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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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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Plot Summary:
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 296000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, teen, atmospheric, intense, sentimental, saga, fairy tale, gothic, mystical
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Plot Summary:
The new found married bliss of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world. Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth, Edward finally fulfills her wish to become immortal. But the arrival of their remarkable daughter, Renesmee, sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens and their allies against the Volturi, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all-out battle.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, teen, atmospheric, saga, mystic, psychotronic, fairy tale, gothic, mystical
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DragonHeart (1996)
Plot Summary:
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, epic, cult classic, entertaining, scenic, fantasy adventure, touching, mystical, anamorphic
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Red Riding Hood (2011)
Plot Summary:
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, gothic, dark fantasy, suspenseful, gothic horror, surprise ending, scary, romantic, suspense, stylized
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The 10th Kingdom (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White's grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself from prison, and turns the prince into a golden retriever. Wendel, by means of a magic mirror, escapes into a hitherto-unknown Tenth Kingdom (modern day New York City) and meets Virginia and her father Tony. Pursued by trolls, cops, and a wolf in man's form, the three blunder back into the Nine Kingdoms and begin their adventures to restore Wendel to his human form and throne, and find the magic mirror that will take Tony and Virginia back home, all the while unknowing that Virginia already has a connection to the Nine Kingdoms that may prove deadly before we reach Happily Ever After.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 417 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, scenic, feel good, humorous, colorful, cult classic, epic, dark fantasy, visually appealing
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Once Upon a Time (2011)
Plot Summary:
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 234000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, offbeat, stylized, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious, mysterious, costume drama, mythical
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The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Plot Summary:
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark fantasy, gothic, entertaining, period piece, surreal, visual, exciting, stylized, mystical
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
Plot Summary:
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 215000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting, suspenseful, splatter, action packed, dark, mystical, fantasy adventure, action adventure
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
Plot Summary:
In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, dark fantasy, atmospheric, fairy tale, sexy, teen, gothic, romantic, tense, dark
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The Golden Compass (2007)
Plot Summary:
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, epic, visual, visually stunning, aesthetic, dark fantasy, mystical, spiritual, exciting, atmospheric
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Season of the Witch (2011)
Plot Summary:
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, gothic, gothic horror, dark, suspense, stylized, exciting, scary, serious, brutal
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Plot Summary:
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, colorful, light, entertaining, visually appealing, exciting, mystical, fantasy adventure, mysterious, mystic
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Mirror Mirror (2012)
Plot Summary:
After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White launches an epic battle of good vs. evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, romantic, surreal, absurd, visual, cute, costume drama, aesthetic
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Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Plot Summary:
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 715000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, dark fantasy, heroic, stylized, visually stunning, psychotronic, epic, saga
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Solomon Kane (2009)
Plot Summary:
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, gothic, dark, atmospheric, gothic horror, bleak, exciting, stylized, visually stunning, rough
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Dracula Untold (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 205000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, scary, suspenseful, serious, fairy tale, epic, intense, psychotronic
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Maleficent (2014)
Plot Summary:
The untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the 1959 classic 'Sleeping Beauty'. A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom - and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 395000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, India, Canada, Italy, UK, Zambia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting, captivating, entertaining, visually appealing, romantic, stylized, cute, serious
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Legend of the Seeker (2008)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With the help of a mysterious woman named Kahlan and a wise old wizard named Zedd, he must stop a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, heroic, dark fantasy, feel good, entertaining, humorous, captivating, sweet, mythical
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Plot Summary:
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a young prince whose life has been threatened by the evil King Miraz. Now, with the help of a colorful cast of new characters, including Trufflehunter the badger and Nikabrik the dwarf, the Pevensie clan embarks on an incredible quest to ensure that Narnia is returned to its rightful heir.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 222000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: christian film, fairy tale, epic, feel good, saga, entertaining, spiritual, fantasy adventure, mystical, gothic
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 693000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: epic, breathtaking, heroic, entertaining, dark fantasy, exciting, tense, intense, saga, stylized
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Plot Summary:
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davey Jones, he also attempts to avoid eternal damnation.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 754000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, entertaining, mystical, funny, saga, visually stunning, epic, mystic, costume drama
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Gods of Egypt (2016)
Plot Summary:
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, epic, entertaining, stylized, mystical, romantic, scenic, mystic, costume drama
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The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
Plot Summary:
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, mystical, suspenseful, psychotronic, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, mystic
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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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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Plot Summary:
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 859000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: epic, breathtaking, captivating, exciting, scenic, dark fantasy, epic fantasy, visually stunning, saga, fairy tale
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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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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, stylized, enigmatic, captivating, fantasy adventure, action adventure, light, tense, atmospheric
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Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Plot Summary:
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 329000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, South Korea, Denmark, Canada, UK
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, sweet, touching, period piece, inspirational, costume drama, cute, compassionate, colorful
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
Plot Summary:
A fantasy adventure that picks up several years after Maleficent, in which audiences learned of the events that hardened the heart of Disney’s most notorious villain and drove her to curse a baby Princess Aurora, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil continues to explore the complex relationship between the horned fairy (Angelina Jolie) and the soon to be Queen (Elle Fanning), as they form new alliances and face new adversaries in their struggle to protect the moors and the magical creatures that reside within.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark fantasy, atmospheric, mystical, sincere, touching, captivating, light, emotional, stylized
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Plot Summary:
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 554000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: romantic, exciting, witty, humorous, semi serious, mystical, epic, saga, intense, confusing