Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra

Acting

Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra

Born — Died

1934-04-08 — 2026-05-11

Place of birth

Dumiyatt, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

83 titles

Known for

Kalabsh poster
6.0

Selim al-Ansary is a morally-conscious police officer who is talented at his job. He is constantly criticized by those around him, even his mother, and is perceived as an evil person. When a murder inside the police station unjustly points to him as a suspect, he gets arrested, but he decides to escape to prove his innocence.

Kalabsh

2017

Al-Gama'a poster
7.0

Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.

Al-Gama'a

2010

Al Sera Al Helalya poster
NR

It takes about the movement of the Hilali Tribe from the Arabic peninsula to the nowadays Tunisia. It takes about the adventures of Abu Zaid which are a mixture of facts and myths with a glimpse of glory on the hero's cunning and wisdom.

Al Sera Al Helalya

1997

المصراوية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

المصراوية

2007

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

I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab poster
8.4

The events of the series revolve around the story of the rise from the bottom to the top of Abdel Ghafour Al Borai (Noor Al Sharif), starting from the agency of Hajj Ibrahim Sardinah (Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra) until he becomes a private business owner who makes a fortune, during which he has admired Fatima (Abla Kamel), a saleswoman. Al-Kushari, whom he admired, passes the days and marries Fatima and gives birth to his son Abdel-Wahhab (Mohamed Riyad), and four girls (Sunni, Bahira, Nafisa, and Nazira), and despite the availability of the elements of happiness in the life of Abdel Ghafour Al-Borai, he suffered from the separation of his only son. About him, and Abdel Wahab's insistence on building a very special world away from his father and his influence.

I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab

1996

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

Scarecrow poster
4.6

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

Induced Labor poster
6.4

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

Trapped poster
NR

Trapped is Egyptian Short Film About Terror

Trapped

2013

Horrible Grandma poster
5.5

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

Just Vanished poster
4.7

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

Affability poster
NR

Mahmoud and Nabila are married couple in their eighties, living alone in their peaceful house. Mahmoud unable to share his wife Nabila their daily life details. Nabila feels so lonely and looks for company.

Affability

2018

2000s · 8 titles

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

Land of Fear poster
7.2

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

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

Girl's Love poster
6.8

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

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

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

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

يا أحنا يا هيه poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

يا أحنا يا هيه

2009

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 7 titles

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

Back Streets poster
NR

Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student demonstrations, Saad who engages in political activity against the British occupation, to Abdel Azis who loves Raja, the dancer.

Back Streets

1974

Two Women poster
NR

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

Two Women

1975

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

بابا آخر من يعلم

1975

The Savage poster
6.0

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.

The Savage

1979

عفوا عزيزي الاب poster
NR

Hamdi revolts against his routine job and decides to resign, so his wife decides to give up the family home and sell it to provide the money necessary to establish his own project, but things quickly turn around when he leaves her to marry another woman after his financial conditions improve.

عفوا عزيزي الاب

1973

1960s · 10 titles

Series credits

Kalabsh poster
6.0

Selim al-Ansary is a morally-conscious police officer who is talented at his job. He is constantly criticized by those around him, even his mother, and is perceived as an evil person. When a murder inside the police station unjustly points to him as a suspect, he gets arrested, but he decides to escape to prove his innocence.

Kalabsh

2017

Al-Gama'a poster
7.0

Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.

Al-Gama'a

2010

Al Sera Al Helalya poster
NR

It takes about the movement of the Hilali Tribe from the Arabic peninsula to the nowadays Tunisia. It takes about the adventures of Abu Zaid which are a mixture of facts and myths with a glimpse of glory on the hero's cunning and wisdom.

Al Sera Al Helalya

1997

Al Sera Al Helalya poster
NR

It takes about the movement of the Hilali Tribe from the Arabic peninsula to the nowadays Tunisia. It takes about the adventures of Abu Zaid which are a mixture of facts and myths with a glimpse of glory on the hero's cunning and wisdom.

