Remembering the Arab Spring
In the Last Days of the City
Tamer El Said · 2017 · Egypt, Germany, United Kingdom
In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker struggles to make a film that captures the pulse of his city at a moment when, all around him, the crumbling buildings reflect the waning dreams of their inhabitants.
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The White Helmets
To save a life is to save all of humanity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2016
- Director Orlando von Einsiedel
- Cast Khalid Farah, Mohammed Farah, Abu Omar, Raed Saleh
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Clash
(إشتباك)
Conflict is on the inside.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt, France • 2016
- Director Mohamed Diab
- Cast Nelly Karim, Hani Adel, Mohamed El Sebaii, Tarek Abdel Aziz, Hosny Sheta, Ahmed Dash
- Genre Thriller, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
In Syria
(Insyriated)
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, France, Lebanon • 2017
- Director Philippe Van Leeuw
- Cast Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud, Juliette Navis, Mohsen Abbas, Moustapha Al Kar
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Kanopy, Plex,
The Square
During the Egyptian Revolution, young activists armed with determination, humor, and social media savvy fight for their country’s future.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Egypt, United States • 2013
- Director Jehane Noujaim
- Cast Khalid Abdalla, Dina Abdullah, Dina Amer, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam, Ahmed Hassan
- Genre Documentary, Drama, History
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
The Cave
(غار)
The patriarchy has no place in a war.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Syria, Denmark, Germany • 2019
- Director Feras Fayyad
- Cast Amani Ballour, Salim Namour
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Vudu, National Geographic
Of Fathers and Sons
(Die Kinder des Kalifats)
A rare glimpse into the life of a radicalist family, at the point where childhood dies and jihadism is born.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States, Syria • 2017
- Director Talal Derki
- Cast Abu Osama
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now
Series
Paranormal
Amr Salama · 2020-2020 · Egypt
A cynical hematologist with a dark sense of humor unwillingly embarks on a journey as his world is turned upside down after his lifelong scientific convictions are questioned. Set in the 1960s, the series depicts the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, who begins experiencing paranormal activities which undermine his scientific beliefs.
Available on Amazon Video, Netflix
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Jinn
(جِن)
A field trip to Petra turns a high school into a supernatural battleground.
- ✭ ✭
- Jordan • 2019
- Creator Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, Rajeev Dassani, Elan Dassani
- Cast Karam Tabbaa, Salma Malhas, Sultan Alkhail, Hamzeh Okab
- Genre Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Short and Straight to the Point
Bonboné
Rakan Mayasi · 2017 · Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lebanon
A Palestinian inmate serving time in an Israeli jail desperately wants a child with his wife on the outside. As visits are restricted, the couple must resort to unusual means of conception.
Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Amazon Video
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Rupture
(رابتشير)
Four Arab kids search for a pool and find relief from both the heat and their trauma as Syrian refugees.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Jordan, Canada • 2017
- Director Yassmina Karajah
- Cast Asaad Al Arid, Salam Al Marzouq, Hussein Al Ahmad, Wazira Al Ahmad, Rania Issa
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The White Helmets
To save a life is to save all of humanity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2016
- Director Orlando von Einsiedel
- Cast Khalid Farah, Mohammed Farah, Abu Omar, Raed Saleh
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
A Drowning Man
We are all drowning men just trying to keep our heads above water.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Greece • 2017
- Director Mahdi Fleifel
- Cast Atef Alshafei, Rebih El-Saleous
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, DocAlliance Films, Netflix basic with Ads, Amazon Video
The President's Visit
When the President of the Republic visits a soap shop, things get real clean.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Lebanon, Qatar, United States • 2017
- Director Cyril Aris
- Cast Mounia Akl, Nicolas Daniel, Fouad Yammine, Sihame Haddad
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Kanopy
Nocturne In Black
There are still beautiful things in life, and music is one of them.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Lebanon • 2016
- Director Jimmy Keyrouz
- Cast Julian Farhat, Tarek Yaacoub
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Amazon Video
The Visit
(الزيارة)
What goes on when the cameras aren't rolling is even more important.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt, Germany • 2015
- Director Marouan Omara
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films
Record It!
