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- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFaten HamamahZaki RostomAbdallah GheithA poor peasant woman becomes a symbol of worker oppression in this somber social drama directed by Henri Barakat. Azziza (Faten Hamama) is brutally raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes for her husband (Abdallah Gheiss). She does not relate the incident to her husband who is suffering from an undisclosed illness. Azziza hides the pregnancy and strangles the baby after it is born, but she also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling peasants.
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsSharif AbdulhamidAaliyah AbdulmoneimNimat AbdulnaserHassan is a bus driver and the only male sibling of five sisters, his father owns a workshop that got suspended due to taxes problems. Hassan tries to provide money before the workshop is sold on the auction.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifAhmad El-SabawiAmin Yousseff GhurabStarsTahiyyah KaryukaShukri SarhanShadiaA young man from the country arrives in Cairo to finish his education. His landlady, a widow and successful businesswoman in the quarter of the Citadel, seduces him. Although she teaches him much about life she also makes him forget his obligations to his family, his studies, even his religion. When he tries to put her aside she attempts to force him to give up everything in which he believes.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorMohamed KhanStarsSuad HusniHussein FahmyAhmed ZakiMaowid ala Ashaa is a 1981 Egyptian romance film, starring Soad Hosni and Ahmed Zaki. The life story of a beautiful and pure woman, interested of the very little things with a great sensibility.
- DirectorHussein KamalStarsShadiaMahmoud MoursyYehia ChahineBased on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RustumYoussef ChahineA newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsOmar SharifEzzat El AlailiSafia El EmariThe mayor have many sons, the youngest of his sons for military service are required, but it is looking for different ways to not send his son to perform his duty, he makes a deal with a simple peasant that sends his only son (Masry) instead of his son in exchange for Kiratin of the earth ... Complicated film events after winning the mayor's issue of the land lifted against the territory's interest, and that is a judicial issue a necessity because the peasants of their land being cleared become mayor by virtue of the judge. One of whom shall rigging Alathiatat personal citizen "Egyptian" and after paying bribes. The end is very sad, in "Egyptian" die during military service, and he knows that his father "Ezzat Alayli" which influenced deeply affected by his death and regret sending the army to serve anywhere son of the mayor for money. The film also shows the meaning of friendship among members of the general community and the companions of arms, especially in the Egyptian army in 1973.
- DirectorRadwan El-KashefStarsSeif AbdelrahmanManal AfifiHamdy AhmedThis film is an exploration of what happens to places in general, and people in particular, once the menfolk abandon an Egyptian village to investigate the greener-grass on the proverbial 'other side'. The womenfolk, those too old and those too young are left behind... and as the years pass, only letters return, telling tales of loneliness and hard-times. A young man, Ahmed, grows-up under these surroundings and has to deal with being the de-facto man-in-charge; when several of the migrant workers return one day, everyone has to come to terms with things being forever changed.
- DirectorSherif ArafaSherif ArafaYehia HassaneinStarsAdel EmamYoussraKamal El-ShinnawiA family man frustrated by bureaucracies of Egyptian public system as well as difficulties of life finds himself inadvertently accused of terrorism.