Gamil Ratib
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1926-08-18
Locus Natus: Cairo, Egypt
Et ut: جميل راتب, Gamil Rateb, Gameel Abu-Bakr Raateb
Lawrence of Arabia
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War....
release : 1962.12.11popularis : 25.186
Ali Beh Mazhar and 40 Thieves
Simple young man Ali Mazhar dreams of being rich fast because he thinks he has super mental powers. He begins to realize his dream when he meets...
release : 1985.06.17popularis : 0.97
The Dwarfs Are Coming
Shehab the advertising director, makes a successful ad campaign for the opening of a disco, making many young people come to the disco, causing a...
release : 1986.01.14popularis : 0.872
Trapeze
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a...
release : 1956.05.30popularis : 6.232
The Liar
When Hamdy publishes an investigative report condemning the owner of a textile company and accusing him of embezzlement and bribery, the owner tries...
release : 1975.10.06popularis : 2.08
First Year of Love
A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a...
release : 1976.10.18popularis : 1.407
From First Sight
Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding...
release : 2004.04.04popularis : 0.888
Genius Five
Mahmood, an engineer, receives support from his lover, Aisha, as he attempts to make an invention. But things take an unexpected turn when a group...
release : 1985.03.02popularis : 1.52
Turk's Head
A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see...
release : 2010.03.31popularis : 3.898
Face to Face
The police officer assigns Rifaat, Helmy’s brother, who is one of the dangerous individuals wanted to be arrested, to arrest a member of a gang...
release : 1976.09.24popularis : 1.168
Gamal Abdel Nasser
The biography of the iconic leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, from his birth to igniting the revolution to the defeat of 67 and his disagreement with Abdel...
release : 1998.07.13popularis : 2.403
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock...
release : 1947.12.23popularis : 3.67
Monelle
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
release : 1948.09.15popularis : 2.085
The North Star
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron....
release : 1982.03.31popularis : 3.879
Still Waters Run Deep
Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three...
release : 1996.11.13popularis : 1.204
Un nuage dans un verre d'eau
Young Anna is from Romania and old Noun is from Egypt. They are neighbours in a rundown building in Paris. They share the same interest in idle news...
release : 2012.01.26popularis : 0.756
La mort de Pompée
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into...
release : 1961.02.07popularis : 1.77
Shafiqa and Metwally
The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather,...
release : 1978.11.27popularis : 4.903
Taimour & Shafi'aa
Taymour and Shafika have grown up together as next door neighbours and are deeply in love. However, their love is put to the test when he is assigned...
release : 2007.06.22popularis : 3.119
Enough, my heart
After a love affair that shattered her heart due to different social classes , A woman decides to become independant and works in journalism which...
release : 1977.04.25popularis : 1.069
Whom Should We Shoot?
The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s...
release : 1975.12.08popularis : 1.597
Adieu Bonaparte
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The...
release : 1985.05.17popularis : 4.738
The Aquarium
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These...
release : 2008.02.08popularis : 4.083
The Magician
Bahgat Mansour is an old poor magician that lives a bad life and tries to get a better one by reaching to the rich people. what happens to him and...
release : 2001.12.30popularis : 2.062
Night of Destiny
Mr. Slimami is an Algerian retiree living in Paris who witnesses a murder while taking a walk one evening. He's spotted by the assailant, but Slimami...
release : 1999.05.05popularis : 1.631
A matter of principle
The events revolve around a representative in Parliament who represents one of the constituencies in Upper Egypt. He was able to achieve great...
release : 2003.10.26popularis : 1.337
الاغبياء الثلاثه
Three friends roam the villa of Ahmed, but he manages to show them that they are not thieves. Ahmed doubts the behavior of his wife Suad agrees with...
release : 1990.04.26popularis : 1.25
بيت بلا حنان
Mother Fatima controls her children. Her eldest son Essam challenges her and urges his brothers to stand up to her. Essam falls for his neighbor,...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 1.021
A traveler without a road
Osama is a visual artist. He decides to travel to Luxor to search for the secrets of the drawings and paintings left by the Pharaohs. Here he is...
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 0.899
The Innocent
A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but...
release : 1986.01.02popularis : 2.795
Poussière de diamant
Directed by Fahdel Jaibi and Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud.
release : 1991.01.02popularis : 0.729
Time Conqueror
Fekry is a journalist who discovers that there some patients disappear suspiciously from a hospital, and doubts that Dr. Halim is behind this. Fekry...
release : 1987.01.02popularis : 1.964
OSS 117 Is Not Dead
OSS 117 is asked for help by a female acquaintance Muriel Rousset. She beseeches him to retrieve secret documents which have been stolen from Sir...
release : 1957.08.14popularis : 3.127
L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées
After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the...
release : 1957.07.24popularis : 0.879
Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat
Hassan abandoned his fiancée Laila and married her friend Nargis, who is accused of killing Mustafa after being involved in a sinful...
