Yousra
Also Known As: Youssra, سيفين محمد حافظ نسيم, Sivin Mohammad Hafez Naseem, یوسرا
Biography: Yousra is an Egyptian actress and singer. She is the sister-in-law of actor Hesham Selim, son of a famous Egyptian football player, actor, and former president of Al Ahly, Saleh Selim. Yousra is considered a glamorous icon for the Middle East and is an influential voice in the region.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Birthday: March 10, 1955
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Strawberry War
Overview: Fardous, nicknamed Farawla, sells flowers on the street, she falls in love with a poor man who sells apples. One day a rich man sees them and decides to give them money in exchange for giving him happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1994-08-08
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One Smile Is Enough
Overview: Amira meets Mustafa on his way to a delegation abroad, he promises to marry her when he returns . Years pass but he never writes back . Then fate sends another young man to Amira, Salah who's a young engineer open to life and they fall in love until Mustafa reappears.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-12-06
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Memories of Hani Shenouda
Overview: Memories of Hani Shenouda, is a concert in honor of the musician Hani Shenouda, which was held in Saudi Arabia in the presence of a group of stars
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2023-03-08
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The Red Rose
Overview: A love story between (Salah) and (Gamila) ends and years later they meet again after she married Azmi al-Damanhuri,one of the big smugglers. (Gamila) tries to get back with (Salah) but he refuses and Azmi finds out about them and goes through a psychological conflict with them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Night Chat
Overview: A police detective investigates an apartment in which suspicious businesses are taking place, so he disguises himself to work there and succeeds in identifying both those who frequent the apartment and those who run it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1999-09-29
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Thy Lord Is Ever Watchful
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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Mr. Hassan's Apartment
Overview: Hassan is an upright employee who works for a company. In order to win the favor of his bosses, Atallah and Jaafar, he gives them the key to his apartment to use for women's adventures. He actually gets a promotion. Hassan is impressed by his colleague Nawal, who loves the company manager, Helmy, who is married and has two sons. When Helmy lets her down, she gradually becomes attracted to Hassan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-09-05
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Circle of doubt
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1980-04-01
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The Yacoubian Building
Overview: portrays the lives of residents in an old Cairo building "The Yacoubian Building", highlighting issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of the Egyptian society
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Bobbos
Overview: A businessman, stuck in the credit crunch, falls in love with a businesswoman who is in turn stuck in the credit crunch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2009-06-17
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A Castle in the Air
Overview: Sahar and Rady are in love, but when he asks Sahar to marry him, she turns him down because she's really a poor girl. Rady joins the navy, while the musician Aziz discovers Sahar's talent for singing and trains her. She works at the school of Bahr El-Baqar and survives when the Israelis bomb it.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-04-14
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Fattah Tabhas Aaan El Hob
Overview: Fathia runs a small restaurant for the mine workers, and her daughter helps her, who has no one to support her but her mother and her lover, the teacher Saadoun. Magdy, a young man from the capital, comes to the town to work as a mine supervisor. He discovers the town and the injustice done to it and its people, and begins his work in the mine. He learns that Saadoun is involved in many works in the mine, and even benefits directly from him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-03-07
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Allaeiba
Overview: Aziz (Hussein Fahmy) works as a manager of an investment company owned by Saeed and his partner, who are uncomfortable with the scientific way Aziz manages the business, as they want quick profits, so they dismiss him from the company. Aziz gets acquainted with a whore, Soso (Yousra), at the same time, Saber (Sayed Zayan) is appointed as a manager, and he causes a great loss, which angers the two partners. Saber turns to Aziz to protect him, and they agree to take revenge on them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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Hassan and Aziza : National Security Case
Overview: Hassan finds himself accused of terrorism because he went yo spend night with a prostitute in an abandoned apartment that was being used by a terrorist group in an attempt to kill a head of the state living in the same building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Game Over
