Egypt Movies

a short movie showing a day in the life of Egyptian middle class clerk in early 1970s.

In the 14 months prior to the revolution, filmmaker Lillie Paquette follows key opposition figures and young activists as they struggle against the...

Ahmed is a simple man who lives in a village which called Beidif, 200 km from Cairo in Egypt. His job is to make up the sewer system. All houses in...

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up...

A short documentary film that captures the city (Cairo) in its most tranquil and calm state, from 5 am to 7 am.

The film revolves around the theft of a manuscript from Egypt by a multinational gang under the leadership of their boss, who had the daughter of a...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainability in his architecture. This film takes us with...

This documentary explores the life of Dorothy Eady, also known as Omm Sety, who believed she was a reincarnated ancient Egyptian priestess. It...

What exactly happened to all the objects found by Howard Carter after he finished exploring Tutankhamun's tomb in 1930 after they had been lying...

The true life story and adventures of László Almásy, the 'English patient', who crossed Africa in 1929 with the father of...

"Nasr Hamed Abou Zayd is not Godot, and the expectation promised by the title is misleading: this great gentleman is present in almost every shot....

A sarcastic look at the content provided by television programs

An Egyptian living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reflects on his new surroundings through a series of images and observations. The...

A young boy sees his own world through a window of the kiosk which he is working in...

The story of two criminal teenagers in Giza, Egypt. They try to escape with a stolen money safe from an abandon house in thier neighborhood. And...

The events of the film take place in one of the local neighborhoods in Cairo, with a quarrel starting among a group of young people watching a world...

From the exile of King Farouk in 1952 to the departure of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, this three-part documentary revisits Egypt's contemporary history,...

Exclusively utilizing footage from other Egyptian films that use the pyramids as backdrop, Domestic Tourism II explores the ways in which these...