Homosexuality in Egyptian cinema
افلام المثلية الجنسية فى السينما المصرية
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- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorSamir SeifStarsAmr WakedHanan TurkSari Al NagarThe journey of an electricity inspector "Amr Waked" whose job duties obliges him to meet various types and levels of people.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsMohamed El ArabiShams El-BarudyFayez HalawaAhmed (Muhammad Al-Araby) from Ismalia come to Cairo looking for work. Promise of richness is really far from reality of life. Ahmed falls in love with Naeema, a prostitute. And then there is Raouf Bey who is gay and fell in love with him.
- DirectorHadi El BagouryStarsHani SalamaBasmaRania YoussefAbdullah is a single young Interior Designer Engineer whose many relationships with women have steered him off the right path. He's trying to choose a life partner from among four women, for each of whom he feels a strong attraction for a different reason: Dr. Farida (Rania Youssef) is married to a businessman but represent the forbidden passion for Abdullah because they're having an affair; Maryam (Yasmin Raes) represents the ideal mother for his future children, and she's trying her best to get him to marry her; his close friend Nadine (Basma) is trying to be more than a friend to him after divorcing his friend and workmate Fady (Amr Yousef); and finally, Amira (Kinda Alloush), with whom he was in love years before, but she refused to marry him because they were of different religions, as spotted heuristic role of the mother (Zizi Badrawi) prominent in the life of her son and trying to persuade him to marry and assisted by his friend.
- DirectorDaoud Abdel SayedStarsAsser YassinBasmaMayy KassabA man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsYoussraYoussef ChahineHussein FahmyDuring a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Yehia, a famous Egyptian director, finds himself obsessed with Amir, the leading man in one of his movies, and Nadia, a woman he desires to work with.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiFarid ShawqiYehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsSeif AbdelrahmanAhmed KamalAbla KamelNoubi, an avowed communist from a wealthy family, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal after Gamal inherits his father's fortune. In the process, Noubi is supposed to kill his stepmother Raifa, a supposed drug dealer, before she can kill Gamal.
- DirectorSamir SeifStarsNour El-SherifIbrahim KhanPoussi
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsFaten HamamahAhmad MazharShukri Sarhan
- DirectorKhaled YoussefStarsAmr SaadSomaya El KhashabAmr Abdulgalilthe movie discuss the people of random areas in Egypt and the unjust from the government toward these people
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsAhmad Mohamad AhmadChohdi SrourMenha BatraouiThe struggle of Aristocratic family after the political desicisons taken in the 60's era of Egypt. Yasser is the grandchild whose parents are getting a divorce due to this struggle. A journey inside the family and the major changes due to Moral and Political ideologys.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsMahmoud YassineMadiha KamelGamil Ratib"Climbing to the Bottom" was based on the true story of a spy named Heba Selim who worked for the Mossad along with her fiance where both of them provided the Israelis with Egypt's military secrets in the post-1967 war era. Saleh Morsi's adaptation of the real events was superb as viewers were able to understand the motives for the ambitious Abla Kamel to commit treason against her country in order to seek a better life in France. One of the most powerful lines in the film was mentioned by the Intelligence Officer (played by actor Mahmoud Yassine) who shows Abla - after her arrest at a Tunisian airport - an aerial view of the Pyramids and the Nile River as if he was giving her a lecture on the history of the country that she had betrayed.
- DirectorAli Abdel-KhalekStarsMadiha KamelFifi AbdoFayza AbduljawadThe hard life of new prisoner behind the prison's walls,and drug trafficking that led many of them to fall addicts