Gamil Ratib

Acting

Gamil Ratib

Born — Died

1926-08-18 — 2018-09-19

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

89 titles

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-…

Known for

Lawrence of Arabia poster
8.0

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 Turks.

Lawrence of Arabia

1962

Zezenia poster
6.0

Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.

Zezenia

1997

Wanees's Diaries poster
8.0

Wanees and Maysa are proud parents who want what's best for their four children. They teach them what's right and wrong, and discover that they are also learning new things.

Wanees's Diaries

1994

The Caboose poster
10.0

A social drama about a woman and her daughter who travel from their city of Mansoura to Al-Kom Al-Akhdar in Shebin El-Kom. On their journey, they meet the conscript (Saber), and many miserable aspects and the deterioration of social and economic life occur during that period.

The Caboose

1990

Trapeze poster
6.3

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 sexy female performer.

Trapeze

1956

Horseless Knight poster
5.5

Hafez Naguib was raised between his mother's sophisticated family, and his father's poor and modest family. When his father gets killed at the time of the English occupation, he swears to take revenge for him and every other persecuted Egyptian citizen, and leads the life of a true patriot.

Horseless Knight

2002

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 13 titles

A Summer in La Goulette poster
6.1

Summer of 1967. La Goulette, a touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

A Summer in La Goulette

1996

The Serpent of Death poster
3.6

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

The Serpent of Death

1990

Birds of Darkness poster
6.9

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.

Birds of Darkness

1995

Gamal Abdel Nasser poster
6.0

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 Hakim Amer, then his planning for the War of Attrition and his sudden death that stunned the world in 1970.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

1998

Still Waters Run Deep poster
10.0

Despite his lifelong efforts, Jean is one of those unfortunate men who can never understand women. This arty, metaphorical French film presents three examples of Jean's difficulties over the course of his long life. Each of the three episodes takes place beside the same river. He is first seen as a small boy playing on the river banks with the teenage girl he secretly loves. She mischievously promises to tell him her darkest secret if only he will perform a certain task for her. The story then takes a more surreal turn as a now-grown Jean, once again beside the river, toys with a beautiful woman at a picnic. She wants a commitment from him, but wily Jean is unwilling to satisfy her. In the final segment, Jean has become an old man and is once again deeply in love.

Still Waters Run Deep

1996

The Three Fools poster
NR

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 friends to monitor them for the required amount

The Three Fools

1990

Night of Destiny poster
7.0

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 manages to slip away before being caught. The victim turned out to be a prominent businessman, and police are soon searching for the witness as well as the killers. Slimami does not want to step forward, both as a matter of personal safety and because he prefers to let the French police handle their own affairs. His son Alilou, a budding journalist, openly decries the failure of the witness to come forward as a black mark on the Muslim community in Paris, unaware that the man in question is his father.

Night of Destiny

1999

Lady of Cairo poster
NR

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 beautiful voice. She becomes a big star, but she's unsatisfied with her marital life, so she drifts in a number of relations.

Lady of Cairo

1990

La Fortune de Gaspard poster
NR

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 like them. Two businessmen, Mister Fereor and Mister Frolichein, want him to work in their factories. The former wins the contest. Gaspard is a young Turk who wants to make his way of life at any cost. He steals ideas from other young men and becomes an occasional informer. He wins his boss over and, as this tycoon has no son, he is adopted by him even though his biological parents are still alive. But unfair competition threatens Fereor's business and Gaspard is forced to marry Frolichein's daughter, Mina.

La Fortune de Gaspard

1993

The Pasha's daughter poster
5.0

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 Al-Saad, so he gets involved with her and she becomes pregnant and he marries her. She gives birth to their daughter, Jalila, and Ibrahim dies. Years pass and Jalila graduates from the music institute. She seeks refuge with her uncle, but he expels her and denies her lineage. She resorts to the judiciary, and the uncle offers her to marry his son, Amr, who is sick with a malignant disease.

The Pasha's daughter

1991

Love Is Crazy in the Summer poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love Is Crazy in the Summer

1995

The Asphalt Kings poster
5.8

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.

