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Plot Summary:
A retelling of the popular fairy tale that mixes live action and animation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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The Light Princess (1978)
Plot Summary:
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags:
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Free to Be… You and Me (1974)
Plot Summary:
Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972, featuring songs and stories from many current celebrities of the day (credited as "Marlo Thomas and Friends") such as Alan Alda, Rosey Grier, Cicely Tyson, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross, among others. An ABC Afterschool Special using poetry, songs, and sketches, followed two years later in March 1974. The basic concept is to encourage a post-60's gender neutrality, while saluting values such as individuality, tolerance, and happiness with one's identity. A major thematic message is that anyone, whether a boy or a girl, can achieve anything.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: educational, fairy tale
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Tom and Jerry: Snowman's Land (2022)
Plot Summary:
It’s time to chase that holiday spirit with Tom and Jerry! With magic in the air, Jerry and his nephew, Tuffy, make a snow mouse that miraculously comes to life! To keep their new friend, Larry the snow mouse from melting, Tuffy and Jerry must race him to the fabled Snowman’s Village. In hot pursuit, Tom and devious Dr. Doublevay have their own plans for Larry’s magic.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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The Nutcracker (1995)
Plot Summary:
It is Christmas Eve, and the Stahlbaum family is happily unwrapping their Christmas gifts. After all the merriment, seven-year-old Marie receives a very special gift--a mysterious Nutcracker--from her beloved Godfather Drosselmeier. When the house falls dark and silent, Marie discovers that this is no ordinary Nutcracker, but Godfather Drosselmeier's nephew, who was transformed into a wooden toy by the curse of the evil Madame Mouserink. To break the curse, the Nutcracker must win the love of Marie and defeat the malicious, seven-headed Mouse King.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, crying
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The Daydreamer (1966)
Plot Summary:
A fictional account of a teen-aged Hans Christian Anderson. In this film, young Hans runs away from home and each time he falls asleep he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and The Ugly Duckling.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mystical, anthology, mythical, psychotronic, independent film, fable
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Wish (2023)
Plot Summary:
Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force – a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe - the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico - to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: computer animated, fairy tale, crying, creepy, 3d animation, 2d animation
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Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017)
Plot Summary:
The classic Roald Dahl tale gets a modern twist when Tom and Jerry enter the amazing world of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, funny, light, feel good, captivating
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Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001)
Plot Summary:
"Barbie" stars as Clara in this animated retelling of the classic Christmas ballet, complete with Tchaikovsky soundtrack and ballet choreography.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, entertaining, feel good, computer animated, semi serious, stylized, light, captivating, humorous, independent film
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Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)
Plot Summary:
King Randolph sends for his cousin Duchess Rowena to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her 11 sisters, into better ladies. But the Duchess takes away all the sisters fun, including the sisters favorite pastime: dancing.Thinking all hope is lost they find a secret passageway to a magical land were they can dance the night away.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, colorful, sweet, touching, captivating, entertaining, computer animated, fairy tale, humorous
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Barbie in Princess Power (2015)
Plot Summary:
Barbie is Kara - a modern-day princess with a normal life. Kissed by a butterfly which gives her superpowers and allows her to become a Super Sparkle, she is ready to save the kingdom from evil - were it not for her jealous cousin who is also kissed by the butterfly and becomes her rival and nemesis. Watch as Super Sparkle and Dark Sparkle learn that together they can become a great team for good once they learn the power of friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, colorful, touching, feel good, entertaining, humorous, captivating, colourful
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Happily Ever After (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Wicked Queen is dead but her brother, Lord Maliss, seeks for revenge. Using the Magic Mirror to locate Snow White and the Prince, he transforms into a dragon and attacks. Maliss takes the Prince to the Realm of Doom. Snow White, with the aid of the Seven Dwarfesses, cousins of the Sevens Dwarves, must embark on a quest to save her true love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious, 2d animation
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Little Longnose (2003)
Plot Summary:
When he refused to support power-hungry witch, the good shoemaker's boy, Jacob is transformed into a hunchbacked dwarf with overlong nose. Of their mother no longer recognized, mocked by the people of the city and driven away, Jacob runs one day a goose on the road. Together with the spring animal - in fact the king's daughter Greta enchanted - Jacob is now trying to make the transformation to reverse and put the wicked witch craft.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, touching, thought provoking, semi serious, anime, spooky, exciting
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2001)
Plot Summary:
As a newly crowned princess, Cinderella quickly learns that life at the Palace - and her royal responsibilities - are more challenging than she had imagined. In three heartwarming tales, Cinderella calls on her animal friends and her Fairy Godmother to help as she brings her own grace and charm to her regal role and discovers that being true to yourself is the best way to make your dreams come true.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, entertaining, anthology, talky, feel good, humorous, semi serious, crying, sweet, melancholic
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Disenchanted (2022)
Plot Summary:
Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle turns to the magic of Andalasia for help. Accidentally transforming the entire town into a real-life fairy tale and placing her family’s future happiness in jeopardy, she must race against time to reverse the spell and determine what happily ever after truly means to her and her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Denmark, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, surreal, teen, parody, spoof, 2d animation
