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- DirectorAlbert Samama ChiklyStarsHayde ChiklyEvolves around a shipwrecked young French woman, who is rescued by Beduins. She lives with the Beduin tribe for a time. She is later abducted by bandits, but is rescued by a French aviator and reunites with her family. Tribal customs are displayed in detail in the film. The movie is seen as an example of the 'mysterious Orient' genre.
- DirectorAlbert Samama ChiklyStarsHayde ChiklyAhmed DziriAbdelgassen Ben TalebThe daughter of a local authority is in love with a poor minaret crier and resists a rich man from Tunisia.
- DirectorRex IngramStarsRamon NovarroAlice TerryMax MaxudianJamil (Ramon Novarro) is a soldier in the Bedouin defence forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, who has deserted his regiment. In a remote village, he encounters an orphan asylum run by American missionaries Dr. Hilbert (Jerrold Robertshaw) and his daughter Mary (Alice Terry). The village is attacked by the Turks, and its ruler, eager to placate the invaders, intends to hand over the children for slaughter; he disguises his intents under a move to Damascus for their safety. The Bedouins arrive at the scene, and reveal that Jamil is the son of the tribal leader. With his father's revealed death, Jamil's he becomes the new leader of the tribe, which endows him with a sense of responsibility. Risking his own life, he proceeds to save the children, defeating the Turks and the local leader in the process (and winning the girl).
- DirectorIbrahim LamaStarsYvonne GoeineHassan KamelRawhiyya KhaledExclamation "Hilda (Yvonne Gwen) foreign girl Shafiq (Badr Lama) young Bedouin who reside in the village of desert Egypt for demonstrated good manners, happens to accuse the people of the village Shafiq murder of his uncle," Abd El Qadir "; which calls for his escape to the desert with the guerrilla group and become one of them, and falls during the gang attack on a convoy, to be "Hilda" within exposed to attack, "Shafiq" is trying to palm of harm to the gang about, but the three members of the gang to kidnap Hilda and able Shafeeq bailed to win sweetheart and wife, convey Mr. Mahmood the news of his innocence of the murder of his uncle.
- DirectorVedat Örfi BengüEstafan RostiStarsAziza AmirVedat Örfi BengüAsya DagherThrive Leila in one oasis overlooking the ruins of Memphis, and meet Rauf Bey Layla tries to woo her, but her heart was hung with Ahmed, and made a speech Ahmed Leila but soon recognized by a Brazilian girl and imported into Egypt, and succeed Brazilian girl to win the heart of Ahmed, and abandon Laila which became pregnant from him.
- DirectorMuhammad KarimStarsBahija HafezZaki RostomDawlat Abiad
- DirectorAyab BadriCompetes friends working on the same farm at the heart of the girl, but she liked the younger, generating jealousy in the heart of the other lover, seeks to differentiate between loved ones, take advantage of the owner of the farm these feelings, who shall kill the girl's father, and deliver a charge to the young older, and pushes the young man to escape from the farm, even with impunity, which is intended however, that proved the charge, the younger lover in revealing the truth to succeed, and be arrested on his farm.
- DirectorIsmail Anzour
- DirectorJordano PiduttiThe first feature length film made in Lebanon, by an Italian director, is about an émigré man who returns to his homeland.
- DirectorFritz KrampGamal MadkoorStarsUmm KulthumAhmed AllamMokhtar OsmanBaher is a rich Egyptian merchant who is madly in love with his beautiful slave Wedad. But when he loses all his fortune as a result of an ambush by a rival merchant, the girl, in order to help him, decides to sell herself as a slave and singer to another richer man.
- DirectorCrenziJean-André KreuziStarsMohamed JamoussyFlifla ChamiaAbdelmajid ChebbiAfter production, the film was disappeared in 1939, it was found in France in 1989 thanks to the research of Hichem Ben Ammar. This film is considered one of the key films in history of cinema in North Africa.
- DirectorNagib El-RihaniWilly RozierStarsNagib El-RihaniAimée ProvenceBadi KhayriEgyptian version of a popular play by French writer Pagnol.A timid and naive schoolteacher is taken advantage of.A wealthy aristocrat uses him in a money making scheme and the teacher now seems to enjoy the new corruption.
- 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.
