Salwa Mohamed Ali

Acting

Salwa Mohamed Ali

Born

1964-10-29 (61)

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

98 titles

Salwa Mohamed Aly is a television, film and theatre actress.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Family Business poster
4.8

A poor family struggles to survive through petty theft, but the father decides to abandon crime after an incident that nearly lands him in prison. He devises a different plan: each family member gets a job working for a wealthy family, concealing their familial ties. They constantly confront the stark contrast between their own world and that of their employers.

Family Business

2026

Kira & El Gen poster
8.0

The movie focuses on the fury state that was among the people in synchronization with the main event in Egypt: The 1919 Egyptian Revolution which unites the fates of Kira and El Gen to participate in the struggle against the British occupation.

Kira & El Gen

2022

Qamar 14 poster
4.0

While radio presenter Mourad follows social media stories, he comes across the stories of Dr. Alia, sued after being accused of having an affair with an assistant professor, and Mariam and Ibrahim who are separated by religion, among others. These stories draw Mourad’s attention to the full moon, rumored to destroy love.

Qamar 14

2022

Face to Face poster
6.2

Marital problems happen every day where one day the couple decided to involve others in their problems . During the clash of the parties , the metal door lock breaks down and everyone gets locked inside the apartment , at this moment the problem escalated into a disaster.

Face to Face

2023

The Enshrined Saint poster
6.8

When a young businessman goes through a crisis, he finds that his only hope is a holy woman who starts to help him.

The Enshrined Saint

2020

A Nose and Three Eyes poster
5.2

When a mid-40s plastic surgeon seeks help to understand his attraction to a younger woman, he must own up to his romantic failures and commitment issues.

A Nose and Three Eyes

2024

Two For Rent poster
2.5

As the unemployed Safiha and Hamada are looking for a suitable job opportunity to earn a living, they decide to offer themselves for rent to whoever pays them to meet his demands as a means of making money.

Two For Rent

2023

30 March poster
5.0

Ali, the fugitive from a murder he does not even know whether he committed it or not, sets out to uncover truth with the help of his friend, the lawyer and his neighbor. Over time, he finds himself embroiled in cases much more dangerous than he imagined, making him on the verge of insanity or murder.

30 March

2021

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress poster
6.0

On the eve of her wedding in Cairo, Warda's perfect white gown is ruined, sparking a frantic search across the city. What begins as a mission to replace a dress becomes a deeper journey into her identity, her relationships and the life she's about to step into.

The Inevitable Journey to Find a Wedding Dress

2024

2010s · 28 titles

The Suit poster
5.8

The events revolve around Akram, who receives an invitation to attend a masquerade party. He decides to wear police uniforms, which causes him to suffer a crisis as a police officer, while looking for a particular file.

The Suit

2018

Remote Control poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Remote Control

2017

18 Days poster
6.6

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

18 Days

2011

Extra Safe poster
NR

Escalation after a girl in Egypt bought a condom.

Extra Safe

2019

Bibo and Beshir poster
6.8

Limited by choices and eager for independence, a drummer and a basketball coach simultaneously agree to sign tenancy agreements with fishy terms. They meet by chance and fall in love without knowing they live in the same place.

Bibo and Beshir

2011

Before the Summer Crowds poster
6.1

In a tourist resort on the northern coast, Dr. Yahya decides to spend the holiday with his wife Magda before the coast gets crowded . The two are introduced to a recently divorced translator and a mother of two called Hala .

Before the Summer Crowds

2016

Primus Stove poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Primus Stove

2013

Sins of the Flesh poster
4.5

Hassan and Fatma are a couple, living and working in a farm of wealthy owner Mourad. In the first days of the Jan 25th revolution, Ali seizes a security breach to break out of jail and runs to his cousin Hassan, for shelter. The latter takes him in but soon after, Mourad discovers the love that Fatma and Ali shared, years ago. This romantic history, fuelled by mounting sexual frustration, will come back to haunt all those involved.

Sins of the Flesh

2016

The Cell poster
6.1

During an operation to capture the head of a terrorist cell, special operations officer Saif, is injured while his partner, Amr, is killed. Saif vows to take revenge with the help of officer, Saber, who's working the same case.

The Cell

2017

Kiss Me Not poster
5.9

Fajr is a famous temptation star, and the heroine of the first feature film of a young director. She rejects the kissing scene in the film, which provokes the director and the producer, and everyone tries to reach common ground to complete the film and get out of this dilemma.

