Amazing Egyptian Movies
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1. Kit Kat (1991)
129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sheikh 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Stars: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad, Nagah El-Mogui
Votes: 2,693
2. Mouths and Rabbits (1977)
120 min | Drama, Romance
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Mahmoud Yassine, Farid Shawqi, Ahmed Abaza
Votes: 713
3. The Egg and the Stone (1990)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Mustafa, a philosophy teacher, is fired from his job for being involved in political activities. He decides to use his intelligence and the ignorance of people to become a wealthy sorcerer.
Director: Ali Abdel-Khalek | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Maali Zayed, Mamdouh Wafi, Fouad Khalil
Votes: 1,103
4. Against the Government (1992)
116 min | Drama
A famous corrupt personal injury lawyer finds himself in the middle of a case where he has to choose between his money love and the interest of one of his customers who appears later to be his own son
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Lebleba, Afaf Shoieb, Al Morsi Abu Al Abbas
Votes: 1,124
5. Salam Ya Sahby (1986)
128 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Three friends decide to work in watermelon selling, but the head of the vegetables and fruits doesn't like that, so they go on a fight with him.
Director: Nader Galal | Stars: Adel Emam, Sa'eed Saleh, Sawsan Badr, Mustafa Metwalli
Votes: 1,891
6. The Message (1976)
PG | 177 min | Biography, Drama, History
This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka
Votes: 50,866
7. The Yacoubian Building (2006)
165 min | Drama
Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Essad Youniss
Votes: 7,244
8. Khali min El-Cholesterol (2005)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Ayyoub is a young man who works in the advertising field; thanks to his autistic mother who helps him to find new ideas. His boss tries to divert his ideas to be exploited in an illegal way. Ayyoub decides to take revenge on his boss.
Director: Mohamed Abou-Seif | Stars: Ashraf Abdel Baky, Ilham Shaheen, Hassan Hosny, Khaled Saleh
Votes: 225
9. 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: 357
10. 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: 2,453
11. Ibrahim Labyad (2009)
R | 134 min | Action, Drama
Witnessing the killing of his father as a kid, Ibrahim is dragged to the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself, he meets Abdul-Malek Zarzur, the crime lord of the town.
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Ahmed El Sakka, Hind Sabri, Amr Waked, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
Votes: 4,131
12. Lion of the Desert (1980)
PG | 173 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Irene Papas
Votes: 17,391 | Gross: $3.27M
13. The Second Wife (1967)
105 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Suad Husni, Shukri Sarhan, Sanaa Gameel, Salah Mansour
Votes: 959
14. El-Baih el-Bawwab (1987)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
Abdel Samea goes to Egypt with his wife and children looking for a job so he works as a doorman, and by being smart he works as a broker until he makes a lot of money.
Director: Hassan Ibrahim | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Safia El Emari, Fouad El-Mohandes, Ragaa Al-Gidawy
Votes: 731
15. Bit of Fear (1969)
112 min | Drama
Based 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Shadia, Mahmoud Moursy, Yehia Chahine, Ahmed Abo Abeya
Votes: 681
16. Shabab emraa (1956)
126 min | Drama
A 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Salah Abouseif, Ahmad El-Sabawi, Amin Yousseff Ghurab | Stars: Tahiyyah Karyuka, Shukri Sarhan, Shadia, Abdulwareth Asar
Votes: 575
17. The High (1985)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
As 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.
Director: Ali Abdel-Khalek | Stars: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Noura, Yehia El-Fakharany, Zeinab Abdo
Votes: 2,476
18. The Escape (1991)
122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After his discharge from prison , Mansor take his revenge and become hunted by the police.
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Hala Sedki, Salah Abdullah, Abu Bakr Ezzat
Votes: 1,114
19. Clash (2016)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Set 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.
Director: Mohamed Diab | Stars: Nilli Karim, Hany Adel, Muhammad El-Sebai, Muhammad El-Suwisi
Votes: 6,191 | Gross: $0.02M
20. Ismail Yasseen fi mostashfet al-maganin (1958)
115 min | Comedy
A man and a beautiful woman love each other's, but other men in the neighborhood also are in love with her.
