Life's Speed Bump

Life's Speed Bump 2006

6.81

Seeking job opportunities, a young man arrives in Cairo and becomes increasingly involved with the family of a wealthy businessman.

2006

The Translator

The Translator 2021

5.70

A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

2021

A Groom from a Security Agency

A Groom from a Security Agency 2004

5.77

A businessman who loves his daughter very much, refuses every man who proposes for her in order not to leave him. But can he refuse a man from a security entity?

2004

Goodnight

Goodnight 2017

6.42

The story of the film, in a different context of a successful and wealthy engineer named Hossam Khedive, but recently suffers from problems in his natural life resort to alternative life through a new device enters the world of dreams.

2017

Bara El Manhag

Bara El Manhag 2021

7.96

Nour is a 13-year-old orphan living in the countryside in the early 1980s. He is smart, but is also a compulsive liar with vision problems and wears eyeglasses that don't quite remedy his weakened eyesight. To gain the respect of his fellow classmates, he ventures inside a haunted house right in front of the school, one that all the kids are afraid to enter. Inside, he finds a solitary old man who's hiding from the world. A friendship and apprenticeship are born between the boy and the old man, initiating a journey of self-discovery that lies at the very heart of this light-hearted drama.

2021

Laiali Yasmeen

Laiali Yasmeen 1978

1

The life of a businessman called Kareem changes when he meets a girl called Yasmine who dreams of being a star.

1978

Mako

Mako 2021

5.39

Eight documentary makers decide to go to the location of Elsalam Ship which sunk years ago to make a new documntary where they face unforseen dangers.

2021

Nezouh

Nezouh 2023

6.80

Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, Hala, and daughter, Zeina, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.

2023

Within Sand

Within Sand 2024

6.00

When "Snam" gets ambushed by a group of thieves, he finds himself lost in the Saudi desert. While his pregnant wife, Halla, faces the men of the tribe to ensure his return, he finds himself being followed by a lone wolf.

2024

Wave

Wave 2010

1

Over three periods of her life, a grandmother keeps repeating to her grandson the same apparently trivial story.

2010

Life or Death

Life or Death 1954

6.70

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.

1954

Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's 2010

6.29

Mahmoud Shuaib, a wealthy man diagnosed with Alzheimer's, begins making unusual financial decisions. Fearing for their inheritance, his two sons take legal action to gain control of his estate.

2010

Perfume

Perfume 1970

1

After her mother's death, a little girl calms her sadness and anxiety with the traces of her mother's perfume on her pillow, while the father revives his desires on his wife's perfumed dress. After spraying the last drop of the perfume, the quest for a similar scent begins with the hope of finding relief and ending their pain.

1970

Radhia

Radhia 1992

10.00

The story of a family divided ideologically and politically in Algeria in the 1990s, under the helpless gaze of the mother, played by the brilliant Doudja Achachi, the bearer of centuries-old traditions.

1992

Return My Heart

Return My Heart 1957

5.43

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

1957

Journey to the Moon

Journey to the Moon 1959

4.80

In his quest for fame and success, Ismail, a driver for a newspaper company, tries to take some unauthorized photographs of the inside of a German rocket undergoing a technical test. He accidentally launches the rocket into space, taking with him Dr Sharvin, the German scientist who built the rocket, and Ahmad Rushdi, an Egyptian meteorologist. When their rocket somehow manages to land upon the moon, the three hapless space travelers meet Dr Cosmo and learn of the intelligent life that once inhabited the moon but which was all but annihilated by a nuclear war. After Rushdi falls in love with one of the moon girls, they all decide to return to earth but lack enough fuel for the trip and so have to venture to the foreboding far side of the moon to obtain some 'atomic petrol.' Will the crew ever return to the earth?

1959

Lotfi

Lotfi 2015

10.00

The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people.

2015

Playing with Giants

Playing with Giants 1991

7.13

When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.

1991

House No. 13

House No. 13 1952

6.50

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

1952