top 100 arabic movies
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1. 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
2. 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: 5,355
3. Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
177 min | Drama, History
A 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
Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Yorgo Voyagis, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Leila Shenna, Cheikh Nourredine
Votes: 623
4. 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
5. The Silences of the Palace (1994)
116 min | Drama
As she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.
Director: Moufida Tlatli | Stars: Hind Sabri, Ghalya Lacroix, Nejia Ouerghi, Amel Hedhili
Votes: 1,109
6. Ahlam el-madina (1984)
120 min | Biography, Drama
A 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.
Director: Mohamed Malas | Stars: Yasmine Khlat, Rafik Sbiee, Bassel Abiad, Waha Al-Raheb
Votes: 121
7. Divine Intervention (2002)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War
Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
Director: Elia Suleiman | Stars: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher
Votes: 3,945 | Gross: $0.39M
8. 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: 2,692
9. West Beirut (1998)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: ... See full summary »
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas, Rola Al Amin
Votes: 4,860 | Gross: $0.34M
10. The Dupes (1972)
107 min | Drama
Set 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... See full summary »
Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abdul Rahman Al Rashi, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala, Bassam Lotfi
Votes: 401
11. Paradise Now (2005)
PG-13 | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Hamza Abu-Aiaash
Votes: 24,078 | Gross: $1.45M
12. Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Comedy
Noura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.
Director: Férid Boughedir | Stars: Selim Boughedir, Mustapha Adouani, Rabiah Ben-Abdullah, Mohamed Driss
Votes: 2,070
13. Man of Ashes (1986)
109 min | Drama
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Nouri Bouzid | Stars: Imed Maalal, Khaled Ksouri, Habib Belhadi, Mohamed Dhrif
Votes: 237
14. Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Crime
A group of children living on the street leave their gang, prompting retribution from the gang's leader. After one of the children dies, the rest try to come up with the resources to give their friend a proper burial.
Director: Nabil Ayouch | Stars: Mounïm Kbab, Mustapha Hansali, Hicham Moussoune, Abdelhak Zhayra
Votes: 2,939
15. Alexandria... Why? (1979)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
Yehia 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... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Naglaa Fathi, Ahmed Zaki, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 2,043
16. 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: 50,859
17. Wedding in Galilee (1987)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A 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... See full summary »
Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Mohamad Ali El Akili, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury, Yussuf Abu-Warda
Votes: 524
18. 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: 582
19. Cruel Sea (1971)
106 min | Drama
The 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... See full summary »
Director: Khalid Al Siddiq | Stars: Mohammed Al-Mansour, Amal Bakr, Saad Al Farraj, Hayat Al Fahad
Votes: 340
20. Doa al karawan (1959)
109 min | Drama, Romance
This 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.
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq, Zahrat El-Ula
Votes: 1,970
21. The Time That Remains (2009)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, History
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.
Director: Elia Suleiman | Stars: Menashe Noy, Elia Suleiman, Baher Agbariya, Zidane Awad
Votes: 2,740 | Gross: $0.02M
22. El-Toq wa el-Iswerah (1986)
115 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Based on a novel by Yahia Al Tahir Abdulla, the film focuses on Hazina (Fardous Abdel Hamid), who lives in Karnak, Luxor, with her paralyzed husband (Ezzat El Alaili), her daughter and ... See full summary »
Director: Khairy Beshara | Stars: Sherihan, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Ahmed Abdelaziz, Samir Abdullatif
Votes: 189
23. 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
24. 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: 17,382 | Gross: $3.27M
25. Stars in Broad Daylight (1988)
105 min | Drama
In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family ... See full summary »
Director: Ossama Mohammed | Stars: Zuhair Abdlulkarim, Sabah As-Salem, Saad Eddin Baqdoones, Fuad Ghazi
Votes: 89
26. Al-lail (1992)
116 min | Drama, History, War
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Malas | Stars: Nezar Abohajar, Sabah Al Jazaery, Fares Al-Helou, Hazar Awad
Votes: 167
27. 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: 1,791
28. Rih al awras (1966)
95 min | Drama, War
A 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... See full summary »
Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Keltoum, Mohamed Chouikh, Hassan El-Hassani, Thania Timgad
Votes: 116
29. Omar Gatlato (1977)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Boualem Benani, Aziz Degga, Farida Guenaneche, Rabah Leghaa
Votes: 192
30. The Sparrow (1972)
105 min | Drama
Set shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Qabil, Ali El Sherif, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Seif Abdelrahman
Votes: 393
31. Caramel (2007)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Yasmine Al Massri
Votes: 14,608 | Gross: $1.06M
32. 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: 7,243
33. The Nightingale's Prayer (1982)
107 min | Drama
Hassan 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.
