Movies

Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the Prophet Muhammad.

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and...

Curious noises in the Arabian desert signal an attack by bizarre phantom-like raiders of gold who are in search of their Queen. A relocated Hercules...

A journalist investigates a newspaper story of the execution of an Arab princess.

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian...

Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.

An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.

An archaeologist is in danger because of his discoveries.

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born...

Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to...

The story of three liars: Zaghloul the lorry driver who is mistaken by a gang as their own driver, Marhabawy who takes a truth serum that reveals all...

Ahmed lives with his family, but he faces many problems with his father, who is cruel and wants to force him to study engineering against his will....

A girl searches for happiness, so she resorts to marrying a rich man to fulfill her ambitions, and leaves her poor lover. She discovers that he is an...

Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student...

This 1968 film adaptation of Yahya Haqqi's 1943 novel "The Lamp of Om Hashem" explores the liminal space between the modern and traditional worlds....

A man lives with a former belly dancer who has agreed to marry him, even if she prefers his older brother.

Ahmed leaves the town after his boss refuses to marry his daughter to him, but his father's passing forces him to go back and deal with unexpected...

Ashraf Hamdi works as a supporting actor, and lives a peaceful life, but he leaves his only friend Saeed and his lover and colleague Faiza on the day...

1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk...

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...