Upper Egyptian in the American University

Khalaf, a bumpkin southern Egyptian wins a scholarship to study at the American University in Cairo where students - many from Cairo's upper class - are known for their Americanized attitudes.

Female Cousins

Citizen Kane

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.