Hassan El-Adl

The Stories

The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.

The City

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.

Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo

The story follows Hassan and his dog, Rambo, as they embark on a quest to save Rambo from Hassan's vengeful landlord, whom the dog attacked. Through his challenging journey across Cairo to find a safe haven for Rambo, Hassan confronts his deepest fears and rediscovers himself.

Photocopy

Mahmoud is man in his late 50s, who owns a photocopying store. When he comes across a topic about dinosaurs, he becomes obsessed with searching for the causes of its extinction, which leads him to rediscover love, friendship, paternity and the real meaning of life.

Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine

This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.

Flight 404

A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, will she manage to go to Mecca, or get tangled up in the past's webs?

His Highness Hanafy

Hanafi al'abiha steals a jewelry shop with his partners and hides the bag with his brother Ahmad before they were arrested. His three accomplices escape and kidnap Ahmed's wife Duaa until they recover the bag. Hanafi is temporarily released to lead the Police to the place of his colleagues, and the events follow.

The Clown

A man unexpectedly appears in the life of a family, claiming his right to his father’s inheritance as the long-lost twin son, while everyone believes he is a fraud since they thought he was dead. His arrival exposes hidden greed and conflicts within the family over money.

The Stories

The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.

The City

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.

Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo

The story follows Hassan and his dog, Rambo, as they embark on a quest to save Rambo from Hassan's vengeful landlord, whom the dog attacked. Through his challenging journey across Cairo to find a safe haven for Rambo, Hassan confronts his deepest fears and rediscovers himself.

Photocopy

Mahmoud is man in his late 50s, who owns a photocopying store. When he comes across a topic about dinosaurs, he becomes obsessed with searching for the causes of its extinction, which leads him to rediscover love, friendship, paternity and the real meaning of life.

Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine

This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.

Flight 404

A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, will she manage to go to Mecca, or get tangled up in the past's webs?

His Highness Hanafy

Hanafi al'abiha steals a jewelry shop with his partners and hides the bag with his brother Ahmad before they were arrested. His three accomplices escape and kidnap Ahmed's wife Duaa until they recover the bag. Hanafi is temporarily released to lead the Police to the place of his colleagues, and the events follow.

The Clown

A man unexpectedly appears in the life of a family, claiming his right to his father’s inheritance as the long-lost twin son, while everyone believes he is a fraud since they thought he was dead. His arrival exposes hidden greed and conflicts within the family over money.

Renegades of Europe

A wife gives birth to sextuplets, forcing the husband to sell three of their children due to poverty. When the wife finds out, she decides to leave her husband and travel abroad and many conflicts arise between siblings in the future.

Destiny

In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

Adieu Bonaparte

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.

The Emigrant

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 Again and Forever

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

The Sixth Day

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.

Reklam

Shadyia is forced to marry a drug dealer, and from here her life begins to decline after her husband is arrested. She meets three other girls ,Dawlat, Shukryia and Suzy, who are also going a dark path.

The Rapists

Some unemployed addicts kidnap the girl Safaa and take her to a remote place. After they gang-rape her, her fiancé Mokhtar manages to bring her home and her father reports the crime to the police.

Dreams of Hind and Camilia

Hend is a young widow who works as a maid, she meets Eid the conman who goes to prison and leaves her pregnant. While Camellia is a divorced maid who supports her unemployed brother and his family in exchange for letting her sleep over in his apartment.

Mr. Karate

Salah moves to Cairo to work as a guard in a garage and falls in love with Nadia, who works at a video store. He is obsessed with the films she has at her store and decides to learn karate.

Back to Alexandria

After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from the eccentric aristocrat as a young adult. Now she feels compelled to meet her again.

White Lie

Ahmed falls in love with an American girl called Kristy whom he takes to Cairo for a family visit, causing many paradoxes due to the difference in customs and traditions. Kristy is surprised to learn that Ahmed wants to marry her and stay in Egypt, which she has not taken into account.

Box of Wonders

The film follows the touching stories of various people in Downtown Cairo as they try to find balance in their lives and deal with its ups and downs.

Halim

The film displays the life of legendary singer(Abd Alhalim Hafez) in various stages. Depicting many sides of his artistic and personal life since his early childhood.

A Nose and Three Eyes

When a mid-40s plastic surgeon seeks help to understand his attraction to a younger woman, he must own up to his romantic failures and commitment issues.

The Collar and the Bracelet

In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.

Tamer & Shawkeya

Tamer & Shawkeya follows posh lawyer Tamer who marries Shawkeya, a simple working‑class teacher. Their cultural and social differences lead to hilarious situations as they navigate family expectations, everyday life, and in‑laws in this classic Egyptian comedy of mismatched marriage and domestic chaos.

Moftaraq Toroq

When her husband, a prominent figure in society, is involved in a scandal, Amira has no choice but to return to her profession to support her two children, after fifteen years she spent as a housewife.

Al-Gama'a

Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.

