Salah El-Saadany

The King Is the King (2006)

The play tells the story of a king who is bored with the ruling. He decides to disguise himself and his minister in search of entertainment among the public. He meets a bankrupt merchant who spends his time in wine and delirium and dreams of being king. Th ...

Concerto in Darb Saada (1998)

Azoz, an employee at the Opera House accompanies a violinist who has just arrived from tours abroad in her errands in the city. He eventually gets influenced by her and starts listening to classical music, and simultaneously gets bored with his life and wi ...

Ballo Ballo (1995)

In the framework of a comedy revolves around theatrical play some people working within the circus and link them to some of the positions of comedian and theatrical show where they know a rich girl was connected with the circus in the university period, ta ...

The Ferryman (1995)

When the simple fisherman Ahmed thinks about enrolling his son in school, as he realizes that he doesn't have an ID and that his son doesn't have a birth certificate. Matters become complicated in a series of comic events when he decides to register his ch ...

Laih Ya Dunya (1994)

Dunya is married to Mustafa. They have a beautiful child and live a happy life. However, a family friend, a doctor, discovers that the husband is on the verge of death due to a serious illness. Dunya will be unjustly accused of killing her husband, busines ...

Little Dreams (1993)

Gharib recalls his life's journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work ...

Girls In Trouble (1992)

A businessman invites five female friends, Rabab, Abeer, Dina, Zizi and Nour, to his house to celebrate one of them's birthday, then he drugged Abeer and rapes her, causing her death. ...

Beggars and Noblemen (1991)

In June 1945, during the final days of WWII, former university professor Gohar meets a young prostitute in a brothel and kills her in a moment of frenzy. Police Detective Noureddine takes on the murder case and tracks down Gohar, hoping to confront him and ...

Al Alwda Wa Al Asfour (1991)

An egyptian couple living in kuwait loses their money and decides to go back to egypt. ...

Below Zero (1990)

Three friends: Wagih, Saad and Mustafa, live in the same town, and they are all competing to win the heart of one woman: Nadia, who eventually marries Mustafa. Upon his return from abroad, Mustafa gets arrested and convicted with drug smuggling, and the be ...

Darb Al Rahba (1990)

Kamal is arrested with his mistress in the act of adultery. They also arrest her friend Ebtisam, who comes across her home, despite her innocence. ...

Layl Wa Khawana (1990)

The corrupt lawyer Mohaseb Awadallah exploits the small thief Salah to steal important documents from the safe of an investment company. When the lawyer feels that Salah's power is increasing, he gets rid of him through another thief named Shaqroun who car ...

Karakib (1989)

Sayed and Alawiya, a husband and wife of employees, face life with a modest salary. His co-worker dies, so he goes to his family to offer his services and help them in completing the pension procedures, but after a while the situation of his co-worker's fa ...

Clash of the Grandchildren (1989)

A grandfather dies and leaves his wealth to the best married grandson. Grandmother Zahira insists on carrying out his will, which causes a struggle between the grandchildren to get the fortune. The three grandchildren represent the various facets of streng ...

love school (1988)

In a social and comedic context, the film deals with the problems and difficulties facing couples, and the changes that occur in the marital relationship between the beautiful romantic beginnings and the difficulty of real life after a period of marriage. ...

The Time of Hatem Zahran (1988)

Although Hatem earned a PhD in agriculture from the USA, he is still envious and holds a deeply rooted grudge against others, specially his family who have always treated his older brother better than him. Upon his return, Hatem decides to open a cosmetics ...

Tali' al-Nakhl (1988)

Muhammad is a simple peasant young man who lives in a village. He works as a palm tree picker. He does his work with ease and loves his beautiful neighbour. However, he suddenly falls prey to severe pain and goes alone. He discovers that he is infected wit ...

Giant (1987)

(Zaki), single in his fifties, was known among people as an example of magnanimity and chivalry, but the seductress Mona was able to conquer his heart, seeking to marry him greed for his money and to achieve for herself all the luxury and influence she cou ...

A Very Difficult Mission (1987)

While drunk Ahmed agrees with Wahid that he kills his stepfather, in return for Ahmed killing Wahid's wife Salwa in order to have her insurance policy. Wahid carries out the agreement, while Ahmed meets Salwa and confess to her the plan. ...

