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Plot Summary:
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, urban fantasy, cult film
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The Limping Devil (1968)
Plot Summary:
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, modern day adaptation, urban fantasy, campy
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Hearty Greetings From The Globe (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, urban fantasy
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When the Cat Comes (1963)
Plot Summary:
Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can color people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the village consider the cat to be dangerous, but the kids just love her….
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychedelic, experimental, psychotronic, allegory, weird, cult film
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Magic in the Mirror (1996)
Plot Summary:
A little girl's imaginary friends come to life when she goes through her great-grandmother's antique mirror, a la Alice, after she sees it glowing.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Didn't Do It! (1999)
Plot Summary:
Eleven-year-old Martin is a basically good boy. Unfortunately each time he decides to give a hand things end in disaster. This summer, he has been invited to spend a vacation at the Hotel Nautilus by his friend Vincent's parents. This is a great place for kids with its cabin hidden among the branches of a tree they call the "baobab". The trouble is that this year a holiday camp settles nearby and that those trespassers immediately undertake to appropriate the "baobab". The war is declared.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Family, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface (1980)
Plot Summary:
Little Virgil lives in a henhouse with his best friend Oscar, a one-legged rooster. Virgil's worst enemy is Orla, the local bully-boy. When a circus comes to town, Virgil hires on as the Human Cannonball's apprentice. The role is a perfect fit, and ugly, evil Orla finally gets his comeuppance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Fatty Finn (1980)
Plot Summary:
The time is the 1930's. Australia like the rest of the world is in the grip of depression. For Aussie's one man lifted their spirits, Don Bradman. Arguably one of the greatest sportsmen of any sport, The Don's cricketing prowess was a ray of sunshine to all Australian, especially to one Hubert "Fatty" Finn. He had a dream, to own a crystal set ( very early radio receiver) so as to listen to Bradman flay the Pom's ( English) in the upcoming Ashes Test match. However that took money to buy and times were hard. Fatty uses his enterprise to raise money and promptly loses it as misfortune strikes time and again. Then of course his arch rival Bruiser Murphy is also plotting Fatty's downfall. If he can only win the goat race again he will have enough to pay for the crystal set; or will Bruiser Murphy gazump him? With his band of friends plus Trumper the frog and Hector the goat Fatty sets out to win the day. Hurray for Fatty Finn. Oh yes and Bradman made a record score in the test.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My Pet Monster (1986)
Plot Summary:
Synder, the historian who has spent many years trying to unlock the powers of the statue, wishes to capture Max for validation of his life's work.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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Rumburak (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wizarding criminal Rumburak, exiled to the Mortal Realm, uses a supercomputer to recreate his lost spell formulas. His software falls into the hands of humans, chaos ensues, and Rumburak suddenly finds himself on the side of good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, urban fantasy
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Six Bears and a Clown (1972)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, campy
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Girl Asleep (2015)
Plot Summary:
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she's flung into a parallel place; a world that's weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous - only there can she find herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, light, humorous, surreal, aesthetic, crying
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The White Lady (1965)
Plot Summary:
This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, psychotronic, urban fantasy
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Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Lost Princess (2005)
Plot Summary:
The warrior is Esmeralda, a princess who has brains, can fight and is pretty, too. The sexy one is Don Juan, a pretty boy laughing at danger. These two Spanish champions, along with Don Juan's sidekick Miguel, dance and joke their way through a swashbuckling, Renaissance adventure, saving the queen's English cousin from the nasty, Teutonic Krankenmal.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, campy
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The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dívka na koštěti or The Girl on the Broomstick is a 1972 Czechoslovak fantasy-comedy film directed by Václav Vorlíček. It tells a story of a teenage witch, Saxana (played by Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, who finds herself in a modern world. A sequel was released in 2011 - Saxána a Lexikon Kouzel.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction, urban fantasy, neo screwball comedy, teen comedy, campy, cult film
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Three Brothers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and songs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czech Republic, Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, metafiction
