Egypt

  • Ali Abdel-Khalek – El-Keif AKA The High (1985)

    Ali Abdel-Khalek1981-1990ComedyDramaEgypt
    El Keif (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 convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.Read More »

  • Radwan El-Kashef – Lieah ya banafsieg AKA Violets Are Blue AKA Why, Violets? (1993)

    Radwan El-Kashef1991-2000DramaEgypt
    Lieah ya banafsieg (1993)
    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 laboratory animals, Abbas who is married to a woman that doesn’t love him, and Ali who works in illegal operations.Read More »

  • Kamal El Sheikh – El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963)

    1961-1970EgyptKamal El SheikhMysteryThriller
    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 to get married. Fawzia dies from a German bombardment of the city, and Nadia has amnesia and Fawzia’s husband tries to delude Nadia that she’s Fawzia.Read More »

  • Kamal El Sheikh – Hayat ou maut (1955)

    1951-1960ClassicsEgyptKamal El-ShaikhThriller
    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.

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    A man with cardiac problems, had heart attack and sent his daughter to get the medicine from the drug store, however the pharmacist discovers that he sent the wrong medication, he cooperates with the police to stop a disaster.Read More »

  • Daoud Abdel Sayed – Ard al-Khof AKA Land of Fear (1999)

    1991-2000CrimeDaoud Abdel SayedEgyptThriller
    Ard al Khof (1999)
    Ard al Khof (1999)

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    Director Daoud Abdul-Sayed builds his drama on the human being, as he introduces to us Ahmed Zaky in different human faces: He is Yehia, the police officer who is in a secret mission in the underworld of drug dealers and he is also Yehia Abu Daboura, the drug dealer who is living his daily life as an outlaw. These different and contradicting roles of one man helped in enriching the drama in this movie.In between, you will meet another major role: Adam, the mail man who used to get the messages or secret reports from Yehia, assuming that he is reporting to his higher officers. Adam is like the person in the middle between Yehia the police officer and Yehia the drug dealer. Yehia tells us during the movie that he/ or the drug dealer became a wealthy man. Read More »

  • Atef El-Taieb – Al Hob Fawk Hadabet Al Haram AKA Love on the Pyramids Plateau (1986)

    Atef El-Taieb1981-1990DramaEgypt

    Voted among the Greatest Egyptian Films at the 1996 Cairo Film Festival

    It shows the incredulity of exaggerated hardships a young man has to go through to get married in Egypt, with lower than average incomes, and inability to find a decent job in an ever more competitive world. Basic needs like shelter are even hard to sustain.
    The young man and the girl cannot pay the bill, going through a myriad network of all sorts of shady people to help them, to no avail.
    In the end, only the walls of the ancient pyramids provide shelter for the homeless lovers.Read More »

  • Heiny Srour – The Singing Sheikh (1991)

    1991-2000DocumentaryEgyptHeiny SrourShort Film

    Quote:
    Sheikh Imam or Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa, born in 1918, is known in the Arab world for his songs critical of the ruling class. Considered the voice of the oppressed, he was banned from state television and radio, and was imprisoned many times, including in 1974 during the visit of President Nixon.Read More »

  • Said Marzouk – Zawgaty wal kalb AKA My Wife and the Dog (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaEgyptSaid Marzouk

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    My Wife and the Dog is widely regarded as a landmark film, one that broke with established conventions of style and proposed a new approach to narrative structure and visual language. Painter and filmmaker Marzouk’s first fiction feature tells the story of a newlywed lighthouse attendant who leaves his wife behind on the mainland for months. In his solitude, memories of adulterous adventures from his bachelorhood obsess him to the point that he begins to suspect his wife. Evocative imagery and compelling performances from a cast of iconic Egyptian stars—including Soad Hosni, Mahmud Mursi, and Nour El-Sherif—lend the film a sweeping, emotional charge.Read More »

  • Omar El Zohairy – Feathers (2021)

    2021-2030DramaEgyptMysteryOmar El Zohairy

    PLOT: A passive mother who dedicates her life to her husband and children. Stuck in daily, repetitive, mundane chores, she has made herself as little as she possibly could. When a magic trick goes wrong at her 4-year-old son’s birthday party, an avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls the family. The magician turns her husband, the authoritarian father, into a chicken. The mother is now forced to come to the fore and take care of the family while moving heaven and earth to bring her husband back. As she tries to survive, she goes through a rough and absurd transformation.Read More »

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