Favorite Egyptian Movies

A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.

The coincidence between the doctor Amal, who decided to move away from Cairo in the isolation of optional Saloum in an attempt to escape the anniversary of the death of her fiance in a car accident, and the schoolboy playboy gambling Hani, who was transferred to Saloum as punishment for his disdain and misconduct, meet the train and the emergence of signs of admiration develops for love after multiple Meeting with them on the beach of Salloum, while they meet a different model of human beings in the workplace, and meet Hany Bakidi Bakri fleeing revenge, and meet the hope of the doctor Tariq, who tries to harass and exploit the unity, is the development of love and grow amid these things and circumstances interlocking?

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.

Elbab Elmaftouh, Known in English as "The Open Door", another great movie about women's right in their different role and life and thier struggle between her father with his old style and her husband that doesn't understand her.

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.

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death.

An Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.

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.

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.

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.

In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge on Madiha's father who pressured him to marry her to avoid a scandal.

Mustafa shoots the boss of a governmental company ; The crime is investigated to find out the reasons .

Hamza "a member of the volunteer National Guard" meets up with the teacher Fawzya "Faten", after the fire of Cairo broke out, the British trying to capture all the volunteers in the National Guard , Hamza hiding in the house of one of his friend, and Fawzya help him, and she is trying to formation its own cell in order to hit the English forces in the Canal zone.

Husain is the head of a large Egyptian family, who has problems managing the cost of the marriage of his eldest daughter. He decides to take some amount from his financial trust in the company where he works with the intention of refunding later. In this context, the film shows the social life of the Egyptian family at the time.

On a ship bound to Beirut, Huda disguises as a young man, after she cut her hair, because her father saw a reward for those who found her, Samir, met and hid the fact that she was fleeing from her father to marry her boyfriend, Rafiq.

A woman tries to divorce her husband, by plotting with him to make him unlikable to her mother, who set them up in the first place, so she could be with the man she fell in love with in her summer vacation.

Nawal, a journalist who meets Samir, a young man. She encourages him to pursue a singing career and he does. Nawal gets ill and, not willing to hinder his progress, tries to end their relationship without telling him the truth. Samir finds about the truth. Recognizing her great sacrifice, he returns to her and marries her.

The fictionalized story of the Reda Troupe, Egypt's earliest professional folkloric dance group.

Mahmoud spends all his time chasing women. As he tries to approach his colleague, she rejects him until he asks her to marry him, but she stipulates that if he cheats, she will do the same.

A happily married couple has to live with a strange mental illness of the wife: Whenever she watches a film, she comes home believing that she is one of the characters of that film. And doctors warn the husband that he has to play along each time or she would suffer a shock and die, which creates several hilarious problems and constant embarrassment for the husband.

Shahatah Effendi works as an accountant in a bird shop, which makes him a critic of his work and his life. He bears the shop owner because he does not have other work until he receives a letter carrying the news of acceptance in a new job as an accountant in endowment property. He discovers that the endowment manager manipulates the accounts, and uses his talents to cover his thefts. Shahatah comes to know the manager's daughter and falls in her love, but she mocks his love while she is connected to another employee who works for her father. However, when she asked him for marriage, he gave up and did not have the courage to approach her father about marriage. The manager's daughter plans to marry Shahatah while maintaining her relationship with the other employee. It happens that a dancer claims that she has a child from manager's son and leaves the child to him and everyone knows that there is a child called "Halmoos" and without knowing his mother or father. The manager's daughter exploits this event and is claims to be the child's mother from Shahatah. Shahatah is surprised by this Halmoos. When the manager objects to this marriage, Shahatah reminds him of the endowment thefts and falsifying the accounts. The father is forced to agree to the marriage, but the manager's daughter tells Shahatah Effendi the truth and he affects by that and feels how cheap he is for her and everybody. Days go by and Shahatah Effendi becomes rich through the lottery and the treatment of the manager's family changes for him, as the manager's daughter loves him and agrees to marry him.