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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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Plot Summary:
Make room for ogre-sized family fun as the greatest fairy tale never told comes to life in a whole new way in this breathtaking Broadway musical adaptation of the hit movie Shrek!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, sentimental, witty, fairy tale, exciting
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The Lost Princess (2005)
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The warrior is Esmeralda, a princess who has brains, can fight and is pretty, too. The sexy one is Don Juan, a pretty boy laughing at danger. These two Spanish champions, along with Don Juan's sidekick Miguel, dance and joke their way through a swashbuckling, Renaissance adventure, saving the queen's English cousin from the nasty, Teutonic Krankenmal.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, campy
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Set in the mythical world of Rhymeland, Gorden Goose returns home to discover that his mom has mysteriously vanished. Now the characters of Rhymeland are in danger of disappearing unless Mother Goose returns.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: mysterious, exciting, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
Teenage Claire (Morgan Thompson) would rather hang out with her friends at the mall than to stay home with her brother Matt while Grandma babysits. Who wouldn't? Unfortunately, Grandma isn't about to let Claire out of the house. Worse, she insists that Claire and Matt listen to her reworking of the Brothers Grimm classic tale "Little Red Riding Hood". Fortunately, Grandma has a sense of humor, and adds some modern twists. Claire imagines herself as Red, and her brother, parents and grandma as....her brother, parents and grandma.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, tense, parody, freeze frame
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Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
Plot Summary:
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, anthology, mysterious, touching, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, vintage, campy
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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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Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie falls asleep and dreams herself into a fantastic world in which her toys become larger than life. She meets up with the Nutcracker Prince who takes her on a journey to his kingdom and defends her from the Mouse King.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, stylized, independent film, fairy tale, atmospheric, whimsical
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Plot Summary:
Two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, semi serious, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, semi serious, light
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11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary is about to marry mean, old Barnaby Barnacle, despite the fact that she loves Jack Be Nimble. Lisa tries to stop this terrible wedding and, together with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie ask the Toymaster for help, but he can't help them as long as Lisa doesn't truly believe in toys.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, mysterious, christmas special, cute, offbeat, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
Plot Summary:
Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. However, a tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo in hot pursuit. Facing life without his cherished blanket, Elmo musters all of his determination and courage and heads off on an action-packed rescue mission that plunges him into Grouchland-a place full of grouchy creatures, stinky garbage and the villainous Huxley. Along the way, Elmo learns an important lesson about sharing, realizing that he was selfish with his friend and responsible for what happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, mysterious, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, scary, fairy tale, light, clever
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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
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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
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The Emperor's New Clothes (1987)
Plot Summary:
In Europe several several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are freed as part of the celebration of the upcoming marriage of the emperor's daughter, Princess Gilda, to a very rich prince from another country. Sid Caesar composed the song "Clothes Make the Man". Ran 93 minutes on German TV.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 85 min
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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
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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
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Puss in Boots (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Fantasy, Musical, Family
Country: USA
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Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, period piece
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 611
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 434
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 478
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Country: Soviet Union
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
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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
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 922
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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