Director: Isa Karamah | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Hind Rustum, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Reyad El Kasabgy
Votes: 268
21. The Treasure (2017)
157 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Hind Sabri, Amina Khalil, Mohamad Ramadan, Salma Elshimy
Votes: 2,128
22. Sorry to Disturb (2008)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.
Director: Khaled Marei | Stars: Fares Bakr, Ahmed Helmy, Menna Shalabi, Mahmoud Hemida
Votes: 6,941
23. The Innocent (1986)
110 min | Drama, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem, Ilham Shaheen
Votes: 1,490
24. Escaping Tel Aviv (2009)
119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Sherif Mounir, Karim Abdel Aziz, Mona Zaki, Kinda Alloush
Votes: 6,200
25. Ala bab el wazir (1982)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kamal is a university student who is in love with Nora the daughter of a ruthless businessman who rejects him because he is poor and thus plots to keep him away from her. With the help of ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Abdelaziz | Stars: Adel Emam, Youssra, Tawfik El Deken, Salah Nazmi
Votes: 594
26. Ghabi Minnuh Fih (2004)
88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
From the acclaimed director Rami Emam comes this comedy starring Hani Ramzi as Sultan, an extremely dumb but kind-hearted thief tries to change his life after he meets and falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: Rami Imam | Stars: Hani Ramzi, Nilli Karim, Hassan Hosny, Talaat Zakaria
Votes: 1,657
27. Factory Girl (2013)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Hayam is a factory worker living in a lower-middle-class area with other factory girls. She thinks that her feelings for the new factory supervisor can grow in spite of the class ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Yasmin Raeis, Hany Adel, Salwa Khattab, Salwa Mohamed Ali
Votes: 1,553
28. Two Girls from Egypt (2010)
125 min | Drama
Two virgin women in a society where marriage is part of the female identity
Director: Mohamed Amin | Stars: Zeina, Saba Mubarak, Eyad Nassar, Ahmad Wafiq
Votes: 690
29. Dahab (1953)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The events of the film revolve around the child Dahab, who gives birth to Mounir Bey's maid after he secretly married her behind his wife, and after trying to get rid of the newborn child, ... See full summary »
Director: Anwar Wagdi | Stars: Fairouz, Magda, Seraj Munir, Anwar Wagdi
Votes: 285
30. El Millioner (1950)
102 min | Comedy
Assem a millionaire who by chance found a duplicate for himself and ask him to cover his place for a week to escape a murder
Director: Helmy Rafla | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Camelia, Su'ad Makkawi, Zinat Sidqi
Votes: 147
31. Sleepless Nights (2003)
128 min | Drama, Romance
It tells about the smallest details and crypts in the lives of four couples friends.
Director: Hani Khalifa | Stars: Mona Zaki, Hanan Turk, Sherif Mounir, Fathi Abdulwahhab
Votes: 2,525
32. Escaping Tel Aviv (2009)
119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Sherif Mounir, Karim Abdel Aziz, Mona Zaki, Kinda Alloush
Votes: 6,200
33. The High (1985)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
As 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.
Director: Ali Abdel-Khalek | Stars: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Noura, Yehia El-Fakharany, Zeinab Abdo
Votes: 2,476
34. Shabab emraa (1956)
126 min | Drama
A 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Salah Abouseif, Ahmad El-Sabawi, Amin Yousseff Ghurab | Stars: Tahiyyah Karyuka, Shukri Sarhan, Shadia, Abdulwareth Asar
Votes: 575
35. El-Mashbooh (1981)
125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.
Directors: Magdy Abdel Messih, Samir Seif, Saeed Zakareya | Stars: Adel Emam, Suad Husni, Farouk Al-Fishawy, Sa'eed Saleh
Votes: 938
36. Bittersweet (2010)
130 min | Comedy, Drama
A 30-year-old Egyptian goes back to Egypt after living in America for 20 years, but he has a hard time coping with the difference, especially after he loses his identity and all his money and becomes stuck in Egypt.
Director: Khaled Marei | Stars: Ahmed Helmy, Edward, Aimi Samir Ghanem, Lotfy Labib
Votes: 7,840
37. The Wife of an Important Man (1987)
115 min | Drama
When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Mervat Amin, Ahmed Zaki, Abdel Halim Hafez, Zizi Mustafa
Votes: 1,793
38. Awqat faragh (2006)
94 min | Drama
A story of young college friends whom are getting lost in their thoughts, trying to find their own path.
