Salah Abu Seif

Abu Zeid is a strong personality, emotions do not interfere with his life and decisions. He soon discovers Haridi is plotting his murder on the eve of his wedding night.  (more)

The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically ...  (more)

Salah, a young college student, falls in love for the first time with Samiha. He spends his nights thinking about her and looking to her face in the “empty pillow” next to him. When she marries someone else, he is devastated and her memory haunts him no matter ...  (more)

Directed by Salah Abouseif et al.  (more)

Dramatic rendition of a real life crime wave that terrorized the city of Alexandria, Egypt, between the years 1920 and 1922. Women are disappearing without a trace in what looked like the work of a serial killer. Being Egypt's first ever case of serial killings, ...  (more)

When a committee is formed to serve the people of the neighborhood and Mr. Monjid is chosen head, dispute finds its way to the committee due to their different approaches, as Monjid believes that problems should be solved amicably, and Hanafi, one of the members, ...  (more)

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After falling in love with a young architect,mayssa shocked to know his involvement with an older woman and the relationship he carries with her,a past of struggling and support  (more)

The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in the ...  (more)

A historical epic about the battle of Qadiseya, which was helmed by the Arabian knight Saad Ibn Abi Waqas, and which enabled Muslims from conquering Persia in 636 A.D.  (more)

Hamza "a member of the volunteer National Guard" meets up with the teacher Fawzya "Faten", after the fire of Cairo broke out, the British trying to capture all the volunteers in the National Guard , Hamza hiding in the house of one of his friend, and Fawzya help ...  (more)

With his father crippled, Mahgoub Abdel Dayem finds himself in an urgent need of a job to support his family. When he enlists his friend Salem to help him find a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry but also finds him a bride. The bride in question, ...  (more)

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.  (more)

Abdel Sabour was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his ...  (more)

Shown in Cannes 1949.  (more)

A film that portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family: three brothers, their sister Nefeesa and their mother after the father’s death. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.  (more)

With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her money so bad that he kills his friend and proposes to his newly-widowed wife.  (more)

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The story of Mayor Abdul Razek al-Sharshabi (Omar al-Sharif) when his younger son, Tawfiq (Khalid al-Nabawi) is called for army recruitment, his wife (Safiya al-Omari), rejects it, suggesting to send someone else to go instead. So the Mayor persuaded a poor father ...  (more)

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.  (more)