Samara () also known as Samarah, is a 1956 Egyptian musical action drama film, by director Hasan El-Saifi. Starring in the film is

Taheyya Kariokka Taheyya Kariokka ( ar, تحية كاريوكا) also Tahiya Carioca (born Badaweya Mohamed Kareem Ali Elnedany), (February 22, 1915 – September 20, 1999) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. Early life Born in the Egyptia ...

, Mahmoud Ismail, Muhsen Sarhan, Mohamed El Sebai, and Mahmoud Al Meleji. The plot of the film is about love and crime. A drug smuggler named Sultan (Mahmoud Ismail) fulls in love with a dancer named Samarah (

), and she has no family. He marries her and she starts to work with him and his gang in the drug trade. One of the people in the gang is arrested by the police, causing a disruption for the remaining gang members. It is one of the films listed on the

Bibliotheca Alexandrina's 100 Greatest Egyptian Films The Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s 100 Greatest Egyptian Films is a list compiled in November 2006 by a committee formed by Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which includes Ahmed El Hadari as the committee head, with the membership of Samir Farid and Kamal R ...

(2006).

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* 1956 films Egyptian musical drama films 1950s Arabic-language films Films about the illegal drug trade Egyptian action drama films {{Egypt-film-stub