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Criterion Channel
81
72
7.5
/6087/
74
/148/
74
/130/
3.8
/16515/
100
/17/
87
/25/
87
/10/

Cairo Station (1958)
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
54
7.3
/2245/
70
/32/
63
/26/
3.9
/4948/
94
/353/

Alexandria… Why? (1979)
Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
44
7.2
/1714/
66
/27/
69
/34/
3.7
/3623/

The Blazing Sun (1954)
A wealthy 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, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
poster
78
30
7.8
/907/
80
/16/
78
/10/
3.9
/1957/

Gone with No Return (1984)
Attia (Yehia al-Fakharani) works as a simple employee, after his mother-in-law threatens to break his engagement from her daughter because of his delay in getting an apartment. He travels to his hometown to sell his inheritance. There he falls in love with Kharyia (Leila Alawi) daughter of Kamal Bey (Farid Shawki) who bought his land.
poster
64
28
6.7
/974/
60
/22/
64
/21/
3.4
/1321/

The Beggar (1983)
After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.
poster
72
25
7.4
/811/
70
/7/
73
/8/
3.6
/1724/

Mouths and Rabbits (1977)
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.
poster
78
23
8.0
/771/
70
/13/
80
/9/
4.1
/1169/

The Beginning and the End (1960)
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
poster
69
20
7.3
/811/
61
/15/
70
/9/
3.7
/934/

Karnak (1975)
In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.
poster
73
18
7.6
/645/
73
/18/
69
/14/
3.6
/723/

The Flirtation of Girls (1949)
Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.
poster
76
17
7.5
/343/
75
/5/
79
/7/
4.0
/962/

The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
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.
poster
66
17
6.8
/596/
58
/11/
67
/5/
3.7
/1108/

The Ghoul (1983)
Adel is a journalist for a major newspaper, divorced and single, he was married before and has a daughter. One night, in the bar he always visits, he meets Nash'at al Kashef, the son of a the famous businessman Fahmy Al Kashef. Nash'at kills the bartender and he injures the belly dancer Nadia when she refuses to go back to his house with him. Adel calls the police, but Fahmy uses his power to get the accusation off his son. Adel succeeds in reaching Nadia, the only witness, and makes her confess what she saw to the police, who catch Nash'at and send him to court. Adel falls in love with Mosheera, daughter of Fahmy Al Kashef. The court finds Nash'at not guilty, so Adel decides to set justice to the case by his own hands.
poster
62
9
6.8
/297/
45
/6/
68
/10/
3.4
/252/

Rayya and Sekina (1952)
In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.
poster
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6.7
/64/
45
/2/
70
/1/

Hob La Yara Al-Shams (1980)
Under pressure from his father Hassan, Ahmed agrees to marry another to give birth to someone who inherits his wealth. The choice falls on the dreams of the poor girl who counts her sick mother. The father agrees with her to give her a monthly amount of money, provided that the divorce takes place after her birth and that Amal hopes to raise the baby. Over time, love grows between Ahmad and Ahlam.
poster
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10
/1/

Al Sharabiya (1987)
Toha and her mother work to transport the cargos in carriages on behalf of the teacher Shehata, who exploits them and they cannot stand in front of him, until Toha gets to know Shawqi, the head of the station and responsible for the supply loads that are transported on trains, to help her get rid of the teacher Shehata, and fall in love with her and marry her, so that Shehata decides to take revenge.
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10
/1/

A Very Special Invitation (1982)
Abdel Rahim is a wealthy businessman who amassed his fortune through illegal means, assisted by his business manager, Madkour. Ibrahim also works for him as the manager of one of his retail branches. Ibrahim transports goods hoarded by Abdel Rahim to increase their prices to the store. One day, a rush of customers buying certain items causes chaos, resulting in damaged products. Angry, Abdel Rahim fires Ibrahim. By mistake, Ibrahim receives an invitation to the birthday party of Soheir, Abdel Rahim's daughter. On the night of the party, several comedic and strange incidents occur as Ibrahim encounters various unique individuals.
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5.3
/10/
10
/1/

El-Ukhwah el-Ghuraba (1980)
Years pass since Abdel-Wadood and Aziza's marriage, but they do not have children. He marries Laila and they have a son, Omar. He is surprised when Aziza gives birth to their only son, but he abandons her. The two brothers become university students without knowing the truth about their relationship. They both fall in love with their colleague, Alfat, who prefers Wahid, who hides his love for her due to the social difference between them. Abdel-Wadood regrets his behavior with Aziza and Wahid and reveals the truth about his brother to Omar.
poster
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5.5
/24/
10
/1/

The second groom (1967)
Wafaa's husband dies, so she decides to manage the companies he left behind herself, which angers her Upper Egyptian uncle who objects to women working. Wafaa thinks about getting married again to be under the protection of a man who will protect her from her uncle's interference. She chooses the worker Magdy who loves her, but she always rejects him under the pretext of being loyal to her husband. She discovers among her late husband's papers papers proving that he was married.
poster
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10
/1/

