Best Egyptian movies
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1. Al-bahths an Al-Sayyid Marzuq (1990)
85 min | Drama
Innocent and naive Youssef meets a multi-faceted personality millionaire called Sayyid Marzuq.
Director: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Stars: Hussein El Sherif, Athar El-Hakim, Nour El-Sherif, Ali Hassanein
Votes: 157
2. Messages from the Sea (2010)
133 min | Drama, Romance
A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
Director: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Stars: Asser Yassin, Basma, Mayy Kassab, Muhammad Lutfi
Votes: 1,831
3. Land of Fear (1999)
142 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mix between an honored police officer who fight the crimes and a drug dealer in the same person and a confliction in and out.
Director: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Farah, Hamdy Gheith, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra
Votes: 1,896
4. Kit Kat (1991)
129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship ... See full summary »
Director: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Stars: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad, Nagah El-Mogui
Votes: 2,691
5. Adieu Bonaparte (1985)
115 min | Drama, History, War
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
6. The Other (1999)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Egyptian director Youssef Chahine exposes the links between power and fanaticism and denounces intolerance in this bitter portrait of the Egyptian business world, where unconditional drive ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Nabila Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemida
Votes: 1,083
7. Destiny (1997)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Safia El Emari
Votes: 3,201
8. Alexandria: Again and Forever (1989)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
During 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.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Youssra, Youssef Chahine, Hussein Fahmy, Amr Abdulgalil
Votes: 803
9. Al-yawm al-Sadis (1986)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Cairo 1947: the cholera epidemic in full swing. The beautiful Lavandiere Saddika lives with her paralyzed husband and her little son Hassan in a basement. She dreams of Prince Charming and ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Dalida, Mohsen Mohieddin, Shouweikar, Hamdy Ahmed
Votes: 499
10. An Egyptian Story (1982)
TV-MA | 115 min | Drama
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Oussama Nadir, Mohsen Mohieddin, Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Mehrez
Votes: 1,299
11. Alexandria... Why? (1979)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
Yehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Naglaa Fathi, Ahmed Zaki, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 2,043
12. Return of the Prodigal Son (1978)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Freed after spending 12 years in jail, a man's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family expectations.
Directors: Youssef Chahine, Farouk Beloufa | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Huda Sultan, Shukri Sarhan, Soheir El-Morshidy
Votes: 956
13. The Sparrow (1972)
105 min | Drama
Set 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.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Qabil, Ali El Sherif, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Seif Abdelrahman
Votes: 393
14. Cairo Station (1958)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi
Votes: 5,355
15. Shabab emraa (1956)
126 min | Drama
A 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Salah Abouseif, Ahmad El-Sabawi, Amin Yousseff Ghurab | Stars: Tahiyyah Karyuka, Shukri Sarhan, Shadia, Abdulwareth Asar
Votes: 575
16. The Second Wife (1967)
105 min | Drama
A corrupt mayor, who rules the village's people with power and injustice, forces another poor man's wife secretly to marry him in order to have a child.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Suad Husni, Shukri Sarhan, Sanaa Gameel, Salah Mansour
Votes: 959
17. The Yacoubian Building (2006)
165 min | Drama
Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Essad Youniss
Votes: 7,240
18. I Love Cinema (2004)
R | 125 min | Drama, Comedy
A child who loves the cinema struggles with his fanatic dad who finds everything ,including cinema, a sin, with the help of his mother who is sexually depressed.
Director: Osama Fawzy | Stars: Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Menna Shalabi, Aida Abdel Aziz
Votes: 1,443
19. Cairo 678 (2010)
100 min | Drama
Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
Director: Mohamed Diab | Stars: Nilli Karim, Bushra, Maged El-Kidwani, Basem Samrah
Votes: 4,796
20. Umm el-Arusah (1963)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Husain is the head of a large Egyptian family, who has problems managing the cost of the marriage of his eldest daughter. He decides to take some amount from his financial trust in the ... See full summary »
Director: Atef Salem | Stars: Samira Ahmed, Imad Hamdi, Hasan Youssef, Madiha Salem
Votes: 533
21. Fi Baytena Ragul (1961)
159 min | Drama, History, Romance
Based 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.
