
Acting
Zahrat Al-Ola
Born — Died
1934-06-10 — 2013-12-18
Place of birth
Alexandria, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
69 titles
Zahra al-‘Oula Bakir was born in the district of Muharram Bey in Alexandia to a family originally from al-Mahala. Her talents for acting and imitation were apparent when she was in secondary school. Her father was a friend of Youssif Wahbi and so he presented her to him and she enrolled at the Acting Institute with the help of Zaki Tuleiman. Zahra acted in several plays including “Hourriyah men al-Mareekh”, “al-Bakheel” (“The Miser”), Mareed bi al-Wahm” (“Illusory Illness”), “Fattish ‘an al-Maraa” (“Look for the Woman”), “al-Ghabi wa Anna” (“The Idiot and Myself”) and “Sab’a Farkhat wa Deek” (“Seven Hens and a Rooster”). Thereafter she was assigned major cinema roles. Zahra enjoyed a romanti…
Known for
9.0No synopsis available yet.
محمد رسول الله
1980
7.0A drama consisting of several separate episodes, each episode discusses a different issue of men and women and their relationship with each other.
He and She Stories
1985
NRMr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry carries a lot of good values for a life that is close to the utopian city. When he retires, he decides to live his life helping his relatives after he adopts the daughter of a friend from work and goes to Cairo.
Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry's Journey
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
وضاع حبي هناك
1982
NRA love story between Dr. Hind, the wealthy girl, and the poor music teacher, decide to marry despite the rejection of the Hind family, but the family succumbs to the insistence of Hind and Sameh. After the marriage, the two lovers discover that love is not enough to withstand the class difference between them, and in front of the players (Adel) of Hind's partner in the hospital, who was scheduled to marry Hind before Sameh.
Love and other things
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
في بيتنا رجل
1960
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
5.0The government nationalizes Ibrahim's property and places him under house arrest, and Umm Al-Saad takes care of him. Ibrahim feels affection for Umm Al-Saad, so he gets involved with her and she becomes pregnant and he marries her. She gives birth to their daughter, Jalila, and Ibrahim dies. Years pass and Jalila graduates from the music institute. She seeks refuge with her uncle, but he expels her and denies her lineage. She resorts to the judiciary, and the uncle offers her to marry his son, Amr, who is sick with a malignant disease.
The Pasha's daughter
1991
NRMahmoud decides to find a better way to get money so he quits his job which results in creating problems with his wife. His greed blinds him until he loses himself.
Hekaya Laha El Agab
1990
1980s · 14 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
وضاع حبي هناك
1982
7.7A father loses his carpentry workshop after his son-in-law stops paying taxes regularly. His son Hassan, a bus driver, struggles hard to save his father’s workshop, while the daughters try to replace it with a new project inspired by the “Infitah” era.
The Bus Driver
1982
7.7Omar lives on the money of his wealthy jeweler father. The father ask him to deliver a jewelry bag to a customer in Tanta. His car breaks down and he gets robbed by a truck driver and his helper. Omar rescues him at a rural Gas station and accompanies him on his journey.
Omar's Journey
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
صورة عائلية
1982
NRA criminal escapes from his guard. The policeman searches for him and chases him with the aim of returning him to his cell to avoid legal accountability and preserve his job. The gang learns that the policeman is chasing their criminal, so the gang decides to get rid of him so that their secret is not revealed. The gang also tries to kidnap the policeman.
Nas haysa wnas laysa
1986
NRA lighthearted social comedy about two very different families forced to live together, leading to humorous conflicts and chaos caused by their contrasting habits, personalities, and priorities.
Two families in an apartment
1984
NRDr. (Saber) returns from abroad after completing his studies, accompanied by his wife, Dr. (Laila). He agrees with her to hide their marriage from his family. He agrees with his uncle (Khader) to marry his daughter (Sobhiya). Dr. (Jalal), Laila’s uncle, sympathizes with (Saber). He advises him to marry Subhiya out of fear for his uncle's health, and events escalate.
Hadi Badi
1984
NRThe wealthy Hassan al-Wahsh fails to get close to the invader, Aziza, who repels him. And between her and promised to marry her after she got involved in their relationship with him. Aziza and Omar, who lives in a conflict between his love for her and his loyalty to his uncle who raised him, recur.
Fatuat aljabal
1982
NRAfter being shocked by the girl he loves, Younes disguises himself as a woman to steal from the rich. He falls in love with Nosa, who works in an imported clothing store. The owner uses him as a cover for drug dealing. Younes goes to prison after being caught in a suspicious apartment. Nosa is also imprisoned on charges of drug dealing. Younes tries to prove Nosa's innocence of what was attributed to her without her knowledge.
