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Plot Summary:
Zack doesn't have your ordinary adolescent problems. Transported back in time to medieval England, he lands in the middle of a vicious battle between an evil witch and Merlin, the master sorcerer, for control of Arthur's kingdom. It's up to Zack to help Merlin and Arthur reclaim the magic sword Excalibur and return Arthur to his rightful place on the throne.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: arthurian
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Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997)
Plot Summary:
Le grand sorcier Merlin apprend que Wolvencroft, mage diabolique et maître des forces obscures est de retour et bien décidé à détrôner le Roi Arthur en traversant le temps. Alerté, Sir Lancelot, décide d'emprunter le couloir du temps à la poursuite du mage maléfique pour l'empêcher de mettre à exécution ses plans diaboliques.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: arthurian
Similar in 87%
Merlin (1993)
Plot Summary:
A modern-day retelling of the Arthurian legend with the Lady of the Lake as a reporter and Pendragon as an evil businessman. Merlin's immortal apprentice is trying to protect a powerful sword forged by Merin from the clutches of Pendragon.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, Slovakia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: arthurian, independent film
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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (2017)
Plot Summary:
In medieval England, Merlin and King Arthur banish the evil enchantress Morgana and her son Mordred to the ends of the universe as Morgana vows revenge. In present day, Knights descendant Penn doesn't take much stock in the legends of his supposed ancestors, even as the descendants meet in Thailand to practice fighting. But when Morgana and her son return to earth, armed with alien technology and hell-bent on destroying every last descendant of King Arthur and his knights, Penn must to come to terms with who he was born to be, and bring together the new Knights of the Round Table to save themselves and the earth from Morgana's total vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, arthurian
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Avalon (1989)
Plot Summary:
The adventure begins when Owen, a travelling swordsman, rescues a woman from some Druids. He offers to help track down her lover who has been enslaved by the evil Morgana. They set off on their quest, accompanied by Keiran, a cowardly thief.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gawain and the Green Knight (1991)
Plot Summary:
One Christmas, a knight garbed all in green appears in King Arthur's Court and challenges any knight to hew off his head on the proviso that he be allowed to return the axe stroke afterwards. All of King Arthur's other knights being frightened, Sir Gawain takes up the challenge and hacks off the green knight's head. The green knight then gives Gawain a year to find his home and live a little before the cut is returned.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: arthurian
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Teen Knight (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young teenager wins a contest for a "Medeval Adventure" from a soda company. The winners, plus a film crew from the soda company arrive at the castle for the adventure. During the night, a spell cast over 600 years prior brings the castle and all the people in it back to 1383. The evil Lord Drakin plans on retrying to take the castle. It is up to the group to stop him, and thereby return to the 20th century. They enlist the help of the former court magician, Percival, to help them.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this light-hearted fantasy, a talented young magician stumbles across an unusual ring and ends up in Camelot before King Arthur. It turns out the ring belongs to none other than Merlin.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Stronghold (2017)
Plot Summary:
A solar eclipse activates a magic time portal, and a regular schoolboy Vit'ko from the 21st century goes a thousand years back in time. It doesn’t take Vitya long to recognize the legendary bogatyrs in young Oleshko, powerful Ilya and severe Dobrynya. Their life passes in fighting cumans who try to destroy Rusichi at any cost, using both weapons and black magic. Vitya finds himself in the very midst of incredible events, battles with mythical creatures and acquires real courage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, stylized, atmospheric
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King Arthur: Excalibur Rising (2017)
Plot Summary:
A re-imagining of the Arthurian legend centered around Arthur's illegitimate son Owain who must learn to take up his father's mantle as king.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: epic, arthurian, exciting, entertaining, action adventure
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The Exotic Time Machine II: Forbidden Encounters (2000)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to protect their time-traveling program, chuck and Melissa must travel the timeline to plant special beacons which will sabotage any effort to steal technology. Along the way our travelers meet and "mingle" with some of history's most famous characters. A hilarious encounter with the 1960's era hippy sisters Trippy and Moonbeam will leave you feeling groovy. History class was never this much fun!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, sensual
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Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
Plot Summary:
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: arthurian, exciting, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, folk tale
