A good preformance by Lawrence of Arabia star Omar Sharif as the shop owner Ibrahim whp's unlike our main character Momo follow his OWN coran.

It is a situation so timeworn it has practically become its own foreign-film genre: the slice-of-life drama about the unlikely friendship between an adorable child and a cranky codger. Monsieur ...

The working-class corner of 1960s Paris that serves as the setting for the lovely "Monsieur Ibrahim" is teeming: Pedestrians race along narrow sidewalks, drivers slow to survey the prostitutes propped ...

Set in a poor, ethnic neighborhood in Paris in the early ’60s, Monsieur Ibrahim tells the story of a kindly old Muslim grocer who befriends a young Jewish boy called Momo (short for Moses). The boy, ...

Francois Dupeyron (The Machine) directed this sentimental story about a friendship between a wise old Turkish shopkeeper (Omar Sharif) and a neglected Jewish boy. Their raffish Parisian neighborhood, ...

Unlikely bonds are forged and life lessons are learned, yet Sharif’s mischievous performance lifts the film above mere melodrama. (1 hr. 35 mins.; R) BILGE EBIRI AND LOGAN HILL Spotlight: Omar Sharif ...