Acting

Aqeila Rateb

Born March 21, 1916 · Cairo, Egypt

Died February 22, 1999 · aged 82

Aqeila Rateb was an Egyptian actress, born in 1916, graduated from the Tawfiq Coptic School, and became famous in her beginning with her beautiful voice, then she joined the band Ali Al-Kassar and Aziz Eid Al-Ghaniat Al-Dhna’iyya in Cairo in the thirties, to storm the field of cinema in the 1940s, to participate in many works, including (the three horsemen) Then her work continued until the late e…

Known For

We Are the Bus People

We Are the Bus People · 1979

We Are the Bus People

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

Neither Seen, Nor Known

Neither Seen, Nor Known · 1983

Neither Seen, Nor Known

MovieDramaComedy

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.

Alexandria… Why?

Alexandria… Why? · 1979

Alexandria… Why?

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

Jealousy

Jealousy · 1946

A love story grows between a young athlete and his neighbor. As he dreams of winning a championship, girls begin to chase him, and one seeks to make him fall for her, which generates feelings of jealousy in the heart of his beloved who abandons him.

The three musketeers

The three musketeers · 1940

The three musketeers

MovieComedyDrama

Bahbah, Shiha, and Sanqur are three colleagues working in a newspaper whose editor-in-chief, Amer, stipulates that he should not be married to work there. Each of them was married and concealed his marriage. The three go to a hotel in Helwan to recuperate. There they meet Hosnia, who is searching with her uncle for a wealthy groom, and begins to set her nets on them, and events escalate.

Al-Mal W'al-Banun

Al-Mal W'al-Banun · 1954

Al-Mal W'al-Banun

Two friends are married and happy, and each of them has his own life ideas. The first believes that he must limit children and be content with his only child. He forces his wife to take medication so that she will not have children again. As for the second friend, he has many children. The first friend’s only daughter dies, his financial conditions improve, and he becomes a man. He is rich and thinks he can have children.

Al-Sarab

Al-Sarab · 1970

The rich man marries Kamel from Rabab, who discovers after marriage that he is sexually incapacitated, so he resorted to Dr. Amin for his treatment, and it becomes clear to the doctor that Kamel is a shy and introverted young man who lives with his mother after separating from his father and thereby adheres to it completely and adheres to the sex with a certain pattern that he cannot go out despite his attempts Standing.

Al-Ans station

Al-Ans station · 1942

A girl loves singing and is looking forward to meeting a famous singer to fulfill her dream. At the same time, the owner of a gas station loves composing and seeks to fulfill his dream of meeting the same singer. The three meet at the gas station and many paradoxes occur between them.

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We Are the Bus People

We Are the Bus People · 1979

We Are the Bus People

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

حفيظة - زوجة مرزوق

Neither Seen, Nor Known

Neither Seen, Nor Known · 1983

Neither Seen, Nor Known

MovieDramaComedy

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.

Alexandria… Why?

Alexandria… Why? · 1979

Alexandria… Why?

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

Jealousy

Jealousy · 1946

A love story grows between a young athlete and his neighbor. As he dreams of winning a championship, girls begin to chase him, and one seeks to make him fall for her, which generates feelings of jealousy in the heart of his beloved who abandons him.

The three musketeers

The three musketeers · 1940

The three musketeers

MovieComedyDrama

Bahbah, Shiha, and Sanqur are three colleagues working in a newspaper whose editor-in-chief, Amer, stipulates that he should not be married to work there. Each of them was married and concealed his marriage. The three go to a hotel in Helwan to recuperate. There they meet Hosnia, who is searching with her uncle for a wealthy groom, and begins to set her nets on them, and events escalate.

حـُـسـنـيّـة

Al-Mal W'al-Banun

Al-Mal W'al-Banun · 1954

Al-Mal W'al-Banun

Two friends are married and happy, and each of them has his own life ideas. The first believes that he must limit children and be content with his only child. He forces his wife to take medication so that she will not have children again. As for the second friend, he has many children. The first friend’s only daughter dies, his financial conditions improve, and he becomes a man. He is rich and thinks he can have children.

Wedad

Al-Sarab

Al-Sarab · 1970

The rich man marries Kamel from Rabab, who discovers after marriage that he is sexually incapacitated, so he resorted to Dr. Amin for his treatment, and it becomes clear to the doctor that Kamel is a shy and introverted young man who lives with his mother after separating from his father and thereby adheres to it completely and adheres to the sex with a certain pattern that he cannot go out despite his attempts Standing.

إقبال - أم كامل

Al-Ans station

Al-Ans station · 1942

A girl loves singing and is looking forward to meeting a famous singer to fulfill her dream. At the same time, the owner of a gas station loves composing and seeks to fulfill his dream of meeting the same singer. The three meet at the gas station and many paradoxes occur between them.

Ehtaressy Min El Regal ya Mama

Ehtaressy Min El Regal ya Mama · 1975

Ehtaressy Min El Regal ya Mama

MovieComedyMusic

Abduljawad is separated from his wife Iglal, and he left her with their children Hashim and Samira. Hussein proposes to Samira, but when Hussein's father insists on meeting Abduljawad, she turns to her brother Hashim, to persuade their father to go and see Igalal who still loves him.

