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Plot Summary:
Wanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children who--unlike adults--see that their new neighbor "Mr Berd" is not human but a big bird wearing a suit. The Pelican Man lands a job at the opera and falls in love with a pretty ballerina, looking so much like a bird herself. Troubles start when adults too find out about "Mr Berd's" ornithological origin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Nelly Rapp: Monster Agent (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nelly and her dog London are about to spend autumn break with her uncle Hannibal. Soon she noticed that he doesn't live a quiet life. Her uncle is a Monster agent. Nelly gets dragged in to an adventure filled with ghosts, vampires and werewolves.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, captivating, entertaining, gothic, whimsical
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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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Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)
Plot Summary:
Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: absurd, captivating, funny, unusual plot structure, humorous, sweet, fairy tale, weird
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Into the West (1992)
Plot Summary:
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, crying, fairy tale, touching, feel good, semi serious, independent film, light, inspirational, road movie
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In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Plot Summary:
In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Lowell S, Hawley based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: entertaining, scenic, exciting, sweet, witty, humorous, semi serious, juvenile, fairy tale, clever
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Karlsson on the Roof (1974)
Plot Summary:
Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life, who can fly using a propeller on his back and who lives in his little house on the roof.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, stylized
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Dumbo (2019)
Plot Summary:
Circus owner Max Medici enlists former star Holt Farrier and his children Milly and Joe to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere, who recruits the peculiar pachyderm for his newest, larger-than-life entertainment venture, Dreamland.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, touching, sweet, emotional, sincere, sad, mystical, inspirational, mystic, costume drama
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Red Riding Hood (1988)
Plot Summary:
The high spirited daughter of the village lord and her mother have been living in the forest for seven years near her wise grandmother. They wait for her father to come home, meanwhile, her literally heartless uncle rules. He sells his soul for the aid of an enchanted wolf who turns himself human in order to spy. As the tyranical lord begins to see his niece as a threat, he sends the wolf to deal with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, grindhouse, independent film, atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)
Plot Summary:
Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: mysterious, independent film, fairy tale, atmospheric, touching, feel good, serious, crying, psychotronic
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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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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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The Polar Bear King (1991)
Plot Summary:
After his father is killed, Prince Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, exciting, touching, feel good, semi serious, psychotronic
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Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where Jim came from. Battling pirates and dragons, outsmarting make-believe giants, they must travel through the Forest of a Thousand Wonders, beyond the End of the World to find the hidden Dragon City.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, scenic, exciting, sweet
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The Master of Disguise (2002)
Plot Summary:
A sweet-natured Italian waiter named Pistachio Disguisey at his father Fabbrizio's restaurant, who happens to be a member of a family with supernatural skills of disguise. But moments later the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped Fabbrizio's former arch-enemy, Devlin Bowman, a criminal mastermind in an attempt to steal the world's most precious treasures from around the world. And it's up to Pistachio to track down Bowman and save his family before Bowman kills them!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, feel good, not serious, slapstick comedy, funny, hilarious, slapstick, spoof, scary
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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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The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed, and the niece and nephew and the gnomes have to find him and free him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, sentimental, funny, light, romantic, clever
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Charlotte's Web (2006)
Plot Summary:
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, inspirational, touching, light, sweet, emotional, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental
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Santa Buddies (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Puppy Paws (the fun-loving son of Santa Paws) gets bored, he finds Budderball on Santa's naughty list and figures he's just the dog to show him how to be an ordinary pup. When the magical Christmas Icicle starts to melt however, and the world begins to forget the true meaning of the season, it's up to Puppy Paws and his newfound Buddies to journey back to the North Pole and save Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, fairy tale, sweet, light, exciting, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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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
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The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle (2019)
Plot Summary:
When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kristin set out on a quest to find the mythical Soria Moria castle, which is said to be built of pure gold. In Soria Moria, there sits a well containing the Water of Life; the only thing that can cure Kristin's parents. But some wicked Danes are also on the hunt to find the castle. If Espen and Kristin fail, it will spell the end for the brothers, the kingdom - and perhaps the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, funny, romantic, light
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The Golden Compass (2007)
Plot Summary:
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, epic, visual, visually stunning, aesthetic, dark fantasy, mystical, spiritual, exciting, atmospheric
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
Plot Summary:
In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, epic, entertaining, stylized, teen, semi serious, mystical, suspense, tense
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, costume drama, mystical, mystic, entertaining, exciting, stylized
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Plot Summary:
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, colorful, light, entertaining, visually appealing, exciting, mystical, fantasy adventure, mysterious, mystic
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Pinocchio (2022)
Plot Summary:
A live-action adaptation of Disney's 'Pinocchio'.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, action adventure, crying, surprise ending
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 499000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, exciting, dark fantasy, entertaining, cliffhanger, absurd, psychotronic, saga, semi serious
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths -- and about the villain who's to blame.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 837000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, scenic, teen, saga, mystic, visually appealing, fantasy adventure
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 420000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, epic, scenic, christian film, entertaining, visually stunning, action adventure, fantasy adventure