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1. 1000 Congratulations (2009)

115 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A 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.

Director: Ahmad Nader Galal | Stars: Ahmed Helmy, Laila Ezz El Arab, Mahmood El-Fishawi, Muhammad Farrag

Votes: 5,220

2. Bittersweet (2010)

130 min | Comedy, Drama

A 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.

Director: Khaled Marei | Stars: Ahmed Helmy, Edward, Aimi Samir Ghanem, Lotfy Labib

Votes: 7,831

3. Sorry to Disturb (2008)

116 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.

Director: Khaled Marei | Stars: Fares Bakr, Ahmed Helmy, Menna Shalabi, Mahmoud Hemida

Votes: 6,930

4. Escaping Tel Aviv (2009)

119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Sherif Mounir, Karim Abdel Aziz, Mona Zaki, Kinda Alloush

Votes: 6,189

5. Wahed men el nas (2007)

109 min | Drama

Mahmoud (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 ... See full summary »

Director: Ahmad Nader Galal | Stars: Karim Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Anan, Suliman Eid, Mahmood El-Gindi

Votes: 3,553

6. Kharej ala el kanoun (2007)

113 min | Crime, Drama

A 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 .

Director: Ahmad Nader Galal | Stars: Karim Abdel Aziz, Magdy Edris, Hani El-Sabbagh, Mohamed Sherif Hassan

Votes: 1,361

7. El-Gezirah (2007)

92 min | Action, Biography, Drama

'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 ... See full summary »

Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Mahmoud Yassine, Ahmed El Sakka, Hind Sabri, Zeina

Votes: 4,000

8. The Island 2 (2014)

100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Mansour 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.

Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Ahmed El Sakka, Hind Sabri, Khaled Saleh, Ahmed Malek

Votes: 2,650

9. Ibrahim Labyad (2009)

R | 134 min | Action, Drama

Witnessing 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.

Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Ahmed El Sakka, Hind Sabri, Amr Waked, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz

Votes: 4,121

10. Ibn el-Qunsul (2010)

119 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

After spending 30 years in prison, a man comes out to find out he has a son. Together with his son and a newly-acquired friend he resumes his criminal life.

Director: Amr Arafa | Stars: Amir Abdulfattah, Hana Abdulfattah, Muhyiddin Abdulhamid, Ahmad Abdulmunem

Votes: 2,261

11. Sons of Rizk (2015)

103 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Four 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.

Director: Tarek Alarian | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Amr Youssef, Ahmad El-Fishawi, Ahmed Dawood

Votes: 4,740

12. The International Player (2009)

93 min | Drama, Sport

The film revolves around a football player trying to access the professionalism and the long journey to reach this dream.

Director: Ahmed Medhat | Stars: Youssef El Sherif, Arwa Gudah, Salah Abdullah, Muhammad Lutfi

Votes: 632

13. 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: 2,553

14. El Farah (2009)

95 min | Drama

Zainhum 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.

Director: Sameh Abdulaziz | Stars: Salah Abdullah, Mahmood Al-Husaini, Hamad Almutaani, Ramez Amir

Votes: 1,600

15. Cabaret (2008)

Crime, Drama

A 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

Director: Sameh Abdulaziz | Stars: Ahmad Bedair, Khaled El-Sawi, Salah Abdullah, Donia Samir Ghanem

Votes: 876

16. Saa'a wi Nos (2012)

87 min | Drama

A 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.

Director: Wael Ihsan | Stars: Maged El-Kidwani, Eyad Nassar, Sawsan Badr, Mohamed El-Sawy

Votes: 1,418

17. Private Alexandria (2005)

PG | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lawyer tries to unveil the mysterious murder and linked emotionally with his Client, and soon the case to reveal more and more surprises.

Director: Sandra Nashaat | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Ghadah Adel, Khaled Saleh, Nour

Votes: 1,961

18. El-Rahinah (2006)

96 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Mostafa, is a young man travelled to Ukraine seeking work opportunity with Egyptian community there. Accidentally he became engaged in a kidnapping of an Egyptian scientist.

Director: Sandra Nashaat | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Yasmin Abdulaziz, Nour, Maged El-Kidwani

Votes: 1,736

19. Masgoon Tranzait (2008)

114 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Sandra Nashaat | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Nour El-Sherif, Salah Abdullah, Eman El-Assy

Votes: 1,376

20. The Ghost (2007)

132 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A guy wakes up in hotel with dead man's body and he can't remember anything. He then finds out that police looking for him.

