Tahiya Cariocca

This 2009 documentary by Mona Ghandour details the production of CAIRO STATION and includes interviews with director Youssef Chahine, screenwriter Abdel Hay Adib, and actors Hind Rostom and Farid Shawki.

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A collection of 16 classic performances by the most prominent Egyptian belly dancers of the 20th century. The selections are from appearances in movies and other shows over a 30 year period.

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Naima, a guardian of architecture and politicians in a garage, in one of the buildings in Zamalek, who is also the mother of seven children. Raising them.

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Hisham, Mokhtar and Medhat, three friends of the university, insist on not succeeding in their studies in the Faculty of Arts for more than 15 years due to the gains they make and fear of graduation and facing life with their material problems. Hisham is president of the student union and he is in control of everything and Mukhtar is responsible for the cafeteria project. Medhat prints the references and study notes for students at lower prices than the teachers' notes

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The journalist Nadia investigates the suicide of a girl in a house of ill fame, especially since the sister of the suicide girl rejects the fact that her sister was a prostitute. Meanwhile, Officer Ahmed also tries to uncover the mystery of the incident that coincided with the disappearance of many girls, and they reveal the mastermind behind a ring that recruits girls to work in prostitution.

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Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.

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The singer Nahid marries Youssef who gains from gambling and fraud in sailing lands. Disputes arise between them and they separates, Nahid with her only daughter from him goes to work as a singer since then in amusement parks and weddings.

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Samia is the wife of the millionaire businessman Adel, whose secretary Maha succeeds in winning him over to marry her and separate from his wife. Souad also holds a grudge against her cousin Samia, and plans to marry Adel after failing six times in her previous marriages. Samia and Souad resort to sorcery and magic to win Adel. Samia seeks the help of her close friend Nawal to get her husband back, but she covets him and marries him.

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Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

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Mokhtar desperately tries to wed Samia but their inability to find a suitable apartment over the last 8 years stands in the way. His mother-in-law isn't making things any better.

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Set in the 1980s, a landlord promises people to give each and every one of them an apartment if they help with the construction work. When the building is all set up, though, it turns out that he is a fraud.

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High school teacher Mahmoud lives with his entire family in a tiny apartment. The landlord's attempts to evict them reaches the point of enlisting the Devil’s help.

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Hussein senses a lot of mystery behind his father's death and his bankruptcy after he was one of the major merchants, and he suspects a competing merchant named Abu Shouma, so he decides to approach him to find out what happened.

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In order to provide a home for her and her family, Zainab goes to work in an Arab country, and send her savings to her husband, she returns to discover that her husband divorced her and got married in her apartment. She collapses and decides to take revenge.

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Kawthar is a drug dealer who throws the accusations on her maid who gets sentenced to life imprisonment. Kawthar adopts the maid's daughter and helps the rest of the children. The daughter grows up and works as a police officer and meets a thief that she believes she can turn into a good citizen.

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Two friends, Hamdi, an actor in one of the Rod El Farag theaters, and Ezzat the merchant, compete to win the heart of their neighbor Badriya. Hamdi marries her and they work together in a political play. The police chase Hamdi, so he seeks refuge with his friend Hussein. He happens to find his wife Badriya in Hussein's apartment, and Hussein tried to rape her. Hamdi thinks she is cheating on him, but he discovers the truth after it is too late.

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Farida lives with her husband and co-worker Hamdy in his family's apartment, while their boss Abdel Aziz falls for Farida. After Hamdy divorces her, Farida marries Abdel Aziz, only to discover that he's a playboy who has a weakness for maids and she decides to use this against him.

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Sina' learns of the numerous affairs her husband Shakir has had with other women. At this time, she gets to know Hashem, and they become increasingly close. Hashem learns of the dysfunctions within Sina’’s family and tries to take advantage of this for his own interests, specially after meeting Arfan, the husband of Sina’s sister. Arfan uses Sina’s sister’s money for his own projects, and tries to pressure his daughter Hoda into marrying a rich Arab man.

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Refat is a teacher with a heart disease, who marries the poor girl Salwa, despite the opposition of his mother who is trying to persuade him to divorce her in exchange for his share in the inheritance. Salwa resorts to holy people hoping to cure her husband.

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When Magdy goes to the Pasha's estate to sell the land he inherited after his father's death, he discovers that the town is controlled by Radwan, a member of the Socialist Union, who is harassing Farida to force her to sell him her land. Madgy and Farida try to break Radwan's iron-grip on the town.

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In the fourth story of the epic of Harafish, Samaha Al-Nagy grandson of Ashour al-Nagy decides to marry Mahlabia. But Al-Qalali the bully of the neighborhood wants to marry her. When Samaha and Mahlabia try to escape, the men of Al-Qalali kill Mahlabia and frame Samaha, who flees to Upper Egypt.

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A drama consisting of several separate episodes, each episode discusses a different issue of men and women and their relationship with each other.

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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 effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet and falls in love with two young Egyptian brothers, reflecting complex themes of colonial desire, affection, and personal connection.

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Teacher Abu Al-Atawf agrees with teacher Atta on the marriage of his son Ibrahim and her daughter Samsim. Abdul Basir, Ibrahim's uncle, goes to bless the bride, and get to knows Attata, who resorted to the lawyer with whom she worked as a writer for twenty years to prove the lineage of her daughter from Lotfy, a wealthy who married her customally and refused to recognize his father to Samsim, so she had to register her in the name of her deceased husband.

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Naima escapes from her stepfather's house, and works in Sherazade's nightclub who gives her the artistic name 'Layal' and she becomes a famous dancer. She falls in love with journalist Galal and hopes to marry him.

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Amal, a poor young woman, is injured in a car accident by the wealthy Adel, who treats her. They get married but problems arise between them because he doesn't work. He refuses to operate the factory left by his father because he was the cause of his death when he was a child.

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Fatima works as a maid in the villa of the wealthy Hamouda, kills him and turns herself in to the police. During the interrogation, she refuses to disclose the motive for the murder. During the investigation, lawyer Ahmed discovers that Hamouda was killed with three bullets, while Fatima admits that she shot him with one bullet.

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Shousha El-Sakka, fears death because it took his wife. He meets with Shehata, and later knows that he is an undertaker assistant and he becomes pessimistic of him ,but when Shehata dies, Shousha is saddened by his passing.

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After falling in love with a young architect,mayssa shocked to know his involvement with an older woman and the relationship he carries with her,a past of struggling and support

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In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

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Based on play Othello of William Shakespear. Hafez try to convice his friend that his wife has been unfaithful.

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