My Top Arabic Movies
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- DirectorHani KhalifaStarsMona ZakiMohamed MamdouhMuhammad FarragDays before traveling to Mecca for HAJJ, Ghada is faced with an emergency and needs a large sum of money. She must return to a tainted past and keep it from consuming her.
- DirectorMohamed KordofaniStarsEiman YousifSiran RiakNazar GomaJust before the secession of South Sudan, a married former singer from the north seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his oblivious wife as her maid.
- DirectorOmar HilalStarsMuhammad FarragNilli KarimBayoumi FouadBased on an incredible true story. A man fakes blindness to swindle into his dream of leaving his home country Egypt, and living in Europe. He joins a team of blind footballers bound for Poland.
- DirectorWaleed El HalfawyStarsMohamed MamdouhAmina KhalilMohamed ShahinMarital problems happen every day where one day the couple decided to involve others in their problems . During the clash of the parties , the metal door lock breaks down and everyone gets locked inside the apartment , at this moment the problem escalated into a disaster .
- DirectorPeter MimiStarsKareem Mahmoud Abdel AzizBayoumi FouadLavenia NaderSaber has dreamt of quitting his boring job and become a marionette show creator. An adorable nine year old girl has lost her voice due to a recent trauma. To help her speak again, Saber is determined to give her a show of a lifetime.
- DirectorKhaled El HalafawyStarsDonia Samir GhanemHesham MagedDalal AbdulazizThe story follows a married couple, as the husband works as a doctor who dreams of immigrating to Canada, a woman soon appears in their lives and starts following them everywhere.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsKarim Abdel AzizAhmed EzzHind SabriTwo men team up to fight against British occupation in Egypt during the 1919 revolution.
- DirectorOmar El ZohairyStarsDemyana NassarSamy BassiounyFady Mina FawzyA family is forced into a period of self-discovery after its authoritarian patriarch is accidentally turned into a chicken by a magician during a children's birthday party
- DirectorAhmad Ala El-DibStarsAhmed EzzAhmed FahmyMostafa KhaterThe film tackles cybercrime through the story of Younis, a man who lives with his wife and their baby girl, as he decides to rob a bank through the internet, but then finds himself chased by a dangerous gang.
- DirectorAhmed El GendyStarsMaged El-KidwaniSayed RagabBayoumi FouadA comedy about a group of friends as they get reunited to help one of their own find his way out of major trouble. As the situation gets more complicated, they are forced to take a trip to a coastal town.
- DirectorAmir RamsesStarsIlham ShaheenAmina KhalilAhmed MagdyThe events take place in the fall of 2013 after the curfew decision in Egypt, where Fatin is released from prison after spending 20 years for committing a horrific crime. As she's forced to spend the night with her daughter Layla, who subject her to a second trial in search of unanswered questions.
- DirectorAmeen NayfehStarsAli SulimanAnna UnterbergerMotaz MalheesA Palestinian father trapped on the other side of the separation wall is trying to reach the hospital for his son.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsYahya MahayniDea LianeKoen De BouwHis own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.
- DirectorFaris GodusStarsSohayb GodusBaraa AlemIsmail AlhassanIn 2010, high school senior Husam, his best friend Maan, their one-time foe Ibrahim, and their teacher Orabi set out to produce a no-budget horror movie.
- DirectorNajwa NajjarStarsMouna HawaFiras NassarLamis AmmarTwo married young couple are going through steps to get divorced when the husband finds out secrets about his past
- DirectorAmjad Abu AlalaStarsMustafa ShehataIslam MubarakMahmoud Maysara ElsarajShortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsMohamad RamadanMuhammad SadHind SabriComplemented by the struggle of the characters in order to reach or protect the treasure, in addition to their love or life.
- 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.
- DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanTarik KoptyKareem GhneimFilmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
- DirectorOthman Abo LabnStarsAhmed HatemHana El ZahedAhmad AbdulhadiThe movie is about a love story between a young man and a girl that goes under a difficult test when her lover become blind and they must proof to each other their love.
- DirectorShady HannaStarsRola BeksmatiJunaid ZeineldineAbboudy MallahThe romp revolves around a dinner party hosted by the young and vicacious Nayla to introduce Fares, the love of her life, to Silvio, her new fiancé.
- DirectorNoor ArnaootStarsSammy SheikAlexandra GrossiMohamed SallamA fun, culture-clash, fish-out-of-water wedding comedy involving two very different families brought together by marriage, who are forced to meet, interact, clash and ultimately find ways to be with one another.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsRosaline ElbayMohamed MamdouhBayoumi FouadA 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!
