Arabic Movies
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1. Sleepless (1957)
127 min | Drama, Romance
Teenage 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.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Yehia Chahine, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif
Votes: 469
Salah Abouseif. Hammama, Fakhrudin, Sharif, Rostom. Not ranked. Sydeny Levine.
2. The Sparrow (1972)
105 min | Drama
Set shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Salah Qabil, Ali El Sherif, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Seif Abdelrahman
Votes: 393
Youssef Cahine. Fakhruddin. Not Ranked. Sydeny Levine.
3. Kalb min dahab (1959)
Drama
Director: Muhammad Karim | Stars: Imad Hamdi, Maryam Fakhruddin, Abdulwareth Asar, Ferdoos Mohammed
Votes: 20
Fakhruddin. Striking and centerpiece of movie. On Youtube. Not Ranked.
4. El banat waal saif (1960)
147 min | Drama, Romance
Directors: Fatin Abdulwahhab, Salah Abouseif, Ezz El Dine Zulficar | Stars: Abdel Halim Hafez, Suad Husni, Maryam Fakhruddin, Kamal El-Shinnawi
Votes: 104
Salah Aboseif. Hosni, Fakhruddin, Hafez.
5. Malak wa shaitan (1960)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
"Shawkat" and "Samira" a couple has a daughter at the age of 5 years, living together in a happy.One day thieves seeking to steal their money and jewelry inside the Treasury, and while ... See full summary »
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Rushdi Abazah, Zaki Rostom, Nagwa Fouad, Maryam Fakhruddin
Votes: 93
Sydeny Levine. Fakhruddin. Thriller.
6. Rihlah Gharamiyyah (1957)
Drama, Romance
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mahmoud Zulfikar | Stars: Maryam Fakhruddin, Shukri Sarhan, Samira Ahmed, Ahmad Mazhar
Votes: 24
Fakhruddin. Not Ranked.
7. Soft Hands (1963)
137 min | Comedy, Musical
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mahmoud Zulfikar | Stars: Sabah, Salah Zulfikar, Ahmad Mazhar, Maryam Fakhruddin
Votes: 461
8. Back Alive (1957)
150 min | Drama, History
Circumstance Egypt before military coup 1952 .
Director: Ezz El Dine Zulficar | Stars: Maryam Fakhruddin, Shukri Sarhan, Salah Zulfikar, Zahrat El-Ula
Votes: 266
#13. Fakhruddin.
9. 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
10. 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
Salah Abouseif. Shadia, Sarhan. #6.
11. El-Toq wa el-Iswerah (1986)
115 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Based on a novel by Yahia Al Tahir Abdulla, the film focuses on Hazina (Fardous Abdel Hamid), who lives in Karnak, Luxor, with her paralyzed husband (Ezzat El Alaili), her daughter and ... See full summary »
Director: Khairy Beshara | Stars: Sherihan, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Ahmed Abdelaziz, Samir Abdullatif
Votes: 190
Sherihan. Not Ranked.
12. 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
#9. Lieila Murad, Moahmmad Abdel-Wahab.
13. The Beginning and the End (1960)
130 min | Drama
After 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Omar Sharif, Aminah Rizq, Amal Zayed
Votes: 691
#7. Salah Abouseif. Sharif.
14. 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
The Tough. #10. Hammama.
15. 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
#8. Cool plot.
16. Rannet el kholkhal (1955)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Mahmoud Zulfikar | Stars: Shukri Sarhan, Maryam Fakhruddin, Abdulwareth Asar, Negma Ibrahim
Votes: 29
Sydeny Levine. Fakhruddin.
17. Irham hubbi (1959)
Drama, Romance
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Kamal El-Shinnawi, Maryam Fakhruddin, Imad Hamdi, Salah Nazmi
Votes: 38
18. 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
19. El murra el maghoula (1959)
114 min | Drama
An adaptation of Alexandre Bisson's famous play "Madame X", "El Murra el maghoula" is the story of Fatima (Shadia), a working class performer who marries the rich Dr. Ahmed (Emad Hamdi). ... See full summary »
Director: Mahmoud Zulfikar | Stars: Shadia, Imad Hamdi, Kamal El-Shinnawi, Shukri Sarhan
Votes: 94
20. Hub wa demoue (1955)
105 min
A tale of love, grief and hope set in the city of Port-said between a young woman and her lover who works in the sea.
