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Bahbah, Shiha, and Sanqur are three colleagues working in a newspaper whose editor-in-chief, Amer, stipulates that he should not be married to work there. Each of them was married and concealed his marriage. The three go to a hotel in Helwan to recuperate. There they meet Hosnia, who is searching with her uncle for a wealthy groom, and begins to set her nets on them, and events escalate.
May 1940
The film's events revolve around the lawyer Mumtaz, who loves flirting with women, despite his marriage, and continues to cheat on his wife, until she decides to teach him a lesson in agreement with her friend, where she pretends to be cheating on him with another man. Will Mumtaz be fooled and believe his wife's betrayal of him? Or will he understand the lesson and stop cheating on her?
Jan 1940
Othman, a fisherman, finds a baby inside a floating basket while fishing, so he takes him, raises him and teaches him fishing. Othman gets arrested for fishing in a protected area, but the prince's daughter intervenes to exempt him. A genie than appears to Othman and tells him the story of his adopted son Morgan.
Mar 1941
After he neglects his work, the phone operator Osman is fired for being preoccupied with his sweetheart, the maid Yasmina. When he goes to a new job, he discovers that everyone has him confused with Ali Bey, the company's owner, due to their resemblance, a fact that he exploits to his advantage.
Nov 1938
Osman Abdel Basit is a Nubian man working in a school who tries to get three pounds to pay his mortgage, which is due , otherwise he will lose his house. He moves from one job to another, and from one chance to the next to get the three pounds.
Sep 1939
A night film adapted from the story of Ghada al-Kamiliya produced in 1942 and directed by Togo Mizrahi
Apr 1942
The owner of an inn instructs one of his employees to find an interpreter, but the man returns with Farhat, a naïve country bumpkin who only causes confusion among the hotel's guests. Dr. Helmy, who is staying at the hotel, asks Farhat to impersonate him in order to test the feelings of his fiancée, Nona. Posing as Dr. Helmy, Farhat travels to Alexandria, where the young woman lives.
Jan 1935
Othman works as a bank collector and lives a quiet life, but his mother-in-law makes his life miserable. One night, he drinks too much and dreams that a gang has robbed him to steal the money he has in his possession, and that he has become accused and escaped from the police while dressed as a woman. Will the dream become reality?
Dec 1937
The sandwich seller (Shalom) is surprised that he has inherited a fortune from his aunt who lives in the city of Damanhour, so he decides to travel there. While riding the train, he meets the football player (Sayed) who offers to help him become a player as well. (Kellan) asks (Shalom) to manage the restaurant he owns for him, so (Shalom) decides to manage the restaurant to serve the athletes.
Nov 1937
After struggling to find work, Osman gets a job as a guard, but when the store gets robbed, Osman is fired. Meanwhile, Azzouz, the store owner, and Osman develop a friendship. Both are shocked to discover that Osman looks very similar to head of the thieves gang
Oct 1936
A worker sees his friend's wife, admires her, and tries to seduce her, but she rejects him. He is not convinced, but he shows this to the wife. His hatred for the husband and desire for revenge on the wife drive him to plot to make the husband fall into the clutches of cocaine addiction. The husband begins to collapse, and then the whole family collapses, but the addicted husband does not stop until he reaches the point of killing his son.
Nov 1930
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. He ends up killing this woman who killed him and betrayed him. Then he immigrates to Sinai, where he lives for a few years. When He returns to his family and finds that the children have grown up and married.
Oct 1943
An American tourist and his daughter, Betty, arrive in Alexandria, where they meet Shalom, a lottery-ticket vendor who pretends to be an interpreter despite knowing no English. Mistaking him for a genuine translator, the tourist and his daughter hire Shalom as their guide. When the tourist expresses a desire to go on a desert hunting expedition, one of the local pashas offers to take him along, leaving Betty behind with Shalom, who convinces himself that she has fallen in love with him.
Apr 1935
Shalom, a lottery salesman, and Abdo, a butcher's boy, are friends and live together in the same house. One day, the owner of the butcher shop dies, leaving his boy Abdo the shop and all his money. Abdo divides the inheritance between himself and his friend Shalom. This helps each of them marry his fiancée and start their own businesses.
Jan 1937
Laila is a rich rural girl raised by her aunt who succeeds in marrying her off to her son, a doctor who just returned from England. But the doctor lives a reckless life, and he looks down on Laila who turns into a beautiful modern girl after moving to Cairo.
Feb 1941
Three young men boycott their fiancées following a dispute between them and them, in an attempt to live without women. They think that by doing so they can live a life full of freedom and enjoy everything, but this life is not right and human nature overpowers them.
Nov 1944
The film tells the story of a young man whose life is consumed by poverty and hardship, and who believes that wealth will solve all his problems. A miracle seems to occur when the lottery ticket he bought on a whim—bearing the number 5001, —wins the jackpot. But instead of bringing happiness, his newfound fortune plunges him into a series of misfortunes, turning his life into an unbearable nightmare.
Apr 1932
Al Mandoubain (المندوبان) is a classic 1934 Egyptian comedy film. Directed and written by the pioneer Togo Mizrahi, the film follows the comedic misadventures of Shalom and his friend as they desperately search for money and romance.
May 1934
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 Hussein can avoid life with a co-wife.
Feb 1944
Mar 1939