Man in women's prison
1982
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
NRZouba the maid, loves acting and steals a large sum of money from her wealthy employer Sharif and promises to return it later. She asks filmmaker Farhat to make a film for her after claiming to have inherited her uncle. She gets arrested, but Farhat convinces Sharif to give up his money until the film is finished.
Ana mshun hiramia
1983
NRYears pass since Abdel-Wadood and Aziza's marriage, but they do not have children. He marries Laila and they have a son, Omar. He is surprised when Aziza gives birth to their only son, but he abandons her. The two brothers become university students without knowing the truth about their relationship. They both fall in love with their colleague, Alfat, who prefers Wahid, who hides his love for her due to the social difference between them. Abdel-Wadood regrets his behavior with Aziza and Wahid and reveals the truth about his brother to Omar.
El-Ukhwah el-Ghuraba
1980
NRNo synopsis available yet.
ترويض الرجل
1989
NRWhen Samir graduates from university, and is confronted with the reality that his job will not provide him with enough income, he decides to work in other jobs. While his fiancée struggles all the time until a producer asks her to work with him in advertisements.
El-Ardhahalgi fi Qadhiyyat Nasb
1987
1970s · 9 titles
6.0Fatima gets involved with the crook Abbas who lures her in with wealth before he gets arrested. Fatima meets Dr. Ahmed and he marries her despite her past, and she gives birth to Samir. When Abbas comes out of jail, he looks for Fatima, which turns her life into a nightmare.
Daa El-Omr Ya Walady
1978
NRLawyer Hassanein has an informal relationship with the dancer Dalal, and when his wife invites her to his birthday party, he finds no one but his friend, the poet Afifi, to ask him to play the role of Dalal's husband so that things do not get complicated.
Afifi's love affairs
1970
NRThe film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.
Al Sokkareya
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Three Madmen
1970
NRJasser sneaks into Yassin's house to steal, but he senses a strange movement, as Saadia, the servant Ibrahim's wife, tries to find out who is in the house, so he kills her and Yassin. During that, Ibrahim arrives, and his daughter Naima testifies against him after seeing him holding a knife next to her mother's body, so he is imprisoned, and events escalate.
Al-Qadeya Al-Mashhora
1978
NRMamdouh is a lawyer who lives between his office and his wife Hanan, in the office clients hesitate, including Nawal, who decided to hunt Mamdouh, the interviews begin and after an evening Nawal tells him that he assaulted her, Nawal disappears for a while, then reappears and claims that she is pregnant, and tells him that she needs to be next to him in his house, And go to his house, and Mamdouh claims that Hanan is his cousin.
Ahla Ayam Al Omr
1978
NRManar marries a wealthy man while she is in a relationship with Medhat. He sends her letters in the name of Nabila, her brother Sharaf's wife, but divorces her when he gets his hands on one of them. He suspects his paternity of Mervat and hands her over to a teacher who runs a pickpocket den.
Prayer of the oppressed
1977
10.0Three prisoners, Sultan, his brother Hamada and a highly dangerous convict, escape from jail and hide in Dr. Zaki's villa in Maadi. The villa's residents live in fear, while the police searches for the fugitives.
Youm El Ahad El Damy
1975
NRKamal marries Dalal despite the rejection of his father, Omar Bey. Kamal dies in a tragic accident and his father kicks Dalal out and takes away her daughter. The years go by and she tries to steal from Ahmed, to buy a new dress for her daughter's wedding.
The White Dress
1975
1960s · 13 titles
NRAhmed and Ra'fat both love Laila, but Ahmed marries her first and they have a child. Years pass, during which Ahmed's sister Mona waits for Ra'fat to notice her love for him. As the tripartite aggression takes place, Ahmed is drafted into the army and news arrives about his death.
Tomorrow Is Another Day
1961
6.8Rebel Ibrahim Hamdy assassinates a pro-colonial Prime Minister but is arrested and hides with a fellow university student, who initially refuses but eventually accepts him. Abdul Hamid Khatib meets Samia and her cousin, and Ibrahim uses the situation to hasten Samia’s marriage, which she rejects. Nawal, the youngest daughter, becomes the liaison between Ibrahim and his colleagues, helping him escape. Abdul Hamid tries to inform the political police of Ibrahim’s location, but Samia stops him. The head of the political police suspects them and punishes them to find Ibrahim. Ibrahim refuses to leave the country, returning to fight colonialism and participating in an operation.
