Cinema - Egypt, a list by ahasson

8.9

/1534/

81

/44/

79

/17/

4.1

/1827/

The play tells the story of four siblings trying to stop their father from leaving his family for another woman after one of them accidentally finds a love letter from an unknown woman to their father.

83

44

8.8

/1254/

82

/59/

84

/27/

4.0

/1590/

In a high school plagued by five unruly students who have failed to graduate for over a decade, the principal hires a new teacher in a last-ditch effort to restore order. Effat, the newly appointed instructor, takes on the challenge with hopes of reforming the troublemakers into model students.

82

48

8.5

/2834/

79

/39/

82

/15/

4.1

/3008/

Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and gives him some weed that is made out of harmless substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of money.

81

64

8.3

/3092/

77

/55/

73

/35/

4.2

/4539/

90

Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.

76

47

8.2

/2238/

72

/37/

69

/24/

4.1

/3142/

A police officer is chosen in the late 1960s for a unique and lifelong mission: to infiltrate Egypt’s criminal underworld. Stripped of his name and reputation, he adopts a new identity, living among smugglers, dealers, and nightclub owners. Over the years, he rises within this hidden world, all the while trying to balance his secret duty with the temptations of wealth, power, and desire. Against the backdrop of Egypt’s shifting political eras, his life becomes a meditation on morality, loyalty, and the fragile boundaries of identity and biblical-level metaphors.

79

41

8.2

/1727/

79

/26/

75

/18/

4.0

/1976/

A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long.

83

58

8.1

/2147/

79

/31/

78

/28/

4.1

/3113/

96

/84/

This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.

81

50

8.1

/5022/

77

/43/

81

/37/

3.8

/2408/

90

/4/

A woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.

78

64

8.1

/7861/

79

/111/

73

/44/

4.0

/8034/

Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his very exceptional project.

79

55

8.0

/2777/

71

/21/

82

/38/

4.1

/4715/

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.

76

36

8.0

/1489/

73

/26/

76

/13/

3.9

/2082/

A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.

77

65

8.0

/8844/

77

/131/

75

/86/

3.8

/8633/

An Egyptian-American returns to his homeland after twenty years abroad, filled with nostalgia and high hopes. But as he reconnects with his roots, he finds himself caught between two worlds—and begins to experience the reality of a country he thought he knew.

74

39

8.0

/1441/

63

/23/

78

/20/

3.8

/2071/

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

73

61

8.0

/11841/

74

/117/

75

/44/

3.3

/4977/

A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

78

62

8.0

/4730/

78

/76/

76

/38/

4.0

/4646/

Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the school and achieve good results, while salah is dealing with his trust issues and his need to prove himself by getting out of his father's shadow. with the help of Hussien, his girlfriend Wafaa, and his two friends Atef and Lemby .. can he run the school his own way?

74

54

8.0

/30910/

74

/166/

70

/97/

3.6

/6459/

78

/6/

After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.

77

41

7.9

/1556/

73

/23/

78

/20/

4.0

/2072/

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

79

48

7.9

/2106/

77

/26/

80

/26/

4.0

/3543/

When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.

74

55

7.9

/5469/

72

/74/

80

/27/

3.4

/5051/

The movie focuses on the fury state that was among the people in synchronization with the main event in Egypt: The 1919 Egyptian Revolution which unites the fates of Kira and El Gen to participate in the struggle against the British occupation.

76

62

7.9

/6468/

74

/95/

75

/49/

3.8

/5020/

Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!

81

31

7.8

/1737/

73

/35/

100

/1/

3.8

/9840/

The events revolve around Youssef and Alia, who meet after several years of separation that was forced upon them due to compelling circumstances. Coincidence brings them together again, after each of them has taken a different path in life.

72

24

7.8

/1048/

66

/18/

70

/11/

3.8

/1014/

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

73

32

7.8

/1316/

71

/21/

70

/15/

3.7

/1653/

Ahmed Zaki plays a peasant, Mountasir, who gets involved in a criminal racket run by his friend Midhat. Mountasir is betrayed by Midhat and goes to jail. Upon discovering that his wife was forced into prostitution by Midhat, he swears to extract revenge when he leaves jail.

77

47

7.8

/3843/

73

/63/

76

/33/

3.9

/5046/

82

/2/

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.

