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Plot Summary:
In the Egyptian Kit Kat suburb, Sheikh Hosni's character as an observer of the daily lives of El Kit Kat's residents seems to transcend above it. Even with the loss of his eyesight, his wife, his job, and the fact that he lives with his mother and his frustrated young son, did make him give up on hope, smile and laughter.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: iconic
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The Other (1999)
Plot Summary:
Adam is the son of a wealthy Egyptian-American family who is studying at UCLA and returns home for a brief vacation. Upon his arrival he meets beautiful reporter Hanane, with whom he begins an intense love affair, and eventually they marry. Trouble arises when Hanane' s journalistic interests lead her to the corrupt business affairs of Adam's parents, who are interested in building an American tourist compound that would allow Americans further control of Egypt's tourist industry, and make them a whole lot richer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, suspense
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Zarf Tarek (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show (ANA WEL NOGOM W HAWAK). A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Cute Girl (1980)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a rich man, Wen helps out with her father’s business and also takes French lessons so that she can go to France with her fiancé. But she falls in love with a poor young man, Da-gang, who is studying civil engineering. Clashing with her father, she decides to leave home and go and stay with her aunt in the countryside. On a peaceful country road, she meets Da-gang again, who happens to be working there. Their relationship can now blossom. Later, when they get married and Wen gets pregnant, it turns out Da-gang also comes from a rich family….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Hung Like a Horse (1997)
Plot Summary:
He was already different even before he was born. His eccentric mother took fancy on horses during her conception, and this led to his being born with animal appeal. As he grew up, he became the object of people's curiosity. But the moment he became a full grown man, his strange physical endowment turned him into an object of desire. Girls and even gays fell under his incredibly wild sex appeal, and he got himself the reputation of being a ladies' man. Until he met the woman who would change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
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Cairo 30 (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mahgoub Abdel Dayem a young nihilistic college student, having his father crippled with no other source of income, he finds himself in an urgent need of a job after graduation to support himself and his parents. Having a hard time getting a job, he starts putting his values into actual application only to find them already being applied by much greater authorities. Set in Cairo in the 30s.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: social
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The Tenth Man (2016)
Plot Summary:
After many years away, Ariel is summoned by his distant father to his childhood home in the bustling Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires, known as El Once. Over the course of seven days, during the vibrant holiday of Purim, Ariel seeks to reconnect with his father, who runs a Jewish charity and is regarded as a big macher in the close-knit community, but was frequently absent due to his obligation to fulfill the Jewish quorum of having 10 men present at all funerals.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 82 min
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Of Horses and Men (2013)
Plot Summary:
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Germany, Norway
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, stylized, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, black comedy, thought provoking, offbeat
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Yomeddine (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt, Austria, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie
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The Land (1970)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi's well-known novel of the same name, this classic film by Egyptian master Youssef Chahine was eight years in the making. Chronicling a small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner, The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 130 min
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Maria am Wasser (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
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Dunia (2005)
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After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt, Lebanon, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing
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The High (1985)
Plot Summary:
As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sad
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Adrift on the Nile (1971)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 750
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: iconic
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Ala bab el wazir (1982)
Plot Summary:
Kamal is a university student who is in love with Nora the daughter of a ruthless businessman who rejects him because he is poor and thus plots to keep him away from her. With the help of his friends they try to solve his problem especially after Kamal's father has been unjustly arrested for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
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Ajlawju (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story follows complicated relation between Adas Miauczynski "Cezary Pazura" and Gosia "Katarzyna Figura".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min
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Wife of an Important Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise and fall of an Egyptian police officer, during the regime of President Anwar El Sadat.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Plot Summary:
Karel Bursík, as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father, a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children hoping they would escape a country poverty. He soon threw his daughter Vera out of home; he did not like her relationship with a married man. The competition of Bata factory was unsurpassable for a minor craftsman Bursík and his neighbours owed him for minor services. The desperate Bursík sent Kajda to sell his mother's dresses to get money for food. In a second-hand shop, Kajda met his first love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 126 min
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Sleepless Nights (2003)
Plot Summary:
A strong controversial adult drama about troubles facing young married and non-married couples. The old friends are invited at Khaled's and Perry's daughter birthday. Moushira is married to Ali, Amr to Farah , and Sameh is having an affair with Inas. After the party all the problems explodes when Moushira tells Ali that he doesn't satisfy her sexually, Perry tells Amr about her discovery of his infidelity, Amr is jealous of Ali as Farah's ex-boyfriend and she is faces him with the fact that her rich family improved his standard. While Inas gives the choice to Sameh of either marrying or separating. Then everyone faces his problem trying to make decisions with the help of his/her friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Bride of Fire (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tragedy in which a young woman from an Arab tribe, prevented from marrying her non-Arab Persian lover is forced against her wishes to marry her cousin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min
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Wajib (2017)
Plot Summary:
After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Colombia, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: social, comedy drama
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Same Love, Same Rain (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jorge is a writer for a left-leaning Buenos Aires magazine that's at odds with the country's military dictatorship. He meets lovely and intelligent actress Laura and begins an on-and-off romance that will continue for the next two decades. Fearful of commitment, Jorge initially moves on from her and his fortunes suffer, but the situation changes when he and Laura renew their acquaintance. Meanwhile, the country undergoes a political transformation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Messages from the Sea (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, islamic, sincere, serious
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Bridge and Tunnel (2014)
Plot Summary:
Unspooled through a series of vignettes, this slice-of-life tale follows a group of young college graduates who are forced -- because of a bleak economic environment -- to shack up with their parents and settle for low-paying jobs.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Reckless (1984)
Plot Summary:
Rebellious footballer Johnny, falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family, he is poor and broken. Tracy already has a boyfriend but he acts like a jerk, so Johnny has to win Tracy's heart - something she seems reluctant to let him do.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, eighties
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18 Days (2011)
Plot Summary:
10 Film makers made 10 Separate stories about the "25January " revolution in Egypt and the Egyptian people in the revolution and the protests against the previous President Hosni Mubarak and the departure of President Hosni Mubarak and also displays what happened in Tahrir Square since the start of the sit-in.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, sad, anthology, islamic, sincere
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Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish man and a jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypical Jewish-American-Princess, very emotionally involved with her parents world and the world they have created for her while he is much less dependent on his family. They begin an affair which brings more differences to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, witty, sexual, funny, technicolor, weeping, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Hassan and Marcus (2008)
Plot Summary:
When the lives of Mahmoud, a Muslim Sheikh (Omar Sharif) and Boulos, a Christian Theologian (Adel Imam) are threatened by religious extremists on both sides, the Egyptian government inducts them into a witness protection program that requires them to disguise themselves as the Christian Marcus and a Muslim Sheikh, Hassan el-Attar, respectively. When, unwittingly, they move into the same building, a friendship blossoms that must, along with a romance between the protagonists' children, withstand the difficulties of prejudice and social persecution.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, touching, feel good, semi serious
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Bewildered Bolbol (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bulbul meets a successful aristocratic girl named Yasmine, but she's not the romantic type he dreams of, at the same time he admires his cousin Hala for her calmness and kindness. In the middle of all this, the psychiatrist Amal shows up and he thinks of getting engaged to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Cairo Time (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, serious, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, inspirational
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I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)
Plot Summary:
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, light, sexy, independent film