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The Canterbury Tales

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1979Movie"From the team that gave you "Decameron", Geoffrey Chaucer's Lustiest Tales of Merrie Olde England!"

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Yearning to watch 'The Canterbury Tales' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Discovering a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Pier Paolo Pasolini-directed movie via subscription can be challenging, so we here at Moviefone want to help you out.

Below, you'll find a number of top-tier streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'The Canterbury Tales' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Canterbury Tales' right now, here are some details about the Les Productions Artistes Associés, PEA comedy flick.

Released December 19th, 1979, 'The Canterbury Tales' stars Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti The NC-17 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 51 min, and received a user score of 63 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 206 well-known users.

Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories."

'The Canterbury Tales' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Epix, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and EPIX Amazon Channel .

'The Canterbury Tales' Release Dates

Watch in Movie Theaters on December 19th, 1979
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting November 17th, 1998 - Buy The Canterbury Tales DVD

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