The Best Of Egyptian Cinema

Sherif Awad, a​ ​film critic and curator based in Cairo, highlights ten of the best Egyptian films of all time.

The Best Of Egyptian Cinema

Al-Leb Maa al-Kobar (Playing with the Big Ones, 1991)

Hassan Bahloul (Adel Imam) is an unemployed man who pretends he can predict crimes and incidents before they occur. A police officer (Hussein Fahmi) follows Hassan’s leads while trying to find the truth behind his so-called clairvoyance. Meanwhile, Hassan continues to say that he can see the future in his dreams.

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