
Acting
Zizi Al-Badrawy
Born — Died
1944-06-09 — 2014-01-31
Place of birth
Cairo, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
64 titles
Zizi Al-Badrawy was an Egyptian film actress.
Known for
8.2A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.
El Helmeya Nights
1987
NRBwabet El‑Halawani brings to life the human stories behind Egypt’s transformation during the Suez Canal era. Through craftsmen, families, and dreamers caught in political and social upheaval, the series blends history with personal struggle, showing how ambition, sacrifice, and resilience shaped a defining moment in Egypt’s past.
Bwabet Elhalwani
1992
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Live Your Days
2004
NRWhere 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
NRA Kuwaiti young man marries an Egyptian girl while studying in Egypt, and when he finishes his studies, he divorces her and marries his cousin, and travels without his knowledge of her pregnancy and after giving birth, Desouki marries her and raises her daughter. But after years, the father returns to Egypt and discovers that he has a daughter.
I will not walk the path of the past
1995
Rouh, a gynecologist, is constantly trying to help her husband in his career. But she gets shocked upon discovering that he got secretly married to another woman, and at the same time knows that her daughter got impregnated from a man she secretly married.
The Soul's Love
2006
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
6.6Abdullah's mother tries to convince him to get married, with the help of his friend and partner, Fadi. However, Abdullah has an illicit relationship with the businesswoman, Farida. Meanwhile, the broadcaster, Maryam, falls in love with him and seeks to marry him. His friend, Nadine, tries to win him back as a lover after her separation from her husband, but Abdullah does not care about them because of his love for the Christian girl, Amira.
A Whole One
2011
NRMet'eb and Shadya meet at an Islamic saint commemorating celebration (mawlid). As they face the obstacles of everyday life together, their chance encounter blossoms into young love.
Metaab and Shadya
2013
2000s · 2 titles
NRA young Egyptian man travels with his family to Hurghada on a work trip, where he works with foreign tourists. There, he meets a woman with an Egyptian father and an American mother. Despite his family's objections, he falls in love and marries her after she becomes pregnant. However, their marriage soon faces challenges as cultural differences emerge—he is deeply rooted in Upper Egyptian traditions, while she embraces a modern American lifestyle.
Granita
2001
6.3A social comedy that tells the life of the street in Cairo in 2007 and 2008 through a taxi driver. We see daily dilemmas for the taxi driver through the taxi customers from all segments of the society in comical paradoxical paradoxes that reflect the spirit and rhythm of the Egyptian street in all its manifestations to see the state of a society full of shyness and surprise. .
Please, here, driver!
2008
1990s · 4 titles
7.5A poor wife searches for her husband to clear her name of a wrongful accusation of adultery. She meets Shaheen, a gallant worker who loves to play the harmonica and seeks to help her, despite the problems he faces in his life. Together they face all difficult circumstances.
Harmonica
1998
NRYears after completing his service, Counselor Sameh goes on vacation to Alexandria, where he faces a conspiracy against him.
Luqmat al-Qadi
1996
NRHatim is a businessman working in the field of contracting and building housing. He finds himself accused in a public opinion case, which is the collapse of the buildings he built. He discovers that his men who help him did this without him noticing. A confrontation occurs with his brother, and he kills his brother.
Man in Trouble
1991
NRAfter a medical error in a simple operation, the child Walid falls into a coma and dies, but Dr. Farid, the hospital director, falsifies the reports to protect his reputation. Meanwhile, his son Hisham lives a reckless life, until heaven's justice comes to take revenge on Farid through his son, in a shocking and unexpected way.
Heaven's Justice
1990
1970s · 8 titles
NRThree young women working at a cafe struggle with difficult relationships, betrayal, and loss as they navigate their lives after graduation.
El hesab ya mademosile
1978
6.2As Magdy leaves Upper Egypt for a job, he befriends the playboy Sami who impresses him with his many relationships. After a chance meeting with Hanan, Magdy asks for Sami's help to get close to her, something that Sami is happy to provide and support with previous experiences.
