Movies: Salah Mansour

Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo....

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A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power....

Doctor Hashem is a womanizer who is torn between three women: Amina, from whom he's constantly escaping while she is madly in love with him, Najwa, whom he loves while she lives with another man, and Rehab, the open-minded free personality. Will he m...

Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman....

Despite their love for each other, a couple divorces for the third time. The husband meets an elderly wealthy man and marries his daughter. The wife tries to sabotage his new marriage by wedding his new father-in-law, putting them all under the same ...

The story revolves around the girl (Jalila), who lives with her stepfather who asks her to steal from customers in the bar. Jalila runs away from her mother's house and her husband who treats her harshly. After escaping, she is able to find work on t...

A film that portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family: three brothers, their sister Nefeesa and their mother after the father’s death. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good....

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his pri...

Salama falls into the clutches of a criminal who falsifies securities, as his financial condition is difficult. He makes a great fortune. He withdraws from the life of his cousin, who loves him, because he cannot confront her, as she represents his h...

Saber Effendi is a simple employee suffering from financial pitfalls. A new manager comes to the company who had an old friendship with Saber's wife, which strengthens his relationship with Saber's family. But it causes a rumor that there is a relati...

Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to break free. He meets Nany, the gentle helpless girl, then he meets the lawyer Fatima, a liberal who claims to be cultured....

This 1968 film adaptation of Yahya Haqqi's 1943 novel "The Lamp of Om Hashem" explores the liminal space between the modern and traditional worlds. Set in one of Cairo's densely-populated neighborhoods, Sayyida Zeinab, the film showcases beautiful sc...

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"Behind the Sun" clearly identifies the time identity of his film. It follows the horrific military defeat of June 1967, when a senior military commander insists on an investigation into the real causes of the defeat, leading to his assassination by ...

Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt....

Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family....

The events of this film revolve around Hamdi (Farid Shawqi), who works as an officer in a prison. Hamdi is married and has a child suffering from paralysis, whose treatment requires a large sum of money....

The famous artist Youssef Fahmy discovers Laila's talent for singing. He encourages her to sing professionally against the wishes of her husband, Wahid, with whom she was living happily, which complicates their relationship....

Afaf is a psychopath, who escapes from her Samnoudi husband on her wedding night, then later meets with two other people and agrees with each of them separately to marry, but she escapes when the moments of the Qur’an come, and the same behavior is r...