Hind Rostom
Hind Rostom was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in Egyptian cinema. She was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria on November 12, 1929, to a middle-class Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her breakthrough was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her known films include Ibn Hamido (1957), Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958) with Farid Shawqi, Salah Abu Seif's Sleepless (1958) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza, Struggle in the Nile (1959) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, dubbed "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She starred in more than 80 movies in her career.
She retired from acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best.
Rostom would later turn down an offer of one million Egyptian pounds for her biography in December 2002. This offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel that wanted to portray her life story as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors and filmmakers of the past, such as Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Shoukry Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. In 2004, she refused to accept Egypt's State Merit Award in Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the Middle East, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse for them to honor me before Shadia, she deserved it and she was a star for a long time before me", Rostom commented. On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.579 |
Birthday | 1929-11-11 |
Place of Birth | Alexandria, Egypt |
Also Known As | هند رستم, Hend Rostom, |
1959
Between Heaven and Earth
8.7/6
In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – fin...
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Between Heaven and Earth
1959
Struggle on the Nile
6.8/9
Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat...
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Struggle on the Nile
1957
Sleepless
6.1/13
Spoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries to break them apart, spreading lies about her new mothe...
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Sleepless
1973
Word of Honour
7/4
Salem was arrested for a crime he was not involved in. His brother-in-law Kamel has sinned with a young girl who becomes pregnant, so Salem takes her...
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Word of Honour
1963
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
0/0
Directed by Hassan Al Imam.
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Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
1961
Blood on the Nile
0/0
The feelings of vengeance turn into forgiveness, when Ghalia falls in love with Awad, who killed her husband. After she finds out that Awad took reven...
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Blood on the Nile
1958
Cairo Station
7.371/116
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attrac...
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Cairo Station
1960
Eshaet Hob
7.694/18
Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Huss...
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Eshaet Hob
1957
Ibn Hamidu
7/9
Ebn Hameedo is an undercover police officer who arrives with his colleague Hassan at a fishing area near Suez where drug trafficking is practiced. The...
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Ibn Hamidu
1964
A Husband’s Confession
6/1
This comedy revolves around Wahid, a happily married composer who has a one-off dream about kissing Boussa, his gorgeous neighbor and his wife Latifah...
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A Husband’s Confession
1950
Baba Amin
6.6/4
1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk convince...
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Baba Amin
1972
The Den of the Wicked
5/1
A gang that smuggles money abroad always manages to escape the grip of the police, where methods of escape and concealment are high in it, the police...
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The Den of the Wicked
1957
Return My Heart
6.4/5
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Return My Heart
1957
You Are My Love
7/0
Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance, provided that the two get married. They decide to get m...
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You Are My Love
1975
Coward in Love
2/1
Magdy, the struggling student at the Faculty of Medicine, meets Souad, the wife of his professor Dr. Fikry, and she admires him and asks her husband t...
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Coward in Love
1966
Three Thieves
5.5/2
Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals f...
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Three Thieves
1959
The Surprises Motel
0/0
Two youths open an office for secret police work. A man in the office asks him to look for a dog that his mistress has gone out and lost, while he is...
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The Surprises Motel
1955
Flesh
0/0
A weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of being rich by her daughter after working in a nightclub....
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Flesh
1959
Kiss Me in the Dark
0/0
Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. L...
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Kiss Me in the Dark
1957
Nisaa Fi Hayaty
0/0
Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, he meets with Tuha, a girl he saw growing up in his...
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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
1966
Huwa wa el nessaa
0/0
Alawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand the nature of his profession, and seems very jealous o...
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Huwa wa el nessaa
1972
The Greatest Kid in the World
0/0
Fathi is a university doctor in Beirut University, and his wife, Samia, is a TV presenter who is surprised by the arrival of Matilda, the daughter of...
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The Greatest Kid in the World
1959
Bufakkar filli nassini
0/0
Laila is a good girl and loves the engineer Hossam, and he wants to submit to her, but her family refuse to marry them before she marries her older si...
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Bufakkar filli nassini
1965
The Nun
0/0
Hoda and her sister live in Mount Lebanon, where they have a rest on the road, and through the tourist delegations that come to the place, they get to...
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The Nun
طريق الأبطال
0/0
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طريق الأبطال
1958
The Charmer
5/1
An impostor recently got out of prison only to get back into crime life as he embezzles women by deceiving them with black magic.
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The Charmer
1958
The Big Brother
0/0
While Awad's family believes him to be an honorable man, Awad heads a drug-dealing gang. He tries to keep the balance between his family's image of hi...
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The Big Brother
1949
Owner of Few Piasters
0/0
The three sisters ,Siham, Nabila, Sannia inherit from their late uncle an amount of only five hundred pounds, which drives them to travel to Alexandri...
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Owner of Few Piasters
1967
El Khouroug Min El Guana
10/1
Mukhtar is a musically talented individual who is surrounded by bad friends who make him squander his talent. When he falls and marries Annan, she tri...
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El Khouroug Min El Guana
1966
The Single Husband
0/0
Ashour is a polygamist who marries for the tenth time the widow, Azhar, which angers his other wives. As he prepares to take yet another wife called R...
