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- Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.
- A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.
- As her blue-blooded mother lies on her deathbed, Sue has to confront her painful past during an inner journey leading her back to Egypt and the woman she left behind.
- A British couple living in Romania try to survive as Europe is engulfed in World War II.
- Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- Michael Palin attempts to copy the exploits of fictional character Phileas Fogg, by trying to travel around the world (without flying) in 80 days.
- J.P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and stepfather, but now J.P. feels capable of taking them. Emotional tragedy strikes, causing battles parent against parent, and parent against child. J.P. tries to show his children that he loves them.
- On a lazy Athenian Sunday, a young and fresh saleswoman loses her soon-to-be winning lottery ticket, only to meet its handsome new owner. Of course, she wants it back; however, what if fortune and ardent Cupid are already on her doorstep?
- A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
- Khaled returns from USA to his mother's funeral at his hometown: Alexandria, Egypt. He decides to make it a fresh new start even if it meant mending his first love story yet it proved a horrific failure. Khaled clashed big time with a changing more conservative Alexandria but He also stumbles upon fresh youth struggling for their under-ground music bands, art and ideas. in the middle of all the confusion, Will it ever all makes sense at the end? A question for the youth and the city to answer.
- The life of neighbors from the mid class in Cairo, each of them have a life that's shared and their secret lives
- A story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradition and modernization in the context of fighting the French invaders.
- After getting engaged to a Lebanese actor, an Egyptian fashion designer rushes to Alexandria to cover up the lies she fed him. But unresolved family issues derail her plan.
- A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.
- In Italy, a vacationing Englishman leaves his girlfriend for a wealthy mysterious American widow who's sailing the seas in search of her long-lost sailor friend.
- A rookie gangster takes part in a criminal operation and screws up, so his enemies come after him for revenge.
- Lawyer tries to unveil the mysterious murder and linked emotionally with his Client, and soon the case to reveal more and more surprises.
- Baleigh Aboelhanna, a failed businessman leaves Europe and returns to Egypt seeking his family inheritance to pay his debts only to discover that his family is divided and a mystery behind the death of his brothers which he tries to solve.
- Amir is a reckless Naval Academy student trying so hard to impress the father of the girl he loves, who happens to be his academic professor and neighbor.
- Ali believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. Ali, his goat and his friend Ibrahim embark on a journey of friendship and self-discovery across Egypt to reverse the curse.
- A young physician involved with a male nurse and an ambulance driver and there problems, accelerating the pace of events by abduction of Minister of Health.
- He (Sherif Mounir) returns from Europe after inheriting from his former boss, bringing the curse that killed his boss' family to his family's doorstep.
- A girl thief pretending to be a nanny so she can steal a rich man's house but his 6 children made her lose her mind.
- Katkout is the saeedi (southern Egyptian) version of El-Limby with a much lower IQ. The film starts with Katkout preparing to be killed by another family in Upper Egypt for some absurd, unclear reason that neither Katkout nor the audience can fully comprehend. Later on, he is rescued by a bunch of cops who transport him to Cairo in order to prepare him for a mission involving national security. It turns out that Katkout possesses an uncanny physical resemblance to a terrorist named Youssef Khoury who was preparing for a terrorist attack before he was haunted down by our always dependable police forces. After being set up for the assignment, we learn that a crooked terrorist organization, of unidentifiable nationality, is preparing to bomb Egypt's subway
- Ez (Khaled Abol Naga) has a complex regarding Drugs and violence after he almost kills a guy in a fight while high on hash, His escape trip to his Family deserted retreat in Agami proves to be more than just a trip to clear the mind and start writing his first movie script.. It gradually becomes a life changing experience full of emotions and decisions including his divorcing his wife when she decides to visit! and a whole action packed search for a new found unexpected and uninvited friends (Shagloof) (Sherif Ramzy), Balala (Amr Mamdouh) and others ... its a whole new found life for Ez that includes a tough decision to be violent at least one more time to save his new friends.. to save the new life he found, the new Ez!..
- With the guidance of her relentless coach, a teen weightlifter emerges from a scrappy training camp in Egypt to compete at the championship level.
- Three friends from Alexandria singing in the popular Wedding accuse someone of murder and trying to prove his innocence in order to be able to marry his fiancee.
- Taha is a failure man, he is fired from all jobs he did suddenly he find himself working with dangerous gang and becomes the leader of it.
- Maowid ala Ashaa is a 1981 Egyptian romance film, starring Soad Hosni and Ahmed Zaki. The life story of a beautiful and pure woman, interested of the very little things with a great sensibility.
- Mansour El Hefny returns to El Gezira after 10 years of imprisonment to find that a lot of things have changed and he must fight to get back what once was his.
- A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.
