Gamil Ratib
Born Gameel Abu-Bakr Raateb (November 1928 – Cairo) is an Egyptian actor. In 1940s, Gameel first appeared in the film “Al-forsaan al-thalaatha i.e. The three musketeers”, his family refused the idea and his scenes were removed. Raateb traveled to Paris to study Law and Economy, yet he preferred studying Theatre and appeared in Shakespeare’s “Much ado without nothing (1947)”. To provide living expenses, Gameel worked in small jobs besides acting and then became a notable member of the “Comédie Française”. American filmmaker Carol Reed presented Gameel Raateb in “Trapeze (1956)” along with Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida. Gameel also showed in many TV series like; “Rehlat al-million i.e. The journey to be a millionaire” and “Sonbol ba’d al-million i.e. Sonbol..a millionaire”. He played the villain his unique way and excelled in authoritarian and aristocrat roles especially with Faaten Hamaama in “Hekaaya waraa koll baab i.e. A story behind every door”.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6102 |
| Birthday | 1926-08-18 |
| Place of Birth | Cairo, Egypt |
| Also Known As | جميل راتب, Gamil Rateb, Gameel Abu-Bakr Raateb, |
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
8/3388
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 Turk...
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Lawrence of Arabia
1985
Ali Beh Mazhar and 40 Thieves
0/0
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 busin...
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Ali Beh Mazhar and 40 Thieves
1987
The Dwarfs Are Coming
0/0
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...
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The Dwarfs Are Coming
1956
Trapeze
6.2/96
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...
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Trapeze
1976
First Year of Love
0/0
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 journalis...
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First Year of Love
1975
The Liar
8/1
When Hamdy publishes an investigative report condemning the owner of a textile company and accusing him of embezzlement and bribery, the owner tries t...
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The Liar
2004
From First Sight
0/0
Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding ceremony...
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From First Sight
1985
Genius Five
0/0
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 kid...
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Genius Five
1991
The Pasha's daughter
5/1
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 A...
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The Pasha's daughter
2010
Turk's Head
5.7/36
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...
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Turk's Head
1986
Ebnaty Wal-Ze'ab
6/1
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 coll...
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Ebnaty Wal-Ze'ab
1984
Bahr Al Awham
0/0
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 cir...
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Bahr Al Awham
1983
Kaydahonna Azeem
0/0
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...
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Kaydahonna Azeem
1977
Fattah Tabhas Aaan El Hob
0/0
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 teach...
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Fattah Tabhas Aaan El Hob
1976
Face to Face
5.5/2
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...
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Face to Face
1998
Gamal Abdel Nasser
6/1
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 H...
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
1983
Harbour Beasts
0/0
A film about a drug-dealing gang.
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Harbour Beasts
1947
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
6.6/7
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 Vic...
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
1948
Monelle
6.4/13
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 ad...
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Monelle
1982
The North Star
6.222/36
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. H...
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The North Star
1996
Still Waters Run Deep
0/0
Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three...
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Still Waters Run Deep
2012
Un nuage dans un verre d'eau
0/0
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 b...
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Un nuage dans un verre d'eau
1961
La Mort de Pompée
0/0
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into Caesa...
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La Mort de Pompée
1978
Shafiqa and Metwally
6.6/5
The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, wher...
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Shafiqa and Metwally
2007
Taimour & Shafi'aa
6.2/29
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...
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Taimour & Shafi'aa
1977
Enough, my heart
0/0
After a love affair that shattered her heart due to different social classes , A woman decides to become independant and works in journalism which l...
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Enough, my heart
1975
Whom Should We Shoot?
6.5/4
The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.
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Whom Should We Shoot?
1986
Bitterness of Days
0/0
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...
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Bitterness of Days
1985
Adieu Bonaparte
5.8/13
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The...
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Adieu Bonaparte
2008
The Aquarium
6.8/12
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 t...
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The Aquarium
2001
The Magician
4.8/6
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...
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The Magician
1999
Night of Destiny
6/1
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...
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Night of Destiny
1985
Struggle of days
0/0
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...
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Struggle of days
1990
The Three Fools
0/0
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 f...
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The Three Fools
1976
A house without love
0/0
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, Suha...
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A house without love
1978
A traveler without a road
0/0
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 expos...
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A traveler without a road
1986
The Innocent
7.5/18
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...
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The Innocent
1991
Poussière de diamant
0/0
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.
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Poussière de diamant
1987
Time Conqueror
6/1
Fekry is a journalist who discovers that there some patients disappear suspiciously from a hospital, and doubts that Dr. Halim is behind this. Fekry i...
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Time Conqueror
1952
OSS 117 Is Not Dead
6.1/10
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 Anth...
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OSS 117 Is Not Dead
1957
L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées
0/0
After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the great...
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L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées
1978
Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat
0/0
Hassan abandoned his fiancée Laila and married her friend Nargis, who is accused of killing Mustafa after being involved in a sinful relationship with...
