45 Films & TV Shows Set In Egypt During The 20th Century
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Death on the Nile
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1930sA murderer strikes on board the luxury Nile steamer Karnak-and Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling case. β As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?
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Dr. Phibes Rises Again
England πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1920sFlesh crawls! Blood curdles! Phibes lives! β The vengeful Doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
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Justine
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1930sIn Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
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The Battle of El Alamein
πͺπ¬ 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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The Mummy's Shroud
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1920sBeware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet! β Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1900sIt Lives Again To Kill Again! β Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.
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Sammy Going South
πͺπ¬ Egypt πΏπ¦ South Africa The 1950sIncredible Adventure in a Land That Knows a Thousand Dangers! β After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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Lawrence of Arabia
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA mighty motion picture of action and adventure! β The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Foxhole in Cairo
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1940sThe Greatest Spy Story of the Desert War! β A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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Sea of Sand
πͺπ¬ 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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Valley of the Kings
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1900sAMAZING! TIMELY! THRILLING! β Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
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Temptation
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1900s The 1890sYOU CAN'T RESIST IT! β A Victorian-era drama about a beautiful young woman with a shady past.
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Around the World
California π±πΎ Libya πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1940sTHE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts! β 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
πͺπΈ Spain πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
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The Last Outpost
πͺπ¬ Egypt πΈπ© Sudan The 1910sMen of steel in an empire of fire! β During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
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Kid Millions
New York πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1930sHE HAD PLENTY OF DOLLARS AND NO SENSE! β A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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The Mummy
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1930s The 1920sIt Comes to Life! β An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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Bella Donna
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1900s The 1890sBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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Inside the Lines
πͺπ¬ Egypt The 1910sA spy known as "1932" during World War I, is commissioned by the German Secret Service to trail English agent Captain Woodhouse to the Straits of Gibraltar and there effect the destruction of the British fleet. Before his departure, 1932 helps Jane Gerson, an American girl falsely accused of espionage, and later falls in love with her.