Mahmoud Abu Zaid

Writing

Mahmoud Abu Zaid

Born 1941-05-07 · Cairo, Egypt

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Egg and the Stone poster
7.2

A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.

The Egg and the Stone

1990

Monsters Run poster
6.7

Said and Nabil are friends. Said can't have children, and Dr. Nabil decides to help him by transplanting part of the brain of poor man Abdul Qawi to him, who suffers from severe fatigue after the operation, while Said is unable to have children despite the success of the operation.

Monsters Run

1987

College Girls poster
NR

The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college

College Girls

1971

The Red Notebook poster
3.3

A dermatologist discovers that his friend has a sexually-transmitted disease and begins tracing his friend's multiple relationships.

The Red Notebook

2000

The Shame poster
7.4

A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.

The Shame

1982

El Keif poster
8.2

Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and gives him some weed that is made out of harmless substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of money.

El Keif

1985

The Manipulating Beauty poster
NR

The events of the play revolve around (Hia) Sabreen, who works as a seamstress in Mansoura, and for the mistreatment of the owner of the store, she decides to go to Cairo to work at the branch of sewing and she asks for her address in one of the shoe stores. There, she identifies with (Tayfour) Mamdouh Wafi, who works in the shop. It is recognized by the owner of the store (Hakkai) Mahmoud Al-Qalawi, and there are paradoxes that go out from him to be hit by a motorcycle in the field in front of the shop. Who trades in the currency. She discovers that she has stolen her money - so she can sympathize with her, and she will live with her in her apartment, and at the same time work in the shoe store. And Tayfour loves her.

The Manipulating Beauty

1995

Bonne Soiree poster
2.4

When three sisters inherit a cabaret named Bonne Soirée, two of them are thrilled with the influx of money it grants them but the third sister, who is religious, advises them to get rid of it. The two of them refuse to lister and start working in the cabaret against their sister's advice.

Bonne Soiree

2010

Mokalmet Baa'd Montasaf Elleil poster
NR

A just married couple receive threatening calls.

Mokalmet Baa'd Montasaf Elleil

1978

Molok Al Shar poster
NR

The film revolves around Shafiq (Farid Shawqi), the leader of a drug smuggling gang, who decides to stop dealing drugs, but intends to carry out his last and biggest operation so that he can devote himself to raising his son. However, his biggest competitor, Al-Hout (Mahmoud Al-Meligy), and his men are watching Shafiq and learn about the operation, so they set up an ambush for him and inform the police to trap him. However, Shafiq and his men are able to deceive the police and escape from the predicament, and they escape with the goods from them.

Molok Al Shar

1972

The Warm Embrace poster
NR

Madiha is an air hostess ,who failed twice in marriage and prefers to live alone with the same freedom as men. She meets Soliman and he misbehaves with her, but she teaches him an unforgettablele lesson. Fate sends her Hassan who wants to marry her but family ,society and tradition stand in the way.

The Warm Embrace

1974

Ln Aghfer Abadan poster
NR

Hussein's father dies after being neglected by doctors. Hussein decides to take revenge on doctors by stealing their cars.

Ln Aghfer Abadan

1981

A Woman Deceived Me poster
NR

Ahmed opens a law office in one of the local neighborhoods, he gets involved with the wealthy neighbor, Awatif, who frames him in an embezzlement case after she knows that he got engaged. He gets suspended from practicing law and works in a tannery owned by Awatif.

A Woman Deceived Me

1979

Humiliation poster
6.7

Aziz is waiting for his uncle to die in order to inherit all his wealth.When he dies,he finds an unpleasant surprise

Humiliation

1990

Rooster Among Hens poster
4.7

Al-Dakhakhani lives in Al-Jamaliya quarter, and he doesn't want his inheritance to go to his four daughters' husbands. Especially when his only son suffers from mental illness. He thinks of marrying his son to Eashrya, who he stole her property. She agrees provided that he returns her property.

Rooster Among Hens

1992

Lahzat daef poster
NR

Abdel Ghaffar revolts against his wife, Sania, when he discovers that Sahar is not his daughter, but rather the result of a sinful relationship between Sania before her marriage. Sania dies, and Abdel Ghaffar mistreats Sahar, who travels to Greece to live with her aunt. There, she meets Sharif, who proposes marriage to her, so she confesses to him her true identity.

Lahzat daef

1981

Hob La Yara Al-Shams poster
7.0

Under pressure from his father Hassan, Ahmed agrees to marry another to give birth to someone who inherits his wealth. The choice falls on the dreams of the poor girl who counts her sick mother. The father agrees with her to give her a monthly amount of money, provided that the divorce takes place after her birth and that Amal hopes to raise the baby. Over time, love grows between Ahmad and Ahlam.

Hob La Yara Al-Shams

1980

Ladies' Threshold poster
6.5

(Suheir Fadel) an Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctor is unable to have kids from her Husband (Hazem Kharbash) after many years of marriage. Her husband Hazem goes for some medical tests to find that he is incapable of procreation and his wife is perfectly healthy, and he lies to her to maintain their marital life.

Ladies' Threshold

1995

Ladies' Threshold poster
6.5

(Suheir Fadel) an Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctor is unable to have kids from her Husband (Hazem Kharbash) after many years of marriage. Her husband Hazem goes for some medical tests to find that he is incapable of procreation and his wife is perfectly healthy, and he lies to her to maintain their marital life.

Ladies' Threshold

1995

Kaydahonna Azeem poster
NR

Teacher Abu Al-Atawf agrees with teacher Atta on the marriage of his son Ibrahim and her daughter Samsim. Abdul Basir, Ibrahim's uncle, goes to bless the bride, and get to knows Attata, who resorted to the lawyer with whom she worked as a writer for twenty years to prove the lineage of her daughter from Lotfy, a wealthy who married her customally and refused to recognize his father to Samsim, so she had to register her in the name of her deceased husband.

Kaydahonna Azeem

1983

The Killers poster
7.0

Adel has a firm belief that his stepfather killed his father to marry his mother. He makes a strange deal with the unemployed Aziz, who wants to get rid of his wife to cash her life insurance policy. Adel pledges to kill Aziz's wife in return for Aziz killing his stepfather.

The Killers

1971

The kidnappers poster
NR

Jalal Abu Al-Majd owns one of the turning workshops, and decides to travel to Germany to buy new machines, to modernize the workshop, and leaves the workshop in the care of his older brother (Sherif), who gets acquainted with (Hassanein) the imposter and his partner (Gina) who delude him to complete a deal of equipment for the workshop for 25 thousand (A pound) Sheriff considers a gain, and upon delivery, (Sherif) discovers that the equipment is nothing but red building bricks. (Sharif) decides to take revenge on (Hassanein) and (Gina) by killing them and recovering his money. (Jalal) returns from Germany and tries with (Sharif) to recover his money.

The kidnappers

1972