4 Movies Starring Omid Djalili

Modigliani

Modigliani

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-09-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (7639 Reviews)

Director:

Mick Davis

Fullplot:

Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.

My Family and Other Animals

My Family and Other Animals

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-12-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1232 Reviews)

Director:

Sheree Folkson

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Gerald Durrell (book)

Simon Nye

Fullplot:

Feeling the depressing effects of a gloomy English summer, the Durrell family decides to pack up and move to the Greek island of Corfu in 1935. Lead by their widowed mother, 13-year old future naturalist Gerald Durrell, his two older brothers and older sister move into a series of villas. Gerald indulges his passion for nature by filling his room with local fauna, while his brothers fill their time with writing or hunting and his sister sunbathes and flirts.

The Infidel

The Infidel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-06-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (5428 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his pretty 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. He conceals this information from his family, and with the help of his neighbor, Leonard Goldberg, tries to understand the Jews, their religion and even locates his birth-father, who is on his death-bed in a nursing home. Mahmud does not know that Arshad has been checking into his background, has videotaped him setting fire to a Jewish cap during a protest, and has already approved of him, despite of his letter to the media about 'moderate Muslims'. But on the day of the meeting with Arshad and Uzma - Mahmud will find his life drastically changed when the Police will attend to arrest him, and he will be forced to publicly proclaim that he is Jewish - a move that will not only alienate him from his family but both the Jewish and Muslim communities.

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-08-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, France

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (13623 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Mark Burton

Richard Starzak

Nick Park (characters created by)

Fullplot:

Shaun the sheep is tired of doing the same work at the farm everyday. He decides to take a day off. In order to do that, he needs to make sure the farmer doesn't know. When more happens than they can handle, the sheep find their way in the big city. Now they need to get back to the farm.

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