Best Egyptian fantasy movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch fantasy films from Egypt, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Samer & Shaher & Baher

    Samer & Shaher & Baher 2010

    The film revolves around three brothers of the same father, "Munir dangerous" . "Samir" (Ahmad Fahmy), is doubler of the artist Ahmed El Shakka in this films and "popular" (Chico) how loves music and is known for its relations with women, and "Baheer" (Hicham Maged), the son of an aristocratic family, the three brothers have was forced to travel together through time to the day met the father, three mothers, and through a series of events trying to comedy trio return to their time.

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  • Poster for A Break of Happy Moments

    A Break of Happy Moments 2024

    After Durriya pressures Saleh about their crumbling family house, a magical portal suddenly appears and takes them to parallel worlds they never knew existed.

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  • Poster for World War III

    World War III 2014

    Khamis is a terrible football player, while playing football with his friends he shoots the ball away and broke an abandoned museum's window. After entering the museum he finds that statues become alive at 17:00.

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  • Poster for Female Cousins

    Female Cousins 2012

    Three young female cousins living with their grandmother pay a steep price for trying to sell the family palace when a curse transforms them into men.

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  • Poster for Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

    Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim 2017

    Ali believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. His mother forces him to visit a spiritual healer, where he meets Ibrahim, who suffers from severe depression and hears mysterious noises, in a way to find hope, Ali, his goat and Ibrahim head on a trip across Egypt hoping to help each other overcome their problems.

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  • Poster for I Want My Right

    I Want My Right 2003

    A down-to-earth, struggling taxi driver (Ramzi) discovers, by sheer chance, that his country's constitution grants him a share in the nation's entire public property. He proceeds to collecting power-of-attorney documents from over 50% of the population in order to literally sell out the country so that he could get married.

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  • Poster for Land of Hypocrisy

    Land of Hypocrisy 1968

    A man who is struggling with life's daily problems, especially his troublesome wife, accidentally runs into a man who makes bills that change human behavior, and his life changes.

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  • Poster for Ali Baba's Cinema

    Ali Baba's Cinema 2011

    Inspired by the 1950s cinema screenings in Cairo's sha'abi quarters, this double feature includes a space odyssey and a farm animal protector.

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  • Poster for The Washing Machine

    The Washing Machine 2020

    The fictional story of an advanced washing machine that's also a time-traveling machine. However, what it truly offers is conflicts and ironies upon its users.

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  • Poster for Out of the Ordinary

    Out of the Ordinary 2015

    When Yehia's scientific investigation of the paranormal yields nothing, he takes a forced vacation from his work and regular life. Wandering aimlessly, he settles in a seaside guest house that is inhabited by a group of quirky characters. As Yehia grows intimate with the owner and close to her charismatic young daughter, he believes he's stumbled across the magic he had sought for so long. It appears that something out of the ordinary seems to exist within them all, and perhaps also within himself.

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  • Poster for A Message to the Governor

    A Message to the Governor 1998

    In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces. Harfoush, a brave knight must deliver a message to the ruler of Egypt to demand military aid in order to resist the enemy. After killing some soldiers, he finds himself in a cave with a wise old man who tells him about his destiny. When Harfoush wakes up he realizes that he is now at the gates of Cairo except it is the year 1998...

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  • Poster for An Egyptian Story

    An Egyptian Story 1982

    After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

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  • Poster for Answer Hour

    Answer Hour 2023

    A fight occurs between a child and his parents, then the child wishes for a different mother and father, and when his wish is fulfilled, he finds himself moving to a new house with a new family and embarking on a new adventure.

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  • Poster for Afretet Ismaiel Yassin

    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.

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  • Poster for The Knight & The Princess

    The Knight & The Princess 2019

    The story of the Arab knight Muhammad Bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi who rescued many women and children from pirates in the Indian Ocean. He entered a fierce war against King Dahr who was sharing the spoils with the pirates, with the help of his friend Ziad and his mentor Abu Al-Asud.

