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Plot Summary:
After the death of their father, brother and sister Tommy (Luke Baird) and Becky (Gena Gale Burghoff) are sent to live with their aunt for the summer. The siblings' grief lightens when they meet kindly old Irishman Mr. Connors (M*A*S*H's Radar, Gary Burghoff), who reignites their capacity for joy and wonder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Crimson Winter (2013)
Plot Summary:
Humans massacred their race, wrote them out of history, and pushed them into myth... Now in the midst of a Vampire civil war, an exiled Vampire prince has escaped into the mountains of the new America, building a hidden army for revenge against his family. Years later, in the dead of winter, a group of grad students start their research on the disappearance of wildlife in those very mountains. When they come close to the truth, they begin the fight for their own survival. As the fight escalates, the Vampire prince descends upon the conflict. He is forced to visit his dark past as the fates of the student's are decided.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dark
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The Colours of Desire (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a perfect, violent-free world, a young vagabond must decide between human decency or self-interest when it comes to the matter of assassinating three people and gifting their corpses to a powerful figure full of impossible wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Leapin' Leprechauns (1995)
Plot Summary:
A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Last Leprechaun (1998)
Plot Summary:
Ethel and Tommy Barrick are sent to Ireland to spend the summer with their new stepmother. Once there, they discover her to be an evil, power-seeking witch, with real magical powers and a hatred for all things green.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Neverland (2003)
Plot Summary:
Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN. In this version, Peter (Rick Sparks) is a juvenile delinquent, Tinkerbell (Kari... Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, offbeat, bleak
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The Otherworld (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Otherworld is an original story and mystical tale inspired by Celtic mythology and Irish legends. One of the most fascinating characters in Celtic mythology, the Warrior Lugh, crosses Woodland heading to Tara to join the court of King Nuada and the Tuatha De Danann. Nuada and his kingdom are at this time oppressed by the Fomorian tribe, and trying to retaliate for their land and freedom. During Lugh's travel, he is bewitched by a faerie (Immrama) to a Beltane celebration, when the line between the human and fairy world are vulnerable and Lugh crosses unaware to The Otherworld - the fairy realm. Lugh and Immrama fall in love. However, they live in different times and worlds.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Strawberries Need Rain (1971)
Plot Summary:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Mandorla (2015)
Plot Summary:
The only journey is the one within. Mandorla explores a man's search for a meaningful life despite conflicts between his inner and outer worlds. Ernesto is a visual artist and seeker stuck in a corporate job, who is drawn by dark magical visions to a medieval French city. There he seeks an elusive banker to help him unlock an obscure dream that threatens his job, family, and sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spiritual, experimental
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Never Again as Before (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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A Boy Called Po (2016)
Plot Summary:
When David Wilson's young wife falls victim to cancer, he is left a single working dad with the sole responsibility of caring for his sixth grade son with autism. Patrick, who prefers to be called 'Po,' is a gifted but challenged child who was very close to his mother and unable to communicate his own sense of loss. As father and son struggle to deal with life after mom, they each begin to withdraw into their own worlds. David into the high pressure job he's close to losing and Po drifting away from the school where he's bullied into his magical fantasy world, the Land of Color, where he's just a typical carefree boy with a rich cast of other worldly companions. The growing divide between father and son and the challenges of single parenthood of a special needs child threaten to separate David and Po permanently. Based on a true story, the bonds of love between a grieving father and son are tested in the most real way in Po.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating
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The Young Messiah (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of Jesus Christ at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Nazareth. Told from his childhood perspective, it follows young Jesus as he grows into his religious identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: biblical, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, christian film, spiritual, scenic
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Somewhere, Tomorrow (1983)
Plot Summary:
Lori Anderson is trying to deal with the recent tragedy of her father's death. As Lori's mother moves on, Lori finds herself stuck, consumed by grief and anger. With the lingering feeling that something about her father's passing was not right, Lori turns to his journals for answers. The events that follow catapult Lori into a strange romance with a ghost, resulting in a mysterious journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, surprise ending, eighties
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Lost Creek (2016)
Plot Summary:
As they approach the end of childhood, three elementary school kids must brave the woods on Halloween to face a monster born from their nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, spooky
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A Unicorn for Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
A heartwarming tale about young Izzy who is not happy about having to move from the big city to the country when her family takes over an old farm. Things change for Izzy when she finds a small white pony named Snowflake and becomes convinced that the horse is a real unicorn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Plot Summary:
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
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The Christmas Box (1995)
Plot Summary:
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious
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A Christmas Carol (1999)
Plot Summary:
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christmas special, gothic horror, christmas horror, sentimental, atmospheric, feel good, semi serious
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Northpole: Open for Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
A successful businesswoman, Mackenzie, inherits her beloved aunt's inn, and chooses to restore the hotel to its original grandeur only to sell it right before Christmas. Unbeknownst to Mackenzie, she receives some unexpected help from a team of elves headed by the cheerful Clementine, who helps Mackenzie rediscover the true meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sincere, humorous
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The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
Plot Summary:
An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home. He enlists the aid of a woman and her children to convince her husband (who works for the company) that the first site is where the oil they want is. Along the way, Santa explains all his secrets in delivering presents all around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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The Holiday Calendar (2018)
Plot Summary:
A talented photographer stuck in a dead-end job inherits an antique Advent calendar that may be predicting the future -- and pointing her toward love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Heaven Sent (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and save his mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016)
Plot Summary:
Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, suspenseful, surreal, dramatic, fairy tale
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Levitation (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Da (1988)
Plot Summary:
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Luck of the Irish (2001)
Plot Summary:
A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
Plot Summary:
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: spiritual, emotional, touching, christian film, serious, psychological, mystical, inspirational, philosophical, sad
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Help for the Holidays (2012)
Plot Summary:
Although she loves Christmas, Santa’s elf Christine (Summer Glau) wonders if there could be more to life than making toys in the North Pole. When Santa receives an emergency wish from a little boy in Los Angeles, he puts Christine on a special assignment, sending her to L.A. to give the VanCamp family—mom Sara (Eva La Rue), dad Scott (Dan Gauthier), and their two kids Ally (Izabela Vidovic) and Will (Mason Cook)—a holiday wake-up call. Will Christine fail her assignment and be sent back to the North Pole for good, or will the VanCamps come to their senses about the meaning of Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, entertaining, light, feel good
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The Tree of Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 182000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning, contemplative, thought provoking, art house, visual, touching
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking, fairy tale, sentimental, teen, captivating, melancholic