Movies: Tawfiq Al-Deqen

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade....

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 effec...

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes...

Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend....

Navy officer Wahid arrives in a military hospital, with a kidney failure, his days are numbered. The inmates try to cheer him up , while his nurse gets closer to him, and soon kindness turns to love....

Renegotiating the representational paradigm of nationhood the film draws a heterogeneous picture of Egyptian society as well as Soviet workers as they embarked on the momentous dam enterprise. The films presents a vision of a nation deep rooted in un...

the story of a young fashion model, who suffers from family problems that make her lonely and frustrated. Coincidence prompts her to meet a painter who uses girls as models for his paintings. She visits his house to meet a senior official in the stat...

A Man in Our House is a 1961 Egyptian film about the resistance to British rule in Egypt which ended in the exile of King Farouk in 1954 and the rise to power of Gamal Abdel Nasser....

Two gamblers living a prosperous but lustful life where money has replaced morals. However, their lives change after an unexpected meeting with a belly dancer....

Samia (school teacher) and Murad (movie writer) met in alexendria by accident . After they date for sometime ,they get married. their new life together came with consequences they have to deal with....

This film is based on a novel from 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story takes place during WWII and focuses on Al-Madak Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as the microcosm of the world. A barber is in love wi...

A strange man arrives at the fishermen's village looking for his illegitimate child to give him his inheritance. He dies and leaves the money with the head of the fishermen. The big fishermen doubt the three women from the village who had a "shady" ...

Based on the novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, 1937, Diary of A Country Prosecutor records the daily activities and tribulations of a public official appointed to act as a village justice in the countryside....

The story revolves around Sultan, the poor child who grows up and becomes a military correspondent at an elite brigade. He enjoys the sympathy of the police officer, the son of the general, unlike the rest of the house....

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 re...

Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds othe...

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of...

When his leading lady drops out of his film, a director gets a saleswoman for the part and introduces her as a sophisticated lady. When the movie becomes a smash hit, she rebels against the director....

The story of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid (592-642) the greatest military leader in the dawn of Islam during the life of prophet Muhammad and his caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar....

Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spiri...