Arabs

Pray for Us Sinners (2013)

Actors: Marino Amoruso (editor), Marino Amoruso (writer), Marino Amoruso (director), Jackie Martling (actor), Joseph R. Gannascoli (actor), Jeff Davis (producer), Myra Weinstein (producer), Daniel Weinstein (producer), Kobi Wright (actor), Ryan Horncastle (actor), William Connor (actor), Jon Factor (actor), Bill Farber (actor), Amanda Dodson (actor), James Connor (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

El ojo unico (2008)

Actors: Monica Gonzaga (actress), Martin Slipak (actor), Sebastián Mogordoy (actor), Jorge Prado (actor), Cristian Bernard (writer), Diego Gatto (actor), Eugenia Lencinas (actress), Mario Moscoso (actor), Carolina Solari (actress), Juan Manuel Leguizamon (composer), Nano Recondo (actor), Ezequiel Cipols (actor), Leda Nasio (producer), Arturo Cuadrado (actor), Leda Nasio (actress),

Plot: In this dark, futuristic tale set in 2068 Buenos Aires, a motorcycle messenger is sent on a routine delivery to the TV corporation Grupo Crinal, where he unwittingly stumbles upon a truth that will change his life forever. He discovers a labyrinthian world where nothing is what it seems, and a truth he must accept in order to reclaim both his identity - and that of Buenos Aires.

Keywords: independent-film
Genres: Fantasy, Short,

Small Voices (2008)

Actors: Sofian Khan (editor), Sofian Khan (writer), Sofian Khan (director), Manu Chao (actor), Mary Kouyoumdjian (composer), Rashid Farooqi (actor), Nouman Ijaz (actor), Faizan Khan (editor), Navaid Jabbar (actor), Saif-e-Hasan (actor), Farooq Pareo (actor), Sonia Rehman (actress), Khalid Latif (producer), Hummal Ata-Shad (actor), Saleem Miraj (actor),

Plot: Based on true events, Small Voices recounts the story of Alam, a Pakistani boy abducted by human traffickers, and his struggle to survive through years of captivity far from home. Smuggled across the sea to the Arab Emirates, Alam and his fellow captives, all aged between 5 and 12 years - from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and the horn of Africa - are trained to race camels for the pleasure of the wealthy sheiks. Risking life and limb each time they ride, the boys have no choice but to follow the orders of their brutal trainers or face brutal punishment.

Keywords: camel, camel-race, human-trafficking, pakistan
Genres: Short,
Taglines: Is anyone listening?

Grozovye vorota (2006)

Actors: Raisa Ryazanova (actress), Mikhail Efremov (actor), Andrey Krasko (actor), Boris Shcherbakov (actor), Marina Yakovleva (actress), Vladimir Episkoposyan (actor), Konstantin Ernst (producer), Vyacheslav Razbegaev (actor), Mikhail Porechenkov (actor), Yuriy Tsurilo (actor), Viktoriya Tolstoganova (actress), Marina Mogilevskaya (actress), Fyodor Smirnov (actor), Igor Livanov (actor), Vladimir Bogdanov (actor),

Genres: Drama, War,

Firestorm II: The Angel Blade (1987)

Actors: Renee Summers (actress), Kay Parker (actress), Joanna Storm (actress), Ron Jeremy (actor), Tiffany Clark (actress), Cecil Howard (actor), Rhonda Jo Petty (actress), Eric Edwards (actor), John Leslie (actor), Michael Gaunt (actor), Sharon Kane (actress), Sharon Mitchell (actress), Paul Thomas (actor), Tish Ambrose (actress), Cecil Howard (producer),

Genres: Adult,

Jugando con la muerte (1982)

Actors: José Antonio de la Loma (writer), José Antonio de la Loma (writer), Carlos Vasallo (producer), Jorge Rivero (actor), José Antonio de la Loma (producer), Maud Adams (actress), José María Cañete (actor), Max von Sydow (actor), Chuck Connors (actor), José María Blanco (actor), Susana Dosamantes (actress), George Peppard (actor), Robert Brown (actor), Carlos Vasallo (writer), Carlos Vasallo (writer),

Plot: A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent (a Jewish mercenary(?)) to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. The mercenary is code-named Eagle because of a tattoo. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a point of contact. However, as he gets deeper into the gang, he discovers that there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the transportation of smuggled uranium for the manufacture of nuclear arms for sale to Libya and other aspiring third world countries. Things get even stickier when a ruthless bad guy shows up and he turns out to be one of Eagle's former cohorts in the Foreign Legion.

