Flåklypa Grand Prix (1975), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Ben-Hur (1959), Amarcord (1973), The Insider (1999), The Ten Commandments (1956), Secondhand Lions (2003), Spy Game (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sheik movies.
Storyline: After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.
Plot Keywords: new york city, martial law, desert, dancing, bus, bomb threat, arrest ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sheik Ahmed (Valentino) desperately desires fiesty British socialite Diana (Ayres), so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious desert tent-palace. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Only after being kidnapped by desert bandits does Diana realize how much she has grown to love Ahmed, who comes to her rescue in the nick of time.—E. Beck
Plot Keywords: sheik, title same as book, forced kiss, sandstorm, kidnapping, male female relationship, captive ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A caravan escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh through the Moroccan Atlas. His last wish is to be buried with his close ones. But death does not wait. The caravaners, fearful of the mountain, refuse to continue transporting the corpse. Saïd and Ahmed, two rogues traveling with the caravan, say they know the way and promise to take the corpse to its destiny. In another world, Shakib is chosen to travel to the mountains with a mission: to help the improvised caravaners.
Plot Keywords: caravan, one word title, written by director, mountain, chapter headings, hiking, horse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: based on stage musical, gunfire, hostage, impostor, incognito, investigator, kidnapping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: There is a legend about a great bell, called "The Mother of Voices," made of pure gold, three times the size of a man, made by monks many years ago... This is the story told in the marketplace by a Viking called Rolfe. This information finds its way to the Islamic ruler Aly Manush, who is obsessed with finding the bell. But Rolfe claims not to know where the bell is, and escapes, back to his homeland, to convince his father and brother to give him a ship and crew to replace the one he lost - or to help him steal the Death Ship which belongs to the king - because he does know where the bell is...—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: bound and gagged, fall from height, kidnapping, princess, torture, legend, death ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
Plot Keywords: held at gunpoint, brother sister relationship, cavalry, muslim, islam, reference to allah, fictional war ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Jewish nobleman, Judah Ben-Hur, and his adopted Roman brother Messala are best friends despite their different origins. Messala enlists in the Roman army and fights in the Roman Empire's wars in Germany. Ben-Hur also develops feelings for the family slave Esther although their different station in life compels him not to pursue her. But when her father Simonides seeks to marry her off to a Roman, Ben-Hur declares his love for her and takes her as his wife. Three years later, Messala returns as a decorated Roman officer. His return coincides with a rising insurrection by the Zealots, Jews who are opposed to the oppressive nature of Roman rule..
Plot Keywords: jew, rowing, based on novel, roman empire, 1st century, remake, chariot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey's, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?
Plot Keywords: parody, exclamation point in title, burnt face, burnt body, funeral, gangster, spoof ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: sheik, 1920s, one word title, dust, woman dressed as man, desert, independent film ...
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