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البيه البواب (1987)

119 min - Family, Comedy, Drama - 13 August 1987
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Abdel Samea goes to Egypt with his wife and children looking for a job so he works as a doorman, and by being smart he works as a broker until he makes a lot of money

Director:  Hassan Ibrahim
Writers:  Youssef Gohar
Stars:  Ahmed Zaki (Abdel Samee), Safia El Omari (Elham), Fouad El Mohandes (Farhat), Ragaa El Gedawy (Gamalat), Sayed Zayan (El Mostakawy), Mohamed Reda (Abdel Rahman Bey), Wael Nour (Salah Farhat), Ezza Labib (Samia Farhat), Naima El Sagheer (Sania), Farida Seif El Nasr (Guest of Honor), Salah Sadek (Door 2), Ahmed Barqouqa (Barqouqa - Milkman), Alfat Sakr, Amal Ram...
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The Coward and Love

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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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The Suspect

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The Suspect (1981)

125 min - Crime, Drama - 20 August 1981
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The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.

Director:  Samir Seif
Writers:  Ibrahim El-Mougy

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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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Karnak Café

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Al-Karnak (1975)

140 min - Drama, Political corruption - 29 December 1975
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In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

Director:  Ali Badrakhan
Writers:  Naguib Mahfouz, Mamdouh Al Laithy
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Shafiqa and Metwally

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Collections: Ali Badrakhan

Genres: Drama, History

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Sonya and the Madman

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Sonya and the Madman (1977)

122 min - - 4 January 1977
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An adaptation of "crime and punishement",a young educated man's descendance into madness and paranoia after commiting a crime,and finding confort in the company of kind hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.

Director:  Hossam ElDein Mostafa
Writers:  Mahmoud Daib

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The Piper

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The Piper (1985)

133 min - - 24 December 1985
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Zammar Hassan is a young man chased after he was a student in the Faculty of Engineering and presented a play that did not live up to the authorities with the representation team in the college, moving from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety and stability, and settled in the village (Araba) vendor in a grocery store.

Director:  Atef El-Tayeb
Writers:  Abdel-Rehim Mansour, Rafik El Saban

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Streets of Fire

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Streets of Fire (1984)

Crime, Drama - 12 March 1984
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In the 1940s, the policeman Imam moves to Cairo to work in an area devoted to prostitution. There he falls in love with the prostitute Nusse who works with the bully Jalal without knowing that she is practicing this profession. He is defended by an imam who beats an English soldier who tries to intercept her and assault her. He is tried and dismissed from service, then returns to live in the neighborhood and look for work, and becomes a pimp, a quarrel between him and Jalal al-Fatwa. Each trying to prove his strength and impose his power.

Director:  Samir Seif
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Shafiqa and Metwally

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Collections: Ali Badrakhan

Genres: Drama, History

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