Ishtar (1987) Review
Ishtar (1987) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Elaine May made a screwball comedy about two men with no talent, spent fifty-one million dollars doing it in the Sahara, and the name became shorthand for disaster before…
Filming Location: Morocco
Films in this library shot in Morocco, a country used constantly for the ancient world, the desert and the Middle East. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
MoroccoAlexander (2004) Review
Alexander (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone spent a hundred and fifty-five million dollars on a life that has no shape, released it, and then recut it three separate times across ten years trying…
ItalyIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Review
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale, and that is generous. Three hundred and eighty-seven million dollars, a loss of a hundred and thirty-four million, and trash from the first…
FranceLove Actually (2003)
Multiple intertwined London relationships unfold across the five weeks leading up to Christmas, from the Prime Minister to schoolchildren. Love Actually is Richard Curtis's 2003 British romantic comedy depicting multiple interconnected London relationships unfolding across the five weeks leading up…
MoroccoBlack Hawk Down (2001)
Ridley Scott's 2001 Mogadishu battle. October 1993 Somalia raid gone wrong.
LondonThe Mummy (2017)
2017 Alex Kurtzman action horror with Tom Cruise unleashing an ancient Egyptian princess. Universal's failed Dark Universe launch.
AustriaThe Living Daylights (1987)
1987 John Glen Bond film with Timothy Dalton's debut. Soviet defector plot, Maryam d'Abo as cellist, return to serious tone.
AustriaSpectre (2015)
2015 Sam Mendes Bond film with Craig. Christoph Waltz as Oberhauser-Blofeld, attempted retroactive franchise unification.
MoroccoKingdom of Heaven (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven is two different films. The theatrical cut is a confused 144-minute medieval action movie that critics dismissed and audiences ignored.
LondonLawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence in his first major film. Lawrence in his first major film role.
MaltaGladiator (2000)
Gladiator is the film that revived the Hollywood epic. The 9 rating is honest evaluation.
FranceMy Way (2011) Review
My Way is the most ambitious Korean war film ever produced. The film was the most expensive Korea.