The best Salwa Mohamed Ali’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Salwa Mohamed Ali’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Salwa Mohamed Ali.
Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story
6.7/10
A female talk show host in Cairo, Egypt, stirs up a political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.
The Cell
6.3/10
The events revolve around a special operations officer who deals with more than one terrorist operation and is hunting down terrorist cells. The film shows security forces' efforts to combat terrorism and shows the pressures and difficulties they face during their work.
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.
Microphone
7.3/10
Upon his return to Alexandria, Khaled becomes intrigued with a graffiti mural opposite his apartment. As he pursues this further, a larger underground arts scene slowly reveals itself, composed of musicians, filmmakers, and graffiti artists. As they struggle to get their voices heard, Khaled is compelled to help them acquire some much deserved visibility.
Best Times
6.7/10
Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to find out the identity of the sender of mystery letters and packages. One letter includes a picture of her and her two best friends from school (played by the Hend Sabry and Menna Shalaby), whom she has not seen for 14 years. Reunited, the girls embark on the quest of finding the identity of the sender.
Lust
5.9/10
“Lust” takes us into the lives of the inhabitants of a marginalised street in Alexandria, Egypt, before the revolution. Each character is isolated in their fierce, yet fragile dreams, including Umm Shooq, who has deserted her wealthy family to marry the man she loves. She has settled into a life of poverty when an unexpected challenge forces her to make the most difficult decision of her life. (from dohafilminstitute.com)
Mercedes
5.9/10
Nubi spent a period of his life in a mental hospital after his father deposited him unjustly. He is not crazy, but his father donated all he had to the Communist Party, which was adhering to its principles. The government then placed the family property under guard. Nubian lives with his mother Rose and discover amazing facts, including that his father, who bears his name is not his real father, but his mother gave birth to her brown friend, and then discovered that his brother missed the family and no one knows his place but joined the extremist group.
Factory Girl
7.2/10
Hiyam, a young factory worker, lives in a lower-middle-class neighbourhood, along with her co-workers. She is clearly under the spell of Salah, the factory's new supervisor. Believing that love can transcend their class differences, Hiyam relentlessly pursues a dream of the pair being together. However, when a pregnancy test is discovered in the factory premises, her immediate family and close friends accuse her of sinning. Hiyam decides not to defend herself and pays an enormous price in a society that fails to accept her.
Closed Doors
6.7/10
During the Gulf War, Fatma works as a maid for a wealthy man, and her son Mohammed is suffering from oppression by his teacher Mansour, who's having an affair with Fatima, taking advantage of her difficult circumstances. Mohammad gets drawn to extremist religious world led by Sheikh Khalid.
18 Days
7.4/10
10 Film makers made 10 Separate stories about the "25January " revolution in Egypt and the Egyptian people in the revolution and the protests against the previous President Hosni Mubarak and the departure of President Hosni Mubarak and also displays what happened in Tahrir Square since the start of the sit-in
Sins of the Flesh
5.6/10
Hassan and Fatma are a couple, living and working in a farm of wealthy owner Mourad. In the first days of the Jan 25th revolution, Ali seizes a security breach to break out of jail and runs to his cousin Hassan, for shelter. The latter takes him in but soon after, Mourad discovers the love that Fatma and Ali shared, years ago. This romantic history, fuelled by mounting sexual frustration, will come back to haunt all those involved.
The Walls of The Moon
5.9/10
Zeina, after losing her sight in an accident, wakes up in a car, chased by her two lovers, and has no idea what's going on.
Al Hassa Al Saba'a
6.4/10
A young man wants to be a professional Kung-Fu player but figures out that the game is not popular in Egypt. He meets a fortuneteller who helps him to read and hear other’s thoughts.
Before the Summer Crowds
5.4/10
In a tourist resort on the northern coast, Dr. Yahya decides to spend the holiday with his wife Magda before the coast gets crowded . The two are introduced to a recently divorced translator and a mother of two called Hala .
Oreed Khol'an
The film revolves around a wife couple working in the field of dries and the husband working in a bank but because of the husband's strict treatment and implementation of his views, the wife decided to raise the case to take him off.
The Night Of The Carnival
Spanning one day, the film takes place in a “Muled” (An Islamic saint's day celebration), following the curious and intertwined stories of a variety of different characters living nearby, working invisiting the Muled.
Family Secrets
5.9/10
Family secrets is the first Egyptian movie openly discussing homosexuality. "Based on a true story", Marwan who is a homosexual goes through a spiral of despair after coming out to his sister who gets him to seek to understand and treat his homosexuality, he now has to deal with religion, society and psychiatrists and gets tested to the limits
Bibo and Beshir
6.1/10
The film belongs to the Romantic Comedy and reflects the personality of the man which is half Egyptian and half African-called "Bashir" and spoke relationship between him and "bibo" embodied by Menna Shalaby, where circumstances compelled him to live with her
These Days
A well-known intellectual is married to a woman who is obsessed with his wealth and power. He brings in a retired police officer to help him write his latest book.
In the ensuing events, an affairir develops between the police officer and the professor’s wife.
Snapshot
6.6/10
Ahmed Sakr is one of the best news photographers in Egypt, he always puts himself in the right place while the most dangerous events happen, his wife got killed while she was with him and no body knows the killer, he goes on a journey to know the killer until he finds an antique camera that changes the course of the events, the camera doesn't just shoot the present, it shoots the past... or maybe the future?