Overview: A woman ends up working at the same nightclub as her son’s girlfriend — who she doesn’t like — and tries to break up their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2012-06-15
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The Hunger
Overview: In a new tale of the epic of Harafish, an unjust bully controls the alley, whose brother was imprisoned unjustly after he fed the poor without his permission. While in prison, his wife is preparing for a revolution by the poor to demolish this corrupt regime and end the tyranny in the alley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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Tales of The Kama Sutra: The Perfumed Garden
Overview: Imagine a world of pleasure, where passion is the ultimate obsession. When Michael and Lisa travel to India to restore an erotic sculpture, they are immediately acquainted with the Kama Sutra and introduced to the skills of seduction. But when forbidden desires are revealed, vows can be broken. Now, sexual desires are about to be reawakened and fantasies are about to come true. What you desire you cannot resist. Experience it for yourself.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-03
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Aietida'
Overview: Aziz goes to visit his friend Sherif while the latter's girlfriend, Salwa is in the house. As the two friends get drunk, Sherif passes out, only to wake up to the cops who arrest him for killing Salwa.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-07-21
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Ossfour Laho Anyab
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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A Woman, Unfortunately
Overview: The film revolves around two orphaned twin sisters, Nadia and Heba (Yousra), each of whom is different from the other; Heba is sensible, balanced and polite, while Nadia is liberated and impulsive and only cares about how to become rich by any means. While Heba admires her university professor (Karam Mattawa), Nadia meets Khaled (Sami El Adl) in the elevator and discovers that he works for the company she is applying to work for, which is headed by (Salah Zulfikar). Each of them tries to achieve her goal and reach it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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We share your joy
Overview: Mukhtar is trying to complete his marriage to his fiancée Samia, but what has been standing in their way for 8 years is their inability to find a suitable apartment, in addition to his mother-in-law's constant harassment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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Thousands Kisses
Overview: Jamalat and her sister Maysa work as dancers in a Cabaret. Maysa meets the actor Issam, and they form a theater group with Issam, his friend Fattouh, and some friends.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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The Eid Night
Overview: The plot sheds light on women's issues through the suffering of several women living on an island, where they are exposed to several problems and crises due to some men's lack of understanding of their rights.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-01-25
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Tower of Tanneries
Overview: The wealthy merchant Salama moves from the tannery neighborhood to live in his new building in Mohandessin. His son, Hisham, returns from the war of 73 with a leg injury and PTSD, and his wife, Nadia, clings to him. As for his son, Issam, he owns a boutique, and his girlfriend, Nana, supplies him with goods from abroad, including medicine for his father. Salama decides to marry Nana, so Issam gets rid of her so that she will not share the inheritance with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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El-Ganna Taht Qadmeha
Overview: (Zainab) works in a factory to raise her daughter (Nemat) and son (Hussein), but she refuses to marry (Ayoub). The factory owner tries to trap Zainab, but she pushes him back. So Ayoub decides to burn the factory, rob and kill its owner, the crime succeeds, he changes his personality, and becomes rich, and (Zainab) is accused of the crime and imprisoned, (Hussein) grows up, and becomes a lawyer, while (Nemat) works as a tailor, and she believes that getting rich by any means is the solution. (Zainab) escapes from prison to meet her children, and searches for evidence of her innocence, which is a letter hidden by her brother (Ahmed).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-12-03
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Shaqow
Overview: The film's events revolve around a group of outlaw friends who engage in criminal and suspicious activities, but it leads them to major crises with dangerous consequences.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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The Blood of the Innocent
Overview: The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and eventually dies in an accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2005-09-20
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A Message to the Governor
Overview: In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces. Harfoush, a brave knight must deliver a message to the ruler of Egypt to demand military aid in order to resist the enemy. After killing some soldiers, he finds himself in a cave with a wise old man who tells him about his destiny. When Harfoush wakes up he realizes that he is now at the gates of Cairo except it is the year 1998...
