Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra

Acting

Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra

Born 1934-04-08 · Dumiyatt, Egypt

Acting credits

The Fish Tail poster
5.4

Ahmed Al-Morsi Owais is a young man who has a technical diploma. A lover of poetry, he searches for a job until he eventually finds one as a conductor on electricity meters, allowing him to enter numerous houses from different classes.

The Fish Tail

2003

Girl's Love poster
7.0

The story of three half-sisters who are united when their father dies and his will dictates they live together if they are to get their inheritance. The three sisters; the passionate Nada, the westernized Roqaya, and the tempered Ghada, have to work out their differences.

Girl's Love

2004

Trapped poster
NR

Trapped is Egyptian Short Film About Terror

Trapped

2013

Land of Fear poster
7.1

A police officer is chosen in the late 1960s for a unique and lifelong mission: to infiltrate Egypt’s criminal underworld. Stripped of his name and reputation, he adopts a new identity, living among smugglers, dealers, and nightclub owners. Over the years, he rises within this hidden world, all the while trying to balance his secret duty with the temptations of wealth, power, and desire. Against the backdrop of Egypt’s shifting political eras, his life becomes a meditation on morality, loyalty, and the fragile boundaries of identity and biblical-level metaphors.

Land of Fear

2000

Induced Labor poster
6.6

Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite them. Others still, just sneak in and hope Mr Trump doesn’t notice they are there. But in this raucous comedy, one Egyptian couple come up with a splendid wheeze. With twin babies due any minute, and all other efforts to secure citizenship fail, the couple decide to storm the US Embassy in Cairo and give birth there. Surely that will mean the babies are born as Americans, right? Well, er, no. As you might expect, things don’t quite go according to plan…

Induced Labor

2018

Sweet Oblivion poster
6.3

Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. He knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame.

Sweet Oblivion

1996

Scarecrow poster
4.9

The story revolves around a grandfather who stole a rare masterpiece belonging to the late singer (Umm Kulthum) in his youth, but after years passes, he finds himself chased by those who want to have this piece, which makes him resort to the help of his only grandson.

Scarecrow

2019

The Knight & The Princess poster
6.0

The story of the Arab knight Muhammad Bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi who rescued many women and children from pirates in the Indian Ocean. He entered a fierce war against King Dahr who was sharing the spoils with the pirates, with the help of his friend Ziad and his mentor Abu Al-Asud.

The Knight & The Princess

2020

Confessions of a Woman poster
NR

When she was a teenager, Nadia was raped by Essam, which led her to abhor sex so much that it caused her divorce from her husband Hussein. As she meets Ahmed and falls for him, Essam reappears in her life, prompting her to seek treatment for her trauma.

Confessions of a Woman

1971

I Am Free poster
6.7

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.

I Am Free

1959

Horrible Grandma poster
5.6

Raouf escapes of the control his grandmother Rawyah Hanim after she traveed to Germany and he movd with his grandfather Romman. After his grandfather's death, he decided to marry Manar, who he is attached to, but as his grandmother returned home and moved to live with him, life turned upside down dramatically as she tries to control his and his wife's lives.

Horrible Grandma

2012

The Island poster
7.2

Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.

The Island

2007

The Seventh Sense poster
6.0

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

The Truth Called Salem poster
6.0

When Ayman El-Sersawy, a flirty businessman, marries his secretary Omnia, his frequent trips to Italy raises questions. After he convinces Omnia that those trips are to meet up with his friend Salem whom she wishes to meet, he is shocked to find an unknown man in his house claiming to be Salem.

The Truth Called Salem

1994

You Are My Life poster
6.7

Youssef, a successful architect is married to a beautiful woman, Hend, with a child. His life was steady until he discovers that he has cancer. He refuses to tell his family and travels for treatment alone where he met a ballerina who has cancer too and they fall in love.

You Are My Life

2004

Heaven's Justice poster
NR

After a medical error in a simple operation, the child Walid falls into a coma and dies, but Dr. Farid, the hospital director, falsifies the reports to protect his reputation. Meanwhile, his son Hisham lives a reckless life, until heaven's justice comes to take revenge on Farid through his son, in a shocking and unexpected way.

Heaven's Justice

1990

Just Vanished poster
6.3

A very unlucky guy, Bakry, ends up with an abandoned and cursed theater house, and he must find a way to elevate the curse, as it affects him every time he enters the theater.

Just Vanished

2016

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

How to Live with Your Salary poster
NR

Tamer is a student who lives with his family. His father, Adam, is a doctor in economics, his sister, Salma, is a student at the College of Fine Arts, and his mother, Fawzia, is a very stingy woman. The events of the series take place in the early 2000s, with the bad economic situation, low salaries, and high prices

How to Live with Your Salary

2000

The Choice poster
7.4

When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the writer seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...?

The Choice

1971

زهرة الصبار poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

زهرة الصبار

1967

Two Women poster
NR

Based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan.

Two Women

1975

The Well of Deprivation poster
6.3

When it gets dark each evening a virtuous young lady transforms into a notorious flirt but remembers none of it the next day. She is treated by a psychiatrist who tries his best to find the root of her problems and cure her once and for all

The Well of Deprivation

1969

Seirk Ya Donia poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Seirk Ya Donia

1982