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Hope and a Little Sugar
Hope and a Little Sugar (2006)
, 1h40
Directed by Tanuja Chandra
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Anupam Kher, Amit Sial, Mahima Chaudhry, Suhasini Mulay, Hugh Dillon

Ali (Amit Sial) is a photographer and bike messenger who lives in New York. He develops a friendship and falls in love with a married woman, Saloni Oberoi (Mahima Chaudhry). When her husband, Harry Oberoi (Vikram Chatwal), is killed during the September 11 attacks, Harry's father, a retired Colonel (Anupam Kher), begins to take his aggressions out on Ali for being a Muslim. Although Mrs. Oberoi (Suhasini Mulay) tries to stop the Colonel's behavior, the situation escalates as the Colonel, himself, becomes the target of social post-9/11 aggression directed towards him because he is a Sikh.
Yun Hota To Kya Hota
Yun Hota To Kya Hota (2006)

Directed by Naseeruddin Shah
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Konkona Sen Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Jimmy Shergill, Ayesha Takia, Paresh Rawal, Saroj Khan

The story revolves around a group of people who were not connected to each other in any way other than by ill fate. These were people from different parts of India who had traveled to the US and now were boarding the ill-fated flights that crashed into the Twin Towers and Pentagon on 9/11. The story tells us about the horror of the hijack and some of the incidents that occurred on board during those horrific minutes. Some of the characters in the film die in the accident.
Flight 93
Flight 93 (2006)
, 1h29
Directed by Peter Markle
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Films about hijackings
Actors Jeffrey Nordling, Ty Olsson, Gwynyth Walsh, Jerry Wasserman, Brennan Elliott, Kirsten Williamson

First officer LeRoy Homer Jr. gets dressed in his F.A.A. official uniform, kisses his wife and leaves for work. The terrorist ringleader Ziad Jarrah shaves in his hotel room and then leaves for Newark International Airport.
Brick Lane
Brick Lane (2007)
, 1h37
Directed by Sarah Gavron
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about immigration, Films about terrorism, La précarité, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Bernard Holley

The film tells the story of Nazneen, who grew up in rural Bangladesh, in the district of Mymensingh. At 17 she has an arranged marriage to Chanu Ahmed, who is twice her age. They soon move to Brick Lane in London, the centre of the British Bangladeshi community. She leaves behind her sister and her family home.
Liberty Kid
Liberty Kid (2007)
, 1h32
Origin USA
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Al Thompson, Ephraim Benton, Skai Jackson

Two friends Derrick and Tico lost their jobs at a concession stand at the Statue of Liberty because of 9/11. In order to make money, they become drug dealers and participate in insurance scams. Derrick wants to go to college and has to support his two kids. When recruiters from the army come, Derrick decides to join the army because he is told that he'll get money for college and live rent free. When he tells his mom his decision, she says that she is afraid that he'll have to go to war. The recruiter tells him that his mom is only worried because it is her job as a mom.
AmericanEast
AmericanEast (2008)

Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Tony Shalhoub, Sayed Badreya, Sammy Sheik, Sarah Shahi, Christopher Carley, Tim Guinee

Mustafa (Sayed Badreya) is a widowed Egyptian immigrant and the owner of Habibe's Café, a popular hangout in Los Angeles for those with Middle Eastern backgrounds. He is devoted to providing his son, Richard Chagoury, with a moral upbringing despite the pressures of contemporary American urban life. He also finds himself cast in the role of protector to his unwed sister Salwah (Sarah Shahi), for whom, by family and tribal custom, he is responsible for finding a traditional suitor. But his respect for tradition comes up against his own aspirations to adapt to the American Dream when he decides to open a new restaurant with a Jewish partner – his friend Sam (Tony Shalhoub). This unholy alliance is unpopular amongst the habitués of his café and the insular Arab community in which Mustafa resides. It is one of several personal points of tension that gradually build against the backdrop of larger, national events affecting the Arab-American community and lead to the explosive denouement of the story.
New York
New York (2009)
, 2h33
Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, Kabir Khan, Ali Zafar
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about music and musicians, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Bollywood, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Irrfan Khan, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Katrina Kaif, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Samrat Chakrabarti

New York begins in the United States in 2008, with the arrest by the FBI of Omar Aijaz (Neil Nitin Mukesh) after guns were found in the trunk of a taxi cab he owned. Omar, a young Muslim man originally from Delhi, is then taken into custody and interrogated by FBI Agent Roshan (Irrfan Khan) (also a Muslim man originally from South Asia who has been living in the United States for twenty years). Omar then discovers that he was set up by the FBI in order to force him to spy on a former college friend, Samir Shaikh (John Abraham), whom he hasn't seen in seven years and who the FBI believes is a terrorist. In the process, Omar discovers that Sam has married Maya (Katrina Kaif) (a mutual friend whom Omar had a crush on in university) and finds out that Samir and Maya have a young son, Danyal (Aidan Wagner).
The Space Between
The Space Between (2011)

Directed by Travis Fine
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Melissa Leo, AnnaSophia Robb, Brad William Henke, Phillip Rhys, Hunter Parrish, Kyle Bornheimer

Montine McLeod (Melissa Leo) is a flight attendant who gets stuck with Omar Hassan (Anthony Keyvan) after their flight gets grounded in Longview, Texas, the morning of 11 September 2001. Omar is an unaccompanied minor; in the chaos that ensues, Montine becomes his temporary guardian. Montine later discovers that Omar's father works in the World Trade Center. She decides to drive the boy home after he informs her his father is at home waiting for him in New York. On the journey, they begin to bond and learn more about each other. Montine makes a stop on the way to New York as she receives a call that her mother is dying. Upon arriving at her mother's house, she finds her mother already dead. After dealing with her mother's death, she continues on the road to take Omar home. When they get there, they learn Omar's father has not been home in the two days since the destruction of the Twin Towers. Later that night, Montine receives a call from her employer and is forced to bring Omar with her. At the ensuing meeting, Montine is terminated; Omar is taken from her and given to his school head master for the night before leaving for a new school the following day (the reason he was on the original flight). The day Omar is set to leave for Los Angeles, he locks himself in the bathroom and refuses to come out. Montine is asked to come; she coaxes Omar out of the bathroom and she walks him to his flight to Los Angeles.
Yasmin
Yasmin (2004)
, 1h27
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Archie Panjabi, Renu Setna, Gary Lewis, Joyce Kennedy, David Crellin

Yasmin is a young Muslim woman living in Britain. After Yasmin's husband is arrested on suspected terror charges following the September 11th attacks, she campaigns for his release from a holding center.
The Soldier's Star
The Soldier's Star (2006)
, 1h45
Directed by Christophe de Ponfilly
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Documentary
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about Islam, Dans un avion, Films about hijackings
Actors Sacha Bourdo, Patrick Chauvel, Philippe Caubère, Hanns Zischler

Le film retrace les mésaventures d'un guitariste russe (Nikolaï) enrôlé en 1984 dans le chaos de la guerre d'Afghanistan.
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003)
, 2h7
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Political films, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Timothy Bottoms, John Cunningham, Gregory Itzin, Devon Bostick, Dr. Stephen Macht, Lawrence Pressman

The film opens on the morning of September 11, 2001. United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is hosting a breakfast for a number of members of the United States Congress. The purpose of the breakfast was to procure an increase to the defense budget, with Rumsfeld claiming they will soon need the money as something big is likely to occur soon given the rise of Islamic Extremism against the United States.