Mahmoud Zulfiqar

Directing

Mahmoud Zulfiqar

Born 1914-02-17 · Tanta, Egypt

Mahmoud Zulfikar (February 18, 1914 – May 22, 1970) was an Egyptian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He was a major figure in Egyptian film industry. He started his career as an architect, before becoming an actor in 1939. Zulfikar was one of the most prominent artists in Egyptian cinema, he was known for his boldness and adventure with the new talents he presented to the Egyptian audience, later, he was nicknamed the "Talent Finder". Zulfikar was able to go beyond the limits of the film location with accurate calculations and through his imaginations, he could make his scripts alive. This earned him in Egypt the nickname of "The Event Maker".

Acting credits

Hadaya poster
10.0

A wealthy young man rejects the way his mother and sister live, and decides to rebel against this life by marrying a simple Upper Egyptian girl who respects traditions and social customs, which angers his mother and sister and they mistreat the wife, who discovers the relationship between her husband's sister and his friend and tries to mediate to end it.

Hadaya

1947

Laylat Al-farah poster
NR

A man divorces his wife and his daughter Salma lives with him. However, he marries a playful young girl who cheats on him with a theater actor called Riyad, who brags about his infidelity to his friend, the playwright Hazem. Salma happens to meet Hazem on the same train, as she was traveling to her father’s estate and he was going to visit his friend Riyad. At the estate, Salma learns about her stepmother's betrayal.

Laylat Al-farah

1942

Al-anissa Busa poster
8.0

Fouzy Pasha agrees with his daughter that whoever marries her must choose her for her person and love for her, not for her wealth. Indeed, Fouzy Pasha pretends to be bankrupt and even chooses a modest, popular residence and wanders the streets playing the piano while his daughter sings. Love brings his daughter together with a young man from a wealthy family, and the Pasha blesses this love.

Al-anissa Busa

1945

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Father Deceived Me

1951

The workshop poster
7.0

A workshop owner goes on a trip to the desert and goes missing. Everyone thinks he is dead. His wife takes over the work of the workshop. She meets a young man and he likes her. They decide to get married, but the husband suddenly returns.

The workshop

1940

Ghaltet El Omr poster
7.0

Dr. Sami is subjected to harassment and arrogance from his wife, Munira. One of his patients is the singer Nadia, who visits his clinic for treatment. From here, Dr. Sami feels how gentle Nadia is. Dr. Sami's conditions change, and he even becomes preoccupied with Munira. Munira tries to find out the reason for this change, but fails to bring him back home, so she begins to spread rumors and scandals about him.

Ghaltet El Omr

1953

Qamar Arba'tashar poster
8.0

The film revolves around Mohsen (Mahmoud Zulfikar), who secretly marries Qamar (Camelia) without his aristocratic family knowing about his marriage. One day, his father asks him to come home because he has chosen the daughter of a fish merchant to be his wife to save the family from bankruptcy. For Mohsen and Qamar's marriage not to be exposed, Qamar is forced to travel as a nanny to work for Mohsen's father. From the moment she is appointed, all the men in the house begin to pursue her to express their admiration for her.

Qamar Arba'tashar

1950

The night is ours poster
8.0

Nawal is a singer in a traveling band. She admires Dr. Medhat and tries to win his admiration, but she is afraid of rejection due to the nature of her work. She is forced to pretend to him that she is a teacher, but with time he discovers her real profession, which pushes him even more to cling to her and marry her. Their relationship is put to a real test when a friend of hers is accused of a murder of which he is innocent.

The night is ours

1949

Nadia poster
10.0

After their parents' death, Nadia dedicates her life to her younger siblings Mounir and Soraya, and refuses to wed to look after them. As Mounir dies in the Palestine War, Soraya falls in love with Medhat, the same man that Nadia loves.

Nadia

1949

abn albalad poster
NR

Fathia marries the wealthy man, Azma Bey, against her will. She suffers from his relationships with women and his constant nights out, so she leaves him and meets a young engineer who succeeds in managing the factories she inherited from her father.

abn albalad

1942

Valley of stars poster
NR

Adly and Raouf are brothers who love adventures. They end up on one of the islands far from urbanization. They encounter a tribe celebrating by beating drums, and its members surround Zainab tied up, dancing around him as she calls for help in an Egyptian language. Adly is determined to save her. During the return trip, Adly feels a feeling of love for Zainab. He is surprised by a magician who wants to retrieve Zainab.

Valley of stars

1943

Fatat min Falastin poster
8.0

An Egyptian air force officer is desperate to defend the Palestinian land against the Zionist enemy.

Fatat min Falastin

1948

No artwork available
10.0

Fadel and his colleagues Aziz and Hamdi are trying to make their way in life, and they hold advanced degrees, but luck does not crown their endeavor with success. Fadel visits his aunt Alawiya, who runs a private institute for girls in a traditional way, and asks to work in the institute, but she refuses. The three decide to establish a modern institute, similar to the aunt’s institute. To compete with her, to teach girls to be modern.

