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Life or Death

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Life or Death (1954)

95 min - Drama, Thriller - 6 December 1954
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A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.

Director:  Kamal El Sheikh
Writers:  Ali El Zorkani
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Diary of a Country Prosecutor

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Diary of a Country Prosecutor (1969)

110 min - Drama, Socio-Political Struggle, Political Corruption - 24 February 1969
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Based on the novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, 1937, Diary of A Country Prosecutor records the daily activities and tribulations of a public official appointed to act as a village justice in the countryside.

Director:  Tawfiq Saleh
Writers:  Tawfiq Saleh and Alfred Faraj
Stars:  Ahmed Abdel Halim (prosecutor), Rawya Ashour (Reem), Tawfiq Al-Daqen (the warden), Abdel Azim Abdel Haq (Sheikh Asfour), Muhammad Murshid (Assistant Prosecutor), Rashad Hamed (Center Assistant), Mahmoud Kamel (the sergeant), Hassan Mustafa (the judge)...
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Alkhataya

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Alkhataya (1962)

165 min - Music, Drama, Family - 4 March 1962
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Hussein and Ahmad are brothers. Hussein falls in love with a colleague, but his father mysteriously decides that Ahmad should marry her instead.

Director:  Hassan el-Imam

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Hussein and Ahmad are brothers. Hussein falls in love with a colleague, but his father mysteriously decides that Ahmad should marry her instead.


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Between Heaven and Earth

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Between Heaven and Earth (1959)

94 min - Comedy, Socio-political struggle - 9 November 1959
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An elevator breaks down, leaving a group of miserable strangers inside, each with their own story and goals. They include a movie star (Hend Rostom), a lunatic (Abdel Moneim Ibrahim), and other miserable souls. When they begin to realize they have little chance of escaping alive, they learn to see life in a better light and their hopes rise with the near-death experience. Meanwhile, an equally unhappy person outside the elevator tries to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of the building, at least until help arrives and saves those who can save him.

Director:  Salah Abu Seif
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The Fools Alley

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The Fools Alley (1955)

88 min - Drama - 2 January 1955
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Khadiga lives in a poor neighborhood with her parents. She tries to save up money so she could marry her sweetheart Taha. Taha buys a lottery ticket in hope of winning a lot of money, but it ends up in Khadiga's religious father's hands who throws it away. The ticket gets picked up by the town's fool, who gets lucky and wins, driving the town into chaos.

Director:  Tawfiq Saleh
Writers:  Naguib Mahfouz, Tawfiq Saleh, abdelhamid goda
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The Bathhouse of Malatily

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The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973)

106 min - Drama, Social Conflict - 2 July 1973
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The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man...

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بائعة الخبز

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The Bread Seller (1953)

130 min - Drama, Music - 17 August 1953
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A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journey to find her children.

Director:  Hassan el-Imam
Writers:  ElSayed Bedir, Hassan el-Imam

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