Al-Dabah (1987)
(Nesma), the daughter of the wealthy merchant (Hamed El-Ganzouri), is preparing a master's thesis on drug addiction, and she does not know that her father is a major drug dealer. (Zaher) helps him in his business until he becomes rich. (Nesma) falls in love with (Medhat), a medical student who is struggling in his studies because of his poverty, which makes him surrender to drug addiction. At the same time, (Zaher) admires (Nesma) and tries to marry her, but (Hamed) refuses and makes fun of him, so (Zaher) leaves his job and tries to expose him in front of his daughter and report him to the police.
poster
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10
/1/

The bridge of the wicked (1971)
A plastic artist suffers from extreme poverty. His friend convinces him to fake suicide so that he can become famous as a genius artist and sell his paintings. It turns out that this friend is trying to seize his paintings and his lover. The artist discovers his friend's betrayal and plots to expose him to everyone.
poster
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10
/1/

Hakamt El-Mahkama (1981)
Enas (Magda El Khatib) and her husband Adel (Youssef Shaaban) covet her father Galal's (Farid Shawqi) wealth. As for her younger sister Hala (Yousra), she is kind to him and loves Khaled (Hatem Zulfikar). Galal marries Laila. Adel finds a document proving that his father-in-law Galal spent some time years ago in a mental hospital. Thus, Adel can obtain a power of attorney from his wife to seize his father-in-law's money and property.
poster
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10
/1/

Sareq Al-Malyeen (1968)
Three thieves steal a million liras from the Lebanese National Bank, but one of them decides to escape from his colleagues and take the money alone. He is chased twice by the police to arrest him, and by his colleagues to kill him and recover the money. On his escape journey, he meets a beautiful girl who changes his life and asks him to repent and return the money.
poster
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10
/1/

لحظات خوف (1972)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

Scandal monger (1953)
Samia asks her fiancé Anis to help her sick mother. The police arrest them on charges of drug trafficking, but the court decides to acquit her. With the death of her mother, she goes to live with her wealthy aunt, and there, her cousin Ahmed takes a liking to her and marries her. Years pass and Anis is released from prison and seeks to get close to Samia again. He meets Ahmed and convinces him to participate in some projects to get closer to Samia. He blackmails her with pictures of the police reports, so she decides to get rid of him.
poster
?
6.0
/8/
10
/1/

Written on the forehead (1953)
One of the wives is late in having children, so the husband's mother annoys her and urges her son to marry another woman, but he postpones talking about this matter until he returns from a work mission. In his absence, the wife's brother tries to assault her, so she resists him leaves the house, and loses consciousness. Her husband's brother carries her home. She shows signs of pregnancy, so her husband becomes suspicious of her and divorces her. She disappears from her husband's life, the girl grows up, and the husband's nephew proposes to her and drops a surprise.
poster
?
5.6
/46/

Don't cry, my love of life (1979)
A successful neurosurgeon challenges death with God's help and his knowledge in operations with a success rate of no more than 5%. He also helps others and solves the problems of the poor. But he faces the most difficult operation that turns his life upside down. What is this operation? And why does he lose everything in the face of this challenge?
poster
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10
/1/

A woman pays the price (1993)
The singer Nahid marries Youssef who gains from gambling and fraud in sailing lands. Disputes arise between them and they separates, Nahid with her only daughter from him goes to work as a singer since then in amusement parks and weddings.
poster
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10
/1/

Rod El-Farag (1987)
Hussein senses a lot of mystery behind his father's death and his bankruptcy after he was one of the major merchants, and he suspects a competing merchant named Abu Shouma, so he decides to approach him to find out what happened.
poster
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5.4
/26/
10
/1/

Gouz Meraty (1961)
Because of his recklessness, Ahmed divorces his wife for the third time, but he wants to return to her again, so they search for a solution, until they find Ustaz Hassan, and Ahmed agrees with him to marry his wife Laila for one day, but because of Ustaz Hassan's brother, the marriage extends for several days, during which Laila discovers Hassan's noble personality and wishes for him to be her husband.
poster
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10
/1/

Bab Sharq (1989)
A police officer and a prosecutor investigate a murder case involving high-ranked businessmen in Alexandria.
poster
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7.0
/14/
10
/1/

Ibn el harra (1953)
Jalal is a successful engineer who loves his neighbor Laila, the granddaughter of a pasha, but he hides his love for fear of social differences. Her uncle supervises her money, even though he is a gambler. Laila's cousin, a reckless young man, covets marrying her to seize her money. He learns by chance that Jalal loves Laila, so he tricks them both, and seizes the money from both of them.
poster
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6.5
/22/
10
/1/

The servant (1990)
Shahin puts his friend Kamel in jail instead for a crime he did not commit after he promises to raise his son Mahmood but Shahin deceives him to work has a servant and a driver.
poster
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4.7
/17/
10
/1/

