Shakedown

1959. Guilty of a double murder, a man is guillotined. The dead man's head rolls into a basket, from where it recounts a tale.

Dr. Taliba lives a very stable life with his wife, cousin, children and brother Alaa, the university student. He gets to know Nana, the reckless girl...

A budding singer falls in love with his colleague in the dance troupe and they agree to get married. A famous dancer joins the troupe and falls in...

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,...

Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such...

Boris, an ex-con thief, is persuaded by his girlfriend to pull one last heist, breaking into her paraplegic, millionaire boss' sprawling, castle-like...

Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get complicated because it had not yet been cashed....

Sally is a photographer with an eye for the erotic.

A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer...

Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene, a young factory worker...