Zizi Al-Badrawy

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

El Helmeya Nights poster
8.2

A 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

Bwabet Elhalwani poster
NR

Bwabet 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

Live Your Days poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Live Your Days

2004

Chi Tutu Restaurant poster
NR

Where 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

I will not walk the path of the past poster
NR

A 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

No artwork available
NR

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

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1970s · 8 titles

El hesab ya mademosile poster
NR

Three 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

Searching for a Scandal poster
6.2

As 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

The Lucky Groom poster
NR

Farid 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

24 Hours of Love poster
5.5

After 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

The Downtown Apartment poster
NR

In 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

Remember Me poster
6.0

Two 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

Escape poster
NR

Ezzat 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

Last Mostahtera poster
NR

The 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

Stillness of the Storm poster
NR

When 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

Between Two Palaces poster
6.0

The 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

Kollohom Awlady poster
NR

A 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

The Seven Daughters poster
8.0

The 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

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

A Notorious House poster
NR

A story about the impact of social customs and traditions on the behavior of Egyptian society

A Notorious House

1965

Big Teenager poster
8.0

Ahmed 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

Prisoner of the Night poster
8.0

Al-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

Abu Al-layl poster
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

The Intruder poster
NR

a symbolic take on the Jewish occupation of Palestine.

The Intruder

1967

A Widow with Three Daughters poster
NR

When 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

جزيرة العشاق poster
NR

A 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

قاضى الغرام poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

قاضى الغرام

1962

العمر أيام poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

العمر أيام

1964

عريس لأختي poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عريس لأختي

1963

آخر جنان poster
NR

Monem 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

The Unknown Man poster
NR

Safia 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

Woman on the Margin poster
NR

A 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

Divine Love poster
10.0

The 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

Midnight story poster
9.0

In 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

Akher Shakawa poster
9.0

The 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

A day without tomorrow poster
9.0

Laila 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

Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya poster
9.0

The life of a well-known nineteenth-century belly dancer.

Shafiqa Al-Qibtiya

1963

Salasel Men Harer poster
NR

Hamdi 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

No Tears poster
7.0

On 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

Four Girls and an Officer poster
10.0

The 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

We the Students poster
6.7

Three 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

Port Said poster
7.0

The 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

Ahlam Al-Banat poster
10.0

The 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

Awattif poster
7.0

Awatif'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

El Helmeya Nights poster
8.2

A 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

Bwabet Elhalwani poster
NR

Bwabet 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

Live Your Days poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Live Your Days

2004

Chi Tutu Restaurant poster
NR

Where 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

I will not walk the path of the past poster
NR

A 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

No artwork available
NR

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

The Fortune and the Progeny poster
8.4

Youssef 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

Case of the Minister poster
NR

In 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

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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

The Lighthouse poster
NR

The 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

قلوب فقدت الحب poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

قلوب فقدت الحب

1977

نور القمر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

نور القمر

2002

Word Of Honor poster
NR

Dunia, 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

أيام ضائعة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أيام ضائعة

1992

Cat's Head poster
10.0

A 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

لقمة القاضي poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

لقمة القاضي

1996

القشرة الذهبية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

القشرة الذهبية

1985