An Arabian Night / 1960

Il fiore delle Mille e una notte / 19747.046 voti

La storia di Nur-el-Din e della bellissima schiava Zumurrud; la trappola tesa da Tiffané e Zeudé per scoprire chi sia miglior amante fra un ragazzo e una ragazza. E ancora: i diversi destini di Aziz e di Tagi, il primo punito con l'evirazione per un tradimento amoroso, il secondo, invece molto più fortunato. Infine due prìncipi, per cammini diversi ma ugualmente avventurosi, finiscono per farsi bonzi. È l'ultimo capitolo della celebre "Trilogia della vita" pasoliniana.

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One / 20156.33 voti

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

Le meravigliose avventure di Sinbad / 19626.33 voti

In punto di morte, un vecchio naufrago cede al giovane Simbad e al piccolo Ali" una mappa di un"isola piena di tesori. I due sono troppo giovani per essere imbarcati come marinai ma riusciranno lo stesso a trovare uno stratagemma per salire a bordo...

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One / 20157.03 voti

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men : “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad !

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One / 20156.84 voti

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells king Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. These are stories based on whatever will be happening in Portugal during the production time of the film. As in the book, these stories will be tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events. This film will be about the reality of a disgraced country, Portugal, under the effects of a global economic crisis.

Arabian Nights / 2015

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.

Arabian Nights / 1979

Karin, a gas station manager, is in a bad mood: her business is going badly as the price of gasoline continues to rise, and her meager profits are regularly swallowed up by her friend Wolfgang's passion for motor racing.

The Palace of the Arabian Nights / 1905

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs of ancient Araby. Guided by the mysterious Khalafar, the troupe (alongside him go some cowardly scholars) encounter skeletons, fire-breathing lizards, and mirages on their journey through the lower world.

Arabian Nights / 2007

Georges's life is turned upside-down when he meets Yamina and decides to help her. While she seems to be persecuted and living in hiding, Georges's reality is rooted in a daily routine without any surprises. Yamina's stories fascinate him: her happy childhood under the rhythm of a song, the massacres in the 1990s in the Great South, as well as her difficulties in Algeria and then in France. Georges spends more and more time with Yamina and is totally disorientated the day she disappears without a word. As his search for her unfolds, Georges realizes that he knows nothing about her and that every person he meets who knew Yamina seems to have a different version of the young woman's life. Convinced that he must go to Algiers to save her, Georges abandons everything and sets out on a journey without any concrete destination. His quest finally leads him to an oasis in the Sahara, a desert that spreads as widely as this love story between Bonnevoie and Tabelbala.

New Arabian Nights / 1963

A Taiwanese language film. King Ruilang returned to the palace after going hunting. He sees the princess having an affair with another man and stabs them to death in anger. Since then, he has hated all the women in the world. Every day he chooses a beauty to be queen only for one night before killing them. This has led women being scared all over the country.

New Arabian Nights / 1947

Showing off his love of visual aesthetics as a painter, director Dan Duyu combines elegance, exoticism and oddity into a grand big-budget package with New Arabian Nights. Dan's vision is definitely not bound by the source material, but his magical and music-filled version of the orient turns out to be not so different from how Western storytellers would imagine it.

Il ladro di Bagdad / 19247.45 voti

Ahmed, un ladro spericolato, penetra nel palazzo del Califfo di Bagdad alla ricerca di un forziere d'oro, ma si ritrova nella camera da letto di una principessa di cui si innamora a prima vista. Il giorno dopo ruba abiti sfarzosi al bazaar per unirsi a un drappello di tre principi appena giunti in città per chiedere la mano della principessa. Tuttavia la situazione precipita con l'invasione dei feroci mongoli che si impadroniscono della città, ma alla fine sarà proprio Ahmed a liberare la sua città. Tra i film più costosi dell'epoca, Il ladro di Bagdad è una favolosa combinazione di avventura, esotismo e fantasia, capace di guardare alla tradizione orientale abbinandovi la fisicità straripante di Fairbanks e la solida energia di Walsh