My favourite Egyptians films
My favourite Egyptians films
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- DirectorRadwan El-KashefStarsSeif AbdelrahmanManal AfifiHamdy AhmedThis 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 'other side'. The womenfolk, those too old and those too young are left behind... and as the years pass, only letters return, telling tales of loneliness and hard-times. A young man, Ahmed, grows-up under these surroundings and has to deal with being the de-facto man-in-charge; when several of the migrant workers return one day, everyone has to come to terms with things being forever changed.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSuad HusniShukri SarhanSanaa GameelA 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAtef SalemStarsSamira AhmedImad HamdiHasan YoussefHusain is the head of a large Egyptian family, who has problems managing the cost of the marriage of his eldest daughter. He decides to take some amount from his financial trust in the company where he works with the intention of refunding later. In this context, the film shows the social life of the Egyptian family at the time.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsShadiaMahmoud MoursyYehia ChahineBased 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 is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharAminah RizqThis 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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSabry AbdelmonemHamdy AhmedNagat AliAfter a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiHala SedkiSalah AbdullahAfter his discharge from prison , Mansor take his revenge and become hunted by the police.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsSharif AbdulhamidAaliyah AbdulmoneimNimat AbdulnaserHassan 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.
- 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.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsSalah QabilAli El SherifMahmoud Al MelejiSet 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.
- DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsAhmed ZakiMaali ZayedMamdouh WafiMustafa, 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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFarid ShawqiEzzat El AlailiShouweikarThe 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. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in the pursuit of pleasure because he recognizes that death will bring an end to all enjoyment. They meet and become friends. Through this friendship the water carrier is encouraged to change his morbid way of thinking and to enjoy life.
- DirectorKhaled MareiStarsAhmed HelmyEdwardAimi Samir GhanemA 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.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAdel EmamFardous Abdel HamidNagah El-MoguiThe 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSamir SeifStarsNour El-SherifPoussiAhmed RatebA Teacher in Upper Egypt is assigned to supervise a students' trip to Cairo as the trip doesn't go as planned, he has to find a way to make things right, but things get complicated and run against his moral values.
- DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizNouraYehia El-FakharanyAs 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.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizNour El-SherifYoussraSalah and Morsi are close friends, living in poverty. They decide to sell a bag of drugs to collect money, start their own business, and become wealthy businessmen. In addition to their suffering to keep their friendship as strong.
- DirectorAly RedaStarsFarida FahmyMahmoud RedaAbdel Moneim IbrahimThe fictionalized story of the Reda Troupe, Egypt's earliest professional folkloric dance group.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsNour El-SherifMaali ZayedMamdouh Abd El AleemFaraj al-Okta collides with the Israeli enemy to get rid of the resistance men in Suez. Hassan Ezz accused the only survivor of the group's treason and stealing the money and sentenced him to prison. The daughter of the resistance leader is looking for her father's murderer.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsNour El-SherifEman El TokhyHassan HosnyAbul Hassan is a clerk in the Ministry of Justice who lives with his three sons: Dr. He praises a prestigious center in an international organization abroad. Walaa works in a hotel, but the children are shocked once that their father accused of stealing the file of one of the important issues. He returns to stand beside his innocent father and is surprised that his family has been decomposed. Loyalty has turned into a girl who hugs herself and Ala heroin, trying to identify the reasons that led the family to do so and help his cousin, researcher Siham, whom he had a relationship with love. The doctor begins to recognize the causes of the dissolution of his family one by one, prove the innocence of the father, "Abul Hassan" and commit suicide daughter loyalty and recognizes the son Alaa stealing the file and use heroin to imprisonment.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiAida RiyadFollows the story of two lower-middle class women trying to survive with their dreams in 1980's Egypt.
- DirectorMohammad FadelStarsAdel EmamSuad HusniGamil RatibSalah has put in jail in unfair way, in jail he falls in love with Layla.
- 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.
- DirectorMohamed AminStarsZeinaSaba MubarakEyad NassarTwo virgin women in a society where marriage is part of the female identity
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAida Abdel AzizTawfik El DekenYehia El-FakharanyEscaping life in the big city of Cairo, to enjoy living in the countryside.
- DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsNour El-SherifAdel AdhamFadia Abdel GhanyQarashi ( Nour El Sherif ) donate his blood to the great business man Raafat ( Adel Adham ) who is suffering from renal failure ; The blood transfusion process is repeated in return for his appointment as a driver for his car ; An operation is performed for Qurashi and his kidney is removed without his knowledge .
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsFaten HamamahYehia El-FakharanyHesham SelimNargis is a mother who just got an opportunity to travel to America within 24 hours. Her son and daughter persuaded her and motivated her to immigrate to the Land of dream (America). Tonight is New Year's Eve and Nargis lost her passport and ticket. As she was looking for her passport everywhere, she meets Raouf who works a Magician that entertain many tricks with Nargis. After a long night between Nargis and Raouf, she finds out that the Land of Dreams is the Land where you can find them and they become true. She decided to stay in Egypt and did not travel.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizSherif MounirAida RiyadSheikh 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 with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking marijuana with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house. He knows everything about his neighbors and their secrets and love affairs.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFarid ShawqiImaneMahmoud Al MelejiA gang led by a doctor who selects some desperate men and persuade them to marry and edit the insurance policy on the life of the wives and then killed .
