Films made in Ouarzazate | Cinema in Ouarzazate

Enemy of My Enemy (2012). A CIA agent must hunt down the terrorists responsible for killing American soldiers abroad before the U.S. goes to war against the wrong enemy.

The Terrorist Hunter (2011). A Jordanian Bedouin soldier saves the King’s family, becomes one of the King’s personal security officers.

Mary Mother of Christ (2011). Dir: James Foley.

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010). Dir: Mike Newell. A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.

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Game of Thrones (2010 TV Series). Dir: Thomas McCarthy. Kings, queens, knights and renegades use schemes and swords to battle for the throne.

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Ben Hur (2010 Mini-Series). About the struggle between the Roman Empire and its rebellious conquest Judaea, and two best friends caught in a terrible moment in history.

The Way Back (2010). Dir: Peter Weir. A fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940.

Die Frau des Schläfers (2010 TV Movie). Dir: Edzard Onneken.

Prisoners of the Sun (2010). Dir: Roger Christian. A multi-national expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the re-awakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse.

Lippels Traum (2009). Dir: Lars Büchel.

Pope Joan (2009). Dir: Sönke Wortmann. A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

Mirages (2009). Dir: Talal Selhami. “Five individuals with contrasting profiles compete for a position within “Matsuika”, a multinational corporation recently set up in Morocco…

Italians (2009). Dir: Giovanni Veronesi.

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Body of Lies (2008). Dir: Ridley Scott. Roger Ferris uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan.

Send in the Clowns (2007 Short Film). Dir: Henry Naylor. A team of international clown doctors visit war-torn Afghanistan, in the hope of healing the country. But when the locals fail to see the joke – the doctors end up casualties themselves.

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (2007 Documentary). Dir: Keith Melton. The grail is not the gold, nor the books of ancient wisdom, but the 3,000 year old DNA of the mummies, which may lead to a cure for malaria.

Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs (2007 TV Movie). Dir: Pierre Aknine. In around 800 AD, two men divide up the world: the Emperor Charlemagne in the West and, ruling from Baghdad…

The Hills Have Eyes II (2007). Dir: Martin Weisz. A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.

Babel (2006). Dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu. Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

The Nativity Story (2006). Dir: Catherine Hardwicke. A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph’s life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

The Amazing Race, Episode: We Just Won’t Die, Like Roaches (2006). Dir: Bertram van Munster. The four remaining teams travel from Kiev, Ukraine to the outskirts of Marrakech, Morocco. Animosity escalates between the teams and one team realises how high the stakes have become.

6 Weeks of Fear (2006 TV Movie). Dir: Hansjörg Thurn.

The Hills Have Eyes (2006). Dir: Alexandre Aja. A suburban American family is being stalked by a group of psychotic people who live in the desert, far away from civilization.

Kanzaman (2005 Documentary). Dir: Barbara Galanti.

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Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Dir: Ridley Scott. Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.

El khoubz el hafi (2005). Dir: Rachid Benhadj.

Judas (2004 TV Movie). Dir: Charles Robert Carner. Judas meets Jesus and at first doesn’t know what to make of him or whether or not to trust him. A cynical city boy…

Alexander (2004). Dir: Oliver Stone. Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

What a Girl Wants (2003). Dir: Dennie Gordon. An American teenager learns that her father is a wealthy British politician running for office. Although she is eager to find him, she realizes it could cause a scandal and cost him the election.

Liveschaltung (2002 Short Film). Dir: Michael Dreher.

Napoléon (2002 Mini-Series). Dir: Yves Simoneau. The year is 1816, and NAPOLEON, held prisoner by the British on the island of St. Helena, is telling the young English girl BETSY his life story…

The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (2002 TV Movie). Dir: Sebastian Niemann. STEFFEN VOGT, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he…

Asterix and Obelix Meet Cleopatra (2002). Dir: Alain Chabat. Astérix and Obélix go to Egypt to help architect Numérobis who is building a palace for Cleopatra.

Sweat (2002). Dir: Louis-Pascal Couvelaire. Four partners heist a fortune in gold ore from a North African airport & escape across the desert in a truck.

Drole de journée dans le desert (2001 Short Film). Dir: Mohamed Nesrate.

Le miroir du fou (2001). Dir: Narjiss Nejjar.

Spy Game (2001). Dir: Tony Scott. Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.

Hamilton (2001 TV Movie). Dir: Harald Zwart.