- DirectorMuhammad Munir Al-Yassine
- DirectorKameran HusniStarsYoussef El AniMohammed Al QaisiZainabThe story revolves around the teacher "Saeed" who moves from house to house, until he lives in the house of "Ezzat" the shoemaker next door to him and the falsehood of the neighborhood people who harbor bad and pretend love and notices the signs of neglect that fill the neighborhood, and the owner of the house asks "Saeed" to leave the house So, the people of the neighborhood refuse to leave "Saeed" home and leave, and join hands against the owner of the house, so the son of "Saeed" is injured in a quarrel with the children of "Ezzat" and seeks revenge on him.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsDawlat AbiadSayed Abu BakrEl Sayed BedeirBased on film Waterloo Bridge ; Sania think her fiance to be dead ; So she loses her job as a teacher in the almshouse and is forced to turn to prostitution.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsAnwar WagdiNegma IbrahimFarid ShawqiDramatic rendition of a real life crime wave that terrorized the city of Alexandria, Egypt, between the years 1920 and 1922. Women are disappearing without a trace in what looked like the work of a serial killer. Being Egypt's first ever case of serial killings, the police is relentless and assigns the case to their best inspector. He traces the leads to sisters Raya and Sekina, but it becomes a race against time before they kill again.
- 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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsHasan YoussefMervat AminMohamed Reda
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamahYehia ChahineShukri SarhanA young man from outskirt rebels against his life and abandons his woman to go to Cairo.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- DirectorAbdurrahman PalayStarsGöksel ArsoySemra SarYildiz Kenter
- DirectorTewfik SalehStarsMohamed Kheir-HalouaniAbdul Rahman Al RashiBassan Lofti Abou-GhazalaSet in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport them illegally across the border in the tank of his truck...
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSuad HusniEzzat El AlailiShada SalimThe movie is about the four days battle of Qadisiyya between the Arab army under the command of Saad and the Persian army under the command of Rustam in the year 640 AD in Iraq
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud Al MelejiMuhsen SarhanA greedy man betrays his friend and falls in love with his wife, who is a rich lady. He kills him and marries the widow. He steals her money and jewelry and mistreats her. He is then arrested by the police and receives his punishment.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsHuda SultanFarid ShawqiZouzou Madi
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFarid ShawqiTahiyyah KaryukaZaki RostomA fresh man came from outskirt to Cairo to look for work ; He meets a tycoon and creates a struggle between them .
- 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.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RustumYoussef ChahineA newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
- DirectorTewfik SalehStarsShukri SarhanBirlanti AbdulhamidAbdelghani KamarLiterary adaptation: A simple minded man has the luck of a winning lottery ticket.Others try to take advantage of him by snatching his money away from him.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHeiny SrourThis film is the one and only testimony shot in the depths of the former "Liberated Zone" of Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman, on a totally secular, democratic and feminist social experience in Arab and Muslim lands.
- DirectorHeiny SrourStarsRafik Ali AhmadNabila ZeitouniA film that weaves together re-enactments, archive footage and fairy-tale sequences to create a testament to the history of Lebanese and Palestinian women to the political struggles of the twentieth century.
- DirectorBorhane AlaouiéStarsAbdallah AbbassiAhmad AyubSalim SabriDrama about a massacre of Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis in the years 1947-51.
- DirectorBorhane AlaouiéStarsHaithem el AmineNadine AcouryNajoua HaydarJust 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 dismally failed, finally make contact. But as Zeina is leaving for the U.S. the next day, they record their innermost feelings during the night, promising to exchange tapes at the airport. It is as if each side of the city were trying, in vain, to be heard by the other. The monologues, by the well-known writer Ahmad Baydoun, which form the basis of this acutely observed, moving film, have acquired classical status in Lebanese cinema.
- DirectorSamir ZikraStarsAbd Elfatah AlmozyenAli AssedNizar CharabyA journey into the world of the young employee, Subhi Al Hallouji, who has a conservative cultural background. As women occupy the center of his thinking, he appears to be an impeccable person. However, he experiences a confusing emotional relationship with a girl he meets by chance.
- DirectorMohamed MalasStarsYasmine KhlatRafik SbieeBassel AbiadA widow called Hayat is forced to move with her two children (Deeb) and (Omar) to reside with her father in Damascus, Deeb is forced to work during his studies so that the mother does not have to need anything from her father.