Al Sera Al Helalya

1997

المصراوية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

المصراوية

2007

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

I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab poster
8.4

The events of the series revolve around the story of the rise from the bottom to the top of Abdel Ghafour Al Borai (Noor Al Sharif), starting from the agency of Hajj Ibrahim Sardinah (Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra) until he becomes a private business owner who makes a fortune, during which he has admired Fatima (Abla Kamel), a saleswoman. Al-Kushari, whom he admired, passes the days and marries Fatima and gives birth to his son Abdel-Wahhab (Mohamed Riyad), and four girls (Sunni, Bahira, Nafisa, and Nazira), and despite the availability of the elements of happiness in the life of Abdel Ghafour Al-Borai, he suffered from the separation of his only son. About him, and Abdel Wahab's insistence on building a very special world away from his father and his influence.

I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab

1996

Professor and Head of Department poster
4.5

A college professor rebelling on political situations, holds a big governmental position after the revolution, but he gets shocking surprises.

Professor and Head of Department

2015

Family Matter poster
7.6

Ibrahim is a set-in-his-ways man who is blindsided on his birthday when he's forced to become the legal guardian of a daughter he never knew — a young woman who is equally reluctant to have him in her life. What begins as an awkward obligation slowly transforms both of them. Starring Maged El Kedwany, this warm comedy-drama about absent fathers, second chances and unexpected family bonds ran for multiple seasons on Shahid.

Family Matter

2021

The Oracle poster
7.6

A crook manages to evade capture for a long time as he switches between various identities that make it difficult for the police to catch him. As he is finally caught by the police officer who has spent his life chasing him, both of them are changed forever by a series of events.

The Oracle

2013

Hogan poster
8.0

Hogan, a young man who lives in a slum, is known for his super strength abilities. He moves cars with his bare hands, twists metal coins with his fingers and he is a popular eater of glass. When he climbs the social ladder, his life changes completely.

Hogan

2019

Counterattack poster
7.2

Based on records of the Egyptian intelligence agency, the story follows Saif and Dina who carry out a series of secret operations to expose terrorist plots that seek to divide the Arab region and spread Al-Qaeda’s influence in the world.

Counterattack

2021

Very Private poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Very Private

2009

Baraka poster
5.5

The show tells the story of Baraka, a man coming from South Egypt who lives in Cairo with his mother. With time, he starts borrowing lots money and gets into trouble with prominent people. His mother and his neighbor, who is also his lover, are the only ones who help him.

Baraka

2019

The Ghosts of Adly Allam poster
6.5

The series revolves around Adly Allam, an employee in the National Library, he loves reading and culture, and lives with his grumpy wife Hayat, and her brother Araby under one roof. A demon called Sala appears to him , asking him to be in his life in exchange of changing his life for the better.

The Ghosts of Adly Allam

2017

When the Fox Passed By poster
NR

A social comedy series that tells the story of a conman, Nadim Bahns, and his partner Makram. Nadim justifies his scams by claiming that he's an artist, who has a skill that not many people possess.

When the Fox Passed By

1999

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr poster
6.0

A magical Egyptian fantasy from the Alf Leila w Leila series, Aroos El Bahr follows a forbidden love between a human prince and a mermaid princess. Blending folklore, music, and adventure, the story explores sacrifice, transformation, and destiny in a richly imaginative world inspired by timeless Arabian tales.

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr

1985

Viva Atata poster
4.5

The series revolves around the old woman (Ata) who causes problems for herself and those around her, then she enters the prison after being accused of committing a crime, and raises some crises inside the prison and causes many problems for the prison warden, whose daughter suffers from a mental illness that makes her separate from reality and lives with the mentality of a small child, and that she You'll be cured of this psychological knot after meeting Ata Which will tell stories from the past until he is cured.

Viva Atata

2014

King Farouk poster
NR

The biography of King Farouk I of Egypt, the penultimate king of the Muhammad Ali dynasty. Succeeding his father, Fuad I, to the throne, Farouk's reign ended when the Egyptian revolution of 1952 broke out, and he was overthrown and exiled.

