12-04-1950
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68
Total Films
Essad Youniss
Also known as (female)
Cairo, Egypt
Place of Birth
12-04-1950
Birthday
Aries
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
68
Total Films
Essad Youniss
Also Known As (female)
Cairo, Egypt
Place of Birth
actor
68 Works
producer
12 Works
director
16 Works
writer
4 Works
other
0 Works
Azima's Gang
Azima is a blind woman whose son's naivety may cause them to lose their home, so she decides to form a gang, hoping to save the situation.Year:
2024
Two For Rent
As the unemployed Safiha and Hamada are looking for a suitable job opportunity to earn a living, they decide to offer themselves for rent to whoever pays them to meet his demands as a means of making money.Year:
2023
Fadel and Neama
Fadel and Naema are an innocent couple that run a food truck business. The events revolve around Fadel, as he goes through many comic situations while managing the restaurant.Year:
2022
For Zeko
The story follows a simple family whose young son, Zeko, wins the opportunity to participate in a contest for Egypt's smartest child. As they set out to attend the contest, many paradoxes happen to them during the two-day tripYear:
2022
200 pounds
The story revolves around 200 pounds that get passed on from one person to another from different social classes and residential places.Year:
2021
Alzheimer's
Mahmoud Shuaib is a very wealthy man with two sons. He has Alzheimer's disease, which is starting to affect the way he spends his wealth. His two sons are worried that they may end up with nothing to inherit if their father keep this up, and attempt to take control of his estate through the court.Year:
2010
The Yacoubian Building
portrays the lives of residents in an old Cairo building "The Yacoubian Building", highlighting issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of the Egyptian societyYear:
2006
Days of El Sadat
A biopic depicting the life of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, following his early life, his political and military achievements, and his assassination during the Cairo annual victory parade.Year:
2001
إنذار بالقتل
Year:
1996
Abo Dahab
Abo Dahab is a poor baker who goes to prison instead of his corrupted boss. When he gets out, he discovers that his employer did not fulfill his promise by supporting his family during his incarceration so he assaults him and gets fired from his job. While unemployed, Abo Dahab meets Haridi a drug dealer who hires him and later on gets killed by him and becomes one of the richest drug dealers.Year:
1996
Ballo Ballo
In the framework of a comedy revolves around theatrical play some people working within the circus and link them to some of the positions of comedian and theatrical show where they know a rich girl was connected with the circus in the university period, talking many comedy eventsYear:
1995
Love and Revenge... With a Meat Cleaver
The director's final work prior to his early death to chronic liver disease was this gleefully ghoulish horror comedy, which imparted the following straightforward moral: if you smother your wife to death with a bowl of porridge and bury her remains in a shallow grave, purely in order to start a new life with your mistress - then don't be too surprised if your wife returns and is more than a little angry about the situation! Like Shabl's two previous features, the film was released theatrically before also becoming a minor hit on home video.Year:
1992
Alwad syd alnasab
Syed fails to find a job. He throws himself in front of Narjis’s car, trying to commit suicide. He tells her his problems so she promises to help him. It turns out that she is working in illegal activities in partnership with Salem, the owner of a nightclub.Year:
1990
Sahbk Men Bakhtk
Ali and Mamoun are two friends who study in the same school. Ali graduates from the Faculty of Law to become a poor lawyer, while Mamoun fails in his studies and turns to drug dealing. After years, Ali introduces his friend to his girlfriend Huda, whom he loves and is preparing to marry, so Mamoun decides to seduce Huda with money to steal her from his friend.Year:
1990
Al'astaa maharuws
Al-Aseel Mahrous decides to marry his neighbor Zaynab despite his mother's objection to her because she is divorced and permanent. She is harassed by her husband, who harasses her on the day of her marriage to Mahrous, who kills him in self-defense, and enters prison for three years. What he discovers is that he tries to exploit her as a woman to complete his deals, and resort to Mahrous after his release from prison to help her get rid of him.Year:
1990
Leleit gawaz al shaghala
The maid comes from Upper Egypt to Cairo to avenge the doctor Shawqi Zaidan who caused the death of her father.Year:
1990
Very naughty family
