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Harem [1985] |
Starring Natasha Kinski wearing lots of veils and Ben Kingsley playing a Moroccan shiekh. This film is not the cheesy soft-porn that you might expect, but instead quite a deep and moving study into the powers of attraction. Great mask-veil and bridal preparation scene. Dave's favourite |
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Harem - The Loss Of Innocence [1986] |
Starring Sarah Miles wearing lots of veils and somebody playing the Ottoman sultan. Michelle's favourite |
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Kandahar [2001] |
A veritable burqa-fest with a variety of our favourite garments in all coulours under the sun. The story on the other hand is rather slow-moving and do not expect any sumptuous luxury. This is poverty, not decadence being portrayed. Cannot cooment too much on the acting either, under those burqas it's impossible to tell.
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The English Harem [2005] |
BBC made a version starring Martine McCutcheon who only wore one veil. Watch this for the story instead, which deals with culture clash and the dynamics of Muslim marriage in a sympathetic manner. Link is to the book which is better. |
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Arabian Nights [2000] |
This Hallmark Channel production may not stay as closely to the original tales as some of us purists might like, but it's good fun and there are several veils floating about, inc. some Turkish karsaffs.
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The Mummy [1999] |
A well-known, big box office hit starring Rachel Weisz whom in one scene dons a light yet extrememly alluring gauze half-niqaab. Worth a watch for that alone.
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Harem Suare [1999] |
Set in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire, this film tells the story of life inside the Sultan's decadent harem in the Dolmabahce Palace. Sultan, harem, decadence, need I say more?
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Hidalgo [2004] |
Vigo Mortesen plays a half-white, half-Native American who enters a famous Arabian horse race with an unthinkable beast, an animal that is not purebred. Whilst there, he falls in love with the veiled daughter of a Sheikh, whilst a corsetted Victorian Englishwoman tries to seduce him. Good for both veil and corset devotees alike.
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A New Day in Old Sana'a [2005] |
Veiled women in most outdoor scenes, and veiling and unveiling indoors. The main story isn't much; the side story is of a photographer intrigued by catching the veiled beauties. The setting of the old city of Sana'a can't be much more exotic. | ||
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Finding Nouf[2008] (previously released as The Night of the Mi'raj) & |
Two murder mysteries set in Saudi Arabia with the the same main characters to solve the crimes, and a development in their lives from book to book but just having read the summery of the first is enough to start with the second. Written by a woman the women are at the front, always veiled in public, but also along with the men trying to bend the rules of segregation to be able to work with and enjoy the opposite sex. | ||
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Na Putu (On The Path) [2010] |
A look at a modern Bosnian/Herzegovinan relationship from the woman's point of view. Her boyfriend looses his job because of drinking and meets an old friend who has become Salafist strict Muslim. He offers him a job in their Summer camp, putting their relationship to a hard test. Black veiled women in many of the scenes with the Salafists, and especially when the main character goes to visit the camp. |