Movies: Mokhtar El Sayed

This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest da...

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian....

A very conservative man meets a young passionate woman during his holiday in Alexandria . A journey that changed the course of his life...

Ahmed lives with his family, but he faces many problems with his father, who is cruel and wants to force him to study engineering against his will. Ahmed falls in love with his neighbor and colleague (Mona), but his father stands in the way of their ...

Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. The second is a secretary with designs on her boss, even though he too is married. Having learned fro...

Famous star Suheir falls in love with a rising actor called Ibrahim and they intend to get married. However, her producer who gets overly jealous hires a woman to ruin Suheir and Ibrahim's relationship by claiming she is Ibrahim's wife....

Officer Wahid is assigned to work undercover to enter the ring of the largest drug trafficker, he uses the help of the repentant night girl Naima, to impersonate the long-disappeared daughter of the drug leader, who welcomes them into his home before...

Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancé...

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....

The story of friendship on the eve of the free officers' revolution: Youssef, an unprincipled journalist, whose star rises thanks to his connections, and Shawki, an idealist man committed to social justice...

Mounir is a young doctor who lives in Alexandria. He marries a girl he loves against the will of his Saidi father. The father reads the news in the newspapers and becomes angry and decides to kill his son. However, he is surprised by the news of Madb...

Zainab moves from Mansoura to Cairo to work as a music teacher, but she faces a problem finding accommodation. She eventually finds accommodation with the dancer (Najaf), but she hides from her that there is a resident during the day, so she sleeps t...

A dancer asks a politician with whom she once had an affair to use his influence on her behalf....

The heroine of the film is a poor girl who dreamed of wealth and a high position in society. By chance, her dreams come true, but wealth does not bring her happiness. The girl refuses the money and returns to her former friends....

After the ambassador travels abroad, the servant takes advantage of this opportunity and impersonates him....

A gang makes so much money by blackmailing married women and businessmen. after the death of one of their victims in a car accident,the police found one lead that may help them to arrest this gang....

Ahmed and Nawal's half-brother (Hussein) steals Ahmed's money to spend on the dancer (Dusa). Nawal pawns jewelry with (Umm Jaber), the moneylender, in order to give (Hussein) the money. Ahmed goes to retrieve Nawal's jewelry, and at the same time, H...

A mother loses her daughter Mervat, years later she publishes her picture in the papers with a reward for those who find her. The photographer Mohsen convinces Fifi the pickpocket to impersonate Mervat because of the big resemblance between them....

After all the property and money of her father, Al-Basha, were nationalized after the revolution of July 23, 1952, Faten, the daughter of Al-Basha, travels to Morocco to find a job that will provide her with a day's livelihood, to get to know Elias, ...

Amal, a poor young woman, is injured in a car accident by the wealthy Adel, who treats her. They get married but problems arise between them because he doesn't work. He refuses to operate the factory left by his father because he was the cause of h...