Najeeb Mahfouz

Based on the Nobel Prize Winner's novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood and the connection between them (imdb)

A black slave who's won his freedom to marry the woman he loves embarks on adventures with her.

Dgamilah or Jamila, an Algerian girl who loves her homeland,will join the patriotic movement of her country to liberate her homeland from the french soldiers who occupy her country. (imdb)

Abu Zeid is a strong personality, emotions do not interfere with his life and decisions. He soon discovers Haridi is plotting his murder on the eve of his wedding night.

Egypt before the July revolution. A powerful man uses the needs of two people, a woman he made his mistress, and a man he makes her husband as a cover for their relationship.

In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people representing the whole of Egyptian society - among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman - find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.

Essa is ambitious and intelligent. Nothing seems to deter the enthusiastic members of the nationalist movement of a glorious career.But after the 1952 revolution he feels alienated from the new regime and emphasized his renunciation by starting a relationship with a prostitute.

The Hunger portrays a village, that suffers under the reign of a greedy local tyrant and his thugs. He taxes the villagers and makes mean affairs with the rich merchants. The people long for the situation in former times, when the just and wise Fadl Gebaly ruled the village. Then Farag, an extremely strong wagoner, kills the tyrant in a fight, and by law this makes him the new ruler. Farag sympathizes with his fellow-villagers, mainly thanks to the advices of his (half)brother Gaber.

Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life. (imdb)

In an archetypal Egyptian neighborhood, Taha works hard to put aside enough money to marry his beloved Khadija, but when the necessary funds suddenly become available there is an unexpected turn of events. The life of the entire neighborhood is turned upside down and the true colors of its inhabitants are revealed. (FilmAffinity)

Depicts the life paths of Ahmed Abdul Jawad's family during the English occupation and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution. This includes the head of the family who deals harshly with his family, while he lives a life of dissipation; his son Fahmi, who joins a secret political organization, and his oldest son who follows in the footsteps of his father in his womanizing.

After the death of the father, the family consisting of a mother and two young men and a girl themselves without a breadwinner finds, to begin each of them in the direction to a different path, to err on the older brother (Hassan) to work drug, and graduated (Hussein) East of the Police College, while working (Nafisa) prostitution without the knowledge family, to hide them from the fate of many surprises. (imdb)

After four years in prison, the young thief Said Mahran comes out of jail & seeks revenge against those who betrayed him: his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to turn him into the police. They are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him and his mentor Rauf Ilwan. (farnas)

The film revolves around a period of economic openness and its impact on Egyptian society seen through the richness of one pickpocket, and an officer who seeks to trap him. (Wikipedia)

In Egypt, a group of university students were arrested without comitting a crime because of their meetings at the cafe "Karnak", which was known for hosting some thinkers who sometimes criticize the 1952 revolution. (imdb)

A young couple struggles to makes ends meet in Cairo.