- DirectorMohamed MalasStarsNezar AbohajarSabah Al JazaeryFares Al-HelouThe Night is set in the village of Quneytra, which borders on the Golan, a key battlefield in the 1967 war between Syria and Israel. We are led to the grave of the filmmakers' father, an old Syrian fighter who joined the volunteer armies in Palestine in the Great Revolt of 1936. Trying to exorcise feelings of shame and humiliation that have long accompanied the image of his father and the village occupied by Israelis during the war of 1967, Malas tries to restore his father's history and give him a more honorable death. But tracing the outline of a memory tortured by burning questions finds only bitter answers.
- DirectorOmar AmiralayA documentary about the impact of newly introduced political reforms on a rural village in Syria - a place plagued with tribalism, ignorance and evil.
- DirectorFaisal Al-YasiriStarsSuad AbdallahAhmad AddasMohsin al-AzzawiTwo men steal the head of Sanatruq II from the ancient city of Hatra and try to smuggle it from Iraq to Syria in order to sell but Iraqian and Syrian police are after them.
- DirectorMohamed Shukri JameelStarsOliver ReedGhazi Al-TakriteeJames BolamThis movie is about the 1920 revolution in Iraq against the English occupation.
- DirectorKhalid Al SiddiqStarsMohammed Al-MansourAmal BakrSaad Al FarrajThe first feature film to be made by the state of Kuwait. It is a period piece about Kuwait before the discovery of oil when fishing was the predominant occupation. Bay Ya Bahr is the story of a crippled pearl diver who forbids his son Mussaid to go to sea to dive for pearls. Mussaid's father got the 'bends' after resurfacing too fast during a shark attack on his boat. However, the boy cannot see any other way to make enough money to mary Nura, his beloved. Nura is the daughter of a merchant who wants her to marry for money. Finally, his father gives Mussaid permission to go to sea and even gives him his special black diving suit. Mussaid then works with the man to whom his father owes money. While Mussaid is away, Nura is forced by her family to marry a rich, older suitor. During his last dive Mussaid puts his hand inside a huge clam which closes on it. Mussaid is gasping for air and his friend has to amputate his arm in order to 'rescue' him. However Mussaid was dead long before he was brought to the boat. Nura meanwhile is raped by her husband on her wedding night. Mussaid's best friend looks through his cache of oysters and gradually starts opening all of them. Finally when he gets to the last one he finds a huge pearl inside. Maybe Mussaid's death will not be in vain if he can give this to Mussaid's family. When the boat reaches Kuwait, Mussaid's mother is welcomed by the dead body of her son and his prize - the pearl - for which he lost his life. The mother stares at the sea with unbridled rage and flings the pearl into it uttering the phrase: "Bas ya bahr" (enough oh sea)!
- DirectorKhalid Al SiddiqStarsAli MahdiSunni DafallahIbrahim HujaziEveryone in his village believes that Zein is a simpleton, a half-wit, an amiable buffoon. Thus, his braying laughter and public declarations of love for village maidens only win laughter rather than anger, beatings or worse. However, Haneen, a wandering Muslim holy man, perceives something more in this figure of fun: genuine piety and an inner radiance, marked by a powerful spiritual intelligence. One other person sees more in Zein than most do- the beautiful, pious and sedate young girl in the village.
- DirectorMichel KhleifiStarsFarah HatoumSahar KhalifehThe first full length film to be shot within the occupied Palestinian West Bank "Green Line," FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Michel Khleifi, acclaimed director of the Cannes Film Festival triumph, WEDDING IN GALILEE. Lyrically blending both documentary and narrative elements, Khleifi skillfully and lovingly crafts a portrait of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives.
- DirectorMichel KhleifiStarsMohamad Ali El AkiliBushra KaramanMakram KhouryA Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Palestinian youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Palestinian women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Palestinians must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?
- DirectorMichel KhleifiStarsBushra KaramanMakram KhouryTwo Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later. He works for an agricultural aid organization, she is a scholar researching the meaning of sacrifice in Palestinian society. Around them rages the turmoil of the first Intifada
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsSid Ahmed AgoumiDaniel BoukmanMohamed ChouikhPamphlet movie. Anti-colonialist indictment on the history of Africa. In a colonized capital, students from various disciplines act out the words of popular storytellers and find that they are more realistic than university programs. After Independence, a group of young Algerians research in books, museums, the past of the colonized peoples of Africa and Asia. The National Center of Algerian Cinema which has just been created in 1963 will allow the construction of this film. An ambitious work, it was the homage of liberated Algeria to all those who fight against colonialism and oppression. In the great tradition of montage films, this film is supported by a commentary written in admirable language. All the epic breath and all the enthusiasm caused by the independence of Algeria is contained in the words and images of this film.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsKeltoumMohamed ChouikhHassan El-HassaniA story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of her son. The mother did not give up for the search of her son despite the difficulties and obstacles, and she went from one prison to another just to see her son one more time.
