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1. Death on the Nile (2022)

PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.3
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52 Metascore

While on vacation on the Nile, Hercule Poirot must investigate the murder of a young heiress.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Brand

Votes: 189,007 | Gross: $45.63M

2. Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

6.0
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52 Metascore

The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver

Votes: 179,387 | Gross: $65.01M

3. Alexander (2004)

R | 175 min | Action, Biography, Drama

5.6
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40 Metascore

Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest army leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie

Votes: 176,767 | Gross: $34.30M

4. Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

PG | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

6.7
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Asterix and Obelix go to Egypt to help architect Edifis who is building a palace for Cleopatra.

Director: Alain Chabat | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci

Votes: 57,914 | Gross: $3.12M

5. Death on the Nile (1978)

PG | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.2
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59 Metascore

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale, Jane Birkin

Votes: 39,890

6. Khartoum (1966)

Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

6.8
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In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier).

Directors: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon | Stars: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson

Votes: 8,279 | Gross: $6.54M

7. Moses (1995–1996)

180 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime

6.7
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Pharaoh Ramses II decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket on the Nile by his mother, is picked up by a princess and raised as the brother of the heir to the throne of Egypt.

Stars: Ben Kingsley, Frank Langella, David Suchet, Christopher Lee

Votes: 2,323

8. Mountains of the Moon (1990)

R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, History

7.1
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The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw

Votes: 4,258 | Gross: $4.01M

9. Cairo Time (2009)

PG | 90 min | Drama, Romance

6.6
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67 Metascore

A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.

Director: Ruba Nadda | Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya, Amina Annabi

Votes: 6,833 | Gross: $1.60M

10. The Four Feathers (1939)

Passed | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

7.4
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A British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.

Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez

Votes: 6,595

11. Sphinx (1981)

PG | 118 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

5.1
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Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet, John Gielgud

Votes: 1,731 | Gross: $2.02M

12. The Land (1970)

130 min | Drama

8.0
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A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed

Votes: 2,458

13. The Treasure (2017)

157 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

6.9
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The 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Hind Sabri, Amina Khalil, Mohamad Ramadan, Salma Elshimy

Votes: 2,129

14. Journey to Mecca (2009)

45 min | Drama, History

7.3
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One of the greatest travellers in human history, twenty-one-year-old law student Ibn Battutah set out alone to Mecca from Tangiers in 1325 and returned to Morocco almost thirty years later.... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Neibaur | Stars: Chems-Eddine Zinoune, Hassam Ghancy, Essam Edriss, Nabil Elouahabi

Votes: 568

15. Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981)

R | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

6.0
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The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

Director: Sharad Patel | Stars: Joseph Olita, Thomas Baptiste, Leonard Trolley, Geoffrey Keen

Votes: 496

16. The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)

100 min | Drama, History

6.5
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The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Paul Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kühne

Votes: 662

17. Chandu the Magician (1932)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

6.2
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When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.

Directors: William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Mundin

Votes: 1,141

18. Shocking Africa (1982)

Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary

5.1
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A look at the fast disappearing tribal customs of North Africa.

Directors: Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni | Star: Kenneth Belton

Votes: 130

19. Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)

Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

7.1
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A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.

Directors: Ward Kimball, Charles Nichols | Stars: The Mellowmen Quartet, Loulie Jean Norman, Charlie Parlota, Bill Thompson

Votes: 1,556

20. Pole to Pole (1992– )

50 min | Adventure, Documentary

8.4
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Michael Palin undertakes a journey by the most direct route possible with the most land to cross from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Stars: Michael Palin, Neil Hardwick, Lasse Lehtinen, Graham Hancock

Votes: 1,430

21. Thartharah fawq el-Nil (1971)

115 min | Drama

7.7
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Set 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.

Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Magda El-Khatib, Adel Adham, Ahmed Al Jaziri, Fathiya Ali

Votes: 772

22. Adieu Bonaparte (1985)

115 min | Drama, History, War

6.2
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A story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradition and modernization in the context of fighting the French invaders.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Salah Zulfikar, Mohsen Mohieddin, Patrice Chéreau

Votes: 382

23. L'étoile du Nord (1982)

PG | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.5
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In 1934, a mysterious Frenchman returns to Europe from Egypt.

