Abdel-Gabbar leads a gang of outlaws who carry out robberies, murders, and looting, taking refuge in the mountains of Upper Egypt. A young police officer from the village decides to rid his community of Abdel-Gabbar and his men.
Abdel-Gabbar leads a gang of outlaws who carry out robberies, murders, and looting, taking refuge in the mountains of Upper Egypt. A young police officer from the village decides to rid his community of Abdel-Gabbar and his men.
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...
Four stories take place in a furnished apartment that we follow through the doorman and his family who live on top of the building in a miserable room. In the first story, a doctor tries to treat a figure with a political position. In the second story, Hassan meets in the 1970s with his old friend Nadim, who comes from Lebanon during its Civil War. The third story takes place at the beginning of the new millennium and the takeover of businessmen. As for the fourth story, it takes place before January 2011 when Sami returns under pressure from his family to sell the apartment and the whole building.
After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.
Two girls leave Alexandria, to go to Cairo. They look for fame in the art scene of the big city. Relying only on their beauty, they don't get a lot of luck. One of them returns to Alexandria while the other works as a belly dancer.
A journalist investigates a newspaper story of the execution of an Arab princess.
Iman is surprised that her brother Hossam is in a relationship with actress Nahed. His ideal image collapses and she decides to abandon her morals. She invites Sherif to the house in the absence of Hossam,and he discovers that she has no previous experiences so he decides to marry her.
Amshir works in a cabaret owned by his wealthy friend Medhat. Medhat is sentenced to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian man named Al-Najawi. Amshir then goes to prison instead of him in exchange for a sum of money.
Hamdy falls in love with Faten whom he tries to approach her by claiming that he lost his eyesight. Faten feels sorry for him and tries to help him in his crisis by taking him to her uncle, the ophthalmologist, so he begins to stall her.
Haniyeh has not seen her father since childhood and therefore does not know how it looks and forced her father's friend Esmat Al-Darmali to lie to her and tell her that he is her father Esmat Al-Damanhouri instead of her real father, and therefore Haniyeh continues to treat Esmat Al-Darmali as his father.
An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman named Ginger, the other with America itself.
A rich man hires another man to marry his ex-wife.
Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
The film follows the story of Iman (Najat), an innocent nurse, who receives a new assignment; She is nursing a blind man named Ahmed (Saleh Selim). Eman encounters a major problem while doing her job; It is that Ahmed suffers from a psychological complex, as a result of which he hates all women, and hence Iman intends not only to nurse him, but to remove that complex. events get complicated; Since Fathi, Ahmed's brother, is harassing Iman, and he wants to get her in any way, and he plots for Iman and Ahmed, taking advantage of his brother's disability.
The story revolves around a combat nurse, her daughter's fiancé Nadia dies in an accident, and then she discovers that her daughter is pregnant, and when Nadia gives birth to her child Fathiya, the mother replaces her with a dead child.
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