- DirectorAhmed RachediStarsMustapha KatebRouichedMahieddine BachtarziAn Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the guerrilla is active and the French military has to keep a close watch on the locals.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsMichel AuclairSid Ali KouiretJulien GuiomarDuring the Algerian war of independence, an important leader of the FLN (National Liberation Front) is arrested by the army, which uses the most violent methods to make prisoners talk. But one French officer has a crisis of conscience while witnessing the brutality of his own army.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsYorgo VoyagisMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaLeila ShennaA meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsBoualem BenaniAziz DeggaFarida GuenanecheA somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
- DirectorMahmoud ZemmouriStarsMustapha El AnkaMalik Lakhdar-HaminaFawzi B. SaichiA small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved.
- DirectorAssia DjebarReturning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war, Lila is obsessed by memories of the war for independence that defined her childhood. In dialogue with other Algerian women, she reflects on the differences between her life and theirs.
- DirectorAssia Djebarhis film essay pieces together various photographs and footage of the Zerda ceremony from colonial archives, with anonymous poetic voice-overs recounting the lived experiences of indigenous Algerians.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsJuliet BertoFouad ZaouchAmor KhalfaA documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to adjust to France after many years in Tunisia. The man decides to forego the film in order to address the personal and social concerns of the people.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsYasmine KhlatRaouf Ben AmorDalila RamesTunis in 1980, A family leaves the old city, the Medina of Tunis to settle down in one of the new populated cities on the outskirts of the capital.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsImed MaalalKhaled KsouriHabib BelhadiIn the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question. This ripples out to affect Hachemi for, unbeknownst to anyone, as apprenticed youths they were molested by Ameur, the local carpenter. Farfat is banished from his father's home and the shared secret between the two friends threatens to undo more than just the wedding, but their very lives.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsHichem RostomHamadi ZarroukMichket KrifaYoussef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. Furthermore, his relationship with Zineb, a young, beautiful bourgeois, only brings him more trouble. During one long winter night, Youssef wanders in search of an emotional haven, prey to all the questions that flood his memory.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsAbdellatif KechicheGhalya LacroixJacques PenotRoufa, a young prostitute (Bezness) befriends a French photographer sent to do an expose.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSelim BoughedirMustapha AdouaniRabiah Ben-AbdullahNoura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.
- DirectorSouheil Ben-BarkaStarsAbdou ChaibaneMimsy FarmerSi AhmedIn Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. So begins this story in the hands of thousands of old men, women and children involved in meticulous weaving carpets.
- DirectorSouheil Ben-BarkaStarsIrene PapasLaurent TerzieffDjohra BacheneIn a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the nearby village. Based on Federico García Lorca's play.
- DirectorSouheil Ben-BarkaStarsRobert LiensolMiriam MakebaDouta SeckA rural teacher discovers the harsh realities of his South Africa.
- DirectorMoumen SmihiStarsLeila ShennaAbdelkader MoutaaChawki SaïlIn the mid-1950s, Tangier was still an international concession. But the time of independence and reunification of the country is approaching. On the advice of her entourage, Aïcha uses magical practices to prevent her husband from taking a second, younger wife. The clandestine resistance of women, her family and her allied neighbors has crystallized around her. Aïcha tears off her veil as a sign of revolt. During a final ritual by the ocean, she drowns. This film deals with the situation of women, the relationship to magic, but also with childhood, the relationship with the father and the austerity of education.
- DirectorHamid BenaniStarsMohamed AlkaghatTawfik DaddaKhadija MoujahidThe story of Massaoud, a rebellious young man, oppressed by both his family and the sclerotic society.
- DirectorAhmed BouananiStarsMohamed El HabachiMohamed Saïd HafifiMustapha MounirA man discovers money in a flour bag. It is the beginning of a story between pats and future, between silence and cry, and that ends like a disillusion.