Movies:

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the c...

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effec...

Al-Dakhakhani lives in Al-Jamaliya quarter, and he doesn't want his inheritance to go to his four daughters' husbands. Especially when his only son suffers from mental illness. He thinks of marrying his son to Eashrya, who he stole her property. She ...

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of...

Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, w...

As a result of Saleh's preoccupation with his work, his wife Aida suffers from loneliness. She turns to watching films and starts impersonating the characters of the heroines she sees in the films, which gets her husband into many troubles and with t...

The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his lif...

Ramadan is a poor young employee who wants to marry his fiancée Alia but can't afford it. He plans to steal and hide the employees' salary bag, then turn himself in and serve his sentence so that he can get married after. Upon his release, he finds o...

Chief Morsy is a lightkeeper staying at a faraway lighthouse. He marries So'aad and shortly returns to the lighthouse where he recounts to Nour his adventures with women. When he sends his wife a letter with Nour, Morsy grows suspicious of his wife's...

Three people ( a police officer, a dancer, and a soccer player) have an accident across the desert road. They're taken to the hospital in critical condition. The doctors are able to rescue them by transplanting them new hearts. The police officer has...

Journalist Ayman loves Tahyia, he gets arrested for his bold political articles. The wife of a big official, convinces Tahyia to meet Saad, as he can release Ayman. Saad assaults Tahyia and after Ayman is released, he hires him in a prestigious posit...

The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their si...

A married couple ends up working at the same company where the wife is a general director. This arouses the suspicion of their co-workers who do not know they are married....

In a small village, when rumors spread about the arrival of a train with the president and his American guest onboard, the village is completely transformed to host them properly, which brings the rampant corruption and hypocrisy to the surface....

Hassan Hudhud is a poor boxer who dreams of championships and glory. He accidentally takes part in a match at the mansion of a wealthy man who admires him. He soon gets rich and moves into the mansion....

Amal lives in Paris and works as a spy for Israel. She repents and decides to repent. She uses the Egyptian ambassador to make an appointment with the Egyptian intelligence chief, whom she confesses. She agrees to be a double agent after she passes a...

Abbas invents candy claiming that it strengthens the body and cures diseases, and people rush to buy it, which makes him rich enough to marry Nazira, but that angers nurse Rayisa who loves Abbas and makes her inform the police of poisoning cases from...

Abbas is an interior architect living in Hurghada. He gets into a quarrel with Ismat, the owner of the villa which Ahmed is working on, that ends with her causing him a permanent disability. When he decides to sue her, her mother Zohira convinces her...

Leila is a successful lawyer, she marries a wealthy illiterate contractor, Fathi, as each of them has a different culture. She is called Sawsan, and she informs Laila of their relationship, so she requests a divorce and gets it....

On the eve of the 1919 revolution in Egypt, the friendship between Houda al-Najjar, who likes boxing, Petro, who likes to sing, and the good worker of the printing press, believes in revolution. Fatima, the sister of Houda, is in love with Hussain, a...