Gamil Ratib

Yesterday (2018)

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 go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between h ...

Un nuage dans un verre d'eau (2012)

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 but they hate to talk about themselves. Yet, old secrets are unveiled, little by little. The film ricochets ...

Turk's Head (2010)

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 their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and all wi ...

The Baby Doll Night (2008)

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 in their hotel. Unbeknownst to him, Awadain the terrorist who has other plans for the hotel that night. ...

The Aquarium (2008)

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 two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the pri ...

First Time in Love (2007)

The film revolves around a young man, who lives with his uncle after the death of his father. ...

Taimour & Shafi'aa (2007)

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 to protect her as her personal body guard when she is promoted to the level of Minister. ...

From First Sight (2004)

Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding ceremony. ...

La Danse Éternelle (2004)

Saïd, seventy, has been demoralized by his wife's illness which has left her hospitalized. He withdraws into solitude and writes poetry to express the infinite love he carries for his beloved. ...

A matter of principle (2003)

The events revolve around a representative in Parliament who represents one of the constituencies in Upper Egypt. He was able to achieve great successes, but he dies. The family nominates his daughter, a law school graduate, to take his place, but she enco ...

The Magician (2001)

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 his daughter-that he keeps indoor- then? ...

Love Trip (2001)

Two orphan teachers graduate from one of the shelters in Alexandria heading to Cairo to work in one of the primary schools. ...

Stand-by (2000)

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 to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as a pros ...

Night of Destiny (1999)

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 manages to slip away before being caught. The victim turned out to be a prominent businessman, and police ...

Gamal Abdel Nasser (1998)

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 Hakim Amer, then his planning for the War of Attrition and his sudden death that stunned the world in 1970. ...

Wanees' Family (1997)

The play Wanis talks about the famous family, which is the family of Wanis, but several paradoxes occur, the first is Wanis sitting at home and Misa is the one who works now and exposes them to a mute girl who everyone offers help and is loved by the eldes ...

A Summer in La Goulette (1996)

Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience d ...

Still Waters Run Deep (1996)

Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three examples of Jean's difficulties over the course of his long life. Each of the three episodes takes place b ...

The Asphalt Kings (1996)

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neig ...

Love Is Crazy in the Summer (1995)

Until the End of the Night (1995)

François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and meets up with his family and friends in Lyon. His new love for Maria, a young woman adrift, prompts him to get quick money. François will commit acts of vi ...

Birds of Darkness (1995)

Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati joins religious extremist groups to make financial gains , and the third Mohsen only works as a simple em ...

La Fortune de Gaspard (1993)

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 like them. Two businessmen, Mister Fereor and Mister Frolichein, want him to work in their factories. The f ...

The Pasha's daughter (1991)

The government nationalizes Ibrahim's property and places him under house arrest, and Umm Al-Saad takes care of him. Ibrahim feels affection for Umm Al-Saad, so he gets involved with her and she becomes pregnant and he marries her. She gives birth to their ...

Poussière de diamant (1991)

The story of an old man who is losing his grip on reality, fighting to keep his memory in spite of the fast moving society in which he lives. ...

The Serpent of Death (1990)

An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it. ...

The Three Fools (1990)

Three friends roam the villa of Ahmed, but he manages to show them that they are not thieves. ...

The Third Class (1988)

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 effortlessly. To calm their rage Sorour is appointed as their representative in the council only to unravel ...

Halet Talaboss (1988)

Ghada is a police officer. Her brother falls prey to bad friends and dies after taking a large dose of heroin. Ghada discovers the complex of one of her friends and arrests him red-handed, with heroin in his possession. It turns out that he is part of a dr ...

A Man with Seven Lives (1988)

Nawara and the Beast (1987)

In one of the villages, the big landowners are fighting over buying the largest percentages of land, as Taher Bey covets acquiring the land belonging to Kamla Hanem, which she inherited from her late husband, and she is supported in this conflict by her da ...

The Dwarfs Are Coming (1987)

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 huge fire. Shocked by the accident,he travels to Alexandria where he meets Chico the dwarf and helps him face ...

