Arab filmek

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1. Zohra (1922)

35 min | Short, Drama

Evolves around a shipwrecked young French woman, who is rescued by Beduins. She lives with the Beduin tribe for a time. She is later abducted by bandits, but is rescued by a French aviator ... See full summary »

Director: Albert Samama Chikly | Star: Hayde Chikly

Votes: 27

2. The Girl from Carthage (1924)

17 min | Short, Romance

The daughter of a local authority is in love with a poor minaret crier and resists a rich man from Tunisia.

Director: Albert Samama Chikly | Stars: Hayde Chikly, Ahmed Dziri, Abdelgassen Ben Taleb, Hadj Hadi Dehali

Votes: 62

3. The Arab (1924)

70 min | Drama, War

Jamil (Ramon Novarro) is a soldier in the Bedouin defence forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, who has deserted his regiment. In a remote village, he encounters an orphan asylum ... See full summary »

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Max Maxudian, Jean de Limur

Votes: 48

4. Kubla fil Sahara (1927)

100 min | Drama, Romance

Exclamation "Hilda (Yvonne Gwen) foreign girl Shafiq (Badr Lama) young Bedouin who reside in the village of desert Egypt for demonstrated good manners, happens to accuse the people of the ... See full summary »

Director: Ibrahim Lama | Stars: Yvonne Goeine, Hassan Kamel, Rawhiyya Khaled, Badr Lama

Votes: 9

5. Laila (1927)

90 min | Drama, Romance

Thrive Leila in one oasis overlooking the ruins of Memphis, and meet Rauf Bey Layla tries to woo her, but her heart was hung with Ahmed, and made a speech Ahmed Leila but soon recognized by... See full summary »

Directors: Vedat Örfi Bengü, Estafan Rosti | Stars: Aziza Amir, Vedat Örfi Bengü, Asya Dagher, Husain Fawzi

7. Al mutaham al bari (1928)

Competes friends working on the same farm at the heart of the girl, but she liked the younger, generating jealousy in the heart of the other lover, seeks to differentiate between loved ones... See full summary »

Director: Ayab Badri

9. Mughammarat Elias Mabruk (1932)

The first feature length film made in Lebanon, by an Italian director, is about an émigré man who returns to his homeland.

Director: Jordano Pidutti

11. Wedad (1936)

130 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Baher is a rich Egyptian merchant who is madly in love with his beautiful slave Wedad. But when he loses all his fortune as a result of an ambush by a rival merchant, the girl, in order to ... See full summary »

Directors: Fritz Kramp, Gamal Madkoor | Stars: Umm Kulthum, Ahmed Allam, Mokhtar Osman, Mansi Fahmi

Votes: 49

12. The Fool of Kairouan (1939)

83 min | Drama, Musical

After production, the film was disappeared in 1939, it was found in France in 1989 thanks to the research of Hichem Ben Ammar. This film is considered one of the key films in history of cinema in North Africa.

Directors: Crenzi, Jean-André Kreuzi | Stars: Mohamed Jamoussy, Flifla Chamia, Abdelmajid Chebbi, Selma Ridha

Votes: 17

14. Yacout (1934)

120 min | Comedy, Drama

Egyptian version of a popular play by French writer Pagnol.A timid and naive schoolteacher is taken advantage of.A wealthy aristocrat uses him in a money making scheme and the teacher now seems to enjoy the new corruption.

Directors: Nagib El-Rihani, Willy Rozier | Stars: Nagib El-Rihani, Aimée Provence, Badi Khayri, Edmond Tuima

Votes: 49

15. El azima (1939)

108 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

The story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr.

Director: Kamal Selim | Stars: Fatma Rouchdi, Mokhtar Osman, Zaki Rostom, Abbas Fares

Votes: 308

17. Said effendi (1957)

93 min

The story revolves around the teacher "Saeed" who moves from house to house, until he lives in the house of "Ezzat" the shoemaker next door to him and the falsehood of the neighborhood ... See full summary »

Director: Kameran Husni | Stars: Youssef El Ani, Mohammed Al Qaisi, Zainab

Votes: 7

18. Dai'iman fi qalbi (1945)

Drama, Romance

Based on film Waterloo Bridge ; Sania think her fiance to be dead ; So she loses her job as a teacher in the almshouse and is forced to turn to prostitution.