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Sharif Abdulhamid, Aaliyah Abdulmoneim, Nimat Abdulnaser, Hamdi Al Wazir
Votes: 742
34. 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
35. The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
100 min | Drama
The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her.... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Ezzat El Alaili, Shouweikar, Aminah Rizq
Votes: 289
36. 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
37. 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
38. Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Layla Hakim
Votes: 13,508 | Gross: $0.53M
39. Return of the Prodigal Son (1978)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Freed after spending 12 years in jail, a man's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family expectations.
Directors: Youssef Chahine, Farouk Beloufa | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Huda Sultan, Shukri Sarhan, Soheir El-Morshidy
Votes: 956
40. 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: 1,489
41. Bab el shams (2004)
278 min | Romance, Drama, War
In the beginning was Palestine, and the story of Younes (Orwa Nyrabia) began, known as Abou Salem, known as the Man, said to be the father of Ibrahim, fighting the English from the age of ... See full synopsis »
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Rim Turki, Orwa Nyrabia, Basel Khayyat, Hala Omran
Votes: 403
42. Destiny (1997)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Safia El Emari
Votes: 3,201
43. Hallaq darb al-foauqara (1982)
105 min | Drama
Among people living in a popular neighborhood in Casablanca, there is a hairdresser who accepts his fate, but his best friend never stops teaching him that struggles and resistance are the ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Reggab | Stars: Omar Chenbod, Mohamed El Habachi, Khadija Khamouli, Hamid Najah
Votes: 19
44. Wadjda (2012)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd
Votes: 21,481 | Gross: $1.35M
45. A Flood in Baath Country (2005)
46 min | Documentary
A look at the Baath party's project to construct a system of dams.
Director: Omar Amiralay
Votes: 149
46. Al-kompars (1993)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Salem dreams of being an actor but is still working in a gas station, only his love for Nada can make things easier for him.
Director: Nabil Maleh | Stars: Bassam Kousa, Wafaa Mouselley, Mohammed Esh-Sheikh Naguib, Samar Sami
Votes: 155
47. Al malaika la tuhaliq fi al-dar albayda (2004)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
The life and times of a Casablanca cafe waiter.
Director: Mohamed Asli | Stars: Abdessamed Miftah El Kheir, Abderrazak El Badaoui, Rachid El Hazmir, Leila El Hayani
Votes: 66
48. Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996)
88 min | Drama
A Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel's Arab population.
Director: Elia Suleiman | Stars: Elia Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Fuad Suleiman, Ali Suliman
Votes: 852
49. Land of Fear (1999)
142 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mix between an honored police officer who fight the crimes and a drug dealer in the same person and a confliction in and out.
Director: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Farah, Hamdy Gheith, Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra
Votes: 1,896
50. The Secret of the Grain (2007)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche
Votes: 7,913 | Gross: $0.09M
51. 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
52. The Golden Horseshoes (1989)
104 min | Drama
Youssef 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... See full summary »
Director: Nouri Bouzid | Stars: Hichem Rostom, Hamadi Zarrouk, Michket Krifa, Chadia Azzouz
Votes: 47
53. 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
54. I Love Cinema (2004)
R | 125 min | Drama, Comedy
A child who loves the cinema struggles with his fanatic dad who finds everything ,including cinema, a sin, with the help of his mother who is sexually depressed.
Director: Osama Fawzy | Stars: Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Menna Shalabi, Aida Abdel Aziz
Votes: 1,443
55. Al hayatt al yawmiyah fi quariah suriyah (1976)
80 min | Documentary
A documentary about the impact of newly introduced political reforms on a rural village in Syria - a place plagued with tribalism, ignorance and evil.
Director: Omar Amiralay
Votes: 100
56. 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
57. Days of Glory (2006)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze
Votes: 15,147 | Gross: $0.32M
58. The Dove's Lost Necklace (1991)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
This second feature in Nacer Khemir's "Desert Trilogy". The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a fragment of manuscript, ... See full summary »
Director: Nacer Khemir | Stars: Navin Chowdhry, Walid Arakji, Ninar Esber, Sonia Hochlaff
Votes: 542
59. Ahlam Hind we Kamilia (1988)
109 min | Drama, Romance
Follows the story of two lower-middle class women trying to survive with their dreams in 1980's Egypt.