The Asphalt Kings

1996

Until the End of the Night poster
6.4

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 new love for Maria, a young woman adrift, prompts him to get quick money. François will commit acts of violence that will definitely lose him.

Until the End of the Night

1995

1980s · 17 titles

The North Star poster
6.3

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. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.

The North Star

1982

Adieu Bonaparte poster
5.9

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet and falls in love with two young Egyptian brothers, reflecting complex themes of colonial desire, affection, and personal connection.

Adieu Bonaparte

1985

راجل بسبع أرواح poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

راجل بسبع أرواح

1988

Love in a Jail Cell poster
6.0

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 businessman.

Love in a Jail Cell

1983

The Dwarfs Are Coming poster
NR

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 fire. Shocked by the accident,he travels to Alexandria where he meets Chico the dwarf and helps him face a businessman who wants to take their land.

The Dwarfs Are Coming

1987

They're Stealing Millions poster
NR

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 discover that he has a map with a detailed plan to rob a bank. They rob the bank, and prepare to carry out their next job once their sentence is over.

They're Stealing Millions

1983

El Keif poster
8.1

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 substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of money.

El Keif

1985

The Innocent poster
7.6

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 for so long.

The Innocent

1986

Shaaban Below Zero poster
5.9

(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any relatives so that they can seize his inheritance. They reach where Shaaban lives, who is from the town of the millionaire. Ghatrifi family make a deal with Shaaban to assume the identity of Ghatrifi relative who lives abroad. Shaaban agrees to the deal for half of the millionaire's wealth.

Shaaban Below Zero

1980

El-Arafa poster
NR

The events of the film revolve around the university student (Samia Abu Al-Saad), who is arrested because of her political activities. During her imprisonment, (Samia) gets to know a police officer named (Magdy), who hides her in his house, and when the head of intelligence finds out what (Magdy) is doing with this girl He calls his father and warns him not to interfere in what does not concern him. She is transferred to the prison hospital, but she succeeds in escaping again.

El-Arafa

1981

Kaydahonna Azeem poster
NR

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 the bride, and get to knows Attata, who resorted to the lawyer with whom she worked as a writer for twenty years to prove the lineage of her daughter from Lotfy, a wealthy who married her customally and refused to recognize his father to Samsim, so she had to register her in the name of her deceased husband.

Kaydahonna Azeem

1983

The Curse poster
7.0

Journalist Hamdi enters the mental hospital, claiming that he is mentally disturbed to investigate a journalistic precedent by discovering the secret of the killing of a patient, who shows some changes as a result of his integration, but he reaches the killer.

The Curse

1984

The Third Class poster
5.5

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 effortlessly. To calm their rage Sorour is appointed as their representative in the council only to unravel their scam further, so they continue their revolt.

The Third Class

1988

Ebnaty Wal-Ze'ab poster
6.0

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 colleague in the pharmaceutical company he owns, and that Saeed manufactures drugs from chemicals intended for the production of medicines. Bahaa devises a plan to trap Saeed by getting Hassan out of prison. Hassan and Saeed meet and he asks him for a sum of money in exchange for not confessing to the police. Due to the difficulty of procuring the sum, he asks him to hand over a quantity of drugs.

Ebnaty Wal-Ze'ab

1986

Struggle of days poster
NR

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, and they exchange love. Farid pushes him to catch Bahaa at the gambling table, who loses his fortune. Kamal reveals to Adel that he is a police officer, and the events continue.

Struggle of days

1985

The Mermaid poster
NR

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 jealous of him, and tries to keep him away from singing. He meets another girl from Lebanon, who believes in him and pushes him to the path of fame.

The Mermaid

1980

The Beginning poster
7.9

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 overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him.

The Beginning

1986

1970s · 11 titles

L'Atlantide poster
7.0

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 evil influence, one of them, blinded by his love for her, loses his mind and goes so far as to murder his comrade... Jean Kerchbron adapts Pierre Benoît's book for this film, which is more concerned with social reflection than fantasy.

