Movies: Salah Zulfikar

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade....

A prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim....

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effec...

Jamila, an Algerian girl who loves her homeland, joins the nationalist movement to liberate her country from French occupation. Based on the life of Djamila Bouhired, who was arrested and tortured by the French Algerian government, Chahine's first ex...

A married couple ends up working at the same company where the wife is a general director. This arouses the suspicion of their co-workers who do not know they are married....

Hanan works as a secretary for Shawkat, a businessman who trades in weapons. Despite being watched by the police and constant attacks from the journalist Samia, Shawkat steals Hanan from her fiancé, Ahmed, who works in an Arab country. Hanan's attemp...

After he finishes his engineering study, Ahmed meets Layla the hooker and tells his father that he will marry her. The father refuses and stands in the way of this marriage and claims that he was in a relationship with this girl and events escalate...

Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too ...

The film's events revolve around an engineer in a textile factory who has union activity and falls in love with his colleague in the factory. He tries to win the love of this girl and also the union in the factory, but the girl rejects him. The engin...

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the hand...

Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the a...

Adel has a firm belief that his stepfather killed his father to marry his mother. He makes a strange deal with the unemployed Aziz, who wants to get rid of his wife to cash her life insurance policy. Adel pledges to kill Aziz's wife in return for Azi...

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directora...

Najib discovers that the businessman's salary is doing a lot of illegal work, and he delivers dangerous documents condemning the man to his secretary. However, the salary men decide to get rid of Najib, so he escapes the secretary's secret of documen...

The young engineer (Mohsen) gets married to (Hanan) and they get married. They suffer from the burdens of life and paying for furniture, so they agree to postpone having children until life stabilizes. Mohsen suffers from the tyranny and hypocrisy of...

Salama owns a nightclub and is married to the dancer, Samira. He hides the truth about his work from his daughter Manal, who lives in Alexandria. Manal meets Alaa who works for the UN and they agree to marry. When Alaa finds out what Salama does for ...

Hamed is a young man whose mother wants him to marry a village girl, but he falls in love with a Roma girl named Khaleda who works as a singer...

Osama is a visual artist. He decides to travel to Luxor to search for the secrets of the drawings and paintings left by the Pharaohs. Here he is exposed to Antoine's gang, which specializes in stealing antiquities. Osama loses his memory and meets on...

In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge on Madiha's father who pressured him to marry her to avoid a scandal....

During the Attrition War, a group of brave Egyptian frogmen advances to destroy the two Israeli warships: (Beit Sheva) and (Beit Yam). A story of patriotism, sacrifice, and devotion....