Lack of Evidence (1987)

Ibrahim (Salah al-Saadani) abandons his wife Fawzia (Najla Fathi) and leaves the town and settles in Cairo, where he married Hassania (Aida Riad), Fawzia and Ibrahim deny his knowledge of her and claims that the detective is crazy and exploits that she has ...

The Professionals (1986)

Kazim forms a gang assisted by Riyad to smuggle antiquities. The gang tries to seize a land rich in monuments but Ihsan the owner refuses to sell her land. She goes to hospital for treatment and is forced to sign the selling contract. Her son Ahmed returns ...

The Sixth Day (1986)

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. ...

A File in Vice (1986)

Said the officer in Vice Squad is shocked by the decision of his boss to stop the investigation into the case of Alia Hanim because of her connections with officials and turns into a rigid person. When Said has information that some women visit a flat and ...

Uncle Qandil's Scissors (1985)

Qandil is the owner of a barbershop who is trusted by his neighbors to solve their problems. When he is imprisoned after accidentally killing Gad, his greedy son Salah transforms the barbershop into a clothes store. ...

The Piper (1985)

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 ...

Enheraf (1985)

Despite her family's objection to the match, Hoda, daughter to businessman Abu Madi, marries their driver Hassan. Samiha, meanwhile, is led astray as she surrenders to the pimp Karam. Hoda and Samiha eventually cross paths. Where is that going to take them ...

Awlad Al-Usul (1985)

El Mwazafoun Fel Ard (1985)

Kamel Abdel Shakoor is a general manager at one of the Ministry of Industry's companies and is known for his integrity. Fayed, the company's general manager of contracts, tries to convince him to get a commission, but he refuses despite his difficult finan ...

Uncle Ahmed's Case (1985)

El-Halal Yksab (1985)

After Dr. Fouad performs an operation on Shams and saves her life, she becomes attached to him and asks him to marry her. He hides from her that he is engaged to Narges, fearing that her health will deteriorate, so he marries her and Narges at the same tim ...

Fawazia The Bourgeoisie (1985)

The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some important issues such as ignorance, poverty, and corruption, which leads to the adoption of misconceptions. ...

The Devil Sings (1984)

Asim is a novelist who is busy writing a new novel at the urging of the publisher. Imad is chasing him and deluding him that he derives his ideas from him, and that there is a hidden force between them that transmits his ideas to Asim Lutfi's mind, causing ...

Al Ashqia (1984)

Captain Rateb falls seriously ill. Tawfiq, the port worker, offers to let him pass a bag of drugs through customs in exchange for a large sum of money. He agrees to secure his children's future, but regrets it and throws the bag into the sea. Gang members ...

Thug of the Poor (1984)

The film follows Kamel, who opens a bookstore, and is continuously unsettled by Sayyed, the landlord, who wants to kick Kamel out and turn the store's specialty to garments. One day, Kamel finds an invisibility lace hidden in one of his old books, so he de ...

The Smoke (1984)

the play's central focus on Hamdi, who initiates the smoke and then vanishes within its murky haze ...

The Ghoul (1983)

Adel is a journalist for a major newspaper, divorced and single, he was married before and has a daughter. One night, in the bar he always visits, he meets Nash'at al Kashef, the son of a the famous businessman Fahmy Al Kashef. Nash'at kills the bartender ...

Tower of Tanneries (1983)

The wealthy merchant Salama moves from the tannery neighborhood to live in his new building in Mohandessin. His son, Hisham, returns from the war of 73 with a leg injury and PTSD, and his wife, Nadia, clings to him. As for his son, Issam, he owns a boutiqu ...

City Gates (1981)

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. ...

Behind The University's Walls (1981)

University professor Ramsey returns from London after obtaining a PhD in English literature. He collides with students and cannot reason with them, including the three friends who discover the murder of their old beggar neighbor and are arrested for being ...

The Beasts (1980)

Sodfa suffers in her life from her husband, Sayed the idiot, her cousin, who lives with her in his mother's house in Abu Qir. Mahmoud returns to the place after completing his studies and supervises the brick factory owned by Um Sayed, which angers Sodfa, ...

