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Plot Summary:
The beautiful Aurora is cursed into everlasting sleep by an evil witch for a crime she didn't commit. The brave Commander of the Guard, William, embarks on a quest inspired by both love and loyalty to free the doomed princess. He travels into the dark forest where he encounters a friendly elf that helps him on his quest, a dangerous wizard with no love for royalty or evil, a deadly assassin, and a ravenous creature that preys on human flesh before the final confrontation that will determine Aurora's fate.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, tense, captivating, suspense, contemplative, psychotronic
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Enteng ng Ina mo (2011)
Plot Summary:
Enteng wants to retire as the hero of Engkantasya and have a normal life with his family without the magical elements. Ina longs to have the right partner to be with her for the rest of her life. One day, Enteng is placed under a powerful evil spell by the evil witch Satana to fall in love with another woman. And when he meets Ina, he exerts all the effort Ina to fall for him. Ina, on the other hand, slowly opens her heart for this new opportunity of love. Enteng then tries his best to be a father to Ina’s children even if they are not fully supportive of him. But when their relationship gets serious, Ina discovers the truth – Enteng already has a family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, light
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Skeleton Key 3: The Organ Trail (2011)
Plot Summary:
So once again, Nilbog calls to you! It calls you back... Do you hear it? Howard does. And once again he and his band of merry men venture through that covered bridge and back into the world of monsters! With Cornelius still trapped in the town and on the run from zombies,.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Mentalist (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two mentalists, Deddy Corbuzier and Ronggo Sewu (Limbad), compete to show who is the best. Ronggo Sewu who used to be Deddy Corbuzier's assistant framed Deddy Corbuzier by using black magic in every magic show. This can't be accepted by Deddy Corbuzier. Hostility and revenge between the two are inevitable. They dive into dangerous games where lives are at stake.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Action
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, novela
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Robin Hood: The Ghost of Sherwood (2012)
Plot Summary:
After selling his soul to a sorceress Robin is killed in battle. Distraught over these horrific turn of events Marian and Little John attempt to resuscitate Robin and his Merry Men. In doing so they inadvertently have turned the one-time heroes into the living dead and worse, the ghostly reincarnations are now hunting down Marian and Little John. So the pair attempt to seek out a new potion that will free these tormented souls from their demonic possession.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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God of Thunder (2015)
Plot Summary:
Defeated on the battlefield by Thor, Loki is brought to Odin for justice. But by using his guile and trickery, Loki escapes to Earth. There he will conquer mankind and raise an even larger army to use in his quest for domination throughout the Nine Realms. Enraged by devastation of his home, Thor pursues Loki, but in the journey, he is rendered defenseless, awakening on Earth without his mighty hammer, or his memory. Alone and disoriented, Thor is besieged by Loki’s followers, hell-bent on stopping him…at any cost. Enlisting the help of a female human companion, Thor fights his way North, in search of his mythical weapon. Finding his hammer, Thor’s identity and prowess are restored and he must now prepare himself for a final climactic battle with Loki, to prevent the overthrow of the universe.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Retribution (2017)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal girl falls in love with a fallen angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, satanic
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The Beautiful Fantasy of Final Purpose (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town, a flower of Amancay, a topaz of the most beautiful color and a broken family.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, captivating, suspense, dark, suspenseful, independent film, student film
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The Witch Princess (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, tense, captivating, suspense, stylized
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The Snow Queen (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious presence has threatened humanity for hundreds of years as it lurks in the frozen wastes people avoid. Nearly unnoticed as its power grows, she's been slowly draining the planet of one of its most precious resources. It takes two groups of adventurers, separated in time, to defeat her and the army of demons and monsters she can summon- one with swords and shields of iron, the other with assault rifles and body armor. Written by Barry Massoni.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, scary, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, non-linear
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Ember Days (2013)
Plot Summary:
The fallen angel Azazel(Raw Leiba) has come to Earth at the behest of the Winter Faerie Queen(Debbie Rochon), and formed an alliance with the Greek god Hermes(Christopher Jason Bolton). Together they seek to resurrect Azazel's demigod children, the Nephilim, whose existence would destroy the world. A second fallen angel, Shemihazya(Sean-Michael Argo), has been summoned by the Summer Faerie Queen(Fiona Horne) to oppose the raising of the Nephilim. He aligns himself with the Greek goddess Hecate(Bekah Kelso), forcing her to help him in his quest by possessing the body of her lover. The Gods and Angels battle across modern city streets and the pristine forests of the spirit world, their struggle set against the backdrop of a civil war between the Queens of Faerie, as the forces of Winter seek to dominate the people of Summer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film, urban fantasy
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Suburban Knights (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Nostalgia Critic and his fellow reviewers from the website That Guy with the Glasses dress up as famous fantasy characters and go searching for a magic gauntlet hidden in suburban Illinois.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, light, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating
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Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the world of Sougo Tokiwa and Sento Kiryu, their "companions" are losing their memories one after the other as they're replaced by other people. The Super Time Jacker, Tid , appears before them. He orders his powerful underlings, Another Double and Another Den-O, to pursue a young boy called Shingo. While fighting to protect Shingo, Sougo meets Ataru, a young man who loves Riders, but Ataru says that Kamen Riders aren't real. What is the meaning of those words? While the mystery deepens, the true enemy that Sougo and Sento must defeat appears in the Kuriogatake mountain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, futuristic
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Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger vs. Lupinranger vs. Patranger (2020)
Plot Summary:
A Gangler remnant, Ganima, captures Tyramigo and the other Kishiryu inside his safe! To save them, the Ryusoulgers engage Ganima in battle, however he starts to use the Kishiryu's own powers against them! Banba and Towa chase after Ganima and come into contact with Keiichiro from the Global Police! Meanwhile, Koh comes into contact with Kairi from the phantom thieves! In order to save the Kishiryu, these three Super Sentai teams will unite! This winter, knights, phantom thieves, and police officers will mix and match to create an amazing battle!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: super sentai, exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Kamen Rider Gaim: Great Soccer Battle! Golden Fruits Cup! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kouta is taken into a new version of Zawame, where soccer teams aim to win the All Rider Cup. The reward: The golden fruit. A strange man named Kougane starts sending locusts to other Armored Riders, consuming them, leaving their Lockseeds intact in order to revive his Golden Lockseed. Along with a strange youth named Lapis who seems to have a relation to the new world, will the Beat Riders be able to stop him?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Witch Hunt (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, slasher, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Dragonfyre (2013)
Plot Summary:
A battle-weary ex-Special Forces Operative buys a ranch in remote American West to flee from the world, and encounters a strange series of trespassers, including a beautiful elf princess and a Native American mystic and Orcs. When the Orcs invade his property, John must give up his isolation to become a hero, before the Orcs unleash their dragon god on our world.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, romantic, scenic
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Merlin (1998)
Plot Summary:
The legendary wizard tells his story of his war against Queen Mab of the Sidhe and his creation of Camelot.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, epic, exciting, atmospheric, light, arthurian, dark fantasy, entertaining, mystical, gothic
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Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 5th Century Britian, a young Merlin struggles for his place in his known land under the tutelage of The Mage, a local wizard whom sees the young man's potential for magic, as well as face off against his evil former friend, Vendiger, whom plots with a feudal warlord king to conquer all of Britian using an army of flying dragons, and only Merlin with the alliance of the local Prince Uther and Ingraine and a pair of mystical goddesses, can have the power to stop the evil from taking over the land.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, entertaining, mockbuster, arthurian, surreal, epic, suspenseful, stylized
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The Outpost (2018)
Plot Summary:
Talon, the lone survivor of a race called the Blackbloods, sets off to the edge of civilisation to track her family's killers. On her journey she discovers she has supernatural powers which she must learn to harness in order to achieve her goals.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, captivating, semi serious, action adventure, historical drama, brutal, bleak
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Mythica: The Iron Crown (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a team of unlikely heroes hijacks a steam-powered battle wagon, a daring young wizard (Marek) steals the final piece of the all-powerful Darkspore and embarks on a desperate quest to deliver the cursed artifact to the gods for safe keeping; but when they are caught in a death race between a ruthless team of elite mercenaries and a trinity of demons, Marek must learn to believe in herself before her friends are killed and the Darkspore is lost, to stop the evil necromancer (Szorlok) from uniting the Darkspore and flooding the living world with his legions of undead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, intense, tense
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Plot Summary:
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 299000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting, scenic, intense, dark, visual, teen, epic, mystical
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Mythica: The Darkspore (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Teela’s sister is murdered and a powerful relic stolen, Marek and her friends face a sinister new enemy – Kishkumen, a foreign mystic bent on reclaiming the Darkspore for his master Szorlok. Armed with twin maps, Marek and her team race Kishkumen and his horde through creature-infested lands, to a long abandoned underground city – all the while pursued by bounty hunters intent on returning Marek to slavery.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, scenic, intense, awful
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Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
Plot Summary:
The classic role-playing game comes to life in this magical adventure. The empire of Izmer is a divided land: Elite magicians called Mages rule while lowly commoners are powerless. When Empress Savina (Thora Birch) vows to bring equality and prosperity to her land, the evil Mage Profion (Jeremy Irons) plots to depose her. But this good-vs.-evil battle is no game!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fantasy adventure, action adventure, mystical, mythical, cult classic, action packed, epic fantasy
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Mythica: The Necromancer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mallister takes Thane prisoner and forces Marek and her team on a quest. Marek tracks down the Necromancer for a final showdown for the Darkspore.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, awful
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The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
Plot Summary:
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting, absurd, intense, suspense, sentimental, sincere, captivating, action adventure
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Willow (1988)
Plot Summary:
Fearful of a prophecy stating that a girl child will be born to bring about her downfall, the evil Queen Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women within the formidable stronghold of Nockmaar. A child, Elora Danan, is born in the Nockmaar dungeons and identified as the prophesied child by a birthmark on her arm. However, before the black sorceress arrives to claim the child, Elora's mother convinces her reluctant midwife to escape with the baby. Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, is entrusted with delivering the royal infant from evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, scenic, exciting, atmospheric, cult classic, epic, intense, stylized, semi serious, visual
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Seventh Son (2014)
Plot Summary:
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Canada, China
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, exciting, fairy tale, epic, absurd, scenic, stylized, satanic, teen, dark comedy
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 20000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: epic, atmospheric, scenic, breathtaking, stylized, exciting, fairy tale, heroic, suspenseful, captivating
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 17000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, captivating, exciting, dark fantasy, scenic, heroic, breathtaking, visually stunning, cult classic
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Plot Summary:
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 19000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 201 min
Plot tags: epic, atmospheric, stylized, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, heroic, cult classic, scenic, visually appealing