Movies: Farid Shawqy

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is ac...

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....

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the c...

Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job a...

Rabi'a al-Adawiyya is a classic film from 1963 based on the life of the early Sufi saint and poet Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, also known as Rabi'a al Basri, in the second Islamic century....

Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their si...

A strange man arrives at the fishermen's village looking for his illegitimate child to give him his inheritance. He dies and leaves the money with the head of the fishermen. The big fishermen doubt the three women from the village who had a "shady" ...

Jasser sneaks into Yassin's house to steal, but he senses a strange movement, as Saadia, the servant Ibrahim's wife, tries to find out who is in the house, so he kills her and Yassin. During that, Ibrahim arrives, and his daughter Naima testifies aga...

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Mashtaha flees her town after a local man assaults her. Her relationship with the taxi driver Zaki grows stronger. The wealthy businessman Sadiq takes a liking to her and encourages her to agree to marry him so that they can seize his wealth. Sadiq b...

Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vo...

A father with three children: (Amin) a lawyer, (Salem) a police officer, (Medhat) who hopes to be an engineer but did not succeed in his studies. They go to Cairo at the beginning of the school year after spending the vacation on their father’s farm,...

Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo....

Four thieves robbed a house and stole his wealth and killed the owner of the house, his wife and daughter and set fire to the house, but (Ahmed) was hiding under the bed watching criminals, Ahmad grows up and becomes a club karate champion, and after...

when some plotters plan to get ride of sultan maringos, a police officer makes a deal with a look-alike - hassan a poor bagger that works in the hotel - to take on the role of the sultan in order to protect him....

The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his lif...

A lawyer falls in love with a woman her meets in Faiyum, but she lies to him to test his love....

When a nightclub bellydancer (Katy) is murdered by the nightclub owner's henchmen her ghost wants the killer to be found. Only one problem - she doesn't know who killed her since she was sleeping. Her ghost haunts Ismail Yasin till he agrees to help ...

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Nabila is a singer whose brother constantly takes her money for gambling. When his debts accumulate, he tries to make her marry the theater owner to avoid going to jail, till she meets Raouf and theyey fall in love but face many difficulties....