Director: Amr Arafa | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Zeina, Mahmoud Abdulmoghni, Salah Abdullah

Votes: 1,152

21. The Replacement (2009)

105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Two 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Ahmad Ala El-Dib | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Menna Shalabi, Muhammad Lutfi, Rasha Mahdi

Votes: 1,303

22. The Best of Times (2004)

113 min | Drama

A personal tragedy brings a woman closer to a handful of trusted friends in this independent drama. Salma (Hanan Turk) is a middle-aged woman who has achieved success in her profession but ... See full summary »

Director: Hala Khalil | Stars: Hanan Turk, Hind Sabri, Menna Shalabi, Amr Waked

Votes: 1,446

23. Factory Girl (2013)

90 min | Drama, Romance

Hayam 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Yasmin Raeis, Hany Adel, Salwa Khattab, Salwa Mohamed Ali

Votes: 1,549

24. Asmaa (2011)

96 min | Drama

A 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.

Director: Amr Salama | Stars: Hind Sabri, Maged El-Kidwani, Hany Adel, Dana Abed

Votes: 4,831

25. Cairo 678 (2010)

100 min | Drama

Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.

Director: Mohamed Diab | Stars: Nilli Karim, Bushra, Maged El-Kidwani, Basem Samrah

Votes: 4,792

26. Hepta: The Last Lecture (2016)

112 min | Drama, Romance

Dr. 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?"

Director: Hadi El Bagoury | Stars: Amr Youssef, Ahmed Malek, Ahmed Dawood, Maged El-Kidwani

Votes: 3,202

27. Winter of Discontent (2012)

96 min | Drama, History

Set against the momentous backdrop of the whirlwind Tahrir Square protests, Winter of discontent poetically explores the anguish of a victim state terror in 2009, presaging and intertwining... See full summary »

Director: Ibrahim El-Batout | Stars: Amr Waked, Farah Yusuf, Salah Alhanafy, Moataz Mosallam

Votes: 610

28. Harb Atalia (2005)

PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A battle for a diamond necklace begins in Italy between the Italian mafia, a rich man and an Egyptian lawyer who his fiancée is kidnapped by the rich man.

Director: Ahmed Saleh | Stars: Ahmed El Sakka, Kal Naga, Nilli Karim, Khaled Saleh

Votes: 1,883

29. Febrayer Al Eswed (2013)

120 min | Comedy

The 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Mohamed Amin | Stars: Khaled Saleh, Tarek Abdel Aziz, Mayar Elghety, Ranya Shahin

Votes: 670

30. 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

31. The Flower of Aleppo (2016)

94 min | Action, Drama, War

A mother refuses to surrender to the statues quo of the new reality of the Arab world and travels into the heart of darkness of ISIS to bring back her recruited son home.

Director: Ridha Behi | Stars: Hind Sabri, Hichem Rostom, Badis Behi, Ahmed Hafiene

Votes: 237

32. Alexandria... New York (2004)

128 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Yehia, an Egyptian director from Alexandria goes to New York where he is reunited with Ginger, a woman he dated forty years ago.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Hemida, Ahmed Yehia, Youssra, Yousra El Lozy

Votes: 629

33. 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: 1,488

34. Hysteria (1996)

120 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Zain, a graduate of the Higher Institute of Music, lives with his mother, his brother Ramzi and his sister Houria, who suffers from living conditions after the death of their father 15 ... See full summary »

Director: Adel Adeeb | Stars: Sami El-Adl, Adel Adeeb, Hagag Abdel Azim, Suliman Eid

Votes: 206

35. 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: 2,041

36. El-Markeb (2011)

113 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

A group of young people decided to go for sailing trip to spent their holidays, where they face different situations which reveal many secrets in their life.

Director: Othman Abo Labn | Stars: Maged Abdulazim, Adel Abdulmunem, Muhgah Abdulrahman, Sameh Abulghar

Votes: 228

37. The Blue Elephant (2014)

Not Rated | 170 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

While trying to help an inmate at the mental hospital, a psychotherapist unravels mysteries he never thought existed.

Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Karim Abdel Aziz, Khaled El-Sawi, Nilli Karim, Mohamed Mamdouh

Votes: 29,821

38. Elbar El Tani (2016)

98 min | Drama

A group of young Egyptians are trying to escape from the harsh life through illegal immigration .

Director: Ali Idris | Stars: Khaled Abdelhamed, Mohamed Ali, Muhammad Ali, Amr Amin

Votes: 99

39. Mekano (2009)

112 min | Drama

The events of the film revolve around a distinguished engineer in his field, "Khaled El-Shahawi", who suffers from a disease that brings him back to the age of six every once in a while.