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The Single Husband
1952
El Dam Yehen
0/0
"Salwa" (Dariya Ahmad) is a young girl who lives with her father millionaire "Abdul Rahman Shukri" (Hussein Riyad), his wife "Suad" (Mimi Shakib) and...
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El Dam Yehen
1973
Desire and Loss
0/0
Abdullah, a car driver, is accused in the murder of the thug Magdy and a friend of the Ghanaian Nawal. This criminal escapes after he tried to defend...
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Desire and Loss
1953
اللقاء الأخير
0/0
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اللقاء الأخير
1954
Banat Hawaa
0/0
Wahid young painter. He is on his way to participate in his new painting exhibition, shocked by a car and insisting on a drawing by Madiha Yousri, the...
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Banat Hawaa
1954
الناس مقامات
0/0
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الناس مقامات
1966
Shayateen El Leyl
0/0
Atwa takes care of his little brother until he completes his education. Atwa works in a factory and has physical strength, which he exploits by workin...
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Shayateen El Leyl
1966
Sayed Darwish
0/0
A biography about the iconic singer and composer Sayed Darwish, from his childhood in Alexandria until his sudden death on the day Saad Zaghloul retur...
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Sayed Darwish
1960
Men in the Storm
0/0
Radwan is a widower who works in the railway quarry warehouse in Suez. The thief Selim comes to rob him one day but finds nothing to steal. Selim's mi...
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Men in the Storm
1958
Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital
7.7/3
The film's story is about his bait and her father, who borrows from the neighborhood teachers who want to marry him and promises everyone who lends hi...
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Ismail Yassine in the Mental Hospital
1953
Love In The Darkness
0/0
Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal brother and his mother, his brother steals a sum of money...
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Love In The Darkness
1969
Sweet Aziza
0/0
Aziza is a beautiful dancer from Mansoura, after she rejects the mayor's son who loves her, he deforms her face. She travels to Cairo and runs a cabar...
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Sweet Aziza
1971
My Beautiful Teacher
0/0
Nadia moves to a secondary school for boys to teach in Cairo. But the students are not letting her do her job, until an incident happens.
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My Beautiful Teacher
1955
Love Crime
0/0
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Love Crime
1954
Victory of Love
0/0
The events revolve around the young engineer, Hussein, who suffers from the mad jealousy of his wife and is accused of a murder he had nothing to do w...
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Victory of Love
1966
Tofahet Adam
0/0
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Tofahet Adam
1979
My Life is Hell
0/0
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My Life is Hell
1953
طريق السعادة
0/0
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طريق السعادة
1966
رجل وامرأتان
0/0
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رجل وامرأتان
1961
ست البنات
0/0
Mounira (Hend Rostom) thinks that she found the man of her dreams when she marries Khairy (Roshdy Abaza). She then discovers that he rents a place whe...
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ست البنات
1954
Love letter
0/0
On the wedding night of the girl he raised, the singer (Wahid) recalls memories of his love for her mother, whom he loved at the beginning of his life...
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Love letter
1954
Women Can’t Lie
7.8/4
A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him t...
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Women Can’t Lie
1957
Lovers of the Night
0/0
After his wife cheats on him with his friend, a husband seeks solace in a nightclub where a dancer and an alcoholic friend try to console him. When th...
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Lovers of the Night
1958
Alhabu alsaamat
0/0
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Alhabu alsaamat
1957
El hub el azim
0/0
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El hub el azim
1963
Woman on the Margin
0/0
A famous actress retires and marries a rich man a customary marriage. Then his family forces him to divorce her. He waits till she gives birth and ste...
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Woman on the Margin
1961
المراهق الكبير
0/0
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المراهق الكبير
1960
رجل بلا قلب
0/0
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رجل بلا قلب
1958
Tuha
0/0
Master Toha had eleven ex-husbands, but she wants to marry Rashad the driver, who refuses to marry her. Toha attempts to pressure him through his sist...
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Tuha
2016
Like A Matchstick
7/1
A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the Egyptian cinema in its golden age. The main story is based on...
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Like A Matchstick
1975
The Meek
0/0
Hamdi Hassan is a well-known journalist, admired by a crippled girl named Noha, who was injured in a traffic accident and loves reading. She talks to...
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The Meek
1952
The Victory of Islam
0/0
Directed by Ahmed El Touki.
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The Victory of Islam
1960
Boundless Love
0/0
When Magdy writes an article about the pianist Nousa, his colleague Sherine grows jealous and claims that Nousa is not real and that Magdy invented he...
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Boundless Love
1965
the eternal love
0/0
The film is about a couple who live in a popular area and have a son, the husband works in smuggling contraband and encourages his son to walk this ro...
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the eternal love
1959
الحب الأخير
0/0
The manager of the Childhood Association gets to know Samira, who provides aid for good, She uses her apartment as a meeting place for friends and is...
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الحب الأخير
1949
The Flirtation of Girls
7.3/11
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 p...
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The Flirtation of Girls
1958
عواطف
0/0
Awatif's mother works as the head of a women's association to help the poor. Awatif accidentally finds a letter that shows that she had an illegitimat...
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عواطف
1957
صراع مع الحياة
0/0
Escaping his father's cruelty and indifference, Magdy leaves the house on a rainy night and a nightclub owner hits him with her car.
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