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June 5, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized

The Coward and Love (1975)

— 115 min - Drama, Social Corruption - 16 June 1975

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Magdy, the struggling student at the Faculty of Medicine, meets Souad, the wife of his professor Dr. Fikry, and she admires him and asks her husband to let him work in his clinic. They get involved in a relationship, but events take a tragic turn. * Hind Rostom won the Best Actress Award for her role in this film. ** The Coward and Love 1975 is the second experience in directing for the artist Hassan Youssef, and his first experience in directing was with the film A Boy, a Girl and the Devil 1971. ** The Coward and Love 1975 film achieved revenues of 44,728 pounds in 17 weeks of showing at Miami Cinema in Cairo.

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May 11, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

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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May 11, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized

The Wife of an Important Man (1988)

— 109 min - Drama - 11 January 1988

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When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.

Director:  Mohamed Khan

Writers:  Raouf Tawfik

Stars:  Ahmed Zaki, Mervat Amin, Hassan Hosny, Zizi Mostafa, Abdel Ghani Naser, Khairy Beshara, Nahed Samir, Nazim Sharawy, Ali ElGandour, Othman Abdel Monem, Mohamed Dardeery, Ahmed Mokhtar, Hafez Amin, Gehan Nasr, Thuraya Ezz ElDein, Tarek Mandour

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May 11, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized

The Innocent (1986)

— 110 min - Drama - 2 January 1986

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A 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.

Director:  Atef El-Tayeb

Writers:  Wahid Hamid

Stars:  Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mamdouh Abdelalim, Hassan Hosny, Gamil Ratib, Salah Qabil, Elham Shahein, Hosny Abdul Jalil, Abd Allah Hanafi, Badr Nofal, Nahed Samir, Mahmoud ElIraqi, Ghareib Mahmoud, Shawqi Shamekh

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May 8, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

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...

May 10, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

Aby Fawq Al-Shagara (1969)

— 143 min - Drama, Music, Comedy - 2 January 1969

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A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.

Director:  Hussein Kamal

Writers:  Ihsan Abdel Quddous, Yusuf Francis

Stars:  Abdel Halim Hafez (Adel), Nadia Lutfi (Firdous), Mervat Amin (Amal), Emad Hamdy (Kamal), Samir Sabry (Ashraf), Salah Nazmy (Khamis), Nabila El Sayed (Mahasin), Amira (Ahlam), Fathi Abdel Sattar ( Khaled), Ihsan Sharif (Nabawiyyah), Hamed Morsi (Abdel-Mawgoud), Nahed Samir (Umm Adel), Hussein Ismail, Fathia Shaheen (Umm Amal), Mahmoud Rashad, Farouk Youssef (Essam), Qais Abdel Fattah (Sami), Ahmed Al-Dallah, Suhair Mustafa (Nadia), ...

May 6, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

Between Heaven and Earth (1959)

— 94 min - Comedy, Social Criticism, Thriller, Suspence - 9 November 1959

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In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.

Director:  Salah Abu Seif

Writers:  Salah Abu Seif, ElSayed Bedir

Stars:  Hind Rostom (Nahed Shukri), Abd al-Salam al-Nabulsi (one of the passengers in the elevator), Abd al-Moneim Ibrahim (the crazy one), Mahmoud al-Meligy (Kamil - the leader of the gang), Saeed Abu Bakr (the harasser), Naima Wasfi (Umm Samir), Qadriya Qadri (the wife The traitor), Abd al-...

April 18, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

Ebn El-Hetta (1968)

— 90 min - Drama, Comedy - 27 May 1968

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Exploiting the great resemblance between Ashour El-Aaghati and actor Farid Shawky, director Mahmoud Al-Badrawi decides to use him in many scenes. At the same time, Ashour relates to his neighbor Najat and decides to marry despite all the attempts of the master, the owner of the cafe, to stand in the way of their love. At the same time, a painful accident occurs to the artist Farid, leading to his death, and director Mahmoud decides to use Ashour as an alternative, declaring that the actor will not die.

Director:  Hasan El-Saifi

Stars:  Farid Shawqi, Zahrat El-Ola, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Tawfiq ElDekn, Mahmoud...

March 8, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

The Postman (1968)

— 100 min - Drama - 1 January 1968

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Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.

Director:  Hussein Kamal

Stars:  Shukry Sarhan, Zizi Mostafa, Salah Mansour, Soheir ElMorshedy, Hassan Mostafa, Saif Abdel Rahman, Abdel Ghani Qamar, Nahed Samir, Moshira Ismail, Ehsan Sherif, abdul aliem khatab

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Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.

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March 6, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

The Wife of an Important Man (1988)

— 109 min - Drama - 11 January 1988

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When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.

Director:  Mohamed Khan

Writers:  Raouf Tawfik

Stars:  Ahmed Zaki, Mervat Amin, Hassan Hosny, Zizi Mostafa, Abdel Ghani Naser, Khairy Beshara, Nahed Samir, Nazim Sharawy, Ali ElGandour, Othman Abdel Moneim, Mohamed Dardeery, Ahmed Mokhtar, Hafez Amin

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When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what ...