Un niño de la calle de buen corazón y un Gran Visir hambriento de poder compiten por una lámpara mágica que tiene el poder de hacer realidad sus deseos más profundos.

El Cairo, 1917. Durante la Gran Guerra (1914-1918), T.E. Lawrence, un conflictivo y enigmático oficial británico, es enviado al desierto para participar en una campaña de apoyo a los árabes contra Turquía. Él y su amigo Sherif Alí pondrán en esta misión toda su alma. Los nativos adoran a Lawrence porque ha demostrado sobradamente ser un amante del desierto y del pueblo árabe. En cambio, sus superiores británicos creen que se ha vuelto loco.

A Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx), un inteligente agente especial del Gobierno, le encargan una importante misión: organizar un equipo de élite (Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper y Jason Baterman) que deberá desplazarse a Riad para capturar al cerebro de un atentado terrorista que le costó la vida a varios compatriotas. El equipo dispone de una semana para infiltrarse y destruir una célula terrorista decidida a emprender la “yihad” (guerra santa) contra Occidente. Fleury encuentra un inesperado aliado: un capitán de la policía local (Ashraf Bahroum) que lo instruye sobre los entresijos de la política saudí y le ayuda a investigar el origen y los motivos del terrible atentado.

El joven Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), un francés de origen árabe, ingresa en prisión para cumplir una pena de seis años. Aunque al principio la vida en la cárcel le resulta muy dura porque está completamente solo, se adapta rápidamente y, gracias a su carisma, se gana poco a poco la simpatía de los miembros de la mafia corsa, que tienen sobornados a los guardias y controlan todo lo que pasa en prisión.

Siglo VII. Férreamente determinado a acabar con las injusticias de los líderes de la Meca, Mohammad, que afirma haber tenido una visión del ángel Gabriel, les persuade para que abandonen la adoración de los 300 ídolos de Kaaba en favor de uno sólo. Además de desoir sus ruegos, las reuniones de Mohammad y sus partidarios son respondidas con persecuciones y crueles torturas. Su expulsión de la Meca desencadena la sed de justicia de éstos hasta que Mohammad accede a tomar las armas y luchar para instaurar el monoteísmo.

Luego del secuestro de un espía de EE. UU., un exdiplomático regresa a una ciudad devastada por la guerra civil para negociar el intercambio de prisioneros.

Las actividades del desenfrenado e indiscriminado asesino en serie Ben son grabadas por un equipo documental voluntariamente cómplice, que eventualmente se convierte en sus cómplices y participantes activos. Ben ofrece comentarios casuales sobre la naturaleza de su trabajo y reflexiones arbitrarias sobre temas que le interesan, como la música o las condiciones de las viviendas para personas de bajos ingresos, e incluso llega a presentar al equipo del documentalista a su familia. Pero sus indulgencias imprudentes pronto los superan.

Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs - Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib. Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throughout the car.

A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.

A young Saudi doctor campaigns for a seat on the municipal council, finding confidence as she combats prejudice.

In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for testing, he is confronted by ominous men, eager to get their hands on his patent. Evil Arab petroleum lords also want to stop this threat to the gasoline market any way they can.

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there's trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise.

Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit. All the performances are magnificent: Sal Mineo showing his acting talents, Jack Warden in a wiseguy performance as an employee of Zahrain oil who was involved in embezzlement, Anthony Caruso as a slimy psychotic and the underrated Madlyn Rhue as a nurse who becomes emotionally involved in the proceedings.

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.

In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...