A Man in Our House
1961
8.2Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
The River of Love
1960
10.0Exploiting the great resemblance between Ashour El-Aaghati and actor Farid Shawky, director Mahmoud Al-Badrawi decides to use him in many scenes. At the same time, Ashour relates to his neighbor Najat and decides to marry despite all the attempts of the master, the owner of the cafe, to stand in the way of their love. At the same time, a painful accident occurs to the artist Farid, leading to his death, and director Mahmoud decides to use Ashour as an alternative, declaring that the actor will not die.
Ebn El-Hetta
1968
8.3A madman exposes humanity’s insanity. Andeel leaves a mental hospital after 10 years of treatment are over to face the world again. Whenever he reveals that he used to be a mental patient, he is faced with aggressive suspicion, cruelty and rejection. When a shop owner refuses to hire him, he yells that he is the only one with an official certificate that proves he is actually sane. We follow his miserable search for a job and watch situations in which, over and over again, he gets very close to a decent life just before his unrestrained tongue reveals a side of his madness that freaks people out. Andeel is an honest, kind person who’s good at what he does, but people’s uncontrollable fear of madness makes them want to get rid of him and the uncomfortable state he puts them in, probably because of how normal he seems, just like them, yet how crazy he is, like they fear they might be.
El Maganeen Fi Naeem
1963
NRSalwa lives happily with her fiancé, but on the wedding night she suffers a psychological trauma, as the husband dies in a car accident, and Salwa escapes death, days pass and the girl does not forget the accident until she is surprised that her husband has not died, when she meets Farid, who is similar to her husband, and deals with him However, as her husband, Farid tries to convince her of the truth, but she is not at all convinced.
Love in August
1966
8.0Hoda, a student in a boarding school, is neglected by her father at the behest of his wife. On her vacation, she spends time with her father. Her stepmother and her daughter, Sanaa, treat her badly. When Sanaa's fiancé Farid sees Hoda, he falls for her, as he feels that Sanaa is a reckless girl.
The Headmaster Woman
1968
9.0A drug dealer in love with university student Ikhlas resorts to taking revenge when she refuses to marry him because of her love for Omar.
The Next-Door Girl
1964
8.0The novelist Sami Al-Bagouri finds himself in trouble when he is caught between his jealous wife Zahra and the ghost of his late wife Fekria who discovers that he took another wife.
Hawaa2 el sa3a 12
1968
NRThe events of this film revolve around Hamdi (Farid Shawqi), who works as an officer in a prison. Hamdi is married and has a child suffering from paralysis, whose treatment requires a large sum of money.
أنا الهارب
1962
7.0The film revolves around a veterinarian who decides to go to the countryside to practice his work and settle there in the countryside. The doctor proposes to the daughter of one of the village's wealthy men, but the girl's father agrees to the engagement, but on one condition: that the doctor give up the piece of land he owns because the girl's father believed that this land had oil.
The King of Petrol
1962
7.0Ashour studies at a physical education institute, and tries all the time to attract the attention of his colleague Amal at the institute, which he loves, but she doesn’t pay attention to him due to the weakness of his physical structure, and Ashour gets to know a scientist who invented an injection capable of giving him the necessary strength, and after taking the injection, Ashour becomes one of The most skilled and popular players in the institute.
Ashour The Lion's Heart
1961
NRNo synopsis available yet.
طريق الأبطال
1961
1950s · 22 titles
NRThe film revolves around two partners in the cattle trade who traveled to Cairo to live a lively life in the nightclubs and meet a girl who was working in the club and then the girl is married to one of them.
Bahbouh Effendi
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
جحيم الغيرة
1953
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
7.0Ismail El Ghandoor works as a stuntman and a small time actor in movies. He falls in love with a young belly dancer, Soheir who dreams of being the wife of a pilot. Ismail dresses up in his brother Hussein’s clothes as a pilot in the force while his brother is away on his honeymoon. When Hussein returns the truth is revealed, and each of them goes back to his real job. Will Soheir accept the real Ismail or will she continue to pursue her dream of marrying a pilot?
Ismail Yassine in the Air Force
1959
7.8This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
The Nightingale's Prayer
1959
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
NRMaster Toha had eleven ex-husbands, but she wants to marry Rashad the driver, who refuses to marry her. Toha attempts to pressure him through his sister but he also refuses, eventually deciding to hire a killer to get rid of him unless he submits himself.
Tuha
1958
NRA teacher loves Usta Hassan, the driver of a transport vehicle, and she tries to seduce him in various ways and fails because his heart is occupied with the love of his fiancée. The teacher, the head of a gang, becomes jealous of Usta Hassan because he has the teacher’s love, so he clashes with him, but Usta Hassan overpowers him, and when Hassan refuses to respond to the teacher’s desires, she tries to destroy him. .
