Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif

April 10, 1932 · 94 years old

Omar Sharif (April 10, 1932 - July 10, 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. The son of a precious wood merchant, he grew up in a united Christian family of Syrian and Lebanese descent with his parents and his sister. Enrolled at Victoria C…

Known For

29 titles
1
Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

1962 · 3h 47m · Movie

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

8.3
2
10,000 BC

10,000 BC

2008 · 1h 49m · Movie

In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save his true love.

5.1
3
The 13th Warrior

The 13th Warrior

1999 · 1h 42m · Movie

A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly em...

6.6
4
Hidalgo

Hidalgo

2004 · 2h 16m · Movie

In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.

6.7
5
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

1965 · 3h 17m · Movie

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

7.9
6
Top Secret!

Top Secret!

1984 · 1h 30m · Movie

An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scie...

7.2
7
Funny Girl

Funny Girl

1968 · 2h 31m · Movie

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s: her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld Girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

7.4
8
Monsieur Ibrahim

Monsieur Ibrahim

2003 · 1h 35m · Movie

In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.

7.3
9
Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

1969 · 2h 8m · Movie

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

6.7
10
The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals

1967 · 2h 28m · Movie

In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.

7.2
11
One Night with the King

One Night with the King

2006 · 2h 3m · Movie

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

6.0
12
The Parole Officer

The Parole Officer

2001 · 1h 33m · Movie

A failed parole officer framed for murder must enlist the help of his former clients to clear his name.

6.3
13
Funny Lady

Funny Lady

1975 · 2h 16m · Movie

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

6.2
14
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964 · 2h 2m · Movie

Anthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce: a British diplomat buys the car for his French wife; a mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy; an American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan.

6.4
15
Mother

Mother

1991 · 2h 37m · Movie

The saga of an Armenian family that immigrated to France after the break-up of the oppressive Ottoman Empire.

7.4
16
The Tamarind Seed

The Tamarind Seed

1974 · 2h 5m · Movie

During a Caribbean vacation, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian Agent.

6.4
17
Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

1965 · 2h 0m · Movie

During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

5.8
18
588, rue Paradis

588, rue Paradis

1992 · 2h 10m · Movie

This film recounts Henri Verneuil's relationship with his father who had brought his Armenian family to Marseille, France, in order to escape from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

6.9
19
Bloodline

Bloodline

1979 · 1h 56m · Movie

When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.

4.6
20
Mayerling

Mayerling

1968 · 2h 20m · Movie

Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.

6.1
21
More Than a Miracle

More Than a Miracle

1967 · 1h 55m · Movie

In 17th-century Italy, a Spanish prince searching for a bride falls in love with a beautiful local peasant girl.

6.0
22
The Rainbow Thief

The Rainbow Thief

1994 · 1h 27m · Movie

A petty crook in search of the clichéd pot of gold at the end of the rainbow hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.

5.8
23
The Blazing Sun

The Blazing Sun

1954 · 1h 45m · Movie

A rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

7.2
24
The Horsemen

The Horsemen

1971 · 1h 49m · Movie

Drama depicting rural life in contemporary Afghanistan and the Afghani people's love for an ancient traditional sport similar to horseback polo.

6.2
25
Green Ice

Green Ice

1981 · 1h 50m · Movie

A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.

5.5
26
The Possessed

The Possessed

1988 · 1h 56m · Movie

In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.

6.3
27
San Pietro

San Pietro

2005 · 3h 17m · Movie

Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptiz...

6.9
28
Building the Great Pyramid

Building the Great Pyramid

2002 · 58m · Movie

Based on the latest archaeological discoveries and combining dramatic reconstruction, location shooting and state-of-the-art CGI computer effects, this film travels back in time to reveal how the mighty structure of the Great Pyra...

7.2
29
Shaytan al-Sahra

Shaytan al-Sahra

1954 · 1h 50m · Movie

In a tribal society, governor Zaid decides to raise taxes on the people, and sends his men to kidnap women, and with time his strength increase, up to the tribe of Bani Mazen, he kills a young man from the tribe at the hands of hi...

5.5