
Acting
Salah Zulfikar
Born — Died
1926-01-18 — 1993-12-22
Place of birth
Al-Mahalla al-Kubra, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
80 titles
Salah Zulfikar (صلاح ذو الفقار) was an Egyptian actor and producer. He started his career as a police officer in the Egyptian Army, before becoming an actor in 1955. He continued acting until his death in 1993 in Cairo, Egypt.
Known for
7.8Based on the true story of Egyptian spy Refaat Al-Gammal, Raafat Al Haggan follows a young Egyptian Muslim recruited by intelligence to assume a false Jewish identity and embed himself deep within Israeli society for over a decade. Starring Mahmoud Abdel Aziz and Yusra, the series charts his dangerous double life, his sacrifices, and his pivotal role in gathering intelligence ahead of the 1973 October War.
Raafat Al Haggan
1988
8.0The series reviews the daily life of Professor Shalash, through a large number of comical situations and paradoxes that arise through his relationship with his wife and children, or his relationships with neighbors or with his colleagues at work
The Family Of Mr. Shalash
1990
7.1The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
Saladin
1963
NRNo synopsis available yet.
الرقم المجهول
1969
NRThe series deals with one of the operations of Rifat Jibril when he was an officer in the Egyptian General Intelligence.
The Fox
1993
4.8Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Alexandria Again and Forever
1989
Film credits
1990s · 5 titles
NRShukri Abu Al-Fadl is a legal advisor to an investment bank. He plans with his friend Youssef Alawi to plunder the bank's money. Youssef arrives in Egypt and meets the bank director, Jalal Suleiman, and appears as a strong and honorable investor. Youssef takes advantage of his handsomeness and wealth to influence Lubna, Jalal's secretary, who rebels against her poor environment.
Five star thieves
1994
6.3Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan, the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality, such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.
The Terrorist
1994
NRIn a mixed high school, Sayed Abu Dahab leads a group of students who spend their nights at the disco,spreading among them addiction and customary marriage, and their school principal tries to fix things.
Disco Disco
1994
5.7In 1969, a group of Egyptian frogmen target and destroy two Israeli vessels in the port of Eilat during the War of Attrition.
The Road to Eilat
1994
4.0A police officer exposed to the trick of drug dealers which forced him to leave his job but he mett someone tell him he is a business man and his daughter has died a result for use the drug and then the business man asks the officer to revenge from the drug dealers .
The Flame of Vengeance
1993
1980s · 15 titles
4.8Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Alexandria Again and Forever
1989
5.9This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet and falls in love with two young Egyptian brothers, reflecting complex themes of colonial desire, affection, and personal connection.
Adieu Bonaparte
1985
NRAwafi is a young girl who lives with her parents, Abdul Mutaal, who works in the mill. Love connects her with the medical student Hassanein Ibn Shaykhun, the wealthy owner of the mill and who aspires to be the mayor of the town. Shaykhun opposes his son’s marriage to Awafi because of the social difference, and he deceives her and leaves her, and searches for him if she becomes pregnant.
Man in Woman's Eyes
1987
7.2Ibraham the industrious student fall in love with his colleague Khayriyah and she also fall in love with him, but the rich student Hani admire her. Ibrahim is trying to hide his social level because he is afraid to lose Khayriyah, and telling everybody that he is from a wealthy family, will Khayriyah find the truth someday ?.
I'm Not Lying, I'm Sugar Coating
1981
NRAn accused who is sentenced by the judge to death, and all the evidence against him, but the accused denies that he committed the crime, which prompted his daughter to visit the judge in his home, all of which are confident in her father's innocence and due to her poor psychological condition, the judge went to prison to meet the accused sentenced to death on a secret visit, and briefed him about his daughter's case and asked him to comfort her psychologically.
Zeyara serriya
1981
Alaa is the youngest son of Abdul Latif and Neamat. He loves his neighbor, Suhair, and both are students at the Faculty of Law. They have a romantic love relationship until reality shocks them with the appearance of a wealthy suitor, who wants to propose to Suhair.
Can You Please?
1986
NRThe film revolves around Dalal (Laila Elwi), a beautiful young woman who is in a love affair with Salem (Farouk El-Fishawy), but the big businessman Fikry (Salah Zulfikar) is always chasing her and asking her to marry him. When she tries to convince Salem to marry her to escape Fikry's pursuit, he refuses, so she is forced to marry his brother Atwa (Hussein Fahmy). Events unfold, and Atwa discovers his brother and his wife's betrayal, so he tries to take revenge on them, so Dalal runs away to Fikry to seek refuge with him.
Al'unthaa
1986
NRIn an exciting, suspenseful drama, the events revolve around a young man who is successful in his work, but he has some ambitions that are never fulfilled, in addition to his strong relationship with his father who always encourages him, and mysterious phone calls haunt him. When he tries to achieve his ambition and falls in love with a girl, he has a very violent surprise that almost destroys his entire psychological being.
