Youssef Chahine

31 de out. de 2007

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offe...

04 de set. de 2002

Em meio às Cruzadas, o sultão do Egito e da Síria inicia uma campanha para retomar Jerusalém.

25 de fev. de 1963

Na caótica estação central de Cairo, o humilde vendedor de jornais Qinawi se apaixona por Hannuma, uma mulher de espírito livre que dribla as autor...

31 de jul. de 1958

20 de dez. de 1995

Depois de passar doze anos na prisão, o ativista político Ali volta para casa. Sua família espera ansiosamente por ele, com esperança de que os vá ...

24 de set. de 1976

Morando na Alexandria em meio à dura realidade da Segunda Guerra, o adolescente Yehia se retira para um mundo de fantasia. Obcecado por Hollywood, ...

23 de ago. de 1979

Averroes defendeu no século XII que não havia nenhum conflito entre a fé e a razão, irritando uma seita de muçulmanos extremistas defensores do irr...

18 de ago. de 1997

O jovem engenheiro agrícola Ahmed ajuda os agricultores a produzir melhores colheitas de cana de açúcar, e sua nova prosperidade preocupa o latifun...

01 de mar. de 1954

Yehia, um famoso diretor egípcio, fica obcecado pela sua jovem estrela, Amir, enquanto participa da greve geral de 1987. Fantasiando sobre os filme...

04 de dez. de 1989

Uma aldeia rural egípcia tenta, sem sucesso, manter o acesso à sua água. Informados de que só podem irrigar suas terras alguns dias por mês, vários...

26 de jan. de 1970

Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention even ...

28 de nov. de 2007

Um estudante se envolve com uma ousada jornalista e precisa enfrentar a oposição da mãe manipuladora e do cunhado extremista, que farão de tudo par...

26 de mai. de 1999

Ram abandona a vida nômade e embarca em uma jornada de conhecimento em meio aos conflitos políticos do Egito faraônico. Baseado em uma história bíb...

26 de set. de 1994

Hamidah trabalha num navio e planeja se casar com o primo Ragab, que é obrigado a se ausentar por muito tempo. Enquanto ele está fora, Hamidah se a...

16 de jan. de 1956

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of...

09 de dez. de 1958

17 de mai. de 1985

Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he...

10 de jan. de 1951

The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, w...

27 de nov. de 1978

Enquanto passa por uma cirurgia cardíaca, Yehia reflete sobre a vida, transformando seu coração no tribunal que vai julgá-lo por seus erros.

27 de set. de 1982

26 de ago. de 1974

An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egypti...

21 de mai. de 2004

A brother disagrees with his sister which makes her move to live with her older sister in the countryside. She finds her sister living a harsh life...

05 de fev. de 1953

Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist cal...

06 de out. de 2001

Renegotiating the representational paradigm of nationhood the film draws a heterogeneous picture of Egyptian society as well as Soviet workers as t...

01 de jan. de 1968

A cantora Fikria é casada com Farid, um homem consumido pela sua paixão pelo jogo. Durante uma viagem de trem, ela tem um acidente. Ao voltar para ...

28 de ago. de 1952

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a...

29 de set. de 1986

When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison ...

15 de mar. de 1971

Navy officer Wahid arrives in a military hospital, with a kidney failure, his days are numbered. The inmates try to cheer him up , while his nurse ...

29 de out. de 1956

The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years b...

20 de nov. de 1977

The story deals with an upscale family that is down on its luck. As the butcher Madbouly foots the bills for the entire family, the authoritative B...

27 de jan. de 1960

As Hamdy fights with a fisherman and kills him in front of his daughter, he goes to prison as the fisherman's daughter goes blind. After his releas...

21 de jun. de 1961

The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.

17 de jan. de 1972

The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. Sh...

10 de fev. de 1964

O amável Amin leva uma vida humilde com sua esposa e filhos. Depois de ser enganado com um investimento duvidoso, a família perde sua estabilidade ...

20 de nov. de 1950

This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic ...

21 de set. de 1991

O jovem beduíno Essam descobre a tirania do governante de sua tribo e decide derrubá-lo. Para isso, ele se infiltra na corte real, conquista a conf...

27 de dez. de 1954

Beautiful dancer Warda finds herself homeless. She finds a job at a cotton ginning plant. She loves Abdo who runs the plant, and she kills the elde...

20 de out. de 1960

In a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility, invents the mystical figure of Rajeh, and tells stories to ...

02 de jan. de 1965

Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance, provided that the two get married. They decide to ge...

17 de set. de 1957

Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata...

21 de abr. de 1952

A young employee tries to cover for his colleague, whom he loves, after he discovers that she embezzled money from the company they work in. As he ...

15 de set. de 1959

Tarek loves his cousin Zubaida and travels to Spain to work in bullfighting under a pseudonym. Zubaida comes to Spain in search of her lover, but d...

01 de jan. de 1971