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This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet and falls in love with two young Egyptian brothers, reflecting complex themes of colonial desire, affection, and personal connection.
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Dr. Sami is subjected to harassment and arrogance from his wife, Munira. One of his patients is the singer Nadia, who visits his clinic for treatment. From here, Dr. Sami feels how gentle Nadia is. Dr. Sami's conditions change, and he even becomes preoccupied with Munira. Munira tries to find out the reason for this change, but fails to bring him back home, so she begins to spread rumors and scandals about him.
Bahiya decides to take revenge after her brother's death at the hands of a drug gang. She exploits the love of Sayed, a gang member, to achieve her revenge, but the gang leader, Shukoura, stands in their way.
Wahid has a friend who works in the drug trade named Abu Al-Ezz. Abu Al-Ezz undertakes a single training in gambling until he loses all of his wealth. After that, he offers him to return his wealth to participate in drug smuggling activities, the police lie in wait for them, except that Wahid causes the killing of his cousin the officer Celal.
In two imaginary states consumed by wars, the kings decide to resort to affinity to avoid wars. On the way, the king's son escapes from his guards, but he meets his awaited bride, Set Elhosn , without knowing who she is. He falls in love with her while trying to escape the marriage.
Samir and Fathi are friends. Samir is a famous musician and Fathi works as an employee in a humble job. Fathi meets Nahid, who has a beautiful voice and introduces her to his friend Samir in order to discover her. Samir admires her and decides to compose for her and marry her. However, he remembers her love for Fathi, so he retracts his decision and marries Fathi to Nahid. After a while, he imagines the existence of a relationship between Nahid and Samir, and doubts begin to take hold. On his thinking.
Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.
When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich.
Wafaa runs away from her husband who treats her very harshly to work in a jewelry store. Then she meets a young man who was trying to rob the store. Their relationship develops quickly and they get married after she stipulates that he stop stealing. However, her life turns upside down when her first husband is released from prison.
The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.
A hooker decides to repent after she gets married and gives birth, but when she discovers that her husband is an addict, she convinces two of her friends to steal some jewelry, but things do not go well after the apartment owner and her child were killed during the robbery. Making her accused of a crime she didn't commit.
As Sharbat marries her sweetheart, she comes to realize that their ambitions and plans for the future do not align. She gets a divorce and falls in love with a rich student, only to marry his father. When the jealous student kills his father, Sharbat inherits her husband's entire fortune.
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
Samia asks her fiancé Anis to help her sick mother. The police arrest them on charges of drug trafficking, but the court decides to acquit her. With the death of her mother, she goes to live with her wealthy aunt, and there, her cousin Ahmed takes a liking to her and marries her. Years pass and Anis is released from prison and seeks to get close to Samia again. He meets Ahmed and convinces him to participate in some projects to get closer to Samia. He blackmails her with pictures of the police reports, so she decides to get rid of him.
Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.
Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.
A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.
After Abu El-Dahab and Ihsan get married and have a baby, a jealous Al-Atra gets his friend Amina to impersonate Ihsan and reports Abu El-Dahab to the police. As Abu El-Dahab plots to escape from prison, he plans to take revenge on Al-Atra.
Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.
Hassan, frustrated by poverty, becomes involved with a wealthy woman and eventually abandons his family for her.
Atiat is an orphan who grows up in a palace under the care of a wealthy woman. When the woman discovers that Atiat lost her virginity, she kicks her out, unaware that her own nephew, Fou'ad, is responsible. As Atiat becomes a dancer, she gets accused of a murder, and the judge turns out to be Fou'ad
Sewer worker Saber learns about the role of the woman who decides to repent. He claims to the people of the neighborhood that he is his cousin and lives in the house of the teacher Nusa. Mimu, one of the gang members, arrives at her house to greet the warm people, but they do not give up. Saber's grievance is finally accepted. October is victory and transit, Saber returns from the battle injured and warm people celebrate his marriage in part.
The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.
