The Escape

The Escape 1991

7.00

Ahmed Zaki plays a peasant, Mountasir, who gets involved in a criminal racket run by his friend Midhat. Mountasir is betrayed by Midhat and goes to jail. Upon discovering that his wife was forced into prostitution by Midhat, he swears to extract revenge when he leaves jail.

1991

Cactus Flower

Cactus Flower 2017

7.20

In a hot and politically challenged Cairo actress Aida and her neighbor, the aging diva Samiha, are thrown out on the streets. Together with the street smart Yassin, they try to find a place to live, forcing them to confront with their past.

2017

Party on the Impalement

Party on the Impalement 1979

7.50

A Kuwaiti play taken from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, where it is rumored that at a time when there was a ruler who chose his assistants from incompetent men, they undertook looting, cruelty, and injustice to preserve their positions, so they began to fabricate the charges of the innocent, imprison them and form dangerous centers of power within the state, and the sultan over Unaware of what is going on around him, the play clarifies the real reality that we live in at the present time and because of the corruption that some Arab regimes suffer from corruption practiced by the people chosen by the ruler as assistants who are not qualified to do so.

1979

A Dinner Date

A Dinner Date 1981

7.40

This movie revolves around the story of an innocent girl (Nawal) who was married to a rich and possessive man who still wants her back after their divorce; however she meets a hair stylist (Shoukry) and falls in love with him. They get married but her first husband starts torturing Shoukry so he can leave Nawal but he refuses. Eventually, acts of revenge begins from both Nawal and her ex-husband.

1981

The Age of Wolves

The Age of Wolves 1986

1

Hanan works as a secretary for Shawkat, a businessman who trades in weapons. Despite being watched by the police and constant attacks from the journalist Samia, Shawkat steals Hanan from her fiancé, Ahmed, who works in an Arab country. Hanan's attempts to escape and follow her fiancée fail.

1986

Three Thieves

Three Thieves 1966

5.33

Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals from a traitorous wife believing that this is his right, and the second steals a public bus in order to quickly reach his sick wife, the third steals his old aunt to be able to get married.

1966

3000 Nights

3000 Nights 2015

6.20

Iman, a young newly wed Palestinian bride, is arrested and incarcerated in a top-security Israeli prison where she gives birth to a baby boy. As she struggles to survive and raise her child behind bars, she is torn between her instinct as a mother and the difficult decisions she must make, finding through her relationship with the other prisoners - both Palestinian and Israeli – the time and space to reflect, develop and mature as a young woman.

2015

Karnak

Karnak 1975

7.00

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

1975

The dancer and the undertaker

The dancer and the undertaker 1992

1

A guarded undertaker receives a coffin that disappears at the airport, at the same time a gang is searching for a coffin containing smuggled dollars, and the police follow the two on their search for the coffin.

1992

Husband on Holiday

Husband on Holiday 1964

1

Essam decides to escape the boredom of his marital life. He claims to his wife that he's going to Aswan for a work assignment, but goes to Alexandria to spend a recreational trip instead. When his wife finds out, she disguises herself as a playful blonde girl named Rosita to teach him a lesson.

1964

Zeinab

Zeinab 1952

1

An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasant girl, falls in love with Ibrahim al-Khouli, who works on the Pasha's estate. Her father stands in the way of this love and insists that she marry Hassan, a wealthy young man. Ibrahim is called up for military service and leaves the village, leaving Zainab saddened and suffering from tuberculosis, which Hassan's family refuses to treat. Ibrahim returns from military service, is pained by her condition, and tries to help her.

1952

The Labyrinth Prisoner

The Labyrinth Prisoner 2021

10.00

Khalid and Shady, two medical students and best friends, apply as volunteers in a social experiment only to find themselves held captive.

2021

A Sleepless Man

A Sleepless Man 1948

1

Dr. Mounir Saber (Youssef Wahbi) is a committed and perfect man in his work and devotes all his time in his clinic and lectures to students. Married to a vicious woman jealous and heart patient (Najma Ibrahim). He meets in the train while traveling with booze Ghanaian (Madiha Youssri) and her friend (Nelly Mazloum) and a relationship arises between them and treat her where she suffers from the deterioration of the liver as a result of drinking liquor with the cabaret in which she works. Dr. Mounir falls in love with her and exploits the opportunity to deplete his money and offer it to her thugs lover Jalal Abu Mashtar (Farid Shawky). His wife discovers the loss of shares that she had saved and spent on the wine and quarrel with him and die of shock

1948

A Story in My Skin

A Story in My Skin 2018

10.00

Political activist Kader Affak—the unforgettable surveyor of Tariq Teguia’s film Inland—runs a charity on the same premises as Le Sous-Marin literary café that he is renovating. In powerful chiaroscuro, he tells Yanis Kheloufi about the final days of his mother, a constitutive episode that gave birth to his unshakeable faith in the Algerian people.

2018

The Fox and Grapes

The Fox and Grapes 1984

1

Mohsen lives with his sister Aida and her husband Ezzat. After he graduated from the university, his colleague Najwa urges Mohsen to look for work so that they can get married. Ezzat tries to help Mohsen get a job but Mohsen fails in every job.

1984

Why Did You Make Me Love You?

Why Did You Make Me Love You? 2000

5.00

Dalia abandoned her beloved Hisham, which made him get over her and become friends and he got involved with Noha.

2000

The Good, The Bad, and The Playful

The Good, The Bad, and The Playful 2019

8.00

Three retired actors abruptly decide that they want to go back to acting and work together to make a movie about aliens. Will it earn them any recognition?

2019

Banat Haretna

Banat Haretna 1987

1

The film revolves around Aziza, Gamalat and Lawahez (Boussy, Elham Shaheen and Dalal Abdel Aziz), three friends from a working-class neighborhood who work in the bag trade with Mrs. Nazaga. A disagreement occurs between them and they leave work with her, so a famous bag trader and her assistant Harbi exploit them to travel to Europe under the pretext of buying evening dresses. In reality, drugs are smuggled in their bags without their knowledge, and on one of their trips they are arrested.

1987

Two Girls from Egypt

Two Girls from Egypt 2010

5.40

The struggle of two women who face many events and the psychological and sociological aspects of being unmarried yet of marrying age in the context of an Eastern society where women are expected to be part of a man's household.

2010