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Plot Summary:
Sent on a quest to rescue a princess, four clueless players must guide their players through dangerous forests, ancient ruins, and past the girl next door.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, parody, independent film, offbeat
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Dave Made a Maze (2017)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated artist gets lost inside the cardboard fort he builds in his living room.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, horror comedy, exciting, humorous, captivating, psychological, funny, slasher, avant garde, dark comedy
Similar in 76%
Cineman (2009)
Plot Summary:
A maths teacher acquires the power to travel into movies to save the woman of his dreams and bring her back to her correct film.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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1½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, ironic, absurd, exciting, realistic, semi serious, idiotic
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The Phantom Empire (1987)
Plot Summary:
When a man-eating cave creature appears with a fortune in uncut diamonds around his neck, Dr. Chambers' daughter Denae hires adventurers C & C Salvage to find the underground source of the gems. Accompanied by archeaological intern Andrew Paris, mineralogist Prof. Strock, and C&C's scruffy owners Cort Eastman and Eddy Colchilde, Denea's hopes of emerging from her famous father's shadow become as remote as getting out of the caves alive!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, weird
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Cromartie High School: The Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a good student named Kamiyama gets placed in a high school filled with disobedient kids, he steps up to the plate and takes a position of leadership. Urging the young slackers and rebels to clean up their act, Kamiyama is in store for a lot of resistance.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, surreal, semi serious, anime, exciting, offbeat
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Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991)
Plot Summary:
Ulric's daughter unites with warrior Thane against evil Lord Khoura, who covets the knife of Aktar.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody, campy
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The Bunny Guards (2002)
Plot Summary:
A couple of slackers find an antique dagger and manage to free the gorgeous female warrior was imprisoned in it by an evil spell. An evil sorcerer is not happy by this turn of events and determines to possess both the blade and the warrior through a sacrificial ceremony. The two heroes manage to rescue the damsel in distress and defeat the wizard and his minions by employing skills mastered through hours of video game play.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, exciting, offbeat
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GamerZ (2005)
Plot Summary:
A quirky love triangle comedy set in Glasgow in the weird, wonderful world of fantasy role-playing games.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: semi serious, futuristic, captivating, offbeat, humorous, gothic, teen comedy
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Rise of the Fellowship (2013)
Plot Summary:
Randall Dooley is a geek. His three best friends are geeks too. He works in a game shop, he spends all his free time playing online games, his older brother bullies him unmercifully, his.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, spoof
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The Last Dragonslayer (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a fantasy world where magic is being superceded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her destiny to become a dragonslayer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, awful
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Spy Intervention (2020)
Plot Summary:
When the world's greatest spy meets the woman of his dreams, he abandons his adventurous existence and settles into the security of suburbia.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, exciting, light, feel good, humorous, absurd
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Mantecoza (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of office drone Sebastian King's tongue-in-cheek adventures in the magically steampunk world of Mantecoza. Using the magical ring and a magical word, Sebastian travels between worlds, trying to save both from the evil machinations of Lord Barr.
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Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Magic to Win (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nobody knows that Professor Hong Sum Kwai is actually the Water Magician, one of the five elemental wizards. One day, Hong accidentally loses his magical powers, which are transferred to his student Cheng Meisi. The girl happily uses the superhuman abilities she acquired by luck in life, at school, and on the volleyball court, but those powers also land her in trouble as a war of wizardry rages around her... Fire Magician Bi Yewu is desperate to turn back time to change a tragedy in the past, but to do so he needs to bring together the powers of all five elemental wizards. Wood Magician Gu Xinyue foresees catastrophe if time is warped, so he alerts the other wizards - including Earth Magician Ling Feng and Metal Magician Charlie - to join forces and prevent it from happening.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer (2010)
Plot Summary:
Arthur unwittingly discovers the secret to stopping an evil dragon who threatens to destroy all civilization.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, exciting, light
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A Talking Pony!?! (2013)
Plot Summary:
16 year old JULIET BELLO lives on a ranch with her stepmother KIM and two irritating stepbrothers, CRAIG and PETE. Since her father died the ranch has been going downhill, until in desperation Kim has to entertain the offer from businessman MONTGOMERY BEETLE or else face foreclosure. But Juliet thinks she has a secret that could keep the ranch open: her horse, HORATIO, can talk!.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, parody, light, captivating, offbeat, independent film, spoof, cult 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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Girl Vs. Monster (2012)
Plot Summary:
Skylar finds out that her parents are monster hunters after she accidentally releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber; so she and her techno friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom and dad from these monsters who are out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, parody, scenic, teen, spooky, spoof
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Seven Dwarfs (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Seven Dwarves live deep within a female-free-zone of the Enchanted Forest, but they cannot resist the innocent charms of Snow White when she enters their world. So when the evil queen abducts her, it is up to the dwarves to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, parody, not serious, offbeat
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I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Plot Summary:
15 year old Brendan Willy hates himself for being un-cool when he falls in love with the girl of his dreams. Enter Mr. Five, a no good tempter from hell, which in his last attempt to ensnare a soul before being fried for eternity, transforms Brendan into the coolest kid in Indiana, only to find out that this contract isn't going to be easy at all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat
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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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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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Erik the Viking (1989)
Plot Summary:
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, surreal, stylized, visual, cult classic, visually stunning, parody, humorous, retro, spoof
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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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Gagamboy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gagamboy (Spiderboy) is -you guessed it- Spiderman parody. both the main villain and Spiderboy gain their powers by eating radioactive bugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, exciting, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, witty, stylized, semi serious, spoof
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Veritas, Prince of Truth (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kern has to fight an evil menace that could destroy the earth when Veritas, his favorite comic book hero, comes to life and seeks his help.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA, UK, Puerto Rico, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, offbeat, humorous, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic
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Quest of the Delta Knights (1993)
Plot Summary:
A secret society, the Delta Knights, attempts to save a medieval society from the evil over-lady.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, independent film, psychotronic
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Jabberwocky (1977)
Plot Summary:
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, talky, exciting, surreal, cult classic, stylized, not serious, spoof, sexy
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The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008)
Plot Summary:
All Lodge wants is for his gaming group to finish their adventure. Unfortunately, they're more interested in seducing barmaids, mooning their enemies, and setting random villagers on fire. Desperate to rein in his players, Lodge injects two newbies into the party: a non-player character controlled by Lodge, who the power gamers immediately distrust, and the rarest gamer of all -- a girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: parody, talky, stylized, humorous, entertaining, exciting, semi serious, funny, light, atmospheric
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Knights of Badassdom (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three best friends and dedicated roleplayers take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario as a live action role-playing game. Trouble arises when a prop spellbook purchased from the internet ends up being a genuine grimoire and they unwittingly conjure up a blood-lusting succubus from hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, satirical, semi serious, horror comedy, entertaining, psychological, funny, creepy, offbeat
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Your Highness (2011)
Plot Summary:
A fantasy movie about an arrogant, lazy prince and his more heroic brother who must complete a quest in order to save their father's kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, humorous, not serious, satirical, spoof, exciting, slapstick, cult classic, psychotronic