The best Mahmoud el-Meliguy’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Mahmoud el-Meliguy’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 Mahmoud el-Meliguy.
Saladin the Victorious
7.5/10
Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
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 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.
من القاتل
Adel is a young man who works as an agent for the prosecution. He is a newcomer to this work. There is a murder in one of the nightclubs where they find the director of the hall dead, drowned in his blood with his stone. Adel is ordered to investigate this crime. Justifies that the deceased has confessed that he committed suicide before he broke his life. An order is issued to release the dancer. It happens that Adel sees in a dream that he killed a man who was in a relationship with a club and the blood of the crime smears his clothes and hands. He tries to escape and fears that he will be exposed in such an important job. He will get up, wake up just from sleep and get out of this nightmare An officer asks him to sign the permit to bury the dead body's director, Adel closes the case file.
Appointment with Satan
6.8/10
The Land
8/10
Adapted from Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi's well-known novel of the same name, this classic film by Egyptian master Youssef Chahine was eight years in the making. Chronicling a small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner, The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited
Passion and Revenge
6.4/10
A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process.
Al Sokkareyah
5.7/10
The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.
Amir El Entikam
7.3/10
Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.
Ebn Al-Shaitan
Ebn Al-Shaitan (Son of the Devil) a disguised serial killer who target men who leave their wives and kids and remarry.
The Choice
7.5/10
When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother--a famous novelist--is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the novelist seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...?
Sunset and Sunrise
7.1/10
A political drama about Azmi the chief of Mukhabarat (secret police organization) and his only daughter Madeha who's divorced and living with him in his palace. She get to know a pilot named Samir, they get married. Madeha thinks that she can live outside the palace with her husband so she tells her father but he refuses.
Jamila, the Algerian
7.2/10
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 explicitly political film managed to galvanize wide solidarity with the Algerian resistance from across the Arab World, starting in Egypt.
Abo Hadeed
Al-Hanash wants to marry the daughter of Jaber, his assistant in drug trafficking, in exchange for covering up Jabir's killing of Abu Hadid. But Amina refuses this marriage, and she is in a relationship with Hassan Ibn Abu Hadid.
Days and Nights
6.4/10
An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of his life. When Yehia falls for the beautiful Samia (Iman), he believes he has finally found the woman with whom he could spend the rest of his life. Trouble soon arises, however, when Samia's delinquent stepbrother begins doing everything in his power to sabotage the couple's relationship.
The Hot Tears
A girl escapes from her step mother home to avoid working in prostitution, to live with the family of a police officer who sympathizes with her.
Warm Winter Night
6.2/10
Sara and Mohy hold the Koran and then travel with her father, the great contractor Mounir Rahmi to Aswan.There she discovers that her father does not want to complete the wedding procedures and seeks to marry her to another young man she does not like.He flies to Cairo. After the father announces a financial reward for those who find it, Mamdouh makes sure that Sarah exchanges feelings of love and agree to marry after trying to convince Mohi divorce.
Tobah
After his wife's death ,Ahmed gets to leave his kids alone because of his work. His children seek help from a singer called Wedad who takes care of them. Ahmed gets attracted to Wedad, and uses his children to get her to stay longer, but they don't know that she has a past that still haunts her.
Ebn El-Hetta
5.9/10
Exploiting the great resemblance between Ashour El-Aaghati and actor Farid Shawky, director Mahmoud Al-Badrawi decides to use him in many scenes. At the same time, Ashour relates to his neighbor Najat and decides to marry despite all the attempts of the master, the owner of the cafe, to stand in the way of their love. At the same time, a painful accident occurs to the artist Farid, leading to his death, and director Mahmoud decides to use Ashour as an alternative, declaring that the actor will not die.
Punishment
4.5/10
The trio of a Wife and her lover plotting a murder for her husband. Their maid gets into Jail instead of them. This maid had a daughter that gets to be raised by her friend. The wife gets into jail shortly after she was arrested for misusing the well of her son. In Jail she meets with her maid and confess to her with her sin that led to this destiny, then she dies. After twenty years she gets out of Jail to see what has the fate introduce to her daughter and the killers daughter that share same lover.