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Naglaa Fathi, Ahmed Zaki, Aida Riyad, Zeinab Abdo
Votes: 583
60. The Great Journey (2004)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
Reda, a young French-Moroccan guy and his old father drive from the south of France to Mecca in order for the father to do his pilgrimage. At first distant, they gradually learn to know each other.
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi | Stars: Nicolas Cazalé, Mohamed Majd, Jacky Nercessian, Ghina Ognianova
Votes: 2,572
61. Assarab (1979)
100 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Ahmed Bouanani | Stars: Mohamed El Habachi, Mohamed Saïd Hafifi, Mustapha Mounir, Mohamed Razine
Votes: 36
62. Karnak Café (1975)
143 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Ali Badr Khan | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Suad Husni, Nour El-Sherif, Salah Zulfikar
Votes: 745
63. 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
64. Mille mois (2003)
124 min | Drama
It is the holy month of Ramadan in Morocco in 1981. Amina, accompanied with her seven years old son Mehdi, come to live with her father-in-law Ahmed in a small village in Morocco, after her... See full summary »
Director: Faouzi Bensaïdi | Stars: Fouad Labied, Nezha Rahile, Mohamed Majd, Mohammed Afifi
Votes: 256
65. Wanderers of the Desert (1984)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert.
Director: Nacer Khemir | Stars: Nacer Khemir, Soufiane Makni, Noureddine Kasbaoui, Sonia Ichti
Votes: 675
66. 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: 356
67. Wechma (1971)
87 min
The story of Massaoud, a rebellious young man, oppressed by both his family and the sclerotic society.
Director: Hamid Benani | Stars: Mohamed Alkaghat, Tawfik Dadda, Khadija Moujahid, Abdelkader Moutaa
Votes: 53
68. Casanegra (2008)
131 min | Drama
Two childhood friends, Karim and Adil, prowl the streets of Casablanca, their native city. They do not do much, in fact they hustle rather than work. They are also unashamed dreamers, Karim... See full summary »
Director: Nour Eddine Lakhmari | Stars: Anas El Baz, Omar Lotfi, Mohamed Benbrahim, Ghita Tazi
Votes: 1,164
69. 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
70. 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
71. Out of Life (1991)
97 min | Crime, Drama, War
A French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Hippolyte Girardot, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity, Habib Hammoud
Votes: 511
72. Fertile Memory (1981)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh
Votes: 71
73. Bad Day Good Day (1988)
125 min | Drama
A poor family struggles to survive in the slums of Cairo in this depressing social melodrama. Aicha is the widowed matriarch who uses her savvy to avoid tragic calamities. Soon even her ... See full summary »
Director: Khairy Beshara | Stars: Hassan AbdulSalam, Ibrahim Ahmad, Salwa Muhammad Ahmad, Mervat Al-Shennawi
Votes: 280
74. Sejnane (1974)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Kemal studies in the Sadiki boarding school. Since the death of his father who was murdered by a secret colonial organization, Kemal has doubts about the political situation of Tunisia.
Director: Abdellatif Ben Ammar | Stars: Samir Ayadi, Munirah Ben-Arafah, Bchira Cherif, Kamal El-Tawati
Votes: 18
75. Al Hodoud (1984)
99 min | Comedy
A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers.
Directors: Anita Durdy, Duraid Lahham, Wasim Rawas | Stars: Duraid Lahham, Raghda, Rashid Assaf, Hani Al-Rumani
Votes: 314
76. The Beach of Lost Children (1991)
88 min | Drama
In a Moroccan coastal village, Mina is isolated, locked up by her father because of a pregnancy, carrying in her the mourning of her lover whom she murdered by accident following an ... See full summary »
Director: Jillali Ferhati | Stars: Souad Ferhati, Mohamed Timoud, Fatima Loukili
Votes: 36
77. Salt of This Sea (2008)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Dana Drigov
Votes: 1,463 | Gross: $0.01M
78. Thartharah fawq el-Nil (1971)
115 min | Drama
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Magda El-Khatib, Adel Adham, Ahmed Al Jaziri, Fathiya Ali
Votes: 771
79. Chaos, This Is (2007)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Egyptian movie deals with the issue of corruption in Egypt and the Egyptian police excesses, embodies all of this in the character of the police officer, "Hatem".
