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Omar Sharif
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Omar Sharif - what members say
review by from Henfield West Sussex
atmospheric period drama 28 June 2005
review by A customer from Orpington
A stirring gripping period epic against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution 12 April 2010
review by A customer from Cheshire England
Great Film 5 January 2007
Omar Sharif - filmography
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I Forgot to Tell You
(2009)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Émilie Dequenne, Emilie Dequenne
Director: Laurent Vinas-Raymond
Certificate: 
A young girl, Marie is freed from prison and moves to France, in the hope of starting a new life. Although this new life begins with a menial job, working as a fruit-picker, Marie's new world soon begins to take shape. A major part of it is a handsome local mechanic Baptiste, who is more than ..read more »
 
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from 3 members
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10,000 BC
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Nathanael Baring, Marco Khan, Cliff Curtis
Director: Roland Emmerich
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
This is a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh, has found his heart's passion-the beautiful Evolet. When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and ..read more »
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from 27,730 members
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10,000 BC - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Nathanael Baring, Marco Khan, Cliff Curtis
Director: Roland Emmerich
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Director Roland Emmerich might have set this action epic in prehistoric times, but audiences can expect plenty of high tech special effects in this film from the man that brought INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW to the screen.
53%
from 8,449 members
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One Night With The King
(2006)
Starring: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
Certificate:
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
57%
from 21 members
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Princess Of Persia
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble
Director: Michael Sajbel
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
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 to ..read more »
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from 202 members
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Hidalgo
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif
Director: Joe Johnston
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A breathtakingly photographed, epic western like none produced for decades, HIDALGO recounts the life of legend Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen). Set in the 1800s, this family film chronicles the triumphant victory won by Frank and his mustang Hidalgo in the Ocean of Fire, an often-fatal ..read more »
61%
from 18,490 members
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Hidalgo - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif
Director: Joe Johnston
Certificate:
A breathtakingly photographed, epic western like none produced for decades, HIDALGO recounts the life of legend Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen). Set in the 1800s, this family film chronicles the triumphant victory won by Frank and his mustang Hidalgo in the Ocean of Fire, an often-fatal ..read more »
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from 318 members
Not currently released
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Monsieur Ibrahim
(2003)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki
Director: Francois Dupeyron
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Vividly portraying a 1960s Paris neighborhood where lower-class status unites residents of varied religious and ethnic backgrounds, MONSIEUR IBRAHIM follows the universally appealing story of a young boy's coming of age. Moses (Pierre Boulanger), a Jewish teenager, lives in an apartment with his ..read more »
80%
from 19 members
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The 13th Warrior
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Omar Sharif
Director: John McTiernan
Certificate: 
Director John McTiernan takes viewers back to 900 A.D. in THE 13th WARRIOR. After courting "an untouchable" Muslim princess, Ahmed (Antonio Banderas) is banished and sent North as an emissary. When traveling from Baghdad to Saqaliba, he stumbles into an encampment of Vikings. At first repulsed by ..read more »
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from 3,583 members
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Mysteries Of Egypt
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Omar Sharif
Director: Bruce Neibaur
Certificate: 
Well-known Egyptian actor Omar Sharif and the young British actress Kate Maberly are featured in the IMAX film. Sharif plays the role of a grandfather who takes his visiting granddaughter (Maberly) around the country to introduce her to the wonders of ancient Egypt. Re-enactments are used to ..read more »
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from 208 members
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Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Angela Lansbury
Director: Anthony Shaw
Certificate:
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A delightful tale of a housemaid who spends her days cleaning the homes of the well-to-do. Mrs. Harris or arris as pronounced in her native cockney (Angela Lansbury) epitomises her generation of honest, working-class Brits. She knows her place, though that never stops her from speaking her mind or ..read more »
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from 204 members
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Beyond Justice
(1992)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Rutger Hauer, Carol Alt
Director: Duccio Tessari
Certificate:
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Ex-CIA agent, Tom Burton, is hired to save the life of the son of a corporate C.E.O. who has been kidnapped by his playboy father and taken to the remote desert lands of his grandfather. The boy soon becomes involved in a deadly game of international betrayal...
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from 3 members
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Harem - The Loss Of Innocence
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Sarah Miles, Omar Sharif, Ava Gardner
Director: William Hale
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A story of love, passion, intrigue and revolution set in the crumbling Ottoman empire in 1906. On route to Damascus, a naive American heiress is kidnapped and sold to the local Sultan's harem. As the days pass she becomes torn between a Turkish rebel, the Sultan and her English diplomat fiance.
