A 1958 bollywood fantasy film based on Alibaba and the Forty Thieves.
Alibaba and his son live with his rich brother Cassim. Marjina and Zabba are two slave girls who work in Cassim's house. Marjina and Alibaba's son are in love with each other. Zabba is in league with Abu Hassan, who is the leader of a gang of thieves. Alibaba finds the thieves' cave and becomes rich. Cassim's wife insists on knowing the secret of his wealth. Alibaba tells his brother who goes to the cave but can't get out as he's forgotten the magic words. The thieves find him and kill him. Alibaba and his son find Cassim and bring his body back for burial. Abu Hassan finds out about Alibaba, and the story then follows Marjina outsmarting Abu Hassan, who comes visiting as a merchant.
Six hundred years ago in the desert, Abdullah thinks himself the happiest shoemaker in the world. He has a very special knowledge about women and shoes. But the story takes a surprising turn for both Abdullah and us. A humorous animation film for adults based on traditional Middle East story-telling. A mix of traditional animation and arabic calligraphy is here used to focus on a delicate subject.
Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television.
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.
Ali Baba steals hidden treasure from some raiders who then seek revenge on his family.
Ali Baba's powerful uncle hates how his nephew visits many beds of the caliphate and fetches a professor to set Ali Baba on the straight-and-narrow, but Ali humiliates the professor. Thinking Ali Baba is gay, Qadi's wife sets up a wedding, enlisting the help of a sorceress's magic potion to make Ali Baba fall for the selected woman, but the bride-to-be falls for Ali Baba instead.
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful young princess, Heidi Bruhl both lustful and political.
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.
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) 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 (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms).
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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.
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
アラジンとジャスミンの結婚式が行われることになり、砂漠の都アグラバーは興奮に沸き立っていた。だが、新郎新婦が誓いの言葉を交わそうとしたまさにその時、カシーム率いる盗賊団が式を台無しにしてしまう。一団は幻の秘宝“ミダスの手”を探すため、王宮に保管された“お告げの杖”を奪おうとしていたのだ。盗賊団に立ち向かうアラジンだったが、やがて盗賊王カシームが幼い頃生き別れた父親であることが分かってしまうのであった。
A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with gold, mischief, love, and forty famous thieves instead.
Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.
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.