One of the wives is late in having children, so the husband's mother annoys her and urges her son to marry another woman, but he postpones talking about this matter until he returns from a work mission. In his absence, the wife's brother tries to assault her, so she resists him leaves the house, and loses consciousness. Her husband's brother carries her home. She shows signs of pregnancy, so her husband becomes suspicious of her and divorces her. She disappears from her husband's life, the girl grows up, and the husband's nephew proposes to her and drops a surprise.
A teacher loves Usta Hassan, the driver of a transport vehicle, and she tries to seduce him in various ways and fails because his heart is occupied with the love of his fiancée. The teacher, the head of a gang, becomes jealous of Usta Hassan because he has the teacher’s love, so he clashes with him, but Usta Hassan overpowers him, and when Hassan refuses to respond to the teacher’s desires, she tries to destroy him. .
Three different stories about three women. Three women, the first (Hana), who loves (Adel), but she meets (Sami) to also fall in love with him, the second widow (Tawahida), who loves (Yusef) the employee of the Muslim Council, but he is married, and the third (Shams), the singer who falls in love with Fathi But he lives at a loss because of her sitting with clients, what happens to the three women
Nadia suffers from the behavior of her sister Nawal, to seek Dr. Adel and ask him for advice, to generate love between them, one day a young man who tried to commit suicide arrives because he is paralyzed, Nadia succeeds in getting him out of despair and succeeds in his treatment, to begin A love story between him and her sister Nawal, and events escalate.
Between the Setback of 1967 and the glorious October War, Abdel Rahman feels despair following the defeat of his homeland as he witnesses the changes that occurred to the people and their journey from despair to determination to restore their land and dignity.
When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the writer seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...?
Ashwaq marries Khalil, and gives birth to her daughter Fatima. The mayor’s son, Shalabi, throws his net around the wife and convinces her to run away with him. Then, as soon as he leaves her, Khalil’s husband avenges his honor and kills him, so the poor aunt takes charge of Fatima after her father goes to prison. After the aunt's death, the pasha for whom she worked took over her upbringing.
Sabrina's mother is sick, and her aunt visits them to check on the health of her sister. At the Police College, after being attracted to Sabrina and promised to marry, but the aunt is determined to marry her son Idiot Mohammed to ensure service to the whole family.
When one of the girls takes a taxi, a love story develops between her and the taxi driver. Their meetings occur many times and she asks him to propose marriage to her, but he refuses due to the difference in social level. So she resorts to the trick of disguising herself as another person and working as a singer and claiming to be her sister. They participate in singing shows and achieve success. He is in love with the singer and does not know that she is the same rich girl, but some bad guys are trying to set them up.
A singer who works in a nightclub, and seeks to retire from this world, meets a poor young man who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage, so she accepts, and leaves the world of cabarets and the two live a happy life. The woman appears to be very loyal, as she serves her disabled father-in-law, but her husband feels that he does not provide her with happiness, so he is forced to embezzle an amount of money from the company he works for, and he goes to prison, and in light of the life circumstances she lives in, she decides to return to work in the bar again.
A brother disagrees with his sister which makes her move to live with her older sister in the countryside. She finds her sister living a harsh life and when the brother goes to visit them, he's surprised by the strict way imposed by the sister at home.
The story revolves around the singer (Dalal) who works in a cabaret. Many men fall in love with her, but she prefers the wealthy (Mustafa). She marries him and moves to live with him on his estate. (Mustafa's) mother, who wanted her son to marry his cousin, is shocked. When she is injured in an accident, a doctor comes to treat her and meets Dalal, as he was one of her former clients. The doctor proposes to (Mustafa's) cousin, and (Dalal) refuses this marriage, which will reveal her past. She decides to kill the doctor to preserve her past from her husband's family.
Wezah and Hamdi succeed in recruiting Iman to work with them in drug smuggling, Iman travels to Tunisia on a mission for both Hamdi and Waze. Eman's material condition improves and she decides to stop this job and cancel her travel.