Laenet Al Zaman (1979)

Attia dispenses with his best friend, Hassan, the printer that he owns. Al-Usta Hassan and the printing press workers confront Attia, who is planning a fire in the printing press, and accuses Fathi Ibn Hassan of the crime of setting the fire until he sepa ...

Hearts in a Sea of Tears (1978)

A girl of a humble origin who works at a hotel to provide for her family crosses paths with a wealthy young man whose mother opposes their marriage due to the difference in their social backgrounds. ...

It's Better Without Marriage (1978)

Iman is surprised that her brother Hossam is in a relationship with actress Nahed. His ideal image collapses and she decides to abandon her morals. She invites Sherif to the house in the absence of Hossam,and he discovers that she has no previous experienc ...

Final Confession (1978)

Adham a faithful husband still mourning his deceased wife,visited one night by a woman in white revealing her secret love for him since college,and his wife true acts behind his back,but the big revelation was this woman is no longer from the living and it ...

The Sad Night Bird (1977)

Adel is imprisoned and sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, as he was with a woman he didn't know when the murder happened. He escapes from jail with the help of officer Hazem, only to find that the mystery woman is the wife of a famous busines ...

Your Wisdom, God! (1976)

In the slaughterhouse neighborhood lives the teacher Umm Naima and her daughter, the educated girl who graduated from the Faculty of Law, Naima, who serves the people of the neighborhood with all her effort. Officer Ahmed comes to uncover the drug traffick ...

Shahira (1975)

The Downtown Apartment (1975)

In a representation of the housing problem in Egypt, a group of friends reunited by their search for an apartment encounter different problems as Kamal is looking for a place to turn into an art studio and Sherif is trying to find a place where he and his ...

The Sex Worker (1975)

while Ahmed is preparing for his Ph.D., his friend Fathy brings the hooker Suzy to the apartment in which Ahmed and Sa'eed are roommates. When he hears Suzy's story that can be used in his studies, Ahmed asks her to quit her work in prostitution in return ...

The Bullet is Still in My Pocket (1974)

Mohamed is a soldier who finds himself in Gaza after the defeat in the 1967 War. He returns to his native village feeling broken and depressed after witnessing the deaths of his fellow soldiers. He still loves Fatima but her father wants her to marry Abbas ...

The Troublemakers (1973)

Rico is the director of an Egyptian theater company, a message comes from a concert in Lebanon to go to Lebanon, and upon arrival there, the band is surprised that the contractor died, and the wife refuses to fulfill the contract concluded with the band, t ...

The Greatest Kid in the World (1972)

Fathi is a university doctor in Beirut University, and his wife, Samia, is a TV presenter who is surprised by the arrival of Matilda, the daughter of his Swedish friend, to live with them. Samia is jealous of Matilda's beauty, as Matilda begins to flirt wi ...

A Song on the Passage (1972)

Set during the Six-Day War, the connection between a group of Egyptian soldiers on a passage in the desert and the command center drops. They try to survive despite the enemy attacks and lack of ammunition and supplies. ...

My Beautiful Teacher (1971)

Nadia moves to a secondary school for boys to teach in Cairo. But the students are not letting her do her job, until an incident happens. ...

The Land (1970)

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a pro ...

A Wife Without a Man (1969)

Nadia gets involved in a relationship with her lover Medhat and becomes pregnant. Medhat gets into a car accident and travels abroad to complete his treatment without Nadia knowing. She tells her sister Sohair about her tragedy. Sohair takes advantage of h ...

The technical secretary (1968)

Shayateen El Leyl (1966)

Atwa takes care of his little brother until he completes his education. Atwa works in a factory and has physical strength, which he exploits by working as a pimp on Imad al-Din Street. Rawhiyya, who lost her entire family at the hands of the British occupa ...

Lokanda Alfardos (1964)

Abd al-Tajtali Sulayt, a compulsory teacher from the village, goes to Locanda al-Firdaws after he was greeted by Atiyah al-Shalashlamouni and his wife Shafiqa, along with his four daughters, who treat them firmly and strongly, while Samiha was a neighbor o ...