List of foreign films shot in Morocco
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Many foreign films have been shot in Morocco. The first were by the French film pioneer Louis Lumière. Orson Welles filmed his Othello there, which won the Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1955, Alfred Hitchcock directed The Man Who Knew Too Much set in Marrakech and Casablanca, while in 1962 David Lean also shot the desert scenes ofLawrence of Arabia in Morocco.
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The following is a list of some films that were entirely or partially shot in Morocco:
- 1897: Le chevalier Marocain (Louis Lumière)
- 1930: Morocco (Josef von Sternberg), starred (Marlene Dietrich)
- 1949: Othello (Orson Welles)
- 1953: Flight to Tangier (Charles Marquis Warren)
- 1955: The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring (James Stewart)
- 1962: Lawrence of Arabia, starred Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif
- 1970: Patton, directed by Franklin Schaffner
- 1975: The Man Who Would Be King, directed by John Huston
- 1981: Rollover, directed by Alan Pakula, starred Jane Fonda
- 1985: The Jewel of the Nile directed by Lewis Teague, starred Michael Douglas
- 1987: The Living Daylights, directed by John Glen, starred Timothy Dalton and Maryam D'Abo
- 1988: The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese, starred Willem Dafoe
- 1994: Highlander III: The Sorcerer directed by Andrew Morahan, starred Christopher Lambert
- 1997: Kundun directed by Martin Scorsese
- 1998: Hamilton directed by Harald Zwart
- 1998: Hideous Kinky (Marrakech Express)
- 1999: The Mummy directed by Stephen Sommers, starred Brendan Fraser
- 2000: Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, starred Russell Crowe
- 2000: Rules of Engagement, directed by William Friedkin, starred Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and Guy Pearce
- 2001: The Mummy Returns directed by Stephen Sommers, starred Brendan Fraser
- 2001: Spy Game, directed by Tony Scott, starred Robert Redford and Brad Pitt
- 2001: Black Hawk Down, directed by Ridley Scott
- 2002: Live from Baghdad, directed by Mick Jackson, starred Michael Keaton
- 2002: Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre (France) directed by Alain Chabat, starred Gérard Depardieu and Jamel Debbouze
- 2004: Hidalgo directed by Joe Johnston
- 2004: Alexander directed by Oliver Stone
- 2004: Les temps qui changent directed by André Téchiné
- 2004: Exorcist: The Beginning directed by Renny Harlin, starred Stellan Skarsgård
- 2005: Sahara directed by Breck Eisner, starred Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz and William H. Macy
- 2005: Kingdom of Heaven directed by Ridley Scott
- 2006: Babel directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- 2006: The Hills Have Eyes, directed by Alexandre Aja
- 2007: Arn – The Knight Templar directed by Peter Flinth
- 2007: The Hills Have Eyes 2 directed by Martin Weisz
- 2007: The Bourne Ultimatum directed by Paul Greengrass
- 2008: Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End directed by Peter Flinth
- 2008: Body of Lies directed by Ridley Scott, starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe
- 2009 Pope Joan directed by Sönke Wortmann, starring John Goodman and Johanna Wokalek
- 2010: Of Gods and Men directed by Xavier Beauvois
- 2010: Sex and the City 2 directed by Michael Patrick King
- 2010: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, directed by Mike Newell
- 2010: Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan
