Zeinat Elwy

Acting

Zeinat Elwy

Born — Died

1930-05-19 — 1988-07-18

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Eshaet Hob poster
7.9

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

Eshaet Hob

1960

Wife Number 13 poster
6.6

Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.

Wife Number 13

1962

Rayya and Sekina poster
6.4

In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.

Rayya and Sekina

1952

Souq El Selah poster
NR

Bahiya decides to take revenge after her brother's death at the hands of a drug gang. She exploits the love of Sayed, a gang member, to achieve her revenge, but the gang leader, Shukoura, stands in their way.

Souq El Selah

1960

Days and Nights poster
7.7

An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of his life. When Yehia falls for the beautiful Samia (Iman), he believes he has finally found the woman with whom he could spend the rest of his life. Trouble soon arises, however, when Samia's delinquent stepbrother begins doing everything in his power to sabotage the couple's relationship.

Days and Nights

1955

A Sinful Life poster
8.0

Rawyh falls for Mamdouh, the frivolous rich boy who shows off their relationship to his friends. Rawya leaves for Tanta where she meets and weds Dr. Medhat.

A Sinful Life

1957

Film credits

1960s · 11 titles

Eshaet Hob poster
7.9

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

Eshaet Hob

1960

Wife Number 13 poster
6.6

Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.

Wife Number 13

1962

Souq El Selah poster
NR

Bahiya decides to take revenge after her brother's death at the hands of a drug gang. She exploits the love of Sayed, a gang member, to achieve her revenge, but the gang leader, Shukoura, stands in their way.

Souq El Selah

1960

Endama Nouheb poster
8.0

Being a swimming champion, many beautiful girls admire Ahmed but he only loves one. However, his life is turned upside down when he has a heart attack that threatens both his sports career and his love life.

Endama Nouheb

1967

Mama's Secretary poster
NR

Amal is a little child who lost her father goes to a circus and finds a man called shalaby who looks exactly like her father. she starts to call him dad and things escalated quickly.

Mama's Secretary

1969

The Single Husband poster
7.0

Ashour is a polygamist who marries for the tenth time the widow, Azhar, which angers his other wives. As he prepares to take yet another wife called Rasmia, he discovers that Rasmia is the daughter of his first ex-wife, Nafisa, which turns his life upside down.

The Single Husband

1966

Mind and money poster
NR

(Fakhr al-Din) believes that love is the basis of everything, and a friend wages with him that he can live happily with his beloved (Shams), but his friend tells him that money is the basis of everything. It’s the one with whom it is possible to buy the debts of others and meet the needs of people.

Mind and money

1965

My Wife's Dignity poster
6.5

Mahmoud 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

Adham Al-Sharqawi poster
10.0

The story of the Arabic Robin Hood, the legendary local hero Adham Al-Sharqawi who persisted in resisting the British occupation for years and tried to alleviate the suffering of the people of his village.

Adham Al-Sharqawi

1964

My Mother's Fiancé poster
NR

Mona confesses to her friend Mushira that she slept with a young man who abandoned her. She gives Mushira one of the letters she wrote to him, and the letter accidentally ends up with Farhat and Tal'at, who think that the letter is Mushira's and try to help her for fear that she might kill herself.

My Mother's Fiancé

1965

Abeed Al Gasad poster
7.0

Wafaa runs away from her husband who treats her very harshly to work in a jewelry store. Then she meets a young man who was trying to rob the store. Their relationship develops quickly and they get married after she stipulates that he stop stealing. However, her life turns upside down when her first husband is released from prison.

Abeed Al Gasad

1962

1950s · 19 titles

Rayya and Sekina poster
6.4

In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.

Rayya and Sekina

1952

Days and Nights poster
7.7

An athletic young man falls for a beautiful woman with a troubled brother. Handsome Yehia (Hafez) may come from a troubled background, but he's always strived to make the best of his life. When Yehia falls for the beautiful Samia (Iman), he believes he has finally found the woman with whom he could spend the rest of his life. Trouble soon arises, however, when Samia's delinquent stepbrother begins doing everything in his power to sabotage the couple's relationship.

Days and Nights

1955

A Sinful Life poster
8.0

Rawyh falls for Mamdouh, the frivolous rich boy who shows off their relationship to his friends. Rawya leaves for Tanta where she meets and weds Dr. Medhat.

A Sinful Life

1957

Rassif Nemra 5 poster
8.8

Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.

