Mohsena Tawfiq

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 effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet and falls in love with two young Egyptian brothers, reflecting complex themes of colonial desire, affection, and personal connection.

Noura is a free girl, who gets to know Dr. Mounir and connects the love between them, but he is surprised by her thoughts, as she allows herself to have sex with the one she loves without marriage, and all of her sister Laila's attempts to straighten out and discourage her from what she does, Noura asks Munir to expedite his marriage to her, but he refuses, because he is afraid From her thoughts and marry another, so that Nora later meets the well-known writer Ezzat, to change her life.

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 studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

Al-Zamar Hassan is on the run after he was an Engineering student and presented a play with the acting team in the Faculty that the authorities didn't like. He moves from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety. He settles in the village of Araba becoming a vendor in a grocery store.

Naima is detained in the juvenile's house, proves her good behavior and is sent to a hospital to learn nursing.

Ahmed Al-Morsi Owais is a young man who has a technical diploma. A lover of poetry, he searches for a job until he eventually finds one as a conductor on electricity meters, allowing him to enter numerous houses from different classes.

Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.

Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from.