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Kamal El Sheikh – Hayat ou maut (1955)
Hayat ou maut (1955) Life or Death (Arabic: Hayat ou maut) is a 1955 Egyptian film directed by Kamal El Sheikh. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. IMDB:A man with cardiac problems,...
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Kamal El Sheikh – El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963)
El Lailah el Akhirah (1963) During 1942, Nadia Burhan lives with her mother in Alexandria, Fawzia lives with her husband Shaker, whom she married against her family’s will. Nadia meets Salah and agree...
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Radwan El-Kashef – Lieah ya banafsieg AKA Violets Are Blue AKA Why, Violets?...
Lieah ya banafsieg (1993) 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 trouble when he sells the...
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Ali Abdel-Khalek – El-Keif AKA The High (1985)
El Keif (1985) As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it’s all delusional. So the punk tries to...
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Salah Abouseif – Bayn el samaa wa el ard AKA Between Heaven and Earth (1959)
Bayn el samaa wa el ard (1960) Plot:A variety of different people who don’t know each other get trapped in a hung elevator. When they begin to realize that their chance in being rescued is minimal,...
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Henry Barakat – Hassan wa Nayima AKA Hassan and Naima (1959)
Hassan wa Nayima (1959) A troubadour singer falls in love with a daughter of a rich farmer and they are torn between love and tradition. This is a love story similar to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...
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Mohammad Malas – Al-manam AKA The Dream (1988)
Filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, Lebanon, shortly before the infamous massacre of 1982, this Syrian documentary’s principle reference is dreams, and not lived reality. It...
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Sherif Elbendary – Ali Mizah wa Ibrahim AKA Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim (2016)
Ali is in love with a goat. Ibrahim is being driven mad by sounds that no one else can hear. After visiting a local healer who decides they are both cursed, they decide to journey across Egypt in an...
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Mustafa Hasnaoui & Marianne Khoury – Zelal (2010)
Quote: An invitation to probe into one of Egypt’s least exposed areas: the world of psychiatry and “madness”. The daily detention of those who have gone to the other side of society. The film is a...
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Nader Galal – El-Wahm (1979)
Quote: Magdy, 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...
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Salah Abouseif – Al-saqqa mat AKA The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
Plot:Shousha El-Sakka, fears death because it took his wife. He meets with Shehata, and later knows that he is an undertaker assistant and he becomes pessimistic of him ,but when Shehata dies, Shousha...
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Youssef Chahine – Iskanderija… lih? AKA Alexandria Why? (1979)
Youssef Chahine directed this drama about lovers struggling to find happiness in Egypt during the chaos of World War II. Yehia (Mohsen Mohiedine) is a teenage boy who is fascinated with the glamour of...
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Salah Abouseif – Al-zawja al-thaniya AKA The Second Wife (1967)
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....
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Hani Khalifa – Rehla 404 AKA Flight 404 (2024)
Plot:A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to...
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Marwan Hamed – Kira & El Gin (2022)
Two men team up to fight against British occupation in Egypt during the 1919 revolution. Kira.Wel.Gen.2022.1080p.SHAHID.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Arabp2p.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 2 h 48...
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