Amna is a young woman that witnesses the death of her older sister by her uncle, who had abandoned her family and left them with no support. She understands from her mother that her sister deserves to die because she dishonors the family. Amna doesn't agree. She believes that her uncle should be blamed for their conditions. She seeks revenge from the engineer who swayed her sister and lied to her thus causing her death. Amna moves to his house to work as a maid and tries to poison him several times, but all her plans fail. She discovers it's impossible to kill him. This engineer starts to approach her, but she resists him, which makes him even more attracted to her.
Le film raconte le conflit entre les paysans et les propriétaires terriens dans l'Egypte rurale des années 1930, et explore la relation complexe entre les intérêts individuels et les réponses collectives à l'oppression.Le film a été choisi comme le deuxième meilleur film de l'histoire du cinéma égyptien.
Le film traite de la Révolution égyptienne de 2011 jusqu'à la revolution du 30 juin 2013 contre Mohamed Morsi, et notamment des manifestations s’étant déroulées Place Tahrir.
Le film raconte l'histoire d'une famille composé de trois frère déchirés par les conflits internes, l'avidité et les aspirations égoïstes, où l'avocat est un corrompu, le médecin souffre de problèmes psychologiques et le commerçant d'herbes médicinales est un trafiquant de drogue.
Set in 1881, before a year of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artefacts 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.
Aziza est une pauvre paysanne travaillant dans les récoltes de champs de pomme de terre. Lorsqu'elle se retrouve seule avec un des gardes, elle se fait violer. Aziza tombe enceinte et ne parle à personne du viol qu'elle a subi. Son mari, gravement malade et alité n'en saura rien. Elle essaiera de cacher sa grossesse le plus longtemps possible, jusqu'au moment où elle met au monde son petit dans une situation difficile. Elle mourra peu après, emportée par une fièvre.
The film opens with a montage tracing the building's history, as wealthy expatriate and Egyptian residents give way, after the 1952 coup that overthrew King Farouk and eventually resulted in the installation of Gamal Abdel Nasser as President of Egypt, to new families, and as the rooftop storage rooms are converted into living space for lower-class families. The rooftop community, effectively a slum neighborhood, is symbolic of the urbanization of Egypt and of the burgeoning population growth in its large cities in recent decades, especially among the poor and working classes. In the faded apartments of the main floors and on the building's teeming roof, the films's principal characters are introduced:
A newsstand owner takes pity on Qinawi, a lame young man, and gives him a job selling newspapers in the Cairo train station. The women there all shun him because of his mild handicap, though he has little trouble walking.
The story of Saladin (Ahmed Mazhar) portrays the title character, ruler of the kingdoms surrounding Jerusalem, during the events of the Third Crusade. The film starts with Jerusalem, which is under the authority of the Christians of Europe, having its Muslim pilgrims slaughtered by the Christians in the holy lands. Saladin upon hearing this news seeks the reclamation of the holy lands in a short, almost impossible campaign. He succeeds in taking back Jerusalem, which leads the powers of Europe to organize the Third Crusade with the combined forces of the French king (Omar El-Hariri) and German emperor under the leadership of Richard the Lionheart of England. Saladin succeeds in preventing the recapture of Jerusalem, and in the end negotiations between himself and Richard (whom Saladin admires as the only honorable infidel leader) leave the Holy Land in Muslim hands.
Le fils du gouverneur de village est appelé à faire son service militaire. Sa mère va convaincre son mari d'envoyer quelqu'un d'autre à sa place en falsifiant les identités.
Zeinab and Hussein are the hard-working parents of a family in Cairo. One day, their daughter announces that she is getting married. When Zeinab and Hussein meet the groom's parents, the latter make a series of over-the-top demands for the wedding.