Movies: Hassan Youssef

Three friends are arrested after committing an accident with their car. After finishing their sentence, they become partners with the owner of a decoration workshop. But he deceives them and spends the money in gambling. They force him to sign a waiv...

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 story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian....

A Man in Our House is a 1961 Egyptian film about the resistance to British rule in Egypt which ended in the exile of King Farouk in 1954 and the rise to power of Gamal Abdel Nasser....

The story of three liars: Zaghloul the lorry driver who is mistaken by a gang as their own driver, Marhabawy who takes a truth serum that reveals all his lies, and an opportunistic young man who tries to blackmail a wealthy woman....

Magdy, the struggling student at the Faculty of Medicine, meets Souad, the wife of his professor Dr. Fikry, and she admires him and asks her husband to let him work in his clinic. They get involved in a relationship, but events take a tragic turn....

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Ahmed lives with his family, but he faces many problems with his father, who is cruel and wants to force him to study engineering against his will. Ahmed falls in love with his neighbor and colleague (Mona), but his father stands in the way of their ...

Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. The second is a secretary with designs on her boss, even though he too is married. Having learned fro...

(Elham and Salwa) two chemical engineers, have been appointed to the Oil Company (Cairo) but are seeking to work in the desert to explore new oil wells, but the company only sends men there. The desert, having progressed to work as two men because of...

Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution....

The film tells the story of 3 navy officers, Samir, Ahmed and Sherif who go back to their houses and wives for only 24 hours vacation after spending 6 months on duty aboard the ship. But instead of being welcomed after their long absence, their wives...

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 da...

When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but his protégé, the sculptor Sherif, also falls for her and competes with Ahmed to win her favor....

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Sherif, the lawyer, and his two friends, Raafat, the famous composer, and Sayed, the veterinarian, are shocked, and they decide together to abandon everything related to Noun Al-Niswa, but Elham decides to enter their lives....

Al-Gharib is a dangerous criminal who only strikes at night. As the police fail to catch him, Al-Gharib befriends a wealthy college student who gets to see a side to the terrifying serial killer that no one else gets to see....

Naima, a mute girl, loses her mother when she is young. Her father marries an unjust woman who hates her and curses her for any reason. Atris, the village elder, also hates her, while his son stalks her and flirts with her whenever he sees her. Husse...

When her mother dies, the responsibility of keeping the family together falls on Sawsan, who tries to reunite her family after her father neglects his children in favor of chasing after the widowed Fatma, and her brother sets his eyes on a married wo...

Two college students live together in Cairo. As they fall for their neighbor Mona, they start to compete to win her favor which stirs up trouble....

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 that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arriv...