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon, Julie Jézéquel

Votes: 608

24. Sleepless (1957)

127 min | Drama, Romance

7.3
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Teenage 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.

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Yehia Chahine, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif

Votes: 471

25. Rameses: Wrath of God or Man? (2004 TV Movie)

100 min | Documentary, History

5.0
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This documentary examines what historians know about the Bible's Old Testament account of the Plague of the Firstborn and about Egypt's Pharaoh, Rameses. Egyptologists discuss whether the ... See full summary »

Directors: Mark Aldridge, Tom Pollock | Stars: Daz Crawford, Morgan Freeman, Claudia Lynx

Votes: 80

26. Ra: Path of the Sun God (1990)

72 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

7.6
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The first part of the film is given over to the Egyptian Genesis. The Egyptians had many gods and goddesses and creation myths. Ra brings these myths together in a single version and ... See full summary »

Directors: Lesley Keen, Ishu Patel | Stars: Tamara Kennedy, Michael MacKenzie

Votes: 138

27. The Barbarian (1933)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

5.8
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An American tourist catches the eye of a disguised Egyptian prince who decides to kidnap her, then try to win her love.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Myrna Loy, Reginald Denny, Louise Closser Hale

Votes: 650

28. Joanna Lumley's Nile (2010)

Documentary

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In search of the actual source of the Nile

Stars: Joanna Lumley, Ramy Romany

Votes: 278

29. Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (1978 TV Movie)

22 min

8.4
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Featurette documenting the making of the film "Death On The Nile".

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Jane Birkin, John Brabourne, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis

Votes: 182

30. Flight of the Lost Balloon (1961)

91 min | Adventure

4.6
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A professor is hired to navigate across Africa in a hot-air balloon to rescue a lost explorer, but a mysterious local villain named "Hindu" commandeers the balloon for his own nefarious purposes.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Mala Powers, Marshall Thompson, James Lanphier, Douglas Kennedy

Votes: 176

31. Really Rosie (1975 TV Movie)

27 min | Animation, Family, Musical

8.0
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Rosie entertains the neighborhood kids, by telling an exaggerated movie version of her life.

Director: Maurice Sendak | Stars: Carole King, Dale Soules, Alice Playten, Baillie Gerstein

Votes: 172

32. Mumya Firarda (2002)

105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

2.2
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A villain plots to steal the mummy of Ramses IV by kidnapping archaeologist Yahya.

Director: Erdal Murat Aktas | Stars: Selami Sahin, Teoman, Nurgül Yesilçay, Tarik Papuççuoglu

Votes: 827

33. The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1913)

77 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

6.3
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Episode 2: "Zingo and the White Elephant" Zingo and his wife, Sari, who are returning from their adventures in Mexico, when Zingo learns from his newspaper that the Royal Elephant of Siam ... See full synopsis »

Directors: Marcel Perez, Luigi Maggi | Stars: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Alfredo Bertone, Filippo Castamagna

Votes: 216

34. One Day, the Nile (1972)

105 min | Drama

6.5
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About the friendship of the Soviet people and Arabs working to build the gigantic Aswan Dam.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Zulfikar, Suad Husni, Imad Hamdi, Igor Vladimirov

Votes: 106

35. The Dream Is Alive (1985)

Not Rated | 37 min | Documentary, Short

7.6
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Traveling on the Space Shuttle, covers training, launch, flight, deployment of LDEF from Challenger in April 1984 (STS-41C).

Director: Graeme Ferguson | Stars: Walter Cronkite, David Leestma, George Nelson, Sally Ride

Votes: 513

36. The Camels Are Coming (1934)

Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy

5.6
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A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.

Directors: Tim Whelan, Robert Stevenson | Stars: Jack Hulbert, Anna Lee, Hartley Power, Harold Huth

Votes: 126

37. Death: The Ultimate Mystery (1975)

97 min | Documentary

4.8
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An examination of reincarnation, regression, and other life-after-death subjects.