The film revolves around a couple who were joined by love but the intense quarrels between the husband and wife until they reached the judiciary to separate them, but the ruling was in favor of the husband and entered the wife in the rule of obedience to her husband means the house of obedience and dream here the husband to discipline his wife
A poor girl marries a rich young man, despite the opposition of her father-in-law, and lives a happy life with her husband until she falls into the clutches of a fraudulent young man, who tries to tell her that her husband has been in an accident. When she goes to him, she learns the truth about him. The fraudster tries to pressure the wife through what he has caught on her. The husband finds out about the matter and divorces his wife without understanding that his wife is innocent. He travels abroad, and the wife seeks revenge on the fraudster who ruined her life.
A man unsatisfied with his married life, looks for a new relationship and meets a dancer. When she goes to his house, she finds him murdered. The police investigation reveals that she has a brother who supports her and tries to reveal the true killer.
Mother Fatima controls her children. Her eldest son Essam challenges her and urges his brothers to stand up to her. Essam falls for his neighbor, Suhair, who is already married to Usta Rajab. She shares the same feelings, and they agree to marry after she gets divorced.
Khamis and his brother Khalil poison their father to get rid of him, after he threatens to write his fortune to his new born son Hamada, who he had after marrying his maid Firdaws. Firdaws is accused of killing her husband because she brought him food without knowing about his sons' plot, while Khamis and Khalil get rid of their little brother by leaving him in the middle of Cairo's traffic to get lost. Hajj Younis finds the child and takes care of him, then he joins the music institute, and a love story develops between him and his colleague Souad.
Hamed is a student from Damanhour who joins the University of Alexandria. He goes with his three colleagues to spend an evening in one of the modest nightclubs, and Kahraman, the dancer, draws his attention.
Barai discovers a great scam, where he throws himself in front of cars and starts blackmailing the driver who hit him, and takes money from him. Barai realizes that this kind of work is better than the other jobs he has previously done. Barai collides with a car driven by the director of a company, and starts blackmailing him, then he discovers that the director is cheating on his wife, so he threatens to reveal his secret.
One of the traveling circus troupes in the Egyptian villages suffers from many problems due to the small number of spectators and its failure to keep up with the times. The son of the troupe owner, who has finished his studies, comes and tries to develop the troupe, canceling some shows and adding others. He faces opposition from the old members, but he succeeds with the help of all of them.
A man lives with a former belly dancer who has agreed to marry him, even if she prefers his older brother.
Sett Abuha is a young lady who lives in a local neighborhood and marries Salah. Growing dissatisfied with her lot in life, she leaves for Istanbul where she meets a wealthy man who turns her into a fine lady. Can she run away from her husband?
Medhat and Kassem are partners who find themselves at odds when Kassem first dissolves their partnership then commits a murder and frames Medhat for it.
Hamido (Farid Shawqi) works as a fisherman at sea, but he also deals in drugs by sea. Hamido and Saadia (Hoda Sultan) live in a great love story, but the teacher Qarsh (Mahmoud El-Meligy) does not leave them alone.
After leaving juvie, Rabie meets a friend who gets him a job at a gambling den. He walks away from the gambling world and has a family but he finds himself forced to go back to his old life after his son gets sick.
Sheikh Hassan loves Louisa, the sister of his friend's student, they get married against the blessing of their parents. His mother dies of grief at the separation of her son, so his father pressed him to return home. They're forced to get divorced but Louisa is pregnant with Sheikh Hassan's child.
Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding ceremony.
Tawfiq, a contractor, and his wife Hafiza have no children so he adopts Ahmed, who then runs his business. As Tawfiq gets involved with a playful woman named Mahasin, Ahmed has an affair with her, unaware of the fact that she is Tawfiq's wife.
A wealthy old man meets a young woman who he gets infatuated with, but he feels that her husband is an obstacle in his way,so he decides to offer him a clinic to keep him busy and then sends him abroad. But when he tries to get closer to the woman,she pushes him away and he decides to expose her.
Bassima looks forward to marrying her daughter Siham off to Ahmed, the teacher who lives in her house. When Siham accuses Ahmed of assaulting her, causing him to be fired from his work and ruining his reputation, Ahmed becomes determined to reveal the truth.