Rassif Nemra 5

1956

Ismail Yassine In the Navy poster
8.0

The 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

Faeil Khayr poster
7.0

A poor young man loves art and music. There is a love relationship between him and a rich girl. This girl appreciates his art and creation. Her father rejects this relationship, but stands in her way and declares that he does not agree with their marriage. His argument is that the young man is still in the first path of art. His daughter in case the artist stabilizes materially

Faeil Khayr

1953

The Road of Hope poster
8.5

Sunniyeh, the poor girl, lives with her mother sewing, and during the delivery of Suniyeh one of her mother's clients ’gowns, who runs a den of immoral acts, called (Madame Southi), so that one of her friends admires Sunnah and asks her to work with them, to refuse, but her mother is ill and Layla needs a sum of money to treat her. Will you give in to work with Madame Southi?

The Road of Hope

1957

Farewell, Love poster
7.8

Navy officer Wahid arrives in a military hospital, with a kidney failure, his days are numbered. The inmates try to cheer him up , while his nurse gets closer to him, and soon kindness turns to love.

Farewell, Love

1956

Farewell, Love poster
7.8

Navy officer Wahid arrives in a military hospital, with a kidney failure, his days are numbered. The inmates try to cheer him up , while his nurse gets closer to him, and soon kindness turns to love.

Farewell, Love

1956

El naas makamat poster
7.0

Riyad Pasha frequents a gambling den run by an outlaw with his family. In this den, the Pasha loses a lot of his money. The villain's daughter tries to ensnare the police officer, the Pasha's son, to get his money.

El naas makamat

1954

Pity My Tears poster
10.0

When Amal's father falls on hard times, he sells his land to his neighbor, Mamdouh, who falls in love with Amal. But Amal is in a relationship with Mourad who starts avoiding her after he learns of her father's crisis, prompting Mamdouh to confess his love for Amal and ask for her hand in marriage.

Pity My Tears

1954

The Merry Widow poster
7.0

Abdel Aal forces his daughter Samira to marry a wealthy man. After his death, they discover his will to deprive his entire family of his wealth, except for his widow Samira, on the condition that she remain a widow and not marry after him. Asem, her husband's brother, tries to exploit the situation and force her to marry. She flees to Egypt, meets Magdy, falls in love with him, and is forced to impersonate a maid so that her secret is not revealed.

The Merry Widow

1956

Ana Wi Habibi poster
9.0

The young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique talents, but he faces many difficulties in order to find his way. These difficulties disappear when he falls in love with a famous (Shadia) singer who exchanges feelings of love, and attaches him with her to work in the club where she sings. The nightclub manager interferes to spoil this relationship because he covets marrying her, and her aunt also opposes their relationship. The events follow and the two lovers are exposed to many pressures in order to maintain their love.

Ana Wi Habibi

1953

Anklet Ring poster
9.3

A homeless girl after her father dies, lives on the kindness of an old man who checks up on her. He invites her to live as a maid in his house. She starts seducing both him and his son, till the old man marries her and she lives with him and his wife and son.

Anklet Ring

1955

For Who's Your Passion poster
9.0

Nadia suffers from the behavior of her sister Nawal, to seek Dr. Adel and ask him for advice, to generate love between them, one day a young man who tried to commit suicide arrives because he is paralyzed, Nadia succeeds in getting him out of despair and succeeds in his treatment, to begin A love story between him and her sister Nawal, and events escalate.

For Who's Your Passion

1954

Naharak saeed poster
9.0

The son of a wealthy man wants to be a musician but his father, the factory owner, objects and kicks him out. When his father announces a competition for the name of a new soap, his son wins the prize and has enough money to finance the theater of his dreams and he becomes famous for his shows.

Naharak saeed

1955

The Suspect poster
10.0

A broke gambler plans with the manager of a gambling hall to steal money from the safe of a pharmaceutical company that another gambler works for. The gambler betrays his partner , and kills him and mutilates his face. After the doctor leaves his room, everyone thinks that he killed the gambler because of the hatred that existed between them.

The Suspect

1957

Girls' School poster
NR

Naima is still a student in a boarding school, but she collides with the reality of life early on. She loves Kamal, the actor, but he cannot marry her because he is engaged to his cousin. At the same time, Naima's uncle tries to marry her to his crazy son so that he can get the money she inherited. This is where the school principal intervenes to help her.

Girls' School

1955

Shebak Habibi poster
3.0

A nurse lives in a popular neighborhood and loves her neighbor, the carpenter, and her mother stands guard against this marriage. During her work, she meets a girl who looks like her. She is the daughter of a wealthy man, but she has fallen into sin and is preparing for her wedding. They agree to exchange places for a while so that they live each other’s lives, which leads to many... Of troubles and ironies that were not taken into account.

Shebak Habibi

1951