Movies: Osama Abbas

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the c...

Mahrous, a simple man, is acquainted with the minister as they both hail from the same village. When Mahrous gets appointed at the minister's office, he only causes trouble. However, as the two get involved in extra-marital relationships, they form a...

Murtada al-Salamuni's father's mansion gets seized and his wife leaves him, forcing him to reside in his family's country house. He tries to find work at Abdullah Bahnas, but he rejects him. Murtada decides to take revenge by cooperating with three t...

Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the...

Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spiri...

Karima is a housewife who works more than one job to support her family. Her husband dies, and she discovers that he was married to another woman and that he had saved a huge fortune. She gets a large share of this money and turns into a miserly woma...

When Khaled and Ahmed are unable to find a job, they decide to run a scam on elderly female tourists to get their money in Hurghada. But when they meet two girls who capture their hearts, they turn their lives around and participate in a tourist proj...

A comedy western coming from Egypt. The title, "Viva Zalata", clearly reminds to "Viva Zapata!" (1952, directed by Elia Kazan). A bandit of Egyptian origins leads a gang of Mexican outlaws terrorizing a small city at the border between Mexico and the...

Yasmine works in a factory, marveling at the engineer Rauf, who works in the factory without feeling it, agrees with the old Damanhuri to clean his house for a sum of money to help her cope with the burdens of life, but this combination between the f...

A woman who is the owner of a group of shops discovers, after the death of her husband, that he was married to another woman. She decides to marry one of her employees, who tries to make her happy with all sincerity. But he meets a beautiful young wi...

The film tells the story of 3 navy officers, Samir, Ahmed and Sherif who go back to their houses and wives for only 24 hours vacation after spending 6 months on duty aboard the ship. But instead of being welcomed after their long absence, their wives...

Actress Sanaa Kamel is found murdered on her bed, and an investigation starts, taking into account everyone of the guests she hosted at her apartment the night she was killed: her jealous fiancé, a school instructor, a corrupt market manager, one of ...

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...

The brothers Aziz and Latif own a commercial company that employs an honorable accountant. They frame him with a charge that puts him in prison. They appoint a beggar to work in his place as a bet on what turns a person into a criminal. The accountan...

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Souad departs from Suez, heading to Cairo, after losing her family in the 1967 war. There she meets the journalist Ahmed, and the tragedy of ruin and destruction and the death of her mother are in her hands....

Businessman Salem receives a phone call from an unknown person threatening him with death if he does not give him an amount of money, so that the police, in cooperation with Salem and the repentant pickpocket Zaki, draw up a plan to place him in thei...

Bakheet receives an invitation from his cousin Nawfal to visit him in America. Bakheet and Adela travel to search for wealth. In order to obtain residency, and to receive substantial compensation following a car accident....

The film's events revolve around a family consisting of seven children, and the work discusses the problems of each son, such as Nabila, whose husband refuses to have children and threatens to separate her when he learns of her pregnancy, as well as ...