Egyptian Cinema
by dimitrispantelakakis | created - 3 months ago | updated - 3 months ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. 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
2. Against the Government (1992)
116 min | Drama
A 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
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Ahmed Zaki, Lebleba, Afaf Shoieb, Al Morsi Abu Al Abbas
Votes: 1,123
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: 6,941
4. 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: 4,006
5. 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: 1,858
6. Upper Egyptian in the American University (1998)
118 min | Comedy
It's a story about Khalaf Al Dahshori a young man from a small village in Upper Egypt (Sa'ed). Who gets a scholarship to the American University in Cairo, after getting the 2nd highest ... See full summary »
Director: Saeed Hamed | Stars: Mohamed Henedi, Mona Zaki, Ahmed El Sakka, Hani Ramzi
Votes: 2,787
7. The Terrorism and the Kebab (1992)
105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A family man frustrated by bureaucracies of Egyptian public system as well as difficulties of life finds himself inadvertently accused of terrorism.
Directors: Sherif Arafa, Sherif Arafa, Yehia Hassanein, Mohamed Yasine | Stars: Adel Emam, Youssra, Kamal El-Shinnawi, Ahmed Rateb
Votes: 3,297
8. Clash (2016)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller, War
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: 6,191 | Gross: $0.02M
9. The Nightingale's Prayer (1982)
107 min | Drama
Hassan is a bus driver and the only male sibling of five sisters, his father owns a workshop that got suspended due to taxes problems. Hassan tries to provide money before the workshop is sold on the auction.
Director: Atef El-Tayeb | Stars: Sharif Abdulhamid, Aaliyah Abdulmoneim, Nimat Abdulnaser, Hamdi Al Wazir
Votes: 742
10. 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: 1,490
11. The High (1985)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.
Director: Ali Abdel-Khalek | Stars: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Noura, Yehia El-Fakharany, Zeinab Abdo
Votes: 2,476
12. The Yacoubian Building (2006)
165 min | Drama
Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Essad Youniss
Votes: 7,244
13. Excuse My French (2014)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Directors: Amr Salama, Rami Gheit | Stars: Ahmad Dash, Ahmed Helmy, Kinda Alloush, Hany Adel
Votes: 4,981
14. Cairo Exit (2010)
97 min | Drama
A powerful account of life in contemporary Cairo, this raw drama about a pair of star-crossed lovers shines a powerful spotlight upon the social and cultural taboos that riddle the city's ... See full summary »
Director: Hesham Issawi | Stars: Mohamad Ramadan, Maryhan, Ahmad Bedair, Safaa Galal
Votes: 166
15. 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: 4,796
16. 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: 4,834
17. 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: 7,840
18. 30 Years Ago (2016)
145 min | Drama, Thriller
He (Sherif Mounir) returns from Europe after inheriting from his former boss, bringing the curse that killed his boss' family to his family's doorstep.
Director: Amr Arafa | Stars: Ahmed El Sakka, Mohamed Ibrahim, Mona Zaki, Sherif Mounir
Votes: 2,257
19. Diamond Dust (2018)
162 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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!
Director: Marwan Hamed | Stars: Rosaline Elbay, Mohamed Mamdouh, Shereen Reda, Asser Yassin
Votes: 5,812
20. 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
21. 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
22. Alexandria: Again and Forever (1989)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
During a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Yehia, a famous Egyptian director, finds himself obsessed with Amir, the leading man in one of his movies, and Nadia, a woman he desires to work with.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Youssra, Youssef Chahine, Hussein Fahmy, Amr Abdulgalil
Votes: 803
23. 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: 1,299
24. The Flirtation of Girls (1949)
120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In this classic musical, poor old Hamam, a modest arabic teacher, falls in love with the young and beautiful Laila, his aristocratic pupil. Soon, he must decide between his unrealistic feelings or sacrificing his love for her own good.
Director: Anwar Wagdi | Stars: Nagib El-Rihani, Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 584
25. 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: 1,793
26. The Second Wife (1967)
105 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Suad Husni, Shukri Sarhan, Sanaa Gameel, Salah Mansour
Votes: 959
27. 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: 4,751
28. 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: 29,837
29. Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (2009)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama
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: 1,472
Tell Your Friends