Great Egyptian Films
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- 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.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsKal NagaHind SabriMenna ShalabiStory of two working girls and their adventures in the city
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsYasmin RaeisHany AdelSalwa KhattabHayam 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 differences between them--and he has feelings for her too--but cruel reality intervenes when a pregnancy test is found in the factory, and because she never hid her feelings, everybody--even her family and close friends--accuses her of being a sinner. The factory girl does not want to defend herself, so she pays a big price dealing with a society that does not accept proud women.
- DirectorMohamed KhanAbdelrahman YasserStarsMaged El-KidwaniShiha HanaAhmed DawoodSet in a seaside resort, the film tracks a group of people who meet each other by the beginning of summer season.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsFardous Abdel HamidFarid ShawqiAhmed ZakiA driver spending his life on the roads fell in love with a woman married to a crippled man. Soon their dreams of becoming free collide with their harsh reality.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsGhadah AdelKal NagaAida RiyadYehia (Khaled Abol Naga) rents an apartment in the Heliopolis suburb of Cairo away from his parents' & close to his Banking & stocks investment work company, to discover that the spirit or ghost! of an ex-tenant Tahany is present in the apartment. Along with the rural girl from Menya Nagwa (Ghada Adel) who knocks on his door one day, He starts a journey to explore more about Tahany or hopefully find her for Nagwa!. The journey explores much more than he expected.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAhmed ZakiMervat AminMona ZakiThe private and public life of Egyptian president Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAhmed ZakiIbrahim NasrNahla SalamaSalah moves to Cairo to work as a guard in a garage and falls in love with Nadia, who works at a video store. He is obsessed with the films she has at her store and decides to learn karate.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsMahmoud HemidaLucyAbdulmoniem Aakefa businessman tries to collect his dept (5million) to a big criminal in only five days.
- 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.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiAida RiyadFollows the story of two lower-middle class women trying to survive with their dreams in 1980's Egypt.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsMervat AminAhmed ZakiAbdel Halim HafezWhen Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAhmed AbdelazizMervat AminHussien El SherbinyReturning rich from the Gulf to find his brothers and sisters relationships falling apart.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAida Abdel AzizTawfik El DekenYehia El-FakharanyEscaping life in the big city of Cairo, to enjoy living in the countryside.
- 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.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsSa'eed SalehHala SedkiMahmoud Abdel AzizBank clerk gets involved in a chase for a bag that contains half a million
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsSuad HusniHussein FahmyAhmed ZakiMaowid ala Ashaa is a 1981 Egyptian romance film, starring Soad Hosni and Ahmed Zaki. The life story of a beautiful and pure woman, interested of the very little things with a great sensibility.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsTawfik El DekenHussien El SherbinyNour El-SherifA photographer named (Shams) shoots a wedding, and by chance takes a picture of a burning paper with mysterious words on it, these words lead him to a gang led by a mysterious woman.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsMohamed KinawyA simple employee who suffers from some financial difficulties, but in front of him and his family everything is easy in the moment they eat "The Watermelon" in comfort.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAhmed El SakkaHind SabriAmr WakedWitnessing 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.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsKarim Abdel AzizAhmed EzzHind SabriTwo men team up to fight against British occupation in Egypt during the 1919 revolution.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsKarim Abdel AzizNilli KarimHind SabriA meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down, he prophesies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsKarim Abdel AzizKhaled El-SawiNilli KarimWhile trying to help an inmate at the mental hospital, a psychotherapist unravels mysteries he never thought existed.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsRosaline ElbayTara EmadMenna ShalabiA man who works in a pharmacy as a part time job to aid his financial status finds out that his father has been exterminated by a savage brute and sought to avenge him, then unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsMaged El-KidwaniMenna ShalabiKhaled El-SawiSamir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsTina D'MarcoSami El-AdlDina NadimAn Imam of a mosque in a neighborhood drenched in drugs, trying to preach the people to the right path. The real struggle is facing the seduction of "Lilly" the gorgeous girl with a bad reputation. It's Faith and virtue against Human soul
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsHind SabriMaged El-KidwaniHany AdelA woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsAhmad El-FishawiMaged El-KidwaniAhmed MalekAn Islamic cleric has a crisis of faith when he hears the news that his childhood idol, Michael Jackson, has died.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsHana AbdulfattahHany AdelAshraf AminHistory literally repeats itself when May meets and falls in love with a passionate young actor, only months after the tragic death of her first fiancée. All the 'signs' suggest her new lover will meet the same fate.
- DirectorMohamed AminStarsAhmad RizqFathi AbdulwahhabAhmed EidThree sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falling into one mishap after another, all because of the restrictions of society.
- DirectorOsama FawzyStarsLayla OlwiMahmoud HemidaMenna ShalabiA 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.
- DirectorOsama FawzyStarsKarim KassemRamsi LehnerIbrahim SalahThe film revolves around Joseph student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, who responded to the call of talent and love of drawing against the family's wishes, which she dreamed By joining the faculty of medicine. Over the years of study within the Faculty of Fine Arts, just his personality changed and becomes in confusion case with his religious ideas.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiHala SedkiSalah AbdullahAfter his discharge from prison , Mansor take his revenge and become hunted by the police.
- DirectorKhaled MareiStarsFares BakrAhmed HelmyMenna ShalabiHassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsAhmed ZakiFarahHamdy GheithA mix between an honored police officer who fight the crimes and a drug dealer in the same person and a confliction in and out.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsKal NagaSalah AbdullahShabaan Abdel RehimStrange and unexpected relationship brings together "Selim", a young single man, detective "Fathi", and thief "Margoushy", and this relationship is complicated when Margoushy steals the manuscript of Selim's novel.
