Ismail And Abdel Meet Frankenstein (1954)

The Emigrant (1994)

Category: Foreign | Director: Youssef Chahine | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Khaled El Nabaoui, Yousra , Mahmoud Hemida

Featuring lush locales, this compelling import from director Youssef Chahine retells the Biblical story of Joseph from an Egyptian perspective. After being sold to a regional military leader's underling, ... more

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The Other (1999)

Category: Foreign | Director: Youssef Chahine | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Nabila Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemeida, Hanane Tork

From director Youssef Chahine ("Destiny") comes a thoughtful examination of the link between power and fanaticism. When a man whose rich parents are involved in a scheme to bilk the government falls ... more

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The Yacoubian Building (Omaret Yakobean) (2006)

Category: Foreign | Director: Marwan Hamed | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Adel Imam, Nour El Sherif, Hend Sabri

Modern-day Egyptian society is assessed by chronicling the comings and goings of tenants residing in the Yacoubian Building, a Cairo apartment complex built in 1937 to house the city's upper class, now ... more

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Black Girl (1966)/Borom Sarret (1966)

Category: Foreign | Director: Ousmane Sembene | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Sophie , Toto Bissainthe

A double bill of films from African filmmaker Ousmane Sembene opens with "Black Girl" (reportedly the first feature from a native filmmaker in sub-Saharan Africa), a naturalistic look at cultural injustice, ... more

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Mandabi (1968)

Category: Foreign | Director: Ousmane Sembene | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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A pointed satire from the West African nation of Senegal, writer/director Ousmane Sembene's wry character study follows a middle-aged Dakar man who receives a money order from a relative living in France. ... more

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Xala (1975)

Category: Foreign | Director: Ousmane Sembene | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Thierno Leye, Seun Samb, Younouss Seye

Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene launches a pointed attack on the corruption that arose in post-colonial Africa in this sardonic tale. A successful businessman, part of a Western-backed cabal that ... more

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Camp De Thiaroye (1987)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Ibrahima Sane, Sijiri Bakaba, Jean-Daniel Simon

A squadron of native soldiers from French colonial Africa fights to liberate France from Nazi occupation during World War II. These patriots, hoping to find respect and equality from the colonial government, ... more

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Hyenas (1992)

Category: Foreign | Director: Djibril Diop Mambety | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhite, Mahouredia Gueye

This masterful comedic parable about greed from Senegal's Djibril Diop Mambety ("Touki Bouki") tells of a kindly grocer living in an impoverished village whose life is disrupted when a wealthy woman ... more

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Karmen Gei (2001)

Category: Foreign | Director: Joseph Gai Ramaka | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Djeinaba Diop Gai, Magaye Niang, Stephanie Biddle

A uniquely African take on the story that inspired the Bizet opera "Carmen," this lively, song-filled tale from Senegal stars Djeinaba Diop Gai as the alluring title anti-heroine, who seduces ... more

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