Looking for Troubles

Looking for Troubles 1975

5.80

Shaaban, a magazine photographer, is hired to secretly photograph a heist between two rival gangs. When he tries to keep part of the money, he becomes a target for both sides.

1975

The Liar

The Liar 1975

8.00

When Hamdy publishes an investigative report condemning the owner of a textile company and accusing him of embezzlement and bribery, the owner tries to clear his name by getting the factory workers and Hamdy to change their testimony.

1975

Omar Al Azrak

Omar Al Azrak 2017

1

The story follows a drug dealer's long journey until he became a major trader who has many enemies in the market. When a number of competing traders bloc to eliminate him, he decides to escape from this trap.

2017

18 Days

18 Days 2011

6.88

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

2011

Night’s Doors

Night’s Doors 1969

1

Salama falls into the clutches of a criminal who falsifies securities, as his financial condition is difficult. He makes a great fortune. He withdraws from the life of his cousin, who loves him, because he cannot confront her, as she represents his honorable past for him.

1969

Stranger In My House

Stranger In My House 1982

6.33

Shehata Abu Kaff, goes to Cairo to play for Zamalek club. The club buys him an apartment, but the owner sells the apartment to him and to another lady.

1982

Life Suits Me Well

Life Suits Me Well 2021

6.30

Mid-1990s, little town in Morocco and seemingly ordinary family. Fouad is dedicated to his work in local postal services. He is climbing the signal posts and tries to keep people’s connections running. He radiates warmth and is the soul of his family and local community. Until one day, his health begins to deteriorate and his mind starts to fade. Each day, his neurological disease gets worse and paralyzes his physical and mental health. Loved ones of Fouad are facing the challenge of reconciling the changing family dynamics and a fading life.

2021

Madame Shalatta

Madame Shalatta 1986

5.00

Najwa, a student, is involved in a relationship with a colleague of hers, so she seduces his mother's husband's shalatah to marry her, but she goes to prison for his suspicious activity and confiscates his money and Najwa loses the way.

1986

Streets of Fire

Streets of Fire 1984

8.00

In the 1940s, the policeman Imam moves to Cairo to work in an area devoted to prostitution. There he falls in love with the prostitute Nusse who works with the bully Jalal without knowing that she is practicing this profession. He is defended by an imam who beats an English soldier who tries to intercept her and assault her. He is tried and dismissed from service, then returns to live in the neighborhood and look for work, and becomes a pimp, a quarrel between him and Jalal al-Fatwa. Each trying to prove his strength and impose his power.

1984

Bird in the sky

Bird in the sky 1988

1

Hassan Musica is a poor young man who lives in a cemetery. He meets by chance the daughter of an Egyptian millionaire who lives in the United States of America. She comes to visit her mother's grave and learns that she is sick and needs a kidney transplant.

1988

In the Ninth Month

In the Ninth Month 2002

1

The legend of The Sack Man, a mysterious figure who roams at night, stealing babies and selling them to the Zionist jews, is making the tensions rise in the city of Araba after a child has gone missing. Ahmed, who's brother was deported to Lebanon by the Israeli authorities, is the main suspect. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Ahmed must navigate protecting his son, his family, and his secrets.

2002

The Blue Elephant 2

The Blue Elephant 2 2019

7.60

A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

2019

Fidaï

Fidaï 2014

1

A seventy-year-old veteran of the Algerian War of Independence speaks about his years of struggle as an underground soldier for the National Liberation Front.

2014

%8

%8 2013

5.00

A comedy about three singers who form a local band, performing in small concerts. In one of their shows in a school, a kidnapping happens and the band is accused of the crime. Situations unfold as the band manager tries to get them out of their dilemma.

2013

Mawad maa al-qadar

Mawad maa al-qadar 1986

1

The doctor (Medhat) returns from abroad after obtaining the doctorate, works at the hospital of Dr. (Adham), and progresses for the sermon (Nadia), the daughter of Dr. (Adham); causing (Ilham) the nurse; who loves him madly, to collapse.

1986

Whatever You Do, It's Always That Way

Whatever You Do, It's Always That Way 1982

5.00

Ezzat and Hassan are friends and co-workers. Hassan admires Soad but he can't tell her about his feelings because of his shyness. He asks his friend Ezzat to tell her instead, but things don't go as expected. Ezzat also receives letters from an unknown person threatening to kill him.

1982

Questioning

Questioning 1996

1

Corruption in administrations dealt with by comedy.

1996

200 Meters

200 Meters 2020

6.76

Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.

2020

Verdict at hearing's end

Verdict at hearing's end 1985

1

The lawyer, Buthaina, reveals for the descriptions of her brother's wife, Saeed, that the disease of madness is rampant in her father's family. Hammam is opening the descriptions of her husband's desire to get rid of the fetus. She is a doctor. She conducts the operation on the advice of her teacher. Her husband revolts against her, Hammam submits a report against her because of the crime of abortion, and Buthaina decides to defend her brother's wife.

1985

The Fair

The Fair 1989

5.00

The child (Barakat) from his mother gets lost in the crowd of the birth, to be kidnapped by the seller (Ali al-Araj) and taken to his home and called (Ibrahim), to grow up in an environment of all criminality, and involved working with a smuggling gang, and travel with them to Greece to carry out an operation, to change his life .

1989