Keywords: evil-man, undercover
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller,

The Omen (1976)

Actors: Harvey Bernhard (producer), Billie Whitelaw (actress), Lee Remick (actress), Patrick Troughton (actor), Harvey Bernhard (actor), Robert Rietty (actor), David Warner (actor), Ronald Leigh-Hunt (actor), Martin Benson (actor), Bruce Boa (actor), Leo McKern (actor), Nicholas Campbell (actor), Gregory Peck (actor), David Seltzer (writer), Mace Neufeld (producer),

Plot: Gregory Peck is the ambassador to the United States who's wife has a stillborn child. Without her knowledge, he substitutes another baby as theirs. A few years go by, and then grisly deaths begin to happen. The child's nanny hangs herself and a priest is speared to death in a freak accident. It turns out the child is the son of Satan and can only be killed with the seven daggers of Meggado.

Keywords: 666, adoption, airplane-trip, altar, ambassador, american-abroad, american-ambassador, american-flag, animal-attack, antichrist
Genres: Horror, Mystery,
Taglines: OUR FINAL WARNING. It is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it. Good morning. You are one day closer to the end of the world. You have been warned. It is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it. It is the highest suspense because no man can bear it. It is the greatest fear because it is the ancient fear of the unknown. It is a warning foretold for thousands of years. It is our final warning. It is The Omen. Those who foretold it are dead. Those who can stop it are in grave danger. If Something Frightening Happens To You Today, Think About It. It May Be "The Omen".

Quotes:

Father Brennan: When the Jews return to Zion / And a comet rips the sky / And the Holy Roman Empire rises, / Then You and I must die. / From the eternal sea he rises, / Creating armies on either shore, / Turning man against his brother / 'Til man exists no more.

[first title card]::Title card: Rome / June 6th - 6 AM

[first lines]::Father Spiletto: [voiceover] The child is dead. He breathed for a moment. Then he breathed no more. The child is dead. Dead. The child is dead.

Kathy Thorn: Something in mind, Mr. Ambassador?::Robert Thorn: Why don't we have a little look upstairs...::Kathy Thorn: Well, there's no furniture up there either.::Robert Thorn: Awww, you know, you could be too sexy for the White House!

[last lines]::Secret Service Man: Excuse me, Mr. President. When you're ready to leave, your car's right over there.::President: In a moment.::Secret Service Man: Yes, sir.

[last title card]::Title card: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666." Book of Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 18

Father Brennan: He must DIE, Mr. Thorn!

Mrs Baylock: Have no fear, little one... I am here to protect thee.

[Robert Thorn and Kathy Thorn survey their mansion]::Robert Thorn: It's a bit much.::Kathy Thorn: No, nothing's too much for the wife of the future President of the United States.::Robert Thorn: You know, you're pushy.

Robert Thorn: What do you know about my son?::Father Brennan: Everything.::Robert Thorn: And what is that?::Father Brennan: I saw its mother.::Robert Thorn: You saw my wife.::Father Brennan: I saw its mother.::Robert Thorn: You are referring to my wife!::Father Brennan: Its *mother*, Mr. Thorn!::Robert Thorn: If this is blackmail, come and say it! What is it you're trying to say?::Father Brennan: Its mother was a Jack...::[Father Brennan is interrupted as the door behind him bursts open violently]::Marine: Everything all right, sir?::American secretary: You sounded strange. The door was locked.

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

Actors: Robin Hughes (actor), Bruce Lester (actor), John Holland (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor), Rex Harrison (actor), Robert Douglas (actor), John Alderson (actor), Henry Corden (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Leslie Bradley (actor), Paul Marion (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor),

Plot: In 1191, King Richard the Lionhearted, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens. There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment encampment however. Two nobles in particular, Sir Giles Amaury and Conrad of Montferrat, want to eliminate the English king and attempt to have him assassinated. Severely wounded and on his death bed, Richard is brought back to health by a Saracen doctor recruited by one of his loyal knights, Sir Kenneth of the Leopard. The king recovers from his wounds but when he hears that Sir Lawrence wishes to marry Lady Edith Plantagenet, the knight is banished only to be taken in by the very doctor who treated the king and who has an altogether different identity.