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Arthur & Merlin (2015)
Plot Summary:
In dark ages Britain, a time of magic and legend, a powerful druid is bent on destroying the Celtic people. Arthur, a banished warrior, and Merlin, a hermit wizard, embark on a heroic quest to stop the druid and save their people, before the Celts are lost forever and become a myth themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, captivating, stylized, semi serious, costume drama, arthurian
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Arthur the King (1983)
Plot Summary:
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunately falls in love with her. Forbidden love, revenge, family rivalry, and magic are all prominent themes.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, arthurian, exciting, semi serious
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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 Magic Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
A magic Troll aims to defeat the Black Witch and find the magic door that will lead him home with the help of the Elf Flip, and the Boy Liam.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, feel good, exciting, stylized
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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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Warriors of Virtue (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Ryan, suffering from a disability, wishes to join the other kids from his schools football team. During an initiation rite, Ryan is swept away through a whirlpool to the land of Tao. There he is hunted by the evil Lord Komodo, who desires the boy as a key to enter the real world. Ryan is rescued by the protectors of Tao, five humanoid kangaroos, each embued with the five elements and virtues. Ryan learns his valuable lesson while saving the land of Tao.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China, Canada
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: stylized, disgusting, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, unusual plot structure, melancholic, surreal, visually appealing
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Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Chapter 1, Planet of the Dino-Knights (1995)
Plot Summary:
Josh Kirby Time Warrior Chapter 1 Planet of the Dino-Knights: In the 25th century mankind has found a device capable of destroying the universe. Irwin 1138 separates the Nullifier into 6 pieces which he scatters throughout time. When the evil Dr. Zoetrope goes after the pieces, Irwin 1138 must try to stop him, with the help of a 20th century teenager, Josh Kirby, and a half-human warrior named Azabeth Siege. The race is on.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Camelot through a crack in the ground caused by an earthquake. Once there, he learns he was summoned by the wizard Merlin, who needs Calvin to save Camelot. Using dazzling modern inventions, can Calvin help King Arthur retain his crown and thwart the evil Lord Belasco?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: arthurian, epic, period piece, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, slapstick comedy, epic fantasy, light
Similar in 79%
A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Plot Summary:
A modern riff of the 1889 novel by Mark Twain.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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
Similar in 76%
Merlin's Apprentice (2006)
Plot Summary:
The great sorcerer Merlin has returned to Camelot, a kingdom now vulnerable to ill fates and war since the theft of the Holy Grail, its greatest gift and protection. With the help of Jack, an irascible young beggar-thief imbued with his own unruly magic, the fight against unknown dangers begins-to find the Grail, restore it to its rightful place, and bring Camelot back to its glory days.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, semi serious, arthurian, exciting, fairy tale, epic, costume drama, offbeat, vintage
Similar in 90%
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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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989)
Plot Summary:
After a horse accident, Karen wakes up to find herself in past Britain, close to Camelot, the famous castle of King Arthur.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, witty, semi serious
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Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
Plot Summary:
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande and enemies with the awful knight Sir Nordred. It seems Nordred is out to oust Arthur, while Alisande's father is not the goose she believes him to be but is also a victim of Nordred's schemes. It's as well the Americans have arrived.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: arthurian, feel good, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
Plot Summary:
Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, arthurian, epic, grindhouse, exciting, serious, stylized, independent film, weird, cult film
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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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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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Black Knight (2001)
Plot Summary:
Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, hilarious, funny, parody, entertaining, light, slapstick, captivating, sweet
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Excalibur (1981)
Plot Summary:
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, epic, exciting, serious, stylized, scenic, dark fantasy, intense, cult classic, arthurian