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1. The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When Joan Wilder is abducted while on a trip along the Nile, her boyfriend, Jack Colton, and pal Ralph rush to rescue her and retrieve a fabled jewel.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spyros Fokas
Votes: 62,688 | Gross: $75.97M
2. Intoxicated by Love (2024)
118 min | Drama, History, Romance
Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.
Director: Hasan Fathi | Stars: Parsa Pirouzfar, Shahab Hosseini, Hande Erçel, Burak Tozkoparan
Votes: 3,869
3. Hideous Kinky (1998)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Unsatisfied with her life in England, young mother Julia relocates to Morocco with her small daughters, Lucy and Bea. Although the family enjoys various adventures, they struggle to make ends meet.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Kate Winslet, Bella Riza, Saïd Taghmaoui, Carrie Mullan
Votes: 6,925 | Gross: $1.26M
4. Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.
Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki, Isabelle Renauld
Votes: 11,634 | Gross: $2.82M
5. Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2005)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
The story of a blind dervish Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar, together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
Director: Nacer Khemir | Stars: Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam Hamid, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohamed Grayaâ
Votes: 3,772
6. Some Mother's Son (1996)
R | 112 min | Drama, History
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Director: Terry George | Stars: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara
Votes: 2,998 | Gross: $0.61M
7. Coke Studio Pakistan (2008– )
Approved | 60 min | Music
Coke Studio is a Pakistani music television series which features live studio music performances by various artists, started in June 2008, originating from the Brazilian show, Estúdio Coca-Cola.
Stars: Atif Aslam, Sanam Marvi, Ali Zafar, Ali Hamza
Votes: 1,290
8. Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: David Redden, Michael Wager, Robert Powell, Gael Hammer
Votes: 303
9. The Great Journey (2004)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
Reda, a young French-Moroccan guy and his old father drive from the south of France to Mecca in order for the father to do his pilgrimage. At first distant, they gradually learn to know each other.
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi | Stars: Nicolas Cazalé, Mohamed Majd, Jacky Nercessian, Ghina Ognianova
Votes: 2,574
10. Madonna: Bedtime Story (1995 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Striking imagery inspired from surrealist female painters sweeps through the music video for Madonna's third single from the album 'Bedtime Stories'.
Director: Mark Romanek | Stars: Madonna, James Gooding, Vladimir McCrary
Votes: 373
11. Continuum (2006)
39 min | Short, Drama
Simple stories from everyday life, popular culture and folklore that explore the continuum of life and death, of love and paranoia, of trade and value, of need and invention, of hunger and enlightenment.
Directors: Anand Gandhi, Khushboo Ranka | Stars: Vipul Binjola, Dharmendra Gohil, Darshan Jariwala, Tushar Joshi
Votes: 151
12. A Jihad for Love (2007)
Unrated | 81 min | Documentary
A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
Director: Parvez Sharma | Stars: Muhsin Hendricks, A.K. Hoosen, Mazen, Abdellah Taïa
Votes: 715 | Gross: $0.11M
13. El Moulid: Egyptian Religious Festival (1990)
Not Rated | 39 min | Documentary, Short
Fadwa El Guindi takes her camera to Tanta, north of Cairo, where millions come every October to celebrate the moulid of Sayid Ahmed el-Badawi, a 13th century Sufi leader. Tanta's moulid, ... See full summary »
Director: Fadwa El Guindi
14. Rumi-Turning Ecstatic (2005)
Documentary
In December 1997, Tina Petrova drove off a cliff - literally and figuratively. A tragic car crash in the California desert was the beginning of a journey that would lead her to the ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Tina Petrova, Stephen Roloff
Votes: 14
15. ScaredSacred (2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
In a world teetering on the edge of self destruction, award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out on a unique pilgrimmage. Visiting the 'Ground Zeros' of the planet, he asks if it's ... See full summary »
Director: Velcrow Ripper | Stars: Mehboob Bi, Satinath Sarangi, Aki Ra, Amina Bejovic
Votes: 234
16. Shams & Rumi: The Fragrance of Axis Mundi (2006)
22 min | Short, Drama
Director: Pouria Montazeri | Stars: Tom E. Mason, Andrew Newell, Nicolas Crisafulli, Sarkaut Taro
Votes: 16
17. So Heddan So Hoddan (2011)
52 min | Documentary
The film explores the life worlds of the three cousins: a self taught Sufi scholar, a Bhitai singer, and a Surando player, their families and the Fakirani Jat community to which they belong.
