Directing

Raafat El Mehi

Born September 29, 1940 · Egypt

Died July 24, 2015 · aged 74

Raafat El-Mihy (September 29, 1940 - July 24, 2015) is an Egyptian director and one of the directors who excelled in experimentation. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of English Language, then obtained a diploma from the Film Institute in 1964. Raafat Al-Mihy wrote the first screenplay of the cinema in 1966, and the screenplay of the movie "The Rain Dried Up" became the most pro…

Known For

Sunset and Sunrise

Sunset and Sunrise · 1970

Sunset and Sunrise

MovieDramaRomance

In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge on Madiha's father who pressured him to marry her to avoid a scandal.

The Lawyer

The Lawyer · 1983

MovieComedyDrama

After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.

Sleepless Eyes

Sleepless Eyes · 1981

Ibrahim, the owner of a large car workshop, marries a poor girl called Mahasen, which his brothers fear because of their fear of sharing their inheritance. At the same time, Ismael feels a lot of hatred and hatred toward Ibrahim, who works for him in the workshop, The problems all the time with the pros, but soon change the relationship between Mahasen and Ishmael.

Love has a Final Story

Love has a Final Story · 1986

Love has a Final Story

MovieRomanceDrama

Refat is a teacher with a heart disease, who marries the poor girl Salwa, despite the opposition of his mother who is trying to persuade him to divorce her in exchange for his share in the inheritance. Salwa resorts to holy people hoping to cure her husband.

Strangers

Strangers · 1973

Nadia is a young girl who's torn between the stances of three men in her life; her artist lover, her conservative brother, and her secular professor Fo'uad Ebaid. Will she be able to create her own path in life apart from their beliefs?

The Fugitive

The Fugitive · 1974

MovieThrillerDrama

As the security services raid the house of a guy with known political hostilities, they arrest his brother when they can't find him, but he escapes them and goes to the house of the journalist Rauof who gives him up to cover up his affair with a prostitute.

Sayidati Anisati

Sayidati Anisati · 1990

Sayidati Anisati

MovieComedyComedy

The story revolves around Dr. Mahmoud, who has a doctorate and earns less than the company's courier, Dr. Mahmoud decides to work as a courier to raise his salary. Four female employees of the company decide to marry Dr. Mahmoud once to overcome the housing crisis and the various economic crises, Provided they remain in their hands, two of them release Dr. Mahmoud to marry two other people and live in the same apartment.

Where Is My Mind?

Where Is My Mind? · 1974

Where Is My Mind?

Aida's marriage is tested by secrets and cultural clash. Starring Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Yassin and Rushdy Abaza.

Filmography

Sort

Sunset and Sunrise

Sunset and Sunrise · 1970

Sunset and Sunrise

MovieDramaRomance

In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge on Madiha's father who pressured him to marry her to avoid a scandal.

Scenario Writer

The Lawyer

The Lawyer · 1983

MovieComedyDrama

After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.

Producer

Sleepless Eyes

Sleepless Eyes · 1981

Ibrahim, the owner of a large car workshop, marries a poor girl called Mahasen, which his brothers fear because of their fear of sharing their inheritance. At the same time, Ismael feels a lot of hatred and hatred toward Ibrahim, who works for him in the workshop, The problems all the time with the pros, but soon change the relationship between Mahasen and Ishmael.

Director

Love has a Final Story

Love has a Final Story · 1986

Love has a Final Story

MovieRomanceDrama

Refat is a teacher with a heart disease, who marries the poor girl Salwa, despite the opposition of his mother who is trying to persuade him to divorce her in exchange for his share in the inheritance. Salwa resorts to holy people hoping to cure her husband.

Director

Strangers

Strangers · 1973

Nadia is a young girl who's torn between the stances of three men in her life; her artist lover, her conservative brother, and her secular professor Fo'uad Ebaid. Will she be able to create her own path in life apart from their beliefs?

Writer

The Fugitive

The Fugitive · 1974

MovieThrillerDrama

As the security services raid the house of a guy with known political hostilities, they arrest his brother when they can't find him, but he escapes them and goes to the house of the journalist Rauof who gives him up to cover up his affair with a prostitute.

Writer

Sayidati Anisati

Sayidati Anisati · 1990

Sayidati Anisati

MovieComedyComedy

The story revolves around Dr. Mahmoud, who has a doctorate and earns less than the company's courier, Dr. Mahmoud decides to work as a courier to raise his salary. Four female employees of the company decide to marry Dr. Mahmoud once to overcome the housing crisis and the various economic crises, Provided they remain in their hands, two of them release Dr. Mahmoud to marry two other people and live in the same apartment.

Producer

Where Is My Mind?

Where Is My Mind? · 1974

Where Is My Mind?

