103 Omar Sharif Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

The age-old tale of romance is set against the backdrop of World War I, the 1917 Russian revolution, and the Russian Civil War. Yuri Zhivago is in love with Lara, who ends up marrying Pasha Antipov. Zhivago marries Tonya. Years later, fate brings Yuri and Lara back together again only to cruelly tear them apart. 

The movie is based on the life of T.E. Lawrence who was sent to Arabia to aide Prince Faisal. He becomes a liaison between the British and the Arabs who are fighting the Turks. His daring victories against the Turks makes Lawrence the hero, but his own exploits weigh heavily on his soul. 

Considered as one of the best musical films ever made, Funny Girl revolves around the life of comedienne Fannie Brice. It depicts how she struggled in her early days,  and managed to reach the height of her career.

Ahmed, an agro-engineer and son of a farm-owner, returns home where he falls for Amal, daughter of rich land-owner, Pasha, who detests the increasing sugarcane production in Ahmed’s father’s farm. Pasha frames Ahmed’s father in a murder, who receives death sentence. The victim’s son hunts for Ahmed for retribution. Will the truth finally come to the fore? Can Ahmed re-unite with Amal? 

After a prostitute is murdered in Warsaw, Major Grau of the German intelligence investigates the case, and he finds evidence that makes him suspect three Nazi Generals. Soon, it also seems that there is a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.  

Inspector Jacques Clouseau’s incompetence lands chief inspector Charles Dreyfus in a psychiatric hospital. Clouseau’s visit on the day of his release results in a relapse, but Dreyfus manages to escape the hospital. When he fails to kill Clouseau, he organises a criminal plot threatening countries with annihilation if they don’t kill Clouseau for him. 

An old Muslim shopkeeper Ibrahim takes a Jewish boy, Momo, under his wings. Ibrahim teaches Momo the lessons on life based on the teachings of Quran.

The film is all about Afghan people’s passion for buzkashi, a game in which galloping horsemen compete with each other to steer a headless goat into the goal. The protagonist, the son of a retired buzkashi player, breaks his leg while participating in one such game, causing great loss of prestige and money to his father. Hurt and humiliated, he promises to return to the field.  

When wealthy inheritor Adel and working-class girl Sawsan meet at an auction, it leads to a swift marriage. As Sawsan dislikes Adel’s opportunistic friends, he keeps her at home where she manages Adel’s lands with the help of his old friend Mustafa. Creating trouble in Adel’s marriage, his devious friends advise him to sell his lands. It’s up to Adel to take a decision.

Nick is a rock and roll singer living in the US. He falls in love with a beautiful woman named Hillary. When he learns that her father is a scientist who is held as a prisoner in East Germany, he decides to take up a mission to help her rescue him.

Based on Anna Karenina, a novel by Leo Tolstoy, The River of Love is an Egyptian romance film which revolves around Taher Pasha, a wealthy man, who falls in love with a young woman Nawal. In order to save her brother from jail due to unpaid debts, Nawal accepts Taher’s marriage proposal. However, married life turns out to be lonely and miserable for her, and she soon falls in love with a military officer named Khalid.

This romantic drama film tells us the story of Nadia, a teen girl, who has been raised by her father since her mother passed away quite early. Due to her lifelong lack of a mother figure, Nadia becomes a troublemaker at her boarding school. Things get even more complicated when she returns home and finds that her father has remarried.

A US Marshal is kidnapped by a bandit as the latter believes that he knows about the location of a hidden treasure. The US Marshal agrees to lead his gang to the treasure, but things get complicated because other groups are looking for it as well. Meanwhile, the Apache are trying to keep the secret location undisturbed.

During a trip to the countryside, ill-tempered Spanish prince, Rodrigo, encounters a flying monk who foretells his future and directs him towards peasant Italian girl, Isabella, who refuses him. Soon, the King orders him to choose among seven princesses within a week and organizes a week-long celebration, which draws Isabella, while the prince searches for her in the countryside.

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius decides that his loyal and trustworthy General Livius should be the one to succeed him. However, before he could announce this, the friends of his son Commodus, poisons him, so that they can secure their political futures. Commodus becomes the new leader, but he turns out to be quite corrupt, arrogant and ineffectual. Livius accepts him as the ruler, but changes his mind, after he threatens to kill Aurelius’s daughter.