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Omar Sharif, Zubida Tharwat, Rushdi Abazah, Zahrat El-Ula
Votes: 1,114
22. Kharag wa lam ya'ud (1984)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Escaping life in the big city of Cairo, to enjoy living in the countryside.
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Aida Abdel Aziz, Tawfik El Deken, Yehia El-Fakharany, Layla Olwi
Votes: 758
23. Between Heaven and Earth (1959)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
The film revolves around a group of people stuck in the elevator are waiting for the help, but they discovered that the group include a thief and a crazy man.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Hind Rustum, Abdulsalam El-Nabulsi, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 481
24. Sons of Rizk (2015)
103 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Four brothers committing crimes with a promise among them to stop someday. When a deal goes south, the older brother says it's enough, but the other three disagree and recklessly do business with a wanted crime lord.
Director: Tarek Alarian | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Amr Youssef, Ahmad El-Fishawi, Ahmed Dawood
Votes: 4,747
25. The Headmaster (2000)
120 min | Comedy
Salah eldin inherit administration of a school from his father, but he abusive its management due to his lack of experience.
Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Alaa Waley El Din, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Helmy, Muhammad Sad
Votes: 4,151
26. Can't Complain (2007)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Triplets Prince - Bebo - Semsem (Ahmed Helmy) are taking advantage of similarities between them and outwitted the people, till meet a psychiatrist crook Suleiman al-Halabi.
Director: Ahmad Nader Galal | Stars: Ahmed Helmy, Menna Shalabi, Khaled El-Sawi, Lotfy Labib
Votes: 4,569
27. The Terrorism and the Kebab (1992)
105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A family man frustrated by bureaucracies of Egyptian public system as well as difficulties of life finds himself inadvertently accused of terrorism.
Directors: Sherif Arafa, Sherif Arafa, Yehia Hassanein, Mohamed Yasine | Stars: Adel Emam, Youssra, Kamal El-Shinnawi, Ahmed Rateb
Votes: 3,294
28. Shafika and Metwali (1981)
125 min | Drama
Back in 1860s, in rural Egypt, where family, youth and prettiness struggle against money and power.
Director: Ali Badr Khan | Stars: Suad Husni, Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmad Mazhar
Votes: 307
29. Gharib fi Bayti (1982)
116 min | Comedy
A single mother and a football player from the countryside find themselves fighting over the same apartment after its deceitful owner gave them duplicate contracts.
Director: Samir Seif | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Suad Husni, Fayza Abduljawad, Neemaat Abdulnasser
Votes: 650
30. Fi shaket Masr El Gedeeda (2007)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Yehia (Khaled Abol Naga) rents an apartment in the Heliopolis suburb of Cairo away from his parents' & close to his Banking & stocks investment work company, to discover that the spirit or ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Ghadah Adel, Kal Naga, Aida Riyad, Youssef Dawood
Votes: 1,434
31. The Blue Elephant (2014)
Not Rated | 170 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
While trying to help an inmate at the mental hospital, a psychotherapist unravels mysteries he never thought existed.
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Karim Abdel Aziz, Khaled El-Sawi, Nilli Karim, Mohamed Mamdouh
Votes: 29,834
32. The Blazing Sun (1954)
TV-14 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom, Farid Shawqi
Votes: 1,558
33. Clash (2016)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Set entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power.
Director: Mohamed Diab | Stars: Nilli Karim, Hany Adel, Muhammad El-Sebai, Muhammad El-Suwisi
Votes: 6,188 | Gross: $0.02M
34. Ghroob Wa Shrooq (1970)
120 min | Drama, Romance
In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge on Madiha's father who pressured him to marry her to avoid a scandal.
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Salah Zulfikar, Suad Husni, Mimi Gamal, Rushdi Abazah
Votes: 214
35. The Nightingale's Prayer (1982)
107 min | Drama
Hassan 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.