Kiss Me Not

2018

Factory Girl poster
6.4

Hiyam, a young factory worker, lives in a lower-middle-class neighbourhood, along with her co-workers. She is clearly under the spell of Salah, the factory's new supervisor. Believing that love can transcend their class differences, Hiyam relentlessly pursues a dream of the pair being together. However, when a pregnancy test is discovered in the factory premises, her immediate family and close friends accuse her of sinning. Hiyam decides not to defend herself and pays an enormous price in a society that fails to accept her.

Factory Girl

2014

Hepta: The Last Lecture poster
7.6

Based on the best-selling novel of the same title. Dr. Shukri Mokhtar is a renowned social psychology specialist, best known for his ability to answer the simplest questions, who decides to give one last lecture about the very simple question: "how do we love?" He gives a full description of the different stages of love by recounting four different love stories going through curves and various crises.

Hepta: The Last Lecture

2016

The Night of the Carnival poster
6.5

Spanning one day, the film takes place in a “Muled” (An Islamic saint's day celebration), following the curious and intertwined stories of a variety of different characters living nearby, working invisiting the Muled.

The Night of the Carnival

2015

Two Girls from Egypt poster
5.2

The struggle of two women who face many events and the psychological and sociological aspects of being unmarried yet of marrying age in the context of an Eastern society where women are expected to be part of a man's household.

Two Girls from Egypt

2010

These Days poster
6.2

A well-known intellectual is married to a woman who is obsessed with his wealth and power. He brings in a retired police officer to help him write his latest book. In the ensuing events, an affairir develops between the police officer and the professor’s wife.

These Days

2010

Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim poster
6.3

Ali believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. His mother forces him to visit a spiritual healer, where he meets Ibrahim, who suffers from severe depression and hears mysterious noises, in a way to find hope, Ali, his goat and Ibrahim head on a trip across Egypt hoping to help each other overcome their problems.

Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

2017

Habib poster
8.0

Habib, a hairdresser from the late 1960s who works in his own hair salon in his apartment, is about to break with his usual routine by trying to make his wife happy. Habib usually suffers a lot, but he insists on staying alive.

Habib

2019

Lust poster
7.0

In Alexandria, Fatma needs money for her youngest son's weekly kidney dialysis. She travels to Cairo to beg away from home, after she collects enough money she returns to discover her son's death. She decides to protect her two daughters from poverty so she returns to Cairo to continue to beg.

Lust

2011

Microphone poster
7.6

Upon his return to Alexandria, Khaled becomes intrigued with a graffiti mural opposite his apartment. As he pursues this further, a larger underground arts scene slowly reveals itself, composed of musicians, filmmakers, and graffiti artists. As they struggle to get their voices heard, Khaled is compelled to help them acquire some much deserved visibility.

Microphone

2010

Snapshot poster
6.3

A photojournalist bears witness to a murder and takes photos of the incident, only to find himself involved in the crime. When he becomes a suspect, it's up to him to prove his innocence.

Snapshot

2012

King Lear poster
NR

The events of the play decided about King Lear, who decided to distribute his possessions to his three daughters, and because his youngest daughter consented to him, he deprived her of his blessings, and another for his distribution of property stipulated that one of his numbers in choosing specific constructions for everything and expelling their father

King Lear

2019

After the Battle poster
6.6

Reem is a young political activist who works for an advertisement company. As she tries to uncover the truth behind the incide of the Battle of the Camel, she accompanies her friend Farah to Nazlet Al Seman where she meets and falls for Mahmoud, one of the people involved in the incident.

After the Battle

2012

The Walls of the Moon poster
5.5

Zeina wakes up from a faint to find herself blind and unable to remember anything. She ends up with Ahmed on his boat, who enters into a frantic chase with Rashid. After sitting alone in one of the boat's rooms, she tries to recall everything that happened to her through its recordings, including the details of the love triangle in which she herself was one of the sides.

The Walls of the Moon

2015

Family Secrets poster
4.0

Family secrets is the first Egyptian movie openly discussing homosexuality. "Based on a true story", Marwan who is a homosexual goes through a spiral of despair after coming out to his sister who gets him to seek to understand and treat his homosexuality, he now has to deal with religion, society and psychiatrists and gets tested to the limits

Family Secrets

2014

Boy and Girl poster
5.5

Sameh is an incorrigible boy who is always keen on getting what he wants. He falls in love with Shahd, the daughter of a major novelist who places a strong emphasis on the physical body and holds a very personal theory on love that he is quick to repeat in press interviews in front of his daughter.

