Kandil om Hashem

Kandil om Hashem

1968 · 105 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama

Set in one of Cairo's densely-populated neighborhoods, Sayyida Zeinab, the film showcases beautiful scenes from city life.

Directed by Kamal Atteya · Written by Sabry Moussa

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

3h 45m together

Kandil om Hashem

Message To God

Both from Kamal Atteya.

More from Kamal AtteyaSee all →

The SuspectThe Suspect · 1957
The Suspect
10.01957
MovieCrime
A broke gambler plans with the manager of a gambling hall to steal money from the safe of a pharmaceutical company that another gambler works for. The gambler betrays his partner , and kills him and mutilates his face. After the doctor leaves his room, everyone thinks that he killed the gambler because of the hatred that existed between them.
End of the RoadEnd of the Road · 1960
End of the Road
10.01960
MovieDrama
As Sharbat marries her sweetheart, she comes to realize that their ambitions and plans for the future do not align. She gets a divorce and falls in love with a rich student, only to marry his father. When the jealous student kills his father, Sharbat inherits her husband's entire fortune.
Message To GodMessage To God · 1961
Message To God
10.01961
MovieDrama
Hussein is a train inspector who feels guilty after a passenger dies during his attempt to escape detection. His daughter, Aisha, battles a lot of existential questions about God.
Lovers of the NightLovers of the Night · 1957
Lovers of the Night
9.01957
MovieDrama
After his wife cheats on him with his friend, a husband seeks solace in a nightclub where a dancer and an alcoholic friend try to console him. When the alcoholic friend kills his wife for money, he leaves his daughter under the care of the husband and the dancer.
House No. 13House No. 13 · 1952
House No. 13
7.71952
MovieDramaCrime
Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.
The Way Of The DevilThe Way Of The Devil · 1963
The Way Of The Devil
7.01963
MovieActionDrama
Two gamblers living a prosperous but lustful life where money has replaced morals. However, their lives change after an unexpected meeting with a belly dancer.
The CriminalThe Criminal · 1954
The Criminal
7.01954
MovieDrama
A criminal kidnaps a girl from her wealthy family and demands a ransom. When the family refuses to pay, he entrusts the daughter to a poor family to raise her and their only son. One day, a wealthy woman sees a striking resemblance to her lost son in the poor family's son and decides to raise him. When he grows up, he meets the girl who was raised with him when he was young.
Serr el ghaebSerr el ghaeb · 1962
Serr el ghaeb
7.01962
MovieComedyRomance
A wealthy merchant monopolized the grain trade and used to hide it from time to time in order to manipulate its prices in the market, in this way it is a great wealth, suddenly the merchant disappears and leaves his wife who fails to know the secret of his sudden disappearance. She works for an accountant young man, who quickly falls in love with her, and at the same time helps her manage the department store.
Abeed Al GasadAbeed Al Gasad · 1962
Abeed Al Gasad
7.01962
MovieDrama
Wafaa runs away from her husband who treats her very harshly to work in a jewelry store. Then she meets a young man who was trying to rob the store. Their relationship develops quickly and they get married after she stipulates that he stop stealing. However, her life turns upside down when her first husband is released from prison.
I Killed My WifeI Killed My Wife · 1956
I Killed My Wife
7.01956
MovieDramaThriller
A husband and wife live happily and happily, but they lack only one thing in order for their happiness to be complete: children. Although years have passed since the marriage, they have not had children, but he does not want to marry another woman, and at the same time rumors are spreading in the area in which they live. She is in a relationship with her ex-fiancé.
Al MaatoohAl Maatooh · 1982
Al Maatooh
6.01982
MovieDrama
Ahmed is a zoo employee, who falls from the stairs in his house. After his treatment, he accuses his neighbor Thanaa that she's the one who pushed him. She gets arrested and brought to trial, while her husband Adel is trying find a way to prove her innocence.
Our Gang Doesn't Have Any Other BranchesOur Gang Doesn't Have Any Other Branches · 1990
Our Gang Doesn't Have Any Other Branches
4.01990
MovieComedy
Abbas invents candy claiming that it strengthens the body and cures diseases, and people rush to buy it, which makes him rich enough to marry Nazira, but that angers nurse Rayisa who loves Abbas and makes her inform the police of poisoning cases from eating the candy invented by Abbas.
Girl of 17Girl of 17 · 1958
Girl of 17
1958
MovieDrama
Law student Safaa (Zubaida Tharwat) loves her colleague Kamal (Ahmed Ramzy), and the two want to get married. However, her father Ibrahim (Hussein Riad) opposes this relationship because Kamal's mother, Horia (Zouzou Madi), runs her house as a gambling ground. He tries hard to sever the ties between them, but the father's efforts go down the drain because the two lovers are attached to each other. The father turns to his friend Dr. Refaat (Mahmoud Zulfikar) asking him to intervene, but Refaat advises the father not to stand in his daughter's way.
The Much-Loved OneThe Much-Loved One · 1950
The Much-Loved One
1950
MovieDrama
Nabila is a singer whose brother constantly takes her money for gambling. When his debts accumulate, he tries to make her marry the theater owner to avoid going to jail, till she meets Raouf and theyey fall in love but face many difficulties.
Hadith almadinaHadith almadina · 1964
Hadith almadina
1964
MovieDrama
The film revolves around a famous football player who meets a flirtatious girl, until his athletic level deteriorates, affecting his future. His teammates and friends cooperate until he leaves the girl and returns to his former self.
Some Live TwiceSome Live Twice · 1971
Some Live Twice
1971
MovieDramaFantasy
Ahmed, an archaeologist, and his wife Zahira, a school principal, get preoccupied with their careers that they neglect their children, causing Thoraya to adopt an extremely liberal approach to life, Samira to become weak in character, and Hisham to turn to theft. Can they be saved?

More Like This

The Longest DayThe Longest Day · 1962
The Longest Day
7.61962
MovieWarAction
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
FollowingFollowing · 1999
Following
7.11999
MovieDramaThriller
Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.
YojimboYojimbo · 1961
Yojimbo
8.11961
MovieDramaThriller
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Miracle on 34th StreetMiracle on 34th Street · 1947
Miracle on 34th Street
7.41947
MovieComedyDrama
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
SanjuroSanjuro · 1962
Sanjuro
7.91962
MovieDramaAction
In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
High and LowHigh and Low · 1963
High and Low
8.41963
MovieDramaCrime
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
I VitelloniI Vitelloni · 1953
I Vitelloni
7.61953
MovieComedyDrama
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter