Omar SharifFilmography

The Traveller

Actors: Omar Sharif, Cyrine Abdelnour, Amr Waked, Sherif Ramzy

Synopsis: Love, passion, responsibility and loss follow a man over the course of half a century in this powerful drama from Egypt. In 1948, Hassan (Khaled El Nabawy) is working his first day on the job for a telegraph company when he has to deliver a telegram to Noura (Cyrine Abdelnour), a beautiful woman Read More

10,000 B.C.

Actors: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Ben Badra

Synopsis: A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs Read More

Hassan and Morcos

Actors: Omar Sharif, Adel Imam, Mohamed Imam

Synopsis: A Muslim preacher and a Christian priest swap identities after surviving separate assassination attempts in director Rami Imam's thinly veiled satire on religious bigotry in Egypt. Hassan (Adel Amim) is a Christian priest, and Morcos (Omar Sharif) is a Muslim preacher. After narrowly escaping Read More

Once Upon a Time... Lawrence of Arabia

Synopsis: David Lean's 1962 masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia rewrote the rules for the making of a Hollywood epic, proving a movie could be intelligent, perceptive and deliver a handful of striking characters studies while telling its story on a grand scale. Lawrence of Arabia won seven Academy Awards Read More

One Night With the King

Actors: Tiffany DuPont, Luke Goss, John Rhys-Davies, John Noble

Synopsis: When a beautiful young slave girl learns that her people are about to fall victim to a horrible act of genocide, she will be forced to choose between realizing her wildest dreams or stepping into the pages of history to embrace her destiny in an epic tale of one young girl who rises from peasant Read More

The Ten Commandments

Actors: Naveen Andrews, Omar Sharif, Linus Roache, Padma Lakshmi, Dougray Scott, Mía Maestro

Synopsis: Dougray Scott, Linus Roache, Omar Sharif, and Naveen Andrews headline this epic mini-series from director Robert Dornhelm, and following the Prince of Egypt as he discovers his true identity and sets out on a mission from God. An oracle has prophesized that a child will grow up to become the Read More

The Crown Prince

Actors: Max von Thun, Vittoria Puccini, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Omar Sharif, Christian Clavier

Synopsis: Robert Dornhelm's epic-length period tragedy The Crown Prince takes as its dramatic inspiration the heart-rending and irrepressibly romantic tale of Rudolf (Max von Thun), Crown Prince of Austria heir to the Habsburg monarchy during the late 19th Century. The young man's story culminated in the Read More

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Synopsis: From National Geographic, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs documents what experts have discovered about the lives and the burials of such legendary figures in world history as King Tut. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

St. Peter

Actors: Omar Sharif, Daniele Pecci, Claudia Koll, Flavio Insinna, Lina Sastri, Johannes Brandrup, Sydne Rome

Synopsis: Oscar-nominee Omar Sharif stars as devoted disciple Peter in director Guilio Base's look at the tension that arose between the Christians and Romans following the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As the unwavering faith of the disciples makes them the target of persecution in the Roman Read More

Hidalgo

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard, Saïd Taghmaoui, Peter Mensah

Synopsis: Actor Viggo Mortensen made his first starring appearance in a film after his breakthrough performance in the Lord of the Rings trilogy with this period adventure. Frank T. Hopkins (Mortensen) is a U.S. Cavalry officer who earned a reputation as one of the fastest and most daring riders in the Read More

Monsieur Ibrahim

Actors: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki, Lola Naymark, Anne Suarez

Synopsis: A boy from a broken home finds a friend in an insular, spiritual shopkeeper in this period drama from writer/director François Dupeyron. Set in 1960s Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran revolves around Momo (Pierre Boulanger), a young man who lives alone with his father in the bustling Read More

Building the Great Pyramid

Actors: Omar Sharif

Synopsis: For 4,400 years after its completion as a monument to the "Pharoah du Jour," the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was the tallest structure in the world, dwarfed only when the Eiffel Tower went up in 1889. This ambitious, computer-generated cable documentary special meticulously recreated the Read More

The Parole Officer

Actors: Steve Coogan, Lena Headey, Stephen Dillane, Om Puri, Steven Waddington

Synopsis: British television comic Steve Coogan made his first bid for a big-screen career in this comedy, in which he plays Simon Garden, a singularly inept parole officer who has not had terribly good luck with his clients -- after many years on the job, only three of the former prisoners he's been Read More

Shaka Zulu: The Citadel

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Karen Allen, Henry Cele, James Fox

The 13th Warrior

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhoi, Vladimir Kulich, Omar Sharif

