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- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud YassineFarid ShawqiA story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahZaki RostomAbdallah GheithA poor peasant woman becomes a symbol of worker oppression in this somber social drama directed by Henri Barakat. Azziza (Faten Hamama) is brutally raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes for her husband (Abdallah Gheiss). She does not relate the incident to her husband who is suffering from an undisclosed illness. Azziza hides the pregnancy and strangles the baby after it is born, but she also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling peasants.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharAminah RizqThis 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.
- DirectorSaid MarzoukStarsFaten HamamahRushdi AbazahAminah RizqThis film erupted the issue of women's right to get their divorce when life is impossible with their husbands. The movie faced the society for the first time with some problems that the "Marriage and divorce law" contains, which needed to be looked over again. The movie was direct cause of changing some subject in the "Family Law" and continues to be an icon for more movies discussing same problem. Faten won the best actress award from Cairo Festival, and a diploma of recognition from Tehran festival.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifZaki RostomA rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsMohamed Al SharqawyFaten HamamahMohsen MohieddinA tale story of the July, 1952 revolution in Egypt through the experiences of Fatma (Hamama), a young betrothed woman. Her history is told in flash backs as she sits on the roof of her house, intending to jump to her death if her brother carries through with his threat to confine her to a mental institution. Fatma's Husband-to-be is a fisherman who has been away for a long time looking for work abroad, and she has stayed at home to take care of her two brothers instead of going with him. When he comes back, her brother Galal sees to it that he is arrested, intending to put him in prison for several years. Fatma, in turn, represents loyal Egyptians who resisted foreign-backed rule even if it meant dying.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamahYehia ChahineShukri SarhanA young man from outskirt rebels against his life and abandons his woman to go to Cairo.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud YassineImad Hamdi(Mona) A poor girl who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the pressure of her mother, which insists on her to increase her income, she gets a wealthy old businessman to love her. An engineer (Adel), who works in the company of her lover (Abdo) reveals his love, she convinces him to resign and build his own independent company and give him jewelry as a capital and stand by him and encourage him and cut ties with (Abdo). Will their love story continue?
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharDawlat AbiadWell off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new husband home proves to be a very difficult task.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharMahmoud MoursyFaten Hamama plays a wife who wakes up one morning to discover she is married to her brother-in-law in this suspenseful drama. The confused woman soon learns that fifteen years have gone by and that she was injured in a bomb blast that killed her sister. A local doctor tries to prevent the woman's husband from killing her for the inheritance.
- DirectorHasan El-EmamRaymond NassourStarsFaten HamamahThoraya HelmyFakher FakherOn his way home one day, Morsi finds a child at the side of a road. He feels sorry for her, and takes her home with him to raise alongside his own daughter, Saniyya. The two girls become quite close over the years. When Morsi dies, their lives take very different paths, after a lot of suffering. While Sanniya falls in love with, and plans to marry, a wealthy man, Naimat falls into the grasp of a woman who is the ringleader of a number of beggars and pick-pockets
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharAhmed RamzyFour months after Ahmed was the chief witness in a murder case, his wife receives a blackmail letter accusing him of the crime.
- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsFaten HamamahImad HamdiSalah ZulfikarThis run-of-the-mill romantic comedy-drama is set in a university in Cairo and begins with a professor and a young student about to be married. Just at that point, their wedding is interrupted by the rest of the movie, which happens to be an extended flashback. At issue is whether the couple can actually marry or not because unless a few big questions can be answered in the negative, they are actually brother and sister. So the story segues into the love life of a gifted writer as he is caught between his desire for a beautiful young woman and his feelings for his wheelchair-bound wife.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahYehia ChahineMaryam FakhruddinTeenage Nadia is raised by her father after her mother's death. Returning home from boarding school, her father has re-married. Jealous Nadia decides to get rid of the competition of a stepmother by accusing her of sleeping with her uncle.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifAhmed RamzyAfter three years of absence, back (Recep) after a long travel trip spent on the back of one of the ships in an effort to save money in order to complete his marriage b (benign), who lives with his mother in a shack built on the sea, but with the passage of days legged in the heart of (Recep) feelings of jealousy when he doubted the existence of a relationship between the pool (benign), and between (Mamdouh) son of the owner of the shipping company, which coincided with the existence of many problems between the owner of the company and its employees.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahYehia ChahineZahrat El-Ula
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahImad HamdiMahmoud Al MelejiArchitect Sherif Kamel visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahEzzat El AlailiGamil RatibRauya is in her early forties when her husband decides to leave her for a younger, less talented but more attractive woman. The spurned wife remains with her daughter, pulls herself together and lands a job working at a newspaper.She gets interested in the good-looking editor, but when he begins to respond she backs off. Although he is separated from his wife, that is not the same as being officially divorced, and not good enough to risk an involvement. Later, her husband has turned against his new wife, and tries to force his way back into Rauya's life, but she is in no mood to rewrite her future.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud MoursySaleh SelimElbab Elmaftouh, Known in English as "The Open Door", another great movie about women's right in their different role and life and thier struggle between her father with his old style and her husband that doesn't understand her.
- DirectorKhairy BesharaStarsFaten HamamahMohamed MounirAbla KamelA poor family struggles to survive in the slums of Cairo in this depressing social melodrama. Aicha is the widowed matriarch who uses her savvy to avoid tragic calamities. Soon even her considerable efforts can't save her family from the inevitable problems of lower-class poverty, and her daughters resort to drawing up marriage contracts to find husbands. One women marries the oily Orabi, who later seduces his wife's sister. The youngest is a ten-year-old boy who runs away from home and becomes a beggar in the streets.
- DirectorSaad ArafaStarsFaten HamamahYehia ChahineMokhtar Al SayedLover growing between Ahmed and Nawal since childhood, he surprised Nawal by departure to Cairo and lives there, she married his older brother Ibrahim, when they travel to visit him, Nawal asked him about the reason for abandoning her.
- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifZaki RostomNahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Nawal, a rural girl, is married off to a wealthy aristocrat called Taher Basha (Zaki Rostom). Nawal gets increasingly depressed due to her husband's cold, cruel demeanor, despite their lavish life. Things take a turn (for both better and worse) when she meets Khaled (Omar Sharif), a handsome young army officer.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifZouzou MadiA chance meeting at an auction brings together Sawsan (Faten Hamama), a working class girl and Adel (Omar Sharif), heir to a vast fortune with several estates to his name. This leads to a whirlwind marriage. This development spells trouble for Adel's fair-weather bourgeois clique, who are used to manipulating him with their own financial interests at heart.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharShukri Sarhan