Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine. It was entered for competition in the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Since the 1970s, the film has found renewed interest with new generations of international film lovers and has been hailed as a masterpiece in the style of neorealist cinema.
Themes depicted in the film include the urban working class, gender-based violence, and sexual repression.
Cairo Station debuted in 1958. With the overthrow of the Egyptian monarchy in 1952 (see Cinema of Egypt), the ability of Youssef Chahine to tackle themes of the urban working class, gender-based violence and sexual repression is important to highlight as it demonstrates Chahine (and similar directors) ability to push the boundaries of Egyptian Cinema, something they would not be able to do when the film industry was nationalized in 1966. By intermixing film genres (specifically Italian Neorealism and Film Noir) Chahine was able to vividly portray Egyptian society as it was during the 1950s and in doing so provide Egyptian and international viewers a glimpse into Egypt's changing societal ideologies, and values in a post-revolutionary world.

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