Director: Mahmoud Kamel | Stars: Samira Abdelaziz, Khaled El-Sawi, Fifi El-Sebai, Ahmed Fathy

Votes: 155

40. Ardh el-Ahlam (1993)

118 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Nargis 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). ... See full summary »

Director: Daoud Abdel Sayed | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Yehia El-Fakharany, Hesham Selim, Ola Rami

Votes: 289

41. Mouths and Rabbits (1977)

120 min | Drama, Romance

A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Mahmoud Yassine, Farid Shawqi, Ahmed Abaza

Votes: 712

42. Hubb fi el-Zinzanah (1983)

122 min | Drama, Romance

Salah has put in jail in unfair way, in jail he falls in love with Layla.

Director: Mohammad Fadel | Stars: Adel Emam, Suad Husni, Gamil Ratib, Yehia El-Fakharany

Votes: 782

43. 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

44. And on a Different Note (2015)

25 min | Short

Domestic scenes filmed in Cairo and New York unfold to a continuous stream of political talk shows and onscreen text, at times transcribing the exchanges and at others bringing the viewer ... See full summary »

Director: Mohammad Shawky Hassan

Votes: 14

45. Two Girls from Egypt (2010)

125 min | Drama

Two virgin women in a society where marriage is part of the female identity

Director: Mohamed Amin | Stars: Zeina, Saba Mubarak, Eyad Nassar, Ahmad Wafiq

Votes: 689

46. Villa 69 (2013)

120 min | Comedy, Drama

A 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... See full summary »

Director: Ayten Amin | Stars: Kal Naga, Lebleba, Arwa Gudah, Omar El Ghandour

Votes: 912

47. Asham (2012)

87 min | Drama

Asham is a film in the style of Coffee and Cigarettes and Nine Lives. Six intertwined stories about aspiration, disappointment, and hope are tied together loosely through the character of ... See full summary »

Director: Maggie Morgan | Stars: Mona Sheimy, Seham Saneya Adelsalam, Salwa Mohamed Ali, Maryam Anton

Votes: 109

48. 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: 582

49. 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

50. Leil Khargi (2018)

Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Three people had to live together for one night.

Director: Ahmad Abdalla | Stars: Karim Kassem, Mona Hala, Sherief El Desouky, Aly Kassem

Votes: 1,142

51. Seif Tagreeby (2017)

69 min | Drama

"Experimental Summer" is a fantasy journey into the world of filmmaking, which follows Mahmoud and Zainab in their search of the original version of the first Egyptian independent film, ... See full summary »

Director: Mahmoud Lotfy | Stars: Mahmoud Eissa, Essam Esmail, Tamer Hamid, Ahmed Magdy

Votes: 16

52. Nawara (2015)

122 min | Drama

Every 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Hala Khalil | Stars: Menna Shalabi, Ameer Salah Eldin, Ahmed Rateb, Mahmoud Hemida

Votes: 1,123

53. Clash (2016)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller, War

78 Metascore

Set 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.

Director: Mohamed Diab | Stars: Nilli Karim, Hany Adel, Muhammad El-Sebai, Muhammad El-Suwisi

Votes: 6,187 | Gross: $0.02M

54. Where Do We Go Now? (2011)

PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

60 Metascore

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: 13,504 | Gross: $0.53M

55. Wahed Saheh (2011)

100 min | Drama, Romance

Abdullah is a single young Interior Designer Engineer whose many relationships with women have steered him off the right path. He's trying to choose a life partner from among four women, ... See full summary »

Director: Hadi El Bagoury | Stars: Hani Salama, Basma, Rania Youssef, Kinda Alloush

Votes: 485

56. Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009)

Not Rated | 150 min | Drama

75 Metascore

A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.

Directors: Wael Mandour, Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Mona Zaki, Mahmoud Hemida, Hasan El-Raddad, Rehab El Gamal

Votes: 1,470

57. Fi shaket Masr El Gedeeda (2007)

118 min | Drama, Romance

Yehia (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 ... See full summary »

Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Ghadah Adel, Kal Naga, Aida Riyad, Youssef Dawood

Votes: 1,434

58. 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: 4,859 | Gross: $0.34M

59. Here and Elsewhere (1976)

53 min | Documentary, War

The movie incorporates footage of fedayeens taken for an aborted pro-Palestinian film which had been abandoned when subjects were killed. Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the footage it shows of the fedayeens and of a French family.