Scheherazade's Diary
Zeina Daccache · 2013 · Lebanon
This engaging tragicomic documentary follows women inmates at Baabda Prison through a 10-month drama therapy/theater project set up in 2012 by the film’s director Zeina Daccache. In footage of rehearsals and the live performance, as well as daily life, the women share their stories, holding up a mirror to Lebanese society.
Available on DocAlliance Films, Apple TV
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The Cave
(غار)
The patriarchy has no place in a war.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Syria, Denmark, Germany • 2019
- Director Feras Fayyad
- Cast Amani Ballour, Salim Namour
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Vudu, National Geographic
Speed Sisters
They're bold. They're fearless. And they're tearing up tracks all over Palestine.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Palestine, Qatar, United Kingdom • 2015
- Director Amber Fares
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
The Square
During the Egyptian Revolution, young activists armed with determination, humor, and social media savvy fight for their country’s future.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Egypt, United States • 2013
- Director Jehane Noujaim
- Cast Khalid Abdalla, Dina Abdullah, Dina Amer, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam, Ahmed Hassan
- Genre Documentary, Drama, History
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine
(القاهرة منورة بأهلها)
A portrait of both Egypt's most famous city and its most famous filmmaker.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 1991
- Director Youssef Chahine
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel
What Comes Around
(Al gami'ya)
It takes a village.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Lebanon, Egypt, Greece • 2018
- Director Reem Saleh
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Cairo Drive
On the streets of Egypt, the only rule is that there are no rules.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt, United States • 2013
- Director Sherief Elkatsha
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
The White Helmets
To save a life is to save all of humanity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2016
- Director Orlando von Einsiedel
- Cast Khalid Farah, Mohammed Farah, Abu Omar, Raed Saleh
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Oscar Submissions
Yomeddine
Abu Bakr Shawky · 2018 · Egypt, United States, Austria
A Coptic leper and his orphaned young friend decide to leave their leper colony for the first time in search of their lost families. With only a handful of possessions, a loyal donkey, and each other, the two set out on this determined journey across Egypt --- a journey that proves to be both difficult and beautifully unforgettable.
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A Drowning Man
We are all drowning men just trying to keep our heads above water.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Greece • 2017
- Director Mahdi Fleifel
- Cast Atef Alshafei, Rebih El-Saleous
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, DocAlliance Films, Netflix basic with Ads, Amazon Video
The Cave
(غار)
The patriarchy has no place in a war.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Syria, Denmark, Germany • 2019
- Director Feras Fayyad
- Cast Amani Ballour, Salim Namour
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Vudu, National Geographic
Clash
(إشتباك)
Conflict is on the inside.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt, France • 2016
- Director Mohamed Diab
- Cast Nelly Karim, Hani Adel, Mohamed El Sebaii, Tarek Abdel Aziz, Hosny Sheta, Ahmed Dash
- Genre Thriller, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Omar
(عمر)
A Palestinian freedom fighter is captured and forced to work as a double agent for the Israeli authorities.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Palestine • 2013
- Director Hany Abu-Assad
- Cast Adam Bakri, Waleed Zuaiter, Leem Lubany, Samer Bisharat, Iyad Hoorani, Mousa Habiib Allah
- Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Available on Netflix, Chai Flicks, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
The Square
During the Egyptian Revolution, young activists armed with determination, humor, and social media savvy fight for their country’s future.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Egypt, United States • 2013
- Director Jehane Noujaim
- Cast Khalid Abdalla, Dina Abdullah, Dina Amer, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam, Ahmed Hassan
- Genre Documentary, Drama, History
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Of Fathers and Sons
(Die Kinder des Kalifats)
A rare glimpse into the life of a radicalist family, at the point where childhood dies and jihadism is born.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States, Syria • 2017
- Director Talal Derki
- Cast Abu Osama
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now
Sheikh Jackson
(شيخ جاكسون)
A young imam struggles to cope with the sudden death of Michael Jackson.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2017
- Director Amr Salama
- Cast Ahmed Al Fishawy, Ahmed Malek, Amina Khalil
- Genre Drama
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Plex,
Theeb
A young Bedouin boy is forced through a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan • 2014