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsZain Al RafeeaYordanos ShiferawBoluwatife Treasure BankoleWhile serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
- DirectorAbu Bakr ShawkyStarsRady GamalAhmed AbdelhafizOsama AbdallahA Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
- DirectorMuayad AlayanStarsAdeeb SafadiSivane KretchnerIshai GolanThe affair of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time, leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.
- DirectorTamer AshryStarsMahmoud HemidaShereen RedaFarah YusufWhen a retired old man in Cairo begins to learn about the extinction of dinosaurs, it sets off a series of events that will give his life renewed meaning.
- DirectorLucien BourjeilyStarsLaeticia SemaanNadim Abou SamraSamira SarkisAs all the children and their spouses gathers for Easter's dinner, conversation flows. When something bad happens, everyone is on edge, especially Josephine, and Serge who wants to uncover the truth!
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsAdel KaramKamel El BashaCamille SalamehAfter an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsHind SabriAmina KhalilMohamad RamadanThe 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 and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions, especially that there are clerics who deliberately Coloring and counterfeiting at this time in order to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
- DirectorAnnemarie JacirStarsMohammad BakriSaleh BakriTarik KoptyA father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom, in this rousing family drama from Annemarie Jacir (When I Saw You).
- 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.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
- DirectorMohamed AliStarsNilli KarimMohamed MamdouhMohamed AliRomantic comedy film about a woman (Shams) in her late thirties who is single but wants to have a baby. She advertises on Facebook requesting sperm donors and offers a seductive return for the amount of material conditions. She gets an answer from a veterinarian (Bahgat) who is faltering financially.
- DirectorAhmed MagdyStarsAmr SaadDorra ZarroukAhmed MagdyA seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and his attempts to deviate from the usual religious rhetoric in a society heavily influenced by fundamentalism. The TV spotlight only shows his eloquent yet sarcastic answers he gives to the callers in a preset scenario, while in the dark and cloudy space around him, bloody struggles for power are raging, struggles he had always tried to avoid. But as Hatem continues his rise, the more he finds temptations and the less he has chances of salvation. Sheikh Hatem finds himself caught in a complex network of conflict, between the partial loss of a son being treated abroad and a wife whose love has grown cold, and security institutions trying to control him and-using his vulnerabilities-exploiting him to serve their interests. Meanwhile, a sovereign entity entangles him in solving a problem for the president, whose son causes the family an embarrassment of such a fragile society can't handle. "I cannot tell the entire truth, but I do my very best to speak nothing else." This is what Sheikh Hatem tries to do. Will he be able to create even a small fracture in a thick wall of hypocrisy and fear?...
- DirectorSherif ElbendaryStarsAsser YassinNahed El SebaïSalwa Mohamed AliAli believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. Ali, his goat and his friend Ibrahim embark on a journey of friendship and self-discovery across Egypt to reverse the curse.
- 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.
- DirectorAmr ArafaStarsAhmed El SakkaMohamed IbrahimMona ZakiHe (Sherif Mounir) returns from Europe after inheriting from his former boss, bringing the curse that killed his boss' family to his family's doorstep.
- DirectorHadi El BagouryStarsAmr YoussefAhmed MalekAhmed DawoodDr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions. He decides to give one last lecture on the very simple question: "How do we love?"
- DirectorKhaled El HalafawyStarsFarouk Al-FishawyDina El SherbinyAbeer HaririKedbet Kol Youm is exploring the every-day conflicts of married couples and poses the universal question if successful marriage actually exists and how can possibly any married couple make it through?
- DirectorHala KhalilStarsMenna ShalabiAmeer Salah EldinAhmed RatebEvery day Nawara goes to work along a path that takes her between the alleys of the poor neighborhood and the roads that lead to the villas within a luxury compound. Every day, on her way to work, she carries the worries of the people in her neighborhood and their simple dreams. Little does she know that the spring of 2011 will bring her something unexpected.
- DirectorLotfi BouchouchiStarsNadia KaciLaurent MaurelLayla MetssitaneSet during the Algerian War of Independence. In the film, the French army surrounds a southern Algerian village where they believe an enemy is being hidden and force the inhabitants to either confront the issue or die of thirst.
- DirectorMai MasriStarsMaisa Abd ElhadiNadira OmranRakeen SaadA young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsAhmed EzzAmr YoussefAhmad El-FishawiFour brothers committing crimes with a promise among them to stop someday. When a deal goes south, the older brother says it's enough, but the other three disagree and recklessly do business with a wanted crime lord.
- DirectorArab NasserTarzan NasserStarsHiam AbbassVictoria BalitskaManal AwadIn Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAhmed El SakkaHind SabriKhaled SalehMansour El Hefny returns to El Gezira after 10 years of imprisonment to find that a lot of things have changed and he must fight to get back what once was his.
