FR #545 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | Arabic, Corsican
Director
Jacques Audiard
Writer
Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri
Cast
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Plot
A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
FR #647 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany | Arabic, German
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Plot
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
FR #745 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, USA | Arabic, German
Director
Ben Affleck
Writer
Chris Terrio, Tony Mendez, Joshuah Bearman
Cast
Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman
Plot
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
FR #925 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, USA | Arabic, French
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Henri La Barthe, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Constant
Cast
Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre
Plot
A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
FR #2138 | Movie | Documentary, War | France, UK | Arabic, German
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog
Plot
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
FR #3016 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA, Japan | Arabic, English
Director
Spike Lee
Writer
Arnold Perl, Spike Lee, Alex Haley
Cast
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo
Plot
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
FR #3290 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany, Saudi Arabia | Arabic, French
Director
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Writer
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Cast
Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Plot
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
FR #4004 | TV | Fantasy, Drama | Egypt, USA | Arabic, English
Writer
Amr Salama
Cast
Razane Jammal, Karla Maatouk, Philip Shahbaz
Plot
Set in the 1960s, the series, packed with mystery and suspense, depicts the adventures of Doctor Refaat Ismail, a single hematologist who finds himself faced with a series of supernatural events.
In 2014, a group of Malayali nurses was captured when terrorists took over the city of Tikrit in Iraq. This movie recounts the ordeal suffered by the nurses following their capture.
FR #4084 | Movie | History, Drama | France | Arabic, French
Director
Xavier Beauvois
Writer
Xavier Beauvois, Etienne Comar
Cast
Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Plot
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
FR #4642 | Movie | Drama | Germany | Arabic, German
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Hans Hirschmuller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla
Plot
Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
FR #4893 | Movie | Action, Drama | Denmark, Finland | Arabic, Latin
Director
Peter Flinth
Writer
Jan Guillou, Hans Gunnarsson
Cast
Joakim Natterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgard
Plot
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman, is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
FR #5162 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Egypt | Arabic
Director
Henry Barakat
Writer
Henry Barakat, Youssef Gohar, Taha Hussein
Cast
Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq
Plot
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.
FR #5762 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Finland, Germany | Arabic, Finnish
Director
Aki Kaurismaki
Writer
Aki Kaurismaki
Cast
Alma Poysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiainen
Plot
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
FR #6319 | Movie | War, Drama | Algeria, Belgium | Arabic, French
Director
Rachid Bouchareb
Writer
Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle
Cast
Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
Plot
During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
FR #6640 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden | Arabic, Swedish
Director
Josef Fares
Writer
Josef Fares
Cast
Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Tuva Novotny
Plot
Roro, second generation swede with family from Lebanon is a park worker together with MÃ¥ns in this comedy about where Middle East and Sweden clashes. About forced marriage and true love.
After Saladin's victory over the King of Jerusalem, a peace treaty is signed between them, but the commander of the Crusader army, Renaud de Chatillon, slaughters a group of pilgrims going to Mecca. Saladin then decides to take re...
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down, he prophesies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
FR #6924 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Egypt, France | Arabic, English
Director
Chadi Abdel Salam
Writer
Chadi Abdel Salam
Cast
Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi
Plot
An Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.
FR #7078 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, USA | Arabic, French
Director
Patrice Leconte
Writer
Patrick Cauvin, Patrice Leconte
Cast
Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin
Plot
Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he always knew he would marry one, completing his idealised love fant...
In 2010, high school senior Husam, his best friend Maan, their one-time foe Ibrahim, and their teacher Orabi set out to produce a no-budget horror movie.
FR #7516 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Egypt, Spain | Arabic, Spanish
Director
Khaled Marei
Writer
Khaled Diab
Cast
Ahmed Helmy, Edward, Amy Samir Ghanem
Plot
A 30-year-old Egyptian goes back to Egypt after living in America for 20 years, but he has a hard time coping with the difference, especially after he loses his identity and all his money and becomes stuck in Egypt.
FR #8754 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Cyprus | Arabic, Greek
Director
Ziad Doueiri
Writer
Ziad Doueiri, Joelle Touma
Cast
Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh
Plot
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
FR #8852 | Movie | War, Drama | Iran | Arabic, Persian
Director
Bahram Beyzaie
Writer
Bahram Beyzaie
Cast
Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Adnan Afravian
Plot
An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
Levy Rico Arcos, Riad Chemali, Rafael Luis Klein-Hessling
Plot
Four boys are busy surviving Berlin's inner city district in a spiral of violence, extortion, gang laws, xenophobia and indifference. When they steal computers from their school they are fighting an uphill battle they can't retrea...
As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy d...
A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
A rich 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 is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
FR #12780 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Lebanon, Belgium | Arabic, French
Director
Ziad Doueiri
Writer
Ziad Doueiri
Cast
Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas
Plot
In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascin...
Sboui lives next to his brother and mother. Many funny adventures ensue in the old building of a fortune teller as he falls in love with her daughter. Sboui works as a secretary at his brother's office, a psychotherapist.
