Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.
Hassanein is a poor illiterate man who leaves his village and moves to the city to live with his maternal uncle and his family. However, he fails to keep a job and has no choice but to ...
Mohamed El-Asyouty lives with his wife Karima and their three adult daughters but he feels disappointed because he doesn't have a son to bear his last name and run the family business. When...
Ezzat and his wife Dina dream of becoming rich like their elite friends and the only way to do it is to steal money from the company where Ezzat works at. However, his plan fails and he is ...
Bakiza and Zaghloul live together in a single room on the roof after losing their mansion and fortune. After being fired from their jobs, the two ladies go searching for work until they ...
The director's final work prior to his early death to chronic liver disease was this gleefully ghoulish horror comedy, which imparted the following straightforward moral: if you smother ...
Abo Dahab is a poor baker who goes to prison instead of his corrupted boss. When he gets out, he discovers that his employer did not fulfill his promise by supporting his family during his ...