Katkout (2006)

Actors: Hassan Hosny (actor), Mohammad Saad (actor), Mohammad Saad (actor), Motaz El-Kateb (editor), Ali Hassanein (actor), Hassan Abdel Fattah (actor), Gharib Mahmoud (actor), Mohamed Wafik (actor), Heba El-Sissy (actress), Thoria Ibrahim (actress), Tarek Al Amir (writer), Ahmed Awad (director), Hamdy Haikal (actor),

Plot: Katkout is the saeedi (southern Egyptian) version of El-Limby with a much lower IQ. The film starts with Katkout preparing to be killed by another family in Upper Egypt for some absurd, unclear reason that neither Katkout nor the audience can fully comprehend. Later on, he is rescued by a bunch of cops who transport him to Cairo in order to prepare him for a mission involving national security. It turns out that Katkout possesses an uncanny physical resemblance to a terrorist named Youssef Khoury who was preparing for a terrorist attack before he was haunted down by our always dependable police forces. After being set up for the assignment, we learn that a crooked terrorist organization, of unidentifiable nationality, is preparing to bomb Egypt's subway

A Bahraini Tale (2006)

Actors: Bassam Al-Thawadi (producer), Bassam Al-Thawadi (director), Mohammed Haddad (composer), Fareed Ramadan (writer), Fatima Abdulrahim (actress), Osama Al-Saif (editor), Mariam Ziman (actress), Juma'an Al-Rowayai (actor), Mubarak Khamis (actor), Abdulla Malik (actor), Shayma Janahi (actress), Abdulla Al Sa'adawi (actor), Majeda Sultan (actress), Fahad Mandi (actor), Hassan Al-Majed (actor),

Plot: Set during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, this epic drama is both the personal story of a middle-class Bahraini family and an account of the hopes and faith the Arab world had in Jamal Abdul Nasser as its leader. Intimately told, it skillfully interweaves the personal and the general to reveal a society built on male domination and female sacrifice, as women attempt to enjoy freedom of choice.

The Story of 1 (2005)

Actors: Terry Jones (actor), Ahmed Boulane (actor), Ty Unwin (composer), Adam Kemp (producer), Fred Challa (producer), Fred Challa (actor), Jasper James (producer), Peter Norrey (editor), Nick Murphy (producer), Nick Murphy (director), Essouci Zakia (costume designer), Tamara Bodenham (producer), Marcus du Sautoy (actor), Leo Jampinjinpa Wayne (actor), Charles Seife (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Terry Jones hosts this documentary on the number one. It looks at early evidence of counting, the use of numbers for simple arithmetic in Sumeria, the development of large numbers and their use for engineering in Egypt, the worship of numbers by Pythagoras and the theoretical mathematics of the Archimedes. It also looks at the use of numbers by the Romans, the development of Arabic numerals in India, the discovery of the number zero, the development of algebra in the Islamic world, the decline of Roman numerals in the west, and the development of the binary system.

Sphinx (1981)

Actors: Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Robert Swink (editor), Saeed Jaffrey (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Lesley-Anne Down (actress), John Rhys-Davies (actor), Nadim Sawalha (actor), Martin Benson (actor), Frank Langella (actor), Tutte Lemkow (actor), Behrouz Vossoughi (actor), Maurice Ronet (actor), William Hootkins (actor), Victoria Tennant (actress), James Cossins (actor),

Bhola Bhala (1978)

Actors: Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Ramesh Deo (actor), Uma Dutt (actor), V. Gopal (actor), Jagdeep (actor), Jankidas (actor), Pinchoo Kapoor (actor), Satyendra Kapoor (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Rajesh Khanna (actor), Rajesh Khanna (actor), Raj Mehra (actor), Moolchand (actor), Maruti Rao (actor), Joginder Shelly (actor),

Plot: Ram Kumar Verma is an honest albeit unsuccessful Insurance Agent. His poor performance and a quick settlement for Renu and her mom gets him transferred to Madhya Pradesh. During the train journey he comes across Nathu Singh, and thinking that Nathu is an emperor of sorts, gets him to insure himself for Rs.5 lakhs, to which Nathu Singh agrees. Ram Verma returns to his company and is heartily congratulated by his Manager and the General Manager even throws a party for Ram. Subsequently, the Manager realizes that the person Ram has insured is actually a wanted dacait and thug commonly known as Daku Nathiya, wanted by the police dead or alive. Fearing the collapse of the insurance company, the Manager coerces Ram to return to Madhya Pradesh and get Nathiya to cancel his insurance policy. Ram, in the interest of the insurance company, readily agrees and on the way to meet Nathiya, ends up saving Nathiya's son from a burning house, thus earning Nathiya's and his woman, Champa's gratitude. Ram finds out that Nathiya was otherwise known as Nathu Singh, a honest villager, with a beautiful wife, and a son Chander. A rich village lord, Thakur Ajit Singh, rapes and kills Nathu's wife, and as Nathu is unable to get justice, he turns into Nathiya, the dacait. Ram only wants Nathiya to cancel the policy, so that he can return home, and promises not to inform the police. Nathiya agrees to cancel the insurance policy and let Ram return home. But Sambha is not pleased with the favors being showered on Ram and rebels, and forces Nathiya to keep Ram prisoner. When Nathiya is injured, Champa asks Ram to bring in a medical doctor, and Ram brings Renu, and ultimately both Ram and Renu are also held by Sambha, while Nathiya lies unconscious. Meanwhile the police have launched a dragnet to capture Nathiya dead of alive. Will Ram and Renu return home to Ram's mother and sister, Sarla and his best friend Babu Khan? Will Nathiya and Champa survive the police dragnet?

Slatin Pascha (1967)

Actors: Wolfgang Schleif (director), Stanislav Ledinek (actor), Kurd Pieritz (actor), Herbert Weicker (actor), Hermann Kugelstadt (writer), Günther Kieslich (actor), Lutz Moik (actor), Richard Haller (actor), Heinrich Gies (actor), Hermann Kiessner (actor), Helmut Hildebrand (actor), Wolfgang Gunther (actor), Wolfgang Bretholz (writer), Christian Ghera (actor), Inge Osterloh (actress),