Keywords: 1190s, 12th-century, arab, armor, austrian, banner, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, battle, battle-axe
Genres: Adventure, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: Theirs was the mightiest challenge of them all! The Mighty Story of Richard the Lion-Hearted! From Sir Walter Scott's Epic Adventure-Romance... "The Talisman"!

Quotes:

Lady Edith: War, war! That's all you ever think about, Dick Plantagenet! You burner, you pillager!

[Sir Kenneth tries to steal a kiss]::Lady Edith: No, no, my dearly betrothed. Richard would set the headsman on your neck - he has said as much.::Sir Kenneth: Then kiss me quickly, my bonnie, while these lips are still warm.::Lady Edith: No, no! (they kiss) Ah, this is a pleasant madness.::Sir Kenneth: A lunacy with which I would love to be afflicted... to the end of my life. If Richard would take my life, I must kiss softly.

Saladin: May the Seven Doves rest on your shoulders.::Sir Kenneth: Doves or vultures, you slippery infidel?::Saladin: Come, I invite you to share the waters of the oasis with me.

Lady Edith: I'm a Plantagenet, yet somehow I feel less proud. I'm beginning to despise war. The dread, the wondering each time you ride away if you'll come back among the living.

Saladin: These strange pale-eyed Goths, they show their hearts like the bumps on a pomegranate.

King Richard I: Go squat on your Alps!

King Richard I: Loyalty - as high a virtue as majesty sometimes.

Sir Kenneth: In the desert no man meets a friend.

Sword in the Desert (1949)

Actors: Jerry Paris (actor), Jeff Chandler (actor), Paul Marion (actor), Rory Mallinson (actor), Stephen McNally (actor), Stanley Logan (actor), Robin Hughes (actor), James Craven (actor), Dana Andrews (actor), Martin Garralaga (actor), Clyde Cook (actor), Charles Flynn (actor), Paul Brinegar (actor), Liam Redmond (actor), Emil Rameau (actor),

Plot: Cynical freighter captain Mike Dillon hopes to take the money and run after helping to smuggle Jewish refugees ashore in pre-Israel Palestine. But against his will, he's drawn into the escalating fight between British occupation forces and the founders of Israel. In a battle doubly terrible because the audience sympathizes with both sides, how long can Mike remain a bystander?

Keywords: middle-east
Genres: Action, Drama, War,

Quotes:

David Vogel: You haven't much faith in mankind, have you?::Mike Dillon: Why should I have? What's it ever done for me?

Anthony Adverse (1936)

Actors: Robert Graves (actor), Edmund Gwenn (actor), Martin Garralaga (actor), Davison Clark (actor), Luis Alberni (actor), Antonio Filauri (actor), Sam Appel (actor), Scotty Beckett (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Pedro de Cordoba (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Sam Appel (actor), Louis Hayward (actor),

Plot: In late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. However, she is in love with another, younger man. When the husband finds out, he kills the lover in a swordfight, and takes his wife on a long trip throughout Europe. Months later, she dies giving birth to a son. The husband leaves the child at a convent, where he is raised until the age of 10; then he is apprenticed to a local merchant, who gives him the name "Anthony Adverse" because of the adversity in his life. But his adversity has only begun, as fate takes him to Cuba, Africa, and Paris.

Keywords: 1770s, 1780s, 1790s, 1800s, abbess, africa, alps, arrest, based-on-novel, bathing
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

John Bonnyfeather: Sometimes the great house of Bonnyfeather becomes too heavy a burden for one man's shoulders.

[first title card]::Title Card: Those who are destined to live during times of war and social upheaval are victims of cruel fate ~~ unable to find comfort in the past or peace in the present. They are the spiritual orphans of the world.

[first lines]::Marquis Don Luis: I dare say you wish you'd never left Versailles. You had a very pleasant time at court with those gallant young officers. With one in particular, I recall.

[last lines]::Anthony Adverse Jr.: Anthony Adverse?::Anthony Adverse: Anthony Adverse.