Synopsis: A cultured diplomat joins a band of savage warriors in time to meet an even more fearsome enemy in this historical adventure. In 922 A.D., Ibn Fadlan (Antonio Banderas) is a Muslim emissary from Baghdad en route to meet with the King of Saqaliba when he is captured by a gang of Vikings. While Ibn Read More

National Geographic: Mysteries of Egypt

Actors: Kate Maberly, Timothy Davies

Synopsis: In this National Geographic film, Omar Sharif, actor and native Egyptian, and Kate Maberly tell a story of a grandfather who regales his granddaughter with the mesmerizing saga of pharaohs and wondrous treasures made of gold. In Mysteries of Egypt, Sharif takes viewers back over 4,000 years, to Read More

Heaven Before I Die

Actors: Joanna Pacula, Omar Sharif, Giancarlo Giannini, Andy Velasquez

Synopsis: In this eccentric comedy, Jacob (Andy Velasquez) is a young man from Israel whose father has long regarded him as a test presented to him by God. Jacob's mind runs on a path all his own, and he has a mild handicap -- his feet stick out at right angles from his legs, giving him a very curious walk. Read More

Lebanon, Imprisoned Splendor

Actors: Omar Sharif

Gulliver's Travels

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Read More

Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt

Synopsis: This documentary offers a fascinating account of the life of one Egypt's most beloved superstars, the singer Umm Kulthum. In her prime, Kulthum was the first singing star to have her work distributed on radio, television, records and films. When she died in 1975, her whole country went into Read More

Catherine the Great

Actors: Brian Blessed, Mel Ferrer, Hannes Jaenicke, Ian Richardson, Omar Sharif, Jeanne Moreau, Craig McLachlan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann

Synopsis: Marvin J. Chomsky's sweeping historical drama, Catherine the Great, features Catherine Zeta-Jones as the title character. The film traces how the leader was able to skillfully manipulate both the societal institutions of the day as well as the powerful men who surrounded her in order to gain Read More

Lie Down with Lions

Tengoku No Taizai

Actors: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Omar Sharif, Toshiyuki Nishida

Synopsis: This crime and adventure drama was clearly made for local Japanese consumption, because its Japanese hero faces as dastardly a crew of evil foreigners as ever graced a soundstage: Chinese in all shapes and sizes, blacks, Arabs, Southeast Asians, and even a few European types. Japan's Korean Read More

588 Rue Paradis

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif, Richard Berry, Diane Bellego

Synopsis: This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the previous film. In the earlier film, a young man has moved with his family to Marseilles from Armenia and is adapting to his new country to the best of Read More

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Synopsis: Anthony Shaw directs his mother, Angela Lansbury of Murder She Wrote, in this lighthearted made-for-television adventure. Set in the 1950's, Lansbury stars as Mrs. Harris, a common British woman so intent on owning a Dior gown, that she slaves and scrimps for years. However, upon travelling to Read More

Beyond Justice

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Carol Alt, Omar Sharif, Elliott Gould, Kabir Bedi

Synopsis: In Beyond Justice-- an Italian-made action film directed by Tessari Duccio with an unusually fine cast -- Christine Sanders (Carol Alt), American millionairess and mother of the grandson of a fanatic Emir (Omar Sharif), hires mercenary Tom Burton (Rutger Hauer) to return her son after the Emir has Read More

Al Moaten Al Myssri

Actors: Omar Sharif, Abdallah Mahmoud

Synopsis: For some people, having enough is never enough. It gives them a sense of satisfaction to take something away from those who are barely getting by. In this story, set in the 1970s, a wealthy landowner (Omar Sharif) has persuaded the government to give him land previously held by poor peasants, and Read More

Memories of Midnight

Synopsis: Adaptation of Sidney Sheldon's novel features an amnesiac who works to recover her identity and the Greek billionaire who works to make sure that she never does. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mayrig

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif, Isabelle Sadoyan, Nathalie Roussel

Mountains of the Moon

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Peter Vaughan, John Savident

Synopsis: Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the exploratory adventures of 19th century visionaries Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen). The heart of the film is the effort Read More

Viaggio d'Amore

Actors: Omar Sharif, Lea Massari, Florence Guerin, Stephane Bonnet

Synopsis: Rico (Omar Sharif) has been a barber for a long time, and he has been married to his wife for four decades. It's about time that they take a vacation from the tiny village of Petrella Guidi and concentrate on themselves and their relationship. Zaira (Léa Massari), Pico's wife, surely loves him Read More

The Rainbow Thief

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Christopher Lee, Berta D. Dominguez, Jane Chaplin