Directors: Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef | Stars: Khaled Saleh, Menna Shalabi, Youssef El Sherif, Hala Sedki
Votes: 2,556
80. Al-yazerli (1974)
95 min | Drama
The film's poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks
Director: Qais Al-Zubaidi | Stars: Abdallah Abbassi, Nadia Arslan, Adnan Barakat, Mona Wassef
Votes: 30
81. 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
82. The Citadel (1988)
96 min | Drama
In a small village in rural Algeria, the "village idiot" is madly in love with a married woman. His voyeurism and antics bring shame on his father, who guarantees that his son will be ... See full summary »
Director: Mohamed Chouikh | Stars: Djillali Ain-Tedeles, Yamina Bachir, Mohamed Baki, Khaled Barkat
Votes: 83
83. Messages from the Sea (2010)
133 min | Drama, Romance
A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
Director: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Stars: Asser Yassin, Basma, Mayy Kassab, Muhammad Lutfi
Votes: 1,832
84. Al-mohager (1994)
129 min | Drama
Ram leaves the nomadic life and embarks on a quest for knowledge in a pharaonic Egypt mired in political intrigue. Based on a biblical story.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Youssra, Khaled Nabawy, Mahmoud Hemida, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 1,134
85. Mascarades (2008)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his ... See full summary »
Director: Lyès Salem | Stars: Lyès Salem, Sarah Reguieg, Rym Takoucht, Merouane Zmirli
Votes: 421
86. Darb al-mahabil (1955)
90 min | Drama
Literary 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.
Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Shukri Sarhan, Birlanti Abdulhamid, Abdelghani Kamar, Tawfik El Deken
Votes: 93
87. The Street Player (1983)
148 min | Drama, Sport
The life of a football player named Fares who goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife, job, sexual desires and football.
Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Adel Emam, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Nagah El-Mogui, Abdallah Farghaly
Votes: 1,651
88. Amreeka (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
Director: Cherien Dabis | Stars: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat
Votes: 3,686 | Gross: $0.62M
89. Lieah ya banafsieg (1993)
120 min | Drama
Director: Radwan El-Kashef | Stars: Farouk Al-Fishawy, Nagah El-Mogui, Hassan Hosny, Shawqy Shamekh
Votes: 101
90. Waiting for Happiness (2002)
90 min | Drama, Music
The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Khatra Ould Abder Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed, Fatimetou Mint Ahmeda
Votes: 1,095 | Gross: $0.00M
91. Watch Out for ZouZou (1972)
132 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a college professor falls for one of his students, his fiancée decides to expose the student's shameful secret to all.
Director: Hasan El-Emam | Stars: Hussein Fahmy, Shafik Galal, Samir Ghanem, Suad Husni
Votes: 515
92. Phantom Beirut (1998)
117 min | Drama
Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Khalil returns to Beirut after many years. Ten years earlier, during a battle, he took advantage of the confusion and pretended he was dead.
Director: Ghassan Salhab | Stars: Aouni Kawas, Darina Al Joundi, Rabih Mroue, Carol Abboud
Votes: 68
93. Hena maysara (2007)
127 min | Action, Crime, Drama
the movie discuss the people of random areas in Egypt and the unjust from the government toward these people
Director: Khaled Youssef | Stars: Amr Saad, Somaya El Khashab, Amr Abdulgalil, Hala Fakher
Votes: 704
94. Bab El Oued City (1994)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Nadia Kaci, Mohamed Ourdache, Hassan Abidou, Mabrouk Ait Amara
Votes: 222
95. War in the Land of Egypt (1991)
90 min | Drama
The mayor have many sons, the youngest of his sons for military service are required, but it is looking for different ways to not send his son to perform his duty, he makes a deal with a ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Omar Sharif, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Abdalla Mahmoud
Votes: 488
96. Microphone (II) (2010)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Khaled 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ahmad Abdalla | Stars: Kal Naga, Yousra El Lozy, Hany Adel, Ahmed Magdy
Votes: 1,808
97. 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: 1,113
98. Oral Messages (1991)
108 min
Set in the north of Syria, a village idiot with an enormous nose (Ismail) falls in love with his beautiful neighbor (Salma), thus he sends his handsome friend - who also falls in love with her- to deliver her oral love letters.
Director: Abdellatif Abdelhamid | Stars: Assaad Feddah, Rana Jammoul, Fayez Kazak, Ramy Ramadan
Votes: 84
99. Al-fahd (1972)
110 min | Drama
The struggle of an ordinary peasant against the feudal system and the authorities.
Director: Nabil Maleh | Stars: Ahmad Addas, Khaled Taja
Votes: 30
100. The Flirtation of Girls (1949)
120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In this classic musical, poor old Hamam, a modest arabic teacher, falls in love with the young and beautiful Laila, his aristocratic pupil. Soon, he must decide between his unrealistic feelings or sacrificing his love for her own good.
Director: Anwar Wagdi | Stars: Nagib El-Rihani, Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 584
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