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1998-01-28
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Al Avokato
Overview: After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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The Devil's Island
Overview: Shawaf delivers his neighbor Fatima an illustrative map of the ship sunken at the Devil Island in Hurghada, hidden by gold boxes, accompanied by Baybars to finance the trip, and agree to Jalal teach them to dive, and recognizes the task of Fatima, and succeeded in the extraction of some gold bars, and here shows the Zoghbi gang and events escalate.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1990-06-29
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We Only Live Once
Overview: Dr. Amal decides to move from Cairo to Saloum in an attempt to escape the memories of her fiancé's death in a car accident. She meets the playboy teacher Hani, who was transferred to Saloum as punishment for his disrespect and misconduct. They develop feelings for each other that turn into love.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1981-08-04
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Birds of Darkness
Overview: Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati joins religious extremist groups to make financial gains , and the third Mohsen only works as a simple employee away from conflict.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1995-08-14
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Mawad maa al-qadar
Overview: The doctor (Medhat) returns from abroad after obtaining the doctorate, works at the hospital of Dr. (Adham), and progresses for the sermon (Nadia), the daughter of Dr. (Adham); causing (Ilham) the nurse; who loves him madly, to collapse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-10-20
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Blood on Pink Dress
Overview: Mahmoud is in a relationship with his cousin whose father, his rich uncle, appointed him as his company's manager. When Mahmoud starts an affair with a girl, she tries to get him to wed her. Fearing a scandal that would cost him everything, he kills her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1981-07-21
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Days Of Anger
Overview: Ibrahim suddenly returns from abroad, to find his wife Safaa married to Ezzat. The couple seize his apartment and savings. Ezzat accuses Ibrahim of insanity in order to lock him up in a mental hospital where he's subjected to all kinds of physical and psychological abuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-11-23
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The Forgotten
Overview: Yusuf Al-Mansi a worker in the railways. During his night shift and near his workplace, a millionaire named Asaad Yakout is hosting a big party to make a deal with a VIP and wants to have his secretary Ghada as condition to get the deal done. Yusuf Al-Mansi finds Ghada entering the booth and asks for his protection from the men her boss sent to bring her back to the party.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-05-31
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Before the farewell
Overview: Famous actress Sherine lives with her uncle Dr. Omar and his daughter Amal, suffering a headache that comes back to her. Examined by Dr. Adel, and it turns out that she has cancer and sentenced to death within a few months and learns his teacher. Sheren is confronted with death by courage, while Adel discovers some scientific victories through which to cure his wife.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-12-15
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The Beginning
Overview: After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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An Egyptian Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-09-27
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Under 20 Lovers
Overview: Adel decides to marry Sawsan despite the opposition of her parents. Adel is under pressure from her father to divorce her. Eventually Adel gives in to her father's threat to imprison him because of his marriage to a minor and divorces her. Sawsan escapes from her home and turns to her friend Mona.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Vagabonds
Overview: The film that established Abdel Sayed as a pioneer of New Realism in Egyptian cinema tells the story of two friends who rose from the bottom to the top of society through suspicious dealmaking, in a story full of love, anger, and betrayal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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The Secret Session
Overview: While a business man is driving home, he is stopped by a pregnant woman who asks him to take her to hospital to deliver her baby. A few days later, the woman claims the baby is his.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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The Talisman
Overview: Protagonist Mahmoud is a high school teacher, who lives with his entire family in a tiny apartment. The landlord is desperately trying to force them out to the point of enlisting the devil’s help. Like “Al-Ins wal Djinn,” the film’s opening scenes establish a sense of tension that continues to mount until, for some reason, a goat shoots a star-shaped laser out of its forehead, and everything quickly falls apart. Furniture spontaneously combusts, an invisible presence settles in Mahmoud’s apartment, and the devil rapes his wife and she thinks it’s an earthquake. Things reach their peak when, for the second time on this list, Yousra is drenched in actual chicken blood.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-10-26
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Terrorism and Kebab
Overview: Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes a terrorist in the process.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1992-06-11
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The Storm
Overview: Ever wonder what it was like to be in the middle east during the Gulf War of the early 90s? Sure, many films and TV shows have portrayed what it was like for the UN forces. This film takes you into the melee from the perspective of Egyptians -- who were sharply divided about the war -- and their daily lives, which, as one sees, form the basis of their foundation for understanding/approaching the war. And it really is these "every day" realities that make up the bulk of the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-03-03