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Dawlat Abiad, Sayed Abu Bakr, El Sayed Bedeir, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa

Votes: 10

19. Raya wa Sekina (1953)

81 min | Crime, Drama, History

Dramatic rendition of a real life crime wave that terrorized the city of Alexandria, Egypt, between the years 1920 and 1922. Women are disappearing without a trace in what looked like the ... See full summary »

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Anwar Wagdi, Negma Ibrahim, Farid Shawqi, Shukri Sarhan

Votes: 272

20. Shabab emraa (1956)

126 min | Drama

A young man from the country arrives in Cairo to finish his education. His landlady, a widow and successful businesswoman in the quarter of the Citadel, seduces him. Although she teaches ... See full summary »

Directors: Salah Abouseif, Ahmad El-Sabawi, Amin Yousseff Ghurab | Stars: Tahiyyah Karyuka, Shukri Sarhan, Shadia, Abdulwareth Asar

Votes: 575

21. Cairo 30 (1966)

132 min | Drama, Romance

Mahgoub Abdel Dayem a young nihilistic college student, having his father crippled with no other source of income, he finds himself in an urgent need of a job after graduation to support ... See full summary »

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Suad Husni, Ahmad Mazhar, Hamdy Ahmed, Ahmed Tawfik

Votes: 658

23. Son of the Nile (1951)

125 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A young man from outskirt rebels against his life and abandons his woman to go to Cairo.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Yehia Chahine, Shukri Sarhan, Mahmoud Al Meleji

Votes: 197

24. The Blazing Sun (1954)

TV-14 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom, Farid Shawqi

Votes: 1,558

25. Saladin (1963)

TV-MA | 194 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

After Saladin's victory over the King of Jerusalem, a peace treaty is signed between them, but the commander of the Crusader army, Renaud de Chatillon, slaughters a group of pilgrims going to Mecca. Saladin then decides to take revenge.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Ahmad Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar, Nadia Lutfi, Mohamed Abdel Gawad

Votes: 2,886

26. The Land (1970)

130 min | Drama

A 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.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed

Votes: 2,453

28. The Dupes (1972)

107 min | Drama

Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport... See full summary »

Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abdul Rahman Al Rashi, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala, Bassam Lotfi

Votes: 401

29. Al Qadisiyya (1981)

145 min | Drama, History

The movie is about the four days battle of Qadisiyya between the Arab army under the command of Saad and the Persian army under the command of Rustam in the year 640 AD in Iraq

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Suad Husni, Ezzat El Alaili, Shada Salim, Laila Taher

Votes: 107

30. Laka yom ya zalem (1951)

Crime, Thriller

A greedy man betrays his friend and falls in love with his wife, who is a rich lady. He kills him and marries the widow. He steals her money and jewelry and mistreats her. He is then arrested by the police and receives his punishment.

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Muhsen Sarhan, Mohammed Tawfik

Votes: 42

32. El Fetewa (1957)

122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A fresh man came from outskirt to Cairo to look for work ; He meets a tycoon and creates a struggle between them .

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Tahiyyah Karyuka, Zaki Rostom, Tawfik El Deken

Votes: 357

33. Between Heaven and Earth (1959)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

The film revolves around a group of people stuck in the elevator are waiting for the help, but they discovered that the group include a thief and a crazy man.

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Hind Rustum, Abdulsalam El-Nabulsi, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mahmoud Al Meleji

Votes: 482

34. Cairo Station (1958)

Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama

A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi

Votes: 5,357

35. Darb al-mahabil (1955)

90 min | Drama

Literary adaptation: A simple minded man has the luck of a winning lottery ticket.Others try to take advantage of him by snatching his money away from him.

Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Shukri Sarhan, Birlanti Abdulhamid, Abdelghani Kamar, Tawfik El Deken

Votes: 93

36. El haram (1965)

105 min | Drama

A 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Zaki Rostom, Abdallah Gheith, Hassan el Baroudi

Votes: 602

37. Al-boustaguy (1968)

114 min | Drama

Abbas, 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.

Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Shukri Sarhan, Zizi Mustafa, Seif Abdelrahman, Ahmed Abo Abeya

Votes: 337

38. The Mummy (1969)

102 min | Drama

An Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.

Director: Chadi Abdel Salam | Stars: Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi, Mohamed Abdel Rahman

Votes: 1,859

39. Saat el Tahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar (1974)

62 min | Documentary

This film is the one and only testimony shot in the depths of the former "Liberated Zone" of Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman, on a totally secular, democratic and feminist social experience in Arab and Muslim lands.

Director: Heiny Srour

Votes: 85

40. Leila wa al ziap (1984)

90 min | Documentary

A film that weaves together re-enactments, archive footage and fairy-tale sequences to create a testament to the history of Lebanese and Palestinian women to the political struggles of the twentieth century.

Director: Heiny Srour | Stars: Rafik Ali Ahmad, Nabila Zeitouni

Votes: 50

41. The Massacre of Kafr Kassem (1975)

108 min | Drama

Drama about a massacre of Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis in the years 1947-51.