Asef Lil Ezaag
1988
NROfficer Khaled is on the hunt for a gang that deals drugs. When the son of the gang leader is killed during a chase, Khaled doesn't realize that he is the son of the influential Esmat who vows revenge.
The Mud
1987
NRA policeman betrays his profession in order to work for a gang that trades everything... while another honest policeman tries to catch the traitorous policeman red-handed with the help of a dancer in a nightclub.
Betrayal
1989
NRIn a dramatic context, Radwa (the only daughter of Adel and Wafa) marries Khaled and they travel abroad. The parents begin to feel a great sense of emptiness after their only daughter travels, while Khaled’s sister, Laila, suffers from her problem of not having children.
Red mourning clothes
1987
NRHanan works as a secretary for Shawkat, a businessman who trades in weapons. Despite being watched by the police and constant attacks from the journalist Samia, Shawkat steals Hanan from her fiancé, Ahmed, who works in an Arab country. Hanan's attempts to escape and follow her fiancée fail.
The Age of Wolves
1986
6.4Hamdy lives with his wife Nadia and her young sister Samiha. He loves his wife’s sister and decide to get rid of his wife by killing her.
The Peacock
1982
NRThe film revolves around two orphaned twin sisters, Nadia and Heba (Yousra), each of whom is different from the other; Heba is sensible, balanced and polite, while Nadia is liberated and impulsive and only cares about how to become rich by any means. While Heba admires her university professor (Karam Mattawa), Nadia meets Khaled (Sami El Adl) in the elevator and discovers that he works for the company she is applying to work for, which is headed by (Salah Zulfikar). Each of them tries to achieve her goal and reach it.
A Woman, Unfortunately
1988
7.5Najib discovers that the businessman's salary is doing a lot of illegal work, and he delivers dangerous documents condemning the man to his secretary. However, the salary men decide to get rid of Najib, so he escapes the secretary's secret of documents for fear of her life.
Welad Eleih
1989
1970s · 17 titles
6.8In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.
Karnak
1975
7.0Depicts events around the rise and fall of Queen Nefertiti.
Nefertiti and Akhenaten
1973
4.0A psychiatrist and his orderly take four male patients to a beach resort in Alexandria to help them integrate into the society and overcome their mental illnesses.
In summer, we must love
1974
4.0The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers, workers, Egyptians, and Soviets.
The People and the Nile
1972
5.0In a comedic form, a love story is shared between the widowed engineer Hilmi Abdelkader (Rushdi Abaza), who works in the field of oil and has eight children from his late wife, the young widow Samia Ahmed and the mother of six children. After a long time they hide, get married and begin to put in place a system of life at home to make things go smoothly.
A World of Children
1976
6.2Actress Sanaa Kamel is found murdered on her bed, and an investigation starts, taking into account everyone of the guests she hosted at her apartment the night she was killed: her jealous fiancé, a school instructor, a corrupt market manager, one of Sanaa's friends who works as a contractor, and a stud who was Sanaa's secret lover. As the investigation progresses, all the conclusions about the characters are always under question.
The Sinners
1976
6.0Fahmy is an ardent believer in horoscopes and manages his life according to them. When a fortune-teller convinces him that his life is connected to a Virgo who has a black birthmark, he discovers that the girl in question is Nana, his friend Adel's fiancée.
Virgo
1970
8.0The relationship between a father and his four children is strained when he keeps spending his money on his pleasures. His son, Tawfik, revolts against his father after he learns of his relationship with the prostitute Lula, until he falls for her.
الأخوة الأعداء
1974
An anthology of two highly experimental apocalyptic fantasy dramas with sci-fi and psychological horror elements. Originally intended to comprise a third story, 'Sifr' ['Zero'], directed by Nagi Angelo, the film was banned outright by the Egyptian censors and may not have had its domestic premiere until it was broadcast on satellite television in November 2012.
Two - One - Zero
1974
8.0Delusions dominate Souad's mind and she believes that she can be with the person she loves through magic, so she puts a piece of sugar for her boyfriend that she brought from one of the charlatans in his cup of tea
Witch
1971
7.2In 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.
Sunset and Sunrise
1970
NRAfter he finishes his engineering study, Ahmed meets Layla the hooker and tells his father that he will marry her. The father refuses and stands in the way of this marriage and claims that he was in a relationship with this girl and events escalate.
Faceless Men
1972
NRDunya decides to marry Elmalem, but she soon discovers that he is impotent, so her heart yearns for the honest employee and tries in every way to implant him in her life. Indeed, she succeeds in making him become Elmalem’s agent in his shops, but after a while she is shocked that he is in love with a girl named Ratiba, so events turn upside down.
