Muhammad: The Messenger of God is an 2015 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi. The story revolves around the childhood of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The film marks Iran's biggest-budget production to date and is the first part of the planned trilogy on the life of the Prophet. Barring a few scenes filmed in South Africa, the majority of the filming was done at a colossal set created in the city of Qom near Tehran. The film was officially announced in October 2011 and its filming was completed by 2013. The cinematography is done by Vittorio Storaro and film score is composed by A. R. Rahman. The film was selected for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Oscar ceremony in 2016, but was excluded from the short list.

Osama

2003

Pashto

7.3

♡ 8

96%

girl disguised as boy

muslim

religious education

taliban

Siddiq Barmak Director

Henry Jordan as Male Foreign Reporter

Najibeh Hamdard as Mullah's wife

Nahid Refaah as Mullah's wife

Gholaam Sekhi Sedighi as Poor Man

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

A Prophet

2009

French

7.8

♡ 34

96%

Jacques Audiard Director

Niels Arestrup as César Luciani

Tahar Rahim as Malik El Djebena

Salem Kali as Prisonnier rebelle

Alaa Safi as Prisonnier rebelle

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

Qodrat

2022

Indonesian

6.2

♡ 6

Charles Gozali Director

Pritt Timothy as Old Man in Cell

Cecep Arif Rahman as Rochim

Eduward Manalu as Tanti's Husband

Marsha Timothy as Yasmin

A former clergyman finds himself back in his old boarding school where the disturbances experienced by its community might help him regain his faith and tie up loose ends in regards to his son's death by a deadly spirit.

East Is East

1999

English

6.9

♡ 9

78%

Damien O'Donnell Director

Rosalind March as Helen Karim

Muzz Khan as Kid

Gary Lewis as Mark

Ian Aspinall as Nazir Khan

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

London River

2009

English

6.9

♡ 2

91%

Rachid Bouchareb Director

Brenda Blethyn as Elisabeth Sommers

Sami Bouajila as Imam

Francis Magee as Inspecteur anglais

Bernard Blancan as Ouvrier Forestier

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks

Turtles Can Fly

2004

Kurdish

8.0

♡ 14

87%

Bahman Ghobadi Director

Marmar Alhilali as

Avaz Latif as Agrin

Emre Tetikel as Ali Reza

Soran Ebrahim as Satellite

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Four Lions

2010

English

7.3

♡ 34

Christopher Morris Director

Adeel Akhtar as Faisal

Craig Parkinson as Matt

Benedict Cumberbatch as Negotiator

Riz Ahmed as Omar

Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.

Lipstick Under My Burkha

2016

Hindi

6.8

♡ 78

93%

Alankrita Shrivastava Director

Vikrant Massey as Arhad

Plabita Borthakur as Rehana

Konkona Sen Sharma as Shirin

Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.

Outsiders

1977

Wolof

6.6

♡ 6

Ousmane Sembene Director

Mody Gueye as

Samba Touré as

Serigne Ndiaye Gonzales as (as Serigne N'Diaye)

Pierre Orma as The Priest

The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.

Shahid

2012

Hindi

8.2

♡ 8

100%

husband wife relationship

Hansal Mehta Director

Mukesh Chhabra as

Baljinder Kaur as Ammi

Vipin Sharma as Prosecutor More

Rajkummar Rao as Shahid Azmi

A story based on real-life human-rights and criminal lawyer, Shahid Azmi, who was slain while defending the wrongly accused by the law in terrorist activities.

The Infidel

2010

English

6.3

♡ 1

59%

Josh Appignanesi Director

David Baddiel as David Baddiel

Paul Kaye as Policeman #1

Matt Lucas as Rabbi

Michele Austin as Zadie

Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.

Religulous

2008

English

7.6

♡ 20

69%

Larry Charles Director

John McCain as Himself

Tom Cruise as Himself

Billy Gibbons as Himself

John Travolta as Himself

Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and raises questions about homosexuality, proof of Christ's existence, Jewish Sabbath laws, violent Muslim extremists.

Incendies

2010

French

8.3

♡ 139

91%

Denis Villeneuve Director

Camille Rizkallah as Gardien de la Prison #1

Lubna Azabal as Nawal Marwan

Rémy Girard as Notaire Jean Lebel

John Dunn-Hill as Professeur Saïd Haidar

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

A Fond Kiss

2004

English

7.1

♡ 11

Ken Loach Director

Atta Yaqub as Casim Khan

Gary Lewis as Danny

Eva Birthistle as Roisin Hanlon

David McKay as Wee Roddie

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

The Road to Guantanamo

2006

English

7.4

♡ 3

86%

Michael Winterbottom Director

Sara Stewart as Interrogator #6

Mark Holden as Kandahar Interrogator #2

George W. Bush as Self

Riz Ahmed as Shafiq

Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.

The Message

1976

English

8.1

♡ 104

92%

Moustapha Akkad Director

Michael Ansara as Abu Sofyan

Earl Cameron as Annajashi

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Heraclius

Cyril Shaps as Of minor roles

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.

Taste of Cherry

1997

Persian

7.7

♡ 48

83%

Abbas Kiarostami Director

Homayoun Ershadi as Mr. Badii

Abdolrahman Bagheri as Mr. Bagheri

Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari as Soldier

Safar Ali Moradi as The soldier

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Kingdom of Heaven

2005

English

7.3

♡ 300

39%

Ridley Scott Director

Liam Neeson as Godfrey de Ibelin

Marton Csokas as Guy de Lusignan

Edward Norton as King Baldwin

Eva Green as Sibylla

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

Act of Vengeance

2010

English

5.7

♡ 19

Mahsun Kirmizigül Director

Robert Patrick as Becker

Justine Cotsonas as Jasmin

Danny Glover as Marcus

Gina Gershon as Maria

Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", believed to be hiding in there. Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of Hadji Gumus, a well-respected Muslim scholar and family man who years before fled to the United States after being released from a Turkish prison, where he served time for murder. This tale love, friendship, peace and prejudices, takes us on a journey seeking to answer the question of whether innocence or guilt even matters to one who lusts for vengeance.

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Osama

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Qodrat

East Is East

London River

Turtles Can Fly

Four Lions

Lipstick Under My Burkha

Outsiders

Shahid

The Infidel

Religulous

Incendies

A Fond Kiss

The Road to Guantanamo

The Message

Taste of Cherry

Kingdom of Heaven

Act of Vengeance