A classic of Egyptian cinema, Kamal El Sheikh’s El manzel rakam tletash (US:  House No. 13) begins, even before the opening credits, with a dreamy, expressionist sequence of a man entering a large, wealthy estate, walking up a shadowy staircase and shooting a man dead. Why and how this crime occurred is the mystery that drives the plot for the next 90 minutes. The next day, the shooter (Emad Hamdy) has only vague recollections of his murderous adventure but he’s still arrested in the middle of his wedding to his innocent, young bride (Faten Hamamah). The story will twist through revelations of adultery, psychiatry, and hypnosis before a frenetic final sequence that turbocharges the noir atmospherics. El Sheikh utilizes set artifacts and shadows to encage his characters at every opportunity, closing them in as anxiety rises, while the energetic score (which includes a dulcet accompaniment to a dance routine onstage) ebbs and flows with the action, dominating the final chase scenes to create an auricular mood like a silent film.