Movies: Black and white

Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon....

Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk....

After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together....

Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidn...

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When Mafouz dies, his partner Diab seizes his share, which leaves Mahfouz's family living in poverty. Gawdat, Zahra's fiancé, sleeps with her after she surrenders in the hope that they will get married quickly, but his mother forces him to leave Zahr...

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief...

(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...

Muhammad Karim directed adaptation of Tawfiq Al-Hakim's play. Mohsen is a reckless young man who has many relationships. He meets the girl of his dreams by chance and falls in love with her immediately, but he discovers that she is his friend's fian...

Khairiya is a wealthy girl engaged to her cousin Amin Al-Thara as well. Her family loses this wealth and the girl loses her fiancé, who refused to be paired with a bankrupt girl. She is shocked by charity when she finds her fiancé with another girl a...

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Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Mu...

A marriage proposal prompts Carolina to recall three previous relationships as she wanders through Manhattan....

In one night, a madam at a brothel makes plans to get pregnant, while a magician working across the street makes a drastic move to change his life....

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph....

Ayoub Gad al-Haq, "Fouad El Mohandes," a simple employee, is struck by the great resemblance between him and the husband of the deceased employer in a big trouble where the small employer's daughter is concerned, thinking that he is her father who di...

An experimental documentary exploring a sinister theory surrounding the death of Cleveland baseball player Ray Chapman in 1920 and the subsequent rise of the Yankee dynasty....

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film....

College student, Curt Garrish, goes on a murderous sniper rampage....

Being a swimming champion, many beautiful girls admire Ahmed but he only loves one. However, his life is turned upside down when he has a heart attack that threatens both his sports career and his love life....