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The Terminal

June 2026

  • ET picking his favourite Spielberg DVD

    The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’

    From franchise hits to historical epics, joyous musicals to autobiographical family sagas: Steven Spielberg has done it all. As his latest sci-fi film Disclosure Day is released, film-makers, authors and Guardian critics reveal which of his movies means the most to them

November 2022

  • Mehran Karimi Nasseri, or ‘Sir Alfred’, on his home bench at Charles de Gaulle airport.

    ‘The Terminal Man’ lived in a Paris airport for 18 years. I’ll never forget the weeks I spent with him

  • Mehran Karimi Nasseri passes by the poster of the movie inspired by his life in Terminal 1 of Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.

    Man who lived in Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years dies there

August 2016

  • Tom Hanks in The Terminal

    Living the dream: when film fans get over-attached

    At times, we all want to live in a favourite film. But, from the man who lives in an airport to the fan who removed bits of his nose, the reality is sometimes painful

January 2005

  • The Terminal

    Cert 12

September 2004

  • The man who lost his past

    Merhan Karimi Nasseri has spent 16 years living in Charles de Gaulle airport. Now Steven Spielberg's Terminal has catapulted him to international stardom - but casts little light on who he really is. Paul Berczeller, who spent a year with Nasseri, set out to unravel the mystery.

July 2004

  • Lost in transit

  • Spielberg spins the tale of the prisoner of Paris airport

April 2004

  • In brief: Spielberg's Terminal opens Venice festival

    Plus: Denzel Washington denies love scene cuts, and Ingrid Bergman's great regret: never being a monkey

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