YousraFilmography

Occupation:
Actor

  • Bobbos

    Actors: Adel Imam, Yousra

    Synopsis: Beloved Egyptian superstar Adel Imam delivers yet another masterful comic performance in this story of a bubbled community of businessmen led by the powerful Mohsen Hindawi. A sweet romance between Hindawi and a female colleague (Yousra) unfolds against the timely backdrop of a corrupt banking Read More

    8/14/09

  • The Yacoubian Building

    Actors: Adel Imam, Yousra, Nour El Sherif, Hind Sabry, Khaled El Sawy

    Synopsis: The lives and loves of a handful of Egyptian aristocrats -- some flush, others living in shabby gentility -- set the stage for this epic-scale drama, based on a best-selling Egyptian novel. The Yacoubian is a luxury apartment building which was built in Cairo in the late '30s. At the dawn of the Read More

    2006

  • Alexandrie... New York

    Actors: Mahmoud Hémeida, Yousra, Ahmed Yehia, Yousra El Lozy, Lebleba

    2004

  • La Tempete

    Actors: Yousra, Hanane Tork, Hani Salama, Mohamed Nagati

    Synopsis: This drama from Egyptian filmmaker Khaled Youssef offers Western audiences an unusual perspective on the Gulf War, as a family is torn apart by conflicting personal and political allegiances. Hoda (Yousra) is a schoolteacher who became a single mother after her husband, a victim of post-traumatic Read More

    2001

  • Birds of Darkness

    Synopsis: This outwardly light Egyptian comedy contains serious undertones that sternly condemn the corrupt politics and religious extremism that filmmaker Sherif Arafa believes is destroying his country. Attorney for the downtrodden Fathi Nofal Imam is a no-nonsense, canny man with a taste for booze and Read More

    1996

  • The Emigrant

    Actors: Yousra, Mahmoud Hemida, Michel Piccoli, Safia el-Emari

    Synopsis: The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers Read More

    1994

  • Marcides

    Actors: Yousra, Abla Kamel

    Synopsis: Noubi (Zaki Abdel Wahab is a rich man with a few insurmountable quirks. One is that he is dedicated to giving away as much of his money as possible, preferably to the Communist Party. For that, he spent some time in a mental hospital. Now he is resigned to the fact that he is unlikely to be able Read More

    1993

  • Alexandria Again and Forever

    Actors: Yousra, Youssef Chahine

    Synopsis: In the third and final film in director Youssef Chahine's Alexandria trilogy, the director plays Yehia, a filmmaker who joins in a hunger strike organized by technicians protesting the inequities of the Egyptian film industry. While struggling for better conditions for his fellow workers Read More

    1989

  • Al Bedaya

    Actors: Ahmed Zaki, Yousra, Gamil Ratib, Hamdi Ahmed

    Synopsis: In this comic parable of social and political dysfunction, a plane load of roughly a dozen people crash in the desert and find refuge in an oasis. One of the survivors, a businessman (Gamil Ratib), cajoles, cons, and connives his way to power, and once in control, has them do his bidding. He pays Read More

    1986

  • El Avvocato

    Actors: Adel Imam, Yousra

    Synopsis: In this parody on the Egyptian legal and social systems by director Raafat El-Mihi, Hassan (Adel Imam) is a glib lawyer who verbally bends the law to suit his circumstances but is not astute enough to stay out of jail. Between this lawyer, a judge, a policeman, and a teacher, the foibles of a Read More

    1984

  • An Egyptian Story

    Actors: Nour El Cherif

    Synopsis: The critically acclaimed Youssef Chahine wrote, directed, and produced this autobiographical movie about his filmmaking career and the Egyptian political scene as it evolved at the same time he was growing and changing as a director. His memories are prompted by a moment on the operating table Read More

    1982

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