Movies: Ahmad Rateb

An Egyptian-American returns to his homeland after twenty years abroad, filled with nostalgia and high hopes. But as he reconnects with his roots, he finds himself caught between two worlds—and begins to experience the reality of a country he thought...

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...

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

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....

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When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream....

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....

Mahmoud Shuaib, a wealthy man diagnosed with Alzheimer's, begins making unusual financial decisions. Fearing for their inheritance, his two sons take legal action to gain control of his estate....

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 ...

Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes...

When Kadry El Meniawy becomes the minister of Youth and sports, the attractive woman Anita from Denmark comes to Egypt for cultural exchange between the two countries. As she stays at the minister's villa, his sons try to get close to her while he al...

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....

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...

Dr. Raafat faces challenges and difficulties in raising his three daughters, Fawzia (Sanaa Younis), Soso (Shreihan) and Nadia (Ijlal Zaki)....

The second part of Lenin al-Ramly and Nader Galaal’s trilogy “Bekheet and Adeela”. A gang of drugs dealers finances Bekheet and Adeela’s parliament campaign. At the end, Bekheet and Adeela figured out that the gang has its hidden agenda, they enter t...

The film puts the lights on the struggle of youngsters to afford a proper life for marriage. Through their small incomes, and the ordeal of finding a house in crowded Cairo, so it follows a young couple's longing for their simpliest dreams - to be to...

Mahmoud is a man with simple dreams. His life turns into agony, when he witnesses a murder in the garage where he works as a security guard and he testifies against the murderer....

An egyptian couple living in kuwait loses their money and decides to go back to egypt....

Ali is a young man in his twenties who hunts doves. His relationships and vision of life develop, and he reaches the age of forty, which changes his outlook on everything he experiences in life, starting from his marital relationship to all his other...

The director's final work prior to his early death to chronic liver disease was this gleefully ghoulish horror comedy, which imparted the following straightforward moral: if you smother your wife to death with a bowl of porridge and bury her remains ...