This 1968 film adaptation of Yahya Haqqi's 1943 novel "The Lamp of Om Hashem" explores the liminal space between the modern and traditional worlds. Set in one of Cairo's densely-populated neighborhoods, Sayyida Zeinab, the film showcases beautiful scenes from city life.
Aida works at Jalal Wahdan's investment company. Jalal asks her to help him return the savings of the depositors he has defrauded, from a bank in Switzerland that deals with voice prints. She tells Sami, her friend Rawya's husband, about this. Sami undergoes surgery to change his vocal cords,...
History professor Mahmoud worries about the future of the country after he read a book that points to a dark future in which monopolies increase and the economic balance changes, while his friend, the scientist and international expert Burhan, takes a selfish position in which he only cares about...
Ref'at is a judge who is ruling on an important case that witnesses a lot of security interference. Rafiq Al-Henawy has him killed and stages it as a suicide before the ruling. Twenty years later, his daughter returns to take revenge on Rafiq, who has become a businessman.
In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, four young Lebanese try to figure out their places in a society whose rules seem to have changed. It proved to be an extraordinary anticipation of the civil war that would engulf the country while the film was being edited.
The story of the post-independence nationalization of the mill of Monsieur Fabre, an old man attached to the land of Algeria where he was born. In this small town in eastern Algeria, there was nothing else to nationalize and they were actively preparing for the arrival of high dignitaries who would...
Colonel Suleiman Al-Dahshan confronts the gang of pursuers led by Jaber. Suleiman also devises a plan to arrest Adel, Jaber's nephew, who is accused of killing Saeed, for revenge, even though Adel is innocent and fails to prove his innocence. Adel tries to convince his uncle to stop committing...
Hamdy and Fathy were partners in a gang. Fathy is sentenced to prison, while Hamdy becomes a businessman, gets married and settles down, until Fathy is released from prison and asks him to resume their criminal activity.
Shukry goes to prison for embezzlement, and when he gets out, he finds no other way but to become a professional fraudster and do suspicious activities. He meets another fraudster who deals with a businessman who carries out smuggling operations, and the police follow up on the events.
Hatim is a businessman working in the field of contracting and building housing. He finds himself accused in a public opinion case, which is the collapse of the buildings he built. He discovers that his men who help him did this without him noticing. A confrontation occurs with his brother, and he...
When Sherif returns from abroad, he befriends a group of unemployed junkies, including a girl whose father lives in Kuwait and sends her a lot of money, a young man who went mad because of drugs, and the son of a a major general who is separated from his wife.
A young Egyptian man travels with his family to Hurghada on a work trip, where he works with foreign tourists. There, he meets a woman with an Egyptian father and an American mother. Despite his family's objections, he falls in love and marries her after she becomes pregnant. However, their...
Rawya and her husband Hamdi get separated and she goes with her daughter to live in her father's home while Hamdi marries the young Mervat. Rawya gets a job as a secretary in a newspaper and meets Tarek, the editor-in-chief, and they feel attracted to each other.
A look at the different faces of love through three stories, from the Upper Egyptian man whose family wants him to wed a villager, to the frivolous liberal girl who falls for a journalist, to an Upper Egyptian youth whose love for his classmate is impeded by a difference of traditions.