- 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.
- DirectorAhmed AmerStarsKamal AbdulazizMustafa AbusriDarina Al JoundiA mockumentary about a young Egyptian director who faces major challenges in trying to shoot a kissing scene for his first film in an increasingly-conservation society.
- 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.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiMahmoud Abdel AzizMamdouh Abd El AleemA 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizNaima Al SoghayarHafez AminThe story about 3 people : a doctor who tries to treat his rich patient who is infertile by trasnplant ( illegally , to prove his experiments ) part of a brain from a third person who sell it for money to improve his miserable life .
- 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.
- DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsNour El-SherifHussein FahmyMahmoud Abdel AzizThere are hidden aspects of the depths of human beings,So that the doctor appear in the form of the patient's dysfunctional, a man of the law appear in the form of mercenary of the Sacred, the pious parent works in Drugs , and the ignorant uneducated son appear as the authoritarian leader.
- DirectorAtef SalemStarsNour El-SherifMervat AminOsama AbbasA presentation of the life of an Egyptian family in the seventies time .
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiLeblebaAfaf ShoiebA 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
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsAbu Bakr EzzatMahmoud HemidaRaghdaA remake of "scarface",tells the turbulant world of drug dealing,damaged personal relationships,and the rise and the fall of a drug lord.
- DirectorAmr SalamaRami GheitStarsAhmad DashAhmed HelmyKinda AlloushA Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
- DirectorAmr SalamaStarsOmar SherifMaged El-KidwaniMuhammad AbdulazimAn orphan kid dares to break into a haunted house only to find a ghost who later becomes a friend and mentor, and their relationship helps him achieve his sneaky plans.
- DirectorKhaled YoussefStarsAmr SaadSomaya El KhashabAmr Abdulgalilthe movie discuss the people of random areas in Egypt and the unjust from the government toward these people
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAdel EmamYoussraSalah AbdullahThe film is about a conflict between a corrupt and a despotic businessman who wants to abuse his secretary for bargaining with a wealthy dealer, and a poor, simple young man who meets this girl and seeks to save her in defiance of the businessman and his guards.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAlaa Waley El DinGhadah AdelKarim Abdel AzizAbboud is forced to serve at the military with his friends in sinai and discover there lots of funny and epic situations with some drug dealers
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAhmed EzzMenna ShalabiMaged El-KidwaniA man named Adel. He is an elderly man who lives in a psychiatric clinic. The story talks about the period of Adel's life in the seventies . He is married to a girl called Nadia . The events revolve around the disappearance of Nadia.
- DirectorKamlah Abu-ZikriStarsAhmed El SakkaMona ZakiMenna ShalabiOmar decides not to marry his love, Alia, after he discovers about her sister's bad reputation. He marries Esmet and Alia marries her neighbor who loves her, traditional marriage.
- DirectorHani KhalifaStarsMona ZakiHanan TurkSherif MounirIt tells about the smallest details and crypts in the lives of four couples friends.
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsKarim Abdel AzizAhmed AnanSuliman EidMahmoud (Karim Abdel Aziz), is a poor but a hard working parking attendant who lives a happy and calm life with his father and wife Mona (Menna Shalaby) who is pregnant in their first baby boy; Mahmoud's life changes in one night when he witnesses a murder while at work. He gets hold of the killers wallet and uncovers his identity then soon after the troubles started to chase Mahmoud and his family.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAlaa Waley El DinHassan HosnyAhmed HelmySalah eldin inherit administration of a school from his father, but he abusive its management due to his lack of experience.
- DirectorWael IhsanStarsAhmed HelmyYasmin AbdulazizNohad NourZaky, a lazy young man decides to work for his father's boss as a bodyguard to protect his stubborn daughter Shereen and her little brother. Soon he becomes a part of the family and a foe for Shereen's jealous boyfriend Hazem.
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsAhmed HelmyMenna ShalabiKhaled El-SawiTriplets Prince - Bebo - Semsem (Ahmed Helmy) are taking advantage of similarities between them and outwitted the people, till meet a psychiatrist crook Suleiman al-Halabi.
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsAhmed HelmyLaila Ezz El ArabMahmood El-FishawiA guy lives the same day over and over and deals with the same events each time which changes the way he looks to his life.
- DirectorMohammad FadelStarsAdel EmamSuad HusniGamil RatibSalah has put in jail in unfair way, in jail he falls in love with Layla.
- DirectorAhmed MekkyStarsAhmad El-FishawiRania KurdiAbdel Rahman Abou ZahraA young gym teacher tries to commit suicide after a series of failures through his life, only to meet a voodoo man who gives him the power to read minds.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsAhmed El SakkaHanan TurkAmr WakedThis 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 police officer (Khaled Saleh), but also befriends Fares (Amr Waked), and the two open up a unique restaurant. Fares introduces Tito to Nour (Hanan Turk), a physician, and they fall in love, and Tito tries to leave his life of crime.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimHany AdelMuhammad El-SebaiSet 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsKarim Abdel AzizMagdy EdrisHani El-SabbaghA guy whose father was an assisstant to a drug dealer who killed him . So when the guy when he grow up he worked with the same dealer . At the end he killed the dealer for his father .
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsHusain ReyadhFaten HamamahKamal El-ShinnawiThe soul of the father, Amine, comes back after death to see how his family is doing.