Movies: Salah Qabil

This film is based on a novel from 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story takes place during WWII and focuses on Al-Madak Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as the microcosm of the world. A barber is in love wi...

Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman....

The film revolves around the cinematographer Rami Qashua, who begins to succeed in the cinema through the texts he writes, but his bad luck imprints it in an unenviable predicament when one of his texts ends up being written by a clerical writer on t...

Sania is a young maid. She pays what she earns to her lover, the student Moneim, so that he can complete his education, but he abandons her. This shocks Sania and she moves to serve a rich family, whose affairs are taken over by a widow with three da...

A dancer asks a politician with whom she once had an affair to use his influence on her behalf....

A desperate old man asks a thug named Mahrous, whom he accidentally meets, to kill him in exchange for an amount of money. As he agrees, a friendship grows between them....

a symbolic take on the Jewish occupation of Palestine....

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....

The tragic life of a woman, Mona, as she divorces her opportunistic husband and gets engaged to Sherif, a tourist company owner. She is in for more tragedies as he decides to emigrate following the defeat in the 1967 War. Mona then crosses paths with...

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The porter (Arafa) suffers from sexual deprivation. He marries the infamous widow (Warda) but his work efficiency is reduced due to frequent sleep with his wife. Morsi arrives in the town and meets Arafa and his friend, the railway worker, Dasouki, t...

The businessman Tarek is married to Nahed but they don't have children. The couple adopts Heba from a shelter and transforms her life. When Tarek cheats on Nahed with his friend's wife, Nahed asks for divorce on the advice of the painter Maher....

(Zahira) is a poor girl who lives with her rich relative (Aziz Al-Naji). His wife (Alfat) wants to get rid of Zahira, so she facilitates her marriage to (Abdo), a simple baker. However, Zahira is looking for something higher and better than the baker...

A young couple separated by social differences, meet again when the girl married a rich man while the guy sparked a relationship with the sister, jealousy and greed takes over and sinister plans ensue...

(Laila) is forced to marry a businessman after she discovered that her fiancé, who traveled to work in an Arab country, had married from there. She traveled with her husband to spend their honeymoon, but she suddenly returns from the trip due to her ...

In prison, Sayed Kabaka meets two of his closest friends, Bader and Mustapha. After getting out, Mustapha finds out that his wife died without receiving the proper care promised by his partners, and that his daughter is placed in an orphanage. He tea...

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A play about a household, where its members gather to restore the spirit of the homeland once again through the 1919 revolution....

Galal sends men from the mental hospital to Port Said to arrest his sister Fatma, using his political position, accusing her of insanity. Fatma escapes to the roof of the house and threatens to throw herself if someone approaches her, telling her sto...

Set during the Six-Day War, the connection between a group of Egyptian soldiers on a passage in the desert and the command center drops. They try to survive despite the enemy attacks and lack of ammunition and supplies....