Synopsis: An eccentric prince decides one day to give up all his wealth and position and live his own life. His idea of living his own life, though, is to take up residence in the city's sewers. His dutiful servant, who happens to be a thief, accompanies him. Appeals to his rich uncle to do something about Read More

Keys to Freedom

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Mysteries of the Pyramids

Synopsis: The pyramids of Giza, along with the Sphinx, inspire admiration, confusion, fear, and curiosity. This program attempts to answer the questions: How did the ancient Egyptians build them? Is it true that they are cursed? Modern technology can go a long way towards answering questions and finding new Read More

Les Possédés

Actors: Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Jutta Lampe, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Bernard Blier, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

Synopsis: This political drama is taken from the classic story from Feodor Dostoyevsky, but liberties have been taken and many secondary characters eliminated. The author's condemnation of a godless society and his disdain of those who follow blindly to popular political causes remains intact. ~ Dan Read More

Les Pyramides Bleues

Actors: Omar Sharif, Arielle Dombasle, Hippolyte Girardot, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Pierre Vaneck

Synopsis: Elise (Arielle Dombasle) is content being the lover of Alex (Omar Sharif), a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back. He offers money to the corrupt cult leader Noah (Pierre Vaneck Read More

Grand Larceny

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, the daughter of a notorious French burglar must follow in her father's illustrious footsteps after he is suddenly killed. She soon finds herself nearly in over her head as she is required to perform a variety of death-defying stunts in order to ply her trade. ~ Sandra Read More

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Actors: Claire Bloom, Rex Harrison, Susan Lucci, Omar Sharif, Amy Irving

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie recounts the life of Anna Anderson, who until the day she died at age 82 insisted that she was really Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Czar Nicholas. Anna first makes her claim in 1920, when she is an inmate in a Berlin asylum. Her story of escape from the Bolsheviks who Read More

Harem

Actors: Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Nancy Travis

Synopsis: The classy made-for-TV Harem managed to get away with plot devices that dated back to the days of Rudolph Valentino. Nancy Travis heads the cast as Jessica Gray, a turn-of-the-century American woman who is kidnapped and ensconced in the harem of Turkish sultan Hasan (Omar Sharif). Jessica Read More

Peter the Great

Synopsis: A TV mini-series, this is a visually pleasant movie about the life of Russia's colorful ruler, from childhood on. Big name cast is wasted on small roles, however. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Top Secret!

Actors: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid of an "Elvis" movie and a World War II "underground resistance" Read More

The Far Pavilions

Synopsis: The lavishly produced three-part telemovie The Far Pavilions was adapted from the best-selling novel by M.M. Kaye. Set in colonial India during the second Afghan war, the film concerns the exploits of Ashton Pelham-Martyn (Ben Cross), a British officer. Born and raised in India, Pelham-Martyn Read More

Ayoub

Actors: Omar Sharif

Synopsis: Omar Sharif stars as Ayoub ("Patience"), a millionaire who is suddenly overcome with paralysis when he enters the Cairo airport. After being led to a private room to rest a moment, he realizes that the paralysis is psychological and he must handle it in his own way. While on an upwardly-mobile Read More

Return to Eden

Actors: Omar Sharif

Synopsis: Seychelles is an island country north of Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean that obtained its independence from Great Britain in 1976. This documentary, narrated by Omar Sharif, explores the flora and fauna of the islands, including male and female coconuts that resemble human reproductive Read More

Green Ice

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif, Domingo Ambriz, John Larroquette

Synopsis: An electronics engineer (Ryan O'Neal) and his gal pal (Anne Archer) travel to South America, where they become involved in a plot to rob an emerald smuggler (Omar Sharif) of his fortune. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Inchon

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: This infamous Korean War drama is best known as the movie produced by Rev. Sung Myung Moon's Unification Church, though more people seem to have read stories about its troubled production or disastrous reception at the box office than to have actually seen it: on its initial release, it grossed Read More

Oh, Heavenly Dog!

Actors: Chevy Chase, Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Any comedy should be suspect when the lead character, in this case Benjamin Browning, is played both by an actor (Chevy Chase) and a lovable dog (Benji). Private eye Browning is in London tracking down a sexual scandal in British political circles when he is murdered. His karma is canine in form Read More

The Baltimore Bullet

Actors: James Coburn, Omar Sharif, Bruce Boxleitner, Ronee Blakely, Jack O'Halloran

Synopsis: James Coburn is "The Baltimore Bullet", a legendary pool player who's seen better days. Coburn "adopts" aspiring pool champ Bruce Boxleitner, teaching him practically everything he knows. As we know it must, the plot requires Coburn and Boxleitner to face each other in the climactic Read More

