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Plot Summary:
Soviet television movie adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy novel "The Hobbit".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like The Fantastic Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit (1985):
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The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in their late Grandfather's country cottage with no TV, Anthea, Robert and Chris are resigned to a boring week until they find a mouldy old carpet and a strange golden egg. But when the egg accidentally falls into the bonfire, it hatches into the mythical firebird, the Gloden Phoenix. So begins an amazing journey and the adventure of a lifetime, as the Phoenix takes them to a land of enchantment, magic and fantasy - via a magic flying carpet. Written by L.H. Wong.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Three Fat Men (1966)
Plot Summary:
Based on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Earthly and Heavenly Adventures (1974)
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Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags:
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The City of Masters (1966)
Plot Summary:
After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Prince and the Pauper (1972)
Plot Summary:
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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The Sannikov Land (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Adventure
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: ethnographical
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Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young boy is taught to use his imagination by his grandfather who casts him in a great adventure back in time. Using a magic coin, he enters the medieval world of Sinbad, who must rescue a beautiful princess from the clutches of an evil knight.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
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Karik and Valya's Remarkable Adventures (1987)
Plot Summary:
Is so happened that Karik and Valya, the main characters, remarkably shrank in size, their whole habitual world acquiring unusual contours and unusual features.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
Plot Summary:
Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, sentimental, light
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To Kill a Dragon (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, unusual plot structure, allegory
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)
Plot Summary:
A fairytale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Dragonworld: The Legend Continues (1999)
Plot Summary:
Yowler, the last dragon on Earth is in terrible danger. His arch enemy, the Dark Knight, has returned. Only young John McGowen can save him.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Moscow: Cassiopea (1974)
Plot Summary:
Start of nterstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Lilac Ball (1988)
Plot Summary:
Alisa Seleznyova and her father professor Seleznyov are traveling in space. They meet their old friend archaeologist Gromozeka, who's just discovered a planet all inhabitants of which died. It became known that they discovered a virus of hostility, got infected and killed each other. Gromozeka also discovered that they had left the virus on Earth 26000 years ago, and the virus is about to become loose. The only chance to save the Earth is to travel 26000 years back in time - to the epoch when witches, dragons and magicians lived along with usual people.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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The Hobgoblin (1990)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time a god gave a mighty sword to the king of Aquiles to bring justice to his people. Now he wants it back - but the king rather gives his life than the sword. Goddess Dehamira, who spoke for him, is being taken all her privileges and banned in a circle of fire, until a human arrives who's strong enough to free her. When prince Ator becomes 18, he gets the sword from the mean sorcerer gnome Grindl, to free Dehamira and his people. On his journey he has to fight against dragons and other fantastic figures.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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The Kingdom of False Mirrors (1963)
Plot Summary:
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, stylized, light, atmospheric, captivating, entertaining, colorful, humorous, serious, psychedelic
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After the Rain, on Thursday (1986)
Plot Summary:
A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, humorous, captivating
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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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The Hobbits (1993)
Plot Summary:
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings told from the perspective of Frodo and Sam.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Fantasy, Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags:
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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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Striped Trip (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear, and the monkey takes over the captain's post. The ship gets under total control by the tigers and lions. Only one lady is standing up to the challenge. Her name is Marianna, she loves animals, and she takes the situation under control.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sweet, romantic, humorous, exciting, feel good, captivating, road movie
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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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Eragon (2006)
Plot Summary:
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, mythical, serious, epic, captivating, semi serious, mystical, educational, fantasy adventure
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Plot Summary:
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, teen, fairy tale, psychotronic, mystical, mystic
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths -- and about the villain who's to blame.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 837000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, scenic, teen, saga, mystic, visually appealing, fantasy adventure
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Plot Summary:
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 164000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: visually appealing, captivating, fairy tale, epic, entertaining, scenic, exciting, serious, christian film, spiritual
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 302000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: mysterious, dark fantasy, breathtaking, atmospheric, exciting, saga, mystical, fairy tale, mystic, fantasy adventure
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 561000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, serious, scenic, stylized, saga, visually appealing, fantasy adventure
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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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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