Movies: Tawfiq Al-Deqen

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade....

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes...

A Man in Our House is a 1961 Egyptian film about the resistance to British rule in Egypt which ended in the exile of King Farouk in 1954 and the rise to power of Gamal Abdel Nasser....

Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend....

In a comedic form, a love story is shared between the widowed engineer Hilmi Abdelkader (Rushdi Abaza), who works in the field of oil and has eight children from his late wife, the young widow Samia Ahmed and the mother of six children. After a long ...

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of...

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....

The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the re...

Actress Sanaa Kamel is found murdered on her bed, and an investigation starts, taking into account everyone of the guests she hosted at her apartment the night she was killed: her jealous fiancé, a school instructor, a corrupt market manager, one of ...

"Fasih" plays in his father's lab, the Attar, which causes a demon to appear. The sprite burns, leaving a powder that hides what falls on it. A taqiyya is exposed to this powder and acquires a property that hides the one who wears it. Asfour discover...

Gasser, who works in one of the quarries, goes to the prostitute Hamida who falls in love with him. Metwally, who works with Gasser in the quarry, loves her, which leads the two men onto a dangerous path....

(Irfan) was in a relationship with his colleague (Laila) at university and they agreed to get married, but he left to work in order to complete their marriage. After his return, he discovers that (Laila) married a greedy lawyer to please her family....

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effec...

As Magdy leaves Upper Egypt for a job, he befriends the playboy Sami who impresses him with his many relationships. After a chance meeting with Hanan, Magdy asks for Sami's help to get close to her, something that Sami is happy to provide and support...

A gang that smuggles money abroad always manages to escape the grip of the police, where methods of escape and concealment are high in it, the police decide to push one of its own elements, one of the men known to this gang to work with them from wit...

Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress o...

(Saif) A police officer chases gangs smuggling gems out, and during one of the chases a gang member is killed, tried, and dismissed from servants. The (Murad) gang asks him to work with him and he agrees, and he goes to Lebanon to complete a deal, an...

A high school teacher volunteers to transform five notorious misfits into model students and has unintended results....

Karima lives a happy and stable life with her husband, Qadri, but during the lunar days her personality changes and she turns into a Bedouin personality because of a man's attempt to rape her on a moonlit night when she was young and she was wearing ...

Siraj checks for half a million pounds from the bank for the contracting company and his girlfriend Kawther. The employee Yousuf and Nishal Rifai covet the seized bag and kidnap her as they reach an abandoned place, but discover that the bag is empty...