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Wife Number 13

March 1962 •Arabic

Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.

Dananeir

September 1940 •Arabic

A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown.

Nagham Fi Hayaty

August 1975 •Arabic

(Hanan) is an attractive and beautiful young girl. She works as a secretary for the singer (Mamdouh). She is attached to Mohsen’s heart and emotionally attached to him. As a result of that connection, she falls victim when she surrenders herself to Mohsen. The result of that connection becomes a pregnancy, and here the situation becomes more serious. Mohsen has to leave Beirut for Brazil. To search for a job opportunity, he must leave the country immediately.

Passion and Revenge

January 1944 •Arabic

A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process.

The Collar and the Bracelet

June 1986 •Arabic

In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.

My Father Is on the Tree

February 1969 •Arabic

A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.

عيلة اتعملها بلوك

November 2022 •Arabic

A Bullet in the Heart

March 1944 •Arabic

Muhammad Karim directed adaptation of Tawfiq Al-Hakim's play. Mohsen is a reckless young man who has many relationships. He meets the girl of his dreams by chance and falls in love with her immediately, but he discovers that she is his friend's fiancée, so he decides to stay away from her, but she has fallen in love with him.

Return Of The Prodigal Son

September 1976 •Arabic

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 political disillusionment.

Maqsoom

January 2024 •Arabic

Hind, Emy and Rania can’t really stand each other. In the 90s, during their university years, they used to sing together in a band in before personal differences tore them apart. When they receive an invitation to sing together in Aswan, the three women reunite and are forced to work together on one last show. As they come together for this surprise reunion, they find themselves in a mix of challenges and comedic moments, remembering their past and rediscovering their present.

The Leech

January 1956 •Arabic

A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.

For Your Eyes

May 1987 •Arabic

A respectable man inherits a cabaret from his brother and finds himself obliged to manage him and take care of a young girl who dreams of performing a performing dancer

Alkhataya

March 1962 •Arabic

Hussein and Ahmad are brothers. Hussein falls in love with a colleague, but his father mysteriously decides that Ahmad should marry her instead.

Our Best Days

March 1955 •Arabic

A poor girl lives on the rooftop of a building. Three young neighbors fall in love with her. The decide to help her when they discover that she is seriously ill and in need of an urgent operation.

Soft Hands

December 1963 •Arabic

A prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim.

The Flirtation of Girls

September 1949 •Arabic

Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.

Rise to the Abyss

October 1978 •Arabic

Abla travels to France and gets recruited by the Mossad under the pretext of working as a journalist. By the time she discovers the truth, she's already in too deep. As Abla recruits her fiancé, an engineer in the Egyptian army, the General Intelligence Directorate assigns Khaled to arrest her.

The Second Wife

October 1967 •Arabic

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

Rayya and Sekina

February 1952 •Arabic

In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.

Whom Should We Shoot?

December 1975 •Arabic

The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.