The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)

Actors: Diane Baker (actress), Moritz Bleibtreu (actor), Rade Serbedzija (actor), Emily Rice (miscellaneous crew), C. Thomas Howell (actor), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Jane Robinson (costume designer), Giancarlo J. Sini (miscellaneous crew), Richard Dillard (actor), Andrea Borella (producer), Isaac Mejía (miscellaneous crew), Kathy Hughes (miscellaneous crew), Nozim To'laho'jayev (actor), Belle Avery (writer), Belle Avery (producer),

Plot: Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Khayyam. The story has been passed down in his family from one generation to another, and now it is his responsibility to keep the story alive for future generations. The film takes us from the modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayyam, Hassan Sabbah (the original creator of the sect of Assassins) and their mutual love for a beautiful woman separate them from their eternal bond of friendship. Filmed almost entirely on location in Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

Keywords: assassin, astronomer, astronomy, iran, khayyám, persia, persian, philosopher, philosophy, poem
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family,
Taglines: Love, Destiny, Faith.....eternal truths from a genius with the soul of a poet

Iranian Nights (1989)

Actors: Nabil Shaban (actor), Dave Heather (director), Tariq Ali (producer), Tariq Ali (writer), Paul Bhattacharjee (actor), Fiona Victory (actress), Alistair Fraser (producer), Bill Saint (editor), Howard Brenton (writer), Kuljit Bhamra (composer), Penny Cherns (director), Carlos Madriz (editor), Kiranpal (composer),

Genres: Drama,

Omar Khayyam (1957)

Actors: Len Hendry (actor), Charles La Torre (actor), James Griffith (actor), John Abbott (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), John Derek (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Henry Brandon (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Sebastian Cabot (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), Roger Creed (actor),

Plot: Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.

Keywords: assassin, character-name-in-title, iran, khayyám, persia, persian, philosopher, philosophy, poet, poetry
Genres: Adventure,

Quotes:

Omar Khayyam: They call you Chosen One... the Seventh Excellent Creature.Are you also to be appointed Caliph, interpreting the Will of God, Supreme Ruler above all earthly kings?::Hasani Sabah: If it were not so, I could not wear these robes nor hold this office.::Omar Khayyam: You have named me your Counsellor, but [pause] I am happier with lesser matters, like this strip of vellum on which I have reduced the year to better reckoning. These figures will guide the lives of men when our mouths have been stopped with the dust of a thousand years, and the name Omar Khayyam is just as long forgotten. These figures, written on the skins of lambs, have more power than all your daggers and secret plans. Such men as you have arisen in every generation, from the dawn of mankind to our times, each with another form of the ancient conspiracy to rule this Earth. Millions of men have died to prove them wrong. What you are doing is not new, and will never be old. And when you have failed - as all those before you have failed and miserably died - it will happen again, and over again, as long as my calendar shall last. [pause] But my calendar may not last an hour. Only sworn Assassins leave this rock.

Yaffa: Slaves are trained to please, wives are not.

Son of Sinbad (1955)

Actors: John Merton (actor), Frank Mills (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Larry J. Blake (actor), George Barrows (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Leon Askin (actor), John George (actor), Raymond Greenleaf (actor), James Griffith (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Ian MacDonald (actor), Michael Mark (actor), Tom Monroe (actor),

Plot: Sinbad was pursuing a secret weapon: Greek Fire. Attributed to the ancient Greeks, it was composed of pitch or bitumen, sulfur, and other ingredients. It was used in naval warfare and the Romans also made use of it but with the fall of the ancient Western world, it was temporarily forgotten, but it was rediscovered by the Arabs from whom European Crusaders also learned the method of making it.

Keywords: 1001-nights, 3-dimensional, arab, arabian, arabian-nights, bathing, belly-dance, belly-dancer, belly-dancing, bound-and-gagged
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy,
Taglines: HOLD ON TO YOUR TURBANS! Here comes Adventure's boldest son!

Quotes:

Sinbad: [Outside a cave] Open Sesame, OPEN SESAME::Kristina: [to a donkey tied to a contraption that opens the doorway] Sesame

A Lover's Oath (1925)

Actors: Arthur Edmund Carewe (actor), Snitz Edwards (actor), Ramon Novarro (actor), Edwin Stevens (actor), Paul Weigel (actor), Fay Wray (actress), Milton Sills (writer), Milton Sills (editor), Charles A. Post (actor), Philippe De Lacy (actor), Kathleen Key (actress), Hedwiga Reicher (actress), Frederick Warde (actor), Warren Rogers (actor), Ferdinand P. Earle (producer),

Genres: Fantasy, Romance,