In the traditions of the Hollywood religious epic without the DeMille vulgarity. An account of the birth of Islam beginning with Mohammad's first visions and his crusade to bring a just and monotheistic religion to his people. The historical parallels of the ascendancy of Islam with early Christianity are heavily stressed; a persecuted minority gradually emerging victorious with large-scale conversions, religious toleration, slave, female, and even camel liberation!
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THE NATIVITY STORY (2005)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A big budget dramatisation of the birth of Christ that focuses on the arduous journey of his pregnant mother and her husband to the Bethlehem innkeeper's legendary stables. Virgin birth!!! Pull the other one Mary. Admirably made - aimed at 'believers'.
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THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Much vaunted tale of mens' greed; sacrificing family, friends and principles to gain profit in the early years of the 20th Century. Danny Day Lewis is superb, as always, as the sinister Daniel Plainview.
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WAITING FOR HAPPINESS (2002)
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At the edge of the vast Mauritanian desert lies the small coastal town of Nouadhibou, there seventeen-year-old Abdallah is visiting his mother before emigrating to Europe. This melancholic young man finds himself a stranger in his own country, unable to speak the local language he shies away from village customs and festivities. Yet, despite himself, Abdallah does become involved in the lives of the inhabitants of this unfamiliar world; the sorrowful but sensual young woman Nana, the aged handym
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