
10 Best Movies Like Arabian Nights
If you loved Arabian Nights, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The City of the Dead
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Arabian Nights for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysteriou...

Medea
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Arabian Nights for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her hus...

Boccaccio '70
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Arabian Nights for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin t...

The Canterbury Tales
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Arabian Nights for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories....

Ballad of a Soldier
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Arabian Nights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he...

Cairo 6,7,8
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Arabian Nights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Three women seek justice due to the difficult daily situation which sexual harassment causes in the streets of Cairo, Egypt....