Movies: Tahiya Cariocca

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...

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...

Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the inv...

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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...

A girl leaves behind her past life as a dancer working in Mohammed Ali Street and enters college. Her ambition is to acquire knowledge and to leave behind her former life. She finds herself in a relationship with a young man from an affluent backgrou...

The film's events revolve around the lawyer Mumtaz, who loves flirting with women, despite his marriage, and continues to cheat on his wife, until she decides to teach him a lesson in agreement with her friend, where she pretends to be cheating on hi...

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 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...

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A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinat...

"Alia" back to Port Said, to her brother's house to spend the day with him, Garret student University in Cairo, which does not have the world but her brother "adel" who works in the sea....

Directed by Atef Salem....

Naima, a guardian of architecture and politicians in a garage, in one of the buildings in Zamalek, who is also the mother of seven children. Raising them....

Hisham, Mokhtar and Medhat, three friends of the university, insist on not succeeding in their studies in the Faculty of Arts for more than 15 years due to the gains they make and fear of graduation and facing life with their material problems. Hisha...

The rich man marries Kamel from Rabab, who discovers after marriage that he is sexually incapacitated, so he resorted to Dr. Amin for his treatment, and it becomes clear to the doctor that Kamel is a shy and introverted young man who lives with his m...

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition tu...

After falling in love with a young architect,mayssa shocked to know his involvement with an older woman and the relationship he carries with her,a past of struggling and support...

A wealthy merchant monopolized the grain trade and used to hide it from time to time in order to manipulate its prices in the market, in this way it is a great wealth, suddenly the merchant disappears and leaves his wife who fails to know the secret ...

Refat is a teacher with a heart disease, who marries the poor girl Salwa, despite the opposition of his mother who is trying to persuade him to divorce her in exchange for his share in the inheritance. Salwa resorts to holy people hoping to cure her ...