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  • Djalili warned over religious comedy - 29 April 2010
    -British-Iranian actor Omid Djalili was warned by journalists in the Middle East his role in religiously-charged new comedy The Infidel could "get him in trouble".- -The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End star plays a Muslim who discovers he was adopted and is r

Omid Djalili - what members say


  • Comic Aid
  • Comic Aid review by from Lake District, Cumbria
    Rated - 4.0 stars Too much of a good thing 9 April 2005
    ...dians I had heard of but never seen them do stand-up, Jimmy Carr, Eddie Izzard, Omid Djalili and Dylan Moran (Sadly I still can't warm to Graham Norton). The variety of ...   Read customer review
  • Grow Your Own
  • Grow Your Own review by mstratfo1234 from
    Rated - 3.5 stars Rent this film ! 23 August 2011
    ...self a favour - rent this film. A wonderful script. Great acting, especially by Omid Djalili and Eddie Marsden. I'm surprised it's so little know....   Read customer review
  • Omid Djalili - No Agenda
  • Omid Djalili - No Agenda review by from Alesbury,England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Djalili is one of the great entertainers 15 November 2007
    ...What’s so lovely about Omid Djalili is that he takes you on a flight of fancy without having to resort to the shock tactics beloved by many stand-ups. His humour is underpi...   Read customer review

