Movies: Yousra

Imagine a world of pleasure, where passion is the ultimate obsession. When Michael and Lisa travel to India to restore an erotic sculpture, they are immediately acquainted with the Kama Sutra and introduced to the skills of seduction. But when forbid...

portrays the lives of residents in an old Cairo building "The Yacoubian Building", highlighting issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of the Egyptian soci...

Three years after the events of the first film, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes all that, and introduces t...

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...

Three sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falli...

The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to g...

Ever wonder what it was like to be in the middle east during the Gulf War of the early 90s? Sure, many films and TV shows have portrayed what it was like for the UN forces. This film takes you into the melee from the perspective of Egyptians -- who w...

A businessman, stuck in the credit crunch, falls in love with a businesswoman who is in turn stuck in the credit crunch....

Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati joins religious extremist groups to make financial gains , and the third Mohsen only works as a sim...

A woman ends up working at the same nightclub as her son’s girlfriend — who she doesn’t like — and tries to break up their relationship....

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the hand...

Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes...

In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces. Harfoush, a brave knight must deliver a message to the ruler of Egypt to demand military aid in order to resist the enemy. After killing some soldiers, he finds himself in a...

When a young businessman goes through a crisis, he finds that his only hope is a holy woman who starts to help him....

The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and eventuall...

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

A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world....

A mix-up leads Ra'fat Rostum to a ministerial seat that he was never meant to have. As he successfully holds onto his office for a long time, he starts having violent nightmares and asks his office manager, Ateya, to accompany him to the North Coast ...

A documentary that investigates the meticulous process of film-making in all the three phases of production, told from the perspectives of Egyptian film-makers, celebrities, and other contributors to the film industry....

Yusuf Al-Mansi a worker in the railways. During his night shift and near his workplace, a millionaire named Asaad Yakout is hosting a big party to make a deal with a VIP and wants to have his secretary Ghada as condition to get the deal done. Yusuf ...