Movies Like The Tales of the Thousand and One Nights
If you liked The Tales of the Thousand and One Nights (1921), a adventure and fantasy movie directed by Viktor Tourjansky, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Dragonheart: Vengeance (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasy and adventureLukas, a young farmer whose family is killed by savage raiders in the countryside, sets out on an epic quest for revenge, forming an unlikely trio with a majestic dragon and a swashbuckling, sword-fighting mercenary…
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Prince Charming (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure and fantasyAfter an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
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The Water Man (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and fantasyHoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's…
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Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and adventureWhen the King Gareth dies, his potential heirs, twin grandchildren who possess the dragon’s unique strengths, use their inherited powers against each other to vie for the throne. When Drago’s source of power – known as…
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Come Away (2020)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and adventureBefore Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of…
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Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and fantasyKing Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell…
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The Secret Kingdom (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and fantasyVerity and Peter’s trip to the old family mansion takes a turn when the floor of their room suddenly gives way and they fall into an underground chamber where they are met by a civilization of creatures. The leader…
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Pan (2015)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and adventureLiving a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They…
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Shorts (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and adventureA young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
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Trouble at Timpetill (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and adventureThe children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and adventureThe story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive…
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Slumberland (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and fantasyA young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
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A Fairy Tale After All (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and adventureA stubborn teenage girl finds herself confronted by whimsical characters when she is transported into a world of fantasy and fairy tales while attending a school marionette show.
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and fantasyMax imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret…
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Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also adventure and fantasyStuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…
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Momo (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and adventureMomo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time…
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Angélique (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also adventureThe incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a century plagued by power struggles, inequality and the oppression.
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Arabian Adventure (1979)
★ 6/10Also fantasyAn evil caliph offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan has to overcome genies, fire-breathing…
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Strawberry Mansion (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and adventureIn the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote…
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Chupa (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and fantasyWhile visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.