Yehia Chahine

Set in the Egypt during and after World War II, Youssef Chahine's autobiographical drama of his youth in Cairo is a bright, bustling mosaic of a country embroiled in conflict and struggling with its identity. Centered on the story of high school student Yehia Mourad (Mohsen Mohiedine), Chahine's cinematic alter ego, it's national history through a personal perspective and the first film autobiography ever in Egyptian cinema. (imdb)

A village in 1930's Egypt fights corrupt authorities.

Takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.

The story of Nadia Lotfi (Faten Hamama), a teenage girl raised by her father after her mother's untimely death. Her lifelong lack of a mother figure turns Nadia into a scheming troublemaker who causes problems at her boarding school. When she returns home, she learns that her father (Yehia Chahine) has re-married. Furious Nadia decides to set a plan in motion to get rid of her unsuspecting step-mother (Mariam Fakhr Eddine).

Movie about a teenage girl who decides to get married to an old rich man to break free from her controlling mother and to save the family name after loosing their fortune. But she discovers that her husband is a sick jealous man he locked her with 2 old weird sisters in a distant farmhouse After many years of suffering with her sick husband Aleya decides to leave him.

An unhappy village farmer goes to the city and ends up in the cross hairs of dreaded criminals.

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.

Sabreen is an orphan girl who grow up in the orphanage, by the time she is an adult she been assigned to work in one the big mansions in the countryside, the owner of the mansion hard hearted man called Murad but she gain his trust by time although she is surprised to find out that the mansion is full of sorrow and mystery, by time she finds out that there is a crazy woman who if confined to her room in the attic and she Murad's wife.