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Plot Summary:
After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Three Fat Men (1966)
Plot Summary:
Based on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Prince and the Pauper (1972)
Plot Summary:
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Karik and Valya's Remarkable Adventures (1987)
Plot Summary:
Is so happened that Karik and Valya, the main characters, remarkably shrank in size, their whole habitual world acquiring unusual contours and unusual features.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase (2017)
Plot Summary:
A playful bird snatches Abby's magic wand during a hot-air balloon ride leaving Elmo, Abby and friends on a colorful adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags:
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re going to be murdered by the wicked Mr and Mrs Wickens. And Lucy and Jamie’s strange visitor seems to be the key to it all. With his help, they must travel back to 1821 to save Sara and Georgie and redeem their remorseful new friend – The Amazing Mr Blunden.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 750
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Fun in Balloon Land (1965)
Plot Summary:
Sonny, the worst child actor in the history of cinema, goes to a large warehouse and plays make-believe while interacting with a number of large, creepy-looking balloons in the shape of octopi and horses and stuff. Then he leaves to watch a parade featuring more creepy-looking balloons. Regional cinema at its most inexplicable.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: depressing, fairy tale, experimental, underground film, semi documentary, independent film, amateur film
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A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
Plot Summary:
Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, sentimental, light
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The Snow Maiden (1969)
Plot Summary:
A fairytale based on the play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mysterious
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Rabbit Heart (1987)
Plot Summary:
The thirteen year old Janni is depressed, because she's still a little behind in her physical development. This leads to bullying remarks from her classmates. One day, a film crew comes to her school to find a candidate for the role of a Prince in a movie. They choose Janni, who they think is a boy. She takes on the role. At school, she tells her classmates she plays a Princess. When the moment of truth approaches she must find the self-confidence to invite the class to the premiere.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: East Germany
Duration: 78 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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Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)
Plot Summary:
In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History, War
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags:
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The Fantastic Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit (1985)
Plot Summary:
Soviet television movie adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy novel "The Hobbit".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags:
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Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this light-hearted fantasy, a talented young magician stumbles across an unusual ring and ends up in Camelot before King Arthur. It turns out the ring belongs to none other than Merlin.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Siege of the Saxons (1963)
Plot Summary:
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: epic, arthurian, independent film
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The Adventures of Quentin Durward, Marksman of the Royal Guard (1988)
Plot Summary:
France, XV century. The young Scot, striving to make his worthy efforts, is kindly treated by the king and admitted to the guard. Soon the king entrusts him with a difficult mission - however, the matter turns into an insidious deception. Saving his beloved, the shooter of the guard shows miracles of courage and nobility.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Moscow: Cassiopea (1974)
Plot Summary:
Start of nterstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Lilac Ball (1988)
Plot Summary:
Alisa Seleznyova and her father professor Seleznyov are traveling in space. They meet their old friend archaeologist Gromozeka, who's just discovered a planet all inhabitants of which died. It became known that they discovered a virus of hostility, got infected and killed each other. Gromozeka also discovered that they had left the virus on Earth 26000 years ago, and the virus is about to become loose. The only chance to save the Earth is to travel 26000 years back in time - to the epoch when witches, dragons and magicians lived along with usual people.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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Ruslan and Ludmila (1972)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s poem of the same name, which happens to be one of the most poetic and beautiful Russian fairy tales. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, daughter of a Kievan Prince, the girl was kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Chernomor. Ludmila’s father summoned for help all the mighty warriors and heroes he knew in his princedom. But only Ruslan, after a fierce fight, succeeded in winning over Chernomor by cutting off the dwarf’s beard wherein his strength lay. Beautifully costumed, the film abounds in excellently staged stunts and masterfully photographed battle scenes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, captivating, folk tale, epic, serious
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The Kingdom of False Mirrors (1963)
Plot Summary:
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, stylized, light, atmospheric, captivating, entertaining, colorful, humorous, serious, psychedelic
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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Plot Summary:
A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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After the Rain, on Thursday (1986)
Plot Summary:
A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, humorous, captivating
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Emily and the Magical Journey (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young girl goes on a magical journey to find happiness for her mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, funny, light, colorful, colourful
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Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes (1968)
Plot Summary:
Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, atmospheric, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, folk tale
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1982)
Plot Summary:
The screen version of the most famous novel by American writer Mark Twain "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of a child! The small but brave heroes Tom and Huck search for the treasure, become "pirates", enter into a dangerous battle with the Indian Joe.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 225 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, serious, realistic
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A Very Old Story (1968)
Plot Summary:
Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, light, colorful, mysterious, colourful
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Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Chapter 1, Planet of the Dino-Knights (1995)
Plot Summary:
Josh Kirby Time Warrior Chapter 1 Planet of the Dino-Knights: In the 25th century mankind has found a device capable of destroying the universe. Irwin 1138 separates the Nullifier into 6 pieces which he scatters throughout time. When the evil Dr. Zoetrope goes after the pieces, Irwin 1138 must try to stop him, with the help of a 20th century teenager, Josh Kirby, and a half-human warrior named Azabeth Siege. The race is on.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Plot Summary:
A modern riff of the 1889 novel by Mark Twain.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nim's Island (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, scenic, captivating, fairy tale, sad, light, colorful, touching, humorous, realistic
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Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001)
Plot Summary:
Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan's representatives, granting him three wishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, touching, feel good, semi serious, epic, mysterious, costume drama, humorous, period drama, corny
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Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Plot Summary:
They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Soviet Union, Norway
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, cult classic, humorous, stylized, semi serious, crying