- A documentary that captures fragments of the lives of the Egyptian Jewish community in the first half of the twentieth century until their second grand exodus after the tripartite attack of 1956. An attempt to understand the change in the identity of the Egyptian society that turned from a society full of tolerance and acceptance of one another to a rejection of the minorities. How did the Jews of Egypt turn in the eyes of Egyptians from partners in the same country to enemies?
- From its beginnings in 331 BC when it was founded by Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria has played a leading role on the stage of history. Alexandria was at the crossroads of the ancient world and became its cultural and intellectual capital. Yet most of its splendor appeared to have been lost. This documentary follows the marine archaeology team of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities, organized by Ibrahim Darwich and French archaeologist Franck Goddio, as they discover, in the shallow waters just off the coast of Alexandria, numerous massive granite columns and blocks inscribed in hieroglyphics indicating the ruins of the Royal quarters of the ruling Ptolomies, and relics of Cleopatra's palace.
- Loosely based on the life of Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis.
- A guy wakes up in hotel with dead man's body and he can't remember anything. He then finds out that police looking for him.
- When Hala and Omar are interrogated for a murder investigation, they're prompted to recall how their relationship began as an affair.
- a businessman tries to collect his dept (5million) to a big criminal in only five days.
- A guy falls off his chair and stay down for a while thinking about his existence and the meaning of it.
- As the 19th century draws to a close, the politically disgraced Mahmoud Abd El Zahir takes up his post as District Commissioner of the remote and dangerous Egyptian oasis of Siwa with his Irish wife Catherine , knowing he has no choice.
- First episode of Mafrouza, a 5-part film, dedicated to the Mafrouza (a shantytown built inside the antique necropolis of Alexandria), Mafrouza - Oh Night! shows the first entering in the neighborhood. An archaeological visit leads us to meet a few people, taking the time to be really close to them. Each encounter reveals a new novel. And we discover how people survive daily, with an incredible strength for life and a crazy capacity for happiness, that enables them to grin and bear the harshness of the materials conditions.This first discovery of the Mafrouza universe is an opportunity to undermine the clichés frequently stated upon this region of the world. But the discovery also leads us to question the way we ourselves live here in Europe (or elsewhere).
- Rose, Flora and Yasmin were born as a triplet sixty something years ago in Alexandria, Egypt. Their well-off parents gave them names of flowers, and King Farouk of Egypt gave them his blessing. Today, in Israel, they live together in an apartment without men and without children. Flora has just retired from her work as a midwife, Yasmin awaits a kidney transplant, and Rose, once a successful singer, is wrapped in silence since the death of her husband. One after the other, the three sisters come to "This is your life," a place where people recount their memoirs, in order to tell their life story to Rucha (Rachel), Rose's only daughter, and talk about their symbiotic relationship. They are also searching for the long lost son of one of them who was given away for adoption under mysterious circumstances. During this period their lives and that of Rucha will change dramatically. Hidden ghosts will slowly appear, forcing the three sisters to confront the secrets and lies, and seek forgiveness. At the end of the journey into the past, after they redeem themselves, the sisters will embark on a new journey, to Alexandria, where Yasmin will undergo her kidney transplant and Rucha, who regained her own memories, will be able to start a new life.
- Hassounah and Zaghlool are two poor freshmen who came newly from the country to start their higher learning in Alexandria university. After staying for a while in their greedy relative's house, they find themselves in the street. Forced to look for an affordable place to live in, they decide to disguise as two student girls in order to gain access to the young girls' dorm owned by Hamdi who likes to rent his place for gorgeous young student girls to be able to hunt them for himself when he gets the chance. However, the presence of Zaghlool and Hassounah disguised as Bahirah and Shahirah blocks his plans and produce a very funny consequences.
- Marawan Kilany is a paralyzed ex-Boxer who is suffering from depression ,till he was introduced to the hobby of reading.
- Two teenagers, Nadia and Yehia, suffer from severe depression as a result of taking multiple medications to relieve their psychological pain. They imagine each other's presence in the same house but in parallel worlds, where each of them imaginatively imagines the other as a symbol of happiness and tranquility instead of the loneliness and separation that fill each other's being. Both Yehia and Nadia are afraid to talk to each other in reality, despite how much they need each other. The dance is the first step of their healing process,
- Bakheet and Adeela are desperately trying to find an apartment before they can get married although their poor conditions are preventing them. They decide to improve their financial situation by joining the People's Assmebly elections and voice the concerns of the less fortunate citizens, they encounter many obstacles by their rich and corrupted rivals.
- Hussein is a disgruntled youth working as a wedding entertainer to save enough money to marry the girl next door. However the girl next door is sick of waiting and decides to marry a man who came back from work abroad.
- An odd assortment of treasure hunters ventures out into the Egyptian desert and find a "lost" tomb only to start fighting over the spoils. Larry Anderson.