El Shaweesh Hassan(1988)

El Shaweesh Hassan is an Egyptian film following a young man with modest ambitions: secure an apartment and marry his fiancée before her cousin can claim her hand. When Hassan infiltrates a drug gang for work, his life spirals into dangerous territory. What begins as a straightforward plan to build a future unravels as he becomes entangled in criminal underworld dealings. The film balances Hassan's personal struggles—love, family pressure, and economic hardship—against the mounting peril of his double life. As the stakes escalate, Hassan must navigate between his dreams of a normal life and the violent world he's been forced to enter, where loyalty and survival become impossible to separate.