Boy and Girl

2010

Zigzag poster
1.0

A social drama about four girls from different social backgrounds, each with her own unique story, love life, and daily issues, brought together by their common workplace: a Five Stars Disco

Zigzag

2014

Asham poster
6.0

Set against the backdrop of the unrest during the pre-revolution period of January 25, 2011, by following the stories of six relationships in different stages that express ambition, happiness and disappointments, that are connected with Asham , a street vendor, who expresses optimism about Egypt's future.

Asham

2012

The Ferry poster
4.0

In the poor island of Dahab, a deprived young-man takes the drug dealing road to support himself. Gaining wealth and power, he's now in a dilemma with his old poor friend who wants to meet the basic needs and marry the love of his life.

The Ferry

2014

2000s · 15 titles

Best Times poster
7.4

Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to find out the identity of the sender of mystery letters and packages. One letter includes a picture of her and her two best friends from school (played by the Hend Sabry and Menna Shalaby), whom she has not seen for 14 years. Reunited, the girls embark on the quest of finding the identity of the sender.

Best Times

2004

Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story poster
6.3

Heba is a TV presenter interested in broadcasting stories that touch on the everyday secret lives of women and the social injustices they face. Her frank style in broadcasting puts her husband's job and consequently her marriage in jeopardy.

Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story

2009

Stolen Kisses poster
5.0

A couple's relationship experiences some ups and downs as the societal pressures put upon them get increasingly burdensome.

Stolen Kisses

2008

The Following Statement Came To Us poster
6.5

Nader saif eldeen and Afet elsherbiny are two competing Egyptians newspaper reporters who expose the truth but the Channel Manager rejects that for fear of government.

The Following Statement Came To Us

2001

Journals of a Teenager poster
4.4

Jamila falls in love with Raouf, a handsome young man and a friend of Nancy at first sight, to the extent that she gives herself to him.

Journals of a Teenager

2002

The Seventh Sense poster
5.9

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.

The Seventh Sense

2005

Leisure Time poster
7.1

A group of youngsters; a rich, a poor, a liberal, and a religious, all of them live a life full of turmoil and indecisiveness. The film depicts their lives, their love stories, and their dreams, and how their own hesitation impedes the fulfillment of their aspirations.

Leisure Time

2006

Not Engineer Hasan poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Not Engineer Hasan

2008

The Ostrich and the Peacock poster
7.2

(Hamdy) and (Samira) married to traditional marriage,and they are not satisfied sexually because of problems rooted with them since childhood. Samira goes to Dr.(Fatma) the Psychiatrist hoping to find a solution for their problem,who succeeds in convincing the husband to take part in therapy.

The Ostrich and the Peacock

2002

Convicted Outlaw poster
6.3

A guy whose father was an assisstant to a drug dealer who killed him . So when the guy when he grow up he worked with the same dealer . At the end he killed the dealer for his father .

Convicted Outlaw

2007

Film Hindi poster
5.1

Sayed is a barber who lives in Shubra with his best friend Atef. Sayed wants to marry his girlfriend Aida, while Atef loves Mary. As both couples find a suitable apartment to buy, they are unaware that they are trying to buy the same apartment.

Film Hindi

2003

The Forest poster
4.1

A group of homeless kids and their struggle to earn money by going through trash,stealing,disturbing drugs and prostitution. The film sheds the light on what makes them do up-normal behaviors to survive and that society and government are responsible for this spreading of this issue.

The Forest

2008

The Aquarium poster
6.8

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.

The Aquarium

2008

Cariokee poster
2.5

After his fiancée leaves him, a young man tries to find himself by starting a Café Karaoke project.

Cariokee

2008

Divorcing a Man poster
4.0

The film revolves around a wife couple working in the field of dries and the husband working in a bank but because of the husband's strict treatment and implementation of his views, the wife decided to raise the case to take him off.

Divorcing a Man

2005

1990s · 5 titles

Abu Qalb Dahab poster
NR

A reformed thief works for a fruit shop owner; at the behest of a wealthy, famous businessman, the owner attempts to exploit the thief to steal a box from the home of a woman living alone.

Abu Qalb Dahab

1993

Mercedes poster
4.8

Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.

