A Thousand and One Nights

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

Runtime

9m

Director

Lotte Reiniger

A courier is sent to deposit a cash amount to the bank but he arrives late. He goes to a hotel to spend the night and keeps the money in the hotel safe, but he gets confused with the Prince of Kandahar and who admires him and insists on keeping this confusion to reveal his enemies.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Niazi Mostafa

Cast

Naguib ElRihani, Hussein Reyaad, Raqya Ibrahim

Topping the list of 100 Best Egyptian Films, this classic musical melodrama launched the film career of one of Egypt’s greatest singers and composers, Mohamed Abdel Wahhab. Galal Effendi, the son of an impoverished aristocrat, is forced to leave his studies to seek employment. After a short stint as a clerk, however, Galal discovers hi...

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Mohammed Karim

Cast

Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Dawlat Abiad, Samira Kholosi

In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Salah Abu Seif

Cast

Hend Rostom, Abdelsalam Al-Nabulsi, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim

Hassan, frustrated by poverty, becomes involved with a wealthy woman and eventually abandons his family for her.

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Salah Abu Seif

Cast

Farid Shawqy, Huda Sultan, Hussein Reyaad

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa