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Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

NR
| 3h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 1,261 votes)

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

Wanted: Dead or Alive(1987)

R
| 1h 44min | Action, Crime
3.0/5 (with 44 votes)

Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rahim. However, Malak Al Rahim is also looking for Randall, and Randall's employers tell him where to find him. This results in the death of his best friend, Sgt. Danny Quintz, and his girlfriend, Terry, eventually forcing a showdown on the waterfront.

A Prophet(2009)

R
| 2h 35min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 660 votes)

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

Bittersweet(2010)

3.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Masry el Araby is an American-Egyptian citizen who travels back to his home town (in Egypt) after living in the US for 20 years. He has this idea of Egypt being a wonderful and amazing country, but the idea soon crashes as he faces reality. After arriving in Egypt, Masry is treated badly when he uses his Egyptian Passport. But then when he starts using his American Passport as an identification card, he is paid with a lot of respect. He faces many problems as he loses both passports.

Directed by Khaled Marei - With Ahmad Helmi, Ahmed Rateb

Bye Bye London(1982)

2h 50min | Comedy, TV Movie
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A comedy about an old married man that travels to London with his nephew who does his to save him from exposure to fraud, and being mugged in London, the play also covers some political aspects and projections in addition to social criticism of some of the Arab situations.

Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End(2008)

3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.

Hideous Kinky(1998)

R
| 1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 38 votes)

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

Towelhead(2008)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 61 votes)

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.

Tarek's Situation(2006)

3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show. A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.

Directed by Wael Ehsan - With Ahmad Helmi

The School of Mischief(1973)

4h 11min | Comedy
4.3/5 (with 10 votes)

This play is about a female teacher and how she transformed 5 rebellious students into model students.

Directed by Hossam Eddine Mostafa - With Nour El-Sherif, Mervat Amin, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Mehammad Awad, Samir Ghanem, George Sidhom, ...

The Yacoubian Building(2006)

2h 41min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.

Directed by Marwan Hamed - With Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Hend Sabry, Yousra, Mohamed Emam, Ahmed Rateb, ...

She Made Me a Criminal(2006)

3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

The movie is about a very naive young man, who wants to fix his house before it falls, but does not have the money, and rich girl who likes to spend money uncontrollably, whose father is scrooge, who would not give her access to her trust fund. In order to force her father to give her money, she stages a kidnapping with the assistance of her best friend and the naive young man, who ends up falling in love with her.

Directed by Amr Arafa - With Ahmad Helmi
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The Witness Who Didn't See Anything(1976)

3h 37min | Drama, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

An Egyptian comedy play about an innocent, clueless and naive young man who is asked to stand as a witness on a murder trial of a belly dancer who lived downstairs from his apartment.

Can’t Complain(2007)

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A comedy about triplet brothers with only one birth certificate.

Directed by Ahmad Nader Galal - With Ahmad Helmi

X-Large(2011)

3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

Magdy is searching for true love, so when he finds his childhood friend Dina on Facebook he tries to get closer to her. He is afraid that she would refuse him as he is very obese. So on their first meeting he told her that he is Magdy's cousin.

A Summer in La Goulette(1996)

1h 29min | Drama, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

Escaping Tel Aviv(2009)

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Salwa is living her worst nightmare when she wakes up to find herself in Israel, kidnapped by her husband whom she later learns is a Mossad officer. An Egyptian officer is recruited by the General Intelligence Directorate to save her and her children.

Directed by Sherif Arafa - With Karim Abdelaziz

A Break We'll Be Right Back(2011)

2h | Drama
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A story of a taxi driver, who cares for nothing in the world except his friend and his son whose grandfather tries to be his guardian after his mother dies, but Karim refuses and get a court ruling that supports his right to his son. The plot escalates when the boy is kidnapped and Karim loses his memory in a seemingly planned accident.

Directed by Ahmad Nader Galal - With Karim Abdelaziz, Ahmed Rateb

Haha we Tofaha(2005)

1h 44min | Comedy, Adventure
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

In a house the popular area, Abdeen, live Haha and his sister, Tuffaha, Haha works as "Nubachi" whose duty is to collect gift money thrown at belly dancers, at wedding parties, from under the dancers, while Tuffaha works as a nurse in a hospital. A conflict arises between them about who gets to keep the family home, as Haha wants to get married a live in it, and Tuffaha is in love with Fawzi, a gas cylinder mobile salesman, and wants to marry him and live in family home, but Haha disapproves this relationship.

