Banned Movies in Egyptian Cinema
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- DirectorSamir A. KhouriStarsEzzat El AlailiNahed SharifMuhsen SarhanFilmed in the style of such Hollywood action classics as Bullitt and The French Connection, the first image we see in Wolves Don't Eat Meat is through the scope of a rooftop sniper's rifle just before he makes a kill. A frantic chase through the streets of town follows as the assassin, Anwar, makes his getaway. Wounded and exhausted, Anwar stumbles into the home of a stranger where he is allowed to recuperate and his story unfolds. We learn that he was once an ambitious journalist who has been transformed into a slaughterer of men by the years of war, suffering and destruction he has witnessed around the world - starting with the massacre at Deir Yassin in Palestine. A message film about good vs. evil and the negative effects of violence, Wolves Don't Eat Meat nevertheless employs the trademark sex, violence and bloodshed popularized in Hollywood action films of the 1970s, a style that later influenced the films of directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone.ذئاب لاتاكل اللحم
- DirectorJocelyne SaabStarsHanan TurkMohamed MounirFathi AbdulwahhabAfter studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.دنيا
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsMagda El-KhatibAdel AdhamAhmed Al JaziriSet against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.ثرثرة فوق النيل
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsYoussraKhaled NabawyMahmoud HemidaRam leaves the nomadic life and embarks on a quest for knowledge in a pharaonic Egypt mired in political intrigue. Based on a biblical story.المهاجر
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsSalah QabilAli El SherifMahmoud Al MelejiSet shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.العصفور
- DirectorMohamed RadiStarsMahmoud YassineFarouk Al-FishawyKhaled Nabawy"Wall of Heroism," by Mohamed Rady, a war pic shot in 1998 but never released for political reasons.Heroism is about the lead-up to and the events of the Arab-Israeli October War in 1973 and has reportedly been banned by the orders of former president Hosni Mubarak.حائط البطولات
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.عمارة يعقوبيان
- DirectorTewfik SalehStarsShukri SarhanZizi MustafaShafik Nour El DinA sick doctor is admitted to an isolated sanatorium located in the middle of a desolate desert. As a patient, he becomes aware of the discrepancy that exists between the conditions of the privileged patients, who are well-treated, and the poor ones, who particularly suffer from a lack of water. With the help of the doctor, the poor patients rebel and undertake to restore justice and order in the hospital.المتمردون
- DirectorSamir SeifStarsAdel EmamNellyFarid ShawqiAdel (Adel Imam) a journalist in a major newspaper, divorced. One evening in one of the pubs frequented by Nashaat al-Kashif (Hatem Zulfiqar), the son of the well-known businessman Fahmi al-Kashif (Farid Shawqi), he kills Bari Morsi and hits the dancer Nadia after he refuses to live in his apartment. But Adel is able to reach Nadia, the only witness who actually makes her statement. She is brought to trial, while Adil falls in love with the television presenter, Nelly, the daughter of Fahmi al-Kashef from his old wife. He is innocently acquitted, and then Adel becomes frustrated To kill Fahmi al-Kashif by the middle of his men.الغول
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsShadiaMahmoud MoursyYehia ChahineBased on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' 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.شيىء من الخوف
- 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.البرىء
- 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.حمام الملاطيلى
- DirectorAhmed BadrakhanStarsFaten HamamahMagdaImad Hamdiالله معنا
- DirectorAli Badr KhanStarsFarid ShawqiSuad HusniNour El-SherifIn Egypt, a group of university students were arrested without comitting a crime because of their meetings at the cafe "Karnak", which was known for hosting some thinkers who sometimes criticize the 1952 revolution.الكرنك
- DirectorNader GalalStarsAdel EmamNadia El GendyFouad El-MohandesA policeman gets fired as he starts gotting problems at the Khamsa Bab bar and tries to help the girl who works there.خمسة باب
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsAdel EmamAbdel Moneim MadboulySaeed AbdulghaniAdel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.احنا بتوع الاتوبيس
- DirectorIbrahim EmarahStarsKamal El-ShinnawiAbbas FaresZaki Rostomمسمار جحا
- DirectorMamduh ShukryStarsMagda El-KhatibEzzat El AlailiMohamed Abu HashishRescue police receives a report on the killing of a leftist journalist in her apartment. The prosecutor moves to the scene of the incident and tries to reach the murderer.زائر الفجر
- DirectorSamir SeifStarsNour El-SherifIbrahim KhanPoussiقطة على نار
