# The best Egyptian films

From The Will to Al-Karnak: films from the list of the 100 best films of Egyptian cinema's centenary chosen by critics at the 1996 Cairo International Film Festival (Wikipedia, Letterboxd, IMDb).

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## Top 13

1. **The Will (1939)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kamal Selim; first on the list.
2. **The Land (1970)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Youssef Chahine.
3. **The Night of Counting the Years** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shadi Abdel Salam.
4. **Cairo Station (1958)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Youssef Chahine as Qinawi.
5. **The Sin (1965)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Henry Barakat and Faten Hamama.
6. **A Woman's Youth (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salah Abu Seif.
7. **The Beginning and the End (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salah Abu Seif, from Naguib Mahfouz's novel.
8. **Flirtation of Girls (1949)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Anwar Wagdi, Naguib al-Rihani and Leila Mourad.
9. **The Thug (1957)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salah Abu Seif and Farid Shawqi.
10. **The Nightingale's Prayer (1959)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Henry Barakat, from Taha Hussein's novel.
11. **The Bus Driver** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Atef El-Tayeb and Nour El-Sherif.
12. **The Second Wife (1967)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salah Abu Seif and Soad Hosny.
13. **The Postman (1968)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hussein Kamal, from a story by Yahya Haqqi.
14. **Al-Karnak (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ali Badrakhan, from Naguib Mahfouz's novel.

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