Pleasure Palace

Synopsis: In this romantic made-for-television comedy, a womanizing, handsome gambler tangles with the feisty female owner of a large casino and ends up falling in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bloodline

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: Bloodline, a thriller based on a mystery novel by Sidney Sheldon and directed by Terence Young, is the story of Elizabeth Roffe (Audrey Hepburn), who inherits a huge pharmaceutical company and then discovers that some of her family members may be plotting her death in order to gain control of the Read More

S*H*E

Actors: Anita Ekberg

Synopsis: The initials in the title of this made-for-TV movie stand for "Security Hazard Expert"--an apt description for the heroine, sexy superspy Lavinia Kean (Cornelia Sharpe). Shuttling throughout Italy and Germany, Lavinia thwarts the villainous machinations of Italian blackmailer Cesare Magnanon (Omar Read More

Ashanti

Actors: Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Beverly Johnson, Omar Sharif, Kabir Bedi, Rex Harrison

Synopsis: Released simply as Ashanti, this search-and-rescue film was adapted by scenarist Stephen Geller (Slaughterhouse-Five) from Evano, a novel by Alberto Vasques-Figueroa. Odious middle-eastern slave trader Peter Ustinov sets the plot in motion by kidnapping Beverly Johnson, the wife of World Health Read More

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback" films of the 1970s. Driven insane by the stupidities of Clouseau (Peter Sellers), ex-inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) transforms into a master criminal. Kidnapping the Read More

Crime and Passion

Actors: Omar Sharif, Karen Black, Joseph Bottoms, Bernhard Wicki, Heinz Ehrenfreund

Synopsis: Crime and Passion is a mediocre comedy-drama, about an investment counselor who doesn't handle his investments wisely. Andre (Omar Sharif) is in trouble with Rolf (Bernhard Wicki) because of Rolf's losses based on Andre's advice. Andre and his lover Susan (Karen Black) devise a scheme to have Read More

Funny Lady

Actors: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: Funny Lady, the follow-up to the 1968 Funny Girl which made a movie star of Barbra Streisand, picks up the character of Fanny Brice in the 1930s. Although she is a tremendously famous Broadway star, she has suffered from the stock market crash and needs to boost her finances. Even Ziegfeld, who Read More

The Return of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne

Synopsis: After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer Read More

The Tamarind Seed

Actors: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Dan O'Herlihy, Sylvia Syms

Synopsis: Blake Edwards's stylish direction bolsters this Cold War romance starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif. Andrews plays Judith Farrow, a British civil service functionary who meets dashing Russian agent Feodor Sverdlov (Omar Sharif) under the romantic skies of the Caribbean. The Caribbean breezes Read More

Juggernaut

Actors: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, director Richard Lester made what has proved to be one of the few quality films from the disaster craze that dominated filmmaking in the mid-'70s. Juggernaut is the pseudonym of a madman (Freddie Jones Read More

L'Île Mysterieuse

Actors: Omar Sharif, Philippe Nicaud, Gerard Tichy, Jess Hahn

Synopsis: This French film is one of the many efforts to film Jules Verne's novel, Mysterious Island. Here Captain Nemo is Omar Sharif, a seriously misanthropic man, who hides near a tropical island in his fabulous submarine. Flying in on a balloon are a number of refugees from a military dictatorship. The Read More

Le Droit d'aimer

Actors: Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Pierre Michael, Gilles Segal

Synopsis: This thin French drama takes place on a barren prison island. Pierre (Omar Sharif) has been sentenced to a life of hard labor on an island which lacks even a proper prison building: the men live in tents year 'round. Despite the grim conditions and brutal guards, he manages to hold his temper in Read More

Le Casse

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: This French-made feature was based on a 1957 Hollywood "B" effort The Burglar. Both films were inspired by the same David Goodis novel. Gallic crime-flick icon Jean Paul Belmondo play a slick jewel thief who steals a valuable emerald. He is stalked by cop Omar Sharif, who when he catches up to Belmondo Read More

The Last Valley

Actors: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson

Synopsis: Noted novelist and sometime film director James Clavell, wrote, directed, and produced this adaptation of J.B. Pick's novel, set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. During the chaotic confrontations and shifting alliances of the war, a hidden valley protected from the outside world becomes Read More

The Horsemen

Actors: Aziz Resh, Sy Temple, Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance, Peter Jeffrey

Synopsis: Director John Frankenheimer, extrapolating from his earlier films The Gypsy Moths and Grand Prix, examines machismo and how men test themselves to the limits of endurance in The Horsemen. The film takes place in modern day Afghanistan. Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the Read More

MacKenna's Gold

Actors: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Julie Newmar, Keenan Wynn, Lee J. Cobb, Burgess Meredith, Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to memory the map that leads to some hidden Apache gold. The Indians now want the gold to finance their fight against the white men who invade their territory. Mexican bandit Read More

Che!