L'Atlantide

1972

A Tale Behind Every Door poster
7.5

(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 each film a different problem is presented, and the four films starring Faten Hamama and different heroes, and they are, respectively: (Crazy position) starring Ahmed Ramzi, (I want to kill) starring Abu Bakr Ezzat and Safia Al-Omari, (the respected deputy) starring Ahmed Mazhar, and (guest at dinner) starring Jamil Ratib and Nadia Zulfiqar and Muhammad Al-Sabe, and each film talks about a specific social issue that occurs to a woman, and deals with each What happens to her.

A Tale Behind Every Door

1979

Rise to the Abyss poster
5.6

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 already in too deep. As Abla recruits her fiancé, an engineer in the Egyptian army, the General Intelligence Directorate assigns Khaled to arrest her.

Rise to the Abyss

1978

Shafiqa and Metwally poster
6.7

The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their sinful relationship is revealed, she is forced to leave for Asyut, where she becomes the mistress of Al Tarabishi, the supplier of slaves.

Shafiqa and Metwally

1978

No Consolation For Women poster
NR

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 a job as a secretary in a newspaper and meets Tarek, the editor-in-chief, and they feel attracted to each other.

No Consolation For Women

1979

Lesson Is Over, Idiot poster
8.0

Professor Farid wants to perform scruff surgery to increase human intelligence. After his experiments on mice have succeeded, he picked a man to conduct his experiments on. At first it works, but then the man relapses, and becomes stupidier than he originally was. The failed experiment made Professor Farid understands that intelligence can only be cultivated with love, not with surgical intervention.

Lesson Is Over, Idiot

1975

Afraid of Something poster
NR

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 runs away with her. Raoof confesses to Ismat that he is forced to steal in order to obtain the money needed to treat his sick daughter. She sympathizes with him and events continue.

Afraid of Something

1979

A House Without Tenderness poster
NR

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, Suhair, who is already married to Usta Rajab. She shares the same feelings, and they agree to marry after she gets divorced.

A House Without Tenderness

1976

First Year of Love poster
7.0

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 journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader. Mohamed tries to get the incrimating evidence.

First Year of Love

1976

Enough, my heart poster
NR

After a love affair that shattered her heart due to different social classes , A woman decides to become independant and works in journalism which leads her to many different pathways that make her rich but at what cost ?.

Enough, my heart

1977

Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat poster
NR

Hassan abandoned his fiancée Laila and married her friend Nargis, who is accused of killing Mustafa after being involved in a sinful relationship with him and gets arrested, prompting Hassan to try to return to his former fiancée Laila after his regret for leaving her.

Bent Gheir Kol Al-Banat

1978

1960s · 7 titles

1940s · 2 titles

Series credits

Zezenia poster
6.0

Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.

Zezenia

1997

Wanees's Diaries poster
8.0

Wanees and Maysa are proud parents who want what's best for their four children. They teach them what's right and wrong, and discover that they are also learning new things.

Wanees's Diaries

1994

The Caboose poster
10.0

A social drama about a woman and her daughter who travel from their city of Mansoura to Al-Kom Al-Akhdar in Shebin El-Kom. On their journey, they meet the conscript (Saber), and many miserable aspects and the deterioration of social and economic life occur during that period.

The Caboose

1990

Horseless Knight poster
5.5

Hafez Naguib was raised between his mother's sophisticated family, and his father's poor and modest family. When his father gets killed at the time of the English occupation, he swears to take revenge for him and every other persecuted Egyptian citizen, and leads the life of a true patriot.

Horseless Knight

2002

Jews Alley poster
5.5

The series depicts the period between the 23rd of July's revolution and the Suez Crisis, through picturing the Jews' Alley and its residents, and how Egypt's political turmoil at the time influenced their daily lives.

Jews Alley

2015

Seyam Seyam poster
NR

Fasting is not all fasting, this is what the series explains through Professor Siam, who modifies every day a wrong behavior of his behaviors associated with fasting and complement to it as anom, from which we get to know the value of fasting and the divine wisdom of its imposition and determine its time.

Seyam Seyam

1980

Family Size poster
8.0

This comedy series tells the story of Nader, an ex-ambassador, who decides to leave the political field and start his own restaurant in a tourist hotspot where he cooks the meals himself.