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from 142 members
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Top Secret
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Gough
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
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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 thriller. ..read more »
64%
from 4,714 members
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The Far Pavilions
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Omar Sharif
Director: Peter Duffell
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This made-for-TV adaptation of M.M. Kaye's novel is a haunting love story set in imperial 19th-century India. Ben Cross plays Ashton Pelham-Martyn, an Indian-reared British officer who is assigned to safeguard a group of Indian princesses en route to meet their new husbands-to-be. During the voyage,..read more »
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from 788 members
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Green Ice
(1981)
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif
Director: Ernest Day
Certificate:
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A skilled team of professional men plot to steal an enormous cache of emeralds. Their daring get-rich-quick scheme lands them all in the middle of the complex machinations behind a Latin-American revolution.
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from 92 members
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Bloodline
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Romy Schneider, James Mason
Director: Terence Young
Certificate: 
Suspense thriller based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. When Sam Roffe, president of a multinational pharmaceutical company, is killed while mountain-climbing, his beautiful daughter Elizabeth (Audrey Hepburn) inherits the controlling interest of his empire - and almost immediately ..read more »
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from 122 members
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Funny Lady
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Director: William Wyler, Herbert Ross
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Funny Lady Barbra Streisand is back and she's better than ever as the exuberant Fanny Brice in Funny Lady, sequel to acclaimed Academy Award winner Funny Girl. This lively, lavish musical opens a new chapter in Fanny's career and love life. Now divorced from wealthy Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), she ..read more »
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from 619 members
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The Tamarind Seed
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif
Director: Blake Edwards
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Judith Farrow, who works for the British Embassy, has just ended an affair with a married man. To recover emotionally, she decides to vacation in Barbados, where she meets a suave, mysterious Russian named Feodor Sverdlov. Although the two are attracted to each other, Judith is wary of beginning a ..read more »
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from 361 members
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The Last Valley
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Brian Blessed
Director: James Clavell
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An army of 17th century mercenaries discover a peaceful town nestled in a verdant valley which has been left unmolested by the terrible "Thirty Years War." The reaction of the community's denizens to the violent soldiers becomes increasingly hostile. Michael Caine and Omar Sharif lead the cast.
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from 428 members
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Che!
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Jack Palance, Omar Sharif, Cesare Danova
Director: Richard Fleischer, Richard
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Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, coverering Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.
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from 115 members
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MacKenna's Gold
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A U.S. Sheriff, entrusted with a map of the legendary Valley of Gold, is attacked by an unruly bandit gang and his own local townspeople. They are all fired by greed and gold lust, but bound together by a fear of their common enemy - the Apache. Based on a novel by Will Henry, with music by Quincy ..read more »
63%
from 442 members
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Funny Girl
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Director: William Wyler
Certificate: 
One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, Funny Girl follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice - a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break ..read more »
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from 1,740 member
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Operation Opium
(1966)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Trevor Howard
Director: Terence Young
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A motorcycle gang descend upon a small town and cause total chaos by torturing the townsfolk, raping the women and vandalising property. Only one person can stop the carnage, a disillusioned war hero and relentless one-man killing machine...
42%
from 11 members
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The Night Of The Generals
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: Anatole Litvak
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The tense story of a manhunt for a psychopathic sex killer during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and Paris in World War II. An Intelligence major is assigned to the task of finding the killer, who is believed to be a top-ranking German officer...
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from 1,586 member
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Doctor Zhivago - Blu-ray
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr. Zhivago's relationships reflect the political ..read more »
77%
from 229 members
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Genghis Khan
(1965)
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason
Director: Henry Levin
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Genghis Khan stars Omar Sharif in the role of the legendary Mongol chieftain, uniter of the nomadic hoardes, conqueror of all Asia and terror of the west! This film tells the story of his rise from captive slave boy to daring guerilla leader, to confiant and ally of the Emperor of China, to saviour ..read more »
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from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Doctor Zhivago
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr. Zhivago's relationships reflect the political ..read more »
72%
from 7,719 members
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The Fall Of The Roman Empire
(1964)
Starring: Alec Guinness, James Mason, Stephen Boyd
Director: Anthony Mann
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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. The ..read more »
59%
from 623 members
Not currently released
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Lawrence Of Arabia
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
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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 »
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from 22,385 members
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...very realistic drama with a very strong performance from both Omar Sharif and Michael Caine.The background music is very haunting and I highly recommend it.You should also...