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville | Star: Jean-Luc Godard

Votes: 889

60. Salt of This Sea (2008)

Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance

43 Metascore

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: 1,459 | Gross: $0.01M

61. Capernaum (2018)

R | 126 min | Drama

75 Metascore

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad

Votes: 105,348 | Gross: $1.66M

62. Here Is Cairo (1985)

101 min | Comedy, Drama

Snossi and his wife travel to Cairo, where he wants to present his research to the minister before he signs a contract for the same research with another foreign party, Snossi and his wife ran into different kinds of problems in Cairo.

Director: Omar Abdel Aziz | Stars: Mohamed Sobhi, Soad Nasr, Fayza Abduljawad, Heyam Abdullatif

Votes: 152

63. Sarikat Sayfeya (1988)

102 min | Drama

The struggle of Aristocratic family after the political desicisons taken in the 60's era of Egypt. Yasser is the grandchild whose parents are getting a divorce due to this struggle. A ... See full summary »

Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Ahmad Mohamad Ahmad, Chohdi Srour, Menha Batraoui, Mona Zakareya

Votes: 136

64. Kaf Alqamar (2011)

120 min | Drama, Family

The film revolves around a mother of five children and she is trying to contain them and seek to resolve their problems, but she decides to leave the house after their problem become beyond her control.

Director: Khaled Youssef | Stars: Amr Abdullatif, Ibrahim Abdulqader, Muhgah Abdulrahman, Abdulrahman Abqarinoo

Votes: 352

65. The Choice (1971)

103 min | Drama, Mystery

Mysterious murder occurs in Cairo, the body was founded two months later. In the Pocket a picture of the victim "Mahmoud". The victim is a twin brother to the Highly famous writer "Sayed" ... See full summary »

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Suad Husni, Ezzat El Alaili, Seif Abdelrahman, Huda Sultan

Votes: 435

66. For Sama (2019)

TV-PG | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, War

89 Metascore

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

Directors: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Stars: Waad Al-Kateab, Sama Al-Khateab, Hamza Al-Khateab, Afra

Votes: 12,819 | Gross: $0.04M

67. Bel Alwan ElTabeaya (2009)

98 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

The 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Osama Fawzy | Stars: Karim Kassem, Ramsi Lehner, Ibrahim Salah, Farah Yusuf

Votes: 300

68. Rise and Shine (2006)

9 min | Short, Drama

A woman is searching aggressively for her lost apartment keys. During her search, she is visited by some unsavory memories she has been repressing.

Director: Sherif Elbendary | Stars: Hind Sabri, Youssef Elmahdy

Votes: 54

69. Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim (2016)

98 min | Drama, Fantasy

Ali 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.

Director: Sherif Elbendary | Stars: Asser Yassin, Nahed El Sebaï, Salwa Mohamed Ali, Dana Abed

Votes: 783

70. Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (2016)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama

A family in a small Egyptian village prepares for a big wedding celebration.

Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Arfah Abdulrasool, Azouz Adel, Mohamed Al-Sharnuby, Ahmed Dawood

Votes: 319

71. Imberaturiyyat Mim (1972)

113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new husband home proves to be a very difficult task.

Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Dawlat Abiad, Seif Abol Naga

Votes: 700

72. 45 Yom (2007)

Crime

Ahmed murdered his mother and her lover because he found her cheating on his father , But is it really the truth ?

Directors: Wael Mandour, Ahmed Yousry | Stars: Farouk Al-Fishawy, Shereen El Tahan, Ahmad El-Fishawi, Ahmed Fouad Selim

Votes: 189

73. 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: 1,788

74. Kiss Me Not (2018)

100 min | Comedy

A 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.

Director: Ahmed Amer | Stars: Kamal Abdulaziz, Mustafa Abusri, Darina Al Joundi, Salwa Mohamed Ali

Votes: 324

75. The Reports on Sarah and Saleem (2018)

127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

69 Metascore

The 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.

Director: Muayad Alayan | Stars: Adeeb Safadi, Sivane Kretchner, Ishai Golan, Maisa Abd Elhadi

Votes: 1,312 | Gross: $0.12M

76. Stray Bullet (2010)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama

Noha is about to get married. Her family is relieved to see her take advantage of this last chance before officially becoming a spinster just like her sister. Everything seems to be going ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Hachem | Stars: Dana Abed, Badih Bou Chakra, Takla Chamoun, Nadine Labaki

Votes: 411

77. Wajib (2017)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

A 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).

Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty, Monera Shehadeh

Votes: 1,905

78. The Cell (2017)

126 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The events revolve around a special operations officer who deals with more than one terrorist operation and is hunting down terrorist cells. The film shows security forces' efforts to ... See full summary »

Directors: Tarek Alarian, Mohamed Nasser Hamza | Stars: Ahmed Ezz, Samer al Masri, Mohamed Mamdouh, Mohamed

Votes: 2,218

79. El bab el maftuh (1963)

104 min | Drama, Romance

Elbab Elmaftouh, Known in English as "The Open Door", another great movie about women's right in their different role and life and thier struggle between her father with his old style and her husband that doesn't understand her.

Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Mahmoud Moursy, Saleh Selim, Shouweikar

Votes: 425

80. Kheit al rafeigh, -al (1971)

Drama, Romance

(Mona) A poor girl who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the pressure of her mother, which insists on ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Mahmoud Yassine, Imad Hamdi, Aaliyah Abdulmoneim

Votes: 167

81. An Egyptian Story (1982)

TV-MA | 115 min | Drama

In the middle of his own heart surgery, an Egyptian filmmaker remembers his life. In fact his old self, as a child, is accused of the attempted murder of his new self. Through the ... See full summary »

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Oussama Nadir, Mohsen Mohieddin, Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Mehrez

Votes: 1,298

82. Sleepless Nights (2003)

128 min | Drama, Romance

It tells about the smallest details and crypts in the lives of four couples friends.

Director: Hani Khalifa | Stars: Mona Zaki, Hanan Turk, Sherif Mounir, Fathi Abdulwahhab

Votes: 2,523

83. The Guest (II) (2018)

99 min | Drama, Thriller

The Guest tells the story of a young man who visits a family during dinner, and then the events develop in a direction that no one expects.

Director: Hadi El Bagoury | Stars: Khaled El-Sawi, Ahmed Malek, Jamila Awad, Shereen Reda

Votes: 1,513

84. Enta omry (2004)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Romance

Youssef and his wife are leading a tranquil and happy life in Hurghada with their young son when tragedy strikes. Youssef is diagnosed with cancer. He decides not to tell his wife and to ... See full summary »

Director: Khaled Youssef | Stars: Hani Salama, Nilli Karim, Menna Shalabi, Hesham Selim

Votes: 525

85. The Present (2020)

24 min | Short, Drama

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

Director: Farah Nabulsi | Stars: Saleh Bakri, Maryam Kanj, Mariam Basha, Ameer Khlawe

Votes: 3,958

86. Bosta (2005)

142 min | Musical, War

Fifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Aractingi | Stars: Rodney El Haddad, Nadine Labaki, Nada Abou Farhat, Liliane Nemri

Votes: 636

87. Ana Wenty Wa Sa'at Alsafar (1988)

80 min | Drama, Romance

Salwa 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Mohamed Nabih | Stars: Yehia El-Fakharany, Nelly, Nashaat Abaza, Muhammad Abdulnabi

Votes: 74

88. New Year (2020)

Drama

A tale of different people whose lives intertwine unexpectedly on New Year's Eve in Hurghada, Egypt.

Director: Mohamed Sakr | Stars: Osama Abdallah, Karim Abdulgawad, Ahmad Abdulhadi, Sali Abed

Votes: 391

89. Ualla azae lel sayedat (1979)

157 min | Drama

Rauya is in her early forties when her husband decides to leave her for a younger, less talented but more attractive woman. The spurned wife remains with her daughter, pulls herself ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ezzat El Alaili, Gamil Ratib, Osama Abbas

Votes: 87

90. In the Last Days of the City (2016)

118 min | Drama

75 Metascore

A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

Director: Tamer El Said | Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef, Mariam Saleh Saad

Votes: 594

91. Feathers (2021)

112 min | Comedy, Drama

A 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

Director: Omar El Zohairy | Stars: Demyana Nassar, Samy Bassiouny, Fady Mina Fawzy, Abo Sefen Nabil Wesa

Votes: 1,447

92. Can't Complain (2007)

113 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Triplets Prince - Bebo - Semsem (Ahmed Helmy) are taking advantage of similarities between them and outwitted the people, till meet a psychiatrist crook Suleiman al-Halabi.

Director: Ahmad Nader Galal | Stars: Ahmed Helmy, Menna Shalabi, Khaled El-Sawi, Lotfy Labib

Votes: 4,568

93. Heliopolis (2009)

96 min | Drama

8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.

Director: Ahmad Abdalla | Stars: Kal Naga, Yousra El Lozy, Hanan Motawie, Hany Adel

Votes: 753



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