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Plot Summary:
An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
Best tv shows and movies like The House That Swift Built (1982):
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Jealous Gods (2017)
Plot Summary:
When three college students get their wishes granted, all hell breaks loose on campus. But after a rowdy week with their new superpowers, one of their classmates gets powers of her own -- including the power to correct all the damage they've done. Or cause far, far worse on her own.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: postmodern
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Crisis (2017)
Plot Summary:
A ghost writer, a piano player and a clerk, three characters united by frustration, who will have to fight to get out of their crises, facing their insecurities, repressions and bad memories in a world of fantasies and mysteries.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Chile
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark fairy tale, anthology, independent film
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Death Takes a Holiday (1971)
Plot Summary:
Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Gracie (2018)
Plot Summary:
2am. As 29 year old suicidal Gracie tries to get up the guts to jump off Waterloo Bridge,17 year old Ellie runs up begging for help, in fear for her life from a Man who's chasing her. Shocked out of her misery, Gracie drags the Ellie to what she believes is the safety of the back streets... But when those after Ellie snatch them both, a dark night begins which changes their lives forever, because, love and light do always conquer, and sometimes in the most surprising way, but come morning will it be enough to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, allegory, fable
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Baober in Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Liu Zhi, a young man, depressed and trapped in a loveless marriage with a dominating girl, meets Baober (an ageless young girl) on a Beijing street one day. They fall in love and start to live a strange, mysterious life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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What Comes Around (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young love affair becomes a menacing game of cat and mouse where nothing is what it seems in this immersive thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark
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Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1980)
Plot Summary:
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic
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Sotto il ristorante cinese (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young man captures the fancy of an inventor's daughter when he passes through a basement door into another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Ten (1971)
Plot Summary:
Musical tale about a struggle between a good Scientist and his evil Shadow.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: allegory, fairy tale
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Desierto en tu mente (2017)
Plot Summary:
Through his frustrations, an obsessed novelist connects with a dimension where a walking girl encounters weird characters in a mysterious urban world, slowly driving to the peaceful nature of the desert. In this trip between light and shadow, hope for finding an inner mental peace will prevail. This movie is characterized for an experimental language, with purposed technical and performing imperfections, wrapped in an organic fantasy effect.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental, underground film, black and white
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Scarlet's Witch (2014)
Plot Summary:
A lonely girl befriend a witch in the woods who has alter motives in this adult fairy tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Magicians (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, sentimental, entertaining, suspense
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Love by Request (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete aimlessly living and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, an ugly duck librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on "psychological conditioning".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, sentimental, touching, humorous
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Parade of the Planets (1984)
Plot Summary:
In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of four men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. The men first get together when called up for military maneuvers in the equivalent of a civilian reserve corps. Since their training is only periodical, two years go by before they are called up again. During this season's maneuvers, they end up being "killed," and so get some time off before they have to go home, and that is when the strange occurrences start. First the men visit a town of beautiful women and go swimming in the buff, then they land on a deserted island, and later, they find themselves with a group of elderly people, one of whom may - or may not - have a connection to one of the men.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neorealism, allegory
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Promised Heaven (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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The Passport (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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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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Cinderella (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Fantasy
Country: West Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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An Ordinary Miracle (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, touching, entertaining, fairy tale, unusual plot structure, surprise ending
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King Thrushbeard (1984)
Plot Summary:
King Thrushbeard.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, fable
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Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (1970)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds of intrigue and treachery.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, folk tale, feel good
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The Castle (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: allegory
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Quasi (2023)
Plot Summary:
A hapless hunchback who only yearns for love, finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the King of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: satirical, slapstick comedy
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Afonya (1975)
Plot Summary:
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, satirical, ironic
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City Zero (1988)
Plot Summary:
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, heartfelt, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Little Mermaid (1976)
Plot Summary:
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Family, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark, psychotronic, beautiful
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Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes (1968)
Plot Summary:
Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, atmospheric, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, folk tale
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How to Wake a Princess (1978)
Plot Summary:
The king Dalimil and the queen Eliska waited to see a longed-for offspring - a daughter Ruzenka. But Eliska's envious and bad sister Melánie curses her. When Ruzenka becomes 17 years old she will prick her finger and she will fall asleep for ages together with the entire kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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Nostalgia (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative, poetic, black and white, visual, mind twisting, emotional