Movies: Ahmad Rateb

Masry el Araby is an American-Egyptian citizen who travels back to his home town (in Egypt) after living in the US for 20 years. He has this idea of Egypt being a wonderful and amazing country, but the idea soon crashes as he faces reality. After arr...

portrays the lives of residents in an old Cairo building "The Yacoubian Building", highlighting issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of the Egyptian soci...

Bekhit works in a small workshop. He meets Adila by chance in a train, and they both find a suitcase full of money left by an escaping drug dealer. After they fail in finding the suitcase's owner, they both decide to share the money....

The film revolves around an engineer working for an oil company in Dubai. He had to return to Egypt after twenty years. He was surprised that the Israeli Embassy was next to his apartment and was trying hard to sell the apartment at first....

Seeking job opportunities, a young man arrives in Cairo and becomes increasingly involved with the family of a wealthy businessman....

This production is a light hearted comedy. The protagonist is an esteemed cartoonist that works at a news firm. The protagonist undergoes a difficult situation and emerges partly wounded. Following this experience he insists on going back to work but...

A seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and his attempt...

The story revolves around Mursi (Adel Imam), a poor history teacher, married and suffering from an ambitious financial crisis in life, who gets involved with an old colleague at the university (Salwa), who runs her house for prostitution and hides hi...

Sherif Bond (Hany Ramzy) is a policeman who is assigned a murder investigation case. When he meets the beautiful brunette, Nour (Dolly Shahin) the widow of the deceased, and despite his little experience in cases like this one, he gets exceptionally ...

Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the a...

After his father's death, Hassanein al-Bartouchi (Adel Imam) returns from his village to Cairo. After Hassanein's failure in all the jobs he is assigned, he is expelled from his uncle's home to find himself with a group of beggars headed by Sayed Ham...

When Jannah escapes from her abusive husband and returns back to Cairo, she decides to reopen her father's atelier in Naama Bay where she meets a group of young people trying to work in Sharm el-Sheikh. As she falls in love with one of them, she star...

Dr. Ali Al-Rifai is one of the United Nations experts specialized in resolving international conflicts. He lived his life moving between conflict zones around the world. Dr. Al-Rifai suffers from bouts of distraction that make him forget himself and ...

Hassan Hantira, Hima and Abdo, are three friends from Alexandria who sing at local weddings. Hantira is accused of being involved in a murder, and they try to prove his innocence so that he can marry his fiancée....

Najwa, a music teacher from the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, seizes the opportunity to come to Cairo on a trip with her students to search for Tahany, her first teacher that taught her music and used to live in an apartment in Heliopolis....

A story of a taxi driver, who cares for nothing in the world except his friend and his son whose grandfather tries to be his guardian after his mother dies, but Karim refuses and get a court ruling that supports his right to his son. The plot escalat...

Antar, the poor garbageman, falls in love with the daughter of a prominent lawyer, who is a resident at one of the buildings he's working in. Thinking that she's a maid, he proposes to her but her father insults him and throws him out. Antar decides ...

University graduate works as a school bus driver after failing to find a proper job, where he unexpectedly falls in love with a school teacher, who is the love interest of an evil businessman. Of course you don’t already know that she will be loving ...

An ex-goalkeeper starts working as a talent scout and travels all over the world in search of professional players to join Egyptian football clubs....

The film takes place inside the world of Downtown that is full of stories and many social relations,through two girls,one is a hairdresser and the other is a saleswoman in a clothing store....