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
Mahmoud Shuaib, a wealthy man diagnosed with Alzheimer's, begins making unusual financial decisions. Fearing for their inheritance, his two sons take legal action to gain control of his estate.
After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.
Azza escapes from her family’s home after being incessantly harassed by her stepfather. On her journey, she meets Medhat and agrees to live in his house, where she meets Magda and they become friends. Things get complicated when Magda dies and Azza pretends to be her.
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.
Mahmoud is a man with simple dreams. His life turns into agony, when he witnesses a murder in the garage where he works as a security guard and he testifies against the murderer.
A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leave for Alexandria.
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.
A young man leaves his rural origins in search of self-actualization. He moves into a poor neighborhood where he resides with his sister Narjes and gets involved with many women until he discovers he has cancer and encounters another girl with the same pernicious illness.
The film deals with some issues of concern to the Egyptian citizen and passes the events in the comic. It provides a personal representative Mohamed Saad (Tika) who lives in the popular and has a shop selling toys and with the Egyptian revolution that tries to aggregate the region's youth to the...
A police officer and his assistant investigate a brutal murder case in which the main suspect is a sculptor. A pathologist helps the police decipher the mystery that is the murder by examining the adrenaline that the body secretes when in terror. Can that help them solve the case?
The story follows a simple family whose young son, Zeko, wins the opportunity to participate in a contest for Egypt's smartest child. As they set out to attend the contest, many paradoxes happen to them during the two-day trip
(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any relatives so that they can seize his inheritance. They reach where Shaaban lives, who is from the town of the millionaire. Ghatrifi family make a deal with...
The director's final work prior to his early death to chronic liver disease was this gleefully ghoulish horror comedy, which imparted the following straightforward moral: if you smother your wife to death with a bowl of porridge and bury her remains in a shallow grave, purely in order to start a...
Mohamed El-Asyouty lives with his wife Karima and their three adult daughters but he feels disappointed because he doesn't have a son to bear his last name and run the family business. When his two older daughters get married, they bring their husbands to live in the family home. However, the new...
Jaber, the wealthy businessman, lives alone in his villa after his fiancé left Hala long after he was wounded in the 1967 war. Hala lives with her husband Husain Abdel-Dayem in one of the neighboring villas. He tries to buy the villa specifically to be close to his old girlfriend, Al-Sayes Hassan...
Fadel and Naema are an innocent couple that run a food truck business. The events revolve around Fadel, as he goes through many comic situations while managing the restaurant.
The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some important issues such as ignorance, poverty, and corruption, which leads to the adoption of misconceptions.