Searching for a Scandal
1973
NRFarid is a student at the College of Veterinary Medicine. He has a love story with Samira, his cousin. Three girls are trying to obtain a marriage contract to guarantee a job outside Egypt, but they can only find Farid. Farid marries the four of them, including the club owner, under the urging of his financial circumstances.
The Lucky Groom
1974
5.5After six months at sea, three navy officers return home for a short 24-hour leave, hoping for warmth and affection from their wives. Instead, they're met with cold shoulders and mistrust.
24 Hours of Love
1974
NRIn a representation of the housing problem in Egypt, a group of friends reunited by their search for an apartment encounter different problems as Kamal is looking for a place to turn into an art studio and Sherif is trying to find a place where he and his wife can live.
The Downtown Apartment
1975
6.0Two university students fall in love on campus and inform their parents that they want to get married. This decision makes the parents immediately very happy but when they find out who the parents of their future son- or daughter-in-law are, they get horrified. It turns out that these young lovers are much more connected than they had realized, and the question arises whether they might even be related.
Remember Me
1978
NREzzat and Fathi are two prisoners who escape together, and they manage to reach a remote rural area, and they are guests of the Suniyya of Aisha alone, and Ezzat tells her what happened with him and sympathizes with him and his story.
Escape
1970
NRThe story revolves around (Souad), who lives in her deceased father's palace after divorcing her husband (Ahmed) for his many female relationships. In the palace, the maid (Salwa) tries to get rid of Souad, the daughter of the man who was the reason her husband was unjustly imprisoned after being accused of killing a young woman who was in a relationship with Souad's father. Souad asked a lawyer close to her to deceive Salwa, trap her, and make her believe that he loves her.
Last Mostahtera
1971
1960s · 25 titles
NRWhen her mother dies, the responsibility of keeping the family together falls on Sawsan, who tries to reunite her family after her father neglects his children in favor of chasing after the widowed Fatma, and her brother sets his eyes on a married woman.
Stillness of the Storm
1965
6.0The life paths of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad during the period of the British occupation, and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution, starting with the family's patriarch who lives a double life, his son Fahmy who joins a secret political organization, and the older son Yassin who follows his father's footsteps in pursuing women.
Between Two Palaces
1964
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
8.0The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and Salwa, fall in love and suffer the agonies of it, only for their dad to try to save them the heartache.
The Seven Daughters
1961
8.3Loyal 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
NRA story about the impact of social customs and traditions on the behavior of Egyptian society
A Notorious House
1965
8.0Ahmed is a novelist who has passed the age of youth. He spends his life on many romantic adventures, until Ahmed meets a beautiful girl who is the daughter of the caretaker of his estate that he owns. Ahmed discovers that this girl is very impressed by the romantic stories he writes, so he decides to ask her for marriage. Will she agree?
Big Teenager
1961
8.0Al-Gharib is a dangerous criminal who only strikes at night. As the police fail to catch him, Al-Gharib befriends a wealthy college student who gets to see a side to the terrifying serial killer that no one else gets to see.
Prisoner of the Night
1963
9.0(Abu Al-Layl) is a mysterious person who wears a mask on his face and no one knows who he is. He moves with a dog and completely controls the people of a town, and makes them carry out what he orders them to do whatever it is, because of their intense fear of him and the only one who can communicate with (Abu Al-Layl) whenever she wants She is (Duha) because of an affair between them, and (Ahmed) tries to do everything in his power to find out who (Abu Al-Layl) is and rid the town of its evils.
Abu Al-layl
1960
NRa symbolic take on the Jewish occupation of Palestine.
The Intruder
1967
NRWhen Mafouz dies, his partner Diab seizes his share, which leaves Mahfouz's family living in poverty. Gawdat, Zahra's fiancé, sleeps with her after she surrenders in the hope that they will get married quickly, but his mother forces him to leave Zahra after their financial situation deteriorates.
A Widow with Three Daughters
1965
NRA group of colleagues in a government department go on vacation on one of the Red Sea beaches, during which a female employee meets Ahmed, the young man she loves, but her father refuses their marriage, so he goes to work in a lighthouse, after which their love renews again with the hope of marriage.