FR #13508 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Egypt, Japan | Arabic, Japanese
Director
Marwan Hamed
Writer
Ahmed Mourad
Cast
Rosaline Elbay, Asser Yassin, Menna Shalabi
Plot
A man who works in a pharmacy as a part time job to aid his financial status finds out that his father has been exterminated by a savage brute and sought to avenge him, then unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
FR #13515 | Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, Germany | Arabic, English
Director
Sally El Hosaini
Writer
Sally El Hosaini, Jack Thorne
Cast
Matthias Schweighofer, Ali Suliman, Dritan Kastrati
Plot
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use.
FR #13660 | Movie | Drama | Egypt, Italy | Arabic, German
Director
Salah Abouseif
Writer
Salah Abouseif, Ahmad Rushdy Saleh, Mustafa Samy
Cast
Suad Husni, Shukri Sarhan, Sanaa Gameel
Plot
A corrupt mayor, who rules the village's people with power and injustice, forces another poor man's wife secretly to marry him in order to have a child.
FR #13947 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Egypt, Italy | Arabic, Italian
Director
Anwar Wagdi
Writer
Nagib El-Rihani, Anwar Wagdi
Cast
Nagib El-Rihani, Laila Mourad, Anwar Wagdi
Plot
In this classic musical, poor old Hamam, a modest arabic teacher, falls in love with the young and beautiful Laila, his aristocratic pupil. Soon, he must decide between his unrealistic feelings or sacrificing his love for her own ...
FR #14403 | Movie | History, Drama | Egypt, France | Arabic, French
Director
Henry Barakat
Writer
Henry Barakat, Yussef Issa, Ihsan Abdel Quddous
Cast
Omar Sharif, Zubida Tharwat, Rushdi Abazah
Plot
Based in British occupied Egypt, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a member of the resistance, seeks refuge in the house of a politically passive family after killing the prime minister for his acts of treason.
A woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.
FR #15614 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Egypt, India | Arabic, Tamil
Director
Atef El-Tayeb
Writer
Wahid Hamed, Wahid Hamid
Cast
Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mamdouh Abd El Aleem
Plot
A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long.
After the death of the father, the family consisting of a mother and two young men and a girl themselves without a breadwinner finds, to begin each of them in the direction to a different path, to err on the older brother (Hassan)...
FR #16616 | Movie | Comedy | Egypt, Russia | Arabic, Russian
Director
Galal El-Sharkawy
Writer
Ali Salem
Cast
Adel Emam, Sa'Eed Saleh, Younes Shalaby
Plot
The story is set in a school that has the five most notoriously mischievous students in the country, who keep failing and retaking their final year of high school. The students' constant pranks lead all the teachers to mental brea...
FR #16805 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Egypt, Spain | Arabic, English
Director
Daoud Abdel Sayed
Writer
Daoud Abdel Sayed, Ibrahim Aslan, Sayed Hejab
Cast
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riyad
Plot
Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheik...
FR #16911 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Egypt | Arabic
Director
Salah Abouseif
Writer
Salah Abouseif, Ali El Zorkani, Lofti El-Khouli
Cast
Suad Husni, Ahmad Mazhar, Hamdy Ahmed
Plot
Mahgoub Abdel Dayem a young nihilistic college student, having his father crippled with no other source of income, he finds himself in an urgent need of a job after graduation to support himself and his parents. Having a hard time...
Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of hi...
An Egyptian woman discovers that her husband is in fact a Jewish Mossad agent working for Israel. He takes her and their two children to Israel by force and tries to convince her to live with him by force. Mostafa, an Egyptian Int...
Telling the story of the famous Egyptian spy Raafat al Haggan trained and sent from egypt to infiltrate israeli society as a jew before the October war between Egypt and israel.
FR #17494 | TV | Drama | Tunisia, Italy | Arabic, Italian
Writer
Lassaad Oueslati
Cast
Sana Al Habib, Wajiha Jendoubi, Riadh Hamdi
Plot
A word that defines the one-way journey by death boats, from Tunisia across the Mediterranean Sea, to Europe the safe haven in the eyes of these immigrants.
FR #17792 | Movie | Crime, Action | Egypt, Japan | Arabic, Japanese
Director
Marwan Hamed
Writer
Aboelhassan Abbas
Cast
Ahmed El Sakka, Hind Sabri, Amr Waked
Plot
Witnessing the killing of his father as a kid, Ibrahim is dragged to the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself, he meets Abdul-Malek Zarzur, the crime lord of the town.
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FR #18045 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | France, Belgium | Arabic, French
Director
Michel Ocelot, Ian Mcintyre
Writer
Michel Ocelot
Cast
Cyril Mourali, Karim M'Riba, Hiam Abbass
Plot
Raised by the same woman, the dark-complexioned, Asmar, and the flaxen-haired, Azur, set out on a quest to a strange and magical land to liberate the enchanting Djinn-fairy; but, only one can save her. Will the brothers be triumph...