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Sharif Abdulhamid, Aaliyah Abdulmoneim, Nimat Abdulnaser, Hamdi Al Wazir
Votes: 742
36. Yomeddine (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
Director: Abu Bakr Shawky | Stars: Rady Gamal, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Osama Abdallah, Adel Abdulsalam
Votes: 1,888 | Gross: $0.01M
37. Obedience alarm (1993)
A warning film by obedience has a romantic love story between a young man and a girl who can not get married because of the material circumstances. As well as other minor social events. ... See full summary »
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ashraf Abdel Baky, Ahmad Adam, Mahmoud Hemida, Layla Olwi
Votes: 66
38. The Mummy (1969)
102 min | Drama
An Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.
Director: Chadi Abdel Salam | Stars: Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi, Mohamed Abdel Rahman
Votes: 1,857
39. The Land (1970)
130 min | Drama
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: 2,453
40. Date Wine (1998)
110 min | Drama, Romance
This film is an exploration of what happens to places in general, and people in particular, once the menfolk abandon an Egyptian village to investigate the greener-grass on the proverbial '... See full summary »
Director: Radwan El-Kashef | Stars: Seif Abdelrahman, Manal Afifi, Hamdy Ahmed, Fayza Amasaib
Votes: 581
41. Lieah ya banafsieg (1993)
120 min | Drama
Director: Radwan El-Kashef | Stars: Farouk Al-Fishawy, Nagah El-Mogui, Hassan Hosny, Shawqy Shamekh
Votes: 101
42. Doa al karawan (1959)
109 min | Drama, Romance
This 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.
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq, Zahrat El-Ula
Votes: 1,970
43. El-Toq wa el-Iswerah (1986)
115 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Based 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Khairy Beshara | Stars: Sherihan, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Ahmed Abdelaziz, Samir Abdullatif
Votes: 189
44. The Beginning and the End (1960)
130 min | Drama
After 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Omar Sharif, Aminah Rizq, Amal Zayed
Votes: 691
45. The Wife of an Important Man (1987)
115 min | Drama
When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Mervat Amin, Ahmed Zaki, Abdel Halim Hafez, Zizi Mustafa
Votes: 1,791
46. El haram (1965)
105 min | Drama
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Zaki Rostom, Abdallah Gheith, Hassan el Baroudi
Votes: 602
47. Al-boustaguy (1968)
114 min | Drama
Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.
Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Shukri Sarhan, Zizi Mustafa, Seif Abdelrahman, Ahmed Abo Abeya
Votes: 337
48. The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
100 min | Drama
The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her.... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Shouweikar, Aminah Rizq
Votes: 289
49. The Innocent (1986)
110 min | Drama, Thriller
A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long.
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Ilham Shaheen
Votes: 1,489
50. El Medina (1999)
108 min | Drama
A young Egyptian with acting ambitions leaves his country for France with dreams of becoming a movie star, much to the disgust of his father, who wants him to move to Saudi Arabia and get rich.
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Basem Samrah, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Abla Kamel, Seif Abdelrahman
Votes: 299
51. Sarikat Sayfeya (1988)
102 min | Drama
The struggle of Aristocratic family after the political desicisons taken in the 60's era of Egypt. Yasser is the grandchild whose parents are getting a divorce due to this struggle. A ... See full summary »
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Ahmad Mohamad Ahmad, Chohdi Srour, Menha Batraoui, Mona Zakareya
Votes: 136
52. Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama
A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.
Directors: Wael Mandour, Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Mona Zaki, Mahmoud Hemida, Hasan El-Raddad, Rehab El Gamal
Votes: 1,471
53. Genainat el-Asmak (2008)
111 min | Drama, Romance
A 48-hour journey into modern Cairo following the parallel lives of Youssef and Leila.
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Hind Sabri, Amr Waked, Gamil Ratib, Samah Anwar
Votes: 389
54. After the Battle (2012)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, History
Mahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Since then, Mahmoud has lost his ... See full summary »
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Menna Shalabi, Basem Samrah, Nahed El Sebaï, Salah Abdullah
Votes: 604
55. Ahlam Hind we Kamilia (1988)
109 min | Drama, Romance
Follows the story of two lower-middle class women trying to survive with their dreams in 1980's Egypt.
