After the end of World War II, some exploitative merchants who hoard goods become wealthy and resort to bribing government employees to obtain goods and sell them at high prices. A love story develops between the daughter of a war merchant and a poor man. The war-rich man imagines that with his...
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.
(Ahmed Fathi) is a screenwriter assisted by his wife (Hala). He wants her to quit her job and devote herself to helping him with his screenwriting work, but she refuses. His assistant takes advantage of the situation to try to drag him into a relationship and extort his money for her lover. His...
The couple, Adel and Salwa, live a quiet life. A problem occurs in the kitchen, so a plumber comes to repair some pipes. The plumber assaults Salwa, and since then, the relationship between the couple has split.
An investigation officer feels sad after the death of his beloved Samara, and is tasked with investigating the case of a drug gang, and in the midst of all this, the spirit of his late girlfriend appears again, and many facts are revealed to him.
An aristocratic girl volunteers with the Red Crescent, where she meets a young doctor. They fall in love and agree to marry, but cruelty of fate forces the girl to marry a rich sheikh. Life becomes difficult for her, so she agrees to commit suicide. But her mother pushes her back when she reveals...
A wealthy man with a circle of friends falls seriously ill. The son quickly arrives with his fiancée, who discovers that he left her in a hotel and went to see his father alone. His father scolds him when he learns that he completed his engagement without seeing his fiancée and insists on seeing...