Safha Beida

In a context of suspense and mystery, Dhay experiences many strange and mysterious events, and after a murder occurs, Officer Iyad takes over the investigation and discovers three different stories about Dhay’s life, and facts are revealed to him about an international corruption scandal linked to a famous pharmaceutical company that threatens the lives of patients.

Valentino

Egypt's legendary comedian Adel Imam stars as Nour — nicknamed Valentino — a school owner whose life is firmly under the thumb of his iron-willed wife Afaf. Trapped in a marriage of constant conflict, Nour finds himself drawn to another woman, setting off a chain of scams, secrets and comic misunderstandings. A witty dramedy about marriage, deception and the universal truth that everybody lies.

Mamoun & Associates

In a social and cynical context, the series revolves around Maemon, a very stingy man who has a wife and four kids whom he deprives of everything. After they all leave him, they discover that he's a billionaire. They then start a journey of finding his hidden wealth and how to get hold of it.

Red Sulfur

The events revolve around Officer Mo'taz who is assigned to investigate sudden frequent fire cases at a local neighborhood. There, he quarrels with the sorcerer Shams, after which his life goes from bad to worse.

The People of Cairo

A dramatic police investigation by chief detective Colonel Hassan, the task entrusted to him is to look into a bomb report in a luxury hotel in downtown Cairo on the wedding night of the scandalous businesswoman Belle Safi, who will be attended by important community figures at various levels, but each carrying Inside is much worse than what people show.

Adam's Apple

This series tells the story of a professional con artist who knows exactly how to get what he wants. His incredible conning skills leave the security agencies that are after him totally dumfounded at every turn. But the con artist’s life changes completely when he meets a woman who specializes in computer hacking, and she becomes a great asset to him.

What Should I Do?

The story follows a father of four daughters who is married to a school principal, while his mother is a strong rural lady, but she also has a soft side.

Qabeel

In this suspenseful thriller, a police officer is trying to find clues related to the unresolved murder of a young woman, feeling haunted by her ghost along the way.

Harb El Gebaly

In the bustling Al-Jamaliya district of Cairo, two powerful rival families — the Gebaly and the Gharbawy — clash over wealth, dominance, and deep-rooted grievances. At the centre is Harb, a strong yet good-hearted man navigating loyalty, love, and betrayal, as old scores, inheritance disputes, and criminal entanglements pull everyone around him into an escalating war for control.

The Oracle

A crook manages to evade capture for a long time as he switches between various identities that make it difficult for the police to catch him. As he is finally caught by the police officer who has spent his life chasing him, both of them are changed forever by a series of events.

Abdul Kader the Foreigner

Herbert Doperfield is desperate after his brother and his brother in law die during the Second World War, he regains hope again when he goes to Sudan and embraces Islam and changes his name to Abdul Kader. He then moves to Upper Egypt and falls in love with a girl from the big families there.

ألف ليلة وليلة

The story is adapted from the famous Arabic fantasy novel of the same name.

City Gates

After a wealthy man marries a younger girl, she inherits his fortune after he dies, which puts her in conflict with his nephew who claims his right in the inheritance.

Tales of a Modern-Day Husband

In separate episodes, the series deals with the many sides of marital life and the various problems couples face across different classes and social backgrounds, through the story of the couple Mahmoud and Samia.

Belly of the Whale

‎Hilal works in the drug trade, then forces his younger religious brother Diaa to work with him, but Hilal is thrown in jail and Diaa finds himself responsible for his brother's illegal work and taking care of his family and fights a war that he knows nothing about‎‎.‎

Into the Dark

Question Mark

Noah Al-Shawwaf appears to be a well-off gentleman from Alexandria, but he is running away from a mysterious past.

Without Mentioning Names

The series revolves around several intertwined events, different Aisha. The series deals with the story of Rabih al-Halawani, and his son Rabie al-Halawani. The magazine and its partner in extortion operations, ill-informed. On the other hand, there is a reason to spend the protection and care of a purebred (ewe) and closer to her on the other side, as she escapes to work for Karawana and then becomes a beach dancer. He exploits the need for a job as an engineer by one of the sons of the Egyptian countryside, in order to exploit him and his father to implement private and suspicious deals.

Gouging The Sea

The series is set in Upper Egypt and is based on a true event in which the tyrannical parents of Abdul Hayy, a rebellious young man, force him to face several difficulties

Wannous

Yaqut, a father, leaves his wife and kids and disappears for 20 years. The Devil, Wanoos, then visits his family, pretending to be their father's friend, and tells them that he and their father have made millions. A conflict between the children and their mother ensues, and they need to choose between going back to their father and his money, or keeping things the way they are.

Ghamam Island

When Khaldoun and the gypsy Al-Ayqa settle on Ghamam island, they try to control its people, thinking that it contains a treasure and a great secret that no one knows. As they try to extend their influence to implement their plan, will the people of the island confront them led by Arafat, El Ajami, and Muharib?