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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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Tsiou (2005)
Plot Summary:
Athens, mid-August. Tsiou, addicted to substances, while trying to get his dose, mixes a number of people to his search through his sister and her mobster husband. A chain of meetings follows where the pressure passes from one to another.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: political, social
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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
Plot tags:
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Kit Kat (1991)
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 Emigrant (1994)
Plot Summary:
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: biblical
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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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Terrorism and Kebab (1992)
Plot Summary:
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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Dasharatham (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is one of the cult classic film of Mohanlal. A. K. Lohithadas won Kerala Film Critics Award for Best Script Writer. The movie is partly adapted from the Korean movie The Surrogate Woman.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: sad, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Pavithram (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young man's relationship with his career, fiancee and brother is brought under stress by the birth of an unexpected sister.The film deals with the relationship between siblings Unnikrishnan (Mohanlal) and Meenakshi (Vinduja Menon) who have an almost 30 year age difference between them. The film won Mohanlal the 1994 Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: sad
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Eyes of a Thief (2014)
Plot Summary:
A father with a dangerous secret searching for his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway (2017)
Plot Summary:
A rich and famous self-help guru's controversial philosophy of extreme selfishness is put to the ultimate test when his only daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Underdoges (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sign holder gets fired from his job and as a result gets into the drug and bit-coin money laundering business.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You (1966)
Plot Summary:
Producer/director Albert Zugsmith's acid-therapy "comedy," complete with a tinted trip sequence "in hilarious LSD color." A suicidal film star named Honey Bunny is sent by her producer to a rest home run by an unhinged Dr. Horatio, who gives his patients LSD as a cure. The wacky patients include female impersonator Skippy Roper as an effeminate dress designer, a midget, a fat lady, and lots of actors, directors, and producers, including Zugsmith himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
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The Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A drug dealing, secretive, and brutal clan control a tightknit community in Upper Egypt. The movie tracks the rise of the Mansour Hafny (Ahmed El-Sakka), the educated son of the clan’s leader, as he consolidates his power over the region. Mansour clashes with the police, enters a blood feud with a rival clan, but yearns for the daughter of his worst enemy. A police officer, Tarek (Mahmoud Abdel-Moghni), is posted to the region in order to stop Mansour, but discovers even deadlier secrets of corruption.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: islamic
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The Perfect Candidate (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young Saudi doctor campaigns for a seat on the municipal council, finding confidence as she combats prejudice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Omar & Salma 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Now parents, Omar and Salma hit some obstacles while raising their two children and staying in love after the honeymoon ends.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Scott and Sid (2018)
Plot Summary:
From their first encounter as teenagers in high school, Scott and Sid seem unlikely friends. Scott is a shambolic dreamer, intent on carving out his own path in life and holding up a metaphorical middle finger to anyone who tries to stop him. He is a quintessential troubled teen: on his fifth high school by the age of fifteen, alienated from his peers, crippled by recurring nightmares and disliked by his own foster parents. Sid, on the other hand, wants nothing more than to be liked. An unconfident, awkward recluse through circumstance, Sid's impoverished and dysfunctional background leave him no time for friends and no money for hobbies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sad
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Headfirst (2014)
Plot Summary:
Headfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school. With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother. Before long, an accidental pickpocket and a notoriously lousy storyteller teams up with this one dysfunctional sort of a family. Nothing is the same anymore. Headfirst is a story about missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love. And about a hare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Rock the Casbah (2013)
Plot Summary:
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, islamic, gloomy
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It Must Be Heaven (2019)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sincere, melancholic, comedy drama, independent film, cult classic, contemplative, psychological, documentary filmmaking
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Perfect Strangers (2022)
Plot Summary:
Do we truly know one another? Every one of us has three lives: a public, a private and secret one. What we once stored in our memories is now being stored in our phones - what happens when these are made public?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Lebanon, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: social, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a remote, isolated, unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact and try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark, sabotaging the village radio, then destroying the village TV.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, Qatar
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, thought provoking, uplifting, humorous, poignant, islamic, sentimental, realistic, contemplative
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The Acid Eaters (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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Snow White and Russian Red (2009)
Plot Summary:
An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Over the course of several chaotic days he walks around the hood, takes drugs and confronts himself with other women.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surreal, semi serious, realistic, disturbing, offbeat, sexual, fast, sexy
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The Baby Doll Night (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hossam returns home to Cairo for New Year's Eve after a year's separation from his wife. At the airport, his plans for a romantic night (and to conceive a child) are thwarted by several events, including a terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, sad, islamic, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Lembi 8 Giga (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lembi.. a poor lawyer who marries a school teacher and he causes her troubles due to his bad financial status, and then he meets with an accident which changes the way he was living.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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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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Humboldt County (2008)
Plot Summary:
Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the redwoods of northern California, where he encounters her eccentric family of pot farmers. But when Bogart runs away without a word, Peter is thrust into the picturesque and bizarre world.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic, offbeat, feel good, contemplative, crying
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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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Excuse my French (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, sad