Movies: Hesham Selim

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,...

Ever wonder what it was like to be in the middle east during the Gulf War of the early 90s? Sure, many films and TV shows have portrayed what it was like for the UN forces. This film takes you into the melee from the perspective of Egyptians -- who w...

Abdul Basit, Jaber, Fathi and Radwan are colleagues at the university who share the same housing and work to provide for their livelihood....

A Drama movie...

It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and...

Six human wolves cut off a husband and wife on their wedding night, killing the husband and raping the wife who suffers a nervous breakdown. After that, the security services fail to identify the perpetrators. While the incident is known by journalis...

Muhammad Jad al-Karim Aragouz in the village, he had a son and he was Bahloul, he was able to teach him until he graduated, but the son was rebellious against his father’s profession. His great ambition put him in the way of a businessman who was fro...

The government nationalizes Ibrahim's property and places him under house arrest, and Umm Al-Saad takes care of him. Ibrahim feels affection for Umm Al-Saad, so he gets involved with her and she becomes pregnant and he marries her. She gives birth to...

The poor girl falls in love with a wealthy young man who promises to marry her and take away her honor. Her father is forced to marry another poor man. The husband discovers after marriage what happened to (tomatoes) and decides to divorce her. She f...

The mother fails to convince her son to marry his wealthy cousin, Ihsan. He falls in love with the poor girl, Souad, but he collapses when he discovers that she is perverted. His neighbor, Al-Azhar, advises him to marry her to save her from her fate....

Admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being accused of murdering his parents, a young man makes a vow of silence weeks away from his trial....

Shahin puts his friend Kamel in jail instead for a crime he did not commit after he promises to raise his son Mahmood but Shahin deceives him to work has a servant and a driver....

The film revolves around social paradoxes in terms of betrayal, greed and the pursuit of power, which leads to a series of exciting events surrounding Hussein Abdel Moneim Al-Saftawy, who becomes a party to the conflict between the police and one of ...

A young Egyptian man travels with his family to Hurghada on a work trip, where he works with foreign tourists. There, he meets a woman with an Egyptian father and an American mother. Despite his family's objections, he falls in love and marries her a...

When the impoverished Aisha sells her daughter Zeinab to the barren wealthy woman Soraya, she insists on being Zeinab's nanny to raise her. But as her other children grow up and get prestigious jobs, they ask their mother to quit her job, ignorant of...

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The businessman greets Shawki in marrying his secretary, but she loves her relative Adel and they agree to marry. Shawki applauds his charges for unfairly imprisoning her....

Youssef, a successful architect is married to a beautiful woman, Hend, with a child. His life was steady until he discovers that he has cancer. He refuses to tell his family and travels for treatment alone where he met a ballerina who has cancer too ...

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The film revolves around three Arab girls who travel to France, in search of the freedom they lost in the Arab countries from which they came, each in their own way....