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The Emigrant
Overview: 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 of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1994-09-26
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Alexandria... New York
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-05-21
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Alexandria Again and Forever
Overview: 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 director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-12-04
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Dantela
Overview: Samar, a singer, and Mariam, a lawyer, are childhood friends. One day as she was driving, Samar hits a man and calls Mariam to come to the police station where she is being questioned by Hossam. The three of them are involved in a love triangle as both women try to win Hossam over.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1998-04-07
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The Shepherd and the Women
Overview: The widowed Wafaa lives with her teenage daughter Salma and her sister-in-law Azza in her late husband Kamel's remote house. When Kamel's former cellmate comes to offer his help, the three women are hesitant to accept at first, but they end up falling for him and competing for his affection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1991-10-14
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Humans and Jinn
Overview: Fatima returns from America after earning her doctorate, she meets Galal who works as a tourist agent. When she returns home, she finds Galal in her bedroom and warns her from marrying Osama her fiancé, he tells her that he is a demon who is in love with her. Fatima refuses Galal's request and orders him to stay away from her as she is the only person who can see him.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1985-11-04
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Ala Bab El Wazeer
Overview: Kamal is a university student who is in love with Nora the daughter of a ruthless businessman who rejects him because he is poor and thus plots to keep him away from her. With the help of his friends they try to solve his problem especially after Kamal's father has been unjustly arrested for a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-03-29
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Talking About Love
Overview: (Nahid) is a waitress from an average family,after she gets divorced,she tries to overcome her loneliness by looking for a new love. Her colleague (Salma) is attracted to (Hassona) the assistant director,who had the opportunity to direct a music video,so he turns to (Salma) to be in the clip.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-04-14
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Karakon On The Street
Overview: Sharif, his wife Su'ad, their daughter Sarah, their son Hany and his mother are all living in the shelters after their house was demolished. Due to the inhumane standard of living in the shelters, they go to live in the courtyard of the family house. Unfortunately they find another person living there. Sharif designs and builds a wooden cabin to live in the street. He is subjected to many harassment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-10-20
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Laughter, Joy, Work and Love
Overview: During 1968 , in the Heliopolis area, a group of school students live for fun and pleasure, and they get to know a young boxer named (Adham), who changes their views on life in many aspects. (Adham) falls in love with the prostitute (Aisha), and decides to marry her, but his rich father wants to keep them apart.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-11-29
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18 Days
Overview: 10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2011-09-06
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The City
Overview: Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1999-08-01
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A Cultural Film
Overview: Three sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falling into one mishap after another, all because of the restrictions of society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2000-10-04
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His Excellency the Minister
Overview: 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 starts having violent nightmares and asks his office manager, Ateya, to accompany him to the North Coast in an attempt to stop the nightmares.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2002-12-05
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Alley of Love
Overview: The encounters and relationships that a brothel hotel witnessed, from a well known man in power, ambitious cunning youngster, to chivalrous college professor, despite such corrupt business ,true love found a place in some hearts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-07-11
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Revenge
Overview: Nada, the wife of Ahmed, a hero of the October war, was kidnapped and raped after she and her husband left the cinema. The husband could not read the full number of the car, but he was able to determine its type, color and body. They will not be punished with the punishment they deserve, and decides to get them before the police to avenge them by killing them all, coincides with the specifications of the gang with a drug trafficking ring, killing two of them before the police arrest the real gang, and then arrested while trying to kill the third, In the opinion of the violinist Real people get surprised, but he did not regret those who killed them, because they are also criminals.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-05-10
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The Mushroom
Overview: Mustafa worked in the guard team of President Sadat at the time of his assassination, he becomes depressed and an alcoholic. His wife leaves him with their daughter and marries a businessman engaged in suspicious operations leading to the abduction of the daughter. So she turns to Mustafa to save her.
