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Plot Summary:
Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, satirical, vintage
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Sleeping Beauty (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleeping Beauty in the kingdom of Kentz and breaking the spell over her. But his father, the king, doesn’t believe in fairy tales, and is completely opposed to Égon’s dream. It’s Maggie Jerkins, an archeologist from Unesco, who will provide Egon with the opportunity to follow his heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, fairy tale
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Justine: A Private Affair (1995)
Plot Summary:
Double agents and mistaken identities abound as Justine and Professor Robson seek the fabled jewel "The Eye of God.".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Two Sane Nuts (1974)
Plot Summary:
An adventure movie directed by Ernst Hofbauer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, Italy, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Aladdin (1986)
Plot Summary:
Updating of the old "Aladdin" Arabian Nights tale, as a teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Ghost with Driver (1996)
Plot Summary:
A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Fairy Tales (1978)
Plot Summary:
On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, fairy tale, erotic, sexy, spoof, parody, independent film, hot, cult film
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Naked Wishes (2000)
Plot Summary:
After inheriting a trunk with a lantern in it, a man releases a beautiful genie named Samanthia. She starts granting his wishes and sexiness emerges all around him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, sexy, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sexploitation film
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Up to His Ears (1965)
Plot Summary:
Up the Himalayas... Up the Yang-tze... Up in a balloon... Up-stage with a stripper... Up-town in Hong Kong... You can't keep a great adventurer down.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, vintage, modern day adaptation
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Candy (1968)
Plot Summary:
Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire's Candide. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychedelic, melancholic, humorous, suspense, stylized, semi serious, realistic, surreal, sexual
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Abnormal Attraction (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a world where mythical creatures are real, monsters and humans are forced to coexist; and as prejudice and insecurity pulls everyone apart, three separate storylines manage to come together.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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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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Aladin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based in the municipality of Khwaish, abused by his classmates, Aladin Chatterjee, who was orphaned when his parents, Arun and Riya, died in an accident in Siachen Valley, lived with his paternal grandfather until the later's passing. Now alone, grown up, studying in Khwaish University, and still being abused by fellow-college mates, he finds himself smitten by the lovely US Exchange Student, Jasmine. Unable to express his feelings for her, he rubs a lamp that was gifted to him on his birthday, which summons a genie named Genius. He gets 3 wishes, but wastes 2 of them, but on the 3rd one he insists that Genius assist him to win Jasmine's heart without any magical tricks. Hilarious chaos result when everything seems to fail while an immortal and deadly entity, Ringmaster, and his hordes, prepares to confront Genius and Aladin so that he can acquire more magical powers with the help of the lamp on the day of the sighting of a rare comet and the truth behind the death of Aladin's parents.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, dark fantasy
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Samson and His Mighty Challenge (1964)
Plot Summary:
Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Dinosaur Island (1994)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to lush Dinosaur Island, where a tribe of gorgeous cavedwelling warrior women satisfy the exotic fantasies of five downed military airmen. Fearsome battles with the island's ferocious maneating dinosaurs are the only disruption of their seductive pleasures on this island paradise. Narrowly surviving with their lives, the rugged men fall under the seductive spell of their lovely captors and soon find their every dream fulfilled.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, psychotronic, sex comedy, erotic, semi serious, spoof, parody, cult film
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Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991)
Plot Summary:
Ulric's daughter unites with warrior Thane against evil Lord Khoura, who covets the knife of Aktar.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody, campy
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Barbarella (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychedelic, surreal, grindhouse, erotic, stylized, psychotronic, offbeat, visual, sex comedy
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The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, sex comedy, cult classic, exciting, offbeat, humorous, experimental, 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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The Last Warrior: A Messenger of Darkness (2021)
Plot Summary:
Now that Ivan is about to turn 21, he is now grown up and finally old enough to marry the beautiful Vasilisa. But when Vasilisa is kidnapped and trapped in modern Moscow, Ivan and his friends must travel to the present day to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, modern fairy tale, exciting, captivating, emotional, heroic, breathtaking
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Bedazzled (2000)
Plot Summary:
Elliot Richardson, suicidal techno geek, is given seven wishes to turn his life around when he meets up with a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include a 7 foot basketball star, a rock star, and a hamburger. But, as could be expected, the Devil must put her own little twist on each his fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, hilarious, sexy, humorous, clever, psychotronic, erotic, parody
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Grimm's Snow White (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the King is killed by ferocious reptile beasts, his Queen takes control of the kingdom. She tries to kill her beautiful stepdaughter SNOW, but she escapes into the enchanted forest.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, semi serious, mockbuster, romantic, captivating, serious, independent film
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Aladdin and His Magic Lamp (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, funny, light, romantic, feel good, entertaining
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Adventures of Aladdin (2019)
Plot Summary:
With the help of a magical lamp, an impoverished young man transforms himself into a prince in order to win the heart of a beautiful princess. A live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney film of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, mockbuster
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Bikini Pirates (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two couples find a sexy pirate queen's magical journal with treasure map, and they conjure her up while hunting her treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy
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Titanic (1996)
Plot Summary:
A story of the romances of two couples upon the doomed ship. Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a wealthy woman mourning the loss of her aunt, who reignites a romance with old flame, Wynn Park (Peter Gallagher). Meanwhile, a charming ne'er do well named Jamie Perse (Mike Doyle) steals a ticket for the ship, and falls for a sweet innocent Irish girl on board. But their romance is threatened by the villainous Simon Doonan (Tim Curry), who has discovered about the ticket and makes Jamie his unwilling accomplice, as well as having sinister plans for the girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sad, exciting, atmospheric, epic, serious, emotional, realistic, period drama, disaster movie
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On Guard (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his child, he journeys to wed the mother, a baron's daughter, in her father's isolated chateau. The occupants of the castle are surprised and murdered by the Count and his men. The only ones to escape are the Duke's friend, the skilled swordsman Lagardère, and the infant, a girl, now the rightful heiress to the Duke's vast fortune. The Count believes the pair to have drowned, when in fact they have been concealed by a travelling troupe of Italian players. Twenty years pass. The Count has discovered that the two survive and seeks to have them slain. But Lagardère gains the confidence of the Count, and employment as his bookkeeper, through his clever disguise as a hunch-back.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: funny, mesmerizing, exciting, epic, serious, realistic, stylized, baroque, period drama
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Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of magic beans and a mysterious book that records his adventures as he's having them. Accompanied by his sidekick Grayson -- a goose who ate a bean and underwent an amazing transformation -- Jack climbs the magic beanstalk to recover the fabled Harp of Destiny from the evil Giant who lives in the sky. Helping Jack on his perilous quest is the spunky Jillian, a fearless young girl whom Jack meets on his journey -- and who just may have a hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, mysterious, psychotronic
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Broken City (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, makes him an unstoppable force - and the mayor's worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, rough, political, tense, intense, serious, realistic, detective, cult classic
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Mirror Mirror (2012)
Plot Summary:
After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White launches an epic battle of good vs. evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, romantic, surreal, absurd, visual, cute, costume drama, aesthetic
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Aladdin (2019)
Plot Summary:
A live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney film of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Singapore, Canada, Czech Republic, Serbia, China
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, entertaining, feel good, light, psychotronic, mystical, funny, humorous, atmospheric