Sign In / Sign Up

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales
Release date: 1972-09-02
Rating: 6.2
Votes: 219
Genres: Comedy
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

Reviews

No reviews for this movie.

Movie Recommendation

  • The Decameron
    The Decameron
    1971-08-25
    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.
    More...
  • One Sings, the Other Doesn't
    One Sings, the Other Doesn't
    1977-03-09
    The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
    More...
  • Hotel by the River
    Hotel by the River
    2019-03-24
    An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.
    More...
  • Henry & June
    Henry & June
    1990-09-28
    While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
    More...
  • Arabian Nights
    Arabian Nights
    1974-06-20
    The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.
    More...
  • Ballad of a Soldier
    Ballad of a Soldier
    1959-12-01
    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 decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
    More...
  • The Petrified Forest
    The Petrified Forest
    1936-02-08
    Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
    More...
  • The Voice of the Moon
    The Voice of the Moon
    1990-03-05
    Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
    More...
  • My Dearest Senorita
    My Dearest Senorita
    1972-02-17
    A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
    More...
  • The Sleepwalker
    The Sleepwalker
    1951-04-27
    Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine: Victor is both a store detective and a ... shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you)! And falling in love while sleepwalking is no bed of roses either, as the good-natured man simply forgets everything after waking up. Fortunately love wins the game in the end. Does that mean that life will become as easy as pie ? Certainly not: the little Bonifaces will be sleepwalkers just like their daddy!
    More...
  • Monika
    Monika
    1974-02-28
    Monika is young, beautiful and a virgin. She is only 16 years old, and, beside getting the attention of all her classmates, she also attracts older men. She has a relationship with a boy, Leo, but she doesn't know that he uses to pimp the girls he seduces to rich businessmen. One of Leo's client befriends Monika and becomes so obsessed that he pays Leo to get her. But Monika turns her attention to her art professor, unknowing that he too has his secrets.
    More...
  • Fièvre
    Fièvre
    1921-01-01
    Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attracted to. However, he is now married to an exotic woman who took care of him during an illness.
    More...
  • Medea
    Medea
    1969-12-28
    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 husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
    More...
  • The Truth About Emanuel
    The Truth About Emanuel
    2014-01-10
    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
    More...
  • Good Morning, Night
    Good Morning, Night
    2003-09-05
    The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
    More...
  • Alice
    Alice
    1988-08-03
    A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland".
    More...
  • The Nightshifter
    The Nightshifter
    2019-10-10
    Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
    More...
  • Fritz the Cat
    Fritz the Cat
    1972-04-12
    A swinging, hypocritical college student cat raises hell in a satirical vision of the 1960s.
    More...
  • A Good Marriage
    A Good Marriage
    2014-10-03
    After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?
    More...
  • Mamma Roma
    Mamma Roma
    1962-09-22
    After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
    More...

Similar Movies