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Naglaa Fathi, Ahmed Zaki, Aida Riyad, Zeinab Abdo
Votes: 583
56. Karnak Café (1975)
143 min | Drama
In Egypt, a group of university students were arrested without comitting a crime because of their meetings at the cafe "Karnak", which was known for hosting some thinkers who sometimes criticize the 1952 revolution.
Director: Ali Badr Khan | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Suad Husni, Nour El-Sherif, Salah Zulfikar
Votes: 745
57. El azima (1939)
108 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr.
Director: Kamal Selim | Stars: Fatma Rouchdi, Mokhtar Osman, Zaki Rostom, Abbas Fares
Votes: 308
58. El Fetewa (1957)
122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A fresh man came from outskirt to Cairo to look for work ; He meets a tycoon and creates a struggle between them .
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Tahiyyah Karyuka, Zaki Rostom, Tawfik El Deken
Votes: 356
59. Bit of Fear (1969)
112 min | Drama
Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance ... See full summary »
Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Shadia, Mahmoud Moursy, Yehia Chahine, Ahmed Abo Abeya
Votes: 681
60. Life or Death (1954)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
A man with cardiac problems, had heart attack and sent his daughter to get the medicine from the drug store, however the pharmacist discovers that he sent the wrong medication, he cooperates with the police to stop a disaster.
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Youssef Wahbi, Madihah Yusri, Imad Hamdi, Husain Reyadh
Votes: 332
61. Bad Day Good Day (1988)
125 min | Drama
A poor family struggles to survive in the slums of Cairo in this depressing social melodrama. Aicha is the widowed matriarch who uses her savvy to avoid tragic calamities. Soon even her ... See full summary »
Director: Khairy Beshara | Stars: Hassan AbdulSalam, Ibrahim Ahmad, Salwa Muhammad Ahmad, Mervat Al-Shennawi
Votes: 280
62. Thartharah fawq el-Nil (1971)
115 min | Drama
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: 771
63. Chaos, This Is (2007)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Egyptian movie deals with the issue of corruption in Egypt and the Egyptian police excesses, embodies all of this in the character of the police officer, "Hatem".
Directors: Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef | Stars: Khaled Saleh, Menna Shalabi, Youssef El Sherif, Hala Sedki
Votes: 2,556
64. Al-mohager (1994)
129 min | Drama
Ram leaves the nomadic life and embarks on a quest for knowledge in a pharaonic Egypt mired in political intrigue. Based on a biblical story.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Youssra, Khaled Nabawy, Mahmoud Hemida, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 1,134
65. The Street Player (1983)
148 min | Drama, Sport
The life of a football player named Fares who goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife, job, sexual desires and football.
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Adel Emam, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Nagah El-Mogui, Abdallah Farghaly
Votes: 1,651
66. Coming Forth by Day (2012)
96 min | Drama
Those who have fully enjoyed their bodies cannot be submissive. And those who never have? Can they survive the slavery of solitude and impotent acceptance of what they can't change or ... See full summary »
Director: Hala Lotfy | Stars: Donia Maher, Salma Al-Naggar, Ahmad Lutfi, Doaa Ereikat
Votes: 284
67. Microphone (II) (2010)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Khaled returns from USA to his mother's funeral at his hometown: Alexandria, Egypt. He decides to make it a fresh new start even if it meant mending his first love story yet it proved a ... See full summary »
Director: Ahmad Abdalla | Stars: Kal Naga, Yousra El Lozy, Hany Adel, Ahmed Magdy
Votes: 1,808
68. Heliopolis (2009)
96 min | Drama
8 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.
Director: Ahmad Abdalla | Stars: Kal Naga, Yousra El Lozy, Hanan Motawie, Hany Adel
Votes: 755
69. Rags & Tatters (2013)
87 min | Biography, Drama
In one of the most extraordinary nights in the history of Egypt, the prisons were suddenly opened, leaving thousands of prisoners wandering the desert. Among them was one man trying to find... See full summary »
Director: Ahmad Abdalla | Stars: Asser Yassin, Amr Abed, Mohamed Mamdouh, Mona Sheimy
Votes: 447
70. Decor (2014)
105 min | Drama
Decor is about "choices" we make in life. Can one major choice haunt us to the extent of wishing to imagine or live our alternate options of such choice? Decor is an incredible journey down that rabbit hole.