This romantic drama film tells the story of a fisherman in Egypt, who returns home after three years, but finds that his lover is now in a relationship with a wealthy man. He therefore fights to win her back.

This musical romantic drama film is about a woman whose marriage gets broken due to her husband’s excessive drinking.  Therefore she is forced to raise her son with another man, who has a son of his own. Years later, their lives change when one of the brothers is driving drunk and causes a hit-and-run accident.

A village elder decides to get married to a young beautiful woman. However, she later develops feelings for a younger but poor and naïve man.   

Frank T. Hopkins and his American mustang, Hidalgo are famed as the world’s greatest endurance horse and rider as part of Buffalo Bill’s ‘Wild West’ show. When wealthy Sheikh Riyadh challenges Hopkins and Hidalgo to take part in the ‘Ocean of Fire’ race, they must prove themselves against the thoroughbred horses, deadly environment and sabotaging opponents.  

This biographical adventure film revolves around Marco Polo, who travels to China,  in order to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels. The rebels are, however, headed by his own son, and they are using a new invention, gunpowder.   

Following a forbidden romance, cultured Baghdad court poet Ahmad ibn Fadlan is exiled to distant lands as an ambassador. He stops at a Viking village during his journey and is forcefully recruited by them as the prophesied 13th warrior in an epic quest. Despite initial disdain, he eventually learns to respect the brave warriors and also earns their respect.

The Appointment is a romantic drama film which revolves around Federico Fendi, a successful lawyer, who gets involved with the ex-fiancée of one of his business associates. Eventually, he begins to suspect that his wife might be a high-class prostitute. He therefore tries to come up with a plan to entrap her.  

Nicknamed “The Baltimore Bullet”, he was once a renowned pool player. Realizing that his best days are over, he decides to transfer his skills to an up-and-coming young man. The story then goes on to depict how they set up a big game against a more successful player in a desperate attempt to win some money. 

King Xerxes is holding a great feast for all the people of his kingdom to attend. Hadassah, a beautiful young Jewish girl, travels to Persia, where the King’s eyes fall on her. Xerxes chooses her as his queen. However, he is not aware of the fact that she is Jewish.

The Parole Officer is a comedy crime film which tells the story of Simon Garden, an ineffective parole officer, who is framed for a murder that was actually committed by a police officer. The only evidence he has to prove his innocence is a CCTV tape, but it is unfortunately locked inside a bank vault. With the help of few former criminals and a woman named Emma, he thinks of a way to break into the bank, and get the footage, so that he can prove his innocence.  

This television film revolves around Narcotics agents who work for the UN, as they attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor. 

Green Ice is a romantic adventure film which revolves around the story of an engineer who is going through difficult times. He gets involved in a plan, with a mysterious woman, to rob a Colombian emerald magnate.

Lavinia Kean is a security hazards expert who is on a mission to spy on an Italian playboy who has connections to a global crime ring.

Benjamin is a private eye who is approached by a stranger claiming to be a Member of Parliament, who wants to hire Benjamin as a bodyguard for a friend Patricia.  Since he is offered a huge sum of money, Benjamin decides to accept the assignment. However, both Patricia and Benjamin are murdered by someone shortly after. Benjamin is soon reincarnated as a dog, and he tries to find the murderer and solve the mystery.

Famed Argentine revolutionary, Che Guevara, joins the Cuban revolution and slowly rises through the ranks and becomes Fidel Castro’s chief adviser. After the revolution, he is instrumental in punishing the war criminals. But a growing difference of opinions between him and Castro compels him to leave Cuba for Bolivia, where he breathes his last. 

D'Leh, a young member of a mammoth-hunting tribe, wins the coveted White Spear and marriage to beautiful Evolet following a misunderstanding involving a prophecy, but admits the truth and forfeits both. However, when Evolet and most of his clan are captured by horse-riding slavers, he must embark on an epic journey to fulfill the prophecy and free his people.

Based on the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War of 1950, this is dramatized version of the battle. In September 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of the UN forces, led an amphibious invasion with 200 UN ships and 70,000 military men on the pre-decided beaches. This war also had its repercussions on the relationship of Major Hallsworth and his wife, Barbara.