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- 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.
- DirectorTogo MizrahiStarsAli Al-KassarReyad El KasabgyLayla Fawzi
- 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 KarimStarsDawlat AbiadColette D'ArvilleHassan el BaroudiThe film is a look into the problems facing Egyptian men who marry foreign women, heavily portraying the women as immoral gold diggers and cheats.
- DirectorFritz KrampStarsHassan EzzatNadia NajiHusain ReyadhLachin, 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 multi-female relations spineless, "Lachin" trying ruling alert to the tricks of the prime minister, is arrested "Lachin" charges Gwighth going to love him and he loves the ruling and filed in prison. Erupts people who had been fed up with the unjust actions of Prime Minister and took advantage of the famine to seize power, the release of Lachin the hands of the people and justice prevail in the country.
- 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.
- 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 ChahineStarsHanan TurkHani SalamaNabila EbeidEgyptian 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 for money rules. Adam (Hani Salama), the son of a rich businessman and his American wife, meets Hanane (Hanane Turk), a journalist of modest means at the airport on his return from his studies in the US. She is part of a campaign against a wealthy elite, which has thrived on plundering its own people. They fall in love and get married. Corruption is everywhere in the country and American interests are taking over the lucrative tourist trade. Adam's rich parents and their friends in the government are at the heart of this corrupt system. Adam's mother, Margaret (Nabila Ebeid), nourishes a strange affection for her son. She is possessive to the point of violence and is ready to get rid of Hanane, whom she considers her rival. Adam turns against the global economy of which his parents are the perfect examples as he sees through the greed of international speculators and the secret ties that bind them to fanatical fundamentalist sects. The fact that Hanane's brother has become an Islamist terrorist does not help matters. The resistance that the couple has to put up makes them grow strong, for which they pay a heavy price. 52nd Cannes Film Festival, 1999.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsSalah ZulfikarSuad HusniImad HamdiAbout the friendship of the Soviet people and Arabs working to build the gigantic Aswan Dam.
- 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.
- 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 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 .
- 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.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAhmed ZakiMervat AminMona ZakiThe private and public life of Egyptian president Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat.
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsBasem SamrahAhmed Fouad SelimAbla KamelA 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.
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsHind SabriAmr WakedGamil RatibA 48-hour journey into modern Cairo following the parallel lives of Youssef and Leila.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsDalidaMohsen MohieddinShouweikar1947 Cairo. Washerwoman Lavandiere dreams of escaping reality through movies. A charming organ grinder offers excitement, but a cholera outbreak threatens her son. Desperate, she fights to save him.
- DirectorAhmed AbdullahKamla AbouzekriMaryam Abu-OfStarsAhmed HelmyAmr WakedMona ZakiTen separate stories about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- DirectorHany LasheenStarsOmar SharifMervat AminHesham SelimA father keeps his principles in rural Egypt while power seduces his son in Cairo. Mohamed is a puppeteer, a buffoon whose shows dramatize the promise of Nasser's socialist revolution. He's a widower with one son, Bahlool, whom he sends to university at great financial and emotional sacrifice. In Cairo, Bahlool becomes the protege of a corrupt pasha, marries the pasha's daughter, and sets his sights on Parliament. Meanwhile, his father falls in love with Enaam, a spirited carnival worker. He continues to pray for Bahlool, hoping to rekindle ethics and revolutionary ideals in the young man, until his son's ambitions put Enaam at risk.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKal NagaYousra El LozyHany AdelKhaled 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 horrific failure. Khaled clashed big time with a changing more conservative Alexandria but He also stumbles upon fresh youth struggling for their under-ground music bands, art and ideas. in the middle of all the confusion, Will it ever all makes sense at the end? A question for the youth and the city to answer.
- DirectorJocelyne SaabStarsHanan TurkMohamed MounirFathi AbdulwahhabAfter studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
- 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.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorAsmaa El-BakryStarsSalah El-SaadanyMahmood El-GindiAbdulaziz MakhyoonThe setting is Cairo in June of 1945, during the last days of the Second World War. Gohar, a former university professor, encounters a young prostitute in an empty brothel and kills her in a moment of insanity. Assigned to the murder case, police inspector Nour El-Din stays on Gohar's trail hoping for a confrontation and confession of the crime. In this remarkable adaptation of the novel by Albert Cossery, both the detective and the criminal are faces with startling realizations as one closes in on the other.
- 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.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMichel PiccoliSalah ZulfikarMohsen MohieddinA story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradition and modernization in the context of fighting the French invaders.
- 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 BarakatStarsOmar SharifZubida TharwatRushdi AbazahBased 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.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsShadiaShukri SarhanKamal El-ShinnawiAfter four years in prison, the young thief Said Mahran come out of jail & seek revenge against those who betrayed him,his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to turn him into the police,they are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him and his mentor Rauf Ilwan.The original title in Arabic mean "the thief & the dogs" this movie was Adapted from a famous novella by Naguib Mahfouz how also co-wrote the film screenplay.Mahfouz was inspired by the life of the famous Egyptian thief Mahmoud Amin Soliman.
- 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.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsYoussef WahbiMadihah YusriImad HamdiA 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.
- 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 BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud YassineFarid ShawqiA story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.
- 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?
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsMohamed Al SharqawyFaten HamamahMohsen MohieddinA tale story of the July, 1952 revolution in Egypt through the experiences of Fatma (Hamama), a young betrothed woman. Her history is told in flash backs as she sits on the roof of her house, intending to jump to her death if her brother carries through with his threat to confine her to a mental institution. Fatma's Husband-to-be is a fisherman who has been away for a long time looking for work abroad, and she has stayed at home to take care of her two brothers instead of going with him. When he comes back, her brother Galal sees to it that he is arrested, intending to put him in prison for several years. Fatma, in turn, represents loyal Egyptians who resisted foreign-backed rule even if it meant dying.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharDawlat AbiadWell 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.
- DirectorSaid MarzoukStarsFaten HamamahRushdi AbazahAminah RizqThis film erupted the issue of women's right to get their divorce when life is impossible with their husbands. The movie faced the society for the first time with some problems that the "Marriage and divorce law" contains, which needed to be looked over again. The movie was direct cause of changing some subject in the "Family Law" and continues to be an icon for more movies discussing same problem. Faten won the best actress award from Cairo Festival, and a diploma of recognition from Tehran festival.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahEzzat El AlailiGamil RatibRauya is in her early forties when her husband decides to leave her for a younger, less talented but more attractive woman. The spurned wife remains with her daughter, pulls herself together and lands a job working at a newspaper.She gets interested in the good-looking editor, but when he begins to respond she backs off. Although he is separated from his wife, that is not the same as being officially divorced, and not good enough to risk an involvement. Later, her husband has turned against his new wife, and tries to force his way back into Rauya's life, but she is in no mood to rewrite her future.
- CreatorAmr SalamaStarsRazane JammalPhilip ShahbazKarla MaatoukSet in the 1960s, the series, packed with mystery and suspense, depicts the adventures of Doctor Refaat Ismail, a single hematologist who finds himself faced with a series of supernatural events.