Cast: Omar Sharif

Direction David Lean

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis While working on the staff of the British Intelligence in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to a mission to establish contact with Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), leader of the Arab revolt and ally of the British against...

Direction David Lean

Cast Omar Sharif · Julie Christie · Geraldine Chaplin · Alec Guinness

Synopsis Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a...

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Omar Sharif · Isabelle Sadoyan · Nathalie Roussel

Synopsis Story about an Armenian family who arrive in France in 1921 and endure the pain and privations of exile in a foreign land.

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · Lawrence Schiller

Cast Maximilian Schell · Vanessa Redgrave · Omar Sharif · Trevor Howard

Synopsis It tells the story of Peter I, who becomes infected with a love for western culture and travels to Europe for academic studies. Upon his return to Russia, the maverick ruler angers the established nobility by forcing them to adopt...

Direction François Dupeyron

Cast Omar Sharif · Pierre Boulanger · Isabelle Adjani · Gilbert Melki

Synopsis In Monsieur Ibrahim (2003), a poignant French drama, a lonely Jewish boy named Momo forms an unlikely friendship with an elderly Muslim shopkeeper, Monsieur Ibrahim, in 1960s Paris. Struggling with a neglectful father and a longing for connection, Momo finds...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Tom Courtenay · Donald Pleasence

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

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

Cast Val Kilmer · Lucy Gutteridge · Omar Sharif · Christopher Villiers

Synopsis Top Secret! (1984) follows Nick Rivers, a rock and roll singer, who travels to East Germany for a cultural festival. Unbeknownst to him, he becomes entangled in a dangerous resistance movement against a oppressive regime. Along the way, Nick meets...

Direction James Clavell

Cast Michael Caine · Omar Sharif · Florinda Bolkan · Nigel Davenport

Synopsis Turgid epic set in the 23rd year of the Thirty Years War (year 1641). A thrilling epic about a regiment of soldiers who happen upon a secluded German valley that has gone untouched during the bloody Thiry Years War.

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast David Lean · Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis A documentary of the making of the classic motion picture "Lawrence of Arabia" and of its later restoration to David Lean's intended version. With interviews from 1989, new video interviews, letterboxed clips and a generous helping of behind the scenes...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Barbra Streisand · Omar Sharif · Kay Medford · Anne Francis

Synopsis In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side, rose to fame...

Direction Scott Benson

Cast David Lean · Omar Sharif · Julie Christie · Rod Steiger

Synopsis Omar Sharif narrates this documentary that delves into the making of Doctor Zhivago (1965). Included are various clips from the film, and a lot of behind the scenes footage of director David Lean and stars. We also hear several stories...

Direction Bob Rafelson

Cast Patrick Bergin · Iain Glen · Fiona Shaw · Richard E. Grant

Synopsis Richard Francis Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen), two of historys most remarkable adventurers, set out to Africa in 1854 to find the mysterious source of the Nile River, their expedition supported by the Royal Geographic Society....

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Sophia Loren · Stephen Boyd · Christopher Plummer · Alec Guinness

Synopsis Marcus Aurelius Antonius, philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir,...

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Richard Berry · Omar Sharif · Nathalie Roussel · Claudia Cardinale

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · Omar Sharif · Telly Savalas · Camilla Sparv

Synopsis The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gregory Peck · Anthony Quinn · Omar Sharif · Raymond Pellegrin

Synopsis Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck), a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the...

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Herbert Lom · Lesley-Anne Down · Burt Kwouk

Synopsis In the fourth film of the long-running series, bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers) long-suffering boss, Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), finally has been driven to a nervous breakdown by the detective and has been hospitalized in an asylum. Meanwhile, the hapless...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Omar Sharif · Jack Palance · Leigh Taylor-Young · David de Keyser

Synopsis Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the stable master for a feudal lord, is a master horseman who lives by a primitive code of honor. Uruz's family honor is damaged when he breaks his leg playing the...

Direction Laïla Marrakchi

Cast Hiam Abbass · Nadine Labaki · Lubna Azabal · Morjana Alaoui

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Steven Spielberg · Gary Smith · Melvyn Stokes · Robert Osborne