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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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The Danish Experiment (2003)
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Qadry Al-Minyawi is a widowed husband and a father of four adult sons Mahmoud, Ibrahim, Abdulrahman and Hussien. When he is later appointed as the new minister of youth and sports, his old friend asks him to host his Danish sister-in-law Anita who is studying for her P.Hd. and visiting Egypt for the first time. Qadry feels concerned about Anita's presence and how her attractiveness and sex appeal drive all men crazy especially his sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 109 min
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Born to Be a Criminal (2006)
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Our man has about everything against him : he is short, weak, so simple, with an IQ far below the average. There is no wonder why he keeps on being teased by his friends, parents and even fiancee. But circumstances will turn him into a hero and then a vicious criminal feared by all. Half-educated and out-of-work, Taha, is kidnapped by a gang of thieves in his hometown Alexandria. Unbeknownst to them, neither Taha's mother nor his girlfriend has a fraction of the ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sad
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Rajab on a Hot Tin Roof (1980)
Plot Summary:
Ragab, a small town man goes to the big city to buy a tractor to bring back home. In the big city, he quickly finds that not everything and everyone is so clear cut. Directed by and Mohamed Abdel Aziz and Ahmed Fouad.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
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Cute Girl (1980)
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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
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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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Message to the Ruler (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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Kit Kat (1991)
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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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Wild Mouse (2017)
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Kings should be treated courteously! At least, that's what famous music critic Georg (Josef Hader) thinks. But he finds himself counting pennies when his chief editor (Jörg Hartmann) suddenly fires him from the Viennese newspaper for which he has been writing for decades. While keeping his dismissal a secret from his psychotherapist wife Johanna (Pia Hierzegger), whose mind is occupied solely by getting pregnant, Georg begins to plot his revenge. He is aided by old school friend Erich (Georg Friedrich), and in return the newly liberated Georg helps him repair a rundown rollercoaster in Vienna's Prater Park. Georg's nightly campaigns against his former boss start with small acts of vandalism. They soon escalate to extremes, and Georg‘s tame, bourgeois life gets completely out of hand.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good
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Hijacking of Agata (1993)
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A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min
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Shaaban Taht El-Sifr (1980)
Plot Summary:
Shaaban Taht El-Sifr.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min
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The Begger (1983)
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Hassanein is a poor illiterate man who leaves his village and moves to the city to live with his maternal uncle and his family. However, he fails to keep a job and has no choice but to return to his hometown, and while he is sleeping in a mosque, a strange man named Khalil takes him to a shelter where there is food and drink for the homeless. Hassanein discovers that he is staying with a gang that forces poor people to beg in the streets after they are maimed for life. As the gang members try to cut off Hassanein's leg, their boss Joma uses him to pretend that he is a blind beggar who can collect more money. He then meets Aida who thinks he is an investor and soon fall in love with each other. How will Hassanein get out of this mess without putting himself in danger from the gang's wrath?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
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Watch Out from Alkhot - Ehtares min Alkhot (1984)
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Khousosi works for his late uncle's company and he's mad in love with his cousin Bolbola and wishes to marry her, but her mother is against it because she believes he's after the family's fortune. Feeling depressed, he seeks the help of Sami, the company's secretary who arranges for him to meet a hired killer in order to finish him off and cause Bolbola to regret her mistreatment towards him. Khousosi doesn't know that Sami intends to marry Bolbola as well, and also has plans to take over the company with the help of a cheating contractor. Later, Khousosi finds an old man in his apartment who turns out to be the killer but he doesn't murder him, and instead he suggests that he must fake his death to see how people are going to react to the news of his suicide. On the following day, Bolbola reads about her cousin's death in the newspaper, and that is when Sami tells her that he has embezzled lots of money from her company. It is up to Khousosi to prove his innocence to the world and to.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: detective
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Terrorism and Kebab (1992)
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A man named Ahmed tries unsuccessfully for days to go the the government building to complete the necessary paperwork to transfer his child to another school. Repeatedly he is unable to see the employee he needs to meet with. In a scuffle that follows Ahmed obtains the weapons of the guards and accidentally takes hostages in the government building. All the other floors of the building evacuate, the army and Minister of the Interior are called; the government treats Ahmed as a terrorist. Ahmed and the hostages demand kebab from the government for lunch.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sad
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Suspect (1981)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min
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Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
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This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Right", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Club Le Monde (2002)
Plot Summary:
One eventful night at a seedy London nightclub in 1993.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dil Hi To Hai (1963)
Plot Summary:
Children are exchanged by greedy aunt and uncle in childhood and they live undeserved lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
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Carry on Jatta 3 (2023)
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Advocate Dillon's son, Jass, is in love with Meet but her brothers get in a tussle with Adv. Dhillon. As a result, Adv. Dhillon rejects Meet's hand in marriage. Left with no option, Jass weaves a madhouse plan to propose to his friend, Goldy's wife, Diljit. Will the plan work?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
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Esabat Hamada Wa Toto (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of the privatization of the Egyptian tourism industry, a couple suddenly find themselves from rags to riches...and then back again to rags.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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Sleeping in Honey (1996)
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Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. he knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame. A young journalist tries to do her own investigation about that phenomenon too.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 177 min
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Cholera Street (1997)
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The film is set in a rundown, crime ridden neighborhood of Istanbul dubbed "Cholera Street" (Kolera Sokağı). Salih is a mechanic and son of a respected barber Ali. A woman Tina arrives at Cholera street where she takes up residence and works as a prostitute. Deniz is a ganster who gives himself the nickname "Reiss" ("Chief"), tries to take control of the neighbourhood through intidimation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Hungary, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, art house, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Festival (1989)
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Directed by Samir Seif.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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Play It All (1994)
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A film group is making a movie in a small village. The story is based on true events that has happened in the the same village a few decades ago. A dis-liked writer Pentti Töysä arrives in the middle of a press conference and claims that he is the true writer of the film. He has made some changes in the script and these changes will bring an old crime to light. But in the following night Töysä is being killed and the final draft of the script is missing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Ardent Summer (1973)
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Barbara is a sexy stripper, but she is dedicated to her husband. When a rich and above-the-law land-owner orders the murder of her husband to get her, she plans, and conducts, deadly revenge. She starts by intriguing between the rich man and his sons, who also had abused her, so that he has two of them killed, and then she sets out against the actual killers, shooting them herself, and leaving the old lecher and his older son to the last. The final confrontation has some surprises, though.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
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Natasha (2001)
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Seventeen year old Natasha, a daughter of a murdered police inspector, tries to discover her father's killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Yacoubian Building (2006)
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Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sad, multicultural, islamic, iconic
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Hoodlums (1980)
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Loretta is a singer and escort in a mob-owned NYC nightclub and illegal casino. The favorite working girl of manager George, Loretta is unhappy with her current occupation and looking for a way out. George, meanwhile, is losing his stranglehold on the business. Complications arise when Loretta finds herself falling for a man she meets in her off-hours.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Who's Your Daddy (2016)
Plot Summary:
When one of them is about to become a father, three friends must make a decision that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic, independent film
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Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jiaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, clever, talky, retro, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty
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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