- Director Naji Abu Nowar
- Cast Jacir Eid, Hassan Mutlag, Hussein Salameh, Marji Audeh, Jack Fox
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy
The White Helmets
To save a life is to save all of humanity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2016
- Director Orlando von Einsiedel
- Cast Khalid Farah, Mohammed Farah, Abu Omar, Raed Saleh
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Barakah Meets Barakah
(بركة يقابل بركة)
A laid-back civil servant and a wealthy video blogger struggle to make it as a modern couple amid strict Saudi social conventions.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Saudi Arabia • 2016
- Director Mahmoud Sabbagh
- Cast Hisham Fageeh, Fatima Al-Banawi, Sami Hifny, Khairia Nazmi, Abdulmajeed Al-Ruhaidi
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Wadjda
(وجدة)
After a fight with a neighborhood boy, Wadjda attempts to raise money for a bicycle to beat him in a race.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany • 2012
- Director Haifaa Al-Mansour
- Cast Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Algohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf, Dana Abdullilah
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Capernaum
(کفرناحوم)
Zain, a hardened 12-year-old boy struggling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for his conception.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Lebanon, United States, France • 2018
- Director Nadine Labaki
- Cast Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Nadine Labaki, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef
- Genre Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
3000 Nights
(3000 Nocy)
A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him while trying to survive and maintain hope.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Occupied Palestinian Territory, France, Jordan • 2015
- Director Mai Masri
- Cast Rakeen Saad, Karim Saleh, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Alicia Sánchez, Raida Adon, Yussuf Abu-Warda
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Next Award, Please
Ghadi
Amin Dora · 2013 · Lebanon
Lacking knowledge of his condition, a small Lebanese coastal town starts calling Ghadi, a young special needs boy, a "demon." Desperate to convince the villagers that his son is not to be feared, Ghadi's father concocts a crazy scheme to convince the townspeople that his son is instead an angel who holds the answers to all their problems.
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Cairo Drive
On the streets of Egypt, the only rule is that there are no rules.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt, United States • 2013
- Director Sherief Elkatsha
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Divine Intervention
(يد إلهية)
Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Morocco, Germany • 2002
- Director Elia Suleiman
- Cast Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher, Jamel Daher, Lufuf Nuweiser
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Netflix, Chai Flicks, Netflix basic with Ads, Kino Now, Kanopy
Rock the Casbah
When the prodigal daughter returns, secrets will be released.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Morocco • 2013
- Director Laïla Marrakchi
- Cast Morjana Alaoui, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal, Hiam Abbass, Omar Sharif
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy
Omar
(عمر)
A Palestinian freedom fighter is captured and forced to work as a double agent for the Israeli authorities.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Palestine • 2013
- Director Hany Abu-Assad
- Cast Adam Bakri, Waleed Zuaiter, Leem Lubany, Samer Bisharat, Iyad Hoorani, Mousa Habiib Allah
- Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Available on Netflix, Chai Flicks, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Excuse my French
(لا مؤاخذة)
Religious conversion through peer pressure.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2014
- Director Amr Salama
- Cast Ahmed Helmy, Ahmed Dash, Kinda Alloush, Hani Adel, Bayoumi Fouad
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Netflix, Shahid VIP, Netflix basic with Ads, Amazon Video
Capernaum
(کفرناحوم)
Zain, a hardened 12-year-old boy struggling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for his conception.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Lebanon, United States, France • 2018
- Director Nadine Labaki
- Cast Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Nadine Labaki, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef
- Genre Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Laila's Birthday
(عيد ميلاد ليلى)
For this taxi driver in Palestine, chaos is the rule.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Occupied Palestinian Territory, Tunisia, Netherlands • 2008
- Director Rashid Masharawi
- Cast Mohammad Bakri, Areen Omari, Nour Zoubi, Saleh Bakri
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Bonboné
(بونبونة)
A Palestinian inmate serving time in an Israeli jail receives a visit from his wife who devises a bold and crafty operation to fulfill their secret desires.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lebanon • 2017
- Director Rakan Mayasi
- Cast Saleh Bakri, Rana Alamuddin
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Amazon Video
Adam
(آدم)
Fate comes knocking (and she's pregnant).