Directed by Akram Farid - With Yasmin Abdelaziz

Omar & Salma(2007)

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Story of Omar, son of a wealthy business man, who was in a relationship with a model, Farah, and decided to forget her after a fight with her manager in a club with whom she cheated on him. His friend introduces him to Salma, a new colleague who recently moved to the university, she had a hard past when her ex boyfriend who cheated on her with her mother and he has to do his best to win her heart.

Directed by Akram Farid - With Tamer Hosny, Mai Ezz Eldin, Mais Hamdan, Ezzat Abou Aouf, Marwa Abdel Moneim, Mustafa Haridi, ...

For Bread Alone(2004)

1h 30min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Inspired by the life of the Novel's Author Mohamed Choukri , For Bread Alone or El khoubz El Hafi , is one of the truest manifestations of the dark history that Morocco went through during and after the French and the Spanish occupation of the country, from famine and plagues to the Berber migration .Also, it reveals Morocco's rituals and religious practices at that time.

Directed by Rachid Benhadj - With Rachid Benhadj, Saïd Taghmaoui, Daniel Ducruet, Marzia Tedeschi, Sanâa Alaoui

H Dabbour(2008)

2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Film is in the form of satire, movie review the crises facing the Egyptian people, particularly the suffering of the popular classes . Belongs "Haitham Daboor" Ahmed Mekki, a rich family, cares about trivial matters Fashion and multiple love relationships, but it is exposed to a variable in his life and his father is an entry prison on charges of false tries to save his father, Haitham, which leads him to shift from one person to another measly serious and committed and engaged seriously with life, and in the context of the events is in love with Haitham "Aroah", the daughter of his driver, a girl from the popular.

Directed by Ahmed El Gendy - With Ahmed Mekky

The Beach Loafer(2004)

2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

This hilarious comedy is about a young man, who like many young Egyptians, is going through the day to day struggle of being unemployed. He manages to get by with odd jobs here and there until he falls in love with a conservative girl who inspires him to build a more stable life.

Directed by Ali Ragab - With Ahmad Helmi, Ahmed Rateb

Alzheimer's(2010)

3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

Mahmoud Shuaib is a very wealthy man with two sons. He has Alzheimer's disease, which is starting to affect the way he spends his wealth. His two sons are worried that they may end up with nothing to inherit if their father keep this up, and attempt to take control of his estate through the court.

Directed by Amr Arafa - With Adel Emam, Ahmed Rateb

Lembi 8 Giga(2010)

1h 51min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Lembi.. a poor lawyer who marries a school teacher and he causes her troubles due to his bad financial status, and then he meets with an accident which changes the way he was living....

With Mehammad Saad

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?(2008)

PG-13
| 1h 33min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 25 votes)

Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) tours the Middle East to discuss the war on terror with Arabic people.

Directed by Morgan Spurlock - With Morgan Spurlock

Bewildered Bolbol(2010)

3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

Bulbul meets a successful aristocratic girl named Yasmine, but she's not the romantic type he dreams of, at the same time he admires his cousin Hala for her calmness and kindness. In the middle of all this, the psychiatrist Amal shows up and he thinks of getting engaged to her.

Directed by Khaled Marei - With Ahmad Helmi, Zeina

Ali Baba's Cinema(2011)

1h 58min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Inspired by the 1950s cinema screenings in Cairo's sha'abi quarters, this double feature includes a space odyssey and a farm animal protector.

Ellembi(2002)

3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

The effect of love on an irresponsible fellow.

Directed by Wael Ehsan - With Mehammad Saad

Captain Hima(2008)

2h
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

University graduate works as a school bus driver after failing to find a proper job, where he unexpectedly falls in love with a school teacher, who is the love interest of an evil businessman. Of course you don’t already know that she will be loving the "King of Generation", after all, who wouldn’t?

Directed by Nasr Mahrous - With Tamer Hosny, Ahmed Rateb
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