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The Earth Cries Out
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 PalestineTwo Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
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To the Ends of the Earth
🇱🇧 LebanonA treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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A-Lad-in His Lamp
🇮🇶 IraqBugs Bunny finds and rubs Aladdin's lamp and decides to follow the genie to Baghdad, where they battle Mad Man Hassan.
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A Thousand and One Nights
🇮🇶 IraqTHE TECHNICOLOR STORY OF ALADDIN and his wonderful VAMP! — On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.
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The Mask of Dimitrios
🇹🇷 TurkeyThe Fabulous Tale OF A MAN OF MYSTERY! — A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
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Kismet
🇮🇶 IraqHafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
🇮🇶 IraqWild nights of sheer delights! Burning days of bold adventure! — Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
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Action in Arabia
🇸🇾 SyriaWoman of Mystery ... Land of Intrigue — Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
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David Bek
🇦🇲 Armenia The 18th CenturyThe Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
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Münchhausen
🇹🇷 Turkey The 18th CenturyWanting a lavish production to mark the 25th anniversary of UFA, the German film studio, Joseph Goebbels, director of the Nazi propaganda machine, commissioned an adaptation of Baron von Münchhausen‘s “autobiographical” stories. Baron von Münchhausen (1720-97) was an eccentric figure in European history, whose tall tales about his adventures rival anything to be found in the legends of Paul Bunyan or classic figures like Odysseus. This film recounts some of the episodes from the Baron’s sensational stories, which are set in the world of the 18th century.
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Journey into Fear
🇹🇷 TurkeyWelles and Del Rio together! as Terror Man vs. Leopard Woman--for possession of a mysterious stranger in the powder-keg Middle East...a man with a military secret worth more than his love and his life!...It's menace melodrama thrilled with mighty mystery and suspense...SEE IT! — An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
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Background to Danger
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇸🇾 Syria The 1940sLove in the midst of intrigue! — An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Adventure in Iraq
🇮🇶 IraqFive Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he appears to be.
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Arabian Nights
🇮🇶 IraqDashing Thieves of Baghdad...riding out of the magic and splendor of Arabian Nights — Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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The Thief of Bagdad
🇮🇶 IraqGIGANTIC! The Wonder Picture of All Time! — When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
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Crook's Tour
🇮🇶 IraqCharters (Basil Radford) and Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo (Greta Gynt) which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
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Nazar the Brave
🇦🇲 ArmeniaComical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.
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Ninotchka
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1930sGarbo Laughs — A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Aufruhr in Damaskus
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Life of St. Paul
🇮🇱 Israel The 1st CenturyThe Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
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Zangezur
🇦🇲 Armenia The 1920sThe film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
🇮🇶 IraqWhile visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
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Puits en flammes
🇹🇷 TurkeyJacques unsuccessfully drills for an oil company. On the last day of his mission, he finally finds oil. But he has an enemy who blows up the well.
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Karo
🇦🇲 ArmeniaKaro — A schoolboy, Karo, gets involved into the struggle between Communists and Dashnaks during the establishment of a Soviet regime in Armenia.
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By the Bluest of Seas
🇦🇿 AzerbaijanYussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailors on an island in the Caspian Sea. They start working as sailor and mechanic for the fishing boats of the "Lights of the Communism" kolkhoz. Here the two friends will fall in love with the beautiful Masha.
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Secret of Stamboul
🇹🇷 TurkeySecret of Stamboul is a 1936 British thriller film, taken from the novel The Eunuch of Stamboul by Dennis Wheatley, directed by Andrew Marton and starring Valerie Hobson, James Mason and Frank Vosper. A British agent (Mason) travels to Istanbul (Stamboul) to try and thwart a revolution.
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Stadt Anatol
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Pepo
🇬🇪 GeorgiaA poor but honest fisherman Pepo opposes a cunning trader Zimzimov, who tries to rob him by trickery refusing to pay a lost bill. Pepo choses prison to paying-off his honour.
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The Crouching Beast
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1910sIn 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist.
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The Morals of Marcus
🇸🇾 SyriaA confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
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The Lost Patrol
🇮🇶 Iraq The 1910sBlistering sun... blazing bullets! — A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
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Stamboul Quest
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1910sIn 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Constantinople to secure the proof. En route she becomes involved with Douglas Beall, a footloose American. Complications ensue, requiring Annemarie to engage in some dangerous improvisations.
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Lockvogel
🇹🇷 TurkeyViktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Delia, with whom Viktor is in love, is used as bait. His boyhood friend Sibyl, who is in love with Viktor, warns him of the criminal ship owner and the captain, who intend to steal the jewel during a masked ball on board. Shortly before reaching the coast of France, an explosion causes the ship to capsize.
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Gikor
🇦🇲 ArmeniaVillage man Hambo, trying to set up his son Gikor, gives him in service of well-to-do merchant Bazaz Artem. Gikor couldn't find neither cordiality, nor kindness in merchant's house and misses his home. Some envy small bailiff but nobody see his sufferings.
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Lal-e-Yaman
🇾🇪 YemenOriental fantasy derived from classic Parsee theatre. The heir to the Yemeni throne, Prince Parviz, is falsely imprisoned by his stepmother who claims power. Parviz receives a magic dagger from a mystic sufi fakir to liberate himself and his people. The dagger makes him invisible. He kills the Apeman and the genii, rescues the captive Princess Parizad and, finally, overwhelms the soldiers sent to recapture him. The king learns the truth and repents.
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Scarlet Dawn
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1910sDuring the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
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Tell England
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1910sIn England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
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Das letzte Fort
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Lost Patrol
🇮🇶 Iraq The 1910sA patrol of twelve soldiers is lost in the desert and killed by the tribesmen, but the sergeant makes sure that one of the tribesmen dies for every one of his men.
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Char vogi
🇦🇲 ArmeniaIt's a tragic story of an epileptic girl, who is the victim of the prejudices of her husband's family.
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Khaspush
🇦🇲 Armenia The 1890sThe movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy
🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistorySetting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly underdressed coquette, oblivious to all the political turmoil she's causing when she allows the handsome Paris (Ricardo Cortez) to kidnap her. Meanwhile, poor King Menelaus (Lewis Stone), Helen's husband, stands by in stoic silence, just as he's done on previous occasions when his wife succumbed to the charms of various sexy suitors (one of whom is played by future cowboy star "Wild Bill" Elliot). Finally galvanized into action, Menelaus reclaims his bride, who seems none the worse for wear for her experiences.
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Zare
🇦🇲 ArmeniaA Kurdish chieftain covets a local beauty whom he'd like to make his second wife, but the girl resists him.
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Honor
🇦🇿 AzerbaijanNamus (Armenian: Նամուս, meaning "honor") is a 1925 silent film by Hamo Beknazarian, based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, which denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.
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Shor and Shorshor
🇦🇲 ArmeniaTwo friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.
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The Thief of Bagdad
🇮🇶 Iraq"Happiness Must Be Earned" — A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
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Helen of Troy
🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryHelena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück. The film was based on the poem the Iliad by Homer. It was released in two separate parts: The Rape of Helen and The Fall of Troy. It was produced by Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film was made on an epic scale with thousands of extras, and large sets which rivalled those of the larger Berlin-based UFA.
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Shirt of Fire
🇹🇷 TurkeyDirected by Muhsin Ertugrul.
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