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You can stream The Blazing Sun (1954) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

Sweeping landscapes and stifling class tensions collide in this lush, sweeping tragedy of forbidden longing. A ruthless landlord's greed turns a fertile valley into a battlefield where love must survive the rising tide.