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 1.991
Behind The University's Walls
University professor Ramsey returns from London after obtaining a PhD in English literature. He collides with students and cannot reason with them,...
release : 1981.09.07popularis : 1.107
OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
A secret agent sets out to stop an evil scientist who is about to unleash on the world a virulent biological strain he has developed during...
release : 1964.06.12popularis : 6.81
To Commit a Murder
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
release : 1967.04.07popularis : 1.073
Stand-by
A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn...
release : 2000.05.29popularis : 3.776
Birds of Darkness
Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali...
release : 1995.08.14popularis : 3.862
The Baby Doll Night
Hossam, an Egyptian tour guide working in the US, comes to Egypt on vacation during New Year's Eve and hopes to spend a romantic night with his wife...
release : 2008.05.28popularis : 2.285
Rise to the Abyss
Abla travels to France and gets recruited by the Mossad under the pretext of working as a journalist. By the time she discovers the truth, she's...
release : 1978.10.02popularis : 1.521
A Summer in La Goulette
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic;...
release : 1996.12.25popularis : 8.54
Yesterday
50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to...
release : 2018.09.06popularis : 1.923
The Beginning
After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all,...
release : 1986.08.15popularis : 3.095
Love Trip
Two orphan teachers graduate from one of the shelters in Alexandria heading to Cairo to work in one of the primary schools.
release : 2001.12.15popularis : 1.068
El Keif
Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and gives him some weed that is made out of harmless...
release : 1985.09.16popularis : 2.227
Young Wolves
Alain, "a young wolf", elegant and racy, is maintained by the princess Linzani. At the same time, he goes out with a girl of his age, Sylvie, who...
release : 1968.04.01popularis : 1.639
The Lady from Cairo
In 1990, Moumen Smihi briefly re-located to Cairo in order to work in the shadow of one of the world’s largest commercial film industries. The...
release : 1992.01.02popularis : 0.92
The Third Class
A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping benefits...
release : 1988.07.24popularis : 3.969
Deuxième Bureau contre terroristes
A spy is instructed to investigate a case of arms and women trafficking covered behind a funeral services company.
release : 1961.05.31popularis : 0.511
Male Companion
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
release : 1964.11.04popularis : 2.018
Shaaban Taht El Sifr
(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any...
release : 1980.02.20popularis : 2.494
Kwaml's House
Farida (Nadia al-Jundi), the owner of the house, decides to demolish the house and build a large residential tower. She does not pay any attention to...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.249
Love in a Jail Cell
A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt...
release : 1983.02.14popularis : 1.931
A woman in my blood
Ahmed gets acquainted with Laila and relates to her, and she agrees to marry Omar without knowing that he is Ahmad's brother. Ahmed informs Laila of...
release : 1978.08.01popularis : 1.023
L'Atlantide
Two young French officers get lost in the Sahara desert and find themselves prisoners of Antinéa, who rules over the lost city of Atlantis....
release : 1972.02.24popularis : 1.127
Jusqu'au bout de la nuit
François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and meets up with his family and friends in...
release : 1995.09.13popularis : 0.53
Réseau secret
War criminals, escaped from Germany, joining the network in Morocco where, before going to South America they change their facial structure....
release : 1967.11.15popularis : 0.638
The Advice of a Wise Man in Matters of the Village and Education
In this socio-political short, film director Daoud Abdel Sayed discusses, from a biased perspective, the effects of Free Education on the Egyptian...
release : 1976.01.02popularis : 0.313
A Tale Behind Every Door
(A tale behind every door) A television movie consisting of four short films, written by the great writer Tawfiq Al-Hakim and writer Katia Thabet, in...
release : 1979.01.01popularis : 0.837
El-Arafa
The events of the film revolve around the university student (Samia Abu Al-Saad), who is arrested because of her political activities. During her...
release : 1981.03.28popularis : 0.884
The Mermaid
A love story grows between a young Lebanese man and an Egyptian girl, the young singer tries to rise on the road to stardom ,while the girl is very...
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 1.131
La Danse Éternelle
Saïd, seventy, has been demoralized by his wife’s illness which has left her hospitalized. He withdraws into solitude and writes poetry to...
release : 2004.01.31popularis : 1.352
They're Stealing Millions
Two friends are thrown in jail for charges of sorcery, and they meet inside a famous businessman named Ali. The two friends get closer to Ali and...
release : 1983.04.14popularis : 0.64
The Serpent of Death
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
release : 1990.12.06popularis : 2.862
The Asphalt Kings
A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born...
release : 1996.03.27popularis : 1.276
First Time in Love
The film revolves around a young man, who lives with his uncle after the death of his father. He is a reckless young man who relies on the money of...
release : 2007.01.01popularis : 0.784
No Consolation For Women
Rawya and her husband Hamdi get separated and she goes with her daughter to live in her father's home while Hamdi marries the young Mervat. Rawya...
release : 1979.08.23popularis : 0.293
Fearful Embraces
Prince is leading a drug trafficking ring. He controls the gang members through a weakness in each of them. He plans to beat Fifa, who is an airline...
release : 1986.06.21popularis : 1.224
La Fortune de Gaspard
Gaspard is a brilliant pupil who makes a clean sweep of all the prizes every year. He despises his family, and do not want to remain a crude peasant...
release : 1993.04.08popularis : 1.865
The Lorry
Being of different social classes, Faidy objects to wedding his daughter Salwa to Samir and agrees to wed her to the well-off Adel. As luck would...
release : 1985.01.07popularis : 1.396