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  • Poster for Stay Awake

    Stay Awake 2002

    (Kamel Shehata) is an accountant with simple dreams,he tries to forget his problems by resorting to drugs with his friends. Until a spirit (Mtemen Effendi Sultan)that was watching him, appeared disguised as a human to help him face life.

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  • Poster for Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 1942

    Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures. He tries to solve his financial problems with thehe contents of the cave, but as Qasim enters the picture, things turn irreversibly.

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  • Poster for Need a Man

    Need a Man 2013

    Based on a What if? dialectic, women are taking the role and position of men in the society. We see the stories of some couples with the woman being patriarchal and in control. Under the new fictional situation, a lot is revealed about relationships.

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  • Poster for Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady

    Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady 1949

    The fortunes of down-on-his-luck crooner Asfour change overnight when he discovers a mysterious lamp housing a charming genie. She can make anything he wishes come true, so he asks for help in luring his distracted girlfriend from the charms of a rich competitor. But Asfour soon learns he should be careful what to wish for, as he soon realizes his heart may lie elsewhere.

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  • Poster for Private Lesson

    Private Lesson 2005

    Khososy a young who is living in the fifties of the 20th century in Egypt, one day he is mistaken for a man who wants to fight the British soldiers occupying Egypt, his father tries to smuggle him out of Egypt but the ship gets caught in Bermuda triangle and Khososy finds himself in the year 2005 of Egypt, trying to fit in the new time, he encounters many problems, he finds out that his children are now grown up and they in worse shape it can be, he tries to bring the back to the right way.

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  • Poster for Fangs

    Fangs 1981

    When Ali and Mona's car breaks down en route to a party, the couple seek the nearest house to make an emergency call, only to find that they've arrived at the home of the revered Count Dracula. An unfaithful remake of the musical cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Although the story is apparently the same, Shebl’s film is almost too homoerotic to handle. Weaved into its camp aesthetics, horror genre tropes and 80s disco numbers, Anyab provides a running commentary on the social situation in Egypt, from youth unemployment to class struggle, while intersecting sexual politics into the mix.

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  • Poster for The Magical Lantern

    The Magical Lantern 1960

    Mustafa mattress in a textile company, is suffering badly from director Morsi. He is married to a man from the woman who loves money so much, buy Mustafa lantern magic in the month of Ramadan, and when he returns it to the House out of it Elf Afrckoh who tells him that under his command, is asked to Mustafa to become a manager rather than Morsi, Mustafa, Director becomes, and feels that he has become Huda employee in stature he loves. Morsi treated in the same cruelty, trying to Anchorage to understand the secret of wealth and prestige, which landed on the opponent, especially that of senior management to accept the establishment of Morsi.

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  • Poster for Zizo, My Beloved Uncle

    Zizo, My Beloved Uncle 1977

    Zizu suffers from wasting his body and his health is ridiculing all around him. Zizu wants to become a sports hero to be a source of pride for the son of his sister Samir, who takes a higher example of his uncle.

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  • Poster for The Search for Sayed Marzouk

    The Search for Sayed Marzouk 1991

    Yousef is a naive employee who goes out on his day off to meet strange characters, including a wretch dressed like Charlie Chaplin and Said Marzouq, an eccentric multi-faceted billionaire, full of contradictions and ambiguity. While trying to find himself ,he becomes accused of murder.

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  • Welcome Home 2022

    Welcome Home

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  • Poster for Rida's Clock

    Rida's Clock 2019

    In a local neighborhood, the mechanic Reda harbors unrequited feelings for Nour. When he finds an old clock that turns out to be an enchanted time machine, he goes back in time to win his girl’s heart, but he finds himself in some unexpected awkward situations.