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Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (1985)
Plot Summary:
The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: East Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, modern fairy tale
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Ghost (2015)
Plot Summary:
An aircraft designer becomes a ghost after a sudden death. Now he needs to engage a help of seven-grader in order to finish all his unaccomplished tasks.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, sincere, touching, captivating, entertaining, family comedy
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The Little Ghost (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, spooky, semi serious
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Hey Cinderella! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hey Cinderella! is a one-hour Jim Henson special which tells a cracked version of the classic fairy tale. Cinderella lives with her wicked stepmother (as everyone who ever read the fairy tale knows), but what part of the story is never told is how Cinderella's fairy godmother had help from monsters, a prince pretending to be a gardener, and none other than Kermit the Frog.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Worst Witch (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of the school, Miss Cackle, has an evil twin sister (Agatha) who plans to destroy the school. Can Mildred foil the plan before the Grand Wizard (Tim Curry) comes to the Academy for the Halloween celebration you'll never forget?!!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, spooky
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The Three Veterans (1984)
Plot Summary:
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale
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Tomas and the Falcon King (2000)
Plot Summary:
"Thomas the Falconer" is a nice family movie about a boy (Brano Holicek), a falcon, a prince, a princess and a nasty man who gets his come-uppance. It's gloriously filmed in the mountains of Slovakia. The DVD mastering is not quite up to Hollywood standards but not too bad. There are English subtitles. The movie itself is much better than many a Hollywood production being free of tat and razzmatazz. By: nbauers http://www.imdb.com/user/ur3250336/comments.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, entertaining, psychotronic
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How to Wake a Princess (1978)
Plot Summary:
The king Dalimil and the queen Eliska waited to see a longed-for offspring - a daughter Ruzenka. But Eliska's envious and bad sister Melánie curses her. When Ruzenka becomes 17 years old she will prick her finger and she will fall asleep for ages together with the entire kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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Miracle (2000)
Plot Summary:
What do you do if you're twelve years old, your mum is a neurotic babbler, your best friend is hitting on the girl you love, and you're the only guy in your class who doesn't yet sport pubes ...? For Dennis P. there's only one way out - pray. In this musical adventure the miracle comes in the shape of an angel clone looking suspiciously like Dennis P.'s late father. The angel issues Dennis P. with a license to perform medium grade miracles, but there's a string attached - Dennis P. must stop using swearwords. Dennis P. throws himself into readjusting his existence. But one miracle leads to another, and the 'adjustments' lead to grotesque consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Family, Musical, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, offbeat
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My Ghost Dog (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dog's ghost returns to help boy win a custody battle, fight bullies and find his loving but shy step-dad a nice girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Kazaam (1996)
Plot Summary:
Shaquille O'Neal as a rapping genie protects a little boy.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, inspirational, intense, fairy tale, parody, light hearted, semi serious, light, romantic
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When Santa Fell to Earth (2011)
Plot Summary:
Christmas is just two weeks away, it is pouring with rain, and Ben is struggling to get into the Christmas spirit. Suddenly, Bens life takes a turn for the better when Santa Niklas Goodfellow and his Christmas caravan come crashing down to Earth in the middle of thunderstorm and land in Foggy Lane. Santa is on the run from the ruthless Gerold Geronimus Goblynch and his army of nutcrackers who have outlawed all of the old magical ways and have transformed the bright and peaceful Christmas world into a dark and hostile place, governed by greed and money. Goblynch has banned work for all Santas and confined the Christmas angels to tiny prison cells, where they can no longer hear the dearest wishes of children. Goblynch also wants to force Santa Niklas Goodfellow, the last real Santa, to work for his commercialized Christmas company and forces him to do hard labour in the ordering department of the Christmas Palace.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, sentimental, touching, captivating, educational
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Wonka (2023)
Plot Summary:
The origin of Willy Wonka and his adventures into Loompa Land.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, interesting, urban fantasy
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Mary Poppins (1964)
Plot Summary:
A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 183000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, uplifting, sweet, fairy tale, colorful, humorous, romantic, entertaining, cute