جزيرة العشاق
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
قاضى الغرام
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
العمر أيام
1964
NRNo synopsis available yet.
عريس لأختي
1963
NRMonem returns to his country and meets his beloved Nabila again, but he is afraid that he will be hit by the curse of madness that afflicted his family members, as his parents have already died of madness, he visits his aunts and knows that they kill a number of the elderly shelter's members, and bury them in the basement of the shelter, and Monem seeks to get away from Nabila so as not to harm her.
آخر جنان
1965
NRSafia is a beautiful girl from the countryside, who is loved by two men: Rashwan, the mayor's son, and Hamid, the poor young man. Her father approves her marriage to Rashwan, but Rashwan soon changes his mind, as he tries to get close to Hamdiya, Hamid's sister.
The Unknown Man
1965
NRA famous actress retires and marries a rich man a customary marriage. Then his family forces him to divorce her. He waits till she gives birth and steals the marriage paper and escapes. Then she kills him with his new wife and is sentenced to imprisonment and her child is adopted by a family.
Woman on the Margin
1963
10.0The film's events revolve around an engineer in a textile factory who has union activity and falls in love with his colleague in the factory. He tries to win the love of this girl and also the union in the factory, but the girl rejects him. The engineer asks his father to propose to the girl, but his father rejects this girl.
Divine Love
1960
9.0In a dramatic atmosphere, the film tells the story of a family whose members suffer greatly, as the head of the family, "Shaker", forces his daughter to marry the man he chose, even though she loves someone else. In addition, "Samiha", Shaker's wife, is sick and paralyzed. In his desire to improve the situation, Shaker asks for a new secretary to help his wife, and from here things become very complicated as "Ibtisam" is appointed to the job. Shaker begins to doubt everyone around him except Ibtisam, and refuses to take medicine from anyone except her, so the events take a new dramatic turn.
Midnight story
1964
9.0The story of the work revolves around three young people (Anwar), (Mohsen) and (Majdi), who live in one apartment, and events escalate when Anwar gets to know the Cohen family consisting of father, mother and two daughters Rachel and Esther, expecting Rachel to love her, then she seeks to blackmail him as the father of her child, He tries to accuse his friends of the events.
Akher Shakawa
1964
9.0Laila is a young woman suffering from paralysis who lives with her stepfather after her mother died when she was two years old. She loves writing poetry. She sends her poems to the singer Mamdouh, who uses them in his songs, but Laila hides her true identity from him because she loves him and does not want him to see her disability, so that Mamdouh can reach her and be frank with her. With his love, a surprise happens that changes the course of events.
A day without tomorrow
1962
9.0The life of a well-known nineteenth-century belly dancer.
Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya
1963
NRHamdi graduates from the Music Institute and proposes to Laila, whom he loves, but he is surprised by the death of her father and her mother’s refusal to let her marry him. Hamdi is invited to attend a party by the wealthy Ahmed. Fayza Hanem, the aristocratic woman, hears him, admires him, and a strong friendship grows between them. She falls in love with him at a time when she does not feel love for Ahmed, and decides to help Hamdi become... A famous singer, and she tries to spoil the relationship between lovers Hamdi and Laila, so that she can marry him.
Salasel Men Harer
1962
7.0On one of his trips, Wahid, a forty-year-old journalist, meets Sawsan, a young flight attendant. Admiration grows between them, and love grows, but the age difference between them is an obstacle, as she fears repeating the experience of her mother, who married her father, who was twenty years older than her, and then he died. Sawsan falls ill and is admitted to a hospital, and Wahid goes to visit her. The mother is surprised that he is her lover, whom she loved when she was young, and was unable to marry him.
No Tears
1961
1950s · 5 titles
10.0The correctional officer prefers good treatment with the female inmates, while the director prefers the use of cruelty and pressure, and there are four girls admired by the officer, and without intent the four girls ignite the correctional fire and it is an opportunity to escape. A disciplinary board is set up for the officer for his negligence and inability to control them. The man of the four girls encounters and discovers that among them is a girl resembling a rich girl from an ancient family who disappeared from years and the events continued.
