Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his...
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...
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and...
A hooker decides to repent after she gets married and gives birth, but when she discovers that her husband is an addict, she convinces two of her friends to steal some jewelry, but things do not go well after the apartment owner and her child were killed during the robbery. Making her accused of a...
The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life...
As Sharbat marries her sweetheart, she comes to realize that their ambitions and plans for the future do not align. She gets a divorce and falls in love with a rich student, only to marry his father. When the jealous student kills his father, Sharbat inherits her husband's entire fortune.
The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile...
When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's...
A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.
Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.
Sabrina's mother is sick, and her aunt visits them to check on the health of her sister. At the Police College, after being attracted to Sabrina and promised to marry, but the aunt is determined to marry her son Idiot Mohammed to ensure service to the whole family.
Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.
Hamido (Farid Shawqi) works as a fisherman at sea, but he also deals in drugs by sea. Hamido and Saadia (Hoda Sultan) live in a great love story, but the teacher Qarsh (Mahmoud El-Meligy) does not leave them alone.
Three different stories about three women. Three women, the first (Hana), who loves (Adel), but she meets (Sami) to also fall in love with him, the second widow (Tawahida), who loves (Yusef) the employee of the Muslim Council, but he is married, and the third (Shams), the singer who falls in love...
Hassan, a worker in a lathe workshop, is dissatisfied with his livelihood and his harsh financial conditions. One high society woman comes to him in the workshop where he works. She admires him and invites him to her villa to complete and install the decoration. Hassan becomes involved in a...
A teacher loves Usta Hassan, the driver of a transport vehicle, and she tries to seduce him in various ways and fails because his heart is occupied with the love of his fiancée. The teacher, the head of a gang, becomes jealous of Usta Hassan because he has the teacher’s love, so he clashes with...
One of the traveling circus troupes in the Egyptian villages suffers from many problems due to the small number of spectators and its failure to keep up with the times. The son of the troupe owner, who has finished his studies, comes and tries to develop the troupe, canceling some shows and adding...
Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.
Bahiya decides to take revenge after her brother's death at the hands of a drug gang. She exploits the love of Sayed, a gang member, to achieve her revenge, but the gang leader, Shukoura, stands in their way.
After leaving juvie, Rabie meets a friend who gets him a job at a gambling den. He walks away from the gambling world and has a family but he finds himself forced to go back to his old life after his son gets sick.
