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- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahYehia ChahineMaryam FakhruddinTeenage Nadia is raised by her father after her mother's death. Returning home from boarding school, her father has re-married. Jealous Nadia decides to get rid of the competition of a stepmother by accusing her of sleeping with her uncle.Salah Abouseif. Hammama, Fakhrudin, Sharif, Rostom. Not ranked. Sydeny Levine.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsSalah QabilAli El SherifMahmoud Al MelejiSet shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.Youssef Cahine. Fakhruddin. Not Ranked. Sydeny Levine.
- DirectorMuhammad KarimStarsImad HamdiMaryam FakhruddinAbdulwareth AsarFakhruddin. Striking and centerpiece of movie. On Youtube. Not Ranked.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabSalah AbouseifEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsAbdel Halim HafezSuad HusniMaryam FakhruddinThree different stories that share the same summer vibes and the beach view.Salah Aboseif. Hosni, Fakhruddin, Hafez.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsRushdi AbazahZaki RostomNagwa Fouad"Shawkat" and "Samira" a couple has a daughter at the age of 5 years, living together in a happy.One day thieves seeking to steal their money and jewelry inside the Treasury, and while trying to open the Treasury the child "Sawsan" saw them,so the thieves took her as a hostage,the boss El-Shahat (Zaki Rostom) decides to demand a ransom from her parents about 110 thousand pounds."Sawsan" lives with two of the gang who are Ezzat (Rushdi Abaza) and Ghairia (Nagwa Fouad), who live in the city of Alexandria, and in spite of their being part of the gang but they Sympathize with the girl.Sydeny Levine. Fakhruddin. Thriller.
- DirectorMahmoud ZulfikarStarsMaryam FakhruddinShukri SarhanSamira AhmedThe film revolves around Hamdi (Shukri Sarhan), who recently married Nadyah, the daughter of his aunt (Maryam Fakhruddin). He faces a problem in his new job, which requires that job occupants to be single. He falls in great trouble between having to keep his marriage secret, and dealing with the growing interest of Layla (Samirah Ahmad), daughter of company's director. Sulayman, his colleague at work, tries to help him solve this problem.Fakhruddin. Not Ranked.
- DirectorMahmoud ZulfikarStarsSabahSalah ZulfikarAhmad MazharA rich man who have two daughters one of his daughters married to poor man and he didn't approve that marriage then he broke and stay without any money so his daughter and her husband helped him through his friend when he find out he refused and decided to start working
- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsMaryam FakhruddinShukri SarhanSalah ZulfikarCircumstance Egypt before military coup 1952 .#13. Fakhruddin.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFarid ShawqiTahiyyah KaryukaZaki RostomA fresh man came from outskirt to Cairo to look for work ; He meets a tycoon and creates a struggle between them .
- DirectorSalah AbouseifAhmad El-SabawiAmin Yousseff GhurabStarsTahiyyah KaryukaShukri SarhanShadiaA young man from the country arrives in Cairo to finish his education. His landlady, a widow and successful businesswoman in the quarter of the Citadel, seduces him. Although she teaches him much about life she also makes him forget his obligations to his family, his studies, even his religion. When he tries to put her aside she attempts to force him to give up everything in which he believes.Salah Abouseif. Shadia, Sarhan. #6.
- DirectorKhairy BesharaStarsSherihanFardous Abdel HamidAhmed AbdelazizBased on a novel by Yahia Al Tahir Abdulla, the film focuses on Hazina (Fardous Abdel Hamid), who lives in Karnak, Luxor, with her paralyzed husband (Ezzat El Alaili), her daughter and granddaughter (both played by Sherihan). The family desperately awaits the return of the son (also played by Ezzat El Alaili) from Sudan. Hazina, her daughter, and granddaughter contend with the daily injustices and discrimination of their patriarchal, misogynist society. One marries a sexually impotent man, while the other falls pregnant out of wed-lock, incurring the wrath of her uncle, who kills her.Sherihan. Not Ranked.
- DirectorAnwar WagdiStarsNagib El-RihaniLaila MouradAnwar WagdiIn this classic musical, poor old Hamam, a modest arabic teacher, falls in love with the young and beautiful Laila, his aristocratic pupil. Soon, he must decide between his unrealistic feelings or sacrificing his love for her own good.#9. Lieila Murad, Moahmmad Abdel-Wahab.
- 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.#7. Salah Abouseif. Sharif.
- 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.The Tough. #10. Hammama.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsSharif AbdulhamidAaliyah AbdulmoneimNimat AbdulnaserHassan is a bus driver and the only male sibling of five sisters, his father owns a workshop that got suspended due to taxes problems. Hassan tries to provide money before the workshop is sold on the auction.#8. Cool plot.
- DirectorMahmoud ZulfikarStarsShukri SarhanMaryam FakhruddinAbdulwareth AsarSydeny Levine. Fakhruddin.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsMervat AminAhmed ZakiAbdel Halim HafezWhen Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
- DirectorMahmoud ZulfikarStarsShadiaImad HamdiKamal El-ShinnawiAn adaptation of Alexandre Bisson's famous play "Madame X", "El Murra el maghoula" is the story of Fatima (Shadia), a working class performer who marries the rich Dr. Ahmed (Emad Hamdi). Together, they have a son, Samir, who Fatima loves more than life itself. However, she falls prey to a blackmailing thug Abbas (Kamal El Shenawy) and is falsely arrested. Dr Ahmed divorces Fatima (seeing her as a shame to the family) and bans her from seeing her son, thus setting in motion Fatima's descent into a life of hardship and misery.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahAhmed RamzyAqilah RatebA tale of love, grief and hope set in the city of Port-said between a young woman and her lover who works in the sea.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsMagda El-KhatibAdel AdhamAhmed Al JaziriSet against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
- DirectorSamir A. KhouriStarsNahed YousriHussein FahmyAdel AdhamIn the depths of loneliness and despair, beautiful Aida visits her "tailor," Victoria, a woman who runs a sensual house where erotic fantasies are fulfilled. After satisfying her desires in the arms of one of Victoria's young men, Aida has a haunting nightmare where she envisions herself as a witch who, during a full moon, has the power to destroy her lovers' sensitivity. This disturbing dream sends Aida into a downward spiral of self-destruction. When Aida finally loses her will to live and all hope for salvation, she longs to purify herself and find forgiveness for her sins. Reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and the stylishly erotic films of Radley Metzger, The Lady of the Black Moons emerged from an era of relaxed censorship in Egypt.
- DirectorSherif ArafaSherif ArafaYehia HassaneinStarsAdel EmamYoussraKamal El-ShinnawiA family man frustrated by bureaucracies of Egyptian public system as well as difficulties of life finds himself inadvertently accused of terrorism.
- DirectorAsmaa El-BakryStarsSalah El-SaadanyMahmood El-GindiAbdulaziz MakhyoonThe setting is Cairo in June of 1945, during the last days of the Second World War. Gohar, a former university professor, encounters a young prostitute in an empty brothel and kills her in a moment of insanity. Assigned to the murder case, police inspector Nour El-Din stays on Gohar's trail hoping for a confrontation and confession of the crime. In this remarkable adaptation of the novel by Albert Cossery, both the detective and the criminal are faces with startling realizations as one closes in on the other.
- 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.
- DirectorTamer AshryStarsMahmoud HemidaShereen RedaFarah YusufWhen a retired old man in Cairo begins to learn about the extinction of dinosaurs, it sets off a series of events that will give his life renewed meaning.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsHind SabriMohamad RamadanKhaled El-SawiThe events revolve around four eras, namely the Pharaonic and Abbasid era and the Kingdom era. The events revolve around corruption and the level of some clerics through the ages on power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions, especially that there are clerics who deliberately Coloring and counterfeiting at this time in order to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsYasmin RaeisHany AdelSalwa KhattabHayam is a factory worker living in a lower-middle-class area with other factory girls. She thinks that her feelings for the new factory supervisor can grow in spite of the class differences between them--and he has feelings for her too--but cruel reality intervenes when a pregnancy test is found in the factory, and because she never hid her feelings, everybody--even her family and close friends--accuses her of being a sinner. The factory girl does not want to defend herself, so she pays a big price dealing with a society that does not accept proud women.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsOmar SharifEzzat El AlailiSafia El EmariThe mayor have many sons, the youngest of his sons for military service are required, but it is looking for different ways to not send his son to perform his duty, he makes a deal with a simple peasant that sends his only son (Masry) instead of his son in exchange for Kiratin of the earth ... Complicated film events after winning the mayor's issue of the land lifted against the territory's interest, and that is a judicial issue a necessity because the peasants of their land being cleared become mayor by virtue of the judge. One of whom shall rigging Alathiatat personal citizen "Egyptian" and after paying bribes. The end is very sad, in "Egyptian" die during military service, and he knows that his father "Ezzat Alayli" which influenced deeply affected by his death and regret sending the army to serve anywhere son of the mayor for money. The film also shows the meaning of friendship among members of the general community and the companions of arms, especially in the Egyptian army in 1973.