Actors: Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova, Robert Loggia, Woody Strode

Synopsis: In this badly misconceived pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary -- played, incredibly, by Omar Sharif -- Che Guevara takes up the cause as a rebel fighter under the direction of Fidel Castro, played -- also incredibly -- by Jack Palance. Guevara, a young Argentine doctor, proves Read More

The Appointment

Actors: Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée, Lotte Lenya, Fausto Tozzi, Ennio Balbo

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet directed this romantic melodrama involving deceit and marital secrets. The film takes place in Rome where lawyer Federico Fendi (Omar Sharif) falls in love with his colleague Renzo's (Fausto Tozzi) fiancee Carla (Anouk Aimee). Renzo warns Federico that Carla is actually a high-priced Read More

Mayerling

Actors: Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera (Catherine Deneuve), and their untimely demise at Mayerling, the sight of the Austrian royal family's hunting lodge. Rudolf verbally spars with his father Emperor Franz-Josef (James Mason) Read More

Funny Girl

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis: "Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this biopic of entertainer Fanny Brice. This is also her first line in the film itself, the catalyst for a movie-long flashback. Repeating her Broadway role, Streisand stars as Read More

C'era una Volta

Actors: Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif, Dolores Del Rio, Georges Wilson, Leslie French

Synopsis: A handsome prince searches for love in this whimsical fairy tale. Prince Ramon (Omar Sharif) has been pledged to an arranged marriage by the Queen Mother (Dolores Del Rio), but he balks at marrying a woman whom he doesn't love, and rides away on his horse rather than face the altar. While riding Read More

The Night of the Generals

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray

Synopsis: Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery set during World War II. Grau's only clue is that the murderer was wearing the uniform of a Nazi general. The three suspects include Gabler (Charles Gray), who fears his Read More

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

Actors: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Georges Géret

Synopsis: This exciting adventure provides an interesting look into the manufacture and trafficking of opium and heroin. The original story was written by Ian Fleming who died shortly before he was to pen the screenplay. The story is set in Iran and opens as an American undercover agent is murdered in the Read More

Le Meravigliose Avventure di Marco Polo

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Horst Buchholz, Elsa Martinelli, Omar Sharif, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a star-studded, epic retelling of the story of the famed thirteenth-century Venitian explorer. Filmed on location in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Egypt and Afghanistan, the film stars Read More

Doctor Zhivago

Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots Read More

Genghis Khan

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason, Eli Wallach, Françoise Dorléac

Synopsis: The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody. Though Omar Sharif essays the title role, top billing is bestowed upon Stephen Boyd as Genghis Khan's mentor-turned-enemy Jamuga. It's hard to generate audience sympathy for a Read More

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Actors: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, Shirley MacLaine, Moira Lister, George C. Scott, Isa Miranda, Ingrid Bergman

Synopsis: In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their possession of an unusual car, a yellow Rolls Royce Phantom II. Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) is a diplomat who purchases the exquisite auto as a gift for his wife (Jeanne Read More

Revolt of the Mamalukes

Behold a Pale Horse

Actors: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: By 1964, it was possible for a major studio to make a film touching upon the Spanish Civil War without having to answer to some senate investigating committee or other. Based on Emeric Pressburger's novel A Mouse on Sunday, Behold a Pale Horse stars Gregory Peck as a war veteran who continues Read More

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Actors: Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is actually an above-average historical drama, attempting to make sense of the political intrigues which resulted in the dissolution of the Glory That Was Rome. Read More

Lawrence of Arabia

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains

Synopsis: This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. Read More

A Man in Our House

Actors: Omar Sharif

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Ihsan Abdel Qoddous, A Man in Our House stars Omar Sharif as a member of the underground resistance to the British occupation of Egypt in the 1940's who seeks refuge from the Political Police in the home of a civil servant and his family. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Struggle on the Nile

Actors: Hind Rostom, Omar Sharif

Synopsis: Three years before dashing Egyptian actor Omar Sharif shot to international stardom as a result of his role in Lawrence of Arabia, he essayed the lead in this atmospheric adventure that has seldom been seen stateside since its original 1959 release. When a youthful villager (Sharif) agrees to Read More

Goha

Actors: Omar Sharif, Zohra Faïza, Lauro Gazzolo, Daniel Emilfork

Synopsis: As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes Read More

Devil of the Desert