Mid-night driver
1958
No synopsis available yet.
My Father Deceived Me
1951
7.4A poor girl lives on the rooftop of a building. Three young neighbors fall in love with her. The decide to help her when they discover that she is seriously ill and in need of an urgent operation.
Our Best Days
1955
6.6Faten 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
10.0Madbouly forces his daughter to sell lottery tickets in cafes, while her two brothers work in the field of pickpocketing. The wealthy Yahya meets Aisha and is sympathetic to her because he finds her very similar to the daughter he lost. The wealthy negotiates with Madbouly to take care of his daughter Aisha in his home and to educate and raise her in the best possible way. In exchange for a monthly salary.
Aisha
1953
8.0The film revolves around a young man who falls in love with his cousin, but her mother rejects this love and marriage, and tries to marry her to an older and wealthy man, to ask her cousin to volunteer in the fleet to help speed up the marriage.
Ismail Yassine In the Navy
1957
8.0The film revolves around a lawyer who inherits a huge fortune and falls in love with his neighbor, but her family refuses to complete this marriage and marries her to another man, which prompts him to move to the countryside due to the shock. There, he meets a visual artist and a friendship develops between them that develops into love. The artist supports him amid his financial crisis, which caused him to lose everything he owns.
Life's Wishes
1955
7.0Salah, a young college student, falls in love for the first time with Samiha. He spends his nights thinking about her and looking to her face in the “empty pillow” next to him. When she marries someone else, he is devastated and her memory haunts him no matter where he goes.
The Empty Pillow
1957
8.3"Fasih" plays in his father's lab, the Attar, which causes a demon to appear. The sprite burns, leaving a powder that hides what falls on it. A taqiyya is exposed to this powder and acquires a property that hides the one who wears it. Asfour discovers the capabilities of the trap, and uses it, but his enemy discovers the secret, and begins using Cap is against him
The Secret of the Magic Hat
1959
NRAs a girl falls in love with an agricultural engineer, they sleep together and she gets pregnant. The Engineer must go to Europe for work but leaves behind a document admitting his paternity of the baby. As the girl gives birth, her father flees the country with her to avoid a scandal.
Laila Min Omri
1954
9.0Laila is a good girl and loves the engineer Hossam, and he wants to submit to her, but her family refuse to marry them before she marries her older sister Sawsan, and that sister despite her beauty and attractiveness, no one has presented her to her. .
Bufakkar filli nassini
1959
7.0The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.
Port Said
1957
7.7Ismail lives in a local neighborhood, next to his fiancée and her mother who objects to their relationship because of his work in the police.
Ismail Yassine in the Police
1956
NRGamil, the owner of a contracting company, is a womanizer. Despite being married to Sou'ad, he flirts with his neighbor Laila who is in love with his friend Yossry. When Sou'ad discovers that her husband is cheating on her, unexpected surprises follow.
Girl next door
1954
9.0Hajj Kamel picks up a little boy from the street, whose family and relatives refused to shelter him after the death of his father and mother, and he takes him into his home, so he lives like his son next to his young daughter and son. The real son, Mahrez, grew up with an unknown enmity towards the poor boy, Ghareeb, while the little daughter, Yasmine, loved this boy. When the father dies, the poor boy takes over his work. He continues to take care of Yasmine until the rich young man, Anwar, enters her life.
The Stranger
1956
Series credits
9.0No synopsis available yet.
محمد رسول الله
1980
7.0A drama consisting of several separate episodes, each episode discusses a different issue of men and women and their relationship with each other.
He and She Stories
1985
NRMr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry carries a lot of good values for a life that is close to the utopian city. When he retires, he decides to live his life helping his relatives after he adopts the daughter of a friend from work and goes to Cairo.
Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry's Journey
1986
NRA love story between Dr. Hind, the wealthy girl, and the poor music teacher, decide to marry despite the rejection of the Hind family, but the family succumbs to the insistence of Hind and Sameh. After the marriage, the two lovers discover that love is not enough to withstand the class difference between them, and in front of the players (Adel) of Hind's partner in the hospital, who was scheduled to marry Hind before Sameh.
Love and other things
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
في بيتنا رجل
1960
NRThe story of the series revolves around four friends who decide to rent an apartment to make it an import and export company but without the knowledge of their wives, and then appoint a secretary to work with them in the company, so that the wives get to know each other, and they know the existence of the apartment and think that their husbands use it to betray them, to escalate events.
The wife is first to know
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أم العروسة
1976
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
IT is about one Actress face problem due to his job
Mat3ab Al Mahna
1970
