor family, incarnated in a wealthy man who offers them a large fortune. The life of excess spoils the family and breaks up their relationships. Eventually, the devil appears again, this time with the will to drag the family t...

    Ambassador of Hell
  • 1951
    Children Of The Streets

    Children Of The Streets (1951)

    Children Of The Streets

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    Fayez is a married officer who finds a baby and takes him home, until the father of the child knows his place and takes him back and begins to teach him to steal until he joins a gang. The child's mother tries to save him from this fate and asks offi...

    Children Of The Streets
  • 1946
    The Public Prosecutor

    The Public Prosecutor (1946)

    The Public Prosecutor

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    A tough-on-crime public prosecutor's world is turned upside down when his son is accused of murdering a dancer....

    The Public Prosecutor
  • 1944
    Layla in the dark

    Layla in the dark (1944)

    Layla in the dark

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    Hussein and Laila are children who pledge to love. Circumstances separate them and they meet after they grow up and their feelings are renewed, but Laila is exposed to an accident that loses her sight, so she decides to sacrifice her love so that Hus...

    Layla in the dark
  • 1940
    Dananeir

    Dananeir (1940)

    Dananeir

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    A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown....

    Dananeir
  • 1949
    The Flirtation of Girls

    The Flirtation of Girls (1949)

    The Flirtation of Girls

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    Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job a...

    The Flirtation of Girls
  • 1948
    A Sleepless Man

    A Sleepless Man (1948)

    A Sleepless Man

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    Dr. Mounir Saber (Youssef Wahbi) is a committed and perfect man in his work and devotes all his time in his clinic and lectures to students. Married to a vicious woman jealous and heart patient (Najma Ibrahim). He meets in the train while traveling w...

    A Sleepless Man
  • 1947
    Cairo-Baghdad

    Cairo-Baghdad (1947)

    Cairo-Baghdad

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    One of the earliest Iraqi films, the plot revolves around a young Iraqi man working as a writer who flees to Cairo after being accused of murdering his uncle. He stays with a friend and gets to know his friend's daughter, eventually falling in love w...

    Cairo-Baghdad
  • 1942
    Bent Zawat

    Bent Zawat (1942)

    Bent Zawat

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    Ibrahim believed that his upbringing in the Pasha's palace would make him a member of the family, but his dreams were shattered after the Pasha's daughter refused to marry him due to the difference in social level between them. Ibrahim seeks revenge ...

    Bent Zawat
  • 1945
    The Black Market

    The Black Market (1945)

    The Black Market

    5.51945HD

    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...

    The Black Market
  • 1942
    Children of the poor

    Children of the poor (1942)

    Children of the poor

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    Fouad Pasha refuses to help his brother after his bankruptcy in the stock market, and his son Zaki abandons his cousin Hosnia after he assaulted and raped her, so Fouad is forced to marry her to the farmer Ibrahim, Hosnia gives birth to a baby girl, ...

    Children of the poor
  • 1939
    Qais and Laila

    Qais and Laila (1939)

    Qais and Laila

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    Qais recites poems about his love for his cousin Laila. Ghabeer, Qais' rival in Laila's love, commissions the poet Mamoun to compose obscene poems about Laila and publish them as Qais's. The poems reach Laila's father, who refuses to let Qais marry L...

    Qais and Laila