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Die Rose von Stambul
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Slaves of Babylon
🇮🇶 Iraq Ancient HistoryBABYLON FALLS IN FLAMES! — The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a shepherd, is proclaimed king and defeats Nebuchadnezzar.
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The Veils of Bagdad
🇮🇶 Iraq The 16th CenturyFor gold ! For glory ! For wild pagan lips ! — Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!
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5 Fingers
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1940sThe true story of the most fabulous spy of all time! — During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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Thief of Damascus
🇸🇾 SyriaAladdin! Sinbad! Ali Baba! Scheherezade! — A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan.
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The Queen of Sheba
🇮🇱 IsraelFabulous Spectacle! Colorful Magnificence! Barbaric Splendor! — The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
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The Thief of Bagdad
🇮🇶 IraqFatma has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact. But when she's caught rifling through Caliph Omar's possessions, she finds herself in serious trouble. News of a theft makes the rounds and now the caliph's men are after her. Fortunately, she's able to find refuge with a sheikh, who isn't quite so thorough in checking his possessions. And it's thanks to him, that Fatma is able to get away with her newly acquired goods.
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Sirocco
🇸🇾 Syria The 1920sBEYOND CASABLANCA . . . Fate, in a Low-cut Gown, Lies in Wait for Bogart! — A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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David and Bathsheba
🇮🇱 IsraelMighty as Goliath! — King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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Othello
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 16th CenturyOrson Welles' magnificent screening of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy — When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.
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Flame Of Stamboul
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇪🇬 EgyptAn American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice". Director Ray Nazarro's 1951 drama stars Richard Denning, Lisa Ferraday, Norman Lloyd, George Zucco, Nestor Paiva, Donald Randolph and Dick Elliott.
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Little Egypt
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1890sTHE SHAPE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD! — A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Helen of Troy
🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryIntrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.
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Cairo Road
🇪🇬 EgyptA police chief stationed in Egypt sets out to crack down on drug traffickers along the frontiers. With his assistant, he attempts to block the smugglers' passage along the notorious Cairo Road route into the country.
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The Rose of Baghdad
🇮🇶 IraqA snake charmer's genie helps rescue his master's sweetheart (Princess Zeila) from a wicked Sheikh.
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Bagdad
🇮🇶 Iraq The 19th CenturyThe picture of 1001 pleasures! ...1001 adventures! ...1001 delights! — An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.
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Sword in the Desert
🇵🇸 PalestineTheir story is written in the burning sands and Bullets Sing the Fame of Their Deeds ! — First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
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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
🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇪🇬 EgyptA 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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Port Said
🇪🇬 EgyptDirected by Reginald Le Borg. With Gloria Henry, William Bishop, Steven Geray, Edgar Barrier.
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Temptation
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1900s The 1890sYOU CAN'T RESIST IT! — A Victorian-era drama about a beautiful young woman with a shady past.
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Teheran
🇮🇷 IranNot a Documentary! It's Fiction Based on Fact! — A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt Ancient HistoryThe most lavish picture ever on the screen! — The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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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 Mummy's Ghost
🇪🇬 EgyptNameless! Fleshless! Deathless! — An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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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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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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Around the World
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940sTHE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts! — Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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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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Inviati speciali
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
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The Mummy's Tomb
🇪🇬 EgyptThe FEAR of the Year! — A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Cairo
🇪🇬 EgyptThere's never been a pyramid scheme like this! — Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
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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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The Mummy's Hand
🇪🇬 EgyptThe tomb of a thousand terrors! — A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
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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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Dark Streets of Cairo
🇪🇬 EgyptTHE CURSE of THE PHAROAHS! They dared a doom more terrible than DEATH! — A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
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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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The Will
🇪🇬 EgyptThe story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr.
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Aufruhr in Damaskus
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Porky in Egypt
🇪🇬 EgyptPorky is a tourist. He's missed the main camel, so he rents one of his own. Both of them are soon overcome by the hot desert sun; the camel starts hallucinating, and marches off, playing the bagpipes. Porky sees the camel swimming in a pool, but it turns out to be a mirage. The camel eventually recovers enough to bring both of them back to town, where Porky goes mad.
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