My Wife's Suitor

The technical secretary

March 1968 •Arabic

Swat the Fly

April 1935 •English

Betty wants to bake a cake, but a fly appears in her kitchen and all heck breaks loose.

Hassan wa Morcos wa Cohen

April 1960 •Arabic

Osman and Ali

November 1938 •Arabic

After he neglects his work, the phone operator Osman is fired for being preoccupied with his sweetheart, the maid Yasmina. When he goes to a new job, he discovers that everyone has him confused with Ali Bey, the company's owner, due to their resemblance, a fact that he exploits to his advantage.

Get Rich Quick Porky

August 1937 •English

Porky invests his savings. Mayhem ensues.

The Family Doctor

May 1910 •German

An ailing woman is visited by her family doctor. This film was seized by Austrian authorities in 1911, and the fact was announced in the Wiener Zeitung, the Official Journal of Vienna.

The Mother of the Bride

December 1963 •Arabic

This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.

The Flirtation of Girls

September 1949 •Arabic

Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.

Zizi's Family

April 1963 •Arabic

The everyday lives, loves and dreams of a slightly kooky modern middle-class Egyptian family in the early 1960's.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

October 1942 •Arabic

Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures. He tries to solve his financial problems with thehe contents of the cave, but as Qasim enters the picture, things turn irreversibly.

My Wife the General Manager

January 1966 •Arabic

A married couple ends up working at the same company where the wife is a general director. This arouses the suspicion of their co-workers who do not know they are married.

A Strong Revenge

March 1913 •English

Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.

Playing at Politics

May 1931 •Spanish

Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.

Karibisches Vergnügen

March 1963 •German

A young drawing teacher wins a dream trip to the West Indies in a competition. The journey takes her on a luxury ship to Jamaica and Haiti. The dances and music of the locals and the cities of Kingston and Port-au-Prince with their bustling markets form the backdrop to this little comedy of mistaken identity, in which an unattractive but precious necklace plays a confusing role.

MER

April 2023 •English

A paralyzed girl finds difficulty living a normal life, so she participates in a ritual to metamorphize into a mermaid to replace her useless lower half.

'Iilhiquni bialmadhun

October 1954 •Arabic

Nabqa the seamstress is looking for a groom. She reads in the newspaper ads about a groom named Gamil Gamal, so they get engaged. Unfortunately, Nabqa goes out on the train one day, and without her noticing, a thief steals her wallet, including her engagement papers to Gamil Gamal and her ID card, and claims to be a woman of good lineage.

صاحبة العمارة

March 1948 •Arabic

Black Cloaks

May 1947 •Portuguese

The great fadista, Amelia Rodrigues, made her screen debut in Capas Negras, which took its name from the black capes worn by the students in the university city of Coimbra, where the film is set. The action begins in a tavern where a group of former students are reminiscing about their time at the university. One of the students, Jose Duarte then breaks into song, performing an impromptu fado in the local Coimbra style. The tavern owner's niece, the aptly named Maria Lisboa promptly retaliates with a fado of the Lisbon variety. The melodramatic plot then centers on the frustrated romance between these two characters, and the soundtrack is essentially a musical duel between these two different styles of Portugal's national song.

Nehayet Qessa

September 1951 •Arabic

The work deals with the story of a young writer who writes a story about a girl who loves her cousin and seeks to marry him, but her father opposes this marriage, so she marries another young man in a sham marriage, to please her father, and her relationship with her cousin continues, until the story turns into reality when the young man meets a girl who suffers from the same problem, so what will he do?

Narges

May 1948 •Arabic

When Narges, the only child of wealthy parents, goes missing, a middle-class man takes her in and raises her. As she falls in love with a poor guy, her parents find her and bring her back. A wealthy guy proposes to her but she remains faithful to her old sweetheart.