Best movies of Henry Barakat

Actors : Rushdy Abaza, Mokhtar Al Sayed, Umran Bahar, Aziza Badr,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Based in British occupied Egypt, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a member of the resistance, seeks refuge in the house of a politically passive family after killing the prime minister for his acts of treason.

Actors : Mahmoud Moursy, Faten Hamama, Saleh Selim, Shouweikar,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Elbab Elmaftouh, Known in English as "The Open Door", another great movie about women's right in their different role and life and thier struggle between her father with his old style and her husband that doesn't understand her.

Actors : Abdallah Gheith, Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

A poor peasant woman becomes a symbol of worker oppression in this somber social drama directed by Henri Barakat. Azziza (Faten Hamama) is brutally raped by a guard when she goes into the ...

Actors : Salwa Haddad, Elie Choueiri, Berj Fazlian, Fairuz,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

During the war in 1914, the Othoman empire forbided weat toenter the lands of Lebanon in order to make the Lebanese people starve. In addition to that, the Othoman empire was taking men to ...

Actors : Inas Al Degheidy, Farid Shawqi, Ragaa Hussein, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film ...

Actors : Mahmoud Azmy, Farid Shawqi, Naima Akef, Shouweikar,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

This lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Actors : Ihab Nafá, Faten Hamama, Ehsan Sherif, Samir Sabri,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

An Egyptian film adapted from the British film "Brief Encounter - 1945"

Actors : Elie Choueiri, Berj Fazlian, Fairuz, Samir Chamas,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

A young girl's father is fired from his job as a guard because there are no more criminals left in town so she pretends to be a thief in order to stir up trouble and get him his job back.

Actors : Mohammed Al Mokh, Wahid Ezat, Em'aam Al Garbatly, Adel Adham,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Leila has run away from home because she did not want to marry her cousin Hamed. A few years later, Hamed meets Leila's lookalike, Nadia, a nightclub girl in Beirut. As Leila's uncle is ...

Actors : Salah Nazmi, Faten Hamama, Mahmoud Yassine,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Two egyptians live in lebanon meets,the doubts and theories of the painter about his girlfriend when he failed To make her pose revealed to his paintings,is she virtuous or pretend to be?...

Actors : Mervat Amin, Leïla Karam, Hussein Fahmy, Farid Al Atrache,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Hanan works as a secretary for Mamdouh, the respected singer who is also good friends with her family. She goes to Lebanon to spend the summer with her mother, and see her boyfriend Mohsen ...

Actors : Ezzat El Alaili, Gamil Ratib, Abdel Waress Assar, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Rauya is in her early forties when her husband decides to leave her for a younger, less talented but more attractive woman. The spurned wife remains with her daughter, pulls herself ...

Actors : Mohsen Mohieddin, Salah Kabil, Shukry Sarhan, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

A tale story of the July, 1952 revolution in Egypt through the experiences of Fatma (Hamama), a young betrothed woman. Her history is told in flash backs as she sits on the roof of her ...

Actors : Mahmoud Soldier, Suhair Ramzi, Farouk Al-Fishawy,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

A Citizen Under Investigation is the great Egyptian director Henry Barakat's last film, and a damning indictment of Egypt's ruling military dictatorship.