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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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Body & Earth (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of the first woman on earth, as she journeys through mythical landscapes in search of her soul-mate.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, silent, silent film
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Long Live the Queen (1995)
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 Stolen Airship (1967)
Plot Summary:
The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic
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The Little Unicorn (2001)
Plot Summary:
Polly Regan (Brittney Bomann) has a good life on the farm with her grandfather (David Warner, Time Bandits). Unfortunately, one day Polly learns that her favorite mare is suffering with a difficult pregnancy and soon dies giving birth. Heartbroken, Polly finally comes around when she sees the new foal, who incredibly is born a real live unicorn, and soon earns the love of Polly and her grandfather.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mystical, mythical
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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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Nemo (1984)
Plot Summary:
Based on Windsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, independent film
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The Last One Will Go to Hell (1982)
Plot Summary:
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child heroes who find themselves in great dangers. We are in the year 1611 and mercenaries that had previously invaded Czech lands now have to withdraw before the Hungarian king's army. In this chaos a magical bottle, that fulfills the owner one single wish, appears among some fugitives - however after the fulfillment it has to be sold for half it's price to a new owner. The director Ludvík Ráža has created an attractive and surprisingly cruel film aimed not only at young viewers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark fantasy, psychotronic, freeze frame
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The Prince Beyond the Seven Seas (1982)
Plot Summary:
The merchant's daughter Constanze, begs her father to ask a lion for a favor. Her father approaches the lion who agrees to his request with one condition: that he send the first person he meets upon his return home to the lion's den. It is Constanze. Against her father's will she goes to the lion and discovers that he is an enchanged prince and that only a woman's love can release him from the spell.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Into the West (1992)
Plot Summary:
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, crying, fairy tale, touching, feel good, semi serious, independent film, light, inspirational, road movie
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Magic in the Water (1995)
Plot Summary:
Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact, Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad, and help stop local polluters who are dumping toxic waste.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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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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Kingdom 2: Far and Away (2022)
Plot Summary:
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags:
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Dragon Ball: Fight Son Ogong, Win Son Ogong (1990)
Plot Summary:
The young warrior Son Ogong (Son Goku) goes on a outrageous quest to acquire seven magical orbs, along the way beating up evil persons who want to steal the orbs for their own ends.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: manga, parody, anime
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In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Plot Summary:
In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Lowell S, Hawley based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: entertaining, scenic, exciting, sweet, witty, humorous, semi serious, juvenile, fairy tale, clever
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021)
Plot Summary:
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, anime
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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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Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2015)
Plot Summary:
An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, inspirational, touching, feel good
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Reisen til julestjernen (1976)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time a little girl went out to find the Christmas Star.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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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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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 Legend of Galgameth (1996)
Plot Summary:
The kingdom of Donnegold is being subverted from within, and young prince Davin must defend against the traitors with the help of a legendary, metal-eating dragon called Galgameth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, daikaiju, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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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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Crystalstone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Deserted by their father and with their mother dead, nine-year-old Pablo and his little sister Maria refuse to be separated from each other by their caretaker aunt. With a cross as their guide, they embark on a perilous, but ultimately rewarding adventure in search of a mystical gem that holds the key to happiness. They escape the fearsome metal hook of a pirate and are helped by a delightfully drunken Captain in their quest for the magic stone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, touching, semi serious
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The Great Yokai War (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great spirit war, where he meets a group of friendly spirits who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the spirits from oppression. The creatures and ghosts are taken directly from Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing. Written by Seikima.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, manga, surreal, anime, shoujo
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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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Nim's Island (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, scenic, captivating, fairy tale, sad, light, colorful, touching, humorous, realistic
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Christmas ...Again?! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rowena "Ro" is a high-spirited 11-year-old hoping to add more spunk to her Christmas celebrations when her parents’ divorce is going anything but smoothly.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed, and the niece and nephew and the gnomes have to find him and free him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, sentimental, funny, light, romantic, clever
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Journey to the Christmas Star (2012)
Plot Summary:
13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died of a broken heart, leaving the shattered King all on his own. From that day on, the King cursed the Christmas Star, thereby causing darkness and grief to descend upon the land. However, an old sage has revealed that Goldhair is still alive, and will return only if the King finds the way back to the Christmas Star. Ever since, the King has been searching for the Christmas Star every Christmas, but all in vain.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, mysterious, serious, atmospheric, inspirational, exciting
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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