Cowboyen Frank er god til at ride. Så god at han var hærens bedste rytte til at bringe et budskab hurtigt og sikkert frem. For at vise han og hesten Hidalgo stadig er de bedste, melder han sig til løbet Ocean of Fire - et 4500 kilometer langt løb gennem den arabiske ørken. Men mange andre end Frank vil gerne vinde, og de skyer ingen midler.
I Bjergkøbing bor Theodor Fælgen sammen med sine to medhjælpere - det lidt pessimistiske, melankolske og forsigtige pindsvin Ludvig og den optimistiske fugl Solan Gundersen med halstørklæde, filttøfler og lav moral. I Bjergkøbing er miljøet luftigt og frodigt, og de tre lever af at reparere cykler, lave nye opfindelser og producere blomsterpinde. På tv ser de en dag, at Theodors tidligere hjælper, Rudolf Blodstrupmose, har stjålet en af Theodors store opfindelser - superretometerfordeleren. Han er dermed blevet verdensmester i Formel 1 og udfordrer, hvem det måtte være, til duel. Til trods for Ludvigs bekymrede advarsler - men inspireret af Solans entusiasme og støttet af oliesheikens Ben Redic Fy Fazans penge - tager Theodor udfordringen op og begynder at bygge racerbilen Il Tempo Gigante.
En Fellini-film ligner ikke nogen anden og da slet ikke den festlige Amarcord, der vandt en Oscar som årets bedste udenlandske film i 1974. Titlen betyder "jeg husker", og den fortæller om folk og fæ i Fellinis egen hjemby, Rimini, ved Adriaterhavskysten under fascismen. Federico Fellini satiriserer over sit ungdomsliv og beskriver dagliglivet i byen som et cirkus af sociale ritualer, ungdommelige lyster, mandlige fantasier og politiske udflugter.
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
Bo Derek, indbegrebet af mange mænds forestilling om, hvad der i bedste fald venter dem i Paradiset, er i denne film, som muntert er opkaldt efter et rytmisk musikstykke af Ravel, en ægte sexbombe med det luftige navn Ayre. Efter at have bestået sin eksamen på en engelsk kostskole drager hun ud i verden for at gøre en ende på sin jomfruelighed. Det første offer er en småkedelig arabisk sheik, men han afløses dog hurtigt af en rigtig machomand, tyrefægteren Angel.
Den sorte hingst bliver stjålet af nogle beduiner og ført til Marokko og drengen sniger sig ombord på et fragtfly for at skaffe den tilbage. Det er kun begyndelsen på denne spinkle fortsættelse der imidlertid er rimelig eksotisk og imødekommende familieunderholdning. Fin finale til sidst med det store ørkenrace.
Johnny Tyronne, action movie star and ladies man, is traveling through the Middle East on a goodwill tour to promote his latest movie, "Sands of the Desert". Once he arrives, however, he is kidnapped by a gang of assassins who were so impressed with his on-screen adventures that they want to hire him to carry out an assassination for them.
"MAAMU TENSION NAI LENEKA" A HINDI FEATURE FILM STARRING SUMEET VYAS, BHARAT JHA, ALI ASGAR, YUDHVIR
Tommy loses his job as a make-up artist at Bayerischer Rundfunk after fogging an announcer with hairspray and then insulting her; Mike is dumped by his girlfriend because, on the one hand, he only cares about his music and, on the other hand, he is financially stranded. So they both need money and decide to become detectives. On behalf of a rich industrialist, they are to shadow his wife and take photos of her cheating. So Mike and Tommy travel to Bad Spänzer, where the lady is staying. But she is as faithful as gold, so Mike, disguised as a Prussian, makes advances to her so that Tommy can take the required photos. But Tommy soon has to slip into a costume, too: Since Tommy looks deceptively similar to an Arab sheik, he is hired by the sheik's secret service to double him. What Tommy doesn't know: assassins want to kill the sheikh at all costs.
Amador and Fidel are two small scammers operating in Torremolinos beach and surroundings with more misery than fortune.
Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom.
A couple of rival farmers discover the plan to build a nuclear power plant on their lands, and decide to ally to avoid it.
Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis." He heads for Samari, a desert hot-bed of tribal unrest in Africa, to do just that, which includes getting footage of El Kadar, bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela, saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don from being a dupe of the gun-runners, and run-ins with spies and throat-cutting tribesman. For a finale, he saves the British Army.
American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window. Reporting the affair to British Consul Herbert Forbes, the latter tries to discourage him from further investigation, as the British are aware of the plot and are planning on staging a coup. He goes with Mike to Nancy's apartment, and she denies having ever seen him before. Sheik Ibrahim, next in command of the Arab tribe to Sheik David, is plotting with Nazi agent Yussof Streyer to kill David who is friendly with the British. Mike and Nancy have gone to David's camp, escape from Ibrahim's henchmen, and get back to El Moktar before the Arabs attack the garrison.
For decades Sultan Hassan has been suppressing the desert tribes with violence and terror. In an oasis, the tribal prince Ajbar has been hiding with his own from Hassan's soldiers.
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.