Movies: Shoukry Sarhan

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory,...

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his pri...

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian....

In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who ...

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power....

Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah, a woman in the same village....

Escaping the cruelty of the streets, Na'ima turns to a lady who runs a den for vice and gambling. Na'ima becomes a totally different person as she invents a new identity for herself, but when she meets Hasanin, other considerations have to be taken i...

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....

Rescue police receives a report on the killing of a leftist journalist in her apartment. The prosecutor moves to the scene of the incident and tries to reach the murderer....

A difficult period in Egypt in the year 1947, when the villages of Egypt attacked cholera. A doctor (Shukri), who tried to serve the villagers to save them from poverty and hunger, is appointed in a village. (Adel Bey) The feudal lord of the village ...

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. N...

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...

In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arriv...

Conditions worsen for the wealthy husband after he marries one of the dancers. He decides to divorce his wife, so he enrolls his daughter in a boarding school so that she can be away from her mother. The father loses his wealth and works in a menial ...

Salwa who enters an institution because of a crime she committed, falls in love with her music teacher Waheed...

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Riyad Pasha frequents a gambling den run by an outlaw with his family. In this den, the Pasha loses a lot of his money. The villain's daughter tries to ensnare the police officer, the Pasha's son, to get his money....

A man lives with a former belly dancer who has agreed to marry him, even if she prefers his older brother....

A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him to travel to work in Paris...

Directed by Atef Salem....