Movies: Ahmed ElGezeiry

Regarded as one of the boldest films of the "liberal" 1970s, this award-winning classic is directed by the great Hussein Kamal and written by the controversial Ihsan Abdel Quoddous and featuring a superb cast. A color saturated melodrama and a profou...

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village....

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Muhammad fails to pass the diploma exam and does not care about his studies or success in his life, his father (Mohamed Reda) turns to a psychiatrist (Abdel Moneim Ibrahim) in the hope that he will find a remedy for his problem, in fact the doctor is...

The dervish Alish dies and is taken in a majestic procession to the cemetery. When he ascends to heaven to be judged, he discovers that the sum of his virtues equals the sum of his sins, so he's sent back to the living in order to test him and decide...

Jalal is a successful engineer who loves his neighbor Laila, the granddaughter of a pasha, but he hides his love for fear of social differences. Her uncle supervises her money, even though he is a gambler. Laila's cousin, a reckless young man, covets...

Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fueled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life....

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....

With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her money so bad that he kills his friend and proposes to his newly-widowed wife....

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The heroine of the film is a poor girl who dreamed of wealth and a high position in society. By chance, her dreams come true, but wealth does not bring her happiness. The girl refuses the money and returns to her former friends....

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....

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...

Mohamed is a soldier who finds himself in Gaza after the defeat in the 1967 War. He returns to his native village feeling broken and depressed after witnessing the deaths of his fellow soldiers. He still loves Fatima but her father wants her to marry...

The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college...

Umm Ratiba and her younger brother are suffering from their older brother Abd Al-Sabour's tyranny. Abd Al-Sabour, who's obsessed with sorcery and charlatanism, refuses her marriage to her neighbor and tries to convince them that he will return after ...

Ibraham the industrious student fall in love with his colleague Khayriyah and she also fall in love with him, but the rich student Hani admire her. Ibrahim is trying to hide his social level because he is afraid to lose Khayriyah, and telling everybo...

Three young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse....

Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with murder and is sentenced to imprisonment. Before going to jail, he asks Wahid to watch over his wife, and he leaves his money with him. But Wahid betrays hi...

A successful neurosurgeon challenges death with God's help and his knowledge in operations with a success rate of no more than 5%. He also helps others and solves the problems of the poor. But he faces the most difficult operation that turns his life...