Aida's marriage is tested by secrets and cultural clash. Starring Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Yassin and Rushdy Abaza.

Writer

Fish, Milk, Tamarind

Fish, Milk, Tamarind · 1988

Fish, Milk, Tamarind

MovieFantasyComedy

When Ahmed's father travels abroad for work, he gets harassed for refusing to give a part of his income to those who helped him travel. The father dies, and when his body arrives in Egypt, the Interpol suspects Ahmed and his father of being members of a terrorist organization.

Director

Something in My Chest

Something in My Chest · 1971

Something in My Chest

Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.

Screenplay

A Girl Called Apple

A Girl Called Apple · 1997

A Girl Called Apple

MovieDramaComedy

Zeenat, who everyone calls apple for her beauty, suffers from the domination of her boss Qadriya, who can't have kids despite her ninth marriage to Fouad. Qadriya asks Zeenat's husband Hassan to divorce his wife ,so that Zeenat marries Fouad for nine months and when she gives birth, Qadryia adopts the child.

Producer

Our Blessed Aunt

Our Blessed Aunt · 1998

Our Blessed Aunt

Abdel Aziz returned to Cairo from an Arab country where he worked there. He goes to his aunt's apartment, discovers that she has become an apartment for prostitution, and denies her apartment owner that she is his aunt, and when he learns that he has a fortune that changes her attitude. Lula tries to convince Abdel Aziz to take her away and marry her. Abdel Aziz is able to persuade them to turn the apartment into a pension, but they also run it in prostitution.

Writer

Past Love

Past Love · 1973

A wife is forced to marry a man she does not love, even though there is a love relationship between her and another young man. After several years, the revolution declared this false social situation, as it tries to resist and eliminate it. Here it clashes with the traditions and the laws of the surrounding community.

Writer

The Beginning

The Beginning · 1986

MovieAdventureComedy

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.

Line Producer

Forbidden Photos: Third Story (Photo)

Forbidden Photos: Third Story (Photo) · 1971

Forbidden Photos: Third Story (Photo)

MovieFantasyDrama

When the police find a woman's body at the pyramids, a group of people sees their missing loved ones in the dead woman's picture, including a mother whose daughter ran away to work in Cairo, a manager whose mistress left him, and a man who used to flirt with his young maid.

Writer

Those Gentlemen

Those Gentlemen · 1987

Those Gentlemen

MovieDramaComedy

Fawzya suffers from the treatment of her husband Ahmed who doesn't pay her enough attention. After Ahmed refuses to divorce Fawzya, she decides to have a sex change surgery and becomes a man. Fawzya suffers a lot after changing her sex and their child loses his mother's tenderness.

Director

Forbidden Photos: the Second Story (the Past)

Forbidden Photos: the Second Story (the Past) · 1971

Forbidden Photos: the Second Story (the Past)

Saneya, a girl residing in a local neighborhood, breaks up with her boyfriend Hasouna as she starts working in cinema. As she rises into stardom, she loses all connection to him, only for them to be reunited as she revisits the neighborhood for the filming of her movie.

Writer

Whom Should We Shoot?

Whom Should We Shoot? · 1975

Whom Should We Shoot?

MovieDramaThriller

The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.

Writer

The Bullet is Still in My Pocket

The Bullet is Still in My Pocket · 1974

The Bullet is Still in My Pocket

Mohamed is a soldier who finds himself in Gaza after the defeat in the 1967 War. He returns to his native village feeling broken and depressed after witnessing the deaths of his fellow soldiers. He still loves Fatima but her father wants her to marry Abbas who exploits the farmers and eventually rapes her.

Writer

All Good

All Good · 1996

MovieDramaComedy

Kamal is a porter in a hotel who he loves the secretary Dalal. They lie to each other, pretending to be rich, but they discover the truth after they get married. They look for a rich father, till they find a millionaire who accepts them as his son and daughter, without knowing that they're married.

Writer

O Lovely Life

O Lovely Life · 1996

Batta, Sakina, and Nawal .. Three friendly girls, neighbors from one lane, with similar difficult social conditions and also the dream of marriage before spinsterhood.

Producer

A little reality... a lot of imagination

A little reality... a lot of imagination · 2025

A little reality... a lot of imagination

A film about the cinema of Egyptian director Raafat El-Mehi

Thanks

Forbidden Photos: First Story (Forbidden)

Forbidden Photos: First Story (Forbidden) · 1972

Forbidden Photos: First Story (Forbidden)

A poor man starts working in a casino and gets bedazzled by the rich people he sees. As he takes his family to show them the casino after hours, they get arrested for breaking into the casino.

Writer

The Savage

The Savage · 1979

MovieMusicDrama

Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.

Producer