Ali El Zorkani

Writing

Ali El Zorkani

Born — Died

1918-08-13 — 1978-09-25

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Ali El Zorkani was an Egyptian screenwriter. He was the younger brother of actor Abdel Raheem El Zorkani.

Known for

The Blazing Sun poster
6.9

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

The Blazing Sun

1954

Eshaet Hob poster
7.9

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

Eshaet Hob

1960

Conflict in the Nile poster
7.2

Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."

Conflict in the Nile

1959

My Only Love poster
10.0

Adel and Mona are in love, and just as they were about to get engaged, Adel has an accident. When he recovers, he finds that the only woman he loved is now married to another man.

My Only Love

1960

House No. 13 poster
7.7

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

House No. 13

1952

Something of Love poster
8.0

The two friends, Adel and Sharif, reside in one apartment, and Sharif falls in love with Enas and his exchange of feelings is the same, to ask her to marry her cousin Darwish, who suffers from mental problems, so that Darwish requires him to marry Salwa his friend Adel first for a week as a condition to complete the marriage, and events escalate.

Something of Love

1973

Behind the camera

The Blazing Sun poster
6.9

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

The Blazing Sun

1954

Eshaet Hob poster
7.9

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

Eshaet Hob

1960

Conflict in the Nile poster
7.2

Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."

Conflict in the Nile

1959

My Only Love poster
10.0

Adel and Mona are in love, and just as they were about to get engaged, Adel has an accident. When he recovers, he finds that the only woman he loved is now married to another man.

My Only Love

1960

House No. 13 poster
7.7

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

House No. 13

1952

Something of Love poster
8.0

The two friends, Adel and Sharif, reside in one apartment, and Sharif falls in love with Enas and his exchange of feelings is the same, to ask her to marry her cousin Darwish, who suffers from mental problems, so that Darwish requires him to marry Salwa his friend Adel first for a week as a condition to complete the marriage, and events escalate.

Something of Love

1973

Dad Has Lost His Mind poster
5.2

Ahmed Saad is a businessmen who has many affairs, because his wife Fahima neglects herself and takes care of her home only. Ahmed meets artist Suzy and promises to marry. When his son Zaki finds out ,he sacrifices himself and marries her in order to stabilize the house and gives up his fiancee.

Dad Has Lost His Mind

1980

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts poster
6.2

Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts

1952

The Tender Gender poster
4.7

3 young men aims older women for financial gains by working as gigolos,during a summer vacation,one of them targets a strict unmarried woman by making her fall in love with him to win her trust,meanwhile,his two friends struggles with their plans too before end of summer.

The Tender Gender

1977

Where Did My Life Go poster
NR

Ayn Omry is a movie about a teenage girl who decides to get married to an old rich man to break free from her controlling mother and to save the family name after loosing their fortune. But she discovers that her husband is a sick jealous man he locked her with 2 old weird sisters in a distant farmhouse After many years of suffering with her sick husband Aleya decides to leave him.

Where Did My Life Go

1957

A Hero Till the End poster
7.0

Hafez takes advantage of his presidency of the Childhood Protection Association and his knowledge of the rich families, to cover up his criminal activity in which he kidnaps the children of these families in exchange for ransom.

A Hero Till the End

1963

Love and Tears poster
5.8

A dramatic love story about the daughter of a retired drunk fisherman and a marine officer.

Love and Tears

1955

Love Story poster
7.0

The real version of the famous US hit movie "Love Story" remade in 1971, but with a swap of roles and happier ending.

Love Story

1959

Wife Number 13 poster
6.6

Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.

Wife Number 13

1962

Driven from Paradise poster
7.0

The dervish Alish dies and is taken in a majestic procession to the cemetery. When he ascends to heaven to be judged, he discovers that the sum of his virtues equals the sum of his sins, so he's sent back to the living in order to test him and decide whether he should enter heaven or hell.

Driven from Paradise

1965

A Forbidden Story poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Forbidden Story

1963

The Girls in Summer poster
8.3

Loyal to her husband suffers from a weak personality due to strict upbringing, which exposes her to falling into the trap of her husband’s friend. There is another husband who falls in love with the maid and wants to get close to her very much, but he is afraid for his reputation, so he treats her very harshly and harasses her. There is the shy young man who falls in love with her. He falls in love with his neighbor, but she is not convinced by him because of his great shyness.

The Girls in Summer

1960

Thousand Kisses and kiss poster
NR

Jamalat and her sister Maysa work as dancers in a Cabaret. Maysa meets the actor Issam, and they form a theater group with Issam, his friend Fattouh, and some friends.

Thousand Kisses and kiss

1977

A Plot poster
7.0

Amina works as a secretary for Murad, who loves her and decides to marry her. But his cousin, Salma, who's after his wealth, succeeds in telling Amina that Murad's father does not approve of the marriage, which causes Amina to be in a bad psychological condition and loses her eyesight.

A Plot

1953

Thousands Kisses poster
NR

Jamalat and her sister Maysa work as dancers in a Cabaret. Maysa meets the actor Issam, and they form a theater group with Issam, his friend Fattouh, and some friends.

Thousands Kisses

1977

Appointment with Love poster
6.6

Faten Hamama plays Nawal, a journalist who meets Samir, a young man whom she encourages to pursue a singing career. His career takes off while Nawal's health deteriorates.

Appointment with Love

1956

City Lights poster
6.0

So'aad is a poor girl who auditions for a role in a new film, but film producer Adel rejects her for she is not of noble origin. When she disguises herself as a princess, he is wholly charmed and offers her the role. How far will she go in acting?

