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10 Best Movies Like The Canterbury Tales

If you loved The Canterbury Tales, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
One Sings, the Other Doesn't

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

1977★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Canterbury Tales for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 Suza...

#2
The Decameron

The Decameron

1971★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Canterbury Tales for fans of Comedy & History & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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 scou...

#3
Medea

Medea

1969★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Canterbury Tales for fans of Drama. 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...

#4
Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights

1974★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Canterbury Tales for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

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 myria...

#5
The Voice of the Moon

The Voice of the Moon

1990★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Canterbury Tales for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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, b...

#6
The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest

1936★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Canterbury Tales for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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. Soo...