Youssef Chahine Movies

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

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

Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Ismail El Ghandoor works as a stuntman and a small time actor in movies. He falls in love with a young belly dancer, Soheir who dreams of being the...

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...

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...

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 release,...

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his...

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...

Azoz, an employee at the Opera House accompanies a violinist who has just arrived from tours abroad in her errands in the city. He eventually gets...

Six strong-willed women whose adventurous streak changed the face of film industry in early twentieth century Egypt – a time when the country...

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to...

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

A film about the sacred oil used by the church during special occasions in Egypt.