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- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsAbdel Halim HafezSabahHusain ReyadhA poor graduated singer struggling to get his chance, disguises into an old music teacher to work in a girl's school. A bet is launched between two of the leading students to trap this teacher into their affection.
- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsSabahRushdi AbazahSamia GamalEsmat Kazem (Rushdy Abaza) runs a smuggling operation between Egypt and Lebanon, using his cabaret in Cairo as a front. Ibrahim, the smuggling ring's operative in Beirut, is murdered over a dispute with Esmat. The police relay the news of the murder to Ibrahim's sister Lamia (Sabah), a former singer at Esmat's cabaret and an old flame of Esmat's. When she learns of her brother's death, she decides to avenge her brother's murder by co-operating with the police and bringing down Esmat's smuggling ring.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMaryam FakhruddinOmar SharifTawfik El DekenIn a tribal society, governor Zaid decides to raise taxes on the people, and sends his men to kidnap women, and with time his strength increase, up to the tribe of Bani Mazen, he kills a young man from the tribe at the hands of his men, prompting a friend to take revenge on the tyrant, Essam hides his face, and riding his horse, and hunt those man, Essam was able to save the pretty girl Dalal after being kidnapped by the men of the tyrant. The girl fell in love with him, and try to reveal him, the tyrant brought him to his castle and discovered his secret in the palace, but Essam escape from the palace, and gathered an army of knights to attack the castle, the army was able to win the fight, Essam took the governance and married Dalal.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsDalidaMohsen MohieddinShouweikar1947 Cairo. Washerwoman Lavandiere dreams of escaping reality through movies. A charming organ grinder offers excitement, but a cholera outbreak threatens her son. Desperate, she fights to save him.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsOmar SharifSuad HusniYoussef WahbiA father invents a lurid past for his awkward young nephew to present him as an exciting suitor for his daughter.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsOmar SharifZubida TharwatRushdi AbazahBased in British occupied Egypt, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a member of the resistance, seeks refuge in the house of a politically passive family after killing the prime minister for his acts of treason.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsIsmail YassinHind RustumAhmed RamzyTwo undercover police officers on secret mission the have to play as fishermen to catch the dealers that hide drugs in fish, but during the mission they fall in love with the two sisters of boat's captain.
- 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.
- DirectorNader GalalStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineMagdy WahbaSewer worker Saber meets the pickpocket Bedour who decides to repent. He tells the people of alley that she's his cousin and resides in the house of Master Noussa.
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineGhassan MatarAmin is a security guard in one of the knitting factories, guarding the facility with honesty and strictness, but one day he finds himself in front of Yasmina who works in the factory and falls in love with her.
- DirectorRida MyassarHasan RamziStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineSoheir El-BablyAhmed and Huda fall in love and they decide to marry but Ahmed's scholarship to go to another country to study for PhD arrives and in order for them to get marry they wait for her father to give his permission for them to marry but her father suffers a bankruptcy and dies. Huda suffers a lot after the death of her father, but she gets happy when she learns that Ahmed is coming back, unfortunately the plane that Ahmed supposedly was on crashes but Huda doesn't know that Ahmed wasn't on it, her friend Daolat suggests that they leave for Lebanon to have get of the bad mood, over there she tries to make Huda prostitute and Huda falls for the trap and starts selling her body but she is determined to take revenge on Daolat and she does when they return to Egypt. Huda learns that Ahmed is still alive but the feel of guilt pushes her to kill herself.
- DirectorAshraf FahmyStarsMahmoud YassineNaglaa FathiNabila Ebeida bitter divorce between a well educated young woman and an illiterate rich man,but her ungratefulness makes her revisit the past and what he did for her sake to end her poverty despite the gap in their education status.
- DirectorHoussam El-Din MustafaStarsMohamed Abu HashishFarouk Al-FishawyNadia El GendyIt tells stories of webs of drug dealing,rivalry,revenge and murder among the residents of al batneyya,a place so corrupt and well bonded among each other,even the police struggles with it.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineZizi El BadrawyTwo university students fall in love on campus and inform their parents that they want to get married. This decision makes the parents immediately very happy but when they find out who the parents of their future son- or daughter-in-law are, they get horrified. It turns out that these young lovers are much more connected than they had realized, and the question arises whether they might even be related.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsMahmoud YassineMadiha KamelGamil Ratib"Climbing to the Bottom" was based on the true story of a spy named Heba Selim who worked for the Mossad along with her fiance where both of them provided the Israelis with Egypt's military secrets in the post-1967 war era. Saleh Morsi's adaptation of the real events was superb as viewers were able to understand the motives for the ambitious Abla Kamel to commit treason against her country in order to seek a better life in France. One of the most powerful lines in the film was mentioned by the Intelligence Officer (played by actor Mahmoud Yassine) who shows Abla - after her arrest at a Tunisian airport - an aerial view of the Pyramids and the Nile River as if he was giving her a lecture on the history of the country that she had betrayed.
- DirectorHoussam El-Din MustafaStarsMahmoud YassineNaglaa FathiNour El-SherifAn adaptation of "crime and punishement",a young educated man's descendance into madness and paranoia after commiting a crime,and finding confort in the company of kind hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.
- DirectorAhmed YehiaStarsMahmoud YassineNellySafia El EmariInass married Dr. Galal out of love and gave birth to their child Hisham, but she is also jealous of her husband's success, and feels suspicious of her husband and his colleague Laila, she decides to make his life hell, questioning his paternity for their son Hisham, Galal Collapses as a result of his wife's delirium, suffers a nervous shock that pushes him towards the abyss.
- DirectorHelmy RaflaSalah AbouseifKamal El-ShaikhStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassinePoussiA young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFarid ShawqiOmar SharifAminah RizqAfter the death of the father, the family consisting of a mother and two young men and a girl themselves without a breadwinner finds, to begin each of them in the direction to a different path, to err on the older brother (Hassan) to work drug, and graduated (Hussein) East of the Police College, while working (Nafisa) prostitution without the knowledge family, to hide them from the fate of many surprises.