The Impostor (1961)
Two brothers, the first is a swindler who asks his brother, who looks like him, to replace him in his business after he is chased by his opponents, the two brothers, one of them is an evil man working in diamond smuggling, while the second is a respectable human being despite his extreme poverty, the evil brother succeeds in entering his brother to the mental hospital, but he decides to get him out of it in order to deceive some gangsters
poster
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10
/1/

Ragab EL Wahsh (1985)
(Rajab) A poor man, who lives with his wife from the income of his children (Jalal) salesman Ful and (Hashem) and (Suad) sellers of lottery papers, condensed wealthy (Shawki) on Suad, where he sees a likeness of his late daughter, and decides to adopt it Receiving a monthly sum of money, Suad lives with Shawki and his sister (Alia) and learns until she reaches the university level.
poster
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10
/1/

عثمان الجبار (1968)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/
50
/1/

Al-khobz Al-mor (1982)
Aziza lives with her late stepmother Fahima and her husband Atris. Salem is working to save the amount of money to buy a dear land where his hometown Awad aspires. Fahima manages the price of the land and gives it to Salem to accelerate his marriage to Aziz, who is rivaled by students in her love. Students try to kill him and in his attempt to defend himself, Salem kills him. Awwad kills Radwan for revenge between the two families. As his brother Chases students to Salem, Atrees dies and Salem is injured in his arm.
poster
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10
/1/

الدلوعة (1969)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/
60
/1/

Wolves (1983)
Naji, Makram, and Ezzat are three friends who know Saber Abdel Sadiq. The wealthy businessman admires Naji's intelligence and hires him. Naji agrees despite his knowledge that Saber runs suspicious businesses, while journalist Makram launches a press campaign attacking Saber and accusing him of a major corruption case, in which the driver (Ezzat) testifies against him, so Saber kills him. Naji's conscience awakens and he tries to help Ezzat's sister Hind uncover the killer.
poster
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7.5
/22/
10
/1/

Hokm Elqawi (1951)
Medhat and Kassem are partners who find themselves at odds when Kassem first dissolves their partnership then commits a murder and frames Medhat for it.
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6.9
/9/
68
/2/

El Mwazafoun Fel Ard (1985)
Kamel Abdel Shakoor is a general manager at one of the Ministry of Industry's companies and is known for his integrity. Fayed, the company's general manager of contracts, tries to convince him to get a commission, but he refuses despite his difficult financial circumstances.
poster
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10
/1/

بداية ونهاية (1985)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

أنا الهارب (1962)
The events of this film revolve around Hamdi (Farid Shawqi), who works as an officer in a prison. Hamdi is married and has a child suffering from paralysis, whose treatment requires a large sum of money.
poster
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10
/1/

Akher Forsa (1962)
Sayed Masoud, an employee at the insurance company, has one last chance to save his face in front of his manager in the company due to his successive losses, and now he must deal with a boxer and protect him from any harm.
poster
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4.4
/32/
35
/2/
50
/1/

The Good, the Bad, and the Pretty (1994)
Adel is an honest secretary at the prosecutor office, while raising his son Ahmad after the death of his wife. When Tamer, the son of a millionaire is arrested for drug addiction, Tamer's lawyer tries bribe Adel to find a way to get him out, but to no avail. In order to change his mind, he uses all ways possible.
poster
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6.6
/69/
33
/3/

Foreman Hassan (1952)
Hassan, a worker in a lathe workshop, is dissatisfied with his livelihood and his harsh financial conditions. One high society woman comes to him in the workshop where he works. She admires him and invites him to her villa to complete and install the decoration. Hassan becomes involved in a forbidden relationship with her and abandons his home.
poster
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10
/1/

Al-Jasoos (1964)
A naval officer (Farid Shawqi) from the intelligence service was able to uncover a spy network on behalf of Israel, whose leader (Adel Adham), who works as a former naval expert in Israel, runs his espionage work in disguise through his management of an antiques and decorative tools factory in (Khan Al-Khalili). He manages to hide his truth with... Singer (Ann Smyrner), who works in nightclubs and preys on young men working in the armed forces to use them to spy on the Arab army and its weapons. Things get complicated between the spies, the officer, and the security services.
poster
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10
/1/

Shebak Habibi (1951)
A nurse lives in a popular neighborhood and loves her neighbor, the carpenter, and her mother stands guard against this marriage. During her work, she meets a girl who looks like her. She is the daughter of a wealthy man, but she has fallen into sin and is preparing for her wedding. They agree to exchange places for a while so that they live each other’s lives, which leads to many... Of troubles and ironies that were not taken into account.
poster
66
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7.3
/145/
43
/3/
82
/2/

Rassif Nemra 5 (1956)
Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.
poster
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5.9
/23/
10
/1/

People's secrets (1951)
After serving his prison sentence, Mansour is released but tries to seduce the wife of the man who helped him to get released, so he plans to get rid of him.


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