Genres: Crime Thriller Adventure Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1997-06-09
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An Affair
Overview: A psychopath woman seduces a married man to sleep with her so she could threaten him later and ruin his perfect marriage so she could get him for herself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1996-09-23
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Smart but Stupid
Overview: In an attempt to rent a room whose owner only rents to girls, Zaghloul and Hassouna dress up as women. As they meet the villa's residents Nagwa and Nahed, the girls end up falling for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1980-04-14
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Sign of Disgrace
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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The Lady from Cairo
Overview: In 1990, Moumen Smihi briefly re-located to Cairo in order to work in the shadow of one of the world’s largest commercial film industries. The film that resulted from his Cairo sojuourn is a complex, painterly critique of the Egyptian musical and cinema star system. At the same time, the film shows the divergent states of possibility or despair faced by men and women within a changing Egyptian society. Smihi’s film plays out over thirty years and the events of the Nasserite years and the Palestine / Israel conflict become integral to the narrative. By blending newsreel footage with his own lush cinematography, Smihi creates a complex portrait of contemporary Egyptian society in the post-war years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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A Warm Winter Night
Overview: Sara and Mohy hold the Koran and then travel with her father, the great contractor Mounir Rahmi to Aswan.There she discovers that her father does not want to complete the wedding procedures and seeks to marry her to another young man she does not like.He flies to Cairo. After the father announces a financial reward for those who find it, Mamdouh makes sure that Sarah exchanges feelings of love and agree to marry after trying to convince Mohi divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1981-08-30
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Young men dancing over the fire
Overview: Father Hanafi raised his three sons to be at the crossroads to receive their next life, the great Alaa Mohandes is looking forward to work in commercial projects.The middle Adel is a university student living in a fun life and the daughter Mushira renewed daily through her interest in her study, and connects love between her and her colleague Salah.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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Nightmare
Overview: Journalist suffers from recurring nightmares about an abandoned mansion.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-03-06
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Bayada
Overview: Bayada has a small restaurant in her hometown, and her fiancé Hassan is fishing. Some foreigners arrive claiming to be searching for the body of their grandfather at the bottom of the sea but they smuggle gold. Khalil helps them and dives for money. Hassan suspects them and starts watching them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1981-05-04
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Omar Sharif: Citizen of the World
Overview: Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he was a man full of contradictions, who enjoyed card games more than movies; he was an eternal nomad who spent half his life in a hotel.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-02-15
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Al Mouled
Overview: The child (Barakat) from his mother gets lost in the crowd of the birth, to be kidnapped by the seller (Ali al-Araj) and taken to his home and called (Ibrahim), to grow up in an environment of all criminality, and involved working with a smuggling gang, and travel with them to Greece to carry out an operation, to change his life .
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-07-10
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Lack of Evidence
Overview: Ibrahim (Salah al-Saadani) abandons his wife Fawzia (Najla Fathi) and leaves the town and settles in Cairo, where he married Hassania (Aida Riad), Fawzia and Ibrahim deny his knowledge of her and claims that the detective is crazy and exploits that she has no proof of her identity. She also comes with a pair of false papers calling for her child. Fawzia collapses and becomes depressed. They enter the mental hospital. Farida (Yusra) sympathizes with her and tries to help her in every way.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-03-25
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The Crew
Overview: A documentary that investigates the meticulous process of film-making in all the three phases of production, told from the perspectives of Egyptian film-makers, celebrities, and other contributors to the film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-04-26
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Let's Dance
Overview: A look into the problem of marital boredom through the story of the lawyer Salwa who finds a sanctuary in a dance studio. Dancing helps her handle the stress of her life with her husband Khaled, but she has to contend with Khaled's disapproval and her society's condemnation.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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Don't Ask Me Who I Am
Overview: When the impoverished Aisha sells her daughter Zeinab to the barren wealthy woman Soraya, she insists on being Zeinab's nanny to raise her. But as her other children grow up and get prestigious jobs, they ask their mother to quit her job, ignorant of the fact that she is staying for their sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-11-19
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The Iland's Devil
Overview: A man breaks into Nagy's house and burns classified documents. Ali Baba, Nagy's friend, tells him about the incident, and then Nagy dies in mysterious circumstances. However, all fingers point to Ali Baba as the main suspect. Meanwhile Laila arrives to uncover her cousin's murder.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Path of Remorse
