This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli...
The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get rich, so she gives in to Dandrawi who gets arrested after one of his buildings collapses. His wife tells Ruqaya's family about her husband's relation with her and Youssef is determined to kill him.
Shaker returns from Doha after an absence of eight years hoping to resume his life in Cairo with his siblings Fawzia, Najwa, Ibrahim and Mahdi, after achieving them financial security. He's shocked by the social changes that happened while he was away that affected them,making them no longer need...
Ammar (Amr Saad) is young artist, who falls in love with wealthy girl Nadine (Dorra), but her rich uncle Mahdy disapproves . They decide to get married without his knowledge. But Mahdy's men kidnap Nadine, severely beat Ammar and put him in prison after which his life completely changes.
The divorced Zeenat gets involved with Medhat in a forbidden relationship and then he abandons her. Sayed refuses to marry her even though she is pregnant. Sayed exploits student Hassan's need for money and agrees with him to marry Zeenat a marriage of convenience.
An innocent Coptic citizen who was unjustly arrested by a corrupt officer,is sent to jail, until an honorable officer is transferred to the prison as a punishment for rejecting corruption. He discovers the truth about the innocent Coptic, and tries to communicate with the officials to save him.
Amer shares with Saif in counterfeiting dollars, Amer leaves the money bag in his car. The young Hussein steals the car and is sentenced to three years in prison for failing to prove that he does not own the bag. Amer cedes his apartment to Saif, who demands him for the value of the bag, and writes...
The story of the famous dancer Hikmat Fahmy, who was spying on the British army for the German forces during the Second World War, convinced that it contributes to rid Egypt of the British occupation.
Ghada is a police officer. Her brother falls prey to bad friends and dies after taking a large dose of heroin. Ghada discovers the complex of one of her friends and arrests him red-handed, with heroin in his possession. It turns out that he is part of a drug gang led by smuggler Hazem, and his wife...
The film revolves around the school of good ethics run by the artist Mohammed Reza, and how he tries hard to control his school and students rioters, to reflect the image of the student Najib, who has good morals, funny comic positions between students naughty and their teacher the daughter of the...
When editor (Salah ) is arrested for killing his wife (Laila), Officer (Essam) is assigned to the case and he discovers that his niece ( Safaa) is having an affair with (Salah). (Safaa) and Salah's friend (Taher) work together to find a woman who was with (Salah) on the night of the murder to prove...
Samia rebels against her unemployed husband until she gets a divorce, and starts dreaming of living outside the poor neighborhood into a rich life. She works for a rich man, and tries to seduce his son Sherif to marry her. But when she fails, she transfers the game to his unmarried uncle.
Salwa (Samia El-Alfy) loses her husband Magdy in a mysterious crime and finds herself being chased by a dangerous smuggling gang to find out where the money and jewelry are, and also being monitored by the police. Salwa discovers that her husband was not a businessman as she thought, but rather...
A child witnesses his father being killed in front of his eyes. Years later, this child returns from abroad as a young man and discovers that his father's killer has become rich after collecting huge sums of money from fraud and deception. This young man's sister tries to keep him away from the...
Sami is a police officer who is chasing a drug smuggling gang without knowing that his wife Laila's brother Kamal is involved in their business, and that he had just returned from the British capital, London.
Adam is dissatisfied with his life and seeks wealth in any way. He likes the nurse Azza, who works for his sick grandmother whose death he awaits in order to inherit her money. He throws his birthday party in her villa and invites his friends. As they celebrate, many strange paradoxes occur.
The film deals with the issue of blood feud in Upper Egypt, and the death and hatred it leaves behind that is passed down from father to son. Through a true love story between Abdel Hadi and Nahid, who are brought together by love and separated by a blood feud between the two families.
