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Plot Summary:
A fairytale about the Princess, the Musician, the Chancellor and a blue rose which forces everyone to tell the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, sentimental, sincere, touching, bad ending, disturbing
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)
Plot Summary:
Retelling of the classic fairy tale, but from a decidedly 1960s point of view, complete with "groovy" dialogue.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, independent film
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The Red Shoes (1983)
Plot Summary:
The story of a little girl name Karen who was very poor and was given a pair of red shoes made of cloth to keep her feet warm in the winter. When her mother dies, she's adopted by a rich older woman who burns the shoes, saying they're ugly. Karen grows up pretty and happy with the old woman, but one day she sees a princess wearing beautiful red shoes and wants a pair just like them. When it comes time for Karen to be confirmed, she's to have a new pair of shoes. The pair she wants are red leather shoes that were maid for a count's daughter, but were too small. Karen buys them without the old woman knowing and wears them to her confirmation and gets in trouble for it. When the old woman falls ill, instead of taking care of her Karen goes to a ball and dances, but finds she can't stop dancing.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, serious, fairy tale
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The Water of Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
Terminally ill kings has trouble deciding which one his two, fundamentally different, sons should be his heir. It would be best if he would have more time to make his decicion but none of the treatments are working as expected. Finally a hunter tells him about a miracle cure, called the water of life, that can cure any ailment. First the king sends his brave and valiant son to find the cure. When he doesn't return, his brother who is known for his kindness and good heart, sets out to search for his brother and the cure.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating
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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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Oh My Kadavule (2020)
Plot Summary:
Arjun is conveniently married to his best friend Anu and their marriage turns out to be a nightmare since he is not really in love with her. When things get tough Arjun gets a second chance in life that could change his path and perspective altogether.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, touching, humorous, emotional, melancholic, talky, suspense thriller, cult film
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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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Baba Yaga (1973)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, folk tale, stylized, semi serious, absurd
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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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An Angel of the Lord (2005)
Plot Summary:
A screwup angel is exiled from the Heaven down to Earth, incarnated as a beggar.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, humorous, captivating, light
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Three Brothers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and songs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czech Republic, Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, metafiction
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The Kingdom of False Mirrors (1963)
Plot Summary:
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, stylized, light, atmospheric, captivating, entertaining, colorful, humorous, serious, psychedelic
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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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The House Elf (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the ordinary and bustling city of Moscow there is an unusual House, overgrown with hundreds of secrets and mysteries. In this house there is a strange apartment, in which not a single tenant has stayed for a long time. And only when an independent mother with a charming 8-year-old daughter Alina comes to this “nice” apartment, new tenants will find out that their living space is not easy, and the real Boggart lives in it. Only here the keeper of the hearth has long been offended by the entire human race and will do all imaginable nastiness, just to be left alone in the ill-fated apartment. But everything changes when the evil witch challenges Homeovy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, fairy tale, enigmatic, disturbing, atmospheric
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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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That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana (2007)
Plot Summary:
Raven Baxter checks into the Tipton Hotel while on a business trip with her boss; Zack and Cody try to seduce the models for Raven's photoshoot, Maddie tries to get London to wear one of Raven's dresses, and pop star Hannah Montana wants a Raven original to wear on her new tour.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: sentimental, funny, light, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Princess Raccoon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, humorous, emotional, stylized, semi serious, fairy tale
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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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A Fairy Tale After All (2022)
Plot Summary:
A stubborn teenage girl finds herself confronted by whimsical characters when she is transported into a world of fantasy and fairy tales while attending a school marionette show.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Cannon Movie Tales: Rumpelstiltskin (1987)
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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Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes (1968)
Plot Summary:
Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, atmospheric, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, folk tale
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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
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, independent film, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Puss in Boots (1988)
Plot Summary:
A cat belonging to a poor miller's son thinks up a great plan for bringing a title, wealth, and marriage for his owner. He begins to carry it out, using a few birds and rabbits as gifts for the king, his own wit, and a pair of boots that make him appear human when he puts them on. However, his owner has no idea that the cat has told everyone that his master is a marquis rather than a miller's son until the king has arrived to meet him. Soon the king's daughter and the miller's son fall in love, and the king wants very much to see the land and the castle belonging to this rich "marquis.".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Fantasy, Musical, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, period piece
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The New Adventures of Cinderella (2017)
Plot Summary:
The female protagonist Julie is an office worker, neglected by her handsome egoist boss, on whom she's got a secret crush. She agrees to be a babysitter for his kid one evening - and she tells him a story about Cinderella, reminding characters from her own life. Through the story, Julie comes to understand, who should be her real prince.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, fairy tale, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, colorful, colourful
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The Incredibly Sad Princess (1968)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, cult film
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DJ Cinderella (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cintia is modern princess, she's connected, decided and loves music. This "pop" princess used to live with their parents in a huge castle with a nice view to the city. Every night she looked through the window and watch the view dreaming with a prince she didn't met yet. But one day her castle crumbles with everything around her, after her parents divorce she went to live with her aunt and stops believing in love. What she didn't knew was that there was a charming prince in her history, that wanted to break the ice around our modern day cinderella.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, feel good, sweet, captivating, colorful, fairy tale, modern day adaptation, colourful
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Hansel and Gretel (1988)
Plot Summary:
Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman everything she seems...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, feel good, stylized, mysterious, independent film, semi serious
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A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kat is an aspiring singer-songwriter who dreams of making it big. However, her dreams are stalled by her reality: a conniving and cruel stepfamily and a demoralizing job working as a singing elf at billionaire Terrence Wintergarden’s Santa Land.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, sweet, sincere, captivating, entertaining, teen, christmas comedy, inspirational, sentimental
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Meet The Santas (2005)
Plot Summary:
Because she is marrying the man who assumed the mantle of Santa Claus last December 26, Beth's postponed wedding has to be rescheduled for Xmas eve. Overwhelmed by selling the house she and her son share and the prospect of the duties of Mrs. Claus, she has to call on her estranged socialite Grinch of a mother to arrange the wedding. Of course her mom has never met the fiancé nor his family and has no inkling of his secret. This is a sequel to 2004's Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, light, sincere, feel good
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Cinderella (1997)
Plot Summary:
Updated version of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the classic fairy-tale, with an all-star, multi-racial cast.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, stylized, teen, spooky, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, romantic, humorous, 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