Directors: K.P. Jayasankar, Anjali Monteiro
Votes: 7
18. The Dust of His Feet (2010 Video)
62 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The film brings us into the world of two Bangladeshi folk musicians. Matal Rajjak Dewan, the 'drunk poet', is honoured with a shrine after his death. His student, Abdul Hai Dewan, calls his... See full summary »
Director: Janet Best | Stars: Abdul Hai Dewan, Arif Dewan, Kajol Dewan, Matal Rajjak Dewan
19. Tadwim (2021)
Short, Drama
Suffering from artist's block and on the verge of losing her job, a concept artist seeks insight from a Syrian janitor, who is more than what he seems.
Director: Tarun Keram | Stars: Allison Klause, Shaun Omaid, Tarun Keram, Fereshteh Zakery
20. Nusrat Has Left the Building... But When? (1997)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Nusrat has Left the Building... But When? is a film made on the metamorphic career of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the famous sufi qawwali singer from Pakistan. The film departs from the... See full summary »
Director: Farjad Nabi | Star: Ahmad Ali Manganhar
Votes: 28
21. Son slepogo cheloveka (2004)
73 min | Drama, Fantasy
The blind person dreams a dream in which to him Hyzr's voice - the mystical mentor of Sufi. Following the words heard in a dream, the Blind person moves off to mountains in searches of the ... See full summary »
Director: Slava Padalka | Stars: Leonard Babakhanov, Igor Erohin, Vera Nigol, Aleksandr Pakhomov
22. Kala Pul: The Black Bridge (2008)
Not Rated | 44 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Arsalan. a fugitive, returns to his native Karachi, to investigate the violent death of his younger brother, blamed on religious fundamentalists. In the ensuing days he discovers that in a ... See full summary »
Director: S.S. Mausoof | Stars: Salim Iqbal, Angeline Malik, Ayesha Toor, Ashok Malani
Votes: 8
23. Born Equal (2012)
64 min | Documentary, Family, History
BORN EQUAL explores the varied perspectives on the human rights issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender people. Through a series of interviews with religious authorities, LGBT ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan B Smith, Tsvete Smith
24. A Muslim Christmas (2013)
7 min | Short
Directors: Aamir Malik, Joshua A. Siegel | Stars: Aamir Malik, Angela Sorenson, Scott Brown, Joshua Harwood
25. Armonie dell'Estasi (2000)
52 min | Documentary, Music
Philip Glass, the contemporary American composer, tells us about the Pakistani Sufi musicians while images show different musicians arrive on the spot and bits of Glass's and Bob Wilson's Sufi theatre musical composition Monsters of Grace.
Director: Gianpaolo Tescari | Star: Philip Glass
26. Abu Ali (2010)
59 min | Documentary
Khaled Abu Ali, a Sufi Muslim, is an actor and director at the Acre Theater Center. Searching to find the connection between God and man, he is prepared to die at any given moment. Noam and... See full summary »
Director: Vered Osman | Star: Khaled Abu-Ali
28. Wild Sky (2011)
42 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A hospital room, a drip... At his sick father's bedside, in a final, silent showdown, Rachid B. recalls his strongest memories, those which, in the course of his life constructed him or ... See full summary »
Director: Rachid B.
Votes: 10
29. Salandar (1980)
33 min | Short
The Mongol invasion of Iran leaves the country devastated but the people fight for their right in their own way.
Director: Varuzh Karim-Masihi | Stars: Parviz Poorhosseini, Dariush Farhang, Mohamad Motie
Votes: 34
30.
The Life of Muhammad (2011– )
Episode:
Holy Peace
(2011)
TV-PG | 62 min | Documentary, History
Researchers point out Mohammed's divine inspiration, in tiers, also fits the needs of the day in the phases of establishing Islam and his budding Arab empire, a context which sometimes ... See full summary »
Stars: Rageh Omaar, John Adair, Tariq Ali, Karen Armstrong
Votes: 30
32.
The Big Questions (2007– )
Episode:
Is Islam more divided than united?
(2019)
59 min | Talk-Show
The twelfth series of the programme concludes with a debate from Heartlands Academy in Birmingham. Contributors discuss a single question - is Islam more divided than united?
Director: Rob Hopkin | Stars: Nicky Campbell, Henna Rai, Abdullah Al Andalusi, Khalil Yousuf