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  • Faten Hamama in Sleepless (1957)

    1. Sleepless

    19572h 7m
    7.3 (525)
    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.
    DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamaYehia ChahineMariam Fakhr Eddine
  • The Beginning and the End (1960)

    2. The Beginning and the End

    19602h 10m
    8.0 (754)
    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
  • Cairo 30 (1966)

    3. Cairo 30

    19662h 12m
    7.8 (720)
    Mahgoub Abdel Dayem a young nihilistic college student, having his father crippled with no other source of income, he finds himself in an urgent need of a job after graduation to support himself and his parents. Having a hard time getting a job, he starts putting his values into actual application only to find them already being applied by much greater authorities. Set in Cairo in the 30s.
    DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSoad HosnyAhmad MazharHamdy Ahmed
  • The Second Wife (1967)

    4. The Second Wife

    19671h 45m
    7.8 (1K)
    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.
    DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsSoad HosnyShukri SarhanSanaa Gameel
  • Hammam al-Malatily (1973)

    5. Hammam al-Malatily

    19731h 34mNot Rated
    4.7 (1.8K)
    Ahmed (Muhammad Al-Araby) from Ismalia come to Cairo looking for work. Promise of richness is really far from reality of life. Ahmed falls in love with Naeema, a prostitute. And then there is Raouf Bey who is gay and fell in love with him.
    DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsMohamed El ArabiShams El BaroudyFayez Halawa
  • The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)

    6. The Water-Carrier Is Dead

    19771h 40m
    7.5 (331)
    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 life in the pursuit of pleasure because he recognizes that death will bring an end to all enjoyment. They meet and become friends. Through this friendship the water carrier is encouraged to change his morbid way of thinking and to enjoy life.
    DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFarid ShawqiEzzat El AlailiShouweikar
  • Hamdy Ahmed, Safia El Emari, Gamil Ratib, Youssra, and Ahmed Zaki in The Beginning (1986)

    7. The Beginning

    19862h 3mNot Rated
    7.6 (537)
    After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him.
    DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsAhmed ZakiYoussraSafia El Emari
  • The Blazing Sun (1954)

    8. The Blazing Sun

    19541h 45mTV-14
    7.2 (1.7K)
    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.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamaOmar SharifZaki Rostom
  • Dark Waters (1956)

    9. Dark Waters

    19562hTV-14
    6.7 (855)
    After three years of absence, back (Recep) after a long travel trip spent on the back of one of the ships in an effort to save money in order to complete his marriage b (benign), who lives with his mother in a shack built on the sea, but with the passage of days legged in the heart of (Recep) feelings of jealousy when he doubted the existence of a relationship between the pool (benign), and between (Mamdouh) son of the owner of the shipping company, which coincided with the existence of many problems between the owner of the company and its employees.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamaOmar SharifAhmed Ramzy
  • Cairo Station (1958)

    10. Cairo Station

    19581h 17mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.5 (5.8K)
    A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RostomYoussef Chahine
  • Djamilah (1958)

    11. Djamilah

    19582h 3m
    7.2 (334)
    The story of Algerian freedom fighter Djamila Bouhired who played a key role in resisting French colonial rule and the fight for Algeria's independence.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMagdaAhmad MazharSalah Zulfikar
  • Saladin (1963)

    12. Saladin

    19633h 14mTV-MA
    7.5 (3K)
    After Saladin's victory over the King of Jerusalem, a peace treaty is signed between them, but the commander of the Crusader army, Renaud de Chatillon, slaughters a group of pilgrims going to Mecca. Saladin then decides to take revenge.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsAhmad MazharSalah ZulfikarNadia Lutfi
  • The Land (1970)

    13. 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
  • Return of the Prodigal Son (1978)

    14. Return of the Prodigal Son

    19782h
    7.1 (1K)
    Freed after spending 12 years in jail, a man's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family expectations.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMahmoud El MeligyHuda SultanShukri Sarhan
  • Alexandria... Why? (1979)

    15. Alexandria... Why?

    19792h 13mNot Rated
    7.3 (2.2K)
    Yehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiFarid Shawqi
  • Alexandria: Again and Forever (1989)

    16. Alexandria: Again and Forever

    19891h 40mNot Rated
    6.5 (865)
    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.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsYoussraYoussef ChahineHussein Fahmy
  • Khaled Nabawy and Nour El-Sherif in Destiny (1997)

