Top 10 Muslim Friendly Movies
The great religion of Islam and its followers (of close to 1.6 billion, 23% of world's population) are often demonized and stereotyped in movies. However there are some movies and film-makers who are brave enough to portray a more well-balanced perspective of the great culture and people. This is the Top 10 Movies of the genre:
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- DirectorRidley ScottStarsOrlando BloomEva GreenLiam NeesonBalian 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.It shows the great warrior and king of Islam, Saladin (or Salahuddin in Arabic) as the great personality that he was. Though the movie marries fiction and historical fact, it maintains the exceptional moral character and military success that Saladin had.
- DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAnthony QuinnIrene PapasMichael AnsaraThis epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.Hamza, the uncle of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) is central to theme of the movie. It depicts the early years of Islam, when the Prophet (Pbuh) and his early followers were suffering from persecutions, boycott and tremendous hardships by the Meccans, in spreading and practicing the Islamic beliefs. This is until they migrated to Medina and started its own state under the leadership of the Prophet (Pbuh), supported by the protagonist, Hamza.
- DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAnthony QuinnOliver ReedRod SteigerIn 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.The struggle of Omar Mukhtar, the great resistant leader of Libya versus the Italian imperialist was depicted very well in this movie. He was a religious teacher by trade, who maintained his integrity, moral dealings and strategic rebellion against the mighty, more well-equipped Italian army.
- DirectorHanung BramantyoStarsLukman SardiZaskia Adya MeccaSlamet RahardjoThe journey of an Indonesian national hero named K.H. Ahmad Dahlan striving for Muhammadiyah, an Islamic organization in Indonesia, and how he was rejected by the society as he was trying to fix up their perspective.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García BernalTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.There's a heart-breaking scene on the Moroccan story of the movie (SPOILER AHEAD), on how the people that are typically stereotyped with violence and hatred for the West, helped the injured Westerner, without the same prejudice that was inflicted on them.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonJason IsaacsGreg KinnearDiscovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.About Chief Warrant Officer, Roy Miller (Matt Damon) who finds it in his conscience to question his country's motive into the war in Iraq, after realizing the deceit and fallacy of the so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsPatrick CarrollRob DevaneyIzzy DiazThe devastating reconstruction of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl by American soldiers in Samarra in 2006.Brave storytelling about the tragic, real-life rape and murder of a 14 years-old Iraqi girl by US soldiers.
- DirectorGavin HoodStarsReese WitherspoonJake GyllenhaalPeter SarsgaardWhen a terrorist bombing in North Africa kills 19 incl. an American, an Egyptian chemical engineer flying from South Africa to his wife in USA, is arrested upon arriving USA. He disappears. His wife asks senator for help.Revolves around the false intelligence and brutality that follows it in War Against Terror, targeting and stereotyping innocent Muslims, which in this movie portrayed by Anwar El-Ibrahimi, an Egyptian-born chemical engineer American.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsNaomi WattsSean PennSonya DavisonCIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.Based on the ordeal that Valerie Plame and her husband had to go through in exposing the scandal that leads to the Iraq war.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonAngela BassettDelroy LindoBiographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.Biography of the great Malcolm X, his transformation from a thug into the leader of Nation Of Islam, before settling at ease to the real teaching of mainstream Islam through his experience during hajj to the holy city of Mecca.