Three brothers live with their wives in one villa, Dr. Saeed, Salama and Saadoun. The family is surprised by someone knocking on the door of the villa at dawn and placing a baby in a basket in front of them, along with a letter addressed to the cheating lover whose name begins with the letter S. Thus, the accusation is directed at all the husbands. The wives suspect their husbands. A gang is monitoring the villa in order to kidnap the child, and there is a woman monitoring the villa.Year:
1989
Almoshaghib Sitta
The poor young man, Sitta, is forced to do simple jobs as a magician and a robabki seller, but he fails at all of them. After being fired from his last job with the wealthy smuggler, Mamdouh, Sitta buys a piece of furniture in which Mamdouh had carefully hidden three million dollars, because it belonged to one of the big currency traders and his workers sold it while he was in prison without knowing its value. He decides to direct the money to charity and marry his beloved.Year:
1988
The Night of Bakiza and Zaghloul’s Arrest
Bekiza al-Darmalli and the daughter of her ex-husband Zaghloul al-Ashmawi are forced to live together in a room on the roof. They meet a mysterious foreigner and they go into chases and get involved in bizarre murders.Year:
1988
Ali Baba's Trial
Koky, the little boy whose teacher tells him the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, does not believe that Ali Baba is a hero and wants to try him for his crimes. His parents perform a trial for Ali Baba to calm him down, but something unexpected happens.Year:
1987
موعد مع الوزير
(Afifi) is a bossy and violent manager. The employee (Hosnia) tries to delude everyone that her fiancé's cousin is the new minister because of the similarity of names, so the employees turn against (Afifi), but her fiancé's cousin comes out of prison and there are big surprises.Year:
1986
A Woman in Jail
The employee Ezzat finds the key to the company safe that Khalil is responsible for. He decides to steal it because his wife, Dina, is looking to get rich. He resorts to the key maker Farag to make him a copy of the key. Farag tracks him down and surprises him during the theft and demands half the amount. They clash and the guards arrive, Farag kills one of them and they escape. Ezzat takes the bag and hides it. The dead guard's colleagues testify against Ezzat and he is sentenced to ten years in prison.Year:
1986
Nas haysa wnas laysa
A criminal escapes from his guard. The policeman searches for him and chases him with the aim of returning him to his cell to avoid legal accountability and preserve his job. The gang learns that the policeman is chasing their criminal, so the gang decides to get rid of him so that their secret is not revealed. The gang also tries to kidnap the policeman.Year:
1986
Fatuat darab aleisal
Prince pays the debts of the confectionery factory that the two sisters inherited, Tohma and her sister, from their father in exchange for buying half of the factory. Lotfy joins Prince’s work and Tohma admires him. The police attack Prince for drug trafficking, but Nona is imprisoned instead. Lotfy is injured in a battle between the police and the Prince gang. Tohma discovers that Lotfi is a police officer and decides to cooperate with him to catch Prince. Lotfi matches Prince in currency trading operations and discovers the identity of the gang leader.Year:
1985
Almagnoona
Saif is a famous TV anchor who has a friendship with director Mahmoud who always solves Saif's problems with his fiancée Hind, one of his fans. Mahmoud discovers that Suad works under different names in many places and steals and escapes.Year:
1985
Maghawry in college
Maghawry meets his college colleague Laila, who opens her apartment for gambling and tells him about her circumstances that push her to do so. She married her wealthy colleague in an informal marriage, but his family rebelled against him, so he left her and gave her the apartment, so she was forced to open it for gambling so she could earn money from it. She responds to Maghawry's advice and is content with renting the apartment furnished, and he marries her and gives their child his name.Year:
1985
Bitter honey of love
A poor street vendor agrees with her lover to deceive a company owner and steal his money.Year:
1985
Fawazia The Bourgeoisie
The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some important issues such as ignorance, poverty, and corruption, which leads to the adoption of misconceptions.Year:
1985
Juha Governs The City
Year:
1985
Juha Governs the City
While digging for the construction of the subway, Juha and his donkey, buried in the Abbasid era, come out from under the ground. Their exit confuses everyone, and all officials meet to decide the fate of Juha.Year:
1985
All Is Well
Fathy is a journalist who is married to Suheir, a successful TV presenter. Fathy suffers from failure because none of his articles are published. He tries to achieve fame by committing a fake murder and provides the police with an unknown mutilated body that he took from an undertaker.Year:
1984
Tabounet Hamza - طابونة حمزة