    17. Destiny

    19972h 15m
    7.1 (3.4K)
    The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are not liked by everyone. The caliph's political rivals, centered around the leader of a fanatical Islamic sect, force the caliph to send Averroes into exile, but his ideas keep on living thanks to his students.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNour El-SherifLaila ElouiMahmoud Hemida
  • Nabila Ebeid, Hanan Turk, and Hani Salama in The Other (1999)

    18. The Other

    19991h 45m
    6.0 (1.1K)
    Egyptian director Youssef Chahine exposes the links between power and fanaticism and denounces intolerance in this bitter portrait of the Egyptian business world, where unconditional drive for money rules. Adam (Hani Salama), the son of a rich businessman and his American wife, meets Hanane (Hanane Turk), a journalist of modest means at the airport on his return from his studies in the US. She is part of a campaign against a wealthy elite, which has thrived on plundering its own people. They fall in love and get married. Corruption is everywhere in the country and American interests are taking over the lucrative tourist trade. Adam's rich parents and their friends in the government are at the heart of this corrupt system. Adam's mother, Margaret (Nabila Ebeid), nourishes a strange affection for her son. She is possessive to the point of violence and is ready to get rid of Hanane, whom she considers her rival. Adam turns against the global economy of which his parents are the perfect examples as he sees through the greed of international speculators and the secret ties that bind them to fanatical fundamentalist sects. The fact that Hanane's brother has become an Islamist terrorist does not help matters. The resistance that the couple has to put up makes them grow strong, for which they pay a heavy price. 52nd Cannes Film Festival, 1999.
    DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsHanan TurkHani SalamaNabila Ebeid
  • Life or Death (1954)

    19. Life or Death

    19541h 15m
    7.4 (388)
    A man with cardiac problems, had heart attack and sent his daughter to get the medicine from the drug store, however the pharmacist discovers that he sent the wrong medication, he cooperates with the police to stop a disaster.
    DirectorKamal El SheikhStarsYoussef WahbiMadihah YusriImad Hamdi
  • Chased by the Dogs (1962)

    20. Chased by the Dogs

    19622h 5m
    7.4 (471)
    After four years in prison, the young thief Said Mahran come out of jail & seek revenge against those who betrayed him,his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to turn him into the police,they are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him and his mentor Rauf Ilwan.The original title in Arabic mean "the thief & the dogs" this movie was Adapted from a famous novella by Naguib Mahfouz how also co-wrote the film screenplay.Mahfouz was inspired by the life of the famous Egyptian thief Mahmoud Amin Soliman.
    DirectorKamal El SheikhStarsShadiaShukri SarhanKamal El-Shinnawi
  • The Nightingale's Prayer (1959)

    21. 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
  • Fi Baytena Ragul (1961)

    22. Fi Baytena Ragul

    19612h 39m
    7.5 (1.2K)
    Based in British occupied Egypt, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a member of the resistance, seeks refuge in the house of a politically passive family after killing the prime minister for his acts of treason.
    DirectorHenry BarakatStarsOmar SharifZubida TharwatRushdy Abaza
  • El haram (1965)

    23. El haram

    19651h 45m
    7.7 (666)
    A poor peasant is raped by a guard when she goes out in the field to gather vegetables but does not confides in her husband about it. Later, she hides her pregnancy and plans to kill the baby as soon it is born.
    DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamaZaki RostomAbdallah Gheith
  • Leilet al quabd al Fatma (1984)

    24. Leilet al quabd al Fatma

    19842hPG-13
    7.2 (225)
    A tale story of the July, 1952 revolution in Egypt through the experiences of Fatma (Hamama), a young betrothed woman. Her history is told in flash backs as she sits on the roof of her house, intending to jump to her death if her brother carries through with his threat to confine her to a mental institution. Fatma's Husband-to-be is a fisherman who has been away for a long time looking for work abroad, and she has stayed at home to take care of her two brothers instead of going with him. When he comes back, her brother Galal sees to it that he is arrested, intending to put him in prison for several years. Fatma, in turn, represents loyal Egyptians who resisted foreign-backed rule even if it meant dying.
    DirectorHenry BarakatStarsMohamed Al SharqawyFaten HamamaMohsen Mohieddin
  • Struggle on the Nile (1959)

    25. Struggle on the Nile

    19592h 5m
    7.0 (487)
    When Mihassab and Migahed plan to buy a new barge for their village, the leader of a group of thieves sends his men to steal the money. He also sends Nargis, a carnival dancer, to cause a strife between the two men.
    DirectorAtef SalemStarsHind RostomOmar SharifRushdy Abaza

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