Movies like Wafaa Forever

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   The Blazing Sun

   Strong story similarity

   1954 · 116 min · Drama · Romance

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   A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: black and white

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   Widow Wanted

   Strong story similarity

   1965 · 95 min · Comedy · Drama

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   One of Ahmed's relatives dies and leaves him a huge fortune to inherit, but on one condition, which is to search for a widow to marry, and he continues to search again and again for someone suitable for the task.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: black and white
   • a closely matched era

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   Eve on the Road

   Strong story similarity

   1968 · 120 min · Drama · Romance

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   Mona is torn between the love she has for Khaled, and her utter abhorrence of the male-dominant practices. When Khaled sweet-talks her into believing he is a liberal man, she marries him, only to be shocked by his real self and his controlling tendencies.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: black and white

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   Kandil om Hashem

   Strong story similarity

   1968 · 105 min · Drama

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   Set in one of Cairo's densely-populated neighborhoods, Sayyida Zeinab, the film showcases beautiful scenes from city life.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: black and white

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   Me, My Wife and My Lover

   Shared cast

   1969 · 95 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Adel is a veterinarian who suffers from the over-attention of his wife Awatif. At their anniversary, he meets a young widow and he proposes to her.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • principal cast overlap
   • shared theme: black and white

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   Serial Killer of Women

   Shared cast

   1970 · 111 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Desperate for a fresh story, a journalist decides to look into a mysterious wave of murders in which the victims are all women.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: black and white
   • a principal cast member

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   Foreman Hassan

   Strong story similarity

   1952 · 124 min · Drama · Music

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   Hassan, frustrated by poverty, becomes involved with a wealthy woman and eventually abandons his family for her.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: black and white

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   Joys

   Shared cast

   1968 · 118 min · Comedy · Music

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   Tawfik is in the midst of a financial crisis when his relative dies. As the sole heir, he sells her furniture to pay off his debts, only to discover that she left him a precious jewel inside a piece of furniture. As he tries to retrieve it, a gang goes after the jewel as well.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: black and white
   • a principal cast member

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   Hikaya min Baladina

   Shared cast

   1969 · 82 min · Drama

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   The mayor of an Upper Egyptian village has monopoly over beans which harms the simple villagers while getting high profits for the mayor. As one of the villagers stands up to the mayor and rallies the people, they decide to gather money to monopolize beans themselves.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • principal cast overlap
   • substantial genre overlap

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    Naharak saeed

    Strong story similarity

    1955 · 105 min · Comedy · Drama · Music

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    The son of a wealthy man wants to be a musician but his father, the factory owner, objects and kicks him out. When his father announces a competition for the name of a new soap, his son wins the prize and has enough money to finance the theater of his dreams and he becomes famous for his shows.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared theme: black and white

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