King Farouk

2007

Under Control poster
9.0

The series revolves around the life of drug addicts, as wife Mariam, returns to addiction after a large period of quitting, which strains her relationship with her husband Hatem, and her friends and family try to help her overcome her problems, and stay away from addiction.

Under Control

2015

Ground/Air poster
NR

When a flight attendant faces an unpleasant problem, she decides to avenge, but as luck would have it, her situation gets even worse when she is accused of hijacking a plane. Has she hijacked it in retaliation? Or is it just a scheme against her?

Ground/Air

2017

Chi Tutu Restaurant poster
NR

Where one of the restaurants owned by Adel and his friend Nagaty, after Adel returns from abroad deciding to start a small business that generates income for him, his friend Nagaty offers him a stay.

Chi Tutu Restaurant

2006

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

Umar Ibn Abd Al-Aziz poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Umar Ibn Abd Al-Aziz

1994

Agent 1001 poster
6.0

The story of the Egyptian young spy Amr Tolba who was able to infiltrate both the Israeli army and society in a successful operation before the 1973 War. When Musa, a young Jewish man in Tanta dies, his resemblance to Amr is used to recruit Amr and plant him in Israel.

Agent 1001

2005

Question Mark poster
8.0

Noah Al-Shawwaf appears to be a well-off gentleman from Alexandria, but he is running away from a mysterious past.

Question Mark

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ألف ليلة وليلة: فضل الله ووردانه

1996

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

Adam poster
NR

Adam, an Egyptian television series presented in Ramadan 1432 AH / 2011, written by Ahmed Mahmoud Abu Zeid, directed by Mohammed Sami, and starring: Tamer Hosni, Mai Izz Aldin, Dora, Majed Masri, Ahmed Zaher, Dina Fouad.

Adam

2011

Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando poster
9.0

The story revolves around a fictional framework about Sultan Kahlan, who was deprived of procreation, along with his wife, Qamar Al-Zaman. Minister Shaalan seeks to persuade the Sultan to marry his daughter until she gives birth to the crown prince, until he meets the old witch king, who gives him and his wife an apple to eat and provide the crown prince, and the events continue.

Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando

1986

Falling in Sabe Well poster
NR

Based on the novel "Ibrahim and Inshirah" by journalist Abdel Rahman Fahmy, the series revolves around a true story from the Egyptian intelligence files, about the recruitment of an Egyptian man and his wife to spy for the benefit of Israel.

Falling in Sabe Well

1995

Goha El Masry poster
NR

Juha al-Masri repeatedly gets into absurd situations and relies on fate and God to save him.

Goha El Masry

2002

The Homestead poster
7.0

A biography that revolves around the life of Khalil Hassan Khalil, a Political Science professor, in the period before the Egyptian revolution of 1952. The series explores how he suffered from poverty and social injustice and struggled to improve his social status and accomplish his dream of becoming a college professor.

The Homestead

1990

Morra's Story poster
NR

The story of Morra (Ghada Abdel Razek) and a tragic family crisis that threatens her future.

Morra's Story

2019

أجمل الزهور poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أجمل الزهور

1984

Al Zayni Barakat poster
6.5

Following the decline of the Mamluk state and the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, the series depicts the sufferings of people living amidst social and political upheaval. When the enigmatic and ruthless Zayni Barakat Ibn Musa takes control, the truth of his rule and character unfolds.

Al Zayni Barakat

1995

Vanished poster
NR

A university professor lives in Russia with her husband. When he suddenly disappears, she goes on a journey to find him. As her search takes her to Egypt, she finds out things that she had never known before.

Vanished

2018

أمس لا يموت poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أمس لا يموت

2004

Baed Alfiraq poster
NR

The story of the series revolves around (Sukkarah), the maid, who goes to Cairo to look for her childhood love (Youssef), who has become a journalist and denies knowing her. She strives in her work until she becomes a wealthy and famous businesswoman, and she also continues her education. He then tries to come back to her, but will she agree?

Baed Alfiraq

2008

Father of the Girls poster
9.5

A car dealership owner and his three daughters are in danger by a guy who had shady deal with in the past, he tries to protect them.

Father of the Girls

2016