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TOP 25 Favorite ARABIC Movies of this Millennium ❤

by tahaimadeddin • Created 5 years ago • Modified 4 years ago
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  • The Yacoubian Building (2006)

    1. The Yacoubian Building

    20062h 45m
    7.5 (7.6K)
    Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
    DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussra
  • Photocopy (2017)

    2. Photocopy

    20171h 30m
    7.5 (1.6K)
    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.
    DirectorTamer AshryStarsMahmoud HemidaShereen RedaFarah Youssef
  • Hala Fakher, Menna Shalabi, Hala Sedki, Khaled Saleh, and Youssef El Sherif in Chaos, This Is (2007)

    3. Chaos, This Is

    20072h 4m
    7.2 (2.8K)
    Egyptian movie deals with the issue of corruption in Egypt and the Egyptian police excesses, embodies all of this in the character of the police officer, "Hatem".
    DirectorsYoussef ChahineKhaled YoussefStarsKhaled SalehMenna ShalabiYoussef El Sherif
  • Diamond Dust (2018)

    4. Diamond Dust

    20182h 42m
    7.9 (6.3K)
    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!
    DirectorMarwan HamedStarsRosaline ElbayTara EmadShereen Reda
  • Nawara (2015)

    5. Nawara

    20152h 2m
    7.4 (1.2K)
    Every day Nawara goes to work along a path that takes her between the alleys of the poor neighborhood and the roads that lead to the villas within a luxury compound. Every day, on her way to work, she carries the worries of the people in her neighborhood and their simple dreams. Little does she know that the spring of 2011 will bring her something unexpected.
    DirectorHala KhalilStarsMenna ShalabiAmeer Salah EldinAhmed Rateb
  • Asmaa (2011)

    6. Asmaa

    20111h 36m
    8.1 (5K)
    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.
    DirectorAmr SalamaStarsHind SabriMaged El-KidwaniHany Adel
  • Clash (2016)

    7. Clash

    20161h 37mNot Rated78Metascore
    7.4 (6.4K)
    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.
    DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNelly KarimHany AdelMuhammad El-Sebai
  • Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Hind Sabri, Amr Waked, and Ahmed El Sakka in Ibrahim Labyad (2009)

    8. Ibrahim Labyad

    20092h 14mR
    7.6 (4.6K)
    Witnessing the killing of his father as a kid, Ibrahim is dragged to the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself, he meets Abdul-Malek Zarzur, the crime lord of the town.
    DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAhmed El SakkaHind SabriAmr Waked
  • Youssef Dawood, Lotfy Labib, Ahmed Helmy, Enaam Salousa, Edward, Gehan Anwar, and Shaimaa Al Zughbi in Bittersweet (2010)

    9. Bittersweet

    20102h 10m
    8.0 (8.5K)
    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.
    DirectorKhaled MareiStarsAhmed HelmyEdwardAmy Samir Ghanem
  • Wajib (2017)

    10. Wajib

    20171h 36m
    7.3 (2.1K)
    A father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom, in this rousing family drama from Annemarie Jacir (When I Saw You).
    DirectorAnnemarie JacirStarsMohammad BakriSaleh BakriTarik Kopty
  • The Blue Elephant (2014)

    11. The Blue Elephant

    20142h 50mNot Rated
    8.0 (31K)
    While trying to help an inmate at the mental hospital, a psychotherapist unravels mysteries he never thought existed.
    DirectorMarwan HamedStarsKarim Abdel AzizKhaled El-SawiNelly Karim
  • I Love Cinema (2004)

    12. I Love Cinema

    20042h 5mR
    6.6 (1.5K)
    A child who loves the cinema struggles with his fanatic dad who finds everything ,including cinema, a sin, with the help of his mother who is sexually depressed.
    DirectorOsama FawzyStarsLaila ElouiMahmoud HemidaMenna Shalabi
  • Ahmed Helmy in Sorry to Disturb (2008)

    13. Sorry to Disturb

    20081h 56m
    8.1 (7.6K)
    Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.
    DirectorKhaled MareiStarsAhmed HelmyMenna ShalabiMahmoud Hemida
  • Sheikh Jackson (2017)