Director: Borhane Alaouié | Stars: Abdallah Abbassi, Ahmad Ayub, Salim Sabri, Shafiq Manfaluti

Votes: 68

42. Beirut the Encounter (1981)

125 min | Drama, War

Just after telephone communication is restored between the warring East and West sides of Beirut, two old college lovers, one Christian, the other Shiite, whose efforts to meet have ... See full summary »

Director: Borhane Alaouié | Stars: Haithem el Amine, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar, Houcem Sabbah

Votes: 51

43. Hadisat an-nusf meter (1981)

110 min | Drama

A journey into the world of the young employee, Subhi Al Hallouji, who has a conservative cultural background. As women occupy the center of his thinking, he appears to be an impeccable ... See full summary »

Director: Samir Zikra | Stars: Abd Elfatah Almozyen, Ali Assed, Nizar Charaby, Gyana Ide

Votes: 9

44. Ahlam el-madina (1984)

120 min | Biography, Drama

A widow called Hayat is forced to move with her two children (Deeb) and (Omar) to reside with her father in Damascus, Deeb is forced to work during his studies so that the mother does not have to need anything from her father.

Director: Mohamed Malas | Stars: Yasmine Khlat, Rafik Sbiee, Bassel Abiad, Waha Al-Raheb

Votes: 121

45. Al-lail (1992)

116 min | Drama, History, War

The Night is set in the village of Quneytra, which borders on the Golan, a key battlefield in the 1967 war between Syria and Israel. We are led to the grave of the filmmakers' father, an ... See full summary »

Director: Mohamed Malas | Stars: Nezar Abohajar, Sabah Al Jazaery, Fares Al-Helou, Hazar Awad

Votes: 167

46. Al hayatt al yawmiyah fi quariah suriyah (1976)

80 min | Documentary

A documentary about the impact of newly introduced political reforms on a rural village in Syria - a place plagued with tribalism, ignorance and evil.

Director: Omar Amiralay

Votes: 100

48. Al-ras (1976)

Two men steal the head of Sanatruq II from the ancient city of Hatra and try to smuggle it from Iraq to Syria in order to sell but Iraqian and Syrian police are after them.

Director: Faisal Al-Yasiri | Stars: Suad Abdallah, Ahmad Addas, Mohsin al-Azzawi, Subhi Al-Azzawi

49. Clash of Loyalties (1983)

170 min | Drama, War

This movie is about the 1920 revolution in Iraq against the English occupation.

Director: Mohamed Shukri Jameel | Stars: Oliver Reed, Ghazi Al-Takritee, James Bolam, Youssef El Ani

Votes: 425

50. Cruel Sea (1971)

106 min | Drama

The first feature film to be made by the state of Kuwait. It is a period piece about Kuwait before the discovery of oil when fishing was the predominant occupation. Bay Ya Bahr is the story... See full summary »

Director: Khalid Al Siddiq | Stars: Mohammed Al-Mansour, Amal Bakr, Saad Al Farraj, Hayat Al Fahad

Votes: 340

51. Urs Al-Zayn (1976)

90 min | Drama

Everyone in his village believes that Zein is a simpleton, a half-wit, an amiable buffoon. Thus, his braying laughter and public declarations of love for village maidens only win laughter ... See full summary »

Director: Khalid Al Siddiq | Stars: Ali Mahdi, Sunni Dafallah, Ibrahim Hujazi, Mohamed Khairi

Votes: 22

52. Fertile Memory (1981)

Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary

The first full length film to be shot within the occupied Palestinian West Bank "Green Line," FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Michel Khleifi, acclaimed director of the Cannes Film ... See full summary »

Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh

Votes: 71

53. Wedding in Galilee (1987)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for... See full summary »

Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Mohamad Ali El Akili, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury, Yussuf Abu-Warda

Votes: 525

54. Nashid el-Hajar (1991)

110 min | Drama

Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 ... See full summary »

Director: Michel Khleifi | Stars: Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury

Votes: 25

55. The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War

96 Metascore

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash

Votes: 65,714 | Gross: $0.06M

56. L'Aube des damnés (1965)

100 min | Documentary, History

Pamphlet movie. Anti-colonialist indictment on the history of Africa. In a colonized capital, students from various disciplines act out the words of popular storytellers and find that they ... See full summary »

Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Daniel Boukman, Mohamed Chouikh, Mouloud Mammeri

Votes: 36

57. Rih al awras (1966)

95 min | Drama, War

A story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of... See full summary »

Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Keltoum, Mohamed Chouikh, Hassan El-Hassani, Thania Timgad

Votes: 117

58. L'opium et le bâton (1969)

135 min | Action, Drama, War

An Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. There, however, the situation is explosive as well, as the ... See full summary »

Director: Ahmed Rachedi | Stars: Mustapha Kateb, Rouiched, Mahieddine Bachtarzi, Sid Ali Kouiret

Votes: 123

59. Décembre (1973)

94 min | Drama, War

During the Algerian war of independence, an important leader of the FLN (National Liberation Front) is arrested by the army, which uses the most violent methods to make prisoners talk. But ... See full summary »

Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Michel Auclair, Sid Ali Kouiret, Julien Guiomar, Geneviève Page

Votes: 19

60. Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)

177 min | Drama, History

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830

Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Yorgo Voyagis, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Leila Shenna, Cheikh Nourredine

Votes: 624

61. Omar Gatlato (1977)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

A somewhat cynical but realistic look at the alienation of men in Algerian society.

