The Master and Margarita (
2024) | IMDb:
0
A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.
Starring:
Yuliya Snigir
,
August Diehl
,
Yevgeni Tsyganov
,
Yuri Kolokolnikov
,
Leonid Yarmolnik
,
Aleksandr Yatsenko
Cairo Conspiracy (
2022) | IMDb:
7
A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.
Starring:
Tawfeek Barhom
,
Fares Fares
,
Mohammad Bakri
,
Makram J. Khoury
,
Mehdi Dehbi
,
Younes Medhat
A Tale of Love and Darkness (
2015) | IMDb:
6
The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.
Starring:
Natalie Portman
,
Makram J. Khoury
,
Shira Haas
,
Neta Riskin
,
Gilad Kahana
,
Yonaton Shiray
Directed by:
Natalie Portman
The Cut (
2014) | IMDb:
6.2
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Starring:
Tahar Rahim
,
Simon Abkarian
,
Makram J. Khoury
,
Hindi Zahra
,
Kevork Malikyan
,
Bartu Küçükçağlayan
Directed by:
Fatih Akin
The Physician (
2013) | IMDb:
7.2
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
Starring:
Tom Payne
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Stellan Skarsgård
,
Olivier Martinez
,
Emma Catherine Rigby
,
Elyas M'Barek
Munich (
2005) | IMDb:
7.5
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Starring:
Eric Bana
,
Daniel Craig
,
Ciarán Hinds
,
Mathieu Kassovitz
,
Hanns Zischler
,
Ayelet Zurer