Mercedes

1993

No artwork available
NR

Short Film Directed by Sayed Essawy

Si El-Sayed El-Deek

1998

Closed Doors poster
5.6

During the Gulf War, Fatma works as a maid for a wealthy man, and her son Mohammed is suffering from oppression by his teacher Mansour, who's having an affair with Fatima, taking advantage of her difficult circumstances. Mohammad gets drawn to extremist religious world led by Sheikh Khalid.

Closed Doors

1999

The Champion poster
3.0

On the eve of the 1919 revolution in Egypt, the friendship between Houda al-Najjar, who likes boxing, Petro, who likes to sing, and the good worker of the printing press, believes in revolution. Fatima, the sister of Houda, is in love with Hussain, and they marry. The revolution takes place, and Houda dreams of shaking hands with its leader, Saad Zaghloul, and dreams of participating in the 1924 Olympics as a boxer. Hasan is imprisoned for his involvement in resisting the British occupation, and Huda is married to a neighbor of Hanifa. Hassan was killed by the Israeli occupation forces and Houda was able to participate in the Olympics

The Champion

1997

Series credits

Tamer & Shawkeya poster
8.2

Tamer & Shawkeya follows posh lawyer Tamer who marries Shawkeya, a simple working‑class teacher. Their cultural and social differences lead to hilarious situations as they navigate family expectations, everyday life, and in‑laws in this classic Egyptian comedy of mismatched marriage and domestic chaos.

Tamer & Shawkeya

2006

Critical Moments poster
8.0

A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.

Critical Moments

2007

Whose empire poster
6.5

An Egyptian family living abroad decides to return to Egypt when a bout of nostalgia strikes the parents. Their children reluctantly agree to the decision but they all face a series of comical situations beyond what they expected from the moment they land.

Whose empire

2014

Whose empire poster
6.5

An Egyptian family living abroad decides to return to Egypt when a bout of nostalgia strikes the parents. Their children reluctantly agree to the decision but they all face a series of comical situations beyond what they expected from the moment they land.

Whose empire

2014

Hekayat Beneeshha poster
NR

Dr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.

Hekayat Beneeshha

2009

Hekayat Beneeshha poster
NR

Dr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.

Hekayat Beneeshha

2009

Aafret Al Qersh poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aafret Al Qersh

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Ramadan Kareem poster
5.0

Taking place during the month of Ramadan in a local neighborhood, where one of the girls tries to disavow her family and her social level. She claims that she is from a wealthy family in order to meet a young man who she falls in love with.

Ramadan Kareem

2017

Dead Right poster
7.0

Young lawyer Nader becomes accused of kidnapping and killing four women, and with the police investigating whether he's the culprit or not, and constant pressure from the media, he recalls behind bars the story of his sad love with Hanin.

Dead Right

2015

Apartment Works poster
8.1

Starring Hesham Maged and Asmaa Galal, House Duties follows Hamdi, a forensic doctor, and his wife as they desperately search for a home manager to help with their newborn twins. What follows is a parade of wildly unsuitable candidates — phone-addicted, boundary-crossing and thoroughly chaotic — while Hamdi's own bizarre cases at work add to the mayhem. A sharply written, situation-comedy standout praised for its wit and performances.

Apartment Works

2024

Zienhom poster
8.8

No synopsis available yet.

Zienhom

2023

صديق العمر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

صديق العمر

2014

Land of Hypocrisy poster
5.5

A hardworking man in a thankless job meets a mysterious doctor who sells him powerful pills that throw his life into disarray.

Land of Hypocrisy

2018

A Girl Named Zat poster
8.1

Based on Sonallah Ibrahim's celebrated novel, "Zaat" explores the social and political winds of change in Egypt starting from 1952, when the main character "Zaat" was born, all the way up to the present day.

A Girl Named Zat

2013

Take Care of Zizi poster
8.7

After lashing out at her husband and causing him a severe injury that amounts to a felony, a nervy young woman embarks on a journey to prove her innocence.

Take Care of Zizi

2021

Rivo poster
7.8

After the sudden death of her father, Miriam discovers her dad's script about an obscure band called Rivo; prompting her to finish the script. She discovers secrets connecting her dad to them, & family secrets that will change her forever.

Rivo

2022

My Way poster
7.5

An aspiring artist tries to make it, facing numerous difficulties both personally and professionally throughout her life, since her persecuted childhood and adolescence as a girl living in a rural area.

My Way

2015

Tayee poster
6.2

An Egyptian doctor becomes a police informant and uses his rare gift of tracking ancient artifacts in the smuggling business.

