Movies Like Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One is a 2015 drama film from Miguel Gomes with a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One and Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One.

Drama

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

2015

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “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!

7.0

MagicScore

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

2015

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.

6.5

MagicScore

Aladdin

1992

In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar vie for a magic lamp that can fulfill their wishes.

7.7

MagicScore

The Thief of Bagdad

1940

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

7.1

MagicScore

Aladdin

2019

A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.

7.1

MagicScore

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

1996

Legendary secrets are revealed as Aladdin and his friends—Jasmine, Abu, Carpet and, of course, the always entertaining Genie—face all sorts of terrifying threats and make some exciting last-minute escapes pursuing the King Of Thieves and his villainous crew.

6.3

MagicScore

The Physician

2013

England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

7.3

MagicScore

One Night with the King

2006

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

6.7

MagicScore

The Stoning of Soraya M.

2009

In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.

7.6

MagicScore

#10

Esther

1999

Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.

6.7

MagicScore

#11

Not Without My Daughter

1991

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

6.7

MagicScore

#12

Syriana

2005

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

6.4

MagicScore

#13

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

2007

The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.

6.0

MagicScore

#14

Alexander

2004

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

6.0

MagicScore

#15

Queen of the Desert

2015

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

5.9

MagicScore

#16

The Book of Esther

2013

When Ester becomes King Xerxes’ queen, her Cousin Mordecai and that despicable Haman engage in a dangerous game of intrigue for control of the young Persian King Xerxes.

5.4

MagicScore

#17

The Decameron

1971

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

2015

Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.

4.8

MagicScore

#19

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

1973

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.

6.7

MagicScore

#20

1001 Nights

1998

Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first and only installment of the ground-breaking "Filmharmonic" project, which presents original compositions created by pairs of A-list film composers and directors.

6.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One?

The top films similar to Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One by MovieMagicScore are Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (7.0), Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (6.5), Aladdin (7.7). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One worth watching?

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10 from 55 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One?

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015) is a drama film directed by Miguel Gomes, starring Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes, Carloto Cotta.

Where can I find more recommendations like Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One?

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