Directors: Robert Emenegger, Allan Sandler | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Gloria Prince, Don Felipe, Harry G. Armstrong

Votes: 23

38. Prehistoric Perils (1951)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Action

7.2
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Mighty Mouse encounters a Time Machine while trying to save pure-hearted Pearl Pureheart from the unwanted advances and clutches of the evil oily-villain, Oil Can Harry. After brief stops ... See full summary »

Director: Connie Rasinski | Stars: Roy Halee, Tom Morrison

Votes: 70

39. Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)

Approved | 59 min | Adventure, Mystery

5.7
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Jewel smugglers in Cairo try to pin their crimes on a kidnapped baron.

Director: László Kardos | Stars: Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan, George Zucco

Votes: 68

40. Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World (2003)

Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary

7.2
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Documentary presenting the realities of coming out in lesser developed countries.

Director: John Scagliotti | Stars: Janeane Garofalo, Maher Sabry

Votes: 164

41. Nefertiti Resurrected (2003 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary

6.6
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Dr. Joann Fletchers, an Egyptologist finds three abandoned mummies in a tomb in the Valley Of Kings. She thinks the third mummy is the forgotten legend, once the most powerful woman on ... See full summary »

Director: Matthew Wortman | Stars: Tamara Tunie, Joann Fletcher, Jason Yates

Votes: 130

42. Undersea Treasures: Napoleon's Lost Fleet (1999 TV Movie)

Unrated | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, History

6.4
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Exploring the history and adventures of Napoleon Bonaparte in the lead up to and Napoleon's actual Battle of the Nile, where most of the French fleet was destroyed by Great Britain's greatest admiral, Horatio Nelson, in 1798.

Director: Christopher Rowley | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Franck Goddio, Eric Wartenweiler Smith, Brian Lavery

Votes: 12

43. Believe It or Not (Second Series) #1 (1931)

8 min | Documentary, Short

5.7
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This first entry in the second "Believe It Or Not" series of shorts visits northern Africa. Included are a look at the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, a waterfall whose under-surface ... See full summary »

Star: Robert L. Ripley

Votes: 71

44. Nubien - Wada Halfi, byen der ikke ville dø (1973 TV Movie)

55 min | Documentary, History

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In 1963 whole villages in Sudan (Nubia at the time) were asked by the government to move and give way for the evergrowing Nile. As 55,000 people from the city of Wada Halfi much against ... See full summary »

Stars: Rostislav Holthoer, Evelyn Oldenburg, Bjørn Myhre, Ole Vagn Nielsen

45. Inside the Perfect Predator (2010 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

7.5
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Four top predators are compared, each champion in a type of environment, with key adaptations. On the ground, the cheetah outruns prey (approached in masterly stealth) and enemies. In the ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Brownlow

Votes: 35

46. Men de reddede templerne (1973 TV Movie)

51 min | Documentary, History

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An archeological rescue mission in Aswan, Sudan (Nubia at the time). As the Nile grew ever higher in 1963 a team of Scandinavian archeologists raced against time to save thousands of ... See full summary »

Director: Piet van Deurs | Stars: Piet van Deurs, Rostislav Holthoer, Säve-Söderberg, Negm-El-Din Sherif

47. Nubien - sidste tog fra Debeira (1973 TV Movie)

51 min | Documentary, History

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In 1963 whole villages in Sudan (Nubia at the time) were asked by the government to move and give way for the evergrowing Nile. As the local people much against their will packed their ... See full summary »

Stars: Piet van Deurs, Lennart Ehrenborg, Rostislav Holthoer, Negm-El-Din Sherif

48. Assignment: Blue Nile (2000 TV Movie)

25 min | Documentary

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A profile of National Geographic Photographer Nevada Weir during a five-week first descent of Ethiopia's Blue Nile Gorge.

Director: Michael Davie

49. Deir Abu Henniksen naisia (1985)

24 min | Documentary, Short

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Add a Plot

Directors: Heikki Partanen, Riitta Rautoma

50. Toshi wo totta wani (2005)

Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

6.7
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A very old crocodile is shunned by his family after eating one of them.

Director: Kôji Yamamura | Star: Peter Barakan

Votes: 271



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