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The following is an incomplete list of Egyptian films of the 2000s. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia, see Category:Egyptian films.
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The following is an incomplete list of Egyptian films of the 2000s. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia, see Category:Egyptian films.
| Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||||||
| Hello America | Nader Galal | Adel Emam, Sherine | Comedy | |||
| 2001 | ||||||
| Ayyam El Sadat (The Days of Sadat) | Mohamed Khan | Ahmad Zaki, Mervat Amin, Mona Zaki, Ahmed El Sakka | Biographical | |||
| Rasha Garea (Bold Spray) | Said Hamed | Ashraf Abdel Baqi, shabaan Abdel Rehim, Yasmin Abdulaziz | Comedy | |||
| Amir El Zalam (Prince of Darkness) | Rami Imam | Adel Emam, Shereen Seif El-Nasr, Youssef Dawoud, Reda Hamed | Black comedy | |||
| Africano | Samir Chamas | Adventure / comedy | ||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| El Tagrubah El Danemarkiyyah (The Danish Experience) | Ali Idris | Adel Emam, Nicole Saba | Comedy | |||
| Film Hindi (AN Indian Movie) | Mounir Reda | Ahmed Adam, Salah Abdullah, Menna Shalabi, Rasha Mahdy | Comedy | |||
| Kalem Mama (Talk to Mom) | Ahmad Awwadh | Mai Ezzidine, Abla Kamel, Menna Shalabi | Comedy | |||
| Ma'ali al Wazir (His Highness the Minister) | Samir Seif | Ahmad Zaki, Hisham Abdul Hamid | Drama | |||
| 2004 | ||||||
| Alexandria... New York | Youssef Chahine | Yousra, Mahmoud Hemida | Drama | Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Aris Min Geha Amneya (A Groom from the Security Entity) | Ali Idris | Adel Emam, Hala Shiha, Sherif Mounir, Lebleba | Comedy | |||
| Bab El Shams (The Gate of Sun) | Yousry Nasrallah | Hiam Abbass | War / drama | Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Baheb el cima (I Love Cinema) | Osama Fawzy | Mahmoud Hemida, Laila Elwi, Menna Shalabi | Comedy / drama | |||
| Tito | Tarek Al Eryan | Ahmed El Sakka, Hanan Tork | Action | |||
| 2005 | ||||||
| El-Sefara Fi El-Omara (The Embassy is in the Building) | Amr Arafa | Adel Emam, Dalia El Behery | Political Comedy | |||
| Dunia | Jocelyne Saab | Hanan Tork, Mohamed Mounir | Drama | |||
| Sayed El Atefy (Romantic Sayed) | Ali Ragab | Tamer Hosny, Nour, Abla Kamel | Comedy | |||
| 2006 | ||||||
| Emaret Yacoubian (The Yacoubian Building) | Marwan Hamed | Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Hend Sabri, Yousra, Mohamed Imam | Drama | |||
| Halim | Sherif Arafa | Ahmad Zaki, Mona Zaki, Jamal Suliman, Sulaf Fawakherji | Musical biography / drama | Ahmad Zaki's last film | ||
| Mohema Sa'ba (A Difficult Mission) | Ehab Radi | Tarek Allam, Majdi Kamel, Ola Ghanem | Action / thriller | |||
| Wingrave | Ahmed Khalifa | Ashraf Hamdi, Diana Brauch, Karim Higazy | Horror | The first English-Language Egyptian feature film in history | ||
| 2007 | ||||||
| Ahlam Haqiqeya (Real Dreams) | Mohamed Gomaa | Hanan Tork, Khaled Saleh | Mystery | |||
| Ein Shams | Ibrahim El-Batout | Hanan Youssef, Ramadan Khater | Drama | |||
| Esabet Al-Doctor Omar (Dr Omar's Gang) | Ali Idris | Mostafa Amar, Yasmin Abdulaziz | Comedy | |||
| Fi shaket Masr El Gedeeda (In the Heliopolis Flat) | Mohamed Khan | Ghada Adel, Khaled Abol Naga | Drama / romance | |||
| Heya Fawda (This Is Chaos) | Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef | Khaled Saleh, Menna Shalabi | Drama / crime | |||
| Keda Reda (This is good) | Ahmed Nader Galal | Ahmed Helmy, Menna Shalabi | Romantic comedy | |||
| Morgan Ahmed Morgan | Ali Idris | Adel Emam, Mervat Amin, Basma, Sherif Salama, Ahmed Mekky | Comedy | |||
| Natacha Atlas, la rose pop du Caire | Fleur Albert | Natacha Atlas | Documentary | |||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Asef Ala Al Izaag (Sorry for the Disturbance) | Khaled Marei | Ahmed Helmy, Menna Shalabi, Mahmoud Hamida, Dalal Abdel Aziz | Comedy / mystery | |||
| Basra | Ahmed Rashwan | Bassem Samra, Yara Goubran, Eyad Nassar | Drama | |||
| El Gezira | Sherif Arafa | Ahmed El Sakka, Mahmoud Yassin, Hend Sabry, Zeina, Mahmoud AbdelAziz | ||||
| El Rayes Omar Harb | Khaled Youssef | Hany Salama, Khaled Saleh, Somaya Elkhashab, Ghada Abdelrazek | ||||
| The Promise (2008 film) (The Promise) | Mohamed Yassine | Asser Yassin, Ruby, Mahmoud Yassine | Drama | |||
| Genenet al asmak (Aquarium) | Yousry Nasrallah | Amr Waked, Hend Sabri, Gamil Ratib | Drama | |||
| H Dabour | Ahmed ElGendi | Ahmed Mekky, Hasan Hosni, Ingy Wegdan, Hala Fakher, Lotfy Labeeb, Sameh Husian, Mohamed AbdelMo'ty | Comedy | |||
| Hassan wa Morcus (Hassan and Marcus) | Ramy Imam | Adel Emam, Omar Sharif, Lebleba, Mohamed Imam | Drama | |||
| Leilet El-Baby Doll (The BabyDoll Night) | Adel Adeeb | Nour El-Sherif, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Laila Elwi | Drama | |||
| Toul Omry (All My Life) | Maher Sabry | Ashraf Sewailam, Mazen, Jwana, Bassam Kassab, | Drama | The first unapologetic film to deal openly with homosexuality in the Arab world | ||
| Zay El Naharda (On A Day Like Today) | Amr Salama | Basma, Ahmed El Fishawy | Mystery | |||
| 2009 | ||||||
| 1000 Mabrouk (congratulations) | Ahmed Nader Galal | Ahmed Helmy, Mahmoud Fishawi, Laila Ezz El-Arab | Comedy / drama | |||
| Al-Musafir (The Traveller) | Ahmad Maher | Omar Sharif, Khaled El Nabawy, Cyrine Abdelnour, Amr Waked, Basma, Christine Solomon | Drama | |||
| Bobbos | Wael Ehsan | Adel Emam, Yousra, Ashraf Abdel Baqi, May Kassab | Comedy | |||
| Dokkan Shehata (Shehata's Store) | Khaled Youssef | Haifa Wehbe | Drama | Lebanese singer Wehbe's first Egyptian movie | ||
| Ehki ya shahrazade (Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story) | Yousry Nasrallah | Mona Zaki | Drama | |||
| Heliopolis | Ahmad Abdalla | Khaled Abol Naga, Hanan Motwea, Hany Adel, Hend Sabri, Yosra El Lozy, Christine Solomon | Drama | |||
| Welaad El Am (Cousins) | Sherif Arafa | Karim Abd El Aziz, Mona Zaki, Sherif Muneer | Action / drama | |||
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