Gamil Ratib
Birthday: 1926-08-18
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Biography: 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”.
Movies
Lawrence of Arabia
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...
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Ali Beh Mazhar and 40 Thieves
Simple young man Ali Mazhar dreams of being rich fast because he thinks he has super mental powers. ...
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The Dwarfs Are Coming
Shehab the advertising director, makes a successful ad campaign for the opening of a disco, making m...
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Trapeze
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the du...
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The Liar
When Hamdy publishes an investigative report condemning the owner of a textile company and accusing ...
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First Year of Love
A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of ...
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From First Sight
Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her ...
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Genius Five
Mahmood, an engineer, receives support from his lover, Aisha, as he attempts to make an invention. B...
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Turk's Head
A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a...
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The Pasha's daughter
The government nationalizes Ibrahim's property and places him under house arrest, and Umm Al-Saad ta...
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Ebnaty Wal-Ze'ab
The prisoner Hassan confesses to Lieutenant Bahaa that the leader of the drug gang who caused his im...
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Bahr Al Awham
Samia falls into the hands of Nawaem, who runs a brothel and drug trade. Love grows between her and ...
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Kaydahonna Azeem
Teacher Abu Al-Atawf agrees with teacher Atta on the marriage of his son Ibrahim and her daughter Sa...
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Fattah Tabhas Aaan El Hob
Fathia runs a small restaurant for the mine workers, and her daughter helps her, who has no one to s...
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Face to Face
The police officer assigns Rifaat, Helmy’s brother, who is one of the dangerous individuals wanted t...
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
The biography of the iconic leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, from his birth to igniting the revolution to ...
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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 inci...
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The North Star
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sail...
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Still Waters Run Deep
Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. T...
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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 ...
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La Mort de Pompée
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassi...
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Shafiqa and Metwally
The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sis...
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Taimour & Shafi'aa
Taymour and Shafika have grown up together as next door neighbours and are deeply in love. However, ...
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Enough, my heart
After a love affair that shattered her heart due to different social classes , A woman decides to b...
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Whom Should We Shoot?
The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship b...
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Mararet El Ayam
Poor Jaber tries to enroll in law school and support his sick mother who depends on him to provide f...
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Adieu Bonaparte
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed t...
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The Aquarium
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careeris...
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The Magician
Bahgat Mansour is an old poor magician that lives a bad life and tries to get a better one by reachi...
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Night of Destiny
Mr. Slimami is an Algerian retiree living in Paris who witnesses a murder while taking a walk one ev...
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A matter of principle
The events revolve around a representative in Parliament who represents one of the constituencies in...
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Struggle of days
Kamal works with his friend Adel in the gambling club owned by Talat and his stepfather Farid. He me...
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The Three Fools
Three friends roam the villa of Ahmed, but he manages to show them that they are not thieves. Ahmed ...
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A house without love
Mother Fatima controls her children. Her eldest son Essam challenges her and urges his brothers to s...
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A traveler without a road
Osama is a visual artist. He decides to travel to Luxor to search for the secrets of the drawings an...
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The Innocent
A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that pol...
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Poussière de diamant
The story of an old man who is losing his grip on reality, fighting to keep his memory in spite of t...
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Time Conqueror
Fekry is a journalist who discovers that there some patients disappear suspiciously from a hospital,...
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OSS 117 Is Not Dead
OSS 117 is asked for help by a female acquaintance Muriel Rousset. She beseeches him to retrieve sec...
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L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées
After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the inve...
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Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat
Hassan abandoned his fiancée Laila and married her friend Nargis, who is accused of killing Mustafa ...
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Behind The University's Walls
University professor Ramsey returns from London after obtaining a PhD in English literature. He coll...
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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 bi...
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Stand-by
A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are t...
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Birds of Darkness
Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a commi...
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The Baby Doll Night
Hossam, an Egyptian tour guide working in the US, comes to Egypt on vacation during New Year's Eve a...
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Rise to the Abyss
Abla travels to France and gets recruited by the Mossad under the pretext of working as a journalist...
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A Summer in La Goulette
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-yea...
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The Curse
Journalist Hamdi enters the mental hospital, claiming that he is mentally disturbed to investigate a...
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Yesterday
50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when ...
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The Beginning
After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new...
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Love Trip
Two orphan teachers graduate from one of the shelters in Alexandria heading to Cairo to work in one ...
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Wanees' Family
The play Wanis talks about the famous family, which is the family of Wanis, but several paradoxes oc...
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El Keif
Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and...
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Young Wolves
Alain, "a young wolf", elegant and racy, is maintained by the princess Linzani. At the same time, he...
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The Third Class
A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the manage...
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Deuxième Bureau contre terroristes
A spy is instructed to investigate a case of arms and women trafficking covered behind a funeral ser...
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Male Companion
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only ...
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Shaaban Below Zero
(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his f...
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Kwaml's House
Farida (Nadia al-Jundi), the owner of the house, decides to demolish the house and build a large res...
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Love in a Jail Cell
A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after th...
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A woman in my blood
Ahmed gets acquainted with Laila and relates to her, and she agrees to marry Omar without knowing th...
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L'Atlantide
Two young French officers get lost in the Sahara desert and find themselves prisoners of Antinéa, wh...
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Until the End of the Night
François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and m...
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Réseau secret
War criminals, escaped from Germany, joining the network in Morocco where, before going to South Ame...
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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,...
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A Tale Behind Every Door
(A tale behind every door) A television movie consisting of four short films, written by the great w...
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El-Arafa
The events of the film revolve around the university student (Samia Abu Al-Saad), who is arrested be...
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Afraid of Something
Rashed kidnaps student Ismat and takes her to his house. Before he assaults her, he is surprised by ...
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The Mermaid
A love story grows between a young Lebanese man and an Egyptian girl, the young singer tries to rise...
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La Danse Éternelle
Saïd, seventy, has been demoralized by his wife’s illness which has left her hospitalized. He withdr...
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They're Stealing Millions
Two friends are thrown in jail for charges of sorcery, and they meet inside a famous businessman nam...
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The Serpent of Death
An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it....
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The Asphalt Kings
A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a ...
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First Time in Love
The film revolves around a young man, who lives with his uncle after the death of his father. He is ...
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No Consolation For Women
Rawya and her husband Hamdi get separated and she goes with her daughter to live in her father's hom...
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Fearful Embraces
Prince is leading a drug trafficking ring. He controls the gang members through a weakness in each o...
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La Fortune de Gaspard
Gaspard is a brilliant pupil who makes a clean sweep of all the prizes every year. He despises his f...
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The Lorry
Being of different social classes, Faidy objects to wedding his daughter Salwa to Samir and agrees t...
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Nawara and the Beast
In one of the villages, the big landowners are fighting over buying the largest percentages of land,...
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Halet Talaboss
Ghada is a police officer. Her brother falls prey to bad friends and dies after taking a large dose ...
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Sanawat Al Khatar
Wael and his sister Marwa suffer from their parents being busy with them. Their father, Ahmed, is a ...
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Checkmate
During a visit to another country, a coup d'état occurs against a state ruler. Meanwhile, a girl get...
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Lesson Is Over, Idiot
Professor Farid wants to perform scruff surgery to increase human intelligence. After his experiment...
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