Directors: Mary Badeer, Mohamed Mostafa, Mohammed Moustafa | Stars: Randa Al Behery, Ahmed Hatem, Amr Abed, Safaa Tag El-Din
Votes: 710
39. Cairo 30 (1966)
132 min | Drama, Romance
Mahgoub 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Suad Husni, Ahmad Mazhar, Hamdy Ahmed, Ahmed Tawfik
Votes: 658
40. Tito (2004)
120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
This Egyptian action film is about Tito (Ahmad Al Saqa), who was sentenced to 16 years in jail after a burglary when he was a kid. After he gets out, he goes back to crime with a corrupt ... See full summary »
Director: Tarek Alarian | Stars: Ahmed El Sakka, Hanan Turk, Amr Waked, Khaled Saleh
Votes: 3,629
41. Idam Mayyet (1985)
133 min | Drama, Thriller
Mansour is Palestinian young man who works as a spy for Israel in Egypt, the Egyptian intelligence arrest him and sentences him to death but because Mansour looks exactly like Izdin an ... See full summary »
Director: Ali Abdel-Khalek | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Poussi, Ali Abdulkhaleq
Votes: 440
42. Private Alexandria (2005)
PG | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lawyer tries to unveil the mysterious murder and linked emotionally with his Client, and soon the case to reveal more and more surprises.
Director: Sandra Nashaat | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Ghadah Adel, Khaled Saleh, Nour
Votes: 1,965
43. Masgoon Tranzait (2008)
114 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A professional thief was caught in the act of stealing and killing a security guard. Being sentenced for life before a brigadier general in the government got him out of jail. Promising to ... See full summary »
Director: Sandra Nashaat | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Nour El-Sherif, Salah Abdullah, Eman El-Assy
Votes: 1,378
44. Libat el-Sitt (1946)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
The film takes place in the city of Cairo during the Second World War, when Hasan Abu-Tabaq (Nagib El-Rihani) meets the girl Libah (Tahiyyah Karyuka). Feelings of love grow between then ... See full summary »
Director: Waliyyuddin Sameh | Stars: Nagib El-Rihani, Tahiyyah Karyuka, Suleiman Naguib, Aziz Osman
Votes: 284
45. Son of Hamido (1957)
110 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Two undercover police officers on secret mission the have to play as fishermen to catch the dealers that hide drugs in fish, but during the mission they fall in love with the two sisters of boat's captain.
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Hind Rustum, Ahmed Ramzy, Tawfik El Deken
Votes: 689
46. You Fly (2009)
116 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A nerdy vet gets help from a genie to catch the attention of the woman he loves.
Director: Ahmed El Gendy | Stars: Ahmed Mekky, Donia Samir Ghanem, Maged El-Kidwani, Hesham Ismail
Votes: 4,224
47. Saidaty Anesaty (1989)
113 min | Comedy
To encounter the housing crisis, four female co-workers decide to wed the office boy. but they insist on maintaining the legal power to divorce themselves from him.
Director: Raafat El-Mihi | Stars: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ashraf Abdel Baky, Othman Abdul Menem, Youssef Dawood
Votes: 160
48. The Land of Hypocrisy (1968)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man who is struggling with life's daily problems , especially his troublesome wife , accidently runs into a man who makes bills that change human behavior and his life changes forever .
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Fouad El-Mohandes, Shouweikar, Samihah Ayyoob, Hassan Mustafa
Votes: 679
49. The Blue Elephant (2014)
Not Rated | 170 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
While trying to help an inmate at the mental hospital, a psychotherapist unravels mysteries he never thought existed.
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Karim Abdel Aziz, Khaled El-Sawi, Nilli Karim, Mohamed Mamdouh
Votes: 29,837
50. Date Wine (1998)
110 min | Drama, Romance
This film is an exploration of what happens to places in general, and people in particular, once the menfolk abandon an Egyptian village to investigate the greener-grass on the proverbial '... See full summary »
Director: Radwan El-Kashef | Stars: Seif Abdelrahman, Manal Afifi, Hamdy Ahmed, Fayza Amasaib
Votes: 584
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