Best Egyptian crime movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch crime films from Egypt, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Cairo Station (1958)
Cairo Station (1958)
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
Chaos, This Is? (2007)
Chaos, This Is? (2007)
Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention even if by force.
Welcome Home (2022)
Welcome Home (2022)
Welcome Home
Afretet Ismaiel Yassin (1954)
Afretet Ismaiel Yassin (1954)
When a nightclub bellydancer (Katy) is murdered by the nightclub owner's henchmen her ghost wants the killer to be found. Only one problem - she doesn't know who killed her since she was sleeping. Her ghost haunts Ismail Yasin till he agrees to help her find out who's behind the murder.
Alexandria, Private (2005)
Alexandria, Private (2005)
When a woman is accused of a high-profile murder, a young lawyer takes on her defense, only to uncover a web of secrets, deceit, and hidden motives. As he digs deeper, the case becomes more personal—and far more dangerous than he ever expected.
The Estranged Brothers (1974)
The Estranged Brothers (1974)
The relationship between a father and his four children is strained when he keeps spending his money on his pleasures. His son, Tawfik, revolts against his father after he learns of his relationship with the prostitute Lula, until he falls for her.
Shanbu Fi Al-Musayda (1968)
Shanbu Fi Al-Musayda (1968)
Shanbo is an accounting employee in a bakery, who offers to a young journalist his story production to be published in the magazine she works for, and through the working relationship between Shanbo and the girl, a love story between them interferes with the events of the plot to assassinate the wealthy, miserly aunt, which her nephew is planning to capture Shanbo and get the wealth and the girl and shanbo tries to prove his innocence of the charge.
Elmokalma Elqatela (1996)
Elmokalma Elqatela (1996)
A playful, reckless young girl makes a random nuisance call to a stranger telling him that she knew about him murdering his wife. Coincidentally, she was speaking to a man who did murder his wife. When he tries to buy her silence, she starts blackmailing him, so he plans to kill her too. This is when a journalist, Faten, is called in to the rescue of her cousin, the nuisance caller.
Convicted Outlaw (2007)
Convicted Outlaw (2007)
A guy whose father was an assisstant to a drug dealer who killed him . So when the guy when he grow up he worked with the same dealer . At the end he killed the dealer for his father .
Thieves but Cute (1969)
Thieves but Cute (1969)
Hamid and Ismail are two thieves who plan to rob a jewelry store which can only be broken into from the ground of the apartment above it, inhabited by a couple whose relationship is precarious and complicated.
Theif Prank (2009)
Theif Prank (2009)
A band of thieves get together and begin planning the heist of a lifetime. Will they succeed or will their planning be in vain?
The Criminal (1978)
The Criminal (1978)
Monier takes advantage of Zaghloul's naivety to take advantage of his family's financial resources to fund his gambling addiction. But he takes it one step further when he throws Zaghloul into the Nile and pretends that he couldn't save him.
Shehata's Shop (2009)
Shehata's Shop (2009)
Shehata is the son of a modest gardener who saved all his money to open a fruit stand and named it after his favorite son. Shehata's siblings get so jealous of their brother and plot against him. A representation of the downfall of society and its decaying morals.
Vernacular Plan (2020)
Vernacular Plan (2020)
A light comedy about a man who enlists the help of two people in order to steal important documents from a bank safe, which leads them to pick and train two clueless thieves to do the job.
Sons and Killers (1987)
Sons and Killers (1987)
When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of vengeance, his past ghosts still haunt him.
The Collar and the Bracelet (1986)
The Collar and the Bracelet (1986)
In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.
Tito (2004)
Tito (2004)
Tito is the second installment in the new-wave Egyptian action movies. After Mafia by Sherif Arafa, which was a breakthrough in Egyptian cinema making, Tarek El-Aryan brings us Tito, the next logical step. Very simply, this movie is about an ex-con who tries to escape his sinful life by starting a new one, but his past comes back to haunt him. The reason, why Tito is better than Mafia is because the script and story line in Tito is more complex, and some of the characters had real depth in them and where fully developed throughout the movie.