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  • Poster for Housh Illi Wakaa Mennak

    Housh Illi Wakaa Mennak 2007

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  • Poster for Sirr Taqiyyat Al Ikhfa

    Sirr Taqiyyat Al Ikhfa 1959

    "Fasih" plays in his father's lab, the Attar, which causes a demon to appear. The sprite burns, leaving a powder that hides what falls on it. A taqiyya is exposed to this powder and acquires a property that hides the one who wears it. Asfour discovers the capabilities of the trap, and uses it, but his enemy discovers the secret, and begins using Cap is against him

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  • Poster for The Devil's Friends

    The Devil's Friends 1988

    Qamar dies on her wedding night from a random shot. Her husband Jalal decides to take revenge, and resorts to magic in order to reach immortality. He becomes wicked and sinks into sin and everyone decides to get rid of him.

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  • Poster for Forbidden at the Wedding Night

    Forbidden at the Wedding Night 1975

    Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spirit appearing to them trying to spoil their plans.

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  • Poster for Nour al-Din and the Three Sailors

    Nour al-Din and the Three Sailors 1944

    Othman Abdelbaset suffers from the intervention of his mother-in-law in his life with his wife. He always worries about his assistants in the pancake shop he runs until his mother-in-law succeeds in cutting him off with his wife and turning his life into hell. He thinks of committing suicide and introduces his idea to his aides. The three go to sea to carry out the idea, but one of the sailors sees them leading the boat trip to one of the islands and they are on an adventure inside the Prince of the Island where they fight the bad guys who want to take over the island rule

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  • Poster for Hello, I'm the Cat

    Hello, I'm the Cat 1975

    After Meshmesh's fortune gets seized by his nephew Ruby, he complains to his cat, so she and her brother turn into humans!

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  • Poster for Flesh and blood

    Flesh and blood 2022

    A person calls a taxi only to find himself entering a surreal world.

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  • Poster for It's Hopeless

    It's Hopeless 2008

    A young guy who works in a bank and chases women all the time, visits one of the wizards one day; upon returning from that visit he acquires the ability to see the true nature of each person; when one the wealthy men approaches him to get a loan from the bank, he refuses but that he gets the young guy into many problems.

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  • Poster for One Like It

    One Like It 2020

    This short film follows a day in the life of a young woman in Egypt and how her interactions with others expose long-standing stereotypes and biases.

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  • Poster for Chaos, Disorder

    Chaos, Disorder 2012

    Zaki, Mounir and Manal are in their twenties, and living in a confined community where basic needs are met yet chaos and disorder brew. The two boys are in love with the same girl who finds herself the subject of a bet for a football match between them, the winner marries Manal. This story reflects a football and play-station youth and how they deal with their emotions in a community that is increasingly closed off and isolated.

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  • Poster for Pause

    Pause 2025

    A man going on a walk listening to music gets an intrusive thought when he sees the skull of a cow.

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  • Poster for Arouss el Nil

    Arouss el Nil 1963

    When an oil engineer starts digging for oil in Luxor he disturbs the spirits of ancient Egyptians buried there. A spirit, Last Bride of the Nile, is sent to get him to stop the drilling.

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  • Poster for El Ataba Gazaz

    El Ataba Gazaz 1969

    A man travels to Cairo to recover from a shock that occurred while he was listening to a song, in which case he would collide with a mafia.

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  • Poster for The Mix-up

    The Mix-up 1994

    Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, which does not know the cause and continues to haunt him

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  • Poster for The People of the Cave

    The People of the Cave 2024

    The epic tale of three people who wake up from their long sleep after three centuries, to find themselves in a different time other than the one in which they lived before, as they struggle to deal with this unrecognizable world.

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  • Poster for Ramses to Paris

    Ramses to Paris 2023

    A love story begins between Isabel, the daughter of the French governor of Rosetta, and the Egyptian Selim, so her father sends her to France, where she resorts to a Moroccan sorcerer to bring her Selim. The sorcerer gives her a box of drugs and asks her to send it to Selim so that he can use it to come to France, but Selim is arrested. Time passes, and someone finds the box in the modern era.

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  • Poster for Appointment with Satan

    Appointment with Satan 1955

    Ragab is a doctor struggling with his financial life, he meets Nabil and discovers that he is the devil himself. They have a deal to make him the best doctor ever.

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  • Poster for Fish, Milk, Tamarind

    Fish, Milk, Tamarind 1988

    When Ahmed's father travels abroad for work, he gets harassed for refusing to give a part of his income to those who helped him travel. The father dies, and when his body arrives in Egypt, the Interpol suspects Ahmed and his father of being members of a terrorist organization.

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  • Poster for Thug of the Poor

    Thug of the Poor 1984

    The film follows Kamel, who opens a bookstore, and is continuously unsettled by Sayyed, the landlord, who wants to kick Kamel out and turn the store's specialty to garments. One day, Kamel finds an invisibility lace hidden in one of his old books, so he decides to use it in order to help his poor neighbors who were mistreated in any way.

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  • Poster for Jala Jala

    Jala Jala 2001

    A widower who suffers from the problems of his four children and their expenses decides to use a demon to implement his requests and is able to use the methods of charlatanism and sorcery in preparing that demon, but before he achieves his wishes and requests, he suffers a heart attack, falls into a coma, and must live that demon with his children.

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  • Poster for Mind and money

    Mind and money 1965

    (Fakhr al-Din) believes that love is the basis of everything, and a friend wages with him that he can live happily with his beloved (Shams), but his friend tells him that money is the basis of everything. It’s the one with whom it is possible to buy the debts of others and meet the needs of people.

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  • Poster for The Conqueror of Atlantis

    The Conqueror of Atlantis 1965

    Curious noises in the Arabian desert signal an attack by bizarre phantom-like raiders of gold who are in search of their Queen. A relocated Hercules arrives on the scene and sets off to find a kidnapped Nomad princess. He follows her abductors past the Mountain of the Dead, through the City of the Phantoms, to a mysterious castle which turn out to be Atlantis. As if all this wasn't strange enough, Hercules will encounter gold-painted, blue body stocking-wearing, reanimated dead guys; female guards (who are killed if they taste the love of a man); a dying evil queen and her Ming the Merciless wanna-be sorcerer-scientist; and a torturous climax.

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  • Poster for Driven from Paradise

    Driven from Paradise 1965

    The dervish Alish dies and is taken in a majestic procession to the cemetery. When he ascends to heaven to be judged, he discovers that the sum of his virtues equals the sum of his sins, so he's sent back to the living in order to test him and decide whether he should enter heaven or hell.

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  • Poster for A wife is needed immediately

    A wife is needed immediately 1964

    Helmi is a rich man who lost all of his money and started looking for a job; and the only one he found is requiring him to get married first.

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  • Poster for A Tale from the Arabian Nights

    A Tale from the Arabian Nights 1964

    The story of Hassan Al-Shahat and his son Shahtout who frequent the religious commemorating ceremonies to display their magic tricks. Hassan is shocked to learn of his wife's unfaithfulness, but he is in for an even more shocking surprise.

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  • Poster for Forbidden Photos: Third Story (Photo)

    Forbidden Photos: Third Story (Photo) 1971

    When the police find a woman's body at the pyramids, a group of people sees their missing loved ones in the dead woman's picture, including a mother whose daughter ran away to work in Cairo, a manager whose mistress left him, and a man who used to flirt with his young maid.

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  • Poster for Ashour The Lion's Heart

    Ashour The Lion's Heart 1961

    Ashour studies at a physical education institute, and tries all the time to attract the attention of his colleague Amal at the institute, which he loves, but she doesn’t pay attention to him due to the weakness of his physical structure, and Ashour gets to know a scientist who invented an injection capable of giving him the necessary strength, and after taking the injection, Ashour becomes one of The most skilled and popular players in the institute.

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  • Poster for Love In The Fridge

    Love In The Fridge 1992

    A middle class man struggling with life ,Finds an opportunity to freeze his body till better days come.

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