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- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud YassineFarid ShawqiA 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.
- DirectorSimon SalehStarsAdel EmamYoussraAli El SherifThe 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?
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifAhmed RamzyAfter 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.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsSalah ZulfikarSuad HusniMimi GamalIn 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.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahMahmoud MoursySaleh SelimElbab 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.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsMohamed Al SharqawyFaten HamamahMohsen MohieddinA 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.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMagdaAhmad MazharSalah ZulfikarEgyptian historical film about one of the most important figures in the history of Algeria, Djamila Bouhired. This film is regarded as not only highlighting the story of an important female revolutionary but also showing the struggle of the Algerian people against the French occupation.
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsRushdi AbazahMohamed AwadNawal Abou El FotouhAfter years in the fashion industry, the once naive Kamal (Rushdy Abaza) becomes Cairo's top fashion designer and ruthless lothario. News of his fiancée Nadia's (Soad Hosny) arrival after three years abroad is a dilemma, as Nadia was in love with the naive, loyal Kamal. Kamal thus resorts to hiding his womanizing past by all means possible.
- DirectorMahmoud ZulfikarStarsSuad HusniHasan YoussefAbdel Moneim MadboulyA group of stage actors who hate Ahmed Aluwi, the rich young man, starts attacking him in the magazines; when Ahemd knows about that, he decides to check the situation himself and he falls in love with one the actress over there; he pretends to be a poor simple actor, just to be near her; she starts responding to him without knowing his true identity.
- DirectorMohamed AbdelazizStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifSamir GhanemMamdouh and Masoud are tired and unhappy with their wives; Mona is extremely jealous and Mahasen keeps getting pregnant all the time. Their cousin Ezzat advises them to cheat on their wives and start looking for potential lovers to take a break from the daily chaos at home.
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsAdel EmamMervat AminSamir SabriMajdi Moves to Cairo where he starts living with his coworker and friend Sami, Majdi falls in love with Hanan but her mother wants her to marry another rich guy. Sami tries to help his friend by giving him advices that will help him win Hanan but only to get in to one trouble after another.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahAbdel Halim HafezZahrat El-UlaNawal, 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.
- DirectorMoataz El TonyStarsAhmed FahmyChicoHesham MagedThe film revolves around three young men who face many problems and crises in their lives from unemployment to marriage plans and achieve their targets.
- DirectorAmir RamsesStarsHesham MagedAhmed FahmyChicoThree young men in modern Egypt try to find an important artifacts that was taken from Jerusalem and hidden in Egypt in 586 B.C.
- DirectorSameh AbdulazizStarsNesreen AmeenBushraSami MeghawriAfter frost swept Egypt, intelligence officers try to put a stop to this chaos.
- DirectorAtef SalemStarsSamira AhmedImad HamdiHasan YoussefHusain 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.
- DirectorHenry BarakatSamir DarwishStarsNaglaa FathiHussein FahmyImad HamdiOn 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.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahRushdi AbazahAbdallah GheithHamza "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.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsNour El-SherifMaali ZayedMamdouh Abd El AleemFaraj al-Okta collides with the Israeli enemy to get rid of the resistance men in Suez. Hassan Ezz accused the only survivor of the group's treason and stealing the money and sentenced him to prison. The daughter of the resistance leader is looking for her father's murderer.
- DirectorSamir SeifStarsAdel EmamAthar El-HakimAnwar IsmailAn officer aiming to infiltrate a drug dealing family uses a lady with a past and her son as cover to gain entry and uncover their secrets
- DirectorSherif ArafaStarsAdel EmamYoussraSalah AbdullahThe film is about a conflict between a corrupt and a despotic businessman who wants to abuse his secretary for bargaining with a wealthy dealer, and a poor, simple young man who meets this girl and seeks to save her in defiance of the businessman and his guards.
- DirectorFatin AbdulwahhabStarsSalah ZulfikarShadiaAdel EmamA 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.
- DirectorAnwar WagdiStarsLaila MouradEstafan RostiFarid Shawqi
- DirectorYusuf MaloofStarsKamal El-ShinnawiShadiaIsmail Yassin
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsShouweikarFouad El-MohandesSoheir El-BablyAn airport employee Zaki unwittingly gets involved in an international police chase because of his striking resemblance to a world famous criminal.
- DirectorMedhat El-SebaiyStarsMohamed SobhiImanSabreenSherif is a simple man working in the airport's customs monitoring the bags, he is honest man who doesn't take any bribes but a gang of drug dealers want to recruit him to make their job easy at the airport smuggling drugs in and out from Egypt. The police however reaches Sherif first recruiting him to work with they, according to the plan Sherif accepts bribes from the drug gang and pretends that he is working for them where in fact he is spying for the police and collecting information about the gang to reach its big boss.
- DirectorAhmed BadrakhanStarsSeif AbdelrahmanNour El-SherifImad HamdiAfter she gets disfigured in a fire that killed her father, Nadia and her family leave for France. She starts corresponding with Dr. Medhat using his sister Mona's picture, she's in trouble when Mona dies as Medhat comes to meet.
- DirectorNiazi MostafaStarsSuad HusniMimi ShakibSamir SabriA group of three musicans who are in search of a replacement for their fourth member decide to recruit their actress sister to pose as a man. Meanwhile, the owner of the nightclub they work in offers to the actress a fake marriage -to make his wife jealous- in exchange for keeping her brothers' jobs.
- DirectorHilmi HalimStarsYoussef Fakhr EddineAbdel Moneim IbrahimNadia LutfiThree young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse, so what will happen to the three young men?
