The best Ahmad Bedir’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Ahmad Bedir’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Ahmad Bedir.
The Yacoubian Building
7.5/10
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
Downtown Girls
5.1/10
Story of two working girls and their adventures in the city.
The Return of the Prodigal Son
7.1/10
In this Andre Gide adaptation, an activist is released after many years in prison and returns home, shaking up established relationships among his family members at the farm governed by his strict father. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
The Emigrant
6.5/10
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.
Alexandria… Why?
7.3/10
Set against the panoramic backdrop of war-torn Egypt, director Youssef Chahine tells a highly personal tale of love and determination. 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 one day studying filmmaking in America, but after falling in love and discovering the lies of European occupation, Yehia profoundly reevaluates his identity and allegiances.
The Hallucination Kingdom
Master Qaddoura (Hassan Abdeen) is a big drug dealer in Alexandria, and officer Kamel (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) is trying to catch him. He recruits brothers Morsi and Hassanein (Hussein Fahmy and Said Saleh) who work in the port ,along with Fatima (Magda El-Khatib) who wants to revenge Qaddoura for his involvement in her brother's murder.
An Hour and a Half
7.2/10
Based on the Ayyat train accident that killed 361 in 2002, this ensemble drama delves into the intense human stories of the passengers in a third-class coach car during the hour and a half before the crash.
Cabareeh
6.6/10
A terrorist group trying to blow up a nightclub and when a terrorist goes to blow the club finds that there are people who do not deserve death
Hepta (The Last Lecture)
7.6/10
Based on the best-selling novel of the same title. Dr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions, who decides to give one last lecture about the very simple question: "how do we love?" He gives a full description of the different stages of love by recounting four different love stories going through curves and various crises.
El Almany
A filthy outlaw escaping from the police, after killing an innocent young man, and meeting a surprise along his way.
The Collar and the Bracelet
7.1/10
In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.
At the Minister's Door
6.3/10
The film captures the image of an emotional relationship between Kamal a medical student who comes from a rather poor class, and his colleague Nora, the daughter of a rich butcher who rejects the relationship altogether.
Rayya and Sekina
Two sisters (Riya) and (Skina), start a gang to kidnap rich women with the help of Riya's husband. Skina, in an effort to avoid suspicion, try to marry a policeman who is not aware of the sisters' criminal activity.
Al karnak
7.3/10
A group of university students's lives are turned upside down because of their talks about the political instability in Egypt at the time.
Al eeteraf al akhir
6.2/10
Adham a faithful husband still mourning his deceased wife,visited one night by a woman in white revealing her secret love for him since college,and his wife true acts behind his back,but the big revelation was this woman is no longer from the living and its her ghost that paid him a visit.
The dancer and the jailer
A love story arises between the dancer (Aida Riad) and Corporal Hassan, who lives with her in the neighborhood of the castle on the roofs of a real estate and suffering from his wise friend for the multiplicity of women's relations ..
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A File in Vice
6.9/10
Saeed, the officer in the arts police, is shocked at the beginning of his service by his chief’s decision to save the investigation of the case of Aliya Hanim, as it relates to the officials and turns into a person who is rigid. When the counselor, master, gives the officer information that some workers visit an apartment and practice fancy, he tries by all possible means to prove the charge against them, even by falsehood.
Full Moon
While radio presenter Mourad follows social media stories, he comes across the stories of Dr. Alia, sued after being accused of having an affair with an assistant professor, and Mariam and Ibrahim who are separated by religion, among others. These stories draw Mourad’s attention to the full moon, rumored to destroy love.
El Hedek Yefham
6.7/10
Gaber the thief steals the stuff of sheikh ashour and goes disguesed as the sheikh to other village to collect donations
