The Best 100 Egyptian Movies (The Egyptian Film Critics Association)

  • 20. El Tooq Wel Eswera

  • 8
  • In the farthest corner of Upper Egypt, as Hazina awaits, with her paralyzed husband, her son's return from Sudan, she, her daughter, and her granddaughter suffer society's injustice and prejudice...Read more against females, whether it's Fahima, who marries an impotent man and gets pregnant after she's taken by Hazina to the temple, or Farhana, who gets pregnant without marriage, incurring her uncle's wrath.


  • 19. Shey Min Al-Khouf

  • 8.9
      • مصري
      • All Ages
      • تقييمنا
      • Adult Supervision
  • Atris grows up to take after his tyrannical and cruel grandfather. As he forces his control on the people of the Dahashna village, his childhood sweetheart, Fo'ada refuses to marry him due to his...Read more growing brutality. Despite her rejection, Atris asks her father for her hand in marriage.


  • 18. Al-Qahira 30

  • 8.5
      • مصري
      • All Ages
  • 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...Read more him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.


  • 17. Umm Al Arousa

  • 8.5
      • مصري
      • All Ages
      • تقييمنا
      • Family (all ages)
  • As his daughter Ahlam gets engaged, the father finds himself involved in embezzlement to afford the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. A representation of the...Read more never-ending struggles endured by the Egyptian lower-middle-class families.


  • 16. Al-Zawga Al-Thania

  • 8.8
      • مصري
      • All Ages
      • تقييمنا
      • Adult Supervision
  • In this classic tale, a tyrannical village mayor forces a poor man to divorce his wife, and he marries her afterward, only for the wife to plot against her oppressive husband who is blinded by his...Read more lust and his wish to have an heir. She utilizes the mayor's authority against him.


  • 15. Elless wel Kelab

  • 8.5
      • مصري
      • All Ages
  • Said Mehran is a thief who takes Raouf Alwan as his role model. He gets betrayed by Eleish who marries his wife Nabawyia after he got arrested. After he comes out of jail. he is set to revenge all...Read more those who wronged him.


  • 14. Doaa al Karawan

  • 8.8
      • مصري
      • All Ages
      • تقييمنا
      • Adults Only (18+)
  • When Hanadi leaves her family and works as a maid at a single engineer's house, she falls for him and gets pregnant. Believing her to defame the family's name and bring them disgrace, her uncle kills...Read more her. Her sister Amenah vows revenge against the engineer.


  • 13. Rod Kalby

  • 8
      • مصري
      • All Ages
      • تقييمنا
      • Adult Supervision
  • Set before the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, Ali, a poor young man whose father is a gardener, falls for the rich princess Engie, but class discrimination stands in their way. As her father learns of...Read more their relationship, he fires Ali's father and threatens Engie with harming Ali if she doesn't leave him, so she gets engaged to another, upending the life of Ali, who feels that Engie has cheated on him.


  • 12. Al Bostagy

  • 8.8
      • مصري
      • All Ages
  • Abbas is a postman who got recently transferred from Cairo to Kom Al-Nahl, Assiut, a remote village in Upper Egypt. At the village, he suffers from the inhabitants' hatred and ignorance, and his...Read more boredom motivates him to read their letters, giving him god-like insights into their innermost secrets.


  • 11. Al Nasser Salah El Deen

  • 8.8
      • مصري
      • All Ages
      • تقييمنا
      • Family (all ages)
  • After the crusader army commander Reno de Châtillon breaches the peace treaty, Saladin decides to take revenge. After defeating the Crusaders, Virginia begins to assemble the army for war, with the...Read more help of Prince Conrad and King of England Richard the Lionheart.