Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah dis...
A courier is sent to deposit a cash amount to the bank but he arrives late. He goes to a hotel to sp...
Khadiga lives in a poor neighborhood with her parents. She tries to save up money so she could marry...
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grap...
Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's ...
Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fell...
Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from ele...
Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. A...
Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.
A sick doctor is admitted to an isolated sanatorium located in the middle of a desolate desert. As a...
Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid ...
Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a...
Actress Sanaa Kamel is found murdered on her bed, and an investigation starts, taking into account e...
A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown.
With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her mon...
In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a ...
When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime sus...
Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Ni...
It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorc...