Best Egyptian mystery movies

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

  • Poster for The Blue Elephant

    The Blue Elephant 2014

    After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.

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  • Poster for The Blue Elephant 2

    The Blue Elephant 2 2019

    A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

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  • Poster for Diamond Dust

    Diamond Dust 2018

    Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!

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  • Poster for Can’t Complain

    Can’t Complain 2007

    A comedy about triplet brothers with only one birth certificate.

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  • Poster for The Originals

    The Originals 2017

    Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life by recruiting him to spy on people through an organization called The Originals.

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  • Poster for Alexandria, Private

    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.

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  • Poster for Rise to the Abyss

    Rise to the Abyss 1978

    Abla travels to France and gets recruited by the Mossad under the pretext of working as a journalist. By the time she discovers the truth, she's already in too deep. As Abla recruits her fiancé, an engineer in the Egyptian army, the General Intelligence Directorate assigns Khaled to arrest her.

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  • The Artifact 2021

    A man works for a museum in Lisbon, and receives an artefact from a colleague working on excavations in Egypt. But this object has a supernatural strength.

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  • Poster for Son of Adam

    Son of Adam 2018

    A family and businessman (Adam) is accused of running a criminal empire while he denies the accusation by being the one who take criminals down.

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  • Poster for Alexandria taxi

    Alexandria taxi 2006

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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 Young Alexander the Great

    Young Alexander the Great 2010

    The coming of age of young Alexander, future world conqueror, from his boyhood in Greece to his assumption of Regent of the Land, after proving his worth to his father, the demanding King Phillip.

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  • Poster for The Last Night

    The Last Night 1963

    A girl goes to sleep on her wedding night, wakes up 15 years later to find herself living a different life, where people call her by her sister's name.

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  • Welcome Home 2022

    Welcome Home

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  • Poster for House of Set Nakht

    House of Set Nakht 2019

    The myth of returning the body of the king (Set Nakht) the god of evil to the ancient Egyptians for life, and returning him to rule for the sake of controlling mankind, the focus of interest of evil groups for thousands of years until now ... Much of the blood of the bodies of innocent people asked sacrifices waiting for the hour of the return of the god (six) So is the time approaching? Will journalist (Salma) reveal the secret of the legend?

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  • Poster for Premeditated

    Premeditated 1979

    A husband is shocked that after having a baby, he realizes that he is infertile.

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  • Poster for Final Confession

    Final Confession 1978

    Adham a faithful husband still mourning his deceased wife,visited one night by a woman in white revealing her secret love for him since college,and his wife true acts behind his back,but the big revelation was this woman is no longer from the living and its her ghost that paid him a visit.

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  • Poster for Adrenaline

    Adrenaline 2009

    A police officer and his assistant investigate a brutal murder case in which the main suspect is a sculptor. A pathologist helps the police decipher the mystery that is the murder by examining the adrenaline that the body secretes when in terror. Can that help them solve the case?

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  • Poster for Humans and Jinn

    Humans and Jinn 1985

    Fatima returns from America after earning her doctorate, she meets Galal who works as a tourist agent. When she returns home, she finds Galal in her bedroom and warns her from marrying Osama her fiancé, he tells her that he is a demon who is in love with her. Fatima refuses Galal's request and orders him to stay away from her as she is the only person who can see him.

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  • Al Ens Wa Al Jinn 1985

    Fatima returns from America after earning her doctorate, she meets Galal who works as a tourist agent. When she returns home, she finds Galal in her bedroom and warns her from marrying Osama her fiancé, he tells her that he is a demon who is in love with her. Fatima refuses Galal's request and orders him to stay away from her as she is the only person who can see him.

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  • Poster for The Fake Millionaire

    The Fake Millionaire 1968

    Hamdi borrows from the scrap dealer (Moseri) to spend on his inventions. Hosary tries to obtain the secret of these inventions. Hamdi suddenly disappears and announces his death. The lawyer informs his wife (Nahed) about his brother's will, who died in Mexico, that his wealth be transferred to the third brother (Saeed) then a sudden event occurs that changes the course of events.

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  • Poster for The Estranged Brothers

    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.

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  • Poster for The Curse

    The Curse 1984

    Journalist Hamdi enters the mental hospital, claiming that he is mentally disturbed to investigate a journalistic precedent by discovering the secret of the killing of a patient, who shows some changes as a result of his integration, but he reaches the killer.

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  • Poster for Shanbu Fi Al-Musayda

    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.

