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- DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizNouraYehia El-FakharanyAs ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsKarim Abdel AzizKhaled El-SawiNilli KarimWhile trying to help an inmate at the mental hospital, a psychotherapist unravels mysteries he never thought existed.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizSherif MounirAida RiyadSheikh 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 with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking marijuana with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house. He knows everything about his neighbors and their secrets and love affairs.
- 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.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiMahmoud Abdel AzizMamdouh Abd El AleemA 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.
- 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.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsAhmed ZakiFarahHamdy GheithA mix between an honored police officer who fight the crimes and a drug dealer in the same person and a confliction in and out.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimHany AdelMuhammad El-SebaiSet 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimBushraMaged El-KidwaniUnfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsAhmed EzzAmr YoussefAhmad El-FishawiFour 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.
- 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.
- 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 ChahineStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiFarid ShawqiYehia 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 dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
- DirectorAhmed AbdullahKamla AbouzekriMaryam Abu-OfStarsAhmed HelmyAmr WakedMona ZakiTen separate stories about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- DirectorAtef SalemStarsSamira AhmedImad HamdiHasan YoussefHusain 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 company where he works with the intention of refunding later. In this context, the film shows the social life of the Egyptian family at the time.
- 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.
- DirectorAli Badr KhanStarsFarid ShawqiSuad HusniNour El-SherifIn 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.
- DirectorAli Badr KhanStarsSuad HusniAhmed ZakiMahmoud Abdel AzizBack in 1860s, in rural Egypt, where family, youth and prettiness struggle against money and power.
- 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.
- DirectorKamal SelimStarsFatma RouchdiMokhtar OsmanZaki RostomThe story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsAhmed ZakiMona Abdel GhaniMahmoud HemidaThe events revolve around the officer Hossam, who works in the Department of Combating Morals, and in one of his missions he discovers that there is a prostitution network run by a businessman who succeeds every time using his influence and authority to get out of any charges against him, which leads to Hossam's failure in his mission to escalate the events.
- DirectorYoussef FrancisStarsAdel AdhamNagwa IbrahimAytl Jensen
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsMaged El-KidwaniMenna ShalabiKhaled El-SawiSamir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsRosaline ElbayMohamed MamdouhBayoumi FouadA man who works in a pharmacy as a part time job to aid his financial status finds out that his father has been exterminated by a savage brute and sought to avenge him, then unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsHind SabriAmina KhalilMohamad RamadanThe 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.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAhmed El SakkaHind SabriKhaled SalehMansour El Hefny returns to El Gezira after 10 years of imprisonment to find that a lot of things have changed and he must fight to get back what once was his.
- DirectorSandra NashaatStarsAhmed El SakkaAhmed EzzHanan TurkA very serious and strict officer goes after a dangerous drug dealer, in an attempt to try and stop the drug and weapon dealing business in the area.
- DirectorAmr ArafaStarsAhmed El SakkaMohamed IbrahimMona ZakiHe (Sherif Mounir) returns from Europe after inheriting from his former boss, bringing the curse that killed his boss' family to his family's doorstep.
- DirectorHala KhalilStarsMenna ShalabiAmeer Salah EldinAhmed RatebEvery day Nawara goes to work along a path that takes her between the alleys of the poor neighborhood and the roads that lead to the villas within a luxury compound. Every day, on her way to work, she carries the worries of the people in her neighborhood and their simple dreams. Little does she know that the spring of 2011 will bring her something unexpected.
- DirectorHadi El BagouryStarsAmr YoussefAhmed MalekAhmed DawoodDr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions. He decides to give one last lecture on the very simple question: "How do we love?"
- DirectorAmr SalamaRami GheitStarsAhmad DashAhmed HelmyKinda AlloushA Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsAhmad El-FishawiMaged El-KidwaniAhmed MalekAn Islamic cleric has a crisis of faith when he hears the news that his childhood idol, Michael Jackson, has died.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiHala SedkiSalah AbdullahAfter his discharge from prison , Mansor take his revenge and become hunted by the police.
- DirectorOmar El ZohairyStarsDemyana NassarSamy BassiounyFady Mina FawzyA family is forced into a period of self-discovery after its authoritarian patriarch is accidentally turned into a chicken by a magician during a children's birthday party
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsKarim Abdel AzizAhmed AnanSuliman EidMahmoud (Karim Abdel Aziz), is a poor but a hard working parking attendant who lives a happy and calm life with his father and wife Mona (Menna Shalaby) who is pregnant in their first baby boy; Mahmoud's life changes in one night when he witnesses a murder while at work. He gets hold of the killers wallet and uncovers his identity then soon after the troubles started to chase Mahmoud and his family.