Tayee

2018

For the Highest Price poster
6.0

A social series revolving around the story of a marriage that appears to be successful, but it passes through minor accumulations that turn into a fierce conflict that brings out the evil that lies within the human soul.

For the Highest Price

2017

El Wasfa El Serreyya poster
NR

Several wives who suffer from problems and disagreements with their husbands find a book about marital relations whose content exactly reflects what is going on in reality. As a result, they make decisions that turn their lives upside down and affect everyone around them.

El Wasfa El Serreyya

2024

The Exit poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

The Exit

2016

Back to Love poster
5.4

After his debts mount up in Europe, Baligh returns home to regain his right in the inheritance, but his mission soon turns into an attempt to reconcile his family.

Back to Love

2022

General Anesthesia poster
7.5

Defying her father, Doaa joins a hospital as an anaesthesiologist. When a patient whispers a grave secret post-surgery, she sets off on a quest for the truth alongside the last person she expected—the enemy.

General Anesthesia

2026

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

Multifaceted poster
8.2

Sokkar is a professional swindler who gets outdone by Omar, another swindler. As she enters into a series of conflicts to get her money back from him, she eventually decides to unite with him to carry out bigger defrauding operations.

Multifaceted

2020

Roses and Jasmine poster
6.0

A chance encounter between two people leading very different lives sets off a chain of charming mishaps and surprises. As a heartfelt romance emerges, their love is put to the ultimate test.

Roses and Jasmine

2026

Laila's Wedding poster
5.0

Laila is considered a spinster due to her refusal to wed, which is born out of her fear of getting breast cancer like her mother. As she gets embroiled in trouble after her sister gets married in secret, Laila's life turns upside down when she meets an Egyptian man, who is searching for his mother.

Laila's Wedding

2013

عصابة بابا وماما poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عصابة بابا وماما

2009

Abdul Kader the Foreigner poster
NR

Herbert Doperfield is desperate after his brother and his brother in law die during the Second World War, he regains hope again when he goes to Sudan and embraces Islam and changes his name to Abdul Kader. He then moves to Upper Egypt and falls in love with a girl from the big families there.

Abdul Kader the Foreigner

2012

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

Between the Lines poster
6.0

Media personality Hend Salem tries to advance further in her work by seeking to host a well-known figure; however, she gets involved in a big case that reveals a lot about her past and the existence of an old love story with this celebrity.

Between the Lines

2024

Setta Shohour poster
7.8

Murad and Latifa compete for the same job during a 6-month trial, but their plan to launch a startup may be their biggest challenge yet.

Setta Shohour

2024

Ties of Kinship poster
7.0

After his wife suffers a traumatic accident, an anesthesiologist resorts to a surrogate mother to carry their child, but this illegal step soon leads him into a mysterious and dangerous world.

Ties of Kinship

2024

Half me.. Half him poster
9.0

A married couple decide to separate after the marriage of their children, as they divide the apartment into two halves by building a wall that separates them. They run into many hilarious situations, that reflect the situation in our society nowadays.

Half me.. Half him

2010

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

Love Story poster
NR

A beautiful girl of Lebanese and Egyptian descent is torn between her love for two men. One of them, a long-time womanizer, has his life turned upside down upon meeting her, as he becomes attracted only to her and seeks to win her heart.

Love Story

2016

Me & Her poster
8.3

Within the framework of a social comedy, the series revolves around psychological problems, as Hind has a complex and hates men strongly, while Selim suffers from some hallucinations and fantasies, and they go to treatment at a psychiatrist, and they are forced to help each other to treat their psychological complexes.

Me & Her

2022

Midlife Crisis poster
6.3

Years after she was forced to marry a man much older than her, Fayrouz’s monotonous life is derailed when she falls in love.

Midlife Crisis

2023

Asia poster
NR

Asia (Mona Zaki) works in painting and fine arts. She always fights with her husband, making it impossible for them to communicate. Asia gets into an accident that causes her to lose her memory, which changes her life completely. She starts working at a nightclub as a dancer.

Asia

2013

30 Days poster
9.2

Tarek Helmy is a young married psychiatrist who has a daughter named Farida. On her first birthday, a patient called Tawfiq Al-Masry comes to Tarek, explaining to him an experiment he wants to carry out: he will pick someone, "The Chosen", and put him through a cycle of self-destructive crises over thirty days.

30 Days

2017