Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-scheherazade"

1. Aladdin (2019)

PG | 128 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Aladdin, a kind thief, woos Jasmine, the princess of Agrabah, with the help of Genie. When Jafar, the grand vizier, tries to usurp the king, Jasmine, Aladdin and Genie must stop him from succeeding.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari

Votes: 291,037 | Gross: $355.56M

2. Munich (2005)

R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History

After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 238,709 | Gross: $47.40M

3. In the House (2012)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas

Votes: 34,398 | Gross: $0.35M

4. The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)

G | 127 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A musical retelling of the classic tale of Cinderella. In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love.

Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Sherrie Hewson, John Turner, Rosalind Ayres, Keith Skinner

Votes: 3,185

5. The Night Strangler (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland, Scott Brady

Votes: 4,158

6. Beyond Paradise (II) (2015)

PG | 101 min | Drama, Romance

Haunted by a tragic past, Shahrzad, a stunning music student, flees her homeland and ends up in an estranged marriage in Los Angeles, where her piano teacher's lover sparks a passion in her that threatens to destroy everything.

Director: J.J. Alani | Stars: Ryan Guzman, Daphne Zuniga, Spencer Grammer, Francia Raisa

Votes: 458

7. Madame Satã (2002)

Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.

Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques

Votes: 3,163 | Gross: $0.20M

8. All the Queen's Men (2001)

PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Eddie Izzard, Matt LeBlanc, Udo Kier, James Cosmo

Votes: 2,735 | Gross: $0.02M

9. Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but she disrupts their marrying-for-money scheme by falling for a mathematician.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Shepperd Strudwick

Votes: 1,083

10. Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966)

92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?

Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 888

11. Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)

Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

17-year old Murat from Turkey, living in Berlin, Germany, slowly discovers his homosexuality. His older brother Osman, head of the family since the father's death, wants him to finally lose... See full summary »

Director: Kutlug Ataman | Stars: Gandi Mukli, Baki Davrak, Erdal Yildiz, Inge Keller

Votes: 1,382

12. Song of Scheherazade (1947)

Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1865, Russian Navy midshipman Rimsky-Korsakov is inspired by a romantic interlude with a cabaret dancer while on shore leave in Spanish Morocco and writes the symphonic suite Scheherazade.

Director: Walter Reisch | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden

Votes: 247

13. For Ever Mozart (1996)

Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Madeleine Assas, Ghalya Lacroix, Bérangère Allaux, Vicky Messica

Votes: 1,163

14. Flash Drive (2020)

125 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Ahmet, as a soldier in the regular Syrian army, witnesses the cover-up of massacres and torture conducted to repress the civil unrest. He and his wife Leila try to flee through the war zone to bring testimony to the world.

Director: Dervis Zaim | Stars: Ali Suliman, Husam Ali, Saleh Bakri, Husam Chadat

Votes: 161

15. Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks! (1996)

76 min | Drama

Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!, Ileana Pietrobruno's triumph of mid-vaginal modernism masterfully confronts the surreal nature of societal attitudes towards the female body. Beautifully ... See full summary »

Director: Ileana Pietrobruno | Stars: Rachel Cronin, Crystal Dahl, Alex Ferguson, Tara Frederick

Votes: 42

16. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992–1993)
Episode: Barcelona, May 1917 (1992)

TV-G | Action, Adventure, Family

Professor Indiana Jones is about to lecture the Pennsylvania History Society when some trouble with his microphone stand leads him off into recounting a disastrous spy mission in which he ... See full summary »

Directors: Terry Jones, Carl Schultz | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Amanda Ooms, Timothy Spall

Votes: 152

17. The Stranger (2020)
Episode: 7:00 PM (2020)

TV-MA | 8 min | Short, Thriller

Clare picks up her passenger, Carl E. A nice young man. Who lives in a mansion. On his way to the airport. Or so it seems.

Director: Veena Sud | Stars: Maika Monroe, Dane DeHaan

Votes: 94

18. Leverage (2008–2012)
Episode: The Scheherazade Job (2010)

TV-PG | 43 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

To rob an African kleptocrat's Boston vault, the LEVERAGE team has to time their heist to a symphony concert nearby, where amateur violinist Hardison must play a solo for a sell-out crowd.

Director: Peter Winther | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf

Votes: 727

19. Fargo (2014–2024)
Episode: Loplop (2015)

TV-MA | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ed and Peggy hold Dodd hostage in a secluded cabin and try to strike up a deal with the Gerhardts, while Hanzee attempts to hunt them down.

Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson

Votes: 10,039

20. Alias Grace (2017)
Episode: Part 6 (2017)

TV-MA | 44 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1859, Simon joins the Union Army; Grace gets some unexpected news in 1872.

Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Rebecca Liddiard, Zachary Levi

Votes: 875

21. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Tunisie (2009)

60 min | Documentary

Beginning of the journey in Sidi Bou Saïd (the blue and white paradise): Sophie meets Karim Bey, the manager of the Hotel Dar Saïd and they walk though the town: they enter into a cafe, ... See full summary »

Director: Laurent Lichtensztajn | Star: Sophie Jovillard