    14. Sheikh Jackson

    20171h 33mNot Rated63Metascore
    6.9 (3.5K)
    An Islamic cleric has a crisis of faith when he hears the news that his childhood idol, Michael Jackson, has died.
    DirectorAmr SalamaStarsAhmad El-FishawiMaged El-KidwaniAhmed Malek
  • Khaled El-Sawi, Maged El-Kidwani, Menna Shalabi, Kinda Alloush, and Mohamed Mamdouh in El-Asliyyin (2017)

    15. El-Asliyyin

    20172h 5mNot Rated
    6.9 (3.2K)
    Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life.
    DirectorMarwan HamedStarsMaged El-KidwaniMenna ShalabiKhaled El-Sawi
  • Leil Khargi (2018)

    16. Leil Khargi

    20181h 35mNot Rated
    6.9 (1.2K)
    Three people had to live together for one night.
    DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKarim KassemMona HalaSherief El Desouky
  • The Treasure (2017)

    17. The Treasure

    20172h 37m
    6.9 (2.2K)
    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 and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions, especially that there are clerics who deliberately Coloring and counterfeiting at this time in order to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
    DirectorSherif ArafaStarsHind SabriMuhammad SadMohamad Ramadan
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  • El Farah (2009)

    18. El Farah

    20091h 35m
    7.1 (1.8K)
    Zainhum makes fake wedding to regain his money from the guests and during the wedding his mother dies and he has to choose either to continue the wedding or cancel it.
    DirectorSameh AbdulazizStarsSalah AbdallaMahmood Al-HusainiHamad Almutaani
  • Christine Choueiri, Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Diamand Abou Abboud, Camille Salameh, and Rita Hayek in The Insult (2017)

    19. The Insult

    20171h 53mR72Metascore
    7.6 (19K)
    After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
    DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsAdel KaramKamel El BashaCamille Salameh
  • Winter of Discontent (2012)

    20. Winter of Discontent

    20121h 36m
    6.9 (629)
    Set against the momentous backdrop of the whirlwind Tahrir Square protests, Winter of discontent poetically explores the anguish of a victim state terror in 2009, presaging and intertwining with the pivotal events in 2011 that changed the face of Egypt. As the stories of the characters unfold, we are propelled headlong into the heady, often surreal atmosphere of terror and uncertainty that characterized the last days of Mubarak's rule.
    DirectorIbrahim El-BatoutStarsAmr WakedFarah YoussefSalah Alhanafy
  • Out of Order (2015)

    21. Out of Order

    20151h 39m
    6.2 (289)
    A hustler and drug addict finds a crime video of a widow from his neighbourhood killing a child. He blackmails her to pay-off his debt only to get tangled in a twisted and altered relationship in which they fall into addiction until the murder is unexpectedly unraveled.
    DirectorMahmoud KamelStarsAhmad El-FishawiShereen RedaMohamed Farouk Shiba
  • Maged El-Kidwani, Ahmed Mekky, and Donia Samir Ghanem in No Retreat, No Surrender (2010)

    22. No Retreat, No Surrender

    20101h 56m
    7.5 (3.3K)
    A boy living in a poor neighborhood is working as a police agent.
    DirectorAhmed al-GendyStarsAhmed MekkyDonia Samir GhanemMaged El-Kidwani
  • Ahmed Helmy in 18 Days (2011)

    23. 18 Days

    20112h 5mNot Rated
    7.4 (1.6K)
    Ten separate stories about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
    DirectorsAhmed AbdullahKamla AbouzekriKamlah Abu-ZikriStarsAhmed HelmyAmr WakedMona Zaki
  • Dash Ahmed in Excuse My French (2014)

    24. Excuse My French

    20141h 39mNot Rated
    7.5 (5.2K)
    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.
    DirectorsAmr SalamaRami GheitStarsDash AhmedAhmed HelmyKinda Alloush
  • Amr Youssef in Hibta: El-Muhadharah el-Akhirah (2016)

    25. Hibta: El-Muhadharah el-Akhirah

    20161h 52m
    7.6 (3.4K)
    Dr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions. He decides to give one last lecture on the very simple question: "How do we love?"
    DirectorHadi El BagouryStarsAmr YoussefAhmed MalekAhmed Dawood

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