Feature Films
100+ films. 150 countries. 200+ awards. Marlin Darrah's films have reached audiences on every continent — with subjects ranging from the temples of India to the plains of the Serengeti, and from the jungles of the Amazon to a nearly forgotten tribe in New Guinea.
Over five decades, Marlin Darrah has produced a body of award-winning dramatic feature films, documentaries and travel films that stand among the most geographically ambitious in cinema history. His scripts and films are intimate, cinematic portraits of the world's most extraordinary places and peoples, shot with the eye of an artist and the curiosity of a geographer. Listed below are just a handful of Darrah's movies and documentaries.
India
American art collector Dante Sevestre travels to India to close a deal with one of India's most successful young painters. But Dante's uncontrolled desires and delusions threaten the lives of both the painter and his young fiancée..
Egypt
From the Valley of the Kings to the streets of Cairo, a sweeping cinematic journey. A husband rejected. A beautiful stranger. A dangerous liaison. For two couples enjoying a spectacular Egyptian adventure, treachery and deception cruise the Nile along with them.
Winner of 55 "Best Film" and "Best Director" awards at Film Festivals worldwide
Brazil
A group of tourists joins the Amazon Forest riverboat "Amazon Queen" as it ventures upriver, to visit indigenous villages and explore jungle habitats. But a dark cloud of thievery and menace thunders aboard, threatening all with death.
Winner of 70 "Best Film" and "Best Director awards at 65 Film Festivals worldwide
CAMBODIA
Retreating to Cambodia after a failed relationship, American Thomas McIntrye becomes immersed in Cambodia's dangerous and pervasive sex trade. There he falls in love with a woman who helps him to regain his dignity.
Nominations or "Best Film" awards at 16 Film Festivals worldwide
Italy, Turkey, Turkmenstan, Uzbekistan, China
Retracing the legendary Central Asia journey from Istanbul to the court of Kublai Khan — through Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China — following the route that connected East and West for centuries.
Best Documentary — Istanbul International Film Festival · Gold Award — Houston WorldFest
New Guinea
Into the highlands and jungles of New Guinea to document the Dani, Asmat and Korowai peoples — tribes whose traditions, rituals, and ways of life have remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.
Gold Award — New York Film Festival · Best Documentary — Paris International Film Festival
Film Library
Marlin Darrah's complete film library is available for licensing, broadcast, and educational distribution worldwide.