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Boualem Benani, Aziz Degga, Farida Guenaneche, Rabah Leghaa

Votes: 193

62. The Crazy Years of the Twist (1983)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

A small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved.

Director: Mahmoud Zemmouri | Stars: Mustapha El Anka, Malik Lakhdar-Hamina, Fawzi B. Saichi, Jacques Villeret

Votes: 42

63. La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua (1979)

115 min

Returning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war, Lila is obsessed by memories of the war for independence that defined her childhood. In dialogue with other ... See full summary »

Director: Assia Djebar

Votes: 52

64. The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting (1983)

57 min

his film essay pieces together various photographs and footage of the Zerda ceremony from colonial archives, with anonymous poetic voice-overs recounting the lived experiences of indigenous Algerians.

Director: Assia Djebar

Votes: 35

66. A Simple Story (1970)

97 min | Documentary, Drama

A documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to adjust to France after many years in Tunisia... See full summary »

Director: Abdellatif Ben Ammar | Stars: Juliet Berto, Fouad Zaouch, Amor Khalfa, Pia Colombo

Votes: 15

67. Aziza (1980)

95 min | Drama

Tunis in 1980, A family leaves the old city, the Medina of Tunis to settle down in one of the new populated cities on the outskirts of the capital.

Director: Abdellatif Ben Ammar | Stars: Yasmine Khlat, Raouf Ben Amor, Dalila Rames, Mohamed Zinet

Votes: 40

68. Man of Ashes (1986)

109 min | Drama

In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and ... See full summary »

Director: Nouri Bouzid | Stars: Imed Maalal, Khaled Ksouri, Habib Belhadi, Mohamed Dhrif

Votes: 237

69. The Golden Horseshoes (1989)

104 min | Drama

Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was... See full summary »

Director: Nouri Bouzid | Stars: Hichem Rostom, Hamadi Zarrouk, Michket Krifa, Chadia Azzouz

Votes: 47

70. Bezness (1992)

100 min | Drama

Roufa, a young prostitute (Bezness) befriends a French photographer sent to do an expose.

Director: Nouri Bouzid | Stars: Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix, Jacques Penot, Manfred Andrae

Votes: 139

71. Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)

Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Comedy

Noura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.

Director: Férid Boughedir | Stars: Selim Boughedir, Mustapha Adouani, Rabiah Ben-Abdullah, Mohamed Driss

Votes: 2,071

72. Les mille et une mains (1973)

90 min | Drama

In Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. So begins this story in the hands of thousands of old men, women and children involved in meticulous weaving carpets.

Director: Souheil Ben-Barka | Stars: Abdou Chaibane, Mimsy Farmer, Si Ahmed, Aicha El Ghazi

Votes: 76

73. Blood Wedding (1977)

80 min | Drama

In a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the nearby village. Based on Federico García Lorca's play.

Director: Souheil Ben-Barka | Stars: Irene Papas, Laurent Terzieff, Djohra Bachene, Miloud Habachi

Votes: 29

74. Amok (1983)

103 min | Drama

A rural teacher discovers the harsh realities of his South Africa.

Director: Souheil Ben-Barka | Stars: Robert Liensol, Miriam Makeba, Douta Seck, Richard Harrison

Votes: 33

75. El Chergui or The Violent Silence (1976)

90 min | Drama

In the mid-1950s, Tangier was still an international concession. But the time of independence and reunification of the country is approaching. On the advice of her entourage, Aïcha uses ... See full summary »

Director: Moumen Smihi | Stars: Leila Shenna, Abdelkader Moutaa, Chawki Saïl, Aïcha Chaïri

Votes: 24

78. Wechma (1971)

87 min

The story of Massaoud, a rebellious young man, oppressed by both his family and the sclerotic society.

Director: Hamid Benani | Stars: Mohamed Alkaghat, Tawfik Dadda, Khadija Moujahid, Abdelkader Moutaa

Votes: 53

79. Assarab (1979)

100 min | Drama

A man discovers money in a flour bag. It is the beginning of a story between pats and future, between silence and cry, and that ends like a disillusion.

Director: Ahmed Bouanani | Stars: Mohamed El Habachi, Mohamed Saïd Hafifi, Mustapha Mounir, Mohamed Razine

Votes: 36



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