My Favourite Arabic Films
The favourite Arabic films I have ever seen
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- StarsAmr YoussefAmina KhalilAhmed DawoodIn the 1950s, Ali arrives at the Grand Hotel to investigate the disappearance of his sister. He gets a job and falls in love with the daughter of the owner Nazly. The story takes a twist when he discovers secrets hidden in the Grand Hotel.
- StarsAhmed MekkyMohamed SallamDonia Samir GhanemThe mayor of Al-Mazareeta, a small town in upper Egypt, met an American woman and had twins with her.
- StarsMenna ShalabiAsser YassinSawsan Badr"Layla" a girl with mysterious past forced to live with "Emad" a mentally challenged man in his house while a series of violent crimes happens every Friday.
- DirectorKhaled MareiStarsAhmed HelmyEdwardAimi Samir GhanemA 30-year-old Egyptian goes back to Egypt after living in America for 20 years, but he has a hard time coping with the difference, especially after he loses his identity and all his money and becomes stuck in Egypt.
- StarsMona ZakiMohamed MamdouhAdriano CarvalhoA miscalculated adventure turns a married couple's life upside down.. Each one of them walks a different road until they cross paths again at an unexpected crossroads.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAhmed El SakkaHind SabriAmr WakedWitnessing the killing of his father as a kid, Ibrahim is dragged to the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself, he meets Abdul-Malek Zarzur, the crime lord of the town.
- StarsEssam OmarArefa Abdul RasoulMariam El GendyA young doctor, newly graduated, suddenly finds himself in a dilemma he can't escape from.
- DirectorSherif ArafaSherif ArafaYehia HassaneinStarsAdel EmamYoussraKamal El-ShinnawiA family man frustrated by bureaucracies of Egyptian public system as well as difficulties of life finds himself inadvertently accused of terrorism.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsAhmed El SakkaHanan TurkAmr WakedThis Egyptian action film is about Tito (Ahmad Al Saqa), who was sentenced to 16 years in jail after a burglary when he was a kid. After he gets out, he goes back to crime with a corrupt police officer (Khaled Saleh), but also befriends Fares (Amr Waked), and the two open up a unique restaurant. Fares introduces Tito to Nour (Hanan Turk), a physician, and they fall in love, and Tito tries to leave his life of crime.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineKhaled YoussefStarsKhaled SalehMenna ShalabiYoussef El SherifEgyptian movie deals with the issue of corruption in Egypt and the Egyptian police excesses, embodies all of this in the character of the police officer, "Hatem".
- DirectorAhmed El GendyStarsMohamed MamdouhMohammed TharwatAkram HosnyFueled by anger after getting fired from his bank job, a lazy banker (Saleh) joins forces with his co-worker (Amr) and their weird friend (Ze'ro) by turning to robbery in order to fulfill their dreams. But, when they turn their master scheme to rob the bank into action, things take an unexpected turn. Little did they know that a plan is only as clever as the brains behind it.
- StarsMona ZakiDiabAhmad Khaled SalehFollowing the death of her husband, a mother of two is forced to confront a patriarchal society to keep custody of her children-even if it means becoming a fisherwoman.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsMervat AminAhmed ZakiAbdel Halim HafezWhen Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.
- DirectorHala KhalilStarsMenna ShalabiAmeer Salah EldinAhmed RatebEvery day Nawara goes to work along a path that takes her between the alleys of the poor neighborhood and the roads that lead to the villas within a luxury compound. Every day, on her way to work, she carries the worries of the people in her neighborhood and their simple dreams. Little does she know that the spring of 2011 will bring her something unexpected.
- DirectorAhmad Nader GalalStarsAhmed HelmyLaila Ezz El ArabMahmood El-FishawiA guy lives the same day over and over and deals with the same events each time which changes the way he looks to his life.
- DirectorTarek AlarianStarsHani SalamaHala ShehaAhmed HelmyA divorced young man happens to fall in love. The couple faces problems, as the young man does not want to settle down, she thinks he is a flirt, they break up, and events follows.
- DirectorAmr ArafaStarsAdel EmamDalia El BehairyAhmed RatebAfter 25 years working overseas. Sherif Khairy, Adel Emam, returns home to find out that the Israeli Embassy in Egypt took over the building he used to live in.
- StarsNour El-SherifAbla KamelSoheir El-BarouniThe son of a big-time,self-made merchant revolts against his rich father and tries to break away from him to prove that he can be equally successful in his own way.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiMahmoud Abdel AzizMamdouh Abd El AleemA simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long.
- DirectorMoataz El TonyStarsAhmed FahmyChicoHesham MagedThe film revolves around three young men who face many problems and crises in their lives from unemployment to marriage plans and achieve their targets.
- DirectorWael IhsanStarsHassan HosnyGhadah AdelKarim Abdel AzizThe main themes in the movie are how money and lack of parental guidance can spoil and drive children to the dark side of the world. It also highlights the state of educational institutes these days that mainly concentrate on revenue more than education and morals. Police receives information about the illegal behavior of a group of students in one of the investment universities and that they deal in drugs. One of the police Generals Azmy sets a plan to catch those students by implanting an unknown lieutenant Bassiouny among those students to know the secret of drug dealing and arrest them. As the movie goes on we see the day& night life of this corrupted group that consists of four friends: Ingy the stylish girl whose main interest in life is fashion lines, Maya whose main interest is to love and be loved by any man, Hamza the singer and Tarek (Mohamed Ragab) the possessive leader and brain of the gang. In spite of their different characters the common thing between them is drugs, corruption and night parties. Bassiouny gets involved with this group falls in love with Ingy and emotionally attached with the rest of the group as he feels pity for their circumstances that drove them to this way of life. Finally Bassiouny arrests the real drug dealers whom we find out that they are the managers of the university!
- StarsHind SabriSawsan BadrAhmed Fouad SelimA young pharmacist from a middle class family hopes to get married before turning thirty.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsMaged El-KidwaniMenna ShalabiKhaled El-SawiSamir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life.
- DirectorWael IhsanStarsMaged El-KidwaniEyad NassarSawsan BadrA re-imagining of the 2002 al-Ayyat train incident in Egypt which took the lives of over 360 passengers and civilians, depicting some of the problems that spread out in the Egyptian society this days.
- DirectorNader GalalStarsAdel EmamSalah ZulfikarSherineAli Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Isalmic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan,the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality,such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.