01 An escaped prisoner wanders a Cairo in chaos during the 2011 revolution.
10 Best Egyptian Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · November 15, 2025
Egypt has been the center of Arab cinema for nearly a century, and its strongest films tend to turn ordinary spaces, a train station, a police truck, an apartment building, into a lens on the whole country’s politics.
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02 A magazine editor waiting for her husband falls into an unplanned connection with his old friend.
03 A 12th-century philosopher's ideas are targeted by religious fundamentalists who fear free thought.
04 A magic trick gone wrong transforms a household's domineering father, and no one moves to fix it.
05 A conservative imam's faith is shaken by grief over Michael Jackson's death.
06 A psychiatrist's return to work uncovers a patient tied to his own forgotten past.
07 A corrupt detective's murder investigation exposes rot reaching the top of the regime.
08 Two dozen protesters and police are locked together inside a single riot van during Cairo's unrest.
09 One Cairo apartment building's residents reveal the full spread of Egyptian society and its corruption.
10 A disabled newspaper vendor's obsession curdles into violence at Cairo's central train station.
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