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Plot Summary:
The Brothers Grimm collected German folk and fairy tales in Germany during the early 19th century; eight of their best known stories are presented in this anthology.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, fairy tale
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Shepherd Yanka (1977)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Pinocchio (1976)
Plot Summary:
This musical adaptation of Pinocchio from 1976 features the incomparable talents of Danny Kaye, Sandy Duncan, Flip Wilson, and Clive Revill. Framed by the story of a young theater girl's desire to study and work apart from her father, the story of Pinocchio is presented as a subplay with the young girl as Pinocchio (Sandy Duncan) and her father as Geppetto (Danny Kaye). The famous Carlo Collodi story of a lonely woodcutter whose marionette comes to life is presented faithfully and engagingly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Mother Holly (1961)
Plot Summary:
Based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)
Plot Summary:
Retelling of the classic fairy tale, but from a decidedly 1960s point of view, complete with "groovy" dialogue.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, independent film
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Cinderella (1989)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Fantasy
Country: West Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)
Plot Summary:
A fairytale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Brave Little Tailor (1991)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Once Upon a Mattress (1972)
Plot Summary:
The second television adaptation of Once Upon a Mattress was broadcast on December 12, 1972, on CBS. This production, videotaped in color, included original Broadway cast members Burnett, Gilford and White, and also featured Bernadette Peters as Lady Larken, Ken Berry as Prince Dauntless, Ron Husmann as Harry, and Wally Cox as The Jester. It was directed by Ron Field and Dave Powers.[9] Again, several songs were eliminated and characters were combined or altered. Since the parts of the Minstrel and the Wizard were cut from this adaptation, a new prologue was written with Burnett singing "Many Moons Ago" as a bedtime story.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)
Plot Summary:
Alice Through the Looking Glass TV Movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags:
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Allerleirauh (2012)
Plot Summary:
Maddened by grief over his late queen, king Tobald decides to wed their only daughter Lotte, the only female resembling her. Having failed to put him off by exorbitant demands, she puts on the unique cloak made of all fur types in the realm and flees over the border, carrying only her mother's three-party golden seduction kit and the king's miniaturized gifts while posing as a poor girl. Hunting, king Jacob finds her and orders her into court chef Mathis's scullery. He appreciates her zeal and culinary talents, helping him put the best dishes ever before the king, who is determined to find out about the gastronomic phenomenon, yet she makes that difficult.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, costume drama
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The Devil's Bride (2011)
Plot Summary:
Young Stepan saves his beloved princess Stepanka to marry Lucifer due to the promise her parents, the King and the Queen, did to the Evil as reword for the help he provided to the Queen to get pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing
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Rapunzel (2009)
Plot Summary:
A poor farmer and his wife are expecting a child at last. But after eating rampion , which she got from a sorceress, the mother developed an addiction to the rampion, which can only get from the garden of the sorceress of the father. He steals in his distress the rampion, as the sorceress does not seem to be there. But they caught him and leaves him only to take the corn salad, as he promises her his child. After the birth of his daughter, the sorceress brings the child and calls it Rapunzel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Sleeping Beauty (1991)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Frog Prince (1986)
Plot Summary:
Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a good friend and princess with the help of a "tall frog.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, costume drama, independent film, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Three Wishes for Cinderella (2021)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian remake of the 1973 Czech film "Three Wishes for Cinderella" by Václav Vorlícek.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, entertaining, sincere, disturbing
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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 Snow Queen (1986)
Plot Summary:
A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, uplifting, sweet, surreal, cute, whimsical
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Cannon Movie Tales: Rumpelstiltskin (1987)
Plot Summary:
A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Fantasy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, feel good, humorous, captivating, stylized, semi serious, independent film
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Sleeping Beauty (1987)
Plot Summary:
Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, independent film, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Beauty and the Beast (1976)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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Puss in Boots (1988)
Plot Summary:
A cat belonging to a poor miller's son thinks up a great plan for bringing a title, wealth, and marriage for his owner. He begins to carry it out, using a few birds and rabbits as gifts for the king, his own wit, and a pair of boots that make him appear human when he puts them on. However, his owner has no idea that the cat has told everyone that his master is a marquis rather than a miller's son until the king has arrived to meet him. Soon the king's daughter and the miller's son fall in love, and the king wants very much to see the land and the castle belonging to this rich "marquis.".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Fantasy, Musical, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, period piece
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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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Cinderella (1965)
Plot Summary:
TV-version of the classic fairy tale, set to a Rodgers and Hammerstein score.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced to be a servant in her own house. But a cheery fairy godmother helps her with her impossible tasks, and even gets her to take an evening out at the King's bride-fin.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, period piece, costume drama, sentimental, touching, feel good, stylized, semi serious, independent film, light
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A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits (2016)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary musical version of the classic Cinderella story in which the servant step daughter hope to compete in a musical competition for a famous pop star.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, modern fairy tale, funny, light, entertaining, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, talky
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Hansel and Gretel (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman everything she seems...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, feel good, stylized, mysterious, independent film, semi serious
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Beauty and the Beast (1987)
Plot Summary:
To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, heartfelt, touching, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Cinderella (1997)
Plot Summary:
Updated version of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the classic fairy-tale, with an all-star, multi-racial cast.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, stylized, teen, spooky, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, romantic, humorous, light
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Snow White (1987)
Plot Summary:
A prince, seeking the greatest treasure, stumbles upon seven little men guarding a coffin. They tell him the story of Snow White, a beautiful princess who was forced to run away from home after her jealous stepmother tried to have her killed. When she realizes that the girl is still alive and living with the dwarfs, she sets out to destroy her only rival once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, period piece, independent film, exciting, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Cinderella (2021)
Plot Summary:
A modern reimagining of the traditional tale of the orphaned girl with an evil stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, inspirational, captivating, psychological, sincere, touching, feel good, costume drama, anamorphic, visual