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Plot Summary:
A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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The Woman with Red Boots (1974)
Plot Summary:
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, surreal
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Split Infinity (1992)
Plot Summary:
A.J. Knowlton learns that getting what you want is not always what you need. When enterprising A.J. is transported back to the past through a sudden accident, she is forced to put her obsession to get rich on hold. As she observes the events in her family's past, A.J. slowly starts to see why relationships and happiness are more important than money. Before time runs out, A.J. must put her money interests aside so she can discover something that will change her family's future forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Emperor of Peru (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two children deal with the arrival of a foster brother, a Cambodian refugee. All three of them discover a hermetic retired railway engineer living in the woods. Then the children find an abandoned locomotive and, with the help of the engineer, bring it back to working order.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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'Imuhar': A Legend (1997)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Niger
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Peter & Wendy (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lucy is a young girl admitted to Great Ormond Street with a heart condition. Whilst there she makes a connection with JM Barrie's classic story of Peter Pan and is soon whisked away to her own Neverland.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, costume drama
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Spirited Away: Live on Stage (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Chihiro finds herself trapped in a mysterious world inhabited by spirits and when her parents are turned into pigs, she must rescue them. The movie version of the stage production was filmed during the play’s 2022 run at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags:
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The Mighty Pawns (1987)
Plot Summary:
Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: learning
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Mazes and Monsters (1982)
Plot Summary:
This film was the pinnacle of anti-D&D fearmongering. Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, bleak, dark fantasy, fantasy adventure, cult classic, scary, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Shoebox Zoo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Shoebox Zoo is a children's fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. It was first broadcast in 2004 by CBBC. The series was broadcast in the United States by the Showtime network.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, captivating, semi serious
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The Creatures (1966)
Plot Summary:
After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people. His wife, however, has lost her voice and can only communicate through written notes. The islanders grow suspicious of the reclusive couple, their unease soon turning to aggression. Edgar is equally anxious about his neighbors, particularly a solitary widower, Ducasse, who has taken charge of a large consignment of crates. What secret project is Ducasse engaged in – and can it explain the strange behavior of the islanders?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, metafiction, psychological, serious, contemplative, stylized
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Elementary (2016)
Plot Summary:
Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with problems, she will do everything she can to help him, even to the point of neglecting her own children, her own life, and of questioning her vocation. Little by little Florence realizes that we learning has no age limit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Boy in the Mirror (2014)
Plot Summary:
What child has never dreamed of having a double, someone who would do all of the annoying things in his place? Seeing his reflection get out of the mirror into the real world, this dream comes true for the fearless boy Fernando. Odnanref, his double, presents himself as a solution to all his problems. Adaptation of a successful Brazilian novel written by Fernando Sabino.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sincere, captivating, awful
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Lantern Hill (1989)
Plot Summary:
In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is verbally abused and her mother bullied. Jane is forced into a private academy, in which the other girls tell her that her father, whom Jane believes to be dead, is actually alive. Soon after, Andrew Stuart sends word that he would like to meet his long-lost daughter, so Jane is sent by train to Bright River to stay with him, where she encounters an old mystery that she must help her father overcome, new friends, and the chance to bring her father and mother back together again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: crying
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Demon in the Bottle (1996)
Plot Summary:
Four teenagers find a lost treasure buried by a 18th century pirate on a desert island. But they accidentally release the monster who lives inside a bottle, keeping the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: crying, cult film
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Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984)
Plot Summary:
Manuel is a young boy who travels from long ago to the present and then to the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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A Little Game (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The American Dreamless (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young addict is convinced by his best friend to train-hop across the country in hopes of finding the buried treasure that they talked about when they were kids. One is self-destructive and the other is blind, neither of them expected a small-town drifter to lead the way, especially when the only way to go, is within. The American Dreamless is Tanner Matthews' directorial debut and the first film to be shot in all fifty US states.
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Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, captivating, realistic
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Magic Journey to Africa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jana’s magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination. It is a spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids, full of mysteries, adventures and discoveries.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sincere, captivating, exciting, light, stylized
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A Christmoose Story (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on the best-selling novel, A CHRISTMOOSE STORY brings to life the tale of an unlikely friendship between a young boy and a large, talking moose. Young Max has low expectations for his first Christmas after his parents’ divorce, when suddenly a large moose crashes through the roof of his garage. And if that isn’t strange enough, the moose claims to have fallen from Santa’s sleigh! But being friends with a moose isn’t all that simple. Especially since Max’s grumpy neighbor has no interest in hanging stockings for Christmas but would love to hang up a pair of moose antlers, and Santa is out there somewhere looking to get his sleigh back!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, humorous, semi serious
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Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984)
Plot Summary:
Ronya lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronja have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: modern fairy tale, exciting, feel good, captivating, semi serious, uplifting, fairy tale, eighties
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Emily and the Magical Journey (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young girl goes on a magical journey to find happiness for her mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, UK, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, funny, light, colorful, colourful
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Cowgirls 'n Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic
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The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
Plot Summary:
A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, light, clever, epic, grindhouse, juvenile, cult classic, weeping, offbeat, feel good
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The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
Plot Summary:
Once again, Bastian is transported to the world of Fantasia which he recently managed to save from destruction. However, the land is now being destroyed by an evil sorceress, Xayide, so he must join up with Atreyu and face the Emptiness once more.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, stylized, mysterious, surreal, tripping, fantasy adventure, action adventure, touching, offbeat, feel good
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, costume drama, touching, mysterious, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light, inspirational, romantic
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The Thief Lord (2006)
Plot Summary:
A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic leader, the Thief Lord. From their home base of an old cinema theater, the children steal from the rich to support themselves and soon capture the interest of a bumbling detective. However, a greater threat to the children is something from a forgotten past - a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, exciting, detective, serious
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Slumberland (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, hilarious, epic fantasy
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Miracle on 34th Street (1973)
Plot Summary:
A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Andre (1994)
Plot Summary:
The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sad, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, light, inspirational, romantic
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The NeverEnding Story (1984)
Plot Summary:
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 154000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, light, surreal, touching, scenic, offbeat, atmospheric, epic, melancholic