Family Size

2018

غدا تتفتح الزهور poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

غدا تتفتح الزهور

1984

The Harbor and the Sailor poster
NR

The story of the struggle of El Araby who owns a fleet of fishing boats in Alexandria but he faces repeated financial crises, and Fares who dreams of traveling to Europe and rejects the idea of ​​marrying his cousin who loved him since she moved in with his family after her father died.

The Harbor and the Sailor

2005

زينب والعرش poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

زينب والعرش

1980

Drug Habit poster
NR

Based on the film with the same name, the series deals with the issue of drugs and their deadly effects and how that's connected to the rampant corruption in society. As a trinitarian conflict arises between science, money, and addiction, the series shows that conflict through various characters.

Drug Habit

2016

The sea said poster
1.0

Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.

The sea said

1982

Shams poster
NR

The story follows a woman called Shams who's very attached to her father. After a failed marriage, she decides to open an orphanage and workshops for unemployed girls, until an accident changes her life forever.

Shams

2014

Aafret Al Qersh poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aafret Al Qersh

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Dreams Of El Tayer Boy poster
8.0

After Ibrahim Al-Tayer comes out of prison, he returns to stealing, where he smuggles 750 thousand pounds, and hides with the money in a mental hospital in agreement with the hospital's director alone. But when the director dies, Ibrahim escapes with another to hide from the police and gang that wants the money.

Dreams Of El Tayer Boy

1978

Sonbol After the Million poster
NR

After he successfully gathers a million pounds, Sonbol starts to invest his money as he plots revenge on Latif who stole his kidney, while he also meets a Bedouin girl and weds her.

Sonbol After the Million

1987

No artwork available
NR

The events revolve around a member of parliament representing one of the electoral districts in Upper Egypt who was able to achieve great successes, but he dies. The people nominate his daughter, a graduate of the Faculty of Law, to replace him, but she encounters many problems.

A Matter of Principle

2003

Conscience of Teacher Hekmat poster
9.0

Hekmat, the principal of a school for girls, tries to put her educational theory into effect across all the schools in Alexandria, but she faces a lot of obstacles, both within and without the school, in addition to her personal problems that she struggles to solve.

Conscience of Teacher Hekmat

1991

Doors of Fear poster
9.0

Adam Yassin is a journalist and a translator who has an interest in the paranormal. As he pursues freak accidents and strange occurrences, even those that happened long ago, his investigations occasionally bring him into conflict with the police.

Doors of Fear

2011

Trip of the Million poster
NR

Sonbol travels to Cairo in search of work, and there he lives in the company of his uncle, the gardener, who works in the villa of Mr. Latif, who exploits the simplicity of Sonbol and his goodness and takes his kidney. Thus, Sonbol's journey towards getting rich begins.

Trip of the Million

1984

The Man Who Lost His Memory Twice poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Man Who Lost His Memory Twice

1981

The White Flag poster
NR

According to a true story, a frantic struggle does not end between two parties in Alexandria, (Silver Maadawi), a wealthy and authoritarian merchant in the fish ring, and retired Ambassador Moufid Abu Al Ghar, where Silver Maadawi tries with all its influence to seize the archaeological palace owned by Dr. Moufid and reside In him after his retirement.

The White Flag

1988

The wife is first to know poster
NR

The story of the series revolves around four friends who decide to rent an apartment to make it an import and export company but without the knowledge of their wives, and then appoint a secretary to work with them in the company, so that the wives get to know each other, and they know the existence of the apartment and think that their husbands use it to betray them, to escalate events.

The wife is first to know

1987

الحب وسنينه poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الحب وسنينه

1989

كفر نعمت poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

كفر نعمت

1978

ضد التيار poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ضد التيار

1997

Price of Fear poster
NR

The events revolve around (Jaber), who returns to his town after several years he spent expatriate, and falls in love with (noble) despite his circumstances, and then the villagers live in terror because of a defect in the oil wells.

Price of Fear

1988

إجري إجري poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

إجري إجري

1966

No artwork available
NR

Salsabil Al-Mudaris comes to Cairo to work as a history teacher in one of the schools, and Sundus also comes to Cairo in order to complete the master’s degree, and to work as a school in the neighborhoods, and both of them meet there and there are many positions between them.

Me And Them

2005