The best Ahmed Rateb’s comedy movies
We present our ranking of the best Ahmed Rateb’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Ahmed Rateb.
Bittersweet
8/10
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 arriving in Egypt, Masry is treated badly when he uses his Egyptian Passport. But then when he starts using his American Passport as an identification card, he is paid with a lot of respect. He faces many problems as he loses both passports.
The Danish Experience
5.5/10
Qadry Al-Minyawi is a widowed husband and a father of four adult sons Mahmoud, Ibrahim, Abdulrahman and Hussien. When he is later appointed as the new minister of youth and sports, his old friend asks him to host his Danish sister-in-law Anita who is studying for her P.Hd. and visiting Egypt for the first time. Qadry feels concerned about Anita's presence and how her attractiveness and sex appeal drive all men crazy especially his sons.
Life's Speed Bump
6.6/10
Seeking job opportunities, a young man arrives in Cairo and becomes increasingly involved with the family of a wealthy businessman.
Terrorism and Kebab
7.7/10
Ahmad heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He finds himself suddenly involved in carrying a weapon, and taking hostages and is joined by others and soon the police forces surrounds the place.
The Begger
6.7/10
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 Hamoush. In a high-end neighborhood, he finds himself involved with a corrupt businessman who believes Hassanein is working for the police.
So the Smoke Won't Blow Away
7.2/10
Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him.
Alzheimer's
6.5/10
Mahmoud Shuaib is a very wealthy man with two sons. He has Alzheimer's disease, which is starting to affect the way he spends his wealth. His two sons are worried that they may end up with nothing to inherit if their father keep this up, and attempt to take control of his estate through the court.
Mr And Mrs Oweis
Al Zaeem
This is a well known Adel Imam play ,In his play Al-Zaeem or the leader, he criticizes the relationship between rulers and their people.
At the Minister's Door
6.3/10
The film captures the image of an emotional relationship between Kamal a medical student who comes from a rather poor class, and his colleague Nora, the daughter of a rich butcher who rejects the relationship altogether.
A Boy Child, Amen
Mohamed El-Asyouty lives with his wife Karima and their three adult daughters but he feels disappointed because he doesn't have a son to bear his last name and run the family business. When his two older daughters get married, they bring their husbands to live in the family home. However, the new son-in-laws prove to be a burden on the entire household.
Lock Your Girls In
Dr. Raafat faces challenges and difficulties in raising his three daughters, Fawzia (Sanaa Younis), Soso (Shreihan) and Nadia (Ijlal Zaki).
Welad El Balad
The film revolves around a group of young people, living in a popular area and suffer from poverty and unemployment, and after a series of events they decide to travel abroad to escape from their miserable lives and eventually realize the value of Egypt comes and they're back to their homeland.
The World on the Wing of the Pigeon
7.1/10
The film tells about Reda, the taxi driver, who happens to be playing in the airport queue by delivering a wealthy widow from abroad named Eman.
Nems Bond
4/10
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 motivated to solve the case.
The Beach Loafer
4.8/10
This hilarious comedy is about a young man, who like many young Egyptians, is going through the day to day struggle of being unemployed. He manages to get by with odd jobs here and there until he falls in love with a conservative girl who inspires him to build a more stable life.
Neither Seen, Nor Known
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 him. Salwa uses the naiveté of Morsi to convince him that he attacked her He is drunk to press him to marry her pregnant.
The Devil's Island
5.6/10
Shawaf delivers his neighbor Fatima an illustrative map of the ship sunken at the Devil Island in Hurghada, hidden by gold boxes, accompanied by Baybars to finance the trip, and agree to Jalal teach them to dive, and recognizes the task of Fatima, and succeeded in the extraction of some gold bars, and here shows the Zoghbi gang and events escalate.
Al Hassa Al Saba'a
6.4/10
A young man wants to be a professional Kung-Fu player but figures out that the game is not popular in Egypt. He meets a fortuneteller who helps him to read and hear other’s thoughts.
Sayed The Servant
Adel Imam plays the role of educated person who is forced to work as house servant to hide from the police.
