Movies

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his...

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian...

The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired...

A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a...

The story discusses the issue of immigration among young Egyptians in the 1960s and 1970s. As Nader and Amira prepare to emigrate abroad, they begin...

Following the death of her husband, Amar is left to carry out her deceased husband’s dream of building a brick house with her five children....

Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention...

Omar Harb runs a gambling casino. A quiet young man lands a job at the casino, despite his family's abhorrence and disapproval, to get the money...

Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes...

Set in the summer of 1961 during President Nasser's land reforms, this is a story of the childhood friendship between Yasser, the son of a bourgeois...

A portrayal of the lives of four friends who have different dreams and aspirations; Ahmed falls in love with a girl he saw once, Sayed gets in...

After all the property and money of her father, Al-Basha, were nationalized after the revolution of July 23, 1952, Faten, the daughter of Al-Basha,...

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...

A train driver kills his wife for cheating on him with his assistant whom he tries to kill as well. They get into a fight and fall from the train,...

Shukri Abu Al-Fadl is a legal advisor to an investment bank. He plans with his friend Youssef Alawi to plunder the bank's money. Youssef arrives in...

A mix-up leads Ra'fat Rostum to a ministerial seat that he was never meant to have. As he successfully holds onto his office for a long time, he...

A film highlighting the issue of street children and the marginalized social class living under the pressure of economic conditions in a shanty...

The story of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, through the story of Gad, a young Nubian who comes to live in Luxor and accompanies Howard Carter...