Wives factory

1941

Afrah poster
10.0

Afrah is a music teacher, her father is an obscure musician, and her sister Nahid works in Hindawi stores. The two sisters fall in love with a playful and frivolous young man, and when they learn the truth, Nabil has fallen in love with Afrah. The father works hard to achieve fame and Nabil marries Afrah.

Afrah

1950

Above the clouds poster
8.0

A young man and a young woman grow up as friends since childhood. When they grow up, this friendship turns into a strong love. However, the girl keeps her lover away from her because she feels that she was the reason for her sister’s injustice. This creates a psychological complex that makes her think that she will sacrifice her life to provide happiness for her sister. The young man resists this complex that prevents him from getting engaged to his girl.

Above the clouds

1948

Deadly doubt poster
NR

A husband begins to doubt his young wife's behavior, to the point that he suspects that there is a relationship between his wife and his loyal friend. He begins to monitor his wife's behavior until he finds evidence confirming that there is a relationship between his wife and his friend. After a while, he stumbles upon evidence that supports his suspicion, he plots a crime against them so that he can get rid of his wife after finding evidence that incriminates her.

Deadly doubt

1953

Hababa poster
NR

Prince Zayed is in love with one of his maids, who is his son's nanny, and his entourage succeeds in keeping her away from him. The prince becomes Khalifa, and life was not good without her, so he searches for her until he can find her. The loyal slave girl takes poison so as not to cause her master any trouble.

Hababa

1944

Birds of Paradise poster
8.0

Three sisters stage their disappearance from home to force their father, who left his wife for a wealthy widow, to return to the family.

Birds of Paradise

1955

Girl of 17 poster
NR

Law student Safaa (Zubaida Tharwat) loves her colleague Kamal (Ahmed Ramzy), and the two want to get married. However, her father Ibrahim (Hussein Riad) opposes this relationship because Kamal's mother, Horia (Zouzou Madi), runs her house as a gambling ground. He tries hard to sever the ties between them, but the father's efforts go down the drain because the two lovers are attached to each other. The father turns to his friend Dr. Refaat (Mahmoud Zulfikar) asking him to intervene, but Refaat advises the father not to stand in his daughter's way.

Girl of 17

1958

Return to the countryside poster
NR

Amin Pasha is a wealthy villager who lives lavishly, while his son Hamdy fools around in the city. As for Hassanein, he works for them to raise his daughter Fatima. Amin's wife escapes to the city and her husband chases her but the two die in an accident. Fatima tries to persuade Hamdy to return home.

Return to the countryside

1939

my daughter poster
NR

Nahid's husband squanders his wife's money on his mistress, and after his wife's wealth is lost, he begins to embezzle from his business's money, until his matter is exposed and he is imprisoned while Nahid is pregnant with his child. When Nahid gives birth to her baby girl, Hazem Bey's wife happens to give birth to a girl, but the nurse tells Nahid that there is a baby girl. Hazem Bey has died, so Nahid asks the nurse to replace her daughter with Hazem’s daughter.

my daughter

1944

The Apple Seller poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Apple Seller

1939

هارب من الحب poster
NR

Doctor Mahmoud suffers from epilepsy, so he refuses to marry any girl so as not to be a reason for her suffering. He meets Mervat, who is attracted to his money and gets close to him, but she distances herself from him when she learns of his illness. The doctor decides to travel to the city of Suez, where he meets the innocent girl Laila, who reveals that she is accused of killing her mother, so Mahmoud searches for the origin of the story.

هارب من الحب

1956

Ethics for Sale poster
NR

A fantastical story about a husband who is troubled by mother-in-law, until he meets a man who sells morals in the form of powders. As he buys the powder of courage to face his bossy mother-in-law, his life changes and he returns again to the seller asking for a new moral.

Ethics for Sale

1950

Behind the camera

Hadaya poster
10.0

A wealthy young man rejects the way his mother and sister live, and decides to rebel against this life by marrying a simple Upper Egyptian girl who respects traditions and social customs, which angers his mother and sister and they mistreat the wife, who discovers the relationship between her husband's sister and his friend and tries to mediate to end it.

Hadaya

1947

Hadaya poster
10.0

A wealthy young man rejects the way his mother and sister live, and decides to rebel against this life by marrying a simple Upper Egyptian girl who respects traditions and social customs, which angers his mother and sister and they mistreat the wife, who discovers the relationship between her husband's sister and his friend and tries to mediate to end it.

Hadaya

1947

Hadaya poster
10.0

A wealthy young man rejects the way his mother and sister live, and decides to rebel against this life by marrying a simple Upper Egyptian girl who respects traditions and social customs, which angers his mother and sister and they mistreat the wife, who discovers the relationship between her husband's sister and his friend and tries to mediate to end it.

Hadaya

1947

Laylat Al-farah poster
NR

A man divorces his wife and his daughter Salma lives with him. However, he marries a playful young girl who cheats on him with a theater actor called Riyad, who brags about his infidelity to his friend, the playwright Hazem. Salma happens to meet Hazem on the same train, as she was traveling to her father’s estate and he was going to visit his friend Riyad. At the estate, Salma learns about her stepmother's betrayal.