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Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat
1981
Behind The University's Walls
0/0
University professor Ramsey returns from London after obtaining a PhD in English literature. He collides with students and cannot reason with them, in...
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Behind The University's Walls
1964
OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
7.8/53
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 experiment...
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OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
1967
To Commit a Murder
4.2/5
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
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To Commit a Murder
1995
Birds of Darkness
6.9/18
Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati...
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Birds of Darkness
1978
Rise to the Abyss
5/8
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 alrea...
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Rise to the Abyss
2008
The Baby Doll Night
5.4/10
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 i...
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The Baby Doll Night
1996
A Summer in La Goulette
6/28
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Mer...
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A Summer in La Goulette
2000
Stand-by
4.2/4
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 t...
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Stand-by
1984
The Curse
7/1
Journalist Hamdi enters the mental hospital, claiming that he is mentally disturbed to investigate a journalistic precedent by discovering the secret...
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The Curse
2018
Yesterday
4.4/6
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 g...
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Yesterday
1986
The Beginning
8/10
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...
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The Beginning
2001
Love Trip
5.8/5
Two orphan teachers graduate from one of the shelters in Alexandria heading to Cairo to work in one of the primary schools.
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Love Trip
1997
Wanees' Family
9.5/2
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 i...
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Wanees' Family
1985
El Keif
8.2/15
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...
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El Keif
1968
Young Wolves
4/8
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 desp...
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Young Wolves
1988
The Third Class
5.5/2
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 e...
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The Third Class
1961
Deuxième Bureau contre terroristes
0/0
A spy is instructed to investigate a case of arms and women trafficking covered behind a funeral services company.
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Deuxième Bureau contre terroristes
1964
Male Companion
4.9/13
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
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Male Companion
1980
Shaaban Below Zero
6.2/8
(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any relative...
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Shaaban Below Zero
1986
Kwaml's House
0/0
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...
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Kwaml's House
1983
Love in a Jail Cell
6.4/8
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 business...
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Love in a Jail Cell
1978
A woman in my blood
4/1
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...
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A woman in my blood
1972
L'Atlantide
0/0
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...
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L'Atlantide
1995
Until the End of the Night
5.8/5
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 n...
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Until the End of the Night
1967
Réseau secret
0/0
War criminals, escaped from Germany, joining the network in Morocco where, before going to South America they change their facial structure. Marchelie...
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Réseau secret
1976
The Advice of a Wise Man in Matters of the Village and Education
0/0
In this socio-political short, film director Daoud Abdel Sayed discusses, from a biased perspective, the effects of Free Education on the Egyptian cou...
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The Advice of a Wise Man in Matters of the Village and Education
1979
A Tale Behind Every Door
7/1
(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...
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A Tale Behind Every Door
1981
El-Arafa
0/0
The events of the film revolve around the university student (Samia Abu Al-Saad), who is arrested because of her political activities. During her impr...
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El-Arafa
1979
Afraid of Something
0/0
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 run...
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Afraid of Something
1980
The Mermaid
0/0
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 je...
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The Mermaid
2004
La Danse Éternelle
0/0
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...
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La Danse Éternelle
1983
They're Stealing Millions
0/0
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 disc...
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They're Stealing Millions
1996
The Asphalt Kings
5/3
A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womani...
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The Asphalt Kings
2007
First Time in Love
4.3/3
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 hi...
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First Time in Love
1990
The Serpent of Death
2.8/4
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
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The Serpent of Death
1979
No Consolation For Women
0/0
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...
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No Consolation For Women
1986
Fearful Embraces
6/1
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 h...
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Fearful Embraces
1993
La Fortune de Gaspard
0/0
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 l...
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La Fortune de Gaspard
1985
The Lorry
0/0
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...
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The Lorry
1995
Love Is Crazy in the Summer
6/1
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Love Is Crazy in the Summer
1988
راجل بسبع أرواح
0/0
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راجل بسبع أرواح
1987
Nawara and the Beast
0/0
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...
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Nawara and the Beast
1988
Halet Talaboss
0/0
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 h...
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Halet Talaboss
1985
Sanawat Al Khatar
0/0
Wael and his sister Marwa suffer from their parents being busy with them. Their father, Ahmed, is a senior lawyer and their mother, Nawal, is the depu...
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Sanawat Al Khatar
1994
Checkmate
0/0
During a visit to another country, a coup d'état occurs against a state ruler. Meanwhile, a girl gets to know him in order to avenge her father's deat...
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Checkmate
1975
Lesson Is Over, Idiot
8/1
Professor Farid wants to perform scruff surgery to increase human intelligence. After his experiments on mice have succeeded, he picked a man to condu...
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Lesson Is Over, Idiot
1990
Lady of Cairo
0/0
A countryside girl moves to Cairo searching for her brother. She meets a rich man and marries him and enters the artistic field because of her beautif...
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Lady of Cairo
1956
I'm The East
0/0
A group of foreign adventurers pretend to be archaeologists so they could look for gold in the Western Desert. They are hosted by a tribe whose leader...
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