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- 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.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsDane ClarkGail RussellEthel BarrymoreDanny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsTom NealAnn SavageClaudia DrakeThe life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsWilliam PowellHedy LamarrClaire TrevorAn amnesiac French diplomat is blackmailed for crimes that he committed before he lost his memory.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsMagdaSalah ZulfikarKamal El-ShinnawiAn ambitious Journalist ; but he has no principle and does not owe allegiance except to him self .
- 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.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsEiji OkadaKyôko KishidaKôji MitsuiAn entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
- 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.
- DirectorHoussam El-Din MustafaStarsRushdi AbazahShadiaSuad HusniSaber tries to find his father to find the way. He falls into the traps of the owner of a hotel she loves and asks him to kill her husband, and at the same time he falls in love with a female journalist in Akhbar El Youm.
- DirectorMohamed SalmanStarsRushdi AbazahSabir Abou LabanZain Al SidaniOn a ship heading from Lebanon to Naples in Italy, an unexpected love story happens between a modern young man and a Bedouin girl sailing for the first time with him, and she discovers much of what she has never seen in her closed life.
- 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.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRalph MeekerAlbert DekkerPaul StewartA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsBurt LancasterAva GardnerEdmond O'BrienHit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsDick PowellClaire TrevorAnne ShirleyAfter being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsHumphrey BogartGloria GrahameFrank LovejoyA potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
- DirectorAhmed BadrakhanStarsImad HamdiAhmad MazharNagat
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorWolf RillaStarsGeorge SandersRichard JohnsonFaten HamamahAn assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum.
- DirectorRobert TronsonStarsBernard LeeWilliam SylvesterMargaret TyzackDuring the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to a naval station in Britain he joins a Soviet spy ring.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharShukri Sarhan
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsDonald PleasenceFrançoise DorléacLionel StanderIn search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahYehia ChahineMaryam FakhruddinTeenage Nadia is raised by her father after her mother's death. Returning home from boarding school, her father has re-married. Jealous Nadia decides to get rid of the competition of a stepmother by accusing her of sleeping with her uncle.
- DirectorCharles DavidStarsDeanna DurbinRalph BellamyDavid BruceIn New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsYehia ChahineBetty FrancineImad HamdiFikria, a singer, is married to Farid, a gambling addict. While traveling by train, Fiktia suffers an injury. Upon returning home, Fikria's husband decides they should hide themselves so that he can get the insurance money needed to cover his debts.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahImad HamdiMahmoud Al MelejiArchitect Sherif Kamel visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.
- DirectorYoussef WahbiStarsYoussef WahbiFouad ShafikLayla FawziThe devil appears in the guise of a rich man in front of a poor family and offers them a huge fortune.To tempt them to do taboo. But soon, the life of excess ruins the family, which causes the devil to reappear and this time he has something else in mind.
- DirectorMohamed Abdel GawadKamal SelimStarsFouad El RachidiLotfi ElhakimAbdel Fatah Al KasriTwo teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- DirectorTed PostStarsClint WalkerBarry SullivanEdgar BuchananA tough marshal is sent to clean up a lawless western town.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsVincent PriceNancy KovackChris WarfieldAn evil spirit leaves the body of his human host, a criminal on death-row, and sneaks into the body of his next human host, a French magistrate.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsEdmond O'BrienFrank LovejoyWilliam TalmanTwo fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsEdward G. RobinsonLon McCallisterJudith AndersonAn old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
- DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
- DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsGene TierneyDana AndrewsClifton WebbA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsJames MasonJoan BennettGeraldine BrooksAfter discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsViviane RomanceMichel SimonMax DalbanAfter an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsJohn McIntireRichard KileyKathryn GrantA crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesEdward G. RobinsonLoretta YoungAn investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRay MillandMarjorie ReynoldsCarl EsmondStephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsHarry BelafonteRobert RyanGloria GrahameIn need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.
- DirectorNyrki TapiovaaraStarsTuulikki PaananenIlmari MäntySanteri KariloA thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses the divided loyalties of the Finnish bourgeoisie, torn between preserving their privileged economic position and taking a risky stand for an independent Finland.