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsNaglaa FathiAdel AdhamMamdouh Abd El AleemRamzi a struggling musician,works in luxury hotel as a pianist to make a living,his troubled marriage and constant fighting with his sister in law for lack of money decides to live with his mother to get some peace,reconnect with the neighbour amira,a school friend and a good company,her own life and its troubles.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKal NagaMaged El-KidwaniHouria FarghallyDecor is about "choices" we make in life. Can one major choice haunt us to the extent of wishing to imagine or live our alternate options of such choice? Decor is an incredible journey down that rabbit hole.
- DirectorInaam Mohamed AliStarsMahmood El-GindiSherif MounirMohamed MounirBetween the Setback of 1967 and October War, Abdel Rahman feels despair following the defeat of his homeland as he witnesses the changes that occurred to the people and their journey from despair to determination.
- DirectorSaifuddin ShawkatStarsSuad HusniImad HamdiYehia Chahine
- DirectorSaad ArafaStarsMokhtar Al SayedYehia ChahineFaten HamamahLover growing between Ahmed and Nawal since childhood, he surprised Nawal by departure to Cairo and lives there, she married his older brother Ibrahim, when they travel to visit him, Nawal asked him about the reason for abandoning her.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsFouad El-MohandesShouweikarSamihah AyyoobA 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 .
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsAbdel Halim HafezImaneMahmoud Al MelejiA broken marriage that was caused by a drunken father. A mother was forced to raise her son with another man who also has a son. Days and nights went past and they grew up, they were different kind of step brothers. When one brother was driving drunk had hit and run accident. An innocent person who was a friend got the blame. So father decided to protect his own son who was guilty. The mother doesn't want her own innocent son to suffer. The young man decided to find his own lost drunken father to fight for him.
- DirectorHassan Reda Sr.StarsTahiyyah KaryukaYehia ChahineUmar El-HaririBased on play Othello of William Shakespear ; Hafez try to convice his friend that his wife has been unfaithful .
- DirectorAli IdrisStarsKhaled AbdelhamedMohamed AliMuhammad AliA group of young Egyptians are trying to escape from the harsh life through illegal immigration .
- DirectorMohamed NabihStarsYehia El-FakharanyNellyNashaat AbazaSalwa travels to Alexandria by train. By chance, she sees Ezzat, who loved him during the university days, preferring the rich man. The train crashes along the road, and the events of the story begin and each of them begins to follow the other. But will love end?
- DirectorMary BadeerMohamed MostafaMohammed MoustafaStarsRanda Al BeheryAhmed HatemAmr AbedA story of young college friends whom are getting lost in their thoughts, trying to find their own path.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsShadiaImad HamdiAbdel Moneim IbrahimThe story revolves around the escape of Zahra from her small town after her family obliged her to marry a wealthy old woman. She went to Alexandria and worked in a hostel. She began to meet new people and her life changes.
- DirectorAshraf FahmyStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizNabila EbeidTawfik El DekenDreaming of wealth and posh life made a teacher's wife start an affair with his friend to escape the average life,but Brought jealousy,conspiracy and plots that ended with crimes
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsAnwar WagdiSamia GamalMadihah YusriA young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
- DirectorKhaled DiabStarsMaged El-KidwaniMostafa KhaterSayed RagabThe film is a comedy about a couple seeking a visa to America. The husband discovers that his pregnant wife has taken pills to speed up the delivery process to give birth on American soil, and his son gets citizenship.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsAhmed RamzyNadia LutfiMahmoud Al MelejiAmal is married to a criminal, upon his return from jail, her lover Ashraf kills him unintentionally. Ashraf asks his brother Mahmoud for help. An innocent man may get executed so Amal has to choose between her love and her conscience.
- DirectorNour El-SherifStarsRagaa Al-GidawyAhmad BedairNour El-SherifA man and a woman in the fall of their life Gathering them a love story facing some trouble .
- DirectorHassan HafezStarsFouad El-MohandesShouweikarSamir GhanemZalata escapes from Egypt after divorcing his four wives and moves to a fictional town called Texico where he becomes a dangerous outlaw and later its governor. After he shoots the leader of a posse known as the Triggers, his sons vow revenge against him. When Zalata is killed during a combat, he urges his daughter Negma and his son Yellow Cloud to dispatch his nephew Metwalli Zalata from Egypt in order to fight the Triggers. Unknown to Negma and her brother that their cousin Metwalli is not courageous enough like his uncle.
- DirectorSaifuddin ShawkatStarsAbdulwareth AsarAbdel Fatah Al KasriHurriya HassanTwo men compete to marry a beautiful girl.
- DirectorGamal MadkoorStarsMuhmmad Kamal El-MasriImad HamdiWedad HamdyA girl courting a young man over the phone which makes him want to know her .
- DirectorAtef SalemStarsNour El-SherifMervat AminOsama AbbasA presentation of the life of an Egyptian family in the seventies time .
- DirectorTewfik SalehStarsShukri SarhanZizi MustafaShafik Nour El DinA sick doctor is admitted to an isolated sanatorium located in the middle of a desolate desert. As a patient, he becomes aware of the discrepancy that exists between the conditions of the privileged patients, who are well-treated, and the poor ones, who particularly suffer from a lack of water. With the help of the doctor, the poor patients rebel and undertake to restore justice and order in the hospital.