Four Girls and an Officer
1954
6.7Three students, Adel, Hassanein, and Samir, face personal struggles. Adel is rejected by his father for loving his neighbor’s daughter, Hassanein seeks revenge for his father’s murder, and Samir deals with parental neglect after his parents’ divorce. Samir’s relationship with a maid leads to complications, prompting him to seek help from a dancer, Gamalat, for an abortion. The trio robs a bar for abortion money but finds it insufficient. Saidyh dies during the abortion, and Gamalat’s call to neighbors and the police results in their arrest and a fifteen-year prison sentence.
We the Students
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
10.0The events of the film center around three girls who share work and livelihood, and each one of them has a dream that dominates her thinking; Where (Rich) dreams all the time about wealth, while (Ahlam) is trying to achieve her artistic ambitions, while (Hoda) searches for love and stability, and each of the three girls follows different life paths in their continuous attempts to achieve these dreams.
Ahlam Al-Banat
1959
7.0Awatif's mother works as the head of a women's association to help the poor. Awatif accidentally finds a letter that shows that she had an illegitimate brother from her mother before she married her father
Awattif
1958
Series credits
8.2A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.
El Helmeya Nights
1987
NRBwabet El‑Halawani brings to life the human stories behind Egypt’s transformation during the Suez Canal era. Through craftsmen, families, and dreamers caught in political and social upheaval, the series blends history with personal struggle, showing how ambition, sacrifice, and resilience shaped a defining moment in Egypt’s past.
Bwabet Elhalwani
1992
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Live Your Days
2004
NRWhere 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
NRA Kuwaiti young man marries an Egyptian girl while studying in Egypt, and when he finishes his studies, he divorces her and marries his cousin, and travels without his knowledge of her pregnancy and after giving birth, Desouki marries her and raises her daughter. But after years, the father returns to Egypt and discovers that he has a daughter.
I will not walk the path of the past
1995
Rouh, a gynecologist, is constantly trying to help her husband in his career. But she gets shocked upon discovering that he got secretly married to another woman, and at the same time knows that her daughter got impregnated from a man she secretly married.
The Soul's Love
2006
8.4Youssef Ibn Abbas wants to marry Salama's daughter Ferial, but they clash with the family's rejection despite the strong friendship between Abbas and Salama. Youssef discovers that his father and Salama were working for Khawaja raising his wealth from smuggling antiquities outside Egypt, after Al-Khawaja's death, he takes the money while Abbas refrains and tries to keep his children away from Salama's sons.
The Fortune and the Progeny
1992
NRIn a series that offers socio-political commentary, the story revolves around a female minister who comes from an prestigious family as she encounters a lot of problems because of her staunch opposition to corruption and moral depravity.
Case of the Minister
2012
As Ga'far rebels against his grandfather's domineering attitude and weds a poor shepherdess, his grandfather kicks him out. After a while, Ga'far weds a wealthy woman, kickstarting an existential crisis as he tries to define who he is.
Heart of Night
1992
Mahmoud is the head of Al-Shorbagy family. He runs into his childhood friend, Samy Sharkas, who returns from America and lavishes Mahmoud’s family with gifts. Samy wants to set up investment projects in Egypt, and Mahmoud works with him, but he's unaware that Samy is hiding a different agenda.
Cops and Robbers
2007
NRThe series addresses the issue of the Egyptian youth who marry Israeli women, covering a period that starts in the winter of 1967 prior to the Six-Day War all through the nineties and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
The Lighthouse
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
قلوب فقدت الحب
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
نور القمر
2002
NRDunia, a young girl filled with dreams, faces adversity after her father's death. She sacrifices her education for her family, marries a poor man, and endures life's hardships. When she witnesses a murder, a moral dilemma unfolds. Will she find the courage to speak the truth and uphold her honor?
Word Of Honor
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أيام ضائعة
1992
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
لقمة القاضي
1996
NRNo synopsis available yet.
القشرة الذهبية
1985
