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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Fantasy
Country: West Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Shepherd Yanka (1977)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Jack the Giant Killer (2013)
Plot Summary:
A giant beanstalk brings Jack to a land in the clouds filled with snarling, evil beasts. When the creatures make their way to the ground, Jack must figure out how to get back down before they destroy earth and everyone in it.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, romantic, bleak, semi serious, mockbuster, mythical
Similar in 76%
The House That Swift Built (1982)
Plot Summary:
An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
Similar in 81%
Cinderella (1970)
Plot Summary:
Cinderella is helped to the ball by her fairy godmother.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
Similar in 79%
Cinderella '80 (1984)
Plot Summary:
In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets, and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic
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Cinderella: After Ever After (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags:
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The Feather Fairy (1985)
Plot Summary:
A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evil desires.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, beautiful
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Hansel and Gretel (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is Tim Burton's Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired once. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, weird
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Once Upon a Crime (2023)
Plot Summary:
While at the royal ball with Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood finds herself in the middle of a mystery. Can she solve the case before midnight strikes?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, detective
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Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (1977)
Plot Summary:
The Brothers Grimm collected German folk and fairy tales in Germany during the early 19th century; eight of their best known stories are presented in this anthology.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, fairy tale
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Mother Holly (1961)
Plot Summary:
Based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Frog Prince (1991)
Plot Summary:
German/Czechoslovakian depiction of the famous fairy tale 'The Frog Prince', by the Brothers Grimm. When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang, and a young prince refuses to give up all his vices and mischief, an aquaphobic fairy takes their fate into her hands. The princess then falls in love with the prince, who declares eternal fidelity to her. When he however breaks this promise, the fairy turns him into a frog. With which the loyalty of the princess is being tested as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, fable
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Vom Fischer und seiner Frau (2013)
Plot Summary:
German North Sea beach fisherman Hein always was happy with his wife Islebils, despite their modest life and poor dwelling. When he spares a rod-caught speaking flounder's life, the grateful enchanted prince promises to grant his wish. Hearing this, Ilsebill urges him to ask for a decent house, which is granted instantly. While Hein generously shares their newfound wealth with neighbor Klaas's penniless family, his wife keeps getting jealous of people in higher stations, urging him against growing reluctance to ask the flounder to be be promoted country squire, king, eventually pope. But as Hein feared, she only transforms into a haughty, unhappy butch abusing even her 'mere husband', and each transformation takes a hefty toll on the marine environment, which ends up inhospitable, causing coast-dwellers to flee.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 58 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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The Brave Little Tailor (1991)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Snow dragon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale about a princess who is growing up without her mother. He father the king, a kind and righteous man, loves her dearly, but is determined to marry her off at all costs: no-one knows why he's in such a hurry. He organizes a grand ball in the chateau, at which a number of princes curry for her favor. But the one whom the princess chooses herself is not at all to the liking of her Dad - for reasons which nobody understands. It's not until later that we learn about the ancient curse, the Queen of the Witch Realm, and the Snow Dragon. For the curse to be annulled, the princess and her intended have to undertake a difficult and dangerous journey during which they are confronted with many obstacles, to find out at its end that only true love can triumph over evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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King Thrushbeard (1984)
Plot Summary:
King Thrushbeard.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, fable
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Cinderella (2000)
Plot Summary:
Cinderella (named Zezolla) and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social mermaid literally living in a cave, a bored prince with an ear for rock n' roll, and the glamour of the 1950's and one'll find that this story can't grow old.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, modern fairy tale
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Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (1970)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds of intrigue and treachery.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, folk tale, feel good
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Allerleirauh (2012)
Plot Summary:
Maddened by grief over his late queen, king Tobald decides to wed their only daughter Lotte, the only female resembling her. Having failed to put him off by exorbitant demands, she puts on the unique cloak made of all fur types in the realm and flees over the border, carrying only her mother's three-party golden seduction kit and the king's miniaturized gifts while posing as a poor girl. Hunting, king Jacob finds her and orders her into court chef Mathis's scullery. He appreciates her zeal and culinary talents, helping him put the best dishes ever before the king, who is determined to find out about the gastronomic phenomenon, yet she makes that difficult.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, costume drama
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Sleeping Beauty (2009)
Plot Summary:
Raised on a farm, energetic fearless Fynn is eager to be join uncle August in the royal castle as apprentice in the stables. He's quickly humiliated having inadvertently dared prince Eric to sword sparring, but gets discrete lessons from his surprisingly able kin. Like many high aristocrats around, Eric boldly sets out to win a princess's hand and royal crown in a century-long enchanted castle, but is fatally defeated by its impenetrable envelop of thorny vines. Having learned more from August about the curse, Fynn also has a go, but differently and with better results.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Rapunzel (2009)
Plot Summary:
A poor farmer and his wife are expecting a child at last. But after eating rampion , which she got from a sorceress, the mother developed an addiction to the rampion, which can only get from the garden of the sorceress of the father. He steals in his distress the rampion, as the sorceress does not seem to be there. But they caught him and leaves him only to take the corn salad, as he promises her his child. After the birth of his daughter, the sorceress brings the child and calls it Rapunzel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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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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Three Wishes for Cinderella (2021)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian remake of the 1973 Czech film "Three Wishes for Cinderella" by Václav Vorlícek.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, entertaining, sincere, disturbing
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Hey Cinderella! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hey Cinderella! is a one-hour Jim Henson special which tells a cracked version of the classic fairy tale. Cinderella lives with her wicked stepmother (as everyone who ever read the fairy tale knows), but what part of the story is never told is how Cinderella's fairy godmother had help from monsters, a prince pretending to be a gardener, and none other than Kermit the Frog.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
Similar in 78%
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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Beauty and the Beast (1976)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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Cinderella (1965)
Plot Summary:
TV-version of the classic fairy tale, set to a Rodgers and Hammerstein score.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced to be a servant in her own house. But a cheery fairy godmother helps her with her impossible tasks, and even gets her to take an evening out at the King's bride-fin.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, period piece, costume drama, sentimental, touching, feel good, stylized, semi serious, independent film, light
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Cinderella (2021)
Plot Summary:
A modern reimagining of the traditional tale of the orphaned girl with an evil stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, inspirational, captivating, psychological, sincere, touching, feel good, costume drama, anamorphic, visual