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- This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
- Teenage Nadia is raised by her father after her mother's death. Returning home from boarding school, her father has re-married. Jealous Nadia decides to get rid of the competition of a stepmother by accusing her of sleeping with her uncle.
- This film erupted the issue of women's right to get their divorce when life is impossible with their husbands. The movie faced the society for the first time with some problems that the "Marriage and divorce law" contains, which needed to be looked over again. The movie was direct cause of changing some subject in the "Family Law" and continues to be an icon for more movies discussing same problem. Faten won the best actress award from Cairo Festival, and a diploma of recognition from Tehran festival.
- A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.
- Discussing how women could work side by side with men through a funny and glorious classic movie between two neighbors that their kids are graduating from a law school and they love each other. But after graduation, each one of them (Faten and Kamal) open a law firm in front of each other and with multiple funny pictures we can see how struggling the female can face running her office due the society at that time for not used to have a lawyer as a women. With a relation ship between her lover (Kamal Elshenawi) and one of his clients, that masters a crime after killing her husband. Kamal later become a suspect but he gets the support of his lover (Faten) who defend him in court and win the case and they get married
- A tale story of the July, 1952 revolution in Egypt through the experiences of Fatma (Hamama), a young betrothed woman. Her history is told in flash backs as she sits on the roof of her house, intending to jump to her death if her brother carries through with his threat to confine her to a mental institution. Fatma's Husband-to-be is a fisherman who has been away for a long time looking for work abroad, and she has stayed at home to take care of her two brothers instead of going with him. When he comes back, her brother Galal sees to it that he is arrested, intending to put him in prison for several years. Fatma, in turn, represents loyal Egyptians who resisted foreign-backed rule even if it meant dying.