Youssef Chahine Movies

Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance, provided that the two get married. They decide to get...

This 2009 documentary by Mona Ghandour details the production of CAIRO STATION and includes interviews with director Youssef Chahine, screenwriter...

Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata...

A brother disagrees with his sister which makes her move to live with her older sister in the countryside. She finds her sister living a harsh life...

A young employee tries to cover for his colleague, whom he loves, after he discovers that she embezzled money from the company they work in. As he...

Two strangers try to solve a mystery that revolves around both of their tragic pasts. At the heart of the mystery lies a mystic board with an ability...

Beautiful dancer Warda finds herself homeless. She finds a job at a cotton ginning plant. She loves Abdo who runs the plant, and she kills the...

Azoz, an employee at the Opera House accompanies a violinist who has just arrived from tours abroad in her errands in the city. He eventually gets...

A Vision on Landmines Still Present in Egypt – Through a Satirical Attack on the Government and Its Perception of Human Life

Tarek loves his cousin Zubaida and travels to Spain to work in bullfighting under a pseudonym. Zubaida comes to Spain in search of her lover, but...

In a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility, invents the mystical figure of Rajeh, and tells stories to...

Renegotiating the representational paradigm of nationhood the film draws a heterogeneous picture of Egyptian society as well as Soviet workers as...

As Hamdy fights with a fisherman and kills him in front of his daughter, he goes to prison as the fisherman's daughter goes blind. After his release,...

Six strong-willed women whose adventurous streak changed the face of film industry in early twentieth century Egypt – a time when the country...

Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

The High Dam project led to the creation of new communities and the reclamation of land. The film tells the story of a young girl living near the...

The film depicts the October 6, 1973 war between Egypt and Israel.

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to...

A mother and her daughter explore together the trajectory of four generations of women from their family, an Egyptian family from the Levant where...

Chahine’s first film, made while he was still a student at the Victoria School in Alexandria, titled “School Life”