FR #18055 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Egypt, Denmark | Arabic, English
Director
Ahmad Nader Galal
Writer
Ahmed Fahmy
Cast
Ahmed Helmy, Menna Shalabi, Khaled El-Sawi
Plot
Triplets Prince - Bebo - Semsem (Ahmed Helmy) are taking advantage of similarities between them and outwitted the people, till meet a psychiatrist crook Suleiman al-Halabi.
FR #18260 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan, USA | Arabic, Croatian
Director
Craig Zobel
Writer
Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Cast
Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz
Plot
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.
FR #18777 | Movie | War, Drama | France, USA | Arabic, French
Director
David Oelhoffen
Writer
David Oelhoffen, Albert Camus, Antoine Lacomblez
Cast
Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek
Plot
Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.
FR #19051 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Egypt, India | Arabic, Kannada
Director
Sharif Arafah
Writer
Wahid Hamed
Cast
Adel Emam, Youssra, Kamal El-Shinnawi
Plot
A family man frustrated by the bureaucracies of the Egyptian public system as well as difficulties of life finds himself inadvertently accused of terrorism and decides to maintain this role holding down hostages in one of Egypt's ...
FR #19258 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Denmark, France | Arabic, Italian
Director
Tarik Saleh
Writer
Tarik Saleh, Magdi Abdelhadi
Cast
Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher
Plot
A maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don't want the case solved.
FR #19297 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Egypt, Italy | Arabic, Italian
Director
Sharif Arafah
Writer
Sharif Arafah, Mohamed Diab
Cast
Mahmoud Yassine, Ahmed El Sakka, Hind Sabri
Plot
'El Gezira' is a film about a community of Upper Egypt residents living in El Gezira (the Island). They have their own set of rules, ethics and traditions. They also plant drugs and buy arms from Sudan. The officer in charge of th...
FR #19351 | Movie | Drama | Egypt, Russia | Arabic, Russian
Director
Mohamed Khan
Writer
Mohamed Khan
Cast
Adel Emam, Fardous Abdel Hamid, Nagah El-Mogui
Plot
The life of a football player named Fares who goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife, job, sexual desires and football.
FR #19416 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Egypt | Arabic
Director
Fatin Abdulwahhab
Writer
Youssef El Sebai, Saad Eldin Wahba
Cast
Fouad El-Mohandes, Shouweikar, Samihah Ayyoob
Plot
A man who is struggling with life's daily problems , especially his troublesome wife , accidently runs into a man who makes bills that change human behavior and his life changes forever .
FR #19417 | Movie | Drama | Egypt, France | Arabic, French
Director
Henry Barakat
Writer
Youssef Idriss, Saad Eldin Wahba
Cast
Faten Hamamah, Zaki Rostom, Abdallah Gheith
Plot
A poor peasant woman becomes a symbol of worker oppression in this somber social drama directed by Henri Barakat. Azziza (Faten Hamama) is brutally raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes for her husband ...
FR #19510 | Movie | Action, Drama | Kazakhstan | Arabic, Persian
Director
Akan Satayev
Writer
Aliya Nazarbayeva, Timur Zhaksylykov
Cast
Ghassan Massoud, Yerden Telemissov, Almira Tursyn
Plot
This is the story of the life of the great queen of of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.
FR #20113 | Movie | Drama | Egypt, Russia | Arabic, Russian
Director
Ali Abdel-Khalek
Writer
Mahmoud Abu Zeid
Cast
Nour El-Sherif, Hussein Fahmy, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
Plot
There are hidden aspects of the depths of human beings,So that the doctor appear in the form of the patient's dysfunctional, a man of the law appear in the form of mercenary of the Sacred, the pious parent works in Drugs , and the...
Abu Ahmad and his family are forced to leave the city of Haifa to find a safe shelter during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. However, they face tragic conditions and struggle with displacement.
FR #23157 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Egypt | Arabic
Director
Fatin Abdulwahhab
Writer
Abdel Hamid Gouda El Sahhar, Saad Eldin Wahba
Cast
Shadia, Salah Zulfikar, El-Deif Ahmed
Plot
Hussein Omar, head of the Projects Department at a construction company, finds himself embroiled in various awkward situations at work when his wife, Esmat Fahmi, is appointed General Manager there.
FR #23507 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Denmark, Finland | Arabic
Director
Tarik Saleh
Writer
Tarik Saleh
Cast
Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri
Plot
Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the center of power of Sunni Islam. Adam becomes a pawn in the conflict between Egypt's religious and political elites.
The rural mayor Soliman ghanim travels to cairo to build his own empire there in his quest to revenge his father who died in prison after all his wealth was taken as a result of his conflict with Al Badri family in Helmeya
Salah Abouseif, Ahmad El-Sabawi, Amin Yousseff Ghurab
Writer
Salah Abouseif, Sayid Bidir, Amin Yousseff Ghurab
Cast
Tahiyyah Karyuka, Shukri Sarhan, Shadia
Plot
A young man from the country arrives in Cairo to finish his education. His landlady, a widow and successful businesswoman in the quarter of the Citadel, seduces him. Although she teaches him much about life she also makes him forg...
