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- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsAbdel Halim HafezSabahHusain ReyadhA poor graduated singer struggling to get his chance, disguises into an old music teacher to work in a girl's school. A bet is launched between two of the leading students to trap this teacher into their affection.
- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsSabahRushdi AbazahSamia GamalEsmat Kazem (Rushdy Abaza) runs a smuggling operation between Egypt and Lebanon, using his cabaret in Cairo as a front. Ibrahim, the smuggling ring's operative in Beirut, is murdered over a dispute with Esmat. The police relay the news of the murder to Ibrahim's sister Lamia (Sabah), a former singer at Esmat's cabaret and an old flame of Esmat's. When she learns of her brother's death, she decides to avenge her brother's murder by co-operating with the police and bringing down Esmat's smuggling ring.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMaryam FakhruddinOmar SharifTawfik El DekenIn a tribal society, governor Zaid decides to raise taxes on the people, and sends his men to kidnap women, and with time his strength increase, up to the tribe of Bani Mazen, he kills a young man from the tribe at the hands of his men, prompting a friend to take revenge on the tyrant, Essam hides his face, and riding his horse, and hunt those man, Essam was able to save the pretty girl Dalal after being kidnapped by the men of the tyrant. The girl fell in love with him, and try to reveal him, the tyrant brought him to his castle and discovered his secret in the palace, but Essam escape from the palace, and gathered an army of knights to attack the castle, the army was able to win the fight, Essam took the governance and married Dalal.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsDalidaMohsen MohieddinShouweikar1947 Cairo. Washerwoman Lavandiere dreams of escaping reality through movies. A charming organ grinder offers excitement, but a cholera outbreak threatens her son. Desperate, she fights to save him.
- DirectorSaid MarzoukStarsFaten HamamahRushdi AbazahAminah RizqThis film erupted the issue of women's right to get their divorce when life is impossible with their husbands. The movie faced the society for the first time with some problems that the "Marriage and divorce law" contains, which needed to be looked over again. The movie was direct cause of changing some subject in the "Family Law" and continues to be an icon for more movies discussing same problem. Faten won the best actress award from Cairo Festival, and a diploma of recognition from Tehran festival.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud YassineImad Hamdi(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 her to increase her income, she gets a wealthy old businessman to love her. An engineer (Adel), who works in the company of her lover (Abdo) reveals his love, she convinces him to resign and build his own independent company and give him jewelry as a capital and stand by him and encourage him and cut ties with (Abdo). Will their love story continue?
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifAhmed RamzyAfter three years of absence, back (Recep) after a long travel trip spent on the back of one of the ships in an effort to save money in order to complete his marriage b (benign), who lives with his mother in a shack built on the sea, but with the passage of days legged in the heart of (Recep) feelings of jealousy when he doubted the existence of a relationship between the pool (benign), and between (Mamdouh) son of the owner of the shipping company, which coincided with the existence of many problems between the owner of the company and its employees.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifZaki RostomA 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.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsOmar SharifSuad HusniYoussef WahbiA father invents a lurid past for his awkward young nephew to present him as an exciting suitor for his daughter.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsOmar SharifZubida TharwatRushdi AbazahBased in British occupied Egypt, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a member of the resistance, seeks refuge in the house of a politically passive family after killing the prime minister for his acts of treason.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsIsmail YassinHind RustumAhmed RamzyTwo undercover police officers on secret mission the have to play as fishermen to catch the dealers that hide drugs in fish, but during the mission they fall in love with the two sisters of boat's captain.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifZouzou MadiA chance meeting at an auction brings together Sawsan (Faten Hamama), a working class girl and Adel (Omar Sharif), heir to a vast fortune with several estates to his name. This leads to a whirlwind marriage. This development spells trouble for Adel's fair-weather bourgeois clique, who are used to manipulating him with their own financial interests at heart.
- DirectorNader GalalStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineMagdy WahbaSewer worker Saber meets the pickpocket Bedour who decides to repent. He tells the people of alley that she's his cousin and resides in the house of Master Noussa.
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineGhassan MatarAmin is a security guard in one of the knitting factories, guarding the facility with honesty and strictness, but one day he finds himself in front of Yasmina who works in the factory and falls in love with her.
