Posts Tagged ‘arab’

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Quinn, Anthony | Hawkins, Jack | Sharif, Omar | Ferrer, José | Quayle, Anthony | Rains, Claude | Kennedy, Arthur | Wolfit, Donald | Johar, I.S. | Ratib, Gamil | Ray, Michel | Dimech, John | Mohyeddin, Zia
Directors: Lean, David
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Legionnaire (1998)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adewale | Berkoff, Steven | Farrell, Nicholas | Carter, Jim | Sofrenovic, Ana | Caltagirone, Daniel | Long, Joseph | Kalli, Mario | Montana, Joe | Romer, Kim | Bro, Anders Peter | Kynman, Paul | Pickering, Vincent | Triggelis, Takis
Directors: MacDonald, Peter
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At the height of its glory, the French Foreign Legion was made up of men widely regarded as the scum of the earth. It was a mercenary army posted to colonies in Northern Africa and Southern Asia…but its soldiers swore no allegiance to France, only to the legion and to each other. The legion asked no questions about a man’s past…nor did it offer much hope for his future. It was a hard way to get a second chance in life…

Syriana (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Novak, Kayvan | Clooney, George | Waked, Amr | Plummer, Christopher | Wright, Jeffrey | Cooper, Chris | Foxworth, Robert | Henson, Nicky | Art, Nicholas | Damon, Matt | Peet, Amanda | Hinkle, Steven | Tormé, Daisy | Gerety, Peter | Lintern, Richard
Directors: Gaghan, Stephen
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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

United 93 (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Johnson, J.J. | Commock, Gary | Alladin, Opal | Benford, Starla | Gates, Trish | McDoniel, Nancy | Basche, David Alan | Bekins, Richard | Blommaert, Susan | Charleson, Ray | Adams, Polly | Clemenson, Christian | Colón-Zayas, Liza | Dallas, Lorna | Dillon, Denny
Directors: Greengrass, Paul
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September 11, 2001. The nation was under attack by suicide hijackers, who hit Three famous buildings. The fourth plane United 93 was a story of 40 passengers who were strangers. Who sat through terrifying event. But found courage, rebelled and become hero’s. And stood united.

Secondhand Lions (2003)

Friday, August 24th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Caine, Michael | Duvall, Robert | Osment, Haley Joel | Sedgwick, Kyra | Katt, Nicky | Lucas, Josh | O'Neill, Michael | O'Connell, Deirdre | Balfour, Eric | Kane, Christian | Haberer, Kevin | Vaugier, Emmanuelle | Ozturk, Adam | Stone, Jennifer | Musso, Mitchel
Directors: McCanlies, Tim
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter’s mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he’s going to do with it.