Wanderers of the Desert

Apr 30, 1986

1h 35m

★ 6.5

Overview

A young teacher arrives to take over a village school isolated in the shimmering desert. Legendary figures materialize out of wells and the desert itself, groups of children hurry through a labyrinth of underground corridors, and the teacher is whisked away to a mysterious rendezvous and never returns.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

SATPEC

France Média

LATIF

Wanderers of the Desert Trailers

Cast

Abdulsalam (Teacher)

Nacer Khemir

Hussayn

Soufiane Makni

Noureddine Kasbaoui

Sonia Ichti

(Shaik)

Hedi Daoud

Hassen Khalsi

Jamila Ourabi

Abdel Azim Abdel Haqq

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling strained relationships with his brother and memories of a troubled past. He befriends Celia, a curious and aspiring writer, who shares a fascination with his world. When Celia mysteriously disappears, Paul becomes the prime suspect, forcing him to confront buried secrets and uncover the dark truths of his family and community.

7.9

The Miracle Worker

May 23, 1962

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

7.1

Notes on a Scandal

Dec 25, 2006

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

7.0

Sweet Sixteen

Sep 7, 2002

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

6.7

Lights in the Dusk

Feb 3, 2006

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

0.0

Lumë drite

Sep 12, 1975

Bardhi works as a teacher in a remote area. When one of the students abandons the school, Bardhi tries to help him.

7.2

The English Patient

Nov 14, 1996

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

7.2

Maria Full of Grace

Jan 18, 2004

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

6.0

7 Virgins

Oct 14, 2005

Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.

8.0

Ghetto-Kids

Jul 4, 2002

Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in the center of this German made for TV movie. The movie makes a subject out of their everyday lives and the helpless attempt for them to build a normal life.

7.3

The Promised Land

Feb 21, 1975

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

8.0

Casino

Nov 22, 1995

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

7.4

Once Were Warriors

Sep 2, 1994

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.

5.5

Karakum, 45° in the Shadow

Aug 22, 1983

A movie about the gas mine workers in the scorching hot desert of Karakum, Turkmenistan.

6.1

Land of Plenty

Sep 10, 2004

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

6.3

The Way of the Gun

Sep 8, 2000

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.

7.1

Small Change

Mar 17, 1976

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

8.1

Paris, Texas

Jul 16, 1984

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

8.1

Central Station

Apr 3, 1998

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.