- DirectorRida MyassarHasan RamziStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineSoheir El-BablyAhmed and Huda fall in love and they decide to marry but Ahmed's scholarship to go to another country to study for PhD arrives and in order for them to get marry they wait for her father to give his permission for them to marry but her father suffers a bankruptcy and dies. Huda suffers a lot after the death of her father, but she gets happy when she learns that Ahmed is coming back, unfortunately the plane that Ahmed supposedly was on crashes but Huda doesn't know that Ahmed wasn't on it, her friend Daolat suggests that they leave for Lebanon to have get of the bad mood, over there she tries to make Huda prostitute and Huda falls for the trap and starts selling her body but she is determined to take revenge on Daolat and she does when they return to Egypt. Huda learns that Ahmed is still alive but the feel of guilt pushes her to kill herself.
- DirectorAshraf FahmyStarsMahmoud YassineNaglaa FathiNabila Ebeida bitter divorce between a well educated young woman and an illiterate rich man,but her ungratefulness makes her revisit the past and what he did for her sake to end her poverty despite the gap in their education status.
- DirectorHoussam El-Din MustafaStarsMohamed Abu HashishFarouk Al-FishawyNadia El GendyIt tells stories of webs of drug dealing,rivalry,revenge and murder among the residents of al batneyya,a place so corrupt and well bonded among each other,even the police struggles with it.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineZizi El BadrawyTwo university students fall in love on campus and inform their parents that they want to get married. This decision makes the parents immediately very happy but when they find out who the parents of their future son- or daughter-in-law are, they get horrified. It turns out that these young lovers are much more connected than they had realized, and the question arises whether they might even be related.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsMahmoud YassineMadiha KamelGamil Ratib"Climbing to the Bottom" was based on the true story of a spy named Heba Selim who worked for the Mossad along with her fiance where both of them provided the Israelis with Egypt's military secrets in the post-1967 war era. Saleh Morsi's adaptation of the real events was superb as viewers were able to understand the motives for the ambitious Abla Kamel to commit treason against her country in order to seek a better life in France. One of the most powerful lines in the film was mentioned by the Intelligence Officer (played by actor Mahmoud Yassine) who shows Abla - after her arrest at a Tunisian airport - an aerial view of the Pyramids and the Nile River as if he was giving her a lecture on the history of the country that she had betrayed.
- DirectorHoussam El-Din MustafaStarsMahmoud YassineNaglaa FathiNour El-SherifAn adaptation of "crime and punishement",a young educated man's descendance into madness and paranoia after commiting a crime,and finding confort in the company of kind hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.
- DirectorAhmed YehiaStarsMahmoud YassineNellySafia El EmariInass married Dr. Galal out of love and gave birth to their child Hisham, but she is also jealous of her husband's success, and feels suspicious of her husband and his colleague Laila, she decides to make his life hell, questioning his paternity for their son Hisham, Galal Collapses as a result of his wife's delirium, suffers a nervous shock that pushes him towards the abyss.
- DirectorHelmy RaflaSalah AbouseifKamal El-ShaikhStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassinePoussiA young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharAminah RizqThis compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahZaki RostomAbdallah GheithA poor peasant woman becomes a symbol of worker oppression in this somber social drama directed by Henri Barakat. Azziza (Faten Hamama) is brutally raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes for her husband (Abdallah Gheiss). She does not relate the incident to her husband who is suffering from an undisclosed illness. Azziza hides the pregnancy and strangles the baby after it is born, but she also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling peasants.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFarid ShawqiOmar SharifAminah RizqAfter the death of the father, the family consisting of a mother and two young men and a girl themselves without a breadwinner finds, to begin each of them in the direction to a different path, to err on the older brother (Hassan) to work drug, and graduated (Hussein) East of the Police College, while working (Nafisa) prostitution without the knowledge family, to hide them from the fate of many surprises.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSuad HusniShukri SarhanSanaa GameelA corrupt mayor, who rules the village's people with power and injustice, forces another poor man's wife secretly to marry him in order to have a child.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsShadiaMahmoud MoursyYehia ChahineBased 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 is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud MoursySaleh SelimElbab 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.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharDawlat AbiadWell 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.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsFaten HamamahKamal El-ShinnawiAbd El Fatah El QuossaryDiscussing how women could work side by side with men through a funny and glorious classic movie between two neighbors that their kids are graduating from a law school and they love each other. But after graduation, each one of them (Faten and Kamal) open a law firm in front of each other and with multiple funny pictures we can see how struggling the female can face running her office due the society at that time for not used to have a lawyer as a women. With a relation ship between her lover (Kamal Elshenawi) and one of his clients, that masters a crime after killing her husband. Kamal later become a suspect but he gets the support of his lover (Faten) who defend him in court and win the case and they get married
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahYehia ChahineMaryam FakhruddinTeenage Nadia is raised by her father after her mother's death. Returning home from boarding school, her father has re-married. Jealous Nadia decides to get rid of the competition of a stepmother by accusing her of sleeping with her uncle.