Omid Djalili - filmography


  • Big Fat Gypsy Gangster on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Dave Legeno,  Steven Berkoff,  Peter Capaldi
    Director: Ricky Grover
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A fast moving, star studded, roller coaster ride of violence, madness and mayhem in this gritty British crime film. Bulla is the 'Big Fat Gypsy Gangster', labeled 'the most dangerous man in Britain'. After serving sixteen years at her majesty's pleasure Bulla is out on the streets again, but ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 323 members
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  • Sex and the City 2 on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker,  Kim Cattrall,  Kristin Davis
    Director: Michael Patrick King
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A fun, adventurous romp: Sex and the City 2 brings it all back and more as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda take another bite out of The Big Apple and beyond, carrying on with their busy lives and loves in a sequel that truly sparkles. What happens after you say "I do"? Life is everything ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 17,125 members
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  • Mr. Nice - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Chloe Sevigny,  Rhys Ifans,  David Thewlis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    During the mid 1980s Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owned twenty-five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. At the height of his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,704 members
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  • The Infidel - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Omid Djalili,  Richard Schiff,  Igal Naor
    Director: Josh Appignanesi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A devoted Muslim family man experiences a hilarious identity crisis after discovering that he was adopted at birth, and his real name is Solly Shimshillewitz. Mahmud Nasir (Omid Djalili) is still grieving the recent death of his mother when he finds his birth certificate, and learns he was born to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,067 members
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  • The Infidel on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Omid Djalili,  Richard Schiff,  Igal Naor
    Director: Josh Appignanesi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 10,506 members
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  • Mr. Nice on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Chloe Sevigny,  Rhys Ifans,  David Thewlis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    During the mid 1980s Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owned twenty-five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. At the height of his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 12,591 members
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  • Omid Djalili - Live in London on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Omid Djalili
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    He's back! One of Britain's best loved comedians, the multi award-winning British-Iranian, Omid Djalili takes on the world in a brand new sensational stand up show. Undertaking a huge sell-out tour across the UK, 'Live in London' captures Omid at his very best, recorded live at the celebrated ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 527 members
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  • The Love Guru on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jessica Alba,  Justin Timberlake,  Mike Myers
    Director: Marco Schnabel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 10,094 members
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  • The Love Guru - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Meagan Good,  Mike Myers,  Verne Troyer
    Director: Marco Schnabel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 2,169 members
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  • Omid Djalili - No Agenda on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Omid Djalili
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Omid Djalili is an award winnig British Iranian actor and comedian. Acclaimed as one of Britain's funniest standup comedians, he regularly performs on the comedy and theatre scene. His film and television appearances are no less impressive, including 'The Mummy', 'Spy Game', 'Gladiator' and '..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,580 member
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  • The Omid Djalili Show - Series 1 on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Omid Djalili
    Director: Michael Cumming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hilarious sketches and stand up in Omid Djalili's long awaited BBC series. One of Britain's best loved comedians, the multi award-winning British-Iranian, Omid Djalili takes on the world - jumping from multi-culturalism to multi-tasking mums and from Godzilla impressions to the execution of Saddam ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 128 members
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  • Alien Autopsy on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Declan Donnelly,  Ant McPartlin,  Bill Pullman
    Director: Johnny Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    From the director of Shameless and Phoenix Nights comes the truth behind one of the biggest hoaxes the world has ever seen. In 1995 a piece of footage shook the world. With a bigger world-wide audience than Live Aid, a piece of top secret military film from Roswell in 1947 that showed and alien ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 26,874 members
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  • Modigliani on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Andy Garcia,  Elsa Zylberstein,  Omid Djalili
    Director: Mick Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This lavish biopic directed by Mick Davis follows Italian painter Amadeo Modigliani s he struggles to establish himself as a successful artist in early 20th-century Paris. The film mainly focuses on Modigliani's tumultuous relationships with friend and rival Pablo Picasso, and with Jeanne Hebuterne,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 397 members
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  • Casanova on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Heath Ledger,  Sienna Miller,  Jeremy Irons
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova is about to meet his match when the alluring Francesca does the one thing the notorious lover of women never thought possible - refuse him. Through disguises, subterfuges and wit, Casanova manages to get closer and closer to Francesca... but ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 25,151 members
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  • The Calcium Kid on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Orlando Bloom,  Billie Piper,  Ronni Ancona
    Director: Alex De Rakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A British 'mockumentary' comedy, sees Orlando Bloom playing a young milkman named Jimmy. Jimmy Connelly is quite happy in his job as a milkman and will hopefully one day become the regional manager for Express Milk Dairies. Jimmy is also a keen amateur boxer and trains regularly at his local gym. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 4,852 members
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  • The Mummy - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Rachel Weisz,  John Hannah
    Director: Stephen Sommers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the 1920s, a group of archaeologists led by adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) discovers the mummified body of Imhotep, an Egyptian priest who was cursed for falling in love with the Pharoah's mistress. When they accidentally resurrect him, the battle for survival begins, as the mummy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 2,789 members
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  • The Mummy on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Rachel Weisz,  John Hannah
    Director: Stephen Sommers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the 1920s, a group of archaeologists led by adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) discovers the mummified body of Imhotep, an Egyptian priest who was cursed for falling in love with the Pharoah's mistress. When they accidentally resurrect him, the battle for survival begins, as the mummy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 28,731 members
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  • The Mummy - HD (1998)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Rachel Weisz,  John Hannah
    Director: Stephen Sommers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the 1920s, a group of archaeologists led by adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) discovers the mummified body of Imhotep, an Egyptian priest who was cursed for falling in love with the Pharoah's mistress. When they accidentally resurrect him, the battle for survival begins, as the mummy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 774 members
    Not currently released
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  • Channel 4's Comedy Gala
    Starring: Alan Carr,  Bill Bailey,  Jack Dee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy royalty unite for one night only in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. They've rounded up 25 of the nation's best known and most-loved comedians - including Alan Carr, Michael McIntyre, Lee Evans, Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon and Jack Dee - for this spectacular, must-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 33 members
    Not available for rental
  • Comic Aid on DVD
    Starring: Jonathan Ross,  Jack Dee,  Graham Norton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Britain's biggest comedy stars team up to raise money for the Asian Tsunami disaster appeal with all proceeds from the show, and this DVD, donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,171 members
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Omid Djalili facts

5 most recent films

Big Fat Gypsy Gangster - 2.0 stars
Sex and the City 2 - 3.0 stars
Mr. Nice - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Infidel - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Infidel - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

My Family And Other Animals - 4.0 stars
The Mummy - HD - 3.5 stars
The Mummy - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Mummy - 3.5 stars
Omid Djalili - No Agenda - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Channel 4's Comedy Gala - 3.0 stars
Big Fat Gypsy Gangster - 2.0 stars
The Love Guru - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - 2.5 stars
The Calcium Kid - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kevin J. O'Connor - 5 times - show films
Stephen Dunham - 5 times - show films
Corey Johnson - 5 times - show films
Oded Fehr - 5 times - show films
John Hannah - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 6 times - show films
Stephen Sommers - 5 times - show films
Kerry Conran - 4 times - show films
Josh Appignanesi - 3 times - show films
Michael Patrick King - 3 times - show films