اجلال

Albijamat alhamra'

Albijamat alhamra' · 1967

Albijamat alhamra'

The play revolves around the doctor, Nashat, who meets a naughty girl on one of his nights who drives him home after losing consciousness and sleeping in his house in red pajamas. The comic events begin when his uncle comes to visit him after a long break and thinks that she is his wife and invites them to his daughter's wedding party to rob this girl of the minds of everyone present.

Some Visit the Marriage Registrar Twice

Some Visit the Marriage Registrar Twice · 1978

Some Visit the Marriage Registrar Twice

Dr. Mamdouh suffers from his wife's jealousy, although he is faithful,while his brother, Massoud has a wife who is always busy with the children. Ezzat, their cousin, advises them to follow his approach with his wife Saneya: he cheats on her, and at the same time showers her with love and respect.

Hafiza

عروسة البحر

عروسة البحر · 1947

عروسة البحر

When a struggling fisherman is dissatisfied with his life, he has a dream about how a mermaid is caught in his net and her tears of misery are turning any metal into gold. But the new wealth that the fisherman achieves becomes the source of his unhappiness.

A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights · 1941

A Thousand and One Nights

MovieComedyMusic

Othman, a fisherman, finds a baby inside a floating basket while fishing, so he takes him, raises him and teaches him fishing. Othman gets arrested for fishing in a protected area, but the prince's daughter intervenes to exempt him. A genie than appears to Othman and tells him the story of his adopted son Morgan.

Songs

Love Alone is Not Enough

Love Alone is Not Enough · 1981

Love Alone is Not Enough

A young couple tries to make a living through freelance. The woman meets her former classmate who became a rich widow and asks for her help to find them better jobs.

أم عبير

Land of the Nile

Land of the Nile · 1946

Land of the Nile

In an Egyptian village plagued with poverty, disease, and ignorance, the villagers try to patiently bear the scourages of a corrupt moneylender, as Fou'ad, the Pasha's son, tries to encourage them to seek reform through cooperating and standing firm in the face of greed and usury.

Aaela Zeze

Aaela Zeze · 1963

MovieComedyRomance

The everyday lives, loves and dreams of a slightly kooky modern middle-class Egyptian family in the early 1960's.

Mother

Divorce of Saad Hanem

Divorce of Saad Hanem · 1948

Divorce of Saad Hanem

MovieRomanceDrama

Hassan (Farid Shawqi) a playboy, whenever his wife Suad (Aqeela Rateb) on his disdain, throws the right of divorce, until three shots were objects, and it became difficult to retrieve them only through the "analyst", and (Hassan) finds his desired in a poor young man Suad was shocked by her car named Wahid (Anwar Wajdi). The marriage is agreed for one night, but things get complicated after Wahid falls in love with her.

Souad

Alley of The Pestle

Alley of The Pestle · 1963

Alley of The Pestle

This film is based on a novel from 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story takes place during WWII and focuses on Al-Madak Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as the microcosm of the world. A barber is in love with a young poor girl, who lives with her mother, and gets a job in an English Army camp to earn enough money for their marriage. But he is not the only one who wants to marry this girl and when the barber returns, she is gone.

Adeela Al-Balanna

Tomorrow Love Returns

Tomorrow Love Returns · 1971

Tomorrow Love Returns

MovieDramaRomance

Samy, a humble employee, has always dismissed love and marriage and considered them unlikely scenarios. As he gets drunk one day, he and Olfat have a one night stand that leaves her pregnant. When she confronts him, however, he shuns her and decides to get rid of the baby.

سعاد - زميلة ألفت

الحب المكروه

الحب المكروه · 1953

الحب المكروه

إلهام - زوجة منير

The Sun Will Never Set

The Sun Will Never Set · 1961

The Sun Will Never Set

MovieRomanceDrama

An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.

The Mother

Cairo 30

Cairo 30 · 1966

MovieDramaThriller

Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.

زوجة الوزير

Executioner's sword

Executioner's sword · 1944

Executioner's sword

Khaled, a doctor in chemistry, kills his brother-in-law in order to steal a sum of money. He opens a pharmacy and succeeds in the field of drug trade, earning a lot from it. He becomes wealthy and ends up being sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit intentionally, which is killing his wife.

sharaf albint

sharaf albint · 1954

MovieDramaMusic

A girl faces trouble with her family, as she loves acting and wishes to become an actress, but her mother stands in the way of this hobby. A playwright discovers her, is convinced of her talent, and promises to allow her to work in the play instead of her mother. The girl memorizes the role and discovers that her mother has memorized the role as well, as the mother dreams of the years of glory.

Fawzia Heshmat

عادات وتقاليد Adat W Takaleed

عادات وتقاليد Adat W Takaleed · 1972

عادات وتقاليد Adat W Takaleed

Director: Mahmoud Abd Al-Razik (Director) Hamada Abdelwahhab (Director) (more) Writer: Abdullah Barakat (Writer) Cast: Aqeila Rateb Abdelazim Abdelhaqq Salwa Mahmoud Abd El Hafeez El Tetawy Sabri Abdel Aziz Huda Zaki (more)

حفيظة هانم

All Sizzle, No Steak

All Sizzle, No Steak · 1978

All Sizzle, No Steak

The series unfolds in a comedic setting, following a young man named Tawfiq who assumes the persona of a heroic-looking figure despite being far from heroic in reality, leading him to make mistakes that ultimately expose him in front of everyone.

أنف وثلاث عيون

أنف وثلاث عيون · 1969

أنف وثلاث عيون