- 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.
- DirectorMahmoud ZulfikarStarsMaryam FakhruddinShukri SarhanSamira AhmedThe film revolves around Hamdi (Shukri Sarhan), who recently married Nadyah, the daughter of his aunt (Maryam Fakhruddin). He faces a problem in his new job, which requires that job occupants to be single. He falls in great trouble between having to keep his marriage secret, and dealing with the growing interest of Layla (Samirah Ahmad), daughter of company's director. Sulayman, his colleague at work, tries to help him solve this problem.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsMuharram FuadSuad HusniMahmoud El-SabbaaA love story similar to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet taking place in the Egyptian Countryside.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsMohamed AwadNahed SharifMagda El-KhatibA man forbids his sisters from making love with men at the same time establishes a love relationship with a girl .
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud YassineHani Al-RumaniTwo egyptians live in lebanon meets,the doubts and theories of the painter about his girlfriend when he failed To make her pose revealed to his paintings,is she virtuous or pretend to be?does she lie about everything?and his quest to expose her true self.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsShams El-BarudyMahmoud YassineYoussef ShabaanNotorious Woman is a 1973 Egyptian film directed by Henry Barakat.[2] The main actress is Shams al-Baroudi. A young man asks his wife to dance with his boss at a party. The woman gets into an affair with the boss and commits infidelity. Her marriage dissolves and her life worsens. Her son has an illness, so the wife is forced to accept gifts from the boss. Lisa Anderson of the Chicago Tribune. uses the film as an example of more liberal filmmaking in Egypt prior to an increase in social conservatism in society. At the party in the beginning of the film, the women wear hot pants and miniskirts. The partygoers dance, smoke cigarettes, and drink alcohol. None of the women are in hijab.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSuad HusniAhmad MazharHamdy AhmedMahgoub 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 himself and his parents. Having a hard time getting a job, he starts putting his values into actual application only to find them already being applied by much greater authorities. Set in Cairo in the 30s.
- DirectorHoussam El-Din MustafaStarsNadia LutfiAhmad MazharAhmed RamzyA story where two opposite worlds collide. Wealthy socialite Maddie (Nadia Lotfy) lives for two things: booze and parties, while Omar (Ahmed Mazhar) - a sophisticated mid-level engineer - tirelessly campaigns for downtrodden worker's rights. A chance encounter between the two leads to an existential crisis. An adaptation of the story by the late, great Egyptian author Ihsan Abdel Qudoos.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsNaglaa FathiMahmoud YassineMadiha KamelHassan falls for the prostitute Sawsan. When he is transferred to Upper Egypt, he claims she's his sister. But as the villagers start to suspect them, he moves to another village and asks her to accompany him, but this time she refuses.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabZoheir BakirStarsSabahShukri SarhanUmar El-HaririThe film follows a drama about a doctor who is in love with a patient. He discovers that she is the wife of his brother who has been away since childhood after the death of their parents. He finds that his brother is a criminal who tried to kill his wife to take her money to marry his mistress. When he tries to save his beloved from death, he gets injured and the criminal knows that the doctor is his brother, regretting his act, and handing himself over to justice.
- DirectorMahmoud ZulfikarStarsSabahSalah ZulfikarAhmad MazharA rich man who have two daughters one of his daughters married to poor man and he didn't approve that marriage then he broke and stay without any money so his daughter and her husband helped him through his friend when he find out he refused and decided to start working
- DirectorAhmed YehiaStarsSabahHussein FahmyNazim ShaarawyHanan is a famous singer who meets an aspiring director named Ahmed, and soon they fall in love despite the age difference between them.
