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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
, 2h10Directed by Mira Nair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Political films, Films about Islam, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland, Meesha Shafi, Om Puri
In 2011, Anse Rainier (Gary Richardson), an American professor at Lahore University, is kidnapped soon after he leaves a movie theatre. A ransom video is sent to the US embassy, demanding the release of 690 detainees from a Muslim concentration camp in Kot Lakhpat and €700,000 for the children of Waziristan. Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber), an American journalist and undercover CIA informant in Pakistan, arranges to interview a colleague of Rainer, Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed), who he suspects is involved in the kidnapping.
Profile (2018)
, 1h45Directed by Timour Bekmambetov
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams
Ce long métrage raconte l'histoire vraie d'une journaliste enquêtant sur les réseaux djihadistes.
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
, 1h45Genres Action, Adventure, Historical, Animation
Themes Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jacob Latimore, Ian McShane, Cynthia McWilliams, Quinton Flynn, China Anne McClain
Bilal (Andre Robinson), a bright eyed carefree boy ignited with fanciful imagination and a dream only a 7 years old can conjure. His ability to speak against injustice, a rare gift. On a day as similar as any, this dream turns into a nightmare when the village he lives in is ransacked, orphaning him and his younger sister, Ghufaira (Cynthia McWilliams). Thrown in a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal and Ghufaira find themselves bound to the chaotic wills and wants of the most powerful man in the City, Umayya (Ian McShane). Dreams of freedom and the warrior he fantasized he would become, are kept deep in Bilal's yearning heart. Bilal will soon learn he must choose his own fate, and find the courage to raise his voice. Bilal (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) will challenge everything.
Lion of the Desert (1981)
, 2h43Directed by Moustapha Akkad
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about Islam, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Raf Vallone, Irène Papas, John Gielgud
In 1929, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) is still faced with the 20-year-long war waged by patriots in the Italian colony of Libya to combat Italian colonization and the establishment of "The Fourth Shore"—the rebirth of a Roman Empire in Africa. Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani (Oliver Reed) as his sixth governor to Libya, confident that the eminently accredited soldier and fascist Grande can crush the rebellion and restore the dissipated glories of Imperial Rome. Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn) leads the resistance to the fascists. A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, Mukhtar had committed himself to a war that cannot be won in his own lifetime. Graziani controls Libya with the might of the Italian Army. Tanks and aircraft are used in the desert for the first time. The Italians also committed atrocities: killing of prisoners of war, destruction of crops, and imprisoning populations in concentration camps behind barbed wire.
, 2h58Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Mahdi Pakdel, Amin Tarokh, Sareh Bayat, Rana Azadivar, Dariush Farhang
Le récit se déroule au cours du vie siècle et tourne autour du prophète de l'islam Muhammad, de sa naissance à l'âge de 13 ans.
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
, 2h1Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
Origin Algerie
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, La colonisation française, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Algerian War films, Political films, Films about Islam, Histoire de France
Actors Jean Martin, Brahim Haggiag, Rouiched, Larbi Zekkal
En 1954 à Alger, le Front de libération nationale (FLN) diffuse son premier communiqué : son but est l'indépendance nationale vis-à-vis de la France, et la restauration de l'État algérien. Ali la Pointe propose des parties de bonneteau. Repéré par la police, il s'enfuit mais se fait agresser par un passant, il réplique et se fait tabasser par le reste du groupe. Rattrapé par la police, il se fait arrêter. Emprisonné, il assiste par la fenêtre de sa cellule à l'exécution d'une peine de mort par guillotine sur un nationaliste. Le FLN le contacte.
Touch of Pink (2004)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about Islam, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jimi Mistry, Suleka Mathew, Kris Holden-Ried, Kyle MacLachlan, Veena Sood, Brian George
Alim is a young gay man. Born in Kenya and raised in Toronto, he moved to London to get away from his conservative upbringing. He faces the hardships of coming out to his widowed mother Nuru, as well as hardships in his relationship with his boyfriend Giles. Alim has an imaginary friend (or maybe a guardian angel or ghost friend, depending on how literally or symbolically one takes the film) who is supposedly Cary Grant, who gives Alim advice when Alim is in trouble. Unfortunately, the advice often seems to make more trouble.
Bab'Aziz (2006)
, 1h36Origin Tunisie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Golshifteh Farahani, Hossein Panahi, Mohamed Grayaâ
La jeune Ishtar accompagne son grand-père (Bab'Aziz) dans le désert pour se rendre à une réunion de derviches qui n'a lieu que tous les trente ans. Pour Bab'Aziz, il s'agit en fait d'aller rejoindre sa tombe, délimitée par un carré de cailloux. Mais le vieil homme est une source de contes et de légendes, et le parcours sera l'occasion de rencontres et de récits de destinées multiples, un peu comme dans les Mille et Une Nuits.
