Movies: Middle eastern folktale

  • 2016
    Suffering of Ninko

    Suffering of Ninko (2016)

    Suffering of Ninko

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    Ninko is a virtuous Buddhist monk who’s embarrassed to discover that he’s irresistible to many women (and some men). After a particularly troubling encounter with a masked woman, he undertakes a journey to "purify" himself, hoping that this will equi...

    Suffering of Ninko
  • 1944
    Sinbad the Sailor

    Sinbad the Sailor (1944)

    Sinbad the Sailor

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    Sinbad the Sailor is a Soviet animated short by Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg, released in 1944 by Soyuzmultfilm. The film is based on the Arab fairy tales about Sinbad the Sailor and his incredible adventures in foreign countries....

    Sinbad the Sailor
  • 1958
    Prince of Thieves

    Prince of Thieves (1958)

    Prince of Thieves

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    Middle Eastern folktale collection One Thousand and One Nights has been greatly treasured by Western storytellers who are fascinated by the fantastic world within. The exoticism conveyed in Western film adaptations greatly appealed to Cantonese opera...

    Prince of Thieves
  • 1969
    Ariel

    Ariel (1969)

    Ariel

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    In the world of the Ottoman Sultans, a poor child from Jerusalem makes an unimaginable desert journey to Cairo and back to save his mother and siblings from a rapacious aristocrat. He has nine days…...

    Ariel