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Arab films

by rehlamag • Created 9 years ago • Modified 7 years ago
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  • Ahlam el-madina (1984)

    1. Ahlam el-madina

    19842h
    6.8 (137)
    A widow called Hayat is forced to move with her two children (Deeb) and (Omar) to reside with her father in Damascus, Deeb is forced to work during his studies so that the mother does not have to need anything from her father.
    DirectorMohamed MalasStarsYasmine KhlatRafik SbieeBassel Abiad
  • Mahmoud Abdel Aziz in Kit Kat (1991)

    2. 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
  • The Street Player (1983)

    3. 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
  • We Are the Bus People (1979)

    4. 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
  • The Wife of an Important Man (1987)

    5. The Wife of an Important Man

    19871h 55m
    7.9 (2K)
    When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
    DirectorMohamed KhanStarsMervat AminAhmed ZakiAbdel Halim Hafez
  • The Innocent (1986)

    6. The Innocent

    19861h 50m
    8.2 (1.7K)
    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
  • Land of Fear (1999)

    7. 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
  • Atef El-Tayeb, Lebleba, Ahmed Zaki, and Afaf Shoieb in Against the Government (1992)

    8. Against the Government

    19921h 56m
    7.6 (1.3K)
    A famous corrupt personal injury lawyer finds himself in the middle of a case where he has to choose between his money love and the interest of one of his customers who appears later to be his own son
    DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiLeblebaAfaf Shoieb
  • Alexandria... Why? (1979)

    9. 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
  • The High (1985)

    10. The High

    19851h 58m
    8.5 (2.7K)
    As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.
    DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizNouraYehia El-Fakharany
  • Ahmed Zaki in Smile, the Photo Comes Out Better (1998)

    11. Smile, the Photo Comes Out Better

    19981h 53m
    7.1 (1.3K)
    A poor photographer fighting to live a decent life with dignity, while taking care of his mother and daughter.
    DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAhmed ZakiSanaa GameelLaila Eloui
  • Al imbrator (1990)

    12. Al imbrator

    19901h 55m
    6.3 (493)
    A remake of "scarface",tells the turbulant world of drug dealing,damaged personal relationships,and the rise and the fall of a drug lord.
    DirectorTarek AlarianStarsAhmed ZakiRaghdaMahmoud Hemida
  • A Dinner Date (1981)

    13. A Dinner Date

    19811h 43m
    7.4 (639)
    Nawal divorces her businessman husband and falls for her hairdresser, but her first husband is unwilling to let her go.
    DirectorMohamed KhanStarsSoad HosnyHussein FahmyAhmed Zaki
  • El-Raqesah wa el-Tabbal (1984)

    14. El-Raqesah wa el-Tabbal

    19841h 40m
    6.1 (438)
    A drummer coaches a low-class dancer to stardom.
    DirectorAshraf FahmyStarsSaeed AbdulghaniHassan Abu-ZaidAdel Adham
  • Shafika and Metwali (1978)

    15. Shafika and Metwali

    19782h 5m
    7.0 (343)
    Back in 1860s, in rural Egypt, where family, youth and prettiness struggle against money and power.
    DirectorAli Badr KhanStarsSoad HosnyAhmed ZakiMahmoud Abdel Aziz
  • Ahlam Hind wa Kamilya (1988)

    16. Ahlam Hind wa Kamilya

    19881h 49m
    7.1 (645)
    Follows the story of two lower-middle class women trying to survive with their dreams in 1980's Egypt.
    DirectorMohamed KhanStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiAida Riyad
  • Al-Ra'i wa Al-Nesaa (1991)

    17. Al-Ra'i wa Al-Nesaa

    19911h 40m
    5.8 (444)
    The widowed Wafaa lives with her teenage daughter Salma and her sister-in-law Azza in her late husband Kamel's remote house. When Kamel's former cellmate comes to offer his help, the three women are hesitant to accept at first, but they end up falling for him and competing for his affection.
    DirectorAli Badr KhanStarsSoad HosnyMirna WalidYoussra
  • The Egg and the Stone (1990)

    18. The Egg and the Stone

    19901h 38m
    7.6 (1.3K)
    Mustafa, a philosophy teacher, is fired from his job for being involved in political activities. He decides to use his intelligence and the ignorance of people to become a wealthy sorcerer.
    DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsAhmed ZakiMaali ZayedMamdouh Wafi
  • Imberaturiyyat Mim (1972)

    19. Imberaturiyyat Mim

    19721h 53m
    7.0 (753)
    Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new husband home proves to be a very difficult task.
    DirectorHussein KamalStarsFaten HamamaAhmad MazharDawlat Abiad
  • Ota ala nar (1977)

    20. Ota ala nar

    19772h
    7.1 (93)
    DirectorSamir SeifStarsNour El-SherifPoussiFarid Shawqi
  • Thia'ab La Ta'akol Al Laham (1973)

    21. Thia'ab La Ta'akol Al Laham

    19731h 41m
    4.0 (193)
    Filmed in the style of such Hollywood action classics as Bullitt and The French Connection, the first image we see in Wolves Don't Eat Meat is through the scope of a rooftop sniper's rifle just before he makes a kill. A frantic chase through the streets of town follows as the assassin, Anwar, makes his getaway. Wounded and exhausted, Anwar stumbles into the home of a stranger where he is allowed to recuperate and his story unfolds. We learn that he was once an ambitious journalist who has been transformed into a slaughterer of men by the years of war, suffering and destruction he has witnessed around the world - starting with the massacre at Deir Yassin in Palestine. A message film about good vs. evil and the negative effects of violence, Wolves Don't Eat Meat nevertheless employs the trademark sex, violence and bloodshed popularized in Hollywood action films of the 1970s, a style that later influenced the films of directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone.
    DirectorSamir A. KhouriStarsEzzat El AlailiNahed SharifIman
  • Abi foq al-Shagara (1969)

    22. Abi foq al-Shagara

    19692h 22m
    5.8 (379)
    A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.
    DirectorHussein KamalStarsAbdel Halim HafezNadia LutfiMervat Amin
  • Zaier el-fager (1975)

    23. Zaier el-fager

    19751h 46m
    7.0 (115)
    Rescue police receives a report on the killing of a leftist journalist in her apartment. The prosecutor moves to the scene of the incident and tries to reach the murderer.
    DirectorMamduh ShukryStarsMagda El-KhatibEzzat El AlailiMohamed Abu Hashish
  • Ghoroba' (1973)

    24. Ghoroba'

    19731h 58m
    5.9 (50)
    Nadia falls into her life between three men, the first is the artist she loves, the second is the puritanical brother, and the third is her professor. The three are, Ahmed, a religious young man who revolts against his sister Nadia because of the principles of her professor, Dr. Fouad Obeid from secular opinions.
    DirectorSaad ArafaStarsEzzat El AlailiHussein FahmyImad Hamdi
  • Hammam al-Malatily (1973)

    25. 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

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