Maher Essam Movies

  • 2002
    11’09”01—September 11

    11’09”01—September 11

    11’09”01—September 11

    6.52002HD

    Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...

    11’09”01—September 11
  • 2007
    Chaos, This Is?

    Chaos, This Is?

    Chaos, This Is?

    7.12007HD

    Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention...

    Chaos, This Is?
  • 2001
    Silence... We're Rolling

    Silence... We're Rolling

    Silence... We're Rolling

    4.82001HD

    Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist...

    Silence... We're Rolling
  • 1986
    The Sixth Day

    The Sixth Day

    The Sixth Day

    4.81986HD

    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...

    The Sixth Day
  • 2011
    18 Days

    18 Days

    18 Days

    72011HD

    10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or...

    18 Days
  • 1987
    The Tiger and The Female

    The Tiger and The Female

    The Tiger and The Female

    61987HD

    Officer Wahid is assigned to work undercover to enter the ring of the largest drug trafficker, he uses the help of the repentant night girl Naima, to...

    The Tiger and The Female
  • 2001
    Marriage by Presidential Decree

    Marriage by Presidential Decree

    Marriage by Presidential Decree

    5.42001HD

    An employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides to marry a girl of a higher social status. At a moment of recklessness,he sends a wedding...

    Marriage by Presidential Decree
  • 2002
    عودة مدرسة المشاغبين

    عودة مدرسة المشاغبين

    عودة مدرسة المشاغبين

    02002HD

    عودة مدرسة المشاغبين
  • 2015
    Professional Guys

    Professional Guys

    Professional Guys

    82015HD

    Seba'y is an unsuccessful football coach in the Dokki Sports Club. As he tries to marry his sweetheart Osha, his final chance to prove himself to her...

    Professional Guys
  • 1987
    The Talisman

    The Talisman

    The Talisman

    4.61987HD

    Protagonist Mahmoud is a high school teacher, who lives with his entire family in a tiny apartment. The landlord is desperately trying to force them...

    The Talisman
  • 2014
    Salem: His Sister's Father

    Salem: His Sister's Father

    Salem: His Sister's Father

    3.22014HD

    Salem is a poor street vendor who has been taking care of his sister since their parents died. After the 25th of January revolution, his life turns...

    Salem: His Sister's Father
  • 2013
    Lion Heart

    Lion Heart

    Lion Heart

    5.82013HD

    Kidnapped as a child and raised in the circus, a young lion tamer's tough side emerges when he gets entangled in an underworld murder mystery.

    Lion Heart
  • 2013
    The Bulbul's Nest

    The Bulbul's Nest

    The Bulbul's Nest

    32013HD

    A comedy about a taxi driver who wants to achieve his goal of becoming a famous singer. He finds himself inside the world of nightclubs and befriends...

    The Bulbul's Nest
  • 2019
    Qarmat in Trouble

    Qarmat in Trouble

    Qarmat in Trouble

    7.42019HD

    Qarmouti builds a graveyard for his ancestors, and makes it a paid tourists attraction; this causes him lots of problems with the government....

    Qarmat in Trouble
  • 2004
    The Gate of the Sun

    The Gate of the Sun

    The Gate of the Sun

    62004HD

    Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and...

    The Gate of the Sun
  • 1999
    Closed Doors

    Closed Doors

    Closed Doors

    5.41999HD

    During the Gulf War, Fatma works as a maid for a wealthy man, and her son Mohammed is suffering from oppression by his teacher Mansour, who's having...

    Closed Doors
  • 1985
    Fawazia The Bourgeoisie

    Fawazia The Bourgeoisie

    Fawazia The Bourgeoisie

    7.51985HD

    The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some...

    Fawazia The Bourgeoisie
  • 2001
    High School Freshmen

    High School Freshmen

    High School Freshmen

    02001HD

    When Surgeon Hamza commits a mistake that leads to the death of a child, he's sentenced to jail and prevented from practicing his profession. The...

    High School Freshmen
  • 2009
    Azazeel

    Azazeel

    Azazeel

    02009HD

    With a wicked magic spell, the devil (Azazel, the son of Satan) is prepared to harm an innocent girl (Rawan Fouad). Crazy, but the childhood lover...

    Azazeel
  • 2014
    A Girl from Dar El Salam

    A Girl from Dar El Salam

    A Girl from Dar El Salam

    22014HD

    The film follows Manal, a young girl living in the poor town of Dar Elsalam in Cairo. After she graduates from a commerce secondary school, she...

    A Girl from Dar El Salam