- 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.
- DirectorNaji Abu NowarStarsJacir Eid Al-HwietatHussein Salameh Al-SweilhiyeenHassan Mutlag Al-MaraiyehIn the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsKarim Abdel AzizKhaled El-SawiNilli KarimWhile trying to help an inmate at the mental hospital, a psychotherapist unravels mysteries he never thought existed.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAmin DoraStarsGeorges KhabbazLara RainEmmanuel KhairallahGhadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.
- DirectorAyten AminStarsKal NagaLeblebaArwa GudahA dramedy about illness, intimacy and death sparkles with the lighthearted touch of Director Ayten Amin. Hussein, played by Khaled abol Naga, is a terminally ill, yet charming architect who enjoys a solitary routine in his old family home, and a variety of female visitors. Not realising his past is about to catch up with him, Hussein's sister and her grandson move into the house, disrupting a well established lifestyle, and forcing him to re-examine his ideas about life, love, and family.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsAsser YassinAmr AbedMohamed MamdouhIn one of the most extraordinary nights in the history of Egypt, the prisons were suddenly opened, leaving thousands of prisoners wandering the desert. Among them was one man trying to find his way in a city that is rapidly changing for good.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsAdam BakriLeem LubanyEyad HouraniA young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
- DirectorMohamed AminStarsKhaled SalehTarek Abdel AzizMayar ElghetyThe film is a story about two brothers, the first is "Hassan" (Khaled Saleh), a University professor and the second is "Salah" (Tariq Aziz) who works in the world of chemicals and ends up working as a pickles vendor. An accident happens to them which puts them in a tragic comedy and makes them think seriously about migration out of the country or having any family relations with any authority in the country.
- DirectorAhmad Ala El-DibStarsAhmed EzzMuhammad RagabJoumana MouradA young man searching for his wife who disappeared mysteriously, and a detective who is trying to unravel the mystery surrounding this suburban neighbourhood...
- DirectorWael IhsanStarsMaged El-KidwaniEyad NassarSawsan BadrA re-imagining of the 2002 al-Ayyat train incident in Egypt which took the lives of over 360 passengers and civilians, depicting some of the problems that spread out in the Egyptian society this days.
- DirectorAnnemarie JacirStarsMahmoud AsfaRuba BlalSaleh Bakri1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in "temporary" refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses until they would be able to return, they wait, like the generation before them who arrived in 1948. With difficulties adjusting to life in Harir camp and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches a way out, and discovers a new hope emerging with the times. Eventually his free spirit and curious nature lead him to a group of people on a journey that will change their lives. When I Saw You is the story of people affected by the times around them, in search of something more in their lives. A journey full of adventure, love, humor, and the desire to be free. A story of the human spirit that knows no borders.
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsWaad MohammedReem AbdullahAbdullrahman Al GohaniAn 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.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsClaude Baz MoussawbaaNadine LabakiYvonne MaaloufA group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
- 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.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAhmed HelmyDonia Samir GhanemIbrahim NasrMagdi is a young man who lives alone because of his obesity which keeps him away from his friends. He gets into many situations that makes him uncomfortable, so he decides to ask his uncle for help.
- DirectorSameh AbdulazizStarsAmr AbdulgalilRania YoussefSalloom HaddadThe trials and tribulations of daily life in Egypt, through the eyes of a man named Gouda Al Masri. Gouda doesn't want to live like an ant.
- DirectorAhmed AbdullahKamla AbouzekriMaryam Abu-OfStarsAhmed HelmyAmr WakedMona ZakiTen separate stories about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsKarim Abdel AzizDina FuadMuhammad LutfiThe film story revolves around a taxi driver who has a son and a friend. His sons grandfather is fighting for the custody of the young boy after the death of his mother. The father wins the custody of his son. Some one kidnaps the young boy and beat the father which caused him to lose his memory.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKal NagaYousra El LozyHany AdelKhaled 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 horrific failure. Khaled clashed big time with a changing more conservative Alexandria but He also stumbles upon fresh youth struggling for their under-ground music bands, art and ideas. in the middle of all the confusion, Will it ever all makes sense at the end? A question for the youth and the city to answer.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimBushraMaged El-KidwaniUnfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
- DirectorAmr ArafaStarsAdel EmamNilli KarimAhmad RizqWhen a wealthy businessman learns he has Alzheimer's disease, his sons, hungry for his fortune, file a crooked lawsuit to become his guardians.
- DirectorMoataz El TonyStarsAhmed FahmyChicoHesham MagedThe film revolves around three young men who face many problems and crises in their lives from unemployment to marriage plans and achieve their targets.