- DirectorEnas El-DegheidyStarsAhmed EzzHind SabriMuhammad RagabOne of the most controversial Egyptian movies ever made. An adult teen drama about Gameela a dreamy girl with two lives. A real unsatisfying life with on the edge of divorce parents and a strict mother. Her other life is as Cleopatra having a love affair with Anthony. But she happens to meet the guy at the real life and have a true love affair. But with her strict mother, her best friend being jealous of her trying to destroy the affair, her wealthy spoiled rich boy trying to seduce her, and having her other friends' sexual experiences with the tragic ending as a bad example. The problem explodes when the affair goes to sexual levels.مذكرات مراهقة
- DirectorSameh AbdulazizStarsHaifa WehbeBasem SamrahSalah AbdullahRouh is living in Boulak Al Dakrour, a poor neighborhood , when she bankrupt and broke she try to make a living by singing in a nightclubs , she starting to suffer from the people around her that are attracted by her beautyحلاوة روح
- DirectorFritz KrampStarsHassan EzzatNadia NajiHusain ReyadhLachin, commander of the Army of One rulers, manages the affairs of governance prime minister, who traded Bakot parish while the ruling does not offer nor a delay in something a multi-female relations spineless, "Lachin" trying ruling alert to the tricks of the prime minister, is arrested "Lachin" charges Gwighth going to love him and he loves the ruling and filed in prison. Erupts people who had been fed up with the unjust actions of Prime Minister and took advantage of the famine to seize power, the release of Lachin the hands of the people and justice prevail in the country.لاشين
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RustumYoussef ChahineA newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.باب الحديد
- DirectorOsama FawzyStarsLayla OlwiMahmoud HemidaMenna ShalabiA child who loves the cinema struggles with his fanatic dad who finds everything ,including cinema, a sin, with the help of his mother who is sexually depressed.بحب السيما
- DirectorEnas El-DegheidyStarsSana MouzianeNicole BardwelDalia El BehairyThree Arab women living in France trying to get a better life. Aida an Egyptian divorced painter, Amal a lebanease Journalist who suffers from her massochism, & So'ad from Morroco who works in a shop & lives with the old & impotent owner. The three of them become related to each other trying to stay out of trouble.الباحثات عن الحرية
- DirectorOsama FawzyStarsMahmoud HemidaLeblebaCaroline KhalilA formerly successful man dies then his semi-crazy daughter makes arrangements while his street thug friends take the corpse out for one last night.جنة الشياطين
- DirectorMuhammad KarimStarsDawlat AbiadColette D'ArvilleHassan el BaroudiThe film is a look into the problems facing Egyptian men who marry foreign women, heavily portraying the women as immoral gold diggers and cheats.اولاد الذوات
- DirectorMario VolpeStarsBahija HafezHusain ReyadhMohamed Bayoumiليلى بنت الصحراء
- DirectorHasan El-EmamStarsShadiaKamal El-ShinnawiYehia ChahineAhmad is an air-force fighter who lives with his rich father who wants him to marry partner's daughter; but he falls in love with Zainab, the poor distant relative, and marries her despite of his father's disapproval. Soon, Ahmad leaves to serve in the Palestine War leaving his wife behind, and he becomes missing in action. She later marries her kind and loving neighbor before finding out that Ahmad wasn't killed in action and that he managed to escape.وداع فى الفجر
- DirectorSaad ArafaStarsEzzat El AlailiHussein FahmyImad HamdiNadia falls into her life between three men, the first is the artist she loves, the second is the puritanical brother, and the third is her professor. The three are, Ahmed, a religious young man who revolts against his sister Nadia because of the principles of her professor, Dr. Fouad Obeid from secular opinions.غربة
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsAbdel Halim HafezNadia LutfiMervat AminA young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.ابى فوق الشجرة
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsNour El-SherifSalim KallasMahmood El-GindiBased on the life of Palestinian cartoonist Naji El-Ali who was assassinated in London in 1987.
- DirectorSamir A. KhouriStarsNahed YousriHussein FahmyAdel AdhamIn the depths of loneliness and despair, beautiful Aida visits her "tailor," Victoria, a woman who runs a sensual house where erotic fantasies are fulfilled. After satisfying her desires in the arms of one of Victoria's young men, Aida has a haunting nightmare where she envisions herself as a witch who, during a full moon, has the power to destroy her lovers' sensitivity. This disturbing dream sends Aida into a downward spiral of self-destruction. When Aida finally loses her will to live and all hope for salvation, she longs to purify herself and find forgiveness for her sins. Reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and the stylishly erotic films of Radley Metzger, The Lady of the Black Moons emerged from an era of relaxed censorship in Egypt.