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  • Poster for El Hoot El Azraq

    El Hoot El Azraq 2020

    The film revolves around the "Blue Whale Challenge" game used by many young people and adolescents, after the spread of technology and the parents' preoccupation with their children which might lead to their exposure to great risks.

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  • Poster for El Zakaa' El Modammer

    El Zakaa' El Modammer 1987

    Adham Fahkry has a lot of money and owns a company with huge capital. He tries to make his secretary, Jihan, believe that he is deeply in love with her and wants to marry her. Lawyer Ramzi Sultan storms into Adham's office and demands that he pay compensation to one of those he harmed. Jihan discovers that Adham is deceiving her, and events escalate.

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  • Poster for The Cursed Palace

    The Cursed Palace 1962

    The daughter of a wealthy man is tormented by visions of her father's death while a struggle over inheritance plays out.

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  • Poster for Leila Raheeba

    Leila Raheeba 1957

    The story revolves around the successful doctor (Majdi), and his beautiful fiancée Munira, (Majdi) is very concerned about his lineage towards his mother with whom he lives in the same house.

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  • Poster for The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny

    The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny 1973

    Hosny suffers from terrifying nightmares, so he resorts to a psychiatrist to help him

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  • Poster for Rendezvous with a Stranger

    Rendezvous with a Stranger 1959

    A classic Egyptian film noir starring Omar Sharif who is trying to find out the mysterious circumstances under which his brother was killed. This gem also features the belly dancer Samia Gamal and features some of her famous exotic dancing tableaux.

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  • Poster for I Won't Confess

    I Won't Confess 1961

    Four months after Ahmed was the chief witness in a murder case, his wife receives a blackmail letter accusing him of the crime.

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  • Poster for Houseboat No. 70

    Houseboat No. 70 1982

    Documentary filmmaker Ahmed El Shazly is working on a new film about a cotton gin. When a worker who reveals to him what's happening in the gin is killed, Ahmed and his sweetheart are determined to uncover the truth.

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  • Poster for Very funny world

    Very funny world 1968

    One of the princesses dies after hiding some of her jewelry in one of the salon chairs in the palace and informs Ashour her servant that the wealth is for her daughter residing abroad, and he knows that the rest of the palace servants and the servants of the hotel in which she was staying, each of them tries to win the fortune alone, Ashour seeks to hand over Treasure to his companions.

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  • Poster for 2 Against the law

    2 Against the law 1992

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  • Poster for Zeyara serriya

    Zeyara serriya 1981

    An accused who is sentenced by the judge to death, and all the evidence against him, but the accused denies that he committed the crime, which prompted his daughter to visit the judge in his home, all of which are confident in her father's innocence and due to her poor psychological condition, the judge went to prison to meet the accused sentenced to death on a secret visit, and briefed him about his daughter's case and asked him to comfort her psychologically.

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  • Poster for House No. 13

    House No. 13 1952

    Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

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  • Poster for Traces in the Sand

    Traces in the Sand 1954

    A man suffering from delirium because of the secrets he hides.

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  • Poster for The fox and the chameleon

    The fox and the chameleon 1970

    With the jewelry, Naji then betrayed Aziz and handed him over to the police, and Camellia delayed getting her share. Naji had a relationship with his shop worker, Nashwa, and he had previously deprived the hostess, Suhair, of her honor and delayed her marriage.

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  • Poster for Samira’s Death

    Samira’s Death 1985

    The millionaire Abdel Rahman Shaker arrives in Cairo, accompanied by Samira. As he gets acquainted with the great composer Fahmy and admires the aspiring singer Noura, he tries to get close to her, but when she rejects him, he assaults her. Fahmy pressures him to marry her and Samira breaks down.

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  • The Soul's beauty 1982

    Based on Agatha Christie's Novel "The Tenth Victim" Madiha is a middle-class employee. When her relative dies and inherits a large amount of money, she discovers that the entire fortune may be lost

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  • Poster for And registered against unknown

    And registered against unknown 1981

    Saber Al-Falah works as a guard at some facilities, but soon some thefts occur during his guard shift. He is transferred to the Al-Ahram area, where there are no things that can be stolen. A surprise occurs when the Pyramid of Khufu is stolen, and Egyptian and international public opinion is preoccupied with the incident. Detective Officer Rushdie begins investigating the incident.

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  • Poster for They're All in Hell

    They're All in Hell 1994

    Ra'fat lives with his aunt in her luxurious house as his brother works as her business manager. Hoping to seize his aunt's fortune, Ra'fat murders her, only to be haunted by what appears to be her ghost.

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