- DirectorAhmed El GendyStarsAhmed MekkyDonia Samir GhanemMaged El-KidwaniA boy living in a poor neighborhood is working as a police agent.
- DirectorMohamed AminStarsZeinaSaba MubarakEyad NassarTwo virgin women in a society where marriage is part of the female identity
- 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.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsAsser YassinBasmaMayy KassabA man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
- 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.
- DirectorSameh AbdulazizStarsSalah AbdullahMahmood Al-HusainiHamad AlmutaaniZainhum makes fake wedding to regain his money from the guests and during the wedding his mother dies and he has to choose either to continue the wedding or cancel it.
- DirectorAhmed El GendyStarsAhmed MekkyDonia Samir GhanemMaged El-KidwaniA nerdy vet gets help from a genie to catch the attention of the woman he loves.
- 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.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsSherif MounirKarim Abdel AzizMona ZakiAn 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 with him by force. Mostafa, an Egyptian Intelligence Agent sent by SSI, travels to Israel and tries to help Salwa return to Egypt.
- DirectorAhmad Ala El-DibStarsAhmed EzzMenna ShalabiMuhammad LutfiTwo young brothers who are identical twins get separated from the orphanage. Faris is adopted by a police officer and his wife and later becomes a policeman, while Nabil is adopted by a belly dancer and spends his life living in poverty and becomes a drug addict due to his relationship with Mai, the daughter of a rich drug dealer. Both brothers meet each other for the first time as Faris tries to crackdown a dangerous drug cartel. Nabil on the other hand, has to follow orders from his bosses to make sure his brother does not succeed in foiling their plans.
- DirectorWael MandourYousry NasrallahStarsMona ZakiMahmoud HemidaHasan El-RaddadA female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.
- DirectorLyès SalemStarsLyès SalemSarah ReguiegRym TakouchtMounir 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 fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.
- 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.
- DirectorKhaled MareiStarsFares BakrAhmed HelmyMenna ShalabiHassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.
- DirectorSandra NashaatStarsAhmed EzzNour El-SherifSalah AbdullahA 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 give him a new life, a new identity, only if he can do a mission for the country. After the mission accomplished. The thief has a new life. After five years, the brigadier general got back and asked him for one more mission Which its consequences are inevitable.
- DirectorSaeed HamedStarsAshraf Abdel BakyArwa GudahRogeenaSalah, an honest taxi driver, works the night shift roaming the streets and drives different personalities who talk to him about various issues that reflect the reality of the Egyptian community.
- DirectorSameh AbdulazizStarsAhmad BedairKhaled El-SawiSalah AbdullahA terrorist group trying to blow up a nightclub and when a terrorist goes to blow the club finds that there are people who do not deserve death
- DirectorAnnemarie JacirStarsSuheir HammadSaleh BakriRiyad IdeisA romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.
- DirectorAmin MatalqaStarsNadim SawalhaRana SultanHussein Al-SousWhen an old airport janitor finds a captain's hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsMahmoud YassineAhmed El SakkaHind Sabri'El Gezira' is a film about a community of Upper Egypt residents living in El Gezira (the Island). They have their own set of rules, ethics and traditions. They also plant drugs and buy arms from Sudan. The officer in charge of the region turns a blind eye to these happenings, and in the beginning, the government takes no heed of the Island. At the start of the film, we witness the death of the old 'Kabir el Gezira' (the island's ruler), leaving the land to his son Mansour. The first half follows Mansour as he takes control of his land and must deal with a band of other drug lords who are greedy to take control of the island. The second half of the film deals with the political conflict. It follows the government's side of things (which finally decides to take action) at the same time as Mansour's side as the two react to each other's threats and the conflict escalates. 'El Gezira' is a multi-genre picture. It is a thematic film on Egyptian politics, but also a drama, romance, action and thriller.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineKhaled YoussefStarsKhaled SalehMenna ShalabiYoussef El SherifEgyptian 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".
- DirectorMohamed GomaaStarsHanan TurkFathi AbdulwahhabKhaled SalehMariam is living a troubled life with her husband Ahmed, suddenly her life turned to a nightmare after she dreams of crimes she discovered that it's a real crime after she wakes up, she decides not to sleep anymore.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsNadine LabakiJoanna MoukarzelGisèle AouadA romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorWael IhsanStarsAhmed HelmyNourEzzat Abu Ouf"Mimi" recognized by the family of a businessman has a girl named (Mai) working as a secretary and there are many exciting Situations happened completely as cat and mouse.
- 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.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorWael IhsanStarsAhmed HelmyNourKhaled El-Sawi"Tarek " young and romantic works in one of the mobile operators, by chance enters on an adventure to save his love of unreal danger.