Movies: Farid Shawqy

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village....

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is ac...

Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their si...

The story of the death of the Egyptian scientist Rauf is spreading after his disappearance, but his daughter Shahira cooperates with the journalist Sami Wahdan in search of her father, to find him hiding in Beirut for fear of secret papers that inclu...

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directora...

Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the inv...

Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo....

Adel is an honest secretary at the prosecutor office, while raising his son Ahmad after the death of his wife. When Tamer, the son of a millionaire is arrested for drug addiction, Tamer's lawyer tries bribe Adel to find a way to get him out, but to n...

Attia (Yehia al-Fakharani) works as a simple employee, after his mother-in-law threatens to break his engagement from her daughter because of his delay in getting an apartment. He travels to his hometown to sell his inheritance. There he falls in lov...

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the c...

Ja'far rebels against his controlling grandfather and marries the shepherdess Marwanah. When his grandfather kicks him out, Ja'far is unable to support himself and Marwanah so he leaves her and marries the wealthy lady Huda, but he begins to struggle...

Laila, the daughter of the rich man Fouad, meets Mamdouh, the ladies man, and falls in love with him. Mamdouh proposes to her but her father refuses, so Laila decides to take revenge by sending letters to her family members to drive a wedge between t...

The dervish Alish dies and is taken in a majestic procession to the cemetery. When he ascends to heaven to be judged, he discovers that the sum of his virtues equals the sum of his sins, so he's sent back to the living in order to test him and decide...

Aging Constable Hassan (Farid Shawqi) continues to work hard in the Department of Drug Control while devoting himself to raising his son and daughter. He then discovers that the son became a drugug addict through a junkie dancer, so he intervenes in ...

After a love affair that shattered her heart due to different social classes , A woman decides to become independant and works in journalism which leads her to many different pathways that make her rich but at what cost ?....

Based on the life and legend of Antarah ibn Shaddad, a 6th century poet and hero whose poetic works are considered among the greatest in the Arab language....

Najwa, a student, is involved in a relationship with a colleague of hers, so she seduces his mother's husband's shalatah to marry her, but she goes to prison for his suspicious activity and confiscates his money and Najwa loses the way....

Hafez takes advantage of his presidency of the Childhood Protection Association and his knowledge of the rich families, to cover up his criminal activity in which he kidnaps the children of these families in exchange for ransom....

1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk convinces Amin to invest his life savings in a project, which he promises, will get him rich. Amin agrees bu...

Fathi trades in smuggled goods, he lives with his mother Bahia and loves his neighbor Fakiha who encourages him to finish his studies. A matchmaker persuades his mother to marry Said, a professional conman who marries wealthy old women and steals the...