Sheikhs
The robed potentate archetype: oil-rich, gluttonous, lecherous, or buffoonish rulers who buy, bully, or lust their way through the plot - a caricature that survived intact from the silent era to the blockbuster age.
231 films carry this label · chronological
- Ali Barboyou Et Ali Bouf a L’huile1907
- Ben Hur1907
- A Princess of Bagdad1913
- Brewster’s Millions1914
- The Arab1915
- A Daughter of the Gods1916
- The Road to Love1916
- Barbary Sheep1917
- Bound in Morocco1918
- Tarzan of the Apes1918
- Flame of the Desert1919
- Male and Female1919
- One Arabian Night1920
- The Sheik1921
- Arabian Love1922
- Under Two Flags1922
- One Stolen Night1923
- Souls for Sale1923
- The Shriek of Araby1923
- The Song of Love1923
- The Tents of Allah1923
- The Thrill Chaser1923
- A Son of the Sahara1924
- Sherlock Jr1924
- The Arab1924
- The Sea Hawk1924
- Waxworks1924
- Maid in Morocco1925
- All Aboard1926
- Ben Hur1926
- Old Ironsides1926
- So This Is Paris1926
- Son of the Sheik1926
- The Lady of the Harem1926
- She’s a Sheik1927
- Soft Cushions1927
- A Son of the Desert1928
- Beau Sabreur1928
- Fazil1928
- Fleetwing1928
- King Cowboy1928
- The Godless Girl1928
- The White Sheik1928
- Love in the Desert1929
- One Stolen Night1929
- Dogway Melody1930
- Renegades1930
- Women of All Nations1931
- Kiss of Araby1933
- The Lost City1935
- The Nut Farm1935
- East Meets West1936
- Hollywood Boulevard1936
- Under Two Flags1936
- Another Dawn1937
- Jericho1937
- Legion of Missing Men1937
- The Lion Man1937
- The Sheik Steps Out1937
- Tarzan’s Revenge1938
- Man About Town1939
- Tin Pan Alley1940
- Outlaws of the Desert1941
- Raiders of the Desert1941
- A Yank in Libya1942
- Road to Morocco1942
- Adventure in Iraq1943
- Coney Island1943
- Tarzan’s Desert Mystery1943
- The Sultan’s Daughter1943
- Action in Arabia1944
- Hey Rookie1944
- Lost in a Harem1944
- The Desert Hawk1944
- Slave Girl1947
- The Vigilante1947
- The Great Sinner1949
- Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion1950
- The Black Rose1950
- Ten Tall Men1951
- The White Sheik1951
- Harem Girl1952
- Decameron Nights1953
- How to Marry a Millionaire1953
- Money from Home1953
- Raiders of the Seven Seas1953
- Siren of Bagdad1953
- The Steel Lady1953
- Beat the Devil1954
- The Belles of St. Trinian’s1954
- The Golden Idol1954
- The Saracen Blade1954
- Adventures of Captain Africa1955
- Bowery to Bagdad1955
- Desert Sands1955
- Pirates of Tripoli1955
- Abdulla the Great1956
- The Black Tent1956
- Looking for Danger1957
- Nature Girl and the Slaver1957
- I Only Arsked1958
- Tank Force1958
- Ben Hur1959
- The Big Fisherman1959
- Timbuktu1959
- Sands of the Desert1960
- The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s1960
- A Matter of Who1961
- Journey Beneath the Desert1961
- Five Weeks in a Balloon1962
- Lawrence of Arabia1962
- Samson Against the Sheik1962
- Drums of Africa1963
- The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze1963
- Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens1964
- Devil of the Desert Against the Sons of Hercules1964
- Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus1964
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home1964
- The Masque of the Red Death1964
- Batman1965
- Harum Scarum1965
- Masquerade1965
- Where the Spies Are1965
- Gambit1966
- Modesty Blaise1966
- Follow That Camel1967
- Perils of Pauline1967
- Untamable Angelique1967
- Angelique and the Sultan1968
- Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River1968
- Head1968
- Aladdin and His Magic Lamp1969
- Don’t Drink the Water1969
- Cabaret1972
- Amarcord1974
- Murder on the Orient Express1974
- The Man with the Golden Gun1974
- That Lucky Touch1975
- The Great Waldo Pepper1975
- The Wind and the Lion1975
- Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks1976
- Network1976
- St. Ives1976
- Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood1976
- Emanuelle Around the World1977
- Fun with Dick and Jane1977
- March or Die1977
- Slavers1977
- The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington1977
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste1977
- The Spy Who Loved Me1977
- The World’s Greatest Lover1977
- Valentino1977
- Gas Pump Girls1978
- Heaven Can Wait1978
- The Fury1978
- The Greek Tycoon1978
- Americathon1979
- Ashanti1979
- How to Beat the High Cost of Living1979
- The Golden Lady1979
- Time After Time1979
- Earthbound1980
- First Family1980
- The Formula1980
- Underground Aces1980
- Cannonball Run1981
- Condorman1981
- Gas1981
- Scanners1981
- Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid1981
- Funny Money1982
- Paradise1982
- Rollover1982
- The Gift1982
- Things Are Tough All Over1982
- Wrong Is Right1982
- Baby, It’s You1983
- Deal of the Century1983
- Max Dugan Returns1983
- Sahara1983
- Superman III1983
- The Black Stallion Returns1983
- Trenchcoat1983
- Best Defense1984
- Bolero1984
- Cannonball Run II1984
- Protocol1984
- Tuareg, the Desert Warrior1984
- Basic Training1985
- Brewster’s Millions1985
- Harem1985
- Hell Squad1985
- Jewel of the Nile1985
- St. Elmo’s Fire1985
- Club Paradise1986
- My Chauffeur1986
- Power1986
- Short Circuit1986
- Sweet Revenge1987
- The Chipmunk Adventure1987
- The Boost1988
- War Birds1988
- American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt1989
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade1989
- King of the Wind1989
- Let It Ride1989
- Speed Zone1989
- A Man Called Sarge1990
- The Bonfire of the Vanities1990
- American Ninja 4: the Annihilation1991
- Company Business1991
- Delta Force 3: the Killing Game1991
- Hudson Hawk1991
- American Samurai1992
- Beyond Justice1992
- Noises Off1992
- Off and Running1992
- Utz1992
- Femme Fontaine: Killer Babe for the C. I.A1994
- Don Juan Demarco1995
- Sabrina1995
- Back in Business1996
- Barb Wire1996
- Striptease1996
- Batman & Robin1997
- Mars Attacks1997
- Mouse Hunt1997
- Wrongfully Accused1998
- Simpatico1999
- What’s the Worst That Could Happen?2001