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Top Rated Egyptian Movies

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  • Mona Wassef and Abdallah Gheith in The Message (1976)

    1. The Message

    19763h 27mPG
    8.9 (11K)
    The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."
    DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAbdallah GheithMona WassefHamdy Gheith
  • Ahmed Helmy in Sorry to Disturb (2008)

    2. Sorry to Disturb

    20081h 56m
    8.1 (7.5K)
    Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.
    DirectorKhaled MareiStarsAhmed HelmyMenna ShalabiMahmoud Hemida
  • The Innocent (1986)

    3. The Innocent

    19861h 50m
    8.2 (1.6K)
    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.
    DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiMahmoud Abdel AzizMamdouh Abdel Alim
  • The Beginning and the End (1960)

    4. The Beginning and the End

    19602h 10m
    8.0 (748)
    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 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 AbouseifStarsFarid ShawqiOmar SharifAmina Rizk
  • Bittersweet (2010)

    5. 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
  • We Are the Bus People (1979)

    6. We Are the Bus People

    19792h 18m
    7.9 (1.5K)
    Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.
    DirectorHussein KamalStarsAdel EmamAbdel Moneim MadboulySaeed Abdulghani
  • Hassan Hosny, Hesham Selim, Ahmed Helmy, Muhammad Sad, and Alaa Waley El Din in The Headmaster (2000)

    7. The Headmaster

    20002h
    8.0 (4.5K)
    Salah eldin inherit administration of a school from his father, but he abusive its management due to his lack of experience.
    DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAlaa Waley El DinHassan HosnyAhmed Helmy
  • The Terrorism and the Kebab (1992)

    8. The Terrorism and the Kebab

    19921h 45m
    7.7 (3.6K)
    A family man frustrated by bureaucracies of Egyptian public system as well as difficulties of life finds himself inadvertently accused of terrorism.
    DirectorsSherif ArafaSherif ArafaYehia HassaneinStarsAdel EmamYoussraKamal El-Shinnawi
  • Al-irhabi (1994)

    9. Al-irhabi

    19942h 10m
    6.3 (1.9K)
    Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Isalmic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan,the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality,such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.
    DirectorNader GalalStarsAdel EmamSalah ZulfikarSherine
  • The Yacoubian Building (2006)

    10. 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
  • 1000 Congratulations (2009)

    11. 1000 Congratulations

    20091h 55m
    7.4 (5.6K)
    A guy lives the same day over and over and deals with the same events each time which changes the way he looks to his life.
    DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsAhmed HelmyLaila Ezz El ArabMahmood El-Fishawi
  • Ahmed Helmy and Menna Shalabi in Can't Complain (2007)

    12. Can't Complain

    20071h 53m
    7.5 (4.9K)
    Triplets Prince - Bebo - Semsem (Ahmed Helmy) are taking advantage of similarities between them and outwitted the people, till meet a psychiatrist crook Suleiman al-Halabi.
    DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsAhmed HelmyMenna ShalabiKhaled El-Sawi
  • War in the Land of Egypt (1991)

    13. War in the Land of Egypt

    19911h 30m
    7.8 (531)
    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 simple peasant that sends his only son (Masry) instead of his son in exchange for Kiratin of the earth ... Complicated film events after winning the mayor's issue of the land lifted against the territory's interest, and that is a judicial issue a necessity because the peasants of their land being cleared become mayor by virtue of the judge. One of whom shall rigging Alathiatat personal citizen "Egyptian" and after paying bribes. The end is very sad, in "Egyptian" die during military service, and he knows that his father "Ezzat Alayli" which influenced deeply affected by his death and regret sending the army to serve anywhere son of the mayor for money. The film also shows the meaning of friendship among members of the general community and the companions of arms, especially in the Egyptian army in 1973.
    DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsOmar SharifEzzat El AlailiSafia El Emari
  • Ahmed Helmy and Donia Samir Ghanem in X-Large (2011)

    14. X-Large

    20112h 20m
    7.3 (4.2K)
    Magdi is a young man who lives alone because of his obesity which keeps him away from his friends. He gets into many situations that makes him uncomfortable, so he decides to ask his uncle for help.
    DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAhmed HelmyDonia Samir GhanemIbrahim Nasr
  • The Street Player (1983)

    15. The Street Player

    19832h 28m
    7.6 (1.9K)
    The life of a football player named Fares who goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife, job, sexual desires and football.
    DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAdel EmamFardous Abdel HamidNagah El-Mogui
  • Karnak Café (1975)

    16. Karnak Café

    19752h 23m
    7.3 (792)
    In 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.
    DirectorAli Badr KhanStarsFarid ShawqiSoad HosnyNour El-Sherif
  • The Nightingale's Prayer (1959)

    17. The Nightingale's Prayer

    19591h 49m
    8.1 (2.1K)
    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.
    DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamaAhmad MazharAmina Rizk
  • The Land (1970)

    18. The Land

    19702h 10m
    8.0 (2.7K)
    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.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMahmoud El MeligyNagwa IbrahimEzzat El Alaili
  • Mahmoud Abdel Aziz in Kit Kat (1991)

    19. Kit Kat

    19912h 9m
    8.2 (2.9K)
    Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking marijuana with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house. He knows everything about his neighbors and their secrets and love affairs.
    DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizSherif MounirAida Riyad
  • Days of El-Sadat (2001)

    20. Days of El-Sadat

    20012h 45m
    7.4 (1.8K)
    The private and public life of Egyptian president Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat.
    DirectorMohamed KhanStarsAhmed ZakiMervat AminMona Zaki
  • Land of Fear (1999)

    21. Land of Fear

    19992h 22m
    8.2 (2.1K)
    A mix between an honored police officer who fight the crimes and a drug dealer in the same person and a confliction in and out.
    DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsAhmed ZakiFarahHamdy Gheith
  • Sherif Mounir, Mona Zaki, and Karim Abdel Aziz in Escaping Tel Aviv (2009)

    22. Escaping Tel Aviv

    20091h 59m
    7.3 (6.5K)
    An Egyptian woman discovers that her husband is in fact a Jewish Mossad agent working for Israel. He takes her and their two children to Israel by force and tries to convince her to live with him by force. Mostafa, an Egyptian Intelligence Agent sent by SSI, travels to Israel and tries to help Salwa return to Egypt.
    DirectorSherif ArafaStarsSherif MounirKarim Abdel AzizMona Zaki
  • Asmaa (2011)

    23. 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
  • Cairo Station (1958)

    24. Cairo Station

    19581h 17mNot Rated
    7.5 (5.7K)
    A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RostomYoussef Chahine
  • Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Hind Sabri, Amr Waked, and Ahmed El Sakka in Ibrahim Labyad (2009)

    25. 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

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