- DirectorMohamed SalemStarsSabahRushdi AbazahHussein Fahmy
- DirectorHusain FawziStarsFarid El-AtrashSabahIsmail YassinKawakib, a rich actress quits he role in a movie which forces the director to find a look-like for her with the name of Bata; Kawakib runs away with her lover who is planning to steal her jewels. Bata's fiancée Bolbol is trying to find Bata and then trying to stop Kawakib's lover from stealing the jewels.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsAsya DagherMunaSalah Nazmi
- DirectorHoussam El-Din MustafaStarsMervat AminNour El-SherifMohamed AwadThe relationships and difficulties that's facing a young beautiful teacher with her students during a year of studying, their flirtations, humor and trouble making.
- DirectorHoussam El-Din MustafaStarsRushdi AbazahShadiaSuad HusniSaber tries to find his father to find the way. He falls into the traps of the owner of a hotel she loves and asks him to kill her husband, and at the same time he falls in love with a female journalist in Akhbar El Youm.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsAhmad MazharSalah ZulfikarNadia LutfiAfter 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.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RustumYoussef ChahineA newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
- DirectorIbrahim Al ShaqanqiryStarsSalah ZulfikarAhmed ZakiAthar El-HakimIbraham the industrious student fall in love with his colleague Khayriyah and she also fall in love with him, but the rich student Hani admire her. Ibrahim is trying to hide his social level because he is afraid to lose Khayriyah, and telling everybody that he is from a wealthy family, will Khayriyah find the truth someday ?.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- DirectorAli Badr KhanStarsSuad HusniAhmed ZakiMahmoud Abdel AzizBack in 1860s, in rural Egypt, where family, youth and prettiness struggle against money and power.
- DirectorHilmi HalimStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifAbdel Halim HafezPoor girl live on the surface next to the three poor young people fall in love with her all and discover they occur under the weight of the disease, which would be required to hold surgery, everyone rush to help her for the surgery. See who is going to help her? You will fall in love with him?
- 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.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineFarouk BeloufaStarsMahmoud Al MelejiHuda SultanShukri SarhanFreed after spending 12 years in jail, a man's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family expectations.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsSuad HusniEzzat El AlailiSeif AbdelrahmanMysterious 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" whom he didn't get along with. The Police investigations came to the fact that twins are alive. Then whom body was that?. That's the Question of the revealing story to answer.
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsSamia GamalNabil Al alfiSeraj MunirHoda is a famous dancer who gives up the spotlight to marry and start a family with Mamdouh, a handsome young doctor who is just beginning his career. When Mamdouh's scheming Italian head nurse Yolanda sets her sights on Mamdouh, Hoda's jealousy drives her to drink, ultimately endangering everything she holds dear. An enchanting example of Egyptian melodrama at its finest.
- DirectorAli Badr KhanStarsFarid ShawqiSuad HusniNour El-SherifIn Egypt, a group of university students were arrested without comitting a crime because of their meetings at the cafe "Karnak", which was known for hosting some thinkers who sometimes criticize the 1952 revolution.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMagdaAhmad MazharSalah ZulfikarEgyptian historical film about one of the most important figures in the history of Algeria, Djamila Bouhired. This film is regarded as not only highlighting the story of an important female revolutionary but also showing the struggle of the Algerian people against the French occupation.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsLobna Abdel AzizShukri SarhanZouzou NabilAminia is a young woman living with her aunt's family which includes her uncle and her cousin. The men in her life further reinforce the themes of male dominance in the film with their restriction on her life.
- DirectorEzz El Dine ZulficarStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifZaki RostomNahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Nawal, a rural girl, is married off to a wealthy aristocrat called Taher Basha (Zaki Rostom). Nawal gets increasingly depressed due to her husband's cold, cruel demeanor, despite their lavish life. Things take a turn (for both better and worse) when she meets Khaled (Omar Sharif), a handsome young army officer.
- DirectorAshraf FahmyStarsMahmoud YassineSamira AhmedNaglaa FathiThe constant battle over having a home makes an ex husband marry a new one and live by force in his ex wife's appartement,the tension between the two women exposed his true personality and how much injustice the first wife went through.
- 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 AbdelazizStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifSamir GhanemMamdouh and Masoud are tired and unhappy with their wives; Mona is extremely jealous and Mahasen keeps getting pregnant all the time. Their cousin Ezzat advises them to cheat on their wives and start looking for potential lovers to take a break from the daily chaos at home.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorAtef SalemStarsMagdaEhab Nafee'Dawlat Abiad