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- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsShukri SarhanZizi MustafaSeif AbdelrahmanAbbas, 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.
- DirectorHasan El-EmamSaid TantawiStarsYehia ChahineMaha SabryZizi El BadrawyBased on the first part of Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy, the film depicts the life paths of Ahmed Abdul Jawad's family during the English occupation and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution. This includes the head of the family who deals harshly with his family, while he lives a life of dissipation; his son Fahmi, who joins a secret political organization, and his oldest son who follows in the footsteps of his father in his womanizing.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMahmoud Al MelejiNagwa IbrahimEzzat El AlailiA 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsAdel EmamAbdel Moneim MadboulySaeed AbdulghaniAdel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.
- 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.
- DirectorSherif ArafaSaeed HamedStarsAdel EmamHussein FahmyAida RiyadHassan Bahloul sees in his dreams crimes to happen on the ground, so he tells that to captain Motasem Al Alfy and the story begins.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsShadiaMahmoud MoursyYehia ChahineBased 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 is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSuad HusniShukri SarhanSanaa GameelA 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSuad HusniAhmad MazharHamdy AhmedMahgoub 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 himself and his parents. Having a hard time getting a job, he starts putting his values into actual application only to find them already being applied by much greater authorities. Set in Cairo in the 30s.
- 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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsHind RustumAbdulsalam El-NabulsiAbdel Moneim IbrahimThe 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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsMohamed El ArabiShams El-BarudyFayez HalawaAhmed (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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSabry AbdelmonemHamdy AhmedNagat AliAfter 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.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsNadia LutfiKamal El-ShinnawiSalah MansourMembers of three families trying to adapt modern life.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAdel EmamYoussraRiyad Al-KholiA smart lawyer and minster and a muslim brotherhood man in one box and they play bad
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAhmed ZakiHaitham Ahmed ZakiEzzat Abu OufA biopic of Egyptian singer Abdel-Haleem Hafez (Zaki).
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsMahmoud YassineAhmed El SakkaHind Sabri'El Gezira' is a film about a community of Upper Egypt residents living in El Gezira (the Island). They have their own set of rules, ethics and traditions. They also plant drugs and buy arms from Sudan. The officer in charge of the region turns a blind eye to these happenings, and in the beginning, the government takes no heed of the Island. At the start of the film, we witness the death of the old 'Kabir el Gezira' (the island's ruler), leaving the land to his son Mansour. The first half follows Mansour as he takes control of his land and must deal with a band of other drug lords who are greedy to take control of the island. The second half of the film deals with the political conflict. It follows the government's side of things (which finally decides to take action) at the same time as Mansour's side as the two react to each other's threats and the conflict escalates. 'El Gezira' is a multi-genre picture. It is a thematic film on Egyptian politics, but also a drama, romance, action and thriller.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsSherif MounirKarim Abdel AzizMona ZakiAn Egyptian woman discovers that her husband is in fact a Jewish Mossad agent working for Israel. He takes her and their two children to Israel by force and tries to convince her to live with him by force. Mostafa, an Egyptian Intelligence Agent sent by SSI, travels to Israel and tries to help Salwa return to Egypt.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsAhmad MazharSalah ZulfikarNadia LutfiAfter Saladin's victory over the King of Jerusalem, a peace treaty is signed between them, but the commander of the Crusader army, Renaud de Chatillon, slaughters a group of pilgrims going to Mecca. Saladin then decides to take revenge.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNour El-SherifLayla OlwiMahmoud HemidaThe 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 not liked by everyone. The caliph's political rivals, centered around the leader of a fanatical Islamic sect, force the caliph to send Averroes into exile, but his ideas keep on living thanks to his students.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMahmoud HemidaAhmed YehiaYoussraYehia, an Egyptian director from Alexandria goes to New York where he is reunited with Ginger, a woman he dated forty years ago.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineKhaled YoussefStarsKhaled SalehMenna ShalabiYoussef El SherifEgyptian 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".
- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsNagatSaleh SelimMalak El GamalThe film revolves around the young man, "Ahmed" (Saleh Selim) the young poet who was blinded in an accident while riding a horse when he saw the betrayal of his sweetheart, and then decided to live with his mother (Amina Rizk) and his friend, "Abdul Muti" (Fouad Elmohandes) in the countryside, and with his heart full of hatred for all women, he thought all women are the same then he meets his new nurse that would change everything in his life.
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsSuad HusniRushdi AbazahNadia El GendyA Young woman who wants to be an actress pretends to be an 13 years old girl in order to win a role in a tv show .
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsSuad HusniRushdi AbazahZubida TharwatLaila and Samia are two best friends ,but things are about to change when Laila moves in with Samia and her husband after the tragic death of Laila's husband.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsSalah ZulfikarSuad HusniMimi GamalIn 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.
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsRushdi AbazahMohamed AwadNawal Abou El FotouhAfter years in the fashion industry, the once naive Kamal (Rushdy Abaza) becomes Cairo's top fashion designer and ruthless lothario. News of his fiancée Nadia's (Soad Hosny) arrival after three years abroad is a dilemma, as Nadia was in love with the naive, loyal Kamal. Kamal thus resorts to hiding his womanizing past by all means possible.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsRushdi AbazahShadiaAbdel Moneim IbrahimMurad (Rushdi Abaza) is a notorious playboy who, by the time they met Aida (Shadia), had already been married 12 times. When Aida resists his attempts to seduce her, Murad decides to propose to her, with the intent of divorcing her afterward. One of Murad's ex-fiancees reveals his past to Aida. As a result, she joins forces with his ex-wives to hatch a plot to force him to renounce his womanizing ways. Murad is deprived of sex, sleep, and is slowly being driven over the edge. Will Aida succeed in her plan to redeem Murad? Or will she end up just another notch on Murad's bed post?
- 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.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsAnwar WagdiSamia GamalMadihah YusriA young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFarid ShawqiShouweikarMahmoud AzmyThis lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.
- 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.
- 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?
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsFaten HamamahKamal El-ShinnawiAbd El Fatah El QuossaryDiscussing how women could work side by side with men through a funny and glorious classic movie between two neighbors that their kids are graduating from a law school and they love each other. But after graduation, each one of them (Faten and Kamal) open a law firm in front of each other and with multiple funny pictures we can see how struggling the female can face running her office due the society at that time for not used to have a lawyer as a women. With a relation ship between her lover (Kamal Elshenawi) and one of his clients, that masters a crime after killing her husband. Kamal later become a suspect but he gets the support of his lover (Faten) who defend him in court and win the case and they get married
- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifZaki RostomNahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Nawal, a rural girl, is married off to a wealthy aristocrat called Taher Basha (Zaki Rostom). Nawal gets increasingly depressed due to her husband's cold, cruel demeanor, despite their lavish life. Things take a turn (for both better and worse) when she meets Khaled (Omar Sharif), a handsome young army officer.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharMahmoud MoursyFaten Hamama plays a wife who wakes up one morning to discover she is married to her brother-in-law in this suspenseful drama. The confused woman soon learns that fifteen years have gone by and that she was injured in a bomb blast that killed her sister. A local doctor tries to prevent the woman's husband from killing her for the inheritance.
- DirectorSaid MarzoukStarsHamdy AhmedFaten HamamahAbdulaziz MakhyoonFaten Hamama arranged with Writer Tawfik Elhakim to convert his most dramatic play to a movie. The Song of Death is a story of a mother from the countryside; her husband was killed in a brutal way. She talks to her son to have their revenge from the killers. Her son couldn't be this person who would fight or make any revenge and preferred to let the Law deals with that. The mother then treats him as a dishonorable member in the family and turns against him by arranging for his death. Later, she realizes her mistake and tries to save her son from being killed, but the song of death was completed faster than her.
- DirectorChadi Abdel SalamStarsAhmed MareiAhmad HegaziNadia LutfiAn 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.
- DirectorChadi Abdel SalamStarsAhmad AnanAhmad HegaziAhmed MareiBased on one of the major literary texts survived from the Middle Kingdom, the classical period of Egyptian literature, The Eloquent Peasant is a combination of a morality/folk tale and a poem. The events are set between 2160 and 2025 BC. When the peasant Khun-anup and his donkey stumble upon the lands of the noble Rensi, the peasant's goods are confiscated and he's unjustly accused of theft. The peasant petitions Rensi who is so taken by the peasant's eloquence that he report his astonishing discovery to the king. The king realises the peasant has been wronged but delays judgement so as to he can hear more of his eloquence. The peasant makes a total of nine petitions until finally, his goods are returned.
- DirectorSaid MarzoukStarsHussein FahmySalah ZulfikarSoheir RamzyThe actress Sanaa Kamal [Soheir Ramzy] was murdered in her bed. The investigator summoned all those who were in her home on the night of her death including her fiancee Ahmad Saber, the director of the company that published the papers the actress used to help build the building, his friend who betrayed his wife and the strong young man who sold his body to the actress while at the same time making plans to steal the treasury at an institution. Then everyone who was at the party at her home that night was arrested after the investigator discovered the crime took place during the party. Her fiance the film director admitted he had killed her out of jealousy.
- DirectorSaad ArafaStarsEzzat El AlailiHussein FahmyImad HamdiNadia falls into her life between three men, the first is the artist she loves, the second is the puritanical brother, and the third is her professor. The three are, Ahmed, a religious young man who revolts against his sister Nadia because of the principles of her professor, Dr. Fouad Obeid from secular opinions.