"Hussein" is an honest food inspector who goes to Cairo, and live in a small room on a rooftop, he works overtime, while some rotten businessmen tries to bribe him unsuccessfully, so they set him up for a lifetime in prison, but he escapes and reach out for his girlfriend "Reda", who trick the antagonists to prove Hussein's innocence.Year:
1984
Devilish Daughters
A strange man arrives at the fishermen's village looking for his illegitimate child to give him his inheritance. He dies and leaves the money with the head of the fishermen. The big fishermen doubt the three women from the village who had a "shady" past: A daughter of a merchant, A belly dancer, and a woman who was loved by many men, and tries to know who is the mother of the child.Year:
1984
Forbidden Games
Jalal (Samir Ghanem) and his wife Madiha (Issad Younes) are under severe financial hardship, and their property is mortgaged until they have almost nothing, and thus the spouses are forced to do unusual things to meet their needs.Year:
1984
The Lucky
After Abdou inherits his grandfather's house, two men are persistent in their attempts to purchase the house. As they near success, Abdou discovers that a foreign investment company is going to buy the house for a large sum of money.Year:
1984
A Boy Child, Amen
Mohamed El-Asyouty lives with his wife Karima and their three adult daughters but he feels disappointed because he doesn't have a son to bear his last name and run the family business. When his two older daughters get married, they bring their husbands to live in the family home. However, the new son-in-laws prove to be a burden on the entire household.Year:
1984
والسيدة حرمه
Year:
1984
إضراب المجانين
Fares is an unknown theatrical actor, while his fiancée, Narges, is a circus performer. The thief, Zaki, recognizes him and tells him that he is a film producer and director, and offers to play the role of a gang boss in his movie about a bank robbery. Zaki agrees with the bank manager to carry out the robbery with real money.Year:
1983
Why Is Masoud Happy
Masood, a street vendor who supports his mother and brother, student Kamal, finds a large amount of money inside a bag among some old papers that he bought from a woman. After consulting his friends in the neighborhood, he returns the money to its owner, and gets a reward from her. The lady is killed and Masood is arrested for the doorman's testimony that he was there before the accident.Year:
1983
Luck Beach
Teacher Moza stands against the marriage of his daughters Hanaa and Wafaa to their colleagues at work Medhat and Saad due to their low social status. The two young men get a leave from work and go to Alexandria, where they find a car tire filled with a large amount of drugs, and try to sell it.Year:
1983
Five in Hell
Fahmy agrees with his colleagues Nasr and Kamal to steal the company's safe because he needs the money to treat his son. Fahmy seizes the stolen money bag before arresting him with Nasr and hides it. They manage to escape and Nasr calls Kamal to pressure Fahmy to give them their share.Year:
1982
Hassan Beh El Ghalban
Hassan is aa simple employee whose friend gets him a job with the merchant Salem. Al-Nabrawy, a black market trader, tries to convince Salem to work with him in his illegal business, but he refuses. When documents incriminating Al-Nabrawy falls into Salem's hands, the former tries to get them back.Year:
1982
The Soul's beauty
Based on Agatha Christie's Novel "The Tenth Victim" Madiha is a middle-class employee. When her relative dies and inherits a large amount of money, she discovers that the entire fortune may be lostYear:
1982
Mekhemar Is Always Ready
Mukhaymar does not succeed in any job, whether as a lawyer or even an electrician, so he decides to travel to Cairo to search for a new opportunity. On the train, two thieves take advantage of him and put the money of their thefts in his bag, and drive him to a hotel near the station so that they can get the money, but the money suddenly disappears, which changes the course of events.Year:
1982
Troublemaker
Azza escapes from her family’s home after being incessantly harassed by her stepfather. On her journey, she meets Medhat and agrees to live in his house, where she meets Magda and they become friends. Things get complicated when Magda dies and Azza pretends to be her.Year:
1980
Desire
Jaber, the wealthy businessman, lives alone in his villa after his fiancé left Hala long after he was wounded in the 1967 war. Hala lives with her husband Husain Abdel-Dayem in one of the neighboring villas. He tries to buy the villa specifically to be close to his old girlfriend, Al-Sayes Hassan knows Gaber entitled Vishtry villa adjacent to her to be close to her and to live through his imagination and memories of old calls to visit him Vtfd and see the need to keep her away from her life that has become open watching Hassan Nerjs his wife and confirmed her relationship with Hussein kills Hassan Nargis and forced to run away he and his wife Hala knows Ga This is true, and Hussein and Hala left the villa and fought with Hassan's gun.Year:
