# The best Soad Hosny movies

The Cinderella of Arab cinema in the nine films critics chose for the list of the 100 best Egyptian films, from Cairo 30 and The Second Wife to Watch Out for Zouzou and Al Karnak, per Veto and her filmography on Wikipedia.

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## Top 10

1. **Watch Out for Zouzou (1972)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hassan al-Imam and Salah Jahin: a university student whose mother is a dancer; her most famous film.
2. **Whom Should We Shoot? (1975)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Kamal El Sheikh: an assassination attempt exposes a contractor's corruption.
3. **The Second Wife (1967)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salah Abu Seif: the village mayor forces a married peasant woman to marry him.
4. **Cairo 30 (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salah Abu Seif from Naguib Mahfouz: corruption in 1930s Cairo.
5. **Al Karnak (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ali Badrakhan from Naguib Mahfouz: students in a café and the detention camps of the 1960s.
6. **Sunset and Sunrise (1970)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kamal El Sheikh: the daughter of the political police chief before the July revolution.
7. **The Choice (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Youssef Chahine: a writer, his twin and a murder.
8. **My Wife and the Dog (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Saeed Marzouk: a lighthouse keeper consumed by jealousy.
9. **Too Young for Love (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A musical comedy with Rushdy Abaza.
10. **Shafika and Metwali (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ali Badrakhan: an Upper Egyptian folk tale with Ahmed Zaki.
11. **People at the Top (1981)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Ali Badrakhan from Naguib Mahfouz: a charming thief and a police officer in the open-door era.

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