Shoukry Sarhan Movies

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations....

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....

In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns...

Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he...

In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is...

A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he...

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....

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.

After Samia marries Mahmoud, she finds out that he's cheating on her. She gets divorced and starts a job at a company. Samia begins a new...

Officer Emad says goodbye to his sweetheart Nadia as he goes to fight in the Palestine war. As the army suffers from a crippling defeat and rumors of...

The mayor of an Upper Egyptian village has monopoly over beans which harms the simple villagers while getting high profits for the mayor. As one of...

Directed by Atef Salem.

A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband...

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the...

The tragic life of a woman, Mona, as she divorces her opportunistic husband and gets engaged to Sherif, a tourist company owner. She is in for more...

The great lawyer Mamdouh neglects his cases because of gambling, and after the insistence of his wife straightens his case, spending his nights at...

Three different stories about three women. Three women, the first (Hana), who loves (Adel), but she meets (Sami) to also fall in love with him, the...