Crociati (2001 Mini-Series). Dir: Dominique Othenin-Girard. Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem…

Building the Impossible: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (2000 Documentary). Dir: Clive Maltby

Kasbah (2000). Dir: Mariano Barroso. Mario lleva muchos años trabajando en Marruecos. Ahora tiene la oportunidad de volver a España gracias a una oferta laboral…

Gladiator (2000). Dir: Ridley Scott. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Mary Magdalene (2000 TV Movie). Dir: Raffaele Mertes. When the marriage between AMOS and MARY MAGDALENE turns out to be childless, he casts her out and gets a divorce…

Rules of Engagement (2000). Dir: William Friedkin. An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a third world country.

St. Paul (2000 TV Movie). Dir: Roger Young. Biblical epic from the book of Acts and Paul’s epistles covering the conversion of Saul of Tarsus and his ministry to the Gentiles now known as Paul…

The Seventh Scroll (1999 Mini-Series). Dir: Kevin Connor. In the year 3000 BC an illegitimate son is born to Queen Lostris and the brave warrior Tanus. Her devoted eunuch Taita…

Things I Forgot to Remember (1999). Dir: Enrique Oliver. A bittersweet comedy in Spanish and English about a Cuban family that migrates to the United States…

Il tempo dell’amore (1999). Dir: Giacomo Campiotti.

The Mummy (1999). Dir: Stephen Sommers. An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a Mummy.

Jesus (1999 TV Movie). Dir: Roger Young. A movie about the life, work and death of Jesus as we know it from the Bible.

Esther (1999 TV Movie). Dir: Raffaele Mertes. Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), King of the Persians, whose empire now extends from India to Egypt after the defeat of the Babylonians…

Cleopatra (1999 TV Movie). Dir: Franc Roddam. Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18…

The Garden of Eden (1998). Dir: Alessandro D’Alatri. A look at Jesus Christ’s life, from his childhood to the meeting with the Apostles, focusing on his compassionate human side.

Jeremiah (1998 TV Movie). Dir: Harry Winer. The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest’s family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears…

Legionnaire (1998). Dir: Peter MacDonald. Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts…

Commander Hamilton (1998). Dir: Harald Zwart. Swedish agent Carl Hamilton and Finnish �ke St�lhandske are ordered to stop Russian smugglers. The smuggled goods is a nuclear missile…

David (1997 TV Movie). Dir: Robert Markowitz. The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: “Now appoint a king to lead us…

Solomon(1997 TV Movie). Dir: Roger Young
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon…

Kundun (1997). Dir: Martin Scorsese. From childhood until adulthood, Tibet’s 14th dalai lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

Slave of Dreams (1995 TV Movie). Dir: Robert M. Young. The Egyyptian executioner’s wife tries to seduce Hebrew slave Joseph to fulfill a dream they are experiencing simultaneously.

Solomon & Sheba (1995 TV Movie). Dir: Robert M.Young.

Moses (1995 TV Movie). Dir: Roger Young. A retelling of the bible story. Pharaoh Ramses decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket in the Nile by his mother…

Jacob (1994 TV Movie). Dir: Peter Hall. In the land of Canaan lives Isaac, son of Abraham, with his clever, strong-willed wife Rebekah and his twin sons Esau and Jacob…

Abraham (1994 TV Movie). Dir: Joseph Sargent. The Old Testament story of Abraham and the trials he endures. Commanded by God to lead his family to…

The Sheltering Sky (1990). Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Dir: Martin Scorsese. The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the temptations that all humans face during their lives, and his final temptation upon the cross.

The Living Daylights (1987). Dir: John Glen. James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.

The Jewel of the Nile (1985). Dir: Lewis Teague. This is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but…

Banzaï (1983). Dir: Claude Zidi.

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980). Dir: Nicolas Roeg. The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt…

Jesus of Nazareth (1977 Mini-Series). Dir: Franco Zeffirelli. A reverent depiction of the life of Christ using the Gospel accounts.

Cuibul salamandrelor (1976). Dir: Mircea Dragan.

The Man Who Would Be King (1975). Dir: John Huston. Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan–a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander.

Greed in the Sun (1964). Dir: Henri Verneuil.

The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah (1962). Dir: Robert Aldrich. Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co-exist with the Sodomites…

Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Dir: David Lean. Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. A family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering.

Note: Information on this page kindly taken from The Internet Movie Database – http://www.imdb.com/

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