Donia
1974
NRThe couple, Adel and Salwa, live a quiet life. A problem occurs in the kitchen, so a plumber comes to repair some pipes. The plumber assaults Salwa, and since then, the relationship between the couple has split.
the other man
1973
5.0When her friend Nany convinces her that she is sick, Samya goes in for a checkup and discovers that she is about to die. Samya decides to pick a bride for her husband to marry after she dies.
My Husband’s Woman
1970
NRThe famous football player (Youssef) suffers a painful accident that ends his football future. He feels sad that the spotlight is diminishing on him. He is thinking about committing the perfect crime to get rid of his wealthy wife, killing her to obtain her wealth, and not discovering the crime. Will he succeed in his dream of carrying out the perfect crime?
An unfinished crime
1972
NRAdel lives happily with his wife until he meets his ex-girlfriend, who works as a dancer. During her visit to his home, she faints and then he discovers that she has died. Adel is arrested and his wife is shocked, while his friend the police officer tries to find out the real killer.
The Memory of a Night of Love
1973
1960s · 18 titles
7.1The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
Saladin
1963
6.8A married couple ends up working at the same company where the wife is a general director. This arouses the suspicion of their co-workers who do not know they are married.
My Wife the General Manager
1966
6.7A prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim.
Soft Hands
1963
NRThe work deals with the story of the couple Hassan and Samia, who live happily, and disturbed their lives only some of the harassment of the mother of Samia to Hassan, until the situation changes when they give birth to their child (Hani), to use her mother Samia to care for the young and live with them at home and events escalate.
Good Morning My Dear Wife
1969
7.0Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too obvious.
Secret of the Sphinx
1964
7.8As a result of Saleh's preoccupation with his work, his wife Aida suffers from loneliness. She turns to watching films and starts impersonating the characters of the heroines she sees in the films, which gets her husband into many troubles and with the help of his friends he tries to make her stop.
My Wife's Ghost
1968
6.5Mahmoud spends all his time chasing women. As he tries to approach his colleague, she rejects him until he asks her to marry him, but she stipulates that if he cheats, she will do the same. After they get married, she discovers his betrayal and starts to make him think that she's cheating on him.
My Wife's Dignity
1967
NRThree different stories about three women. Three women, the first (Hana), who loves (Adel), but she meets (Sami) to also fall in love with him, the second widow (Tawahida), who loves (Yusef) the employee of the Muslim Council, but he is married, and the third (Shams), the singer who falls in love with Fathi But he lives at a loss because of her sitting with clients, what happens to the three women
Three Women
1969
5.8Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals from a traitorous wife believing that this is his right, and the second steals a public bus in order to quickly reach his sick wife, the third steals his old aunt to be able to get married.
Three Thieves
1966
8.0Adel and Amal meet during their return from a cruise and they fall in love and promise to marry after six months at the Cairo Tower. Will they manage to honor their promise?
Meeting at the Tower
1962
6.2The daughter of a wealthy man is tormented by visions of her father's death while a struggle over inheritance plays out.
The Cursed Palace
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
طريق الأبطال
1961
NRA father with three children: (Amin) a lawyer, (Salem) a police officer, (Medhat) who hopes to be an engineer but did not succeed in his studies. They go to Cairo at the beginning of the school year after spending the vacation on their father’s farm, with their mother and their aunt’s daughter (Karima). The father is extremely cruel to his children, and in the city, both Amin and Salem are busy with their work, while Medhat fails in his studies and lives a frivolous life, and events continue.
Kollohom Awlady
1962
8.0Dr. Raafat does not care about his young wife, Samiha, as much as he cares about reading and following the works of the famous novelist, the monk of thought. So the wife decides to search for the monk himself for the secret of his popularity and his possession of all her husband’s senses, but soon she, in turn, becomes one of his enthusiastic students, and when she fails to flirt with him and seduce him, she decides to start... To write a story inspired by her life.
Alribat Almuqadas
1960
6.7The 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
10.0Shehata is a committed employee in a private hospital. He lives with his daughter Nemat and his wife. One day Hussein proposes to his daughter, but the problem is that Shehata is unable to prepare his daughter, which prompts him to ask for an advance from the company. After management refuses, one of the bribed employees takes advantage of the opportunity and offers Shehata received a sum of money in exchange for a trust receipt, which he quickly used against him, especially after Shehata discovered that an incident of embezzlement had occurred.
Money and Women
1960
7.0A man unsatisfied with his married life, looks for a new relationship and meets a dancer. When she goes to his house, she finds him murdered. The police investigation reveals that she has a brother who supports her and tries to reveal the true killer.