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmed Ramzy, Aqilah Rateb, Estafan Rosti
Votes: 58
21. Thartharah fawq el-Nil (1971)
115 min | Drama
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Magda El-Khatib, Adel Adham, Ahmed Al Jaziri, Fathiya Ali
Votes: 771
22. Sayedat al akmar al sawdaa (1971)
106 min | Drama, Romance
In the depths of loneliness and despair, beautiful Aida visits her "tailor," Victoria, a woman who runs a sensual house where erotic fantasies are fulfilled. After satisfying her desires in... See full summary »
Director: Samir A. Khouri | Stars: Nahed Yousri, Hussein Fahmy, Adel Adham, Fawzi Alkayali
Votes: 156
23. 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
24. Beggars and Noblemen (1991)
92 min | Drama, Mystery
The setting is Cairo in June of 1945, during the last days of the Second World War. Gohar, a former university professor, encounters a young prostitute in an empty brothel and kills her in ... See full summary »
Director: Asmaa El-Bakry | Stars: Salah El-Saadany, Mahmood El-Gindi, Abdulaziz Makhyoon, Ahmad Adam
Votes: 136
25. 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: 1,559
26. Photocopy (2017)
90 min | Drama
When 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.
Director: Tamer Ashry | Stars: Mahmoud Hemida, Shereen Reda, Farah Yusuf, Bayoumi Fouad
Votes: 1,506
27. The Treasure (2017)
157 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sherif Arafa | Stars: Hind Sabri, Amina Khalil, Mohamad Ramadan, Salma Elshimy
Votes: 2,128
28. 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: 1,552
29. War in the Land of Egypt (1991)
90 min | Drama
The mayor have many sons, the youngest of his sons for military service are required, but it is looking for different ways to not send his son to perform his duty, he makes a deal with a ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Omar Sharif, Ezzat El Alaili, Safia El Emari, Abdalla Mahmoud
Votes: 488
30. 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
31. A Flood in Baath Country (2005)
46 min | Documentary
A look at the Baath party's project to construct a system of dams.
Director: Omar Amiralay
Votes: 149
32. 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
33. Laylat Seqout Baghdad (2005)
109 min | Comedy
After gulf war 2003 old man was afraid of Egypt to get involved in next war and he was thinking how to have new weapon to protect his family
Director: Mohamed Amin | Stars: Basma, Ahmed Eid, Ihsan El-Qalaawi, Hala Fakher
Votes: 465
34. 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
35. 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: 756
36. 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: 713
37. 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: 1,447
38. 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
39. Al assifa (2000)
100 min | Drama, Romance, War
This drama from Egyptian filmmaker Khaled Youssef offers Western audiences an unusual perspective on the Gulf War, as a family is torn apart by conflicting personal and political ... See full summary »
Director: Khaled Youssef | Stars: Youssra, Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Mohamed Nagati
Votes: 259
40. Four Daughters (2023)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania | Stars: Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui, Nour Karoui
Votes: 2,785
41. 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
42. Shaytan al-Sahra (1954)
110 min | Adventure
In 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif, Tawfik El Deken, Reyad El Kasabgy
Votes: 132
43. Morine (2018)
115 min | Drama, History
The year is 620 A.D., North Lebanon. Living with God is men's privilege and the most unreachable women's right. Stubborn as she is, the 20 year-old revolutionary girl breaks the rules and endures all the consequences.
Director: Tony Farjallah | Stars: Carmen Bsaibes, Mounir Maasri, Ghassan Massoud, Takla Chamoun
Votes: 1,372
44. The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)
Unrated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don't want the case solved.
Director: Tarik Saleh | Stars: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher, Ahmed Selim
Votes: 9,285 | Gross: $0.08M
45. Ressalah min emraa maghoula (1963)
120 min | Drama
Its love / classical / musical about a girl who lives across a famous singer and her mother force her to travel to another city which the girl doesnt want to do as she doesnt want to live ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Farid El-Atrash, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Aminah Rizq, Mari Munib
Votes: 59
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