Omar Sharif
          Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
Yellow Rolls-Royce, The (1964) 
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Omar Sharif… 
- Star–studded omnibus following three consecutive owners of a cute Rolls Royce Pantom II. An English aristocrat, a Chicago gangster and a…
 
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
 
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif 
- Omar Sharif plays the Russian doctor exiled for writing poetry during WW1, and separated from his only love. Complex, beautifully conceived epic will…
 
Night of the Generals, The (1967) 
- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay… 
- WWII crime thriller concerning the prolonged investigation of the murder of a Polish prostitute and German agent that implicates three generals, and…
 
Mayerling (1968) 
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason… 
- Austrian Crown–Prince Omar Sharif neglects the business of running the 19th Century Hapsburg empire, to have a secretive and ill–fated…
 
Funny Girl (1968)
 
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif 
- Barbra Streisand's bravura debut, playing real–life showbiz celeb Fanny Brice, won her an Oscar. Rates also as a well–executed musical. 
 
Mackenna's Gold  (1969) 
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif 
- Sprawling Western adaptation of the best–selling Will Henry novel about an Arizona Marshal travelling to an unknown canyon of gold who gets…
 
Che! (1969) 
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Omar Sharif, Jack Palance 
- Made barely two years after his death, this Che Guevara biopic boasts the reputable acting talents of Omar Sharif and Jack Palance and picks up where…
 
Last Valley, The (1971) 
- Dir. James Clavell
Feat. Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Brian Blessed 
- Epically framed, though a little ponderous, this action vehicle for Michael Caine is set in the final decade of the 17th century 'Thirty Years War'.…
 
Horsemen, The (1971) 
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance… 
- An ambitious historical epic concerns the quest of an Afghani tribal horseman (Sharif) to regain his honour after losing a ritual Buzkashi…
 
Juggernaut (1974) 
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings… 
- Richard Harris leads a bomb disposal squad in a race against time to save an ocean liner and its 1200 passengers from disaster. Fine nail–biter…
 
Tamarind Seed, The (1974) 
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle… 
- Languid romantic thriller plays out against the backdrop of the Cold War looming. Andrews plays a British civil servant on holiday in the Caribbean…
 
Pink Panther Strikes Again, The (1976)
 
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk… 
- Inspector Clouseau has finally driven his boss Chief Dreyfus over the edge, and Dreyfus sets out on a crazed attempt to destroy the world with a…
 
Ashanti (1979) 
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Omar Sharif… 
- When his wife is kidnapped by Arab slave traders, UN medic Michael Caine hops aboard a camel and goes on an adventure quest to retrieve her. Caine…
 
Bloodline (1979) 
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason… 
- Suspense–lite, Sidney Sheldon–based outing for Audrey Hepburn, with the ageless movie icon battling hostile takeovers from within a newly…
 
Green Ice (1981) 
- Dir. Ernest Day
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif 
- Cheesy, outlandish heist romance finds Ryan O'Neal embroiled in the high–stakes world of emerald smuggling. Omar Sharif is good value as an…
 
Top Secret! (1984)
 
- Dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Feat. Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp… 
- No secret this is one of the best of the Abrahams/Zucker Bros comedies (FLYING HIGH) with Val Kilmer as a rather dim, Elvis–type singer who, in…
 
Far Pavilions, The (TV Mini-series) (1984) 
- Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee… 
- Lavish period drama based on the epic book by novelist M.M. Kaye, centered around the romance between a young English officer and a beautiful Indian…
 
Peter the Great (TV Mini-Series) (1986) 
- Feat. Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif…
 
- Emmy Award–winning mini–series about Peter I, Tsar of Russia from 1682, and his efforts to transform Russia in an "all European" country,…
 
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992) 
- Dir. Anthony Shaw
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Diana Rigg, Omar Sharif 
- In this Francophilic fantasy, Angela Lansbury makes a pilgrimage to Paris to purchase an haute couture evening gown from the House of Dior. Fantastic…
 
Gulliver's Travels (1995) 
- Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole… 
- Epic, state–of–the–art version of Jonathan Swift's classic fairytale stars Ted Danson as the long–shipwrecked doctor who must…
 
Pyramid - Beyond Imagination (2003) 
- Dir. Jonathan Stamp
Feat. Omar Sharif 
- Short study concerning the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the largest manmade structures on the planet. Inside the dramatic framework of one worker's…
 
Hidalgo (2003) 
- Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard 
- Grandly conceived, this period adventure epic has a troubled 'Pony Express' rider (Mortensen) summoned to compete in an epic 3000–mile race…
 
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003) 
- Dir. Francois Dupeyron
Feat. Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger 
- Set on the multicultural streets of 1960s working–class Paris, this warm–hearted tale has a Sufi grocery store owner befriend a lonely…
 
Crown Prince, The (TV Mini-series) (Kronprinz Rudolf) (2006) 
- Dir. Robert Dornhelm
Feat. Max von Thun, Vittoria Puccini, Klaus Maria Brandauer… 
- Sumptuous historical Austrian mini–series based on the Crown Prince's doomed love affair with a baroness, that eventually requires the pair to…
 
Rock the Casbah (2013) 
- Dir. Laïla Marrakchi 
Feat. Morjana Alaoui, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal… 
- Culturally–specific family comedy in which three women reunite in Morocco to mourn in accordance with Muslim tradition following the death of…