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Tangled: Before Ever After (2017)
Plot Summary:
Rapunzel grapples with the responsibilities of being a princess and the overprotective ways of her father. While she wholeheartedly loves Eugene, Rapunzel does not share his immediate desire to get married and settle down within the castle walls. Determined to live life on her own terms, she and her tough-as-nails Lady-in-Waiting Cassandra embark on a secret adventure where they encounter mystical rocks that magically cause Rapunzel's long blonde hair to grow back. Impossible to break and difficult to hide, Rapunzel must learn to embrace her hair and all that it represents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, feel good, captivating, funny, anime, 2d animation
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Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tom And Jerry are among the last animals living in Storybook Town, a fairy tale-inspired theme park "where dreams come true, if you believe.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, not serious, feel good, humorous, parody, stylized, mysterious, exciting, slapstick, 2d animation
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The Swan Princess (1994)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful princess Odette is transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer's spell. Held captive at an enchanted lake, she befriends Jean-Bob the frog, Speed the turtle and Puffin the bird. Despite their struggle to keep the princess safe, these good-natured creatures can do nothing about the sorcerer's spell, which can only be broken by a vow of everlasting love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, light, romantic, feel good, cute, humorous, sentimental, anime, cult classic
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The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Plot Summary:
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, witty, romantic, cute, sweet, stylized, southern gothic, atmospheric, gothic
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The Princess and the Pea (2002)
Plot Summary:
"A truly noble heart is sensitive," says the wise old raven, Sebastian, who pokes, prods and analyzes peas seeking the solution that would save the kingdom of Corazion from the revenge of Laird, the king's brother. As Sebastian seeks to solve the mystery, his friend, Prince Rollo, is searching for a truly sensitive heart in the pedigrees of pampered princesses, until a chance encounter with a kind-hearted peasant girl causes Rollo to ponder where true beauty lies. Can Sebastian discover the answer in time to rescue the kingdom from the cruel schemes of Laird? Join in the quest to reveal the heart of true nobility.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, captivating, entertaining, folk tale, anime, independent film
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The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina (2002)
Plot Summary:
Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are together for the first time in this heartwarming, magical musical story about courage and friendship.After 15 years, the two reunite and remember when their village was destroyed by a giant. Soon, they find out that they have neat powers they can use for good.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: touching, exciting, feel good, humorous, independent film, fairy tale, semi serious, psychotronic
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007)
Plot Summary:
Your little princess will want to follow her dreams as she tags along on an adventure with two of Disney's most popular princesses in this new animated fairy tale. Aurora, star of the beloved classic Sleeping Beauty, and Jasmine, from the Academy Award-winning film Aladdin, journey to faraway lands and make new discoveries about themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, anthology, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting
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Secret of the Wings (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tinkerbell wanders into the forbidden Winter woods and meets Periwinkle. Together they learn the secret of their wings and try to unite the warm fairies and the winter fairies to help Pixie Hollow.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, computer animated, captivating, touching, 3d animation, saga, fantasy adventure, cute
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Charming (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three fairy tale princesses find themselves engaged to the same guy, Prince Charming.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, romantic, entertaining, psychotronic, funny
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Moana (2016)
Plot Summary:
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 367000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, touching, entertaining, computer animated, colorful, sweet, emotional, 3d animation, anime
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Enchanted (2007)
Plot Summary:
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 215000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Algeria, New Zealand
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, feel good, stylized, parody, romantic comedy, funny, cute, sweet, entertaining
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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
Plot Summary:
Belle prepares the castle for Christmas against Beast's wishes, trying to bring him happiness for the season.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: christmas special, fairy tale, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, sexy, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Plot Summary:
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 368000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, dark, cult classic, claymation, fairy tale, atmospheric, surreal, scary, visual
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Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Plot Summary:
Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 474000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, feel good, touching, sweet, colorful, humorous, sentimental, cute, mystical
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The Little Mermaid (1989)
Plot Summary:
This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 286000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, feel good, sweet, romantic, cute, mystical, retro, crying, sincere
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Aladdin (1992)
Plot Summary:
Princess Jasmine grows tired of being forced to remain in the palace, so she sneaks out into the marketplace, in disguise, where she meets street-urchin Aladdin. The couple falls in love, although Jasmine may only marry a prince. After being thrown in jail, Aladdin becomes embroiled in a plot to find a mysterious lamp, with which the evil Jafar hopes to rule the land.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 455000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, feel good, humorous, funny, romantic, controversial, entertaining, cute, touching