1980
We Are the Bus People
Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.Year:
1979
مسرحية عروسة تجنن
Year:
-
Al Avokato
After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.Year:
1983
Mothers in Exile
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.Year:
1981
الدخول بالملابس الرسمية
Year:
1979
Wantaha Al-Hob
Ahmed is engaged to Souad, and on the wedding night, Souad is shot dead by a stray bullet. The wedding turns into a funeral, and Ahmed suffers from severe depression. Souad's father grieves over the death of his eldest daughter, so before his death, Ahmed recommends his younger daughter Zizi to him and asks him to marry her, but he refuses. He lives on the memory of his beloved Souad, while raising her younger sister Zizi. His feelings for her, who greatly resembles his late sister, grow stronger. An internal conflict begins between longing for his beloved and her sister.Year:
1975
أسعد سعيد في العالم
Year:
-
The Begger
After his father's death, Hassanein al-Bartouchi (Adel Imam) returns from his village to Cairo. After Hassanein's failure in all the jobs he is assigned, he is expelled from his uncle's home to find himself with a group of beggars headed by Sayed Hamoush. In a high-end neighborhood, he finds himself involved with a corrupt businessman who believes Hassanein is working for the police.Year:
1983
Ghurayb wld eajib
Actor Gharib becomes a famous rising star, he marries his cousin Sayida, who's very jealous of him. She recruits many men to track down her husband, especially when he goes to the desert, and meets the Greek girl Verta, and begins to avoid any encounter with his wife.Year:
1983
The Lock
When Moftah is fired from his job as a teacher, he is forced to work for his old classmate, Sherif, in his store. But Moftah isn't suited to the job and causes the store to lose money. Sherif fires Moftah but recruits him to carry out a different task: keep watch over Sherif's wife Farida.Year:
1982
عروسة وجوز عرسان
Year:
1982
Min yajnn myn?
When his ex-wife cheated on him, Adham has a nervous breakdown. After getting treated in a mental institution, he goes to live with his sister and two cousins. He falls in love with Noura, but her cousin disapproves and asks him to marry his sister instead.Year:
1981
Shaaban Below Zero
(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any relatives so that they can seize his inheritance. They reach where Shaaban lives, who is from the town of the millionaire. Ghatrifi family make a deal with Shaaban to assume the identity of Ghatrifi relative who lives abroad. Shaaban agrees to the deal for half of the millionaire's wealth.Year:
1980
Tears Without Sins
The story of a woman married to a poor doctor who don't have children. He secretly marries and has a son while she goes to Greece and meets a painter and thinks he raped her while drunk. She returns back pregnant, but it turns out that she's pregnant with her husband and not the painter.Year:
1980
Crazy Bride
Directed by : Samir Al AsforyYear:
1980
Esteqalet Alemet Zarra
A TV movie about a nuclear scientist who tries to balance her work as a nuclear scientist with her care and raising her son, but her work always takes precedence over her care for her family, which strains the relationship between her and her husband.Year:
1980
Afraid of Something
Year:
1979
Star Maker
The famous star Siham attends a theatrical performance, where she meets the actor Saeed, and they fall in love and marry. Siham pushes him to the world of cinema to be a famous star. This event turns saeed's life permanently.Year:
1977
Prayer of the oppressed
Manar marries a wealthy man while she is in a relationship with Medhat. He sends her letters in the name of Nabila, her brother Sharaf's wife, but divorces her when he gets his hands on one of them. He suspects his paternity of Mervat and hands her over to a teacher who runs a pickpocket den.Year:
1977
Rendezvous with Soso
A chance meeting between a nightclub worker and a famous actor gives Soad the chance to have a movie career. But her love story with Hesham is put on the line when she comes clean about her real profession.Year:
1977
Me, My daughter and Love
Quoting the novel (Lolita) by Vladimir Nabokov, the film revolves around (Ahmed), who owns a hotel in Alexandria and falls in love with (Siham) and her teenage daughter Sahar, with whom he retrieves memories from his childhood, and after leaving Alexandria, Ahmed travels to Cairo, and there the conflict between mother and daughter revolves around Ahmed's love.Year:
1974
An unfinished crime
The famous football player (Youssef) suffers a painful accident that ends his football future. He feels sad that the spotlight is diminishing on him. He is thinking about committing the perfect crime to get rid of his wealthy wife, killing her to obtain her wealth, and not discovering the crime. Will he succeed in his dream of carrying out the perfect crime?Year:
1972