Time Conqueror (1987)

Fekry is a journalist who discovers that there some patients disappear suspiciously from a hospital, and doubts that Dr. Halim is behind this. Fekry is able to get into Dr. Halim's remote house in Helwan , to discover that he is conducting experiments to f ...

Ebnaty Wal-Ze'ab (1986)

The prisoner Hassan confesses to Lieutenant Bahaa that the leader of the drug gang who caused his imprisonment is Saeed, a businessman who is his colleague in the pharmaceutical company he owns, and that Saeed manufactures drugs from chemicals intended for ...

The Beginning (1986)

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, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him. ...

Fearful Embraces (1986)

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 hostess and loves one of his assistants to smuggle a shipment of drugs. Rushdie really loves her and tries ...

The Innocent (1986)

A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long. ...

Kwaml's House (1986)

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 the house's inhabitants, but her luck falls in love with one of the house's inhabitants. He takes responsi ...

Bitterness of Days (1986)

Poor Jaber tries to enroll in law school and support his sick mother who depends on him to provide for her. When he wants to admit her to the hospital, his wealthy uncle refuses to help him, so he decides to kill him. ...

Struggle of days (1985)

Kamal works with his friend Adel in the gambling club owned by Talat and his stepfather Farid. He meets Suhair, who is fed up with working in the club, and they exchange love. Farid pushes him to catch Bahaa at the gambling table, who loses his fortune. Ka ...

El Keif (1985)

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 substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of mon ...

Ali Beh Mazhar and 40 Thieves (1985)

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 businessman Mumtaz and works with him. At the same time, he falls in love with Hossnia, who he thinks is rich b ...

Adieu Bonaparte (1985)

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a ...

Genius Five (1985)

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 kidnaps her to get hold of his creation. ...

The Lorry (1985)

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 have it, Samir soon wins the lottery, as it is revealed that Adel is conducting mummification experiments that ...

The Curse (1984)

Journalist Hamdi enters the mental hospital, claiming that he is mentally disturbed to investigate a journalistic precedent by discovering the secret of the killing of a patient, who shows some changes as a result of his integration, but he reaches the kil ...

Bahr Al Awham (1984)

Samia falls into the hands of Nawaem, who runs a brothel and drug trade. Love grows between her and the pimp Maher, and they decide to escape, but circumstances prevent Maher from catching up with her. ...

Kaydahonna Azeem (1983)

Teacher Abu Al-Atawf agrees with teacher Atta on the marriage of his son Ibrahim and her daughter Samsim. Abdul Basir, Ibrahim's uncle, goes to bless the bride, and get to knows Attata, who resorted to the lawyer with whom she worked as a writer for twenty ...

They're Stealing Millions (1983)

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 discover that he has a map with a detailed plan to rob a bank. They rob the bank, and prepare to carry out th ...

Love in a Jail Cell (1983)

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 businessman. ...

Harbour Beasts (1983)

A film about a drug-dealing gang. ...

The North Star (1982)

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. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod beco ...

Behind The University's Walls (1981)

University professor Ramsey returns from London after obtaining a PhD in English literature. He collides with students and cannot reason with them, including the three friends who discover the murder of their old beggar neighbor and are arrested for being ...

El-Arafa (1981)

The events of the film revolve around the university student (Samia Abu Al-Saad), who is arrested because of her political activities. During her imprisonment, (Samia) gets to know a police officer named (Magdy), who hides her in his house, and when the he ...

Shaaban Below Zero (1980)

(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any relatives so that they can seize his inheritance. They reach where Shaaban lives, who is from the town of the mill ...

The Mermaid (1980)

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 jealous of him, and tries to keep him away from singing. He meets another girl from Lebanon, who believes in ...

Afraid of Something (1979)

Rashed kidnaps student Ismat and takes her to his house. Before he assaults her, he is surprised by the thief Raoof, who saves her, kills him, and runs away with her. Raoof confesses to Ismat that he is forced to steal in order to obtain the money needed t ...