Overview: Tariq is a straight architect, the mother of his fiancé Maha refuses to complete their marriage because he refuses to take bribery to improve his financial condition. He becomes a drug addict and meets the runaway hooker Hamida who decides to repent. They get married without knowing the truth about each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Dilapidated Woman
Overview: A hooker decides to repent after she gets married and gives birth, but when she discovers that her husband is an addict, she convinces two of her friends to steal some jewelry, but things do not go well after the apartment owner and her child were killed during the robbery. Making her accused of a crime she didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1992-08-03
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House of the Poisoned Family
Overview: Sina' learns of the numerous affairs her husband Shakir has had with other women. At this time, she gets to know Hashem, and they become increasingly close. Hashem learns of the dysfunctions within Sina’’s family and tries to take advantage of this for his own interests, specially after meeting Arfan, the husband of Sina’s sister. Arfan uses Sina’s sister’s money for his own projects, and tries to pressure his daughter Hoda into marrying a rich Arab man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-06-02
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One Woman Is Not Enough
Overview: Journalist Hossam is involved with three different women at the same time. Amira, the charming journalist who's well connected, Reem his rebel revolutionary secretary, and Hanadi the simple lady who's the victim of the collapse of a building.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Saheb El Maqam
Overview: When a young businessman goes through a crisis, he finds that his only hope is a holy woman who starts to help him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2020-07-30
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Luck oh World
Overview: Abu Zayd and a number of his colleagues are revolting against the teacher Shamrock, the owner of the agency they work for, which is under the leadership of Shushu, which violates the law. They are working in a new agency, which makes Shosho angry. The term of the old agency leader's sentence ends, and he replaces Shamrock, and he, together with his aides, begins to attack Abizaid and his colleagues.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-06-19
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The Ruthless
Overview: In Alexandria, a family of three brothers, the first Hammam, head of a drug trafficking gang under the guise of a transport office inside the port, succeeds in attracting his little brother Khamis to the narcotics trade, while their sister Fatima rejects this illegal route, objects to their criminal trade and remains a minor worker in the shop. Therese sells clothes .. Fatima has a love relationship with Mansour, a friend of her brother Khamis, but he has been absent from the neighborhood for many years
Genres: Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1992-04-04
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Femme
Overview: A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-21
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Mercedes
Overview: 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 father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-11-15
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Sons of Rizk 2
Overview: Three years after the events of the first film, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes all that, and introduces them to new worlds for them, and puts them in very dangerous confrontations with A number of professional criminals.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-08-08
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The Garden of Blood
Overview: Nadia travels with her husband kamal to Tunisia to recover from her mental illness, she watches more than a crime that are illusions, but she insists that they are real.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-02-13
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Hakamt El-Mahkama
Overview: Enas (Magda El Khatib) and her husband Adel (Youssef Shaaban) covet her father Galal's (Farid Shawqi) wealth. As for her younger sister Hala (Yousra), she is kind to him and loves Khaled (Hatem Zulfikar). Galal marries Laila. Adel finds a document proving that his father-in-law Galal spent some time years ago in a mental hospital. Thus, Adel can obtain a power of attorney from his wife to seize his father-in-law's money and property.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1981-10-05
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Very Confidential
Overview: Salem is a corrupt merchant who fires the simple employee Shakir, who possesses some documents that incriminate Salem. During the pursuit by Salem's men to retrieve the documents, Shakir hides them in Dr. Aida's clinic without her knowing, and he is killed by Salem's men. His body was dumped on the road after being stripped of anything that could identify him. Salem calls one of his associates to kill the doctor.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-02-24
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Sarkhat Nadam
Overview: The sisterhood of Nadia, the eldest sister, is dry and authoritarian. She neglects her husband, does not trust him, and makes him escape from his home. These characteristics are due to a psychological illness that has plagued her since childhood. Her mother suffered a severe trauma because of her father's betrayal. Of the same cup.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-08-15
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Thousand Kisses and kiss
Overview: Jamalat and her sister Maysa work as dancers in a Cabaret. Maysa meets the actor Issam, and they form a theater group with Issam, his friend Fattouh, and some friends.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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