City Lights

1972

Ismail Yassine Is A Military Policeman poster
7.2

A man loves a dancer in a nightclub and decides to marry her , but he wants her to quit her work. The owners of the nightclub conspire against him by making him join the military police so the dancer can return to work.

Ismail Yassine Is A Military Policeman

1958

El Banat Lazem Ttgawz poster
NR

Safi marries a music teacher, Ahmed, despite her father's objection, but with her grandfather's consent. The father revolts and expels her, so she lives a humble life with Ahmed in his mother's house. At the same time, her brother Ashraf abandons his beloved Nahid after the father refuses their marriage and forbids him money. Nahed is forced to deviate to raise money for her marriage to Ashraf.

El Banat Lazem Ttgawz

1973

The World in 2000 poster
NR

Unable to afford the dowry of his wealthy sweetheart, a young man is devastated when his beloved's father forces her to marry another, leaving him to convince his scientist brother to use his knowledge to shrink him. As he becomes pint-sized, he turns the life of his beloved's husband into hell.

The World in 2000

1972

The Secret Police poster
6.7

While they were on their way to the mental hospital, a criminal escapes because of the negligence of the police officer. Afraid of being punished, the police officer decides to make his uncle enter the hospital instead of the criminal.

The Secret Police

1959

Farewell to Torment poster
5.9

(Laila) An orphan girl living in a room in a house (Zenobia), living in an apartment in the same house three friends (Nour, Issam, Adel), competing (Issam) and (just) to win her love, while (Nour) (Nour) to marry his rich cousin's daughter and his engagement to (Laila), (Laila) serious illness requires surgery, and can (Zenobia) with (Nur), (Essam) ), And (just) the amount of money necessary for the process that succeeds, and finally the danger to Laila.

Farewell to Torment

1981

Professor Fatima poster
6.0

The film's events take place in a comedic context, as Fatima (Faten Hamama) opens a law office. Her fiancé, Adel (Kamal El-Shenawy), refuses to agree to her work because he does not believe in her ability to succeed and a woman’s inability to work as a lawyer, so she challenges his opinion to prove to him that she is superior.

Professor Fatima

1952

The Big Brother poster
7.0

While Awad's family believes him to be an honorable man, Awad heads a drug-dealing gang. He tries to keep the balance between his family's image of him and his illegal business dealings.

The Big Brother

1958

Torment is a Woman poster
6.0

Enas married for love to Dr. Jalal and gave birth to their child, Hisham. However, she is also affected by her husband’s success, and feels doubts about his relationship with his colleague Laila, so she decides to make his life hell, and makes him doubt his paternity of their son Hisham. Jalal collapses, and falls into the state of his wife’s delirium, and the delirium turns into shock. Nervousness pushes him towards the abyss and he loses his memory.

Torment is a Woman

1977

Life or Death poster
6.8

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.

Life or Death

1954

A Husband’s Confession poster
5.3

This comedy revolves around Wahid, a happily married composer who has a one-off dream about kissing Boussa, his gorgeous neighbor and his wife Latifah’s best friend. He feels guilty, and foolishly confesses this to Latifah, who naturally becomes suspicious and concludes he and Boussa are having an affair. The misunderstandings worsen tenfold when Latifah lets her parents in on the situation.

A Husband’s Confession

1964

Where Did You Get This poster
9.0

The story revolves around Wahid, a medical student, who lives with a scientist who invented a chemical compound that makes him invisible. The fact that Taher human being normal and straight in his life as it is clear, Wahid exploits this chemical powder to reach his beloved Salwa.

Where Did You Get This

1952

Land of Dreams poster
7.5

The engineer Ahmed works in the land of Abdel Sattar Bey. He falls in love with his daughter Amina

Land of Dreams

1956

The Wedding Night poster
6.0

Two young men working in a barber shop. They meet two girls and decide to marry them. They try to get married until they get married, but they do two very painful things. They find out on the night of Dakhla and decide to escape. And work in the field of singing in order to be able to pay the back of the dowry. And then marry their loved ones and save them from the greed and tricks of their father's wife and relatives.

The Wedding Night

1950

Teenagers poster
7.4

Nada meets the pilot officer Adel at a party with her liberal colleague Safaa, and goes out with him in the plane he is piloting. She is absent from school, which causes her problems as the headmistress informs the mother of her daughter’s absence. Adel proposes to her, but her family refuses her marriage to the officer and forces her to get engaged to... Her cousin after insulting and beating her.

Teenagers

1960

The Man Who Lost His Shadow poster
6.7

The story of friendship on the eve of the free officers' revolution: Youssef, an unprincipled journalist, whose star rises thanks to his connections, and Shawki, an idealist man committed to social justice

The Man Who Lost His Shadow

1968

Madness of Youth poster
NR

Salwa lives in a conflict between her weak mother and her lying father. Her friend Esmat introducer her to Alaa, a liberal who rejects traditions and moral restrictions in favor of bohemian life. Salwa falls for Alaa and runs away from home to live with him.

Madness of Youth

1975

Miracle from heaven poster
8.0

A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer resort he meets a young woman who made him stop traveling, as he caught a cold while trying to save her from drowning. She had pretended that she was about to drown, and a very fast love developed between them. And her uncle sees them.

Miracle from heaven

1956

Isalu kalbi poster
9.0

A wealthy girl falls in love with a famous actor, but her father refuses to complete the relationship out of respect for family traditions. The actor withdraws from her life out of respect for her family, and pretends to be in a relationship with a dancer. She leaves him and marries her cousin. The actor becomes addicted to alcohol, his condition deteriorates, and he leaves his job.

Isalu kalbi

1952