No Consolation For Women (1979)

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 gets a job as a secretary in a newspaper and meets Tarek, the editor-in-chief, and they feel attracted to each ...

A Tale Behind Every Door (1979)

(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 each film a different problem is presented, and the four films starring Faten Hamama and different heroes, ...

Shafiqa and Metwally (1978)

The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their sinful r ...

A woman in my blood (1978)

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 a wedding without knowing that he is Omar. Layla thinks he has given up on her and decides to marry Ahmed a ...

Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat (1978)

Hassan abandoned his fiancée Laila and married her friend Nargis, who is accused of killing Mustafa after being involved in a sinful relationship with him and gets arrested, prompting Hassan to try to return to his former fiancée Laila after his regret f ...

A traveler without a road (1978)

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 exposed to Antoine's gang, which specializes in stealing antiquities. Osama loses his memory and meets one of t ...

Enough, my heart (1977)

After a love affair that shattered her heart due to different social classes , A woman decides to become independant and works in journalism which leads her to many different pathways that make her rich but at what cost ?. ...

Fattah Tabhas Aaan El Hob (1977)

Fathia runs a small restaurant for the mine workers, and her daughter helps her, who has no one to support her but her mother and her lover, the teacher Saadoun. Magdy, a young man from the capital, comes to the town to work as a mine supervisor. He discov ...

First Year of Love (1976)

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 journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader. Mohamed tries to ge ...

Face to Face (1976)

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 of the most skilled and best smugglers. He does not know that the person being arrested is his brother, and the ...

The Advice of a Wise Man in Matters of the Village and Education (1976)

In this socio-political short, film director Daoud Abdel Sayed discusses, from a biased perspective, the effects of Free Education on the Egyptian countryside. ...

A house without love (1976)

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, Suhair, who is already married to Usta Rajab. She shares the same feelings, and they agree to marry after she ...

Whom Should We Shoot? (1975)

The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s' Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife's ex-fiance. ...

The Liar (1975)

When Hamdy publishes an investigative report condemning the owner of a textile company and accusing him of embezzlement and bribery, the owner tries to clear his name by getting the factory workers and Hamdy to change their testimony. ...

Lesson Is Over, Idiot (1975)

Professor Farid wants to perform scruff surgery to increase human intelligence. After his experiments on mice have succeeded, he picked a man to conduct his experiments on. At first it works, but then the man relapses, and becomes stupidier than he origina ...

L'Atlantide (1972)

Two young French officers get lost in the Sahara desert and find themselves prisoners of Antinéa, who rules over the lost city of Atlantis. Under her evil influence, one of them, blinded by his love for her, loses his mind and goes so far as to murder his ...

Young Wolves (1968)

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 despite her bold attitude has never had a lover. ...

Réseau secret (1967)

War criminals, escaped from Germany, joining the network in Morocco where, before going to South America they change their facial structure. Marchelier pretends to be one of them. Marchelier can therefore collect within the network the most valuable inform ...

To Commit a Murder (1967)

A writer gets wrapped up in espionage. ...

Male Companion (1964)

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself. ...

OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok (1964)

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 experiments on rats. ...

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks. ...

Deuxième Bureau contre terroristes (1961)

A spy is instructed to investigate a case of arms and women trafficking covered behind a funeral services company. ...

La Mort de Pompée (1961)

Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into Caesar's good graces. Once the crime is committed, Ptolemy impatiently awaits recognition from Caesar. But a co ...

L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées (1957)

After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the great couturier. He decides to follow her to Nice to present her next collection. ...

Trapeze (1956)

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 sexy female performer. ...

OSS 117 Is Not Dead (1952)

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 Anthony Lead, the father of Anita and Marion. He complies with her wish and no obstacle or danger can hinder h ...

Monelle (1948)

Gérard Favier is a famous composer who is deeply in love with his wife Sylvia. The couple meet Monelle, a pretty, talented young pianist and ardent admirer of Gérard Favier. The musician takes the young woman under his wing and launches her to success. B ...

The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean (1947)

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 with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love wit ...