- DirectorSaad ArafaStarsShams El-BarudyAhmad MazharMaryam FakhruddinSalwa travels to Sidi Abd El-Rahman to spend a vacation with her boyfriend Essam before the Summer crowds. But when Essam sticks in Cairo for a few days, Salwa starts an affair with Mahmoud the only guest in the Hotel.
- DirectorKhairy BesharaStarsEzzat Abu OufAshraf Abdel BakyUmar BulinooA young man "Seif" bides his time as a delivery boy while planning his future as a singer. Facing some obstacles, he lives in a garage and works in a video club owned by "Ziko" who deals with cheap commercial music. He gets engaged to "Badreya", a poor girl who works as a waitress serving the rich.
- DirectorAhmad AbdallaStarsKal NagaYousra El LozyHany AdelKhaled returns from USA to his mother's funeral at his hometown: Alexandria, Egypt. He decides to make it a fresh new start even if it meant mending his first love story yet it proved a horrific failure. Khaled clashed big time with a changing more conservative Alexandria but He also stumbles upon fresh youth struggling for their under-ground music bands, art and ideas. in the middle of all the confusion, Will it ever all makes sense at the end? A question for the youth and the city to answer.
- DirectorNader GalalStarsMahmoud YassineNellyUmar El-HaririMagdy, an engineer who gets traumatized after witnessing a worker fall to his death from a building . He decides to visit Alexandria to recover, and there he meets Soad, who suffers from a pale relationship with her husband.
- DirectorNader GalalStarsRushdi AbazahNaglaa FathiMaryam FakhruddinSharif is a businessman with his partner, Kamal. Father Kamal arrives from abroad and takes with him Mahmoud, Nahed's fiancé and goes to Sharif to offer a deal. Kamal is shocked to find his wife Layla at his friend and partner.
- DirectorYehia El AlamiStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizNellyAdel AdhamAdel is sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit. After he escaped, him and officer Hazem - who believes him - tries to find the real criminal and the only witness, a wife of a famous businessman.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsTawfik El DekenHussien El SherbinyNour El-SherifA photographer named (Shams) shoots a wedding, and by chance takes a picture of a burning paper with mysterious words on it, these words lead him to a gang led by a mysterious woman.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsNadia LutfiMahmoud MoursyUmar El-HaririIlham's (Nadia Lutfi) marriage to a highly successful - and often busy - lawyer (Mahmoud Mursi) is put to the test, and suspicions of infidelity arise.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharMahmoud MoursyFaten Hamama plays a wife who wakes up one morning to discover she is married to her brother-in-law in this suspenseful drama. The confused woman soon learns that fifteen years have gone by and that she was injured in a bomb blast that killed her sister. A local doctor tries to prevent the woman's husband from killing her for the inheritance.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsAhmed ZakiFarahHamdy GheithA mix between an honored police officer who fight the crimes and a drug dealer in the same person and a confliction in and out.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsMervat AminAhmed ZakiAbdel Halim HafezWhen Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsSalah QabilAli El SherifMahmoud Al MelejiSet shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsMahmoud YassineMadiha KamelGamil Ratib"Climbing to the Bottom" was based on the true story of a spy named Heba Selim who worked for the Mossad along with her fiance where both of them provided the Israelis with Egypt's military secrets in the post-1967 war era. Saleh Morsi's adaptation of the real events was superb as viewers were able to understand the motives for the ambitious Abla Kamel to commit treason against her country in order to seek a better life in France. One of the most powerful lines in the film was mentioned by the Intelligence Officer (played by actor Mahmoud Yassine) who shows Abla - after her arrest at a Tunisian airport - an aerial view of the Pyramids and the Nile River as if he was giving her a lecture on the history of the country that she had betrayed.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsMadiha KamelFarid ShawqiSalah El-SaadanySaid the officer is shocked by the decision of his boss to stop the investigation into the case of Alia Hanim because of her connections with officials and turns into a rigid person.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsMahmoud Abdel AzizMervat AminAbdallah FarghalyA taxi driver befriends and help rich widowed woman with her troubles with greedy scheming family members and long lost love of hers convicted for wrong doing he didn't make
- DirectorMohammad FadelStarsAdel EmamSuad HusniGamil RatibSalah has put in jail in unfair way, in jail he falls in love with Layla.
- DirectorAhmad Samir FaragStarsSharif SalamahMenna ShalabiLotfy LabibSingle coworkers at a radio station are brought together by mutual friends, but their starry-eyed notions about love may scuttle their romance.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsHani SalamaHala ShehaAhmed HelmyA divorced young man happens to fall in love. The couple faces problems, as the young man does not want to settle down, she thinks he is a flirt, they break up, and events follows.
- DirectorHala KhalilStarsHanan TurkHind SabriMenna ShalabiA personal tragedy brings a woman closer to a handful of trusted friends in this independent drama. Salma (Hanan Turk) is a middle-aged woman who has achieved success in her profession but is still searching for contentment in her personal life. After her mother unexpectedly dies, Salma is sent into an emotional tailspin, and while her stepfather (Samie Al-Adel) tries to help by letting her move into his home, nothing seem to make her feel better. One day, Salma receives the first in a series of anonymous gifts and letters from someone who appears to know her, though she has no idea who they might be. As Salma sorts through a handful of male admirers in hopes of uncovering the identity of her new benefactor, she is reunited with two close friends from her days at school, Yusriyah (Hend Sabri) and Doha (Menna Shalabi), who commiserate with her as they share their own difficult life events. Ahla al Awqat (aka The Best of Times) was the first feature from writer and director Hala Khalil, and was screened as part of the 2005 San Francisco Arab Film Festival.