A Woman's Secret
1960
NRA widowed man lives with his four daughters, but he always preventing them from mixing or working, and when the father goes out on pension, he decides to invest his reward in a company that he later discovers has seized his money, so he falls down the stairs and enters the hospital injured, and the daughters are forced to go down to work.
Me and My Daughters
1961
1950s · 5 titles
5.4In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.
Return My Heart
1957
7.2Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...
Jamila, the Algerian
1958
8.0Fatima lives with her father who moves from one house to another. She's in love with her neighbor, officer Salah. When she tells her father that Salah wants to marry her, she discovers thathat he's a fugitive from a prison sentence, and that her marriage to Salah will expose her father to imprisonment.
Wakeful Eyes
1956
8.0Mona falls in love with her college professor Mahmoud despite the fact that he's a married man and many years her senior. Mona is forced to marry another man and leaves Egypt. Years later, Mona returns and finds out that Mahmoud has been hit by a car and is now in a hospital. They meet again and recall their past romance.
Among the Ruins
1959
6.4When Lamiaa goes to the police to find her brother's killer, officer Essam goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and tries to uncover the identity of the gang's leader and Lamiaa's brother's killer.
The Second Man
1959
Series credits
7.8Based on the true story of Egyptian spy Refaat Al-Gammal, Raafat Al Haggan follows a young Egyptian Muslim recruited by intelligence to assume a false Jewish identity and embed himself deep within Israeli society for over a decade. Starring Mahmoud Abdel Aziz and Yusra, the series charts his dangerous double life, his sacrifices, and his pivotal role in gathering intelligence ahead of the 1973 October War.
Raafat Al Haggan
1988
8.0The series reviews the daily life of Professor Shalash, through a large number of comical situations and paradoxes that arise through his relationship with his wife and children, or his relationships with neighbors or with his colleagues at work
The Family Of Mr. Shalash
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
الرقم المجهول
1969
NRThe series deals with one of the operations of Rifat Jibril when he was an officer in the Egyptian General Intelligence.
The Fox
1993
NRThe events take place in a teaser drama about the murder of Ezzat Abdul Salam in mysterious circumstances, where his family members are accused of killing him, and then the events escalate until the real perpetrator is revealed.
الحقيقة.. ذلك المجهول
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
محمد رسول الله إلى العالم
1993
NRIn a social comedy framework, the series deals with the conflict between the generation of parents and children, from the attempts of children to be independent and live as they want, as well as problems between newly married couples and the differences between them at the beginning of their married life.
Angry men & angry women
1993
NRBlack and white is an Egyptian television series, first shown in 1989, starring Salah Dhul-Faqar, by Faisal Nada, and directed by Hamdi Al-Ibrashi.
Black and White
1989
NRThe events revolve around a girl named (Kawther), where her uncle (Awadin) and her mother (Nawal) took care of her after her father left them in the past, because they are from a modest family, and then the events follow.
withou a sin
1980
NRNo synopsis available yet.
لا شيء يهم
1964
10.0A psychiatrist is treating a patient for schizophrenia, but things take a turn, and the doctor discovers that the patient is not actually schizophrenic; rather, the nurse is trying to make him believe he has the illness.
Cat's Head
1980
Behind the camera
6.8A married couple ends up working at the same company where the wife is a general director. This arouses the suspicion of their co-workers who do not know they are married.
My Wife the General Manager
1966
7.0A famous singer, who is known for being a womanizer, meets his neighbor who is enamored with him and sleeps with her. When she gives birth, she has to leave her past behind and forget about her flippant ex-lover to look after her son.
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1962
7.5It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.
I Want a Solution
1975
6.9Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.
Bit of Fear
1969
8.0Adel and Amal meet during their return from a cruise and they fall in love and promise to marry after six months at the Cairo Tower. Will they manage to honor their promise?
Meeting at the Tower
1962
6.4A difficult period in Egypt in the year 1947, when the villages of Egypt attacked cholera. A doctor (Shukri), who tried to serve the villagers to save them from poverty and hunger, is appointed in a village. (Adel Bey) The feudal lord of the village exploits its people to work on his land as forced labor and whoever objects to hand him over to a mental hospital, taking advantage of his influence.
Struggle of the Heroes
1962
8.0Mona falls in love with her college professor Mahmoud despite the fact that he's a married man and many years her senior. Mona is forced to marry another man and leaves Egypt. Years later, Mona returns and finds out that Mahmoud has been hit by a car and is now in a hospital. They meet again and recall their past romance.
Among the Ruins
1959
6.4When Lamiaa goes to the police to find her brother's killer, officer Essam goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and tries to uncover the identity of the gang's leader and Lamiaa's brother's killer.
The Second Man
1959
NRStylized horror melodrama about a man who has his wife murdered so he can be with his lover only to have her ghost return to haunt him.
A Journey of Suffering
1972
