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May 10, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

The Hunger (1986)

— 112 min - Drama, Socio-political struggle - 2 January 1986

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In a new tale of the epic of Harafish, an unjust bully controls the alley, whose brother was imprisoned unjustly after he fed the poor without his permission. While in prison, his wife is preparing for a revolution by the poor to demolish this corrupt regime and end the tyranny in the alley. ** Writer Mustafa Muharram, in an interview with the London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, said: Naguib Mahfouz’s name was removed from the movie “Hunger” because of his support for the “Camp David” Accords...

May 10, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

The Third Class (1988)

— 110 min - Comedy, Drama - 24 July 1988

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A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping benefits effortlessly. To calm their rage Sorour is appointed as their representative in the council only to unravel their scam further, so they continue their revolt.

Director:  Sherif Arafa

Writers:  Maher Awwad, Issam Abdalla

Stars:  Souad Hosni (Manna), Ahmed Zaki (Sorour), Jamil Rateb (Awf - member of the cabin), Abdel Salam Muhammad (Saad), Ahmed Rateb (Al-Qahwaji Network), Abdel-Azim Abdel Haq (father of Sorour), Hamdi Youssef (senior member right), Nae...

May 9, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

Gone Girl (2014)

R 149 min - Mystery, Thriller, Drama - 1 October 2014

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With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Director:  David Fincher

Writers:  Gillian Flynn

Stars:  Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, David Clennon, Lisa Banes, Missi Pyle, Emily Ratajkowski, Casey Wilson, Lola Kirke, Boyd Holbrook, Sela Ward, Lee Norris, Jamie McShane, Leonard Kelly-Young, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Pete Housman, Lynn Adrianna, Mark Atteberry, Darin Cooper, Kate Campbell, Brett Leigh,

May 8, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

Neither Seen, Nor Known (1983)

— 120 min - Drama, Comedy - 11 July 1983

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The story revolves around Mursi (Adel Imam), a poor history teacher, married and suffering from an ambitious financial crisis in life, who gets involved with an old colleague at the university (Salwa), who runs her house for prostitution and hides him. Salwa uses the naiveté of Morsi to convince him that he attacked her He is drunk to press him to marry her pregnant.

Director:  Nader Galal

Writers:  Farouk Sabry

Stars:  Adel Imam (Morsi), His Excellency Zayed (Bataa), Iman (Salwa), Mahmoud Al-Qalawi (Abbas Al-Safarji Bey), Salah Nazmi (Fahmi Bey), Ibrahim Al-Shami (Abu Morsi), Jalila Mahmo...

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 8, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

Girls Camp (1967)

— 100 min - Drama - 20 March 1967

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In Abu Qir, two adjacent camps are set up, one for boys and one for girls. The supervisors of the two camps, Nadia and Hassan, must find a common ground when they clash over Nadia's strict attempts to keep the students separated by gender, and Hassan's wish to let them enjoy their vacation.

Director:  Khalil Shawky

Writers:  Ibrahim El Wardany, Mohamed Othman, Mamoun AlShinnawi

Stars:  Ahmed Mazhar (Hassan), Laila Taher (Nadia), Jalal Issa (Tarek), Izzat Al-Alayli (Hamidou), Nawal Abu Al-Futouh (Badour), Madiha Hamdi (Afaf), George Sidhom (Latief), Samir Sabry (Mansour), Abdel Al-Salam Muhammad (Moneim), Faten...

May 7, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

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

Stars:  Zaki Rostom, Amina Rizk, Shadia, Soliman Naguib, Shoukry Sarhan, Magda Al Sabahi, Shafiq Nour ElDein, Omar El-Hariri, Mahmoud Shoukoko, Thuraya Helmy, Abdel Moneim Ismail, Hussein Reyaad, Abdel Ghani El Nagdi, Hussein Ismail

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May 6, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

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

Stars:  Soad Hosny, Nour El-Sherif, Kamal Al-Shenawy, Farid Shawqi, Shwikar, Salah Zulfikar, Emad Hamdy, Mohamed Sobhi, Tahiya Cariocca, Ali Al Sharif, Fayez Halawa, Waheid Seif, Farouq Youssef, Naima ElSoghier, Younes Shalaby, Mohammed Tawfik, Hassan Hosny, M...

May 5, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

— 102 min - Drama, Romance - 7 August 2015

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Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

Director:  Marielle Heller

Stars:  Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Austin Lyon, Madeleine Waters, Margarita Levieva, Quinn Nagle, Abby Wait, John Parsons, Miranda Bailey, Carson D. Mell, Davy Clements, Susannah Rogers, Anthony Williams, Charles Lewis III, David Fine, Joshua Grannell, Nate Hel...

May 5, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized

The Story of Racheltjie De Beer (2019)

— 96 min - Drama - 18 October 2019

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South African wilderness 1800's. Five years after their mother died, Rachel, a girl on the cusp of adolescence and 5-year-old Jamie find themselves on their way to the virgin gold fields with their father, Herman, as he tries to start a new life. When Jamie goes missing in a freak snow blizzard, Rachel braves the storm to look for her little brother.

Director:  Matthys Boshoff

Stars:  Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Charlie Bouguenon, Stian Bam, Seputla Sebogodi, Antoinette Louw, Zonika de Vries, Beáte Opperman, Johannes Jordaan

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