The best Ahmed Rateb’s drama 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 Yacoubian Building
7.5/10
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
El Sefara Fi El Omara
6.4/10
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.
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.
Birds of Darkness
7.3/10
Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati joins religious extremist groups to make financial gains , and the third Mohsen only works as a simple employee away from conflict.
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.
Downtown Girls
5.1/10
Story of two working girls and their adventures in the city.
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
One of the People
7.2/10
Mahmoud is a simple young man, who is barely making ends meet working as security guard at a parking garage. Little did he know that doing the right thing upon witnessing a murder would drastically change his whole life.
Fasel Wa Naoud
6.5/10
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 escalates when the boy is kidnapped and Karim loses his memory in a seemingly planned accident.
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.
In the Heliopolis Flat
7/10
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.
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.
Nawara
7.4/10
Nawara works as a housemaid for a family closely linked to the Mubarak regime. On the eve of the 2011 revolution the family decides, for safety, to leave the country temporarily and ask her to look after the villa. Flush with cash for expenses, Nawara calls her fiancé Mustafa and the two are soon enjoying a taste of life at the top. Her journey from the alleys of her poor neighborhood to the luxury compound brings with it the worries of the people and their simple dreams—and an experience she could never have imagined.
