Movies: Mimi Chakib

This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor....

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of...

Amshir works in a cabaret owned by his wealthy friend Medhat. Medhat is sentenced to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian man named Al-Najawi. Amshir then goes to prison instead of him in exchange for a sum of mo...

Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution....

Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance....

As Magdy leaves Upper Egypt for a job, he befriends the playboy Sami who impresses him with his many relationships. After a chance meeting with Hanan, Magdy asks for Sami's help to get close to her, something that Sami is happy to provide and support...

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition tu...

Anwar Wagdi plays vagabond musician Alfredo, who comes across an abandoned baby in the night. He tries his best to get our heroes someone to take it and raise it. When that fails, he has no choice but to raise it on his own. He names the child, Daba...

Farid is a student at the College of Veterinary Medicine. He has a love story with Samira, his cousin. Three girls are trying to obtain a marriage contract to guarantee a job outside Egypt, but they can only find Farid. Farid marries the four of them...

Hussein's family objects to his relationship with dancer Suhair, but he marries her, and she gives birth to Amal. Hussein goes to his family to tell them that he had a daughter. On the way to share this news, he is hit by a car. Before he dies, he te...

Three young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse....

Haniya lives with her sick aunt. She meets Mahmoud the mechanic and agrees to marry him. Mahmoud and Haniya continue to take care of the sick aunt until her illness worsens. Before her death, the aunt tells Haniya that she has an uncle named Radwan, ...

(Fadel) inherited a large legacy and changed his condition after he became addicted to alcohol and gambling, neglecting his wife and two daughters (Amal) and (Fatima). When his situation deteriorated, he worked as a manager in a contracting company, ...

A fantastical story about a husband who is troubled by mother-in-law, until he meets a man who sells morals in the form of powders. As he buys the powder of courage to face his bossy mother-in-law, his life changes and he returns again to the seller ...

Sunniyeh, the poor girl, lives with her mother sewing, and during the delivery of Suniyeh one of her mother's clients ’gowns, who runs a den of immoral acts, called (Madame Southi), so that one of her friends admires Sunnah and asks her to work with ...

A wealthy girl pulls a prank on one of her classmates by telephone, getting her to like and flirt with the son of a famous lawyer, leading the her classmate to fall in love with him. The girl tries to catch them together....

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After his parents got separated and remarried, Mamdouh is going through tough times. He starts stealing cars with his friend. But he decides to quit this crime life and bring his parents back together while they have moved on with their lives....

When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed muc...

A widow with three daughters, Nadia, Esmat and Raja. Their aunt advises them to go to a matchmaker to find grooms for them. They reject this approach, so Nadia establishes an association calling for giving women the right to choose their life partner...