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1. Lachine (1938)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Lachin, commander of the Army of One rulers, manages the affairs of governance prime minister, who traded Bakot parish while the ruling does not offer nor a delay in something a ... See full summary »
Director: Fritz Kramp | Stars: Hassan Ezzat, Nadia Naji, Husain Reyadh, Fouad El Rachidi
Votes: 66
2. 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
3. Al-suq al-Soda' (1945)
100 min | Drama
A corrupt grocer in a traditional Cairene neighborhood enters into an alliance with comprador merchants. Their goal is to hoard scarce commodities during the World WAR II, and then to sell ... See full summary »
Director: Kamel El-Telmessani | Stars: Imad Hamdi, Aqilah Rateb, Zaki Rostom
Votes: 52
4. 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
5. 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: 355
6. 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: 5,352
7. A Woman on the Road (1958)
115 min | Drama
Director: Ezz El Dine Zulficar | Stars: Rushdi Abazah, Huda Sultan, Shukri Sarhan, Zaki Rostom
Votes: 98
8. Struggle on the Nile (1959)
125 min | Drama, Thriller
The people of Luxor decided to buy Sandal new submarine instead of the old sandal for river transport business, and cost the mayor Mujahid to go to buy, with a computerized data bank son of... See full summary »
Director: Atef Salem | Stars: Hind Rustum, Omar Sharif, Rushdi Abazah, Ahamd El-Haddad
Votes: 450
9. 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
10. The 13th Wife (1962)
97 min | Comedy
Murad (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 ... See full summary »
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Rushdi Abazah, Shadia, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Shouweikar
Votes: 757
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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: 2,449
15. 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
16. Where To? (1957)
90 min | Drama
A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a great number of his compatriots. ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Nasser | Stars: Laura Azar, Tannous Dik, Shakib Khouri, Mounir Nader
Votes: 312
17. Chouchou wa al million (1963)
90 min
Directors: Issam Hamawi, Antoine Remy | Stars: Hassan Aladdin, Renee Bwafer, Elias Rizk, Mohamed Shamel
18. The Broken Wings (1964)
90 min | Drama, Romance
These are the early 1900s. Gibran, a young painter and poet, arrives in Beirut and gets to know Skeikh Fares, a rich aristocrat who was a friend of his father's years before. The young man ... See full summary »
Director: Yusuf Maloof | Stars: Pierre Borday, Nidal Al-Askhar, Saladin Nader, Ali Diab
Votes: 30
19. Biya el-Khawatim (1965)
95 min | Comedy, Musical
In a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility, invents the mystical figure of Rajeh, and tells stories to villagers about the exploits of Rajeh, who... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Fairuz, Nasri Shamseddine, Joseph Azar, Phelemone Wehbe
Votes: 193
20. Chebab taht al chams (1966)
95 min
A group of young men and girls connect each with a love story, including an uncle and Morsi, the son of a jeweler. Each of them wishes they would not go through the same experience as ... See full summary »
Director: Samir Nasri | Stars: Zain Al Sidani, Samir Atar, Ali Diab, Nabil Hashem
21. Hundred Faces for a Single Day (1972)
70 min
Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention, Ghazi combined documentary and abstract sequences with a series of discontinuous plot lines to organize a stinging attack on the bourgeois decadence of Beirut's political milieu.
Director: Christian Ghazy | Stars: Micheline Daou, Madonna Ghazi, Salah Moukhallati, Mona Wassef
Votes: 12
22. The Massacre of Kafr Kassem (1975)
108 min | Drama
Drama about a massacre of Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis in the years 1947-51.
Director: Borhane Alaouié | Stars: Abdallah Abbassi, Ahmad Ayub, Salim Sabri, Shafiq Manfaluti
Votes: 68
23. Beyrouth ya Beyrouth (1975)
111 min | Drama
Beirut Oh Beirut (1975) follows four young Lebanese after the defeat of Lebanon by Israeli forces in the Six Day War of 1967.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Ezzat El Alaili, Mireille Maalouf, Joseph Bou Nassar, Elie Adabachi
Votes: 138
24. Lebanon in a Whirlwind (1975)
75 min | Documentary
Directors: Jocelyne Saab, Jorg Stocklin
Votes: 7
25. Children of War (1976)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A few days after a massacre in a shantytown near Beirut, the director finds the children who survived.
Director: Jocelyne Saab
Votes: 58
26. South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege (1976)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Jocelyne Saab
Votes: 27
27. Beirut Is No Longer Never (1979)
35 min | Documentary, Short, War
A documentary on the effects of the war on the Beirut, Lebanon community.
Director: Jocelyne Saab
Votes: 36
29. Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt (1977)
57 min | Documentary
A documentary film eulogizing the life of Kamal Jumblat.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Yasser Arafat, Kamal Joumblatt
Votes: 12
30. We Are All for the Fatherland (1979)
TV-MA | 80 min | Documentary
After the 1979 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, children try to sing the national anthem as citizens search for hope in the war-torn South.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi
Votes: 68
31. The Most Beautiful of All Mothers (1978)
30 min | Documentary, Short, War
Interviews with mothers and family members who lost loved ones in the Lebanese conflict with Israel.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi
Votes: 21
34. The Story of a Village and a War (1979)
25 min | Documentary, Short, War
A documentary about a Southern Lebanese community torn apart by war.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi
Votes: 25
35. Beirut the Encounter (1981)
125 min | Drama, War
Just after telephone communication is restored between the warring East and West sides of Beirut, two old college lovers, one Christian, the other Shiite, whose efforts to meet have ... See full summary »
Director: Borhane Alaouié | Stars: Haithem el Amine, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar, Houcem Sabbah
Votes: 51
36. Little Wars (1982)
108 min | Drama, War
Lebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman ; how Nabil, a press photographer ... See full summary »
Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Soraya Khoury, Nabil Ismaïl, Roger Hawa, Reda Khoury
Votes: 191
38. Beirut My City (1983)
38 min | Documentary, Short
In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn and 150 years of family existence go up in smoke.
Director: Jocelyne Saab
Votes: 41
39. Harb Aala el Harb (1983)
28 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary about the effects of the war that destroyed the Lebanese nation.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi
Votes: 21
40. Ma'araka (1986)
120 min
Narrates certain events which occurred from October 1983 to June 1984 in Southern Lebanon under Israeli occupation.
Director: Roger Assaf | Stars: Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hosni Badr Aldin, Abido Bacha, Salim Bdeir
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