Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Biography • Country: UK, USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
David Lean
Writer
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Cast
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Plot
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, Arabic
Director
Jacques Audiard
Writer
Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri
Cast
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Plot
A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Animation • Country: Israel, France • Language: Hebrew, Arabic
Director
Ari Folman
Writer
Ari Folman
Cast
Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag
Plot
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: USA, UK • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
Cast
Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway
Plot
Bane, an imposing terrorist, attacks Gotham City and disrupts its eight-year-long period of peace. This forces Bruce Wayne to come out of hiding and don the cape and cowl of Batman again.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Lebanon, Libya • Language: Arabic, English
Director
Moustapha Akkad
Writer
H.A.L. Craig, Abdel Hamid Gouda El Sahhar, Tewfik El-Hakim
Cast
Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara
Plot
Historical fresco recounting the life and times of the Prophet Mohammed, the last of the Abrahamic religion, in the sense that, according to Islam, he completed and sealed the monotheistic revelation made to Abraham.
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Plot
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: French, Arabic
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Henri La Barthe, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Constant
Cast
Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre
Plot
A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Thriller • Country: USA, Luxembourg • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Writer
Mark Boal
Cast
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Plot
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Michael Hayes, Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Cast
James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie
Plot
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, News • Country: Palestine, Norway • Language: Arabic, English
Director
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal
Writer
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal
Cast
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal
Plot
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Y...
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Libya, USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Moustapha Akkad
Writer
H.A.L. Craig, David Butler, Paul Thompson
Cast
Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Plot
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Comedy • Country: Denmark, Sweden • Language: Danish, Arabic
Director
Anders Thomas Jensen
Writer
Anders Thomas Jensen, Nikolaj Arcel
Cast
Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg
Plot
Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: UK, USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
John Huston
Writer
John Huston, Gladys Hill, Rudyard Kipling
Cast
Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
Plot
In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Italy, USA • Language: Italian, Arabic
Director
Anthony Mann
Writer
Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman
Cast
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
Plot
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: UK, France • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Paul Greengrass
Writer
Paul Greengrass
Cast
David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas
Plot
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Belgium, France • Language: French, Arabic
Director
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Writer
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast
Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée
Plot
Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: USA, India • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Writer
Mark Boal
Cast
Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt
Plot
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
Category: TV • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: Egypt • Language: Arabic
Director
na
Writer
Amr Salama
Cast
Razane Jammal, Karla Maatouk, Philip Shahbaz
Plot
Set in the 1960s, the series, packed with mystery and suspense, depicts the adventures of Doctor Refaat Ismail, a single hematologist who finds himself faced with a series of supernatural events.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: USA, Japan • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Spike Lee
Writer
Arnold Perl, Spike Lee, Alex Haley
Cast
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo
Plot
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA, Australia • Language: English, Arabic
Director
David O. Russell
Writer
John Ridley, David O. Russell
Cast
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
Plot
In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Saudi Arabia, Netherlands • Language: Arabic
Director
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Writer
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Cast
Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Plot
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Israel, USA • Language: Hebrew, Arabic
Director
Eran Kolirin
Writer
Eran Kolirin
Cast
Sasson Gabay, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri
Plot
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA, China • Language: English, Arabic
Director
David O. Russell
Writer
Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Cast
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper
Plot
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Finland, Germany • Language: Finnish, Arabic
Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Writer
Aki Kaurismäki
Cast
Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen
Plot
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, War • Country: Germany, France • Language: German, Arabic
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog
Plot
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Biography • Country: USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Clint Eastwood
Writer
Jason Hall, Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen
Cast
Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner
Plot
Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave b...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Michael Moore
Writer
Michael Moore
Cast
Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Ben Affleck
Plot
Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after 9/11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Kevin Smith
Writer
Kevin Smith
Cast
Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Ethan Suplee
Plot
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Robert Carson, Percival Christopher Wren
Cast
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Plot
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
Category: TV • Genre: Drama • Country: Tunisia, Italy • Language: Arabic, Italian
Director
na
Writer
Lassaad Oueslati
Cast
Sana Al Habib, Wajiha Jendoubi, Riadh Hamdi
Plot
A word that defines the one-way journey by death boats, from Tunisia across the Mediterranean Sea, to Europe the safe haven in the eyes of these immigrants.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France, Cyprus • Language: Arabic
Director
Ziad Doueiri
Writer
Ziad Doueiri, Joelle Touma
Cast
Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh
Plot
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Mystery • Country: Spain, UK • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Rodrigo Cortés
Writer
Chris Sparling
Cast
Ryan Reynolds, José Luis GarcÃa-Pérez, Robert Paterson
Plot
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic dea...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Egypt • Language: Arabic
Director
Marwan Hamed
Writer
Ahmed Mourad
Cast
Karim Abdel Aziz, Nilli Karim, Hind Sabri
Plot
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down, he prophesies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: Saudi Arabia • Language: Arabic
Director
Faris Godus
Writer
Faris Godus, Sohayb Godus, Hani Kadour
Cast
Sohayb Godus, Baraa Alem, Ismail Alhassan
Plot
In 2010, high school senior Husam, his best friend Maan, their one-time foe Ibrahim, and their teacher Orabi set out to produce a no-budget horror movie.
Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Palestine • Language: Arabic, Hebrew
Director
Hany Abu-Assad
Writer
Hany Abu-Assad
Cast
Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Eyad Hourani
Plot
A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
Category: TV • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Sweden • Language: Turkish, Arabic
Director
na
Writer
Wilhelm Behrman
Cast
Gizem Erdogan, Amed Bozan, Aliette Opheim
Plot
Agent Fatima gets a tip that a terrorist act is planned in Sweden. At the same time, teenager Sulle has opened her eyes to her student assistant who opens the doors to a fascinating new world.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: France, Mauritania • Language: French, Arabic
Director
Abderrahmane Sissako
Writer
Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall
Cast
Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
Plot
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: France • Language: French, Arabic
Director
Xavier Beauvois
Writer
Xavier Beauvois, Etienne Comar
Cast
Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
Plot
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Egypt • Language: Arabic, English
Director
Khaled Marei
Writer
Khaled Diab
Cast
Ahmed Helmy, Edward, Amy Samir Ghanem
Plot
A 30-year-old Egyptian goes back to Egypt after living in America for 20 years, but he has a hard time coping with the difference, especially after he loses his identity and all his money and becomes stuck in Egypt.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Family • Country: USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Carroll Ballard
Writer
Melissa Mathison, Jeanne Rosenberg, William D. Wittliff
Cast
Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr
Plot
After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.
This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Algeria, France • Language: French, Arabic
Director
Rachid Bouchareb
Writer
Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle
Cast
Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
Plot
During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Sboui lives next to his brother and mother. Many funny adventures ensue in the old building of a fortune teller as he falls in love with her daughter. Sboui works as a secretary at his brother's office, a psychotherapist.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Comedy • Country: USA, UK • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Guy Ritchie
Writer
John August, Guy Ritchie
Cast
Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott
Plot
Aladdin, a kind thief, woos Jasmine, the princess of Agrabah, with the help of Genie. When Jafar, the grand vizier, tries to usurp the king, Jasmine, Aladdin and Genie must stop him from succeeding.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: German, Arabic
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast
Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla
Plot
Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
After Saladin's victory over the King of Jerusalem, a peace treaty is signed between them, but the commander of the Crusader army, Renaud de Chatillon, slaughters a group of pilgrims going to Mecca. Saladin then decides to take re...
In this classic musical, poor old Hamam, a modest arabic teacher, falls in love with the young and beautiful Laila, his aristocratic pupil. Soon, he must decide between his unrealistic feelings or sacrificing his love for her own ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France • Language: French, Arabic
Director
Patrice Leconte
Writer
Patrick Cauvin, Patrice Leconte
Cast
Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin
Plot
Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he always knew he would marry one, completing his idealised love fant...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Iran • Language: Persian, Arabic
Director
Bahram Beyzaie
Writer
Bahram Beyzaie
Cast
Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Adnan Afravian
Plot
An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Egypt • Language: Arabic
Director
Ali Abdel-Khalek
Writer
Mahmoud Abu Zeid
Cast
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Noura, Yehia El-Fakharany
Plot
As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it's all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy d...
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Comedy • Country: USA, Romania • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Todd Phillips
Writer
Stephen Chin, Todd Phillips, Jason Smilovic
Cast
Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Steve Lantz
Plot
Loosely based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a three hundred million dollar contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: USA, UK • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Ridley Scott
Writer
William Monahan, David Ignatius
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong
Plot
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Italy, France • Language: Italian, Arabic
Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast
Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli
Plot
In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Egypt • Language: Arabic
Director
Chadi Abdel Salam
Writer
Chadi Abdel Salam
Cast
Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi
Plot
An Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.