- DirectorTewfik SalehStarsMohamed Kheir-HalouaniAbdul Rahman Al RashiBassan Lofti Abou-GhazalaThree men, stranded in Iraq, illegally cross the Syrian border to seek work in Kuwait, aided by a water-truck driver.
- DirectorOmar AmiralayA look at the Baath party's project to construct a system of dams.
- DirectorOmar AmiralayA documentary about the impact of newly introduced political reforms on a rural village in Syria - a place plagued with tribalism, ignorance and evil.
- DirectorMohamed AminStarsBasmaAhmed EidIhsan El-QalaawiAfter gulf war 2003 old man was afraid of Egypt to get involved in next war and he was thinking how to have new weapon to protect his family
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsOussama NadirMohsen MohieddinNour El-SherifIn the middle of his own heart surgery, an Egyptian filmmaker remembers his life. In fact his old self, as a child, is accused of the attempted murder of his new self. Through the metaphoric trial, we are drawn into his life in relation to the Egyptian revolution, his constant need for success, and the effect the American Dream has on him.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKal NagaYousra El LozyHanan Motawie8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud YassineFarid ShawqiA story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.
- DirectorHala KhalilStarsHanan TurkHind SabriMenna ShalabiA personal tragedy brings a woman closer to a handful of trusted friends in this independent drama. Salma (Hanan Turk) is a middle-aged woman who has achieved success in her profession but is still searching for contentment in her personal life. After her mother unexpectedly dies, Salma is sent into an emotional tailspin, and while her stepfather (Samie Al-Adel) tries to help by letting her move into his home, nothing seem to make her feel better. One day, Salma receives the first in a series of anonymous gifts and letters from someone who appears to know her, though she has no idea who they might be. As Salma sorts through a handful of male admirers in hopes of uncovering the identity of her new benefactor, she is reunited with two close friends from her days at school, Yusriyah (Hend Sabri) and Doha (Menna Shalabi), who commiserate with her as they share their own difficult life events. Ahla al Awqat (aka The Best of Times) was the first feature from writer and director Hala Khalil, and was screened as part of the 2005 San Francisco Arab Film Festival.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsYoussraYoussef ChahineHussein FahmyDuring a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Yehia, a famous Egyptian director, finds himself obsessed with Amir, the leading man in one of his movies, and Nadia, a woman he desires to work with.
- DirectorKhaled YoussefStarsYoussraHanan TurkHani SalamaThis 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 stress disorder, left his family behind. Ten years later, Hoda has raised her two sons, Aly (Mohamed Nagati) and Nagy (Hani Salama), to young adulthood, and has declined to remarry, despite the presence of her supportive boyfriend Mahmoud (Hisham Selim). Nagy has fallen in love with Hayat (Hanan Turk), a student and political activist from a wealthy family, but her parents don't want her to marry a man without a fortune of his own. As Nagy tries to save enough money to convince Hayat's family he's a worthy husband, Aly decides to help by getting a job to make more money for the family; however, work is hard to come by in Egypt, so he moves to Iraq to take a position there. Once Aly has settled into his new life in Iraq, the war in the Gulf breaks out, and the two brothers discover to their horror that they're fighting in opposing armies -- Aly comes home to swear allegiance to Egypt and join their forces, while Nagy, under the influence of Hayat, has thrown his support behind Iraq. La Tempete, aka Al Assifa received its American premiere at the 2001 San Francisco Film Festival
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsYorgo VoyagisMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaLeila ShennaA meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830
- 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.
- DirectorTony FarjallahStarsCarmen BsaibesMounir MaasriGhassan MassoudThe year is 620 A.D., North Lebanon. Living with God is men's privilege and the most unreachable women's right. Stubborn as she is, the 20 year-old revolutionary girl breaks the rules and endures all the consequences.
- DirectorTarik SalehStarsFares FaresMari MalekYasser Ali MaherA maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don't want the case solved.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFarid El-AtrashLobna Abdel AzizAminah RizqIts love / classical / musical about a girl who lives across a famous singer and her mother force her to travel to another city which the girl doesnt want to do as she doesnt want to live away from the famous singer.... many incidents happen and she sends him an annonymous love letter ... Till he decides to go to see who that girl is..