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Plot Summary:
While visiting a museum, two siblings Ben and Kim a fierce electrical storm creates a passage between the real world and worlds within the paintings. They are magically whisked through time to the 1600's and find they must square off against a wicked magician and also locate a valuable jewel in order to return to the present day.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized
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Durango Kids (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two of the town's youngest private detectives, Tim and his younger brother Nick, have the biggest case of their lives on their hands. A mysterious litle man leaves a suspicious package for the brothers to guard with their lives when, mysteriously, the dwarf-like man disappears and the police want answers! Stars Curtis Williams, Christina Milian, Berndon Ryan Barrett and Austin Nichols. When four preteen kids discover a hidden mine shaft, it transports them back in time to the Old West. There, they encounter all sorts of danger and adventure in their pursuit of a lost treasure--a treasure which their greedy school principal is also trying to get his hands on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Mysterious Stranger (1982)
Plot Summary:
The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious
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Magic Christmas Tree (1964)
Plot Summary:
A boy is given a ring by an old witch, he uses the ring to bring upon a magic Christmas that grants him 3 wishes.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, psychotronic
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Crusade in Jeans (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, suspenseful, stylized, serious
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Magic Island (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jack Carlisle is a disillusioned 13-year old boy. His mother is always away at work since his father left. He decides to run away, as his mom won't miss him. As he is ready to leave, his nanny, convinces him to read this 'magic book'. The book is about a pirate adventure on Magic Island. As Jack reads the book, he is sucked into the world and goes on numerous adventures with Prince Morgan, while fleeing the evil Blackbeard the Pirate. He is even saved by Lily, a beautiful mermaid, whom he falls in love with.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
Plot Summary:
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, nostalgic
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A Light in the Forest (2003)
Plot Summary:
Britta, the new girl in school Highland, has reason to be jubilant this Christmas: Her sadness has served to invoke Holly Boy, the holiday spirit, waking him from his deep slumber imposed by a dark elf, King Otto. This sets off a battle earthly and supernatural fury that develop simultaneously. The Young Britta must face her fears and death defying aerial action in the holidays from school, while Holly Boy has to fight against the forces of evil. Both battles must escape to save their lives, school, and the sacred forest, although, in reality, what is really at stake is the Christmas and values.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, captivating, contemplative, offbeat
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The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue Charles Merriweather, a stamp traveller frozen in time since his last attempt at stamp- travelling, 65 years ago. But Charles turns out to be a girl, his sister Molly! And she is rapidly turning into an old woman. To find a cure, Tommy takes off in a race against the time that leads him and Molly to the exotic and magical South Pacific islands.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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Tom Thumb (2001)
Plot Summary:
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, serious, stylized, captivating, exciting, psychotronic
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Mystery Monsters (1997)
Plot Summary:
Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine his surprise when he discovers they're not special effects at all! Adding to the situation, the monsters' original owner, evil Queen Mara, has returned to Earth to reclaim her property and take revenge on Captain Mike for stealing them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, semi serious, horror comedy
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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Plot Summary:
A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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The Nutcracker (1993)
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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The Great Land of Small (1987)
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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Magic Silver II (2011)
Plot Summary:
It's the harshest winter in memory, and the gnomes' very existence is in danger. Eager to help, Queen Fjellrose betrays one of their strictest rules and goes out looking for the Blue Horn, a magical instrument that can alter the weather.
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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After the Wizard (2011)
Plot Summary:
A 12-year-old Kansas orphan turns to the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman for help during a difficult time. She imagines that things have not gone well in Oz since the Wizard left and that the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman must travel to Kansas to find Dorothy.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating
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The Little Ghost (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, spooky, semi serious
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The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Billy turns 11 on November 11 he realises he is no ordinary boy.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2001)
Plot Summary:
Every hundred years, the evil sorceress Morgana returns to claim Fingall's talisman from Merlin, with which she intends to destroy the world. For the last fourteen hundred years she has failed... now she intends to conquer all. Young Ben Clark moves with his parents to a new town, where he befriends his elderly magician neighbor, Milner. Ben has a natural talent for magic and wants to learn all that he can from this old man. Ben carries the same scar as the original staff-bearer 1,400 years before. Both Morgana and Milner, who is revealed to be Merlin, see this as a sign that this time, the battle between good and evil will be stronger and harder than ever. Ben must make his own choice between good and evil as he is drawn into a battle and must draw on his own spirit and magic to decide which path to follow and hence, the fate of the world as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, captivating, arthurian, colorful, psychotronic, colourful
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The Snow Queen (2005)
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When Gerda befriends penniless Kay their growing friendship is cut short as one cold winter night a fragment of glass pierces Kay's eye, turning his heart cold. Enchanted by the Snow Queen he is swept away on her chariot over the glittering landscape to her frozen palace in the North. Gerda embarks on a magical and perilous journey to find and rescue Kay, finally arriving in the realm of the Snow Queen. But will this little girl in her red velvet cloak be able to match the power of the winter witch?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, mysterious, dark fantasy, fairy tale
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The White Pony (1999)
Plot Summary:
The search for a mystical pony in Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Witches Don't Exist (2014)
Plot Summary:
On her 13th birthday Katie, a talented young girl, receives a magical amulet. This amulet was on a quest to find the fifth and last witch to complete the order of the star witches. Because in it's incomplete form, the order is unable to protect earth against the evil witch Concuela. While Katie is exploring her new magical powers together with her best friend Roy, Grimbeck, the dandy gatekeeper of the star witches arena, as well as the evil Concuela are desperately trying to find Katie.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, spooky
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Arthur's Quest (1999)
Plot Summary:
To escape the clutches of the evil warrior and sorceress Morgana, Merlin transports young King Arthur into modern day America. When Merlin comes back ten years later to retrieve him, he finds a hip 15 year-old Arthur who does not believe Merlin, nor does he want to return to the past. Merlin must convince Arthur of his true identity, before Morgana can retrieve Excalibur and allow the Dark Forces to take over the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, exciting, light, captivating, sincere, fairy tale, arthurian, independent film
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Kids of the Round Table (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set in modern times, Alex finds King Arthur's sword Excalibur and must prove himself worthy of it.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, arthurian, independent film, offbeat, feel good, semi serious, light, romantic, sexy
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Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of magic beans and a mysterious book that records his adventures as he's having them. Accompanied by his sidekick Grayson -- a goose who ate a bean and underwent an amazing transformation -- Jack climbs the magic beanstalk to recover the fabled Harp of Destiny from the evil Giant who lives in the sky. Helping Jack on his perilous quest is the spunky Jillian, a fearless young girl whom Jack meets on his journey -- and who just may have a hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, mysterious, psychotronic
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Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book (2009)
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Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". With the help of her new friend and the book, Lilly has the ability to time-travel and truly satisfy her adventure- lust!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, computer animated
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Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Cromwell clan live in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the grandmother's book to turn Halloweentown into a grey dreary version of the real world, while transform the denizens of the real world into monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious, humorous, suspense, teen, spooky, offbeat
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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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Five Children and It (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, offbeat, semi serious, gothic
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Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Plot Summary:
They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Soviet Union, Norway
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, cult classic, humorous, stylized, semi serious, crying
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Halloweentown High (2004)
Plot Summary:
Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school in the mortal world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, teen, spooky, offbeat