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Morocco, France, Belgium • 2019
- Director Maryam Touzani
- Cast Lubna Azabal, Nisrine Erradi, Douae Belkhaouda, Aziz Hattab, Hasnaa Tamtaoui
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy
Wadjda
(وجدة)
After a fight with a neighborhood boy, Wadjda attempts to raise money for a bicycle to beat him in a race.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany • 2012
- Director Haifaa Al-Mansour
- Cast Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Algohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf, Dana Abdullilah
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Salt of This Sea
(ملح هذا البحر)
Soraya, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian, seeks to reclaim both her family's home and their money taken during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
- ✭ ✭
- Palestine, Belgium, France • 2008
- Director Annemarie Jacir
- Cast Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Sylvie Wetz, Yahya Barakat, Khaled Hourani
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Kino Now, Kanopy
Yomeddine
(يوم الدين)
A Coptic leper and his orphaned young friend embark on an unforgettable journey in search of their lost families.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt, United States, Austria • 2018
- Director Abu Bakr Shawky
- Cast Rady Gamal, Shahira Fahmy, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Osama Abdallah, Mohamed Abdel Azim
- Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, VUDU Free, Kanopy
Theeb
A young Bedouin boy is forced through a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan • 2014
- Director Naji Abu Nowar
- Cast Jacir Eid, Hassan Mutlag, Hussein Salameh, Marji Audeh, Jack Fox
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy
Horses of God
(Les chevaux de Dieu)
How a decade can turn brothers into martyrs.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium, Tunisia • 2013
- Director Nabil Ayouch
- Cast Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souideq, Ahmed El Idrissi Amrani
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Mimosas
(ميموزا)
Stories of modern and traditional spirituality come together in this tale of two journeys.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, Morocco, France • 2016
- Director Oliver Laxe
- Cast Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Agli, Ikram Anzouli, Ahmed El Othemani
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, OVID, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Box Office Hits
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Yasir Al-Yasiri · 2019 · Egypt
During a bloody night, a young man and his lover are struggling not to get to the hospital, but to escape it and survive. After getting separated from each other, they have to come together again before death finds them first.
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Rattle the Cage
(Zinzana)
Making bail is hard enough without having to play a madman's twisted game.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Arab Emirates, Jordan • 2015
- Director Majid Al Ansari
- Cast Ali Suliman, Ahd, Saleh Bakri, Eyad Hourani, Omar Abdulhamid
- Genre Thriller, Crime
- Available on Apple TV
Ghadi
A father's quest to convince his town that having special needs does not make his son a "demon."