73

57

7.8

/4449/

72

/52/

72

/39/

3.6

/2809/

Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.

79

47

7.7

/2113/

72

/48/

77

/58/

4.0

/5177/

93

/7/

Set in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.

75

33

7.6

/1331/

71

/25/

80

/11/

3.8

/2023/

After being fired by the prosecution office, Mostafa becomes a personal injury lawyer and takes advantage of people's pain for profit. But his life turns upside down when his only son falls victim to a car accident.

72

35

7.6

/1341/

67

/28/

70

/13/

3.8

/3030/

A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.

76

44

7.6

/1975/

72

/44/

72

/22/

4.1

/5091/

Fares, a shoe factory worker, has only one passion in life: football. He lives a humble life in a chaotic neighborhood where he plays street football to increase his income. However, neither his marriage nor his job is stable enough. He goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife and his son.

73

47

7.6

/4778/

76

/56/

74

/33/

4.1

/5609/

58

/1/

After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, but paths intertwine with Abdel Malik Zarzor, the city's crime lord, who is connected somehow to Houria.

74

54

7.6

/3544/

75

/49/

77

/34/

3.5

/3480/

Based on the best-selling novel of the same title. Dr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions, who decides to give one last lecture about the very simple question: "how do we love?" He gives a full description of the different stages of love by recounting four different love stories going through curves and various crises.

72

46

7.5

/3055/

70

/65/

71

/18/

3.7

/6808/

Desperate to escape his dead-end life in Egypt and find a way to Europe, security guard Hassan devises a bold scheme: he pretends to be blind to join the national blind soccer team, bound for the World Cup in Poland.

69

25

7.5

/1191/

64

/9/

66

/13/

3.7

/1060/

Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.

77

50

7.5

/5173/

73

/88/

71

/38/

3.5

/5044/

96

/7/

A comedy about triplet brothers with only one birth certificate.

65

39

7.5

/3039/

67

/37/

73

/32/

3.6

/1724/

44

/3/

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.

74

39

7.5

/1620/

78

/35/

72

/19/

3.7

/2343/

Mahmoud is man in his late 50s, who owns a photocopying store. When he comes across a topic about dinosaurs, he becomes obsessed with searching for the causes of its extinction, which leads him to rediscover love, friendship, paternity and the real meaning of life.

81

72

7.5

/6067/

74

/148/

74

/130/

3.8

/14781/

100

/17/

87

/25/

Metacritic

87

/10/

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.

72

52

7.5

/3384/

73

/53/

68

/32/

3.7

/3461/

In a top secret mission to bring down a dangerous drug lord, the police recruit Hazaloum to impersonate his right hand man Adham after he is killed.

71

56

7.5

/5340/

70

/60/

70

/29/

3.5

/5242/

71

A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.

79

70

7.5

/7785/

75

/86/

73

/60/

3.7

/5180/

100

/11/

82

/140/

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of Egyptian society.

70

35

7.4

/1657/

70

/51/

66

/12/

3.5

/3702/

Marital problems happen every day where one day the couple decided to involve others in their problems . During the clash of the parties , the metal door lock breaks down and everyone gets locked inside the apartment , at this moment the problem escalated into a disaster.

78

33

7.4

/2038/

75

/25/

79

/20/

3.8

/3090/

85

/2/

A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.

71

38

7.4

/1881/

70

/26/

68

/18/

3.7

/2050/

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.

72

31

7.4

/1894/

69

/21/

78

/14/

3.5

/1141/

A biopic depicting the life of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, following his early life, his political and military achievements, and his assassination during the Cairo annual victory parade.

72

51

7.4

/2949/

70

/48/

71

/33/

3.7

/4482/

The film revolves around three brothers of the same father, "Munir dangerous" . "Samir" (Ahmad Fahmy), is doubler of the artist Ahmed El Shakka in this films and "popular" (Chico) how loves music and is known for its relations with women, and "Baheer" (Hicham Maged), the son of an aristocratic family, the three brothers have was forced to travel together through time to the day met the father, three mothers, and through a series of events trying to comedy trio return to their time.

68

36

7.4

/1641/

70

/31/

68

/20/

3.6

/1807/

60

/20/

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

70

?

7.4

/5474/

72

/70/

72

/36/

3.4

/3459/