Escape from Raqqa (2019)
, 1h42Directed by Emmanuel Hamon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Swann Arlaud, Charles Berling, Finnegan Oldfield, Jisca Kalvanda, Aurélia Petit, Sophie Cattani
Faustine est une assistante sociale récemment convertie à l'Islam. En 2015, elle part en Turquie à l'appel de l'État islamique, avec son fils Noah, âgé de seulement 5 ans. Elle doit travailler dans une maternité. Mais peu à peu, elle se rend compte que tout n'est pas comme elle l'espérait. Alors qu'elle se trouve à Raqqa en Syrie, elle appelle à l'aide son mari Sylvain, infirmier à Paris. Deux activistes - le Français Gabriel et le Syrien Adnan - sont touchés par la détresse de Sylvain, démuni. Ils vont ainsi tenter de monter une opération très risquée pour les exfiltrer.
Ten (2002)
, 1h34Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Films about Islam, Road movies
The film is divided into ten scenes, each of which depict a conversation between an unchanging female driver (played by Mania Akbari) and a variety of passengers as she drives around Tehran. Her passengers include her young son (played by Akbari's real life son, Amin Maher), her sister, a bride, a prostitute, and a woman on her way to prayer. One of the major plots during the film is the driver's divorce from her (barely seen) husband, and the conflict that this causes between mother and son.
A Jihad for Love (2007)
, 1h21Directed by Parvez Sharma
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about religion, Films about Islam, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Free Men (2011)
, 1h39Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Islam, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Lubna Azabal, Farid Larbi, Stéphane Rideau, Christopher Buchholz
In occupied Paris, the young unemployed Algerian, Younes Ben Daoud, makes a living on the black market. He is arrested by the police, and to avoid prison he agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect that the mosque leadership, including its rector Si Kaddour Benghabrit, is helping resistance fighters and protecting North African Jews by giving them Muslim birth certificates.
The Taqwacores (2010)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Films about Islam, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Dominic Rains, Noureen DeWulf, Rasika Mathur
A sophomore majoring in engineering, Yusef (Bobby Naderi) seeks living quarters with fellow Muslims after a year in the godless dorms. He moves—rather improbably, given his conservative nature—into a building inhabited by various punky misfits (it is unclear whether they are also students) wrestling with their cultural and religious identity. Or, as red-mohawked guitarist Jehangir (Dominic Rains) puts it, their "mismatching of disenfranchised subcultures."
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
, 1h15Directed by Rob LaDuca
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Historical, Musical, Animation
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Musical films, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films about Islam, Children's films
Actors Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, James Eckhouse, David Campbell, Richard McGonagle, Richard Herd
Joseph is the youngest of Jacob's eleven sons and a favorite of his father's; thus inciting the brothers' jealousy when Joseph grows conceited and arrogant when constantly pampered by his parents. When he receives a beautiful coat from his father, his brothers fear that he may become the clan's leader upon their father's death. One evening, Joseph dreams that the sheep his brothers are tending are attacked by wolves. Later, a wolf pack attacks the flock and Joseph is nearly killed until Jacob saves him. Jacob becomes furious that Joseph was abandoned by his brothers, and amazed that Joseph's dream came true. Judah, the eldest of the brothers and their leader, merely dismisses this. The next night, Joseph dreams that his brothers each carry sheaves of wheat that bow to Joseph's gigantic sheaf, and that he is a brilliant star surrounded by ten smaller stars and the sun and the moon; and Jacob predicts that Joseph shall supersede his brothers. The latter retreat to a cave and determine to do away with Joseph. Joseph overhears this, and the brothers tear his cloak and hurl him into a pit until nightfall. When withdrawn, Joseph is sold to desert slave traders, and thence into Egypt, while his brothers tell their father that he was killed by wolves.
International Guerillas (1990)
, 2h47Origin Pakistan
Genres Thriller, Action, Musical
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Musical films, Political films, Films about Islam
Actors Mustafa Qureshi, Ghulam Mohiuddin, Babra Sharif, Javed Sheikh, Neeli, Rangeela
The film's protagonists are three Pakistani brothers, the older one being a police officer and the younger two, small-time hoodlums. The three brothers ultimately reconcile in the light of the controversy over The Satanic Verses: in a dramatized version of the Islamabad police firing on a mob on February 12, 1990 when five demonstrators were killed and 83 injured, their younger sister is killed by the police while demonstrating against Rushdie. The three brothers decide to avenge her and Islam’s honor by hunting down and killing Rushdie. They receive the help of a female police officer in the course of their mission.