Wa la yazal al tahqiq mostameran (1979)
Wa la yazal al tahqiq mostameran (1979)
Dreaming of wealth and posh life made a teacher's wife start an affair with his friend to escape the average life,but Brought jealousy,conspiracy and plots that ended with crimes
The Dirty Hands (1979)
The Dirty Hands (1979)
Kamal meets the wealthy widow Alyia and her brother-in-law Zaki. He also meets Saeed, who looks exactly like him and their relationship is strengthened. Zaki urges Kamal to withdraw a large sum from his company's safe to be a partner in one of his deals but discovers that he's a fraud.
Ismail Yassine in Prison (1960)
Ismail Yassine in Prison (1960)
Ismail Yassin is in desperate need for money. He borrows from the wrong people, get framed for murder and goes to prison.
The Cursed (1979)
The Cursed (1979)
Egyptian Adaption Of the great play "King lear" by William Shakespeare.
His Highness Hanafy (1990)
His Highness Hanafy (1990)
An officer balancing his marriage and police responsibilities releases a prisoner temporarily with the aim of using him to find and capture his old gang.
The Chord (2011)
The Chord (2011)
A mysterious murder tests the relationship between two sisters, especially because they are at a close age and compete for the love of the same man.
The Sinners (1976)
The Sinners (1976)
Actress Sanaa Kamel is found murdered on her bed, and an investigation starts, taking into account everyone of the guests she hosted at her apartment the night she was killed: her jealous fiancé, a school instructor, a corrupt market manager, one of Sanaa's friends who works as a contractor, and a stud who was Sanaa's secret lover. As the investigation progresses, all the conclusions about the characters are always under question.
The Choice (1971)
The Choice (1971)
When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the writer seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...?
Land of Fear (2000)
Land of Fear (2000)
A story about a police officer who was assigned to a secret mission as an undercover drug dealer, with the license to kill, deal in drugs, and do whatever is required for his identity to remain secret, with the ultimate purpose of reporting back to his supervisors. Gradually, after years of losing grip over his mission and purpose, realising that being a drug dealer has become his true identity, and that he hasn't heard back once from his supervisors, he then goes and tries to contact them back, only to realise that the designated postman had never delivered back any of the reports to his supervisors, let alone is aware that they exist.
Immobilia Crime Story (2019)
Immobilia Crime Story (2019)
Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named Samah who had befriended Facebook in an attempt to ease his isolation.
The Emperor (1990)
The Emperor (1990)
The story deals with the journey of Zinham, a young man who fled Egypt from Upper Egypt in search of a living, climbs up in organized crime and drug smuggling. His friend, Ibrahim, takes part in the crime journey. When he becomes one of the biggest drug smugglers (heroin) Who is in control of her market in Egypt in alliance with an Israeli smuggler, marries a dancer after he gets rid of Slim, the drug dealer who worked for him at the beginning of his career. He turns to liquidate everyone who stands in his way. He becomes drug addict and kills his close friend. (Ibrahim), after doubting the betrayal of his wife dancing with him.
Woman and Cleaver (1997)
Woman and Cleaver (1997)
Based on a true story, Souad Qassem, a widow, falls for Mahmoud Elwan who deludes her into believing that he is a well-heeled and powerful man. When they get married, she and her daughter have to swallow their pride under the scourages of his cruelty and abuse.
Sins of the Flesh (2016)
Sins of the Flesh (2016)
Hassan and Fatma are a couple, living and working in a farm of wealthy owner Mourad. In the first days of the Jan 25th revolution, Ali seizes a security breach to break out of jail and runs to his cousin Hassan, for shelter. The latter takes him in but soon after, Mourad discovers the love that Fatma and Ali shared, years ago. This romantic history, fuelled by mounting sexual frustration, will come back to haunt all those involved.