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Lebanon • 2013
- Director Amin Dora
- Cast Georges Khabbaz, Lara Rain, Emmanuel Khairallah, Camille Salameh, Rodrigue Sleiman, Samir Youssef
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Worthy
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Arab Emirates, Romania • 2016
- Director Ali F. Mostafa
- Cast Maisa Abd Elhadi, Rakeen Saad, Ali Suliman, Ruba Blal
- Genre Thriller, Action, Science Fiction
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Excuse my French
(لا مؤاخذة)
Religious conversion through peer pressure.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2014
- Director Amr Salama
- Cast Ahmed Helmy, Ahmed Dash, Kinda Alloush, Hani Adel, Bayoumi Fouad
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Netflix, Shahid VIP, Netflix basic with Ads, Amazon Video
El Dealer
(الديلر)
Longtime enemies who love the same woman are reunited by fate.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2010
- Director Ahmed Saleh
- Cast Ahmed El Sakka, Mai Selim, Khaled El Nabawy, Samy El Adl, Minnah Fadhaly, Nidal El Shafei
- Genre Thriller, Drama, Adventure
- Available on Apple TV
Ahwak
(أهواك)
When a charming plastic surgeon is introduced to his new love's single mother, he falls in love with her instead.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2015
- Director Mohamed Samy
- Cast Tamer Hosny, Ghada Adel, Entsar, Mahmoud Hemida, Amal Rezq
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Seeking a Man
(بشتري راجل)
A baby, a marriage, but no sex, all for the right price.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2017
- Director Mohamed Ali
- Cast Mohamed Mamdouh, Nelly Karim, Leila Arabi, Laila Ezz El Arab, Mohamed Shahin, Lotfy Labib
- Genre Romance, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Amazon Video
Capernaum
(کفرناحوم)
Zain, a hardened 12-year-old boy struggling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for his conception.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Lebanon, United States, France • 2018
- Director Nadine Labaki
- Cast Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Nadine Labaki, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef
- Genre Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Bolbol Hayran
(بلبل حيران)
A man suffering from amnesia can't seem to choose between the women playing tricks on him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2010
- Director Khaled Marei
- Cast Ahmed Helmy, Zeina, Sherry Adel, Amy Samir Ghanem, Youssef Fawzy, Wael Sami
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, AD tv
Flimflam
(لف ودوران)
To take advantage of a booking mix-up, a fun-loving bachelor pretends to marry a complete stranger as they "honeymoon" together.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2016
- Director Khaled Marei
- Cast Ahmed Helmy, Sabreen, Jamila Awad, Bayoumi Fouad
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Shahid VIP, AD tv
Ibn el-Qunsul
(ابن القنصل)
The con man gets conned.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2010
- Director Amr Arafa
- Cast Ghada Adel, Ahmed El Sakka, Khaled Saleh, Magdy Kamel, Khaled Sarhan, Sawsan Badr
- Genre Comedy, Thriller, Drama, Family
- Available on Apple TV
The Idol
(يا طير الطاير)
From a ragtag band to performing in front of thousands, the life of famous "Arab Idol" singer Mohammed Assaf is explored.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Occupied Palestinian Territory, United Kingdom, Qatar • 2015
- Director Hany Abu-Assad
- Cast Tawfeek Barhom, Kais Attalah, Hiba Attalah, Ahmad Qasem, Abdel Kareem Barakeh
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on OVID, Shahid VIP, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now
Omar & Salma 3
(عمر وسلمى 3)
When Omar and Salma's daughter is kidnapped, the two must come together despite their marital problems.
- ✭ ✭
- Egypt • 2012
- Director Mohamed Samy
- Cast Tamer Hosny, Mai Ezz Eldein, Ezzat Abou Aouf, Lamitta Frangieh, Abdalah Mishrif, Nahla Zaki
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on AD tv
Wild Raghda
(رغدة متوحشة)
When a male beauty center employee learns that a movie director is seeking a pretty new face, he dresses up as a woman to win the acting job.
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- Egypt • 2018
- Director Mahmoud Karim
- Cast Ramez Galal, Reham Haggag, Bayoumi Fouad, Mohamed Tharwat, Hamdy El Marghany, Hamdi Al Wazir
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Shahid VIP, Amazon Prime Video
The Cell
(الخلية)
One man seeks revenge against the terrorist who killed his best friend.
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- Egypt • 2017
- Director Tarek El'eryan
- Cast Ahmed Ezz, Amina Khalil, Mohamed Mamdouh, Reham Abdelghafour
- Genre Action, Thriller, Drama
- Available on AD tv