Laylat Al-farah

1942

The Unknown Woman poster
8.0

Ahmed likes Fatima, and feelings of love grow between the two, imagining that they are from noble families. A love story develops, and Ahmed asks Fatima to marry him. After the wedding, they have a son named Samir. One day, Fatima goes to visit Suad at her home, but the police raid the place because it is suspicious. Fatima is arrested, and her life is turned upside down.

The Unknown Woman

1959

The Unknown Woman poster
8.0

Ahmed likes Fatima, and feelings of love grow between the two, imagining that they are from noble families. A love story develops, and Ahmed asks Fatima to marry him. After the wedding, they have a son named Samir. One day, Fatima goes to visit Suad at her home, but the police raid the place because it is suspicious. Fatima is arrested, and her life is turned upside down.

The Unknown Woman

1959

The Tale of Three Girls poster
7.0

Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. The second is a secretary with designs on her boss, even though he too is married. Having learned from her friends' experiences, the third takes an altogether different path.

The Tale of Three Girls

1968

Girls' Secrets poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Girls' Secrets

1969

لا تذكريني poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

لا تذكريني

1961

لا تذكريني poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

لا تذكريني

1961

Giant poster
10.0

Two partners in a contracting company. The first wants to take revenge on a competitor, and does not feel the love that the office secretary has for him, at the same time that his partner loves her and asks for her hand, but the engagement is broken off, and the first is accused of killing a contractor from a competing company in a plot by his competitor, so he is sent to prison, so he decides to escape to take revenge on the killer.

Giant

1960

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Father Deceived Me

1951

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Father Deceived Me

1951

El Khouroug Min El Guana poster
8.5

Mukhtar is a musically talented individual who is surrounded by bad friends who make him squander his talent. When he falls and marries Annan, she tries to set him on the right path which sets off problems between them. When they get divorced, a repentant Mukhtar tries to get Annan back.

El Khouroug Min El Guana

1967

The workshop poster
7.0

A workshop owner goes on a trip to the desert and goes missing. Everyone thinks he is dead. His wife takes over the work of the workshop. She meets a young man and he likes her. They decide to get married, but the husband suddenly returns.

The workshop

1940

Three Women poster
NR

Three 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

Ghaltet El Omr poster
7.0

Dr. Sami is subjected to harassment and arrogance from his wife, Munira. One of his patients is the singer Nadia, who visits his clinic for treatment. From here, Dr. Sami feels how gentle Nadia is. Dr. Sami's conditions change, and he even becomes preoccupied with Munira. Munira tries to find out the reason for this change, but fails to bring him back home, so she begins to spread rumors and scandals about him.

Ghaltet El Omr

1953

Ghaltet El Omr poster
7.0

Dr. Sami is subjected to harassment and arrogance from his wife, Munira. One of his patients is the singer Nadia, who visits his clinic for treatment. From here, Dr. Sami feels how gentle Nadia is. Dr. Sami's conditions change, and he even becomes preoccupied with Munira. Munira tries to find out the reason for this change, but fails to bring him back home, so she begins to spread rumors and scandals about him.

Ghaltet El Omr

1953

For Men Only poster
6.7

(Elham and Salwa) two chemical engineers, have been appointed to the Oil Company (Cairo) but are seeking to work in the desert to explore new oil wells, but the company only sends men there. The desert, having progressed to work as two men because of the company's system of accepting only men's travel on these missions, recognizes their colleagues in the desert and lives with them as two men

For Men Only

1964

A Woman in a Spiral poster
9.0

The story revolves around a combat nurse, her daughter's fiancé Nadia dies in an accident, and then she discovers that her daughter is pregnant, and when Nadia gives birth to her child Fathiya, the mother replaces her with a dead child.

A Woman in a Spiral

1962

A Woman in a Spiral poster
9.0

The story revolves around a combat nurse, her daughter's fiancé Nadia dies in an accident, and then she discovers that her daughter is pregnant, and when Nadia gives birth to her child Fathiya, the mother replaces her with a dead child.

A Woman in a Spiral

1962

Enemy of Women poster
6.8

Nadia manages to make the famous writer Dr. Essa, who is anti-women, to fall in love with her and change his attitude towards women.

Enemy of Women

1966

The night is ours poster
8.0

Nawal is a singer in a traveling band. She admires Dr. Medhat and tries to win his admiration, but she is afraid of rejection due to the nature of her work. She is forced to pretend to him that she is a teacher, but with time he discovers her real profession, which pushes him even more to cling to her and marry her. Their relationship is put to a real test when a friend of hers is accused of a murder of which he is innocent.

The night is ours

1949

Al-Hob Sanat 70 poster
6.0

The film revolves around a romantic comedy about Sherif, who has many female relationships, and his cousin Mohsen, who comes from the countryside and always gets into trouble because of his many romantic adventures, while in the end he falls in love with Nora, the simple girl.

Al-Hob Sanat 70

1969