Playing at Politics

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.

His Girl Friday

1940

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

Bambi Meets Godzilla

1969

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

The Thin Man

1934

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Clerks

1994

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts

1951

Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.

Al Shahhateen

1988

The play is distinguished and deals with several major issues ... It starts when Sa'id Saleh works in several exhausting jobs and in the end he does not benefit from cheating and harassment. He sees the beggars and the large sums of money that he thinks of this work and brings together several people to be with him and be the leader of the Shehata. It begins with a series of comic paradoxes that address important issues ...

The Kid

1921

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

Hold It!

1937

L'Âge d'or

1930

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Friend of the World

2020

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

Crust

2024

A depressed has-been child actor and owner of a dingy laundromat, becomes powerfully vengeful when his collection of lone socks transforms into a protective, cute, murderous monster named Crust.

Love Vacation

1967

Magdy is an engineer at the High Dam. He travels to Cairo to take some time off with his family. But his wife Dr.Laila, is too busy with her work, which drives him to spend time with his neighbor Elham, taking advantage of her husband's absence, and things develop rapidly

Pleasantville

1998

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.