12 Films & TV Shows Set In Egypt During The 1940s
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Dalida
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sBased on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1950s The 1940sSecret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
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Exorcist: The Beginning
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sGo back to where the horror began. — Having lived through traumatizing events during WWII, Father Lankester Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to conduct archaeological excavations in British-administered East Africa. Merrin unearths an ancient Byzantine church believed have been built and then immediately buried to keep down evil from the crypt below. The natives are convinced that uncovering the church has unleashed a demon, and begin to violently clash with the British military troops. As the village rapidly disintegrates into chaos and war, Merrin must face-off with the demon which has taken possession of somebody close to him.
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Retro Puppet Master
🇫🇷 France 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940s The 1900sThe Legacy Begins ... — Toulon runs a puppet theatre in the heart of Paris and meets the sorcerer (the mysterious Afzel). When his life is saved by the lovely Swiss Ambassador's daughter Ilsa, we bear witness to the origin of the Puppet Master.
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Tale of the Mummy
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940s The 1990sThe curse is legend. The terror is real. — Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.
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The English Patient
🇮🇹 Italy 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇱🇾 Libya The 1940s The 1930sIn love, there are no boundaries. — In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
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A Man Called Sarge
🇪🇬 Egypt Africa - General The 1940sThey have no fear. No shame. No chance. All hope would be lost except for... — In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers lead by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.
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The Battle of El Alamein
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sJune 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!
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Foxhole in Cairo
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sThe Greatest Spy Story of the Desert War! — A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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Sea of Sand
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sA small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
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Around the World
California 🇱🇾 Libya 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sTHE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts! — Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Inviati speciali
🇪🇸 Spain 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