Director: Ahmad Abdalla | Stars: Kal Naga, Maged El-Kidwani, Houria Farghally, Samar Morsi
Votes: 669
71. War in the Land of Egypt (1991)
90 min | Drama
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Omar Sharif, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Abdalla Mahmoud
Votes: 488
72. Alexandria... New York (2004)
128 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Yehia, an Egyptian director from Alexandria goes to New York where he is reunited with Ginger, a woman he dated forty years ago.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Hemida, Ahmed Yehia, Youssra, Yousra El Lozy
Votes: 631
73. One Day, the Nile (1972)
105 min | Drama
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
74. The Choice (1971)
103 min | Drama, Mystery
Mysterious murder occurs in Cairo, the body was founded two months later. In the Pocket a picture of the victim "Mahmoud". The victim is a twin brother to the Highly famous writer "Sayed" ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Suad Husni, Ezzat El Alaili, Seif Abdelrahman, Huda Sultan
Votes: 436
75. Fagr Yom gedid (1965)
128 min | Drama
Naila, a middle-aged artistocrat steeped in debt, is deeply unhappy in her marriage and struggles to find her place in post-revolutionary 1960s Egypt. A glimmer of hope appears in the form of working-class college student Tareq.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Seif Abdelrahman, Youssef Chahine, Soheir El-Bably, Sanaa Gameel
Votes: 106
76. Al-muharrij al-Kabir (1952)
86 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Samira Ahmed, Hassan Fayek, Faten Hamamah, Seraj Munir
Votes: 71
77. Baba Amin (1950)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The soul of the father, Amine, comes back after death to see how his family is doing.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Husain Reyadh, Faten Hamamah, Kamal El-Shinnawi, Mari Munib
Votes: 238
78. Son of the Nile (1951)
125 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young man from outskirt rebels against his life and abandons his woman to go to Cairo.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Yehia Chahine, Shukri Sarhan, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 197
79. Factory Girl (2013)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Hayam 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Yasmin Raeis, Hany Adel, Salwa Khattab, Salwa Mohamed Ali
Votes: 1,550
80. Habiby Da'iman (1980)
120 min | Romance
Farida marries the successful businessman Ossama, accepting her father's decision, while secretly in love with Ibrahim. She lives a miserable life with Ossama in Paris. They eventually get ... See full summary »
Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Sabry Abdelaziz, Saeed Abdulghani, Sawsan Badr, Magda El-Khatib
Votes: 156
81. Imberaturiyyat Mim (1972)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new husband home proves to be a very difficult task.
Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Dawlat Abiad, Seif Abol Naga
Votes: 701
82. El mustahil (1965)
110 min | Drama
Members of three families trying to adapt modern life.
Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Nadia Lutfi, Kamal El-Shinnawi, Salah Mansour, Karima Mukhtar
Votes: 69
83. Sira' al-abtal (1962)
112 min | Drama
A difficult period went through Egypt in 1947, when cholera struck the villages of Egypt. Doctor Shukri, who tried to serve the people of the village to save them from poverty and hunger, ... See full summary »
Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Samira Ahmed, Shukri Sarhan, Laila Taher, Zouzou Hamdi El Hakim
Votes: 44
84. Al-moutamarridoune (1968)
130 min
A sick doctor is admitted to an isolated sanatorium located in the middle of a desolate desert. As a patient, he becomes aware of the discrepancy that exists between the conditions of the ... See full summary »
Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Shukri Sarhan, Zizi Mustafa, Shafik Nour El Din, Tawfik El Deken
Votes: 42
85. Yaumiyat na'ib fi-l-aryaf (1969)
123 min | Drama
Qamar dies after being shot, and the last name he says is that of his wife's sister Reem, who is the only witness. But after her arrest, her beauty draws the attention of the prosecutor, and she succeeds in escaping.
Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Rawya Ashour, Ahmed Abdelhalim, Tawfik El Deken, Abdulazim Abdulhaqq
Votes: 70
86. The Beginning (1986)
Not Rated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Sabry Abdelmonem, Hamdy Ahmed, Nagat Ali, Safia El Emari
Votes: 486
87. Hammam al-Malatily (1973)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
Ahmed (Muhammad Al-Araby) from Ismalia come to Cairo looking for work. Promise of richness is really far from reality of life. Ahmed falls in love with Naeema, a prostitute. And then there is Raouf Bey who is gay and fell in love with him.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Mohamed El Arabi, Shams El-Barudy, Fayez Halawa, Nemat Mokhtar
Votes: 1,815
88. Al-qadia 68 (1968)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Hasan Youssef, Mervat Amin, Mohamed Reda, Ahmed Abaza
Votes: 41
89. Cairo 30 (1966)
132 min | Drama, Romance
Mahgoub Abdel Dayem a young nihilistic college student, having his father crippled with no other source of income, he finds himself in an urgent need of a job after graduation to support ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Suad Husni, Ahmad Mazhar, Hamdy Ahmed, Ahmed Tawfik
Votes: 658
90. Sleepless (1957)
127 min | Drama, Romance
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: 469
91. El-Soud ela al-hawia (1978)
150 min | Biography, Drama
"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... See full summary »
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Mahmoud Yassine, Madiha Kamel, Gamil Ratib, Ismael Abdulmajeed
Votes: 157
92. Whom Should We Shoot? (1975)
89 min | Crime, Drama
Mustafa shoots the boss of a governmental company ; The crime is investigated to find out the reasons .
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Suad Husni, Mahmoud Yassine, Mona Abdallah, Fardous Abdel Hamid
Votes: 141
93. Insatiable (1969)
Drama
Nahid suffers from double personality disorder. In the day she lives with her personality, and at night she is the playful girl Mervat.
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Maryam Fakhruddin, Suad Husni, Mohy Ismaiel
Votes: 154
94. Miramar (1969)
125 min | Drama
The story revolves around the escape of Zahra from her small town after her family obliged her to marry a wealthy old woman. She went to Alexandria and worked in a hostel. She began to meet new people and her life changes.
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Shadia, Imad Hamdi, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Youssef Shabaan
Votes: 138
95. El shaitane el saghir (1963)
90 min | Adventure, Crime
Boy Issam accidentally gets into a car that transports his family's belongings to Cairo. On the way, Issam overhears a conversation between the driver Hasanin and his henchman Elewa and ... See full summary »
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Mohamed Yahia, Samira Ahmed, Kamal El-Shinnawi, Hasan Youssef
Votes: 16
96. Leila Sakhina (1995)
120 min | Drama
On the New Year's Eve, the master of the taxi driver tries to arrange 200 pounds for the necessary surgery for his mother-in-law, who is looking after his only son with a mentally ... See full summary »
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Lebleba, Sayed Zayan, Hasan Al-Asmar
Votes: 220
97. Against the Government (1992)
116 min | Drama
A famous corrupt personal injury lawyer finds himself in the middle of a case where he has to choose between his money love and the interest of one of his customers who appears later to be his own son
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Lebleba, Afaf Shoieb, Al Morsi Abu Al Abbas
Votes: 1,121
98. The Escape (1991)
122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After his discharge from prison , Mansor take his revenge and become hunted by the police.
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Hala Sedki, Salah Abdullah, Abu Bakr Ezzat
Votes: 1,113
99. Love Above the Pyramid Plateau (1985)
121 min | Drama, Romance
The film puts the lights on the struggle of youngsters to afford a proper life for marriage Through their small incomes,and the ordeal of finding a house in crowded cairo,so it follows a ... See full summary »
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Athar El-Hakim, Adawy Gheith, Soad Hussein
Votes: 403
100. El-Zammar (1985)
Drama
Piper Hasan is a young man being chased after he was a student in the College of Engineering and presented, with the college's acting team, a play that the authorities did not like. He ... See full summary »
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Poussi, Salah El-Saadany, Tawfik El Deken
Votes: 51
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