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Plot Summary:
An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka's love, Prince Petr wins out over the witch.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, campy
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The Watermill Princess (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young man Jindrich goes looking for a princess only to find a girl in the country mill.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Rumburak (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wizarding criminal Rumburak, exiled to the Mortal Realm, uses a supercomputer to recreate his lost spell formulas. His software falls into the hands of humans, chaos ensues, and Rumburak suddenly finds himself on the side of good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, urban fantasy
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Vom Fischer und seiner Frau (2013)
Plot Summary:
German North Sea beach fisherman Hein always was happy with his wife Islebils, despite their modest life and poor dwelling. When he spares a rod-caught speaking flounder's life, the grateful enchanted prince promises to grant his wish. Hearing this, Ilsebill urges him to ask for a decent house, which is granted instantly. While Hein generously shares their newfound wealth with neighbor Klaas's penniless family, his wife keeps getting jealous of people in higher stations, urging him against growing reluctance to ask the flounder to be be promoted country squire, king, eventually pope. But as Hein feared, she only transforms into a haughty, unhappy butch abusing even her 'mere husband', and each transformation takes a hefty toll on the marine environment, which ends up inhospitable, causing coast-dwellers to flee.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Devil Knows Why (2003)
Plot Summary:
Fairytale. A good king rules this land, but still things are going from bad to worse. The point is that the greedy Minister of State has an interesting pact with the devil - for bringing the kingdom into a state of dire poverty and the king to hell, he himself would sit on the throne. And he would have been well nigh successful, were it not for Princess Annie, Filip and magic Apolena - because true love cannot be quelled even by the devil's machinations.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale
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The Midsummer Wreath (2015)
Plot Summary:
Princess Verunka's marriage is to save the kingdom, impoverished as a result of its ruler's crazy ideas. She's not hard up for suitors: there's a talented poet, twins - one a general, the other a composer - as well as a mysterious marquis wielding the magic of his mother Morana, the Queen of Death. Could Ondra, an ordinary youth, desiring to become a rafts man on wild waters, stand a chance in competing with them? At first the game is about Verunka's hand in marriage, but later on the lives of all the kingdom's inhabitants are at stake. This time the path to a happy end will have many curves and turns. But there's also a small wreath floating on the river surface, and carrying a message of love, plus the king's latest invention - so that the end may be happy after all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, light, feel good, humorous
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It Is Hell with the Princess (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fairy-tale comedy about a hard-headed princess (Tereza Voriskova) and obstinate prince (Jirí Mádl) whose royal machinations draw the ire of Lucifer himself. What happens when the royal heirs refuse to marry? Will there be a wedding or a war?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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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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Allerleirauh (2012)
Plot Summary:
Maddened by grief over his late queen, king Tobald decides to wed their only daughter Lotte, the only female resembling her. Having failed to put him off by exorbitant demands, she puts on the unique cloak made of all fur types in the realm and flees over the border, carrying only her mother's three-party golden seduction kit and the king's miniaturized gifts while posing as a poor girl. Hunting, king Jacob finds her and orders her into court chef Mathis's scullery. He appreciates her zeal and culinary talents, helping him put the best dishes ever before the king, who is determined to find out about the gastronomic phenomenon, yet she makes that difficult.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, costume drama
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Sleeping Beauty (2009)
Plot Summary:
Raised on a farm, energetic fearless Fynn is eager to be join uncle August in the royal castle as apprentice in the stables. He's quickly humiliated having inadvertently dared prince Eric to sword sparring, but gets discrete lessons from his surprisingly able kin. Like many high aristocrats around, Eric boldly sets out to win a princess's hand and royal crown in a century-long enchanted castle, but is fatally defeated by its impenetrable envelop of thorny vines. Having learned more from August about the curse, Fynn also has a go, but differently and with better results.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Devil's Bride (2011)
Plot Summary:
Young Stepan saves his beloved princess Stepanka to marry Lucifer due to the promise her parents, the King and the Queen, did to the Evil as reword for the help he provided to the Queen to get pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing
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Rapunzel (2009)
Plot Summary:
A poor farmer and his wife are expecting a child at last. But after eating rampion , which she got from a sorceress, the mother developed an addiction to the rampion, which can only get from the garden of the sorceress of the father. He steals in his distress the rampion, as the sorceress does not seem to be there. But they caught him and leaves him only to take the corn salad, as he promises her his child. After the birth of his daughter, the sorceress brings the child and calls it Rapunzel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The Magic Quill (2018)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale, featuring the landlady Margaret, the devil Boniface, the bribable councilors Fake and Chatterbox and the lazy tailor Greasy. In Hell, the devils have a quill that writes human sins into the Book of Sins and the devils go and pull the sinners down to Helll. One day, Boniface goes on Earth, Greasy the Tailor steals the quill from him. The Devils back in Hell think nobody is sinning and everything is all topsy-turvy. Boniface admits to Margaret that he is responsible for the whole mess. Together, they not only save the town of Pytlov from destruction, but Boniface learns what true love is.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, fairy tale, allegory, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dívka na koštěti or The Girl on the Broomstick is a 1972 Czechoslovak fantasy-comedy film directed by Václav Vorlíček. It tells a story of a teenage witch, Saxana (played by Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, who finds herself in a modern world. A sequel was released in 2011 - Saxána a Lexikon Kouzel.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction, urban fantasy, neo screwball comedy, teen comedy, campy, cult film
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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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Queen of the Lake (1998)
Plot Summary:
Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder. She is dumb and can't explain her origin. He falls immediately for her. The girl quickly recovers, but disappears mysteriously.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, freeze frame
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Crown Prince (2015)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the Forbidden Forest lives a wicked sorcerer Kruciatus (Josef Abrhám). One hundred years ago he tried to destroy a kingdom now ruled by King Alexander (Jaromír Hanzlík), who has two sons - the heir of the throne Prince Jan (Patrik Dergel) and the younger Prince Karel (Krystof Hádek). Karel is not satisfied with his role of the underrated second-placer. With the help of his servant Pakosta (Pavel Kríz), he breaks into the forbidden chamber full of magical properties, remaining there after the evil wizard, and intends to destroy his brother in order to get the throne for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, crying, psychotronic
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Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
Plot Summary:
29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Zambia, UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, dramatic, fairy tale, satirical, saga, dark comedy, spooky, dark
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The True Knight (2016)
Plot Summary:
The king is returning from war - and awaiting him at home is a great surprise: he has a son - though one a bit different than the king - a true knight - had expected. He loves music and literature, and is the very opposite of his father.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, humorous, captivating, psychotronic
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Crazy Kingdom (2016)
Plot Summary:
By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that everyone has a chance to mend his ways. However, sometimes even the best intentions need to take a pretty long way round to be achieved... Funny fairy tale full of action, excitement, fun, magic but also love.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: fairy tale, crying, psychotronic
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The Snow Queen (1986)
Plot Summary:
A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, uplifting, sweet, surreal, cute, whimsical
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The Salt Prince (1983)
Plot Summary:
A fairy-tale about the power of love. The old king Pravoslav feels it is time to entrust the rule over his kingdom to one of his three daughters - the one that loves him the most. The youngest, Maruška, fails her father's expectations about proving how deep her love him is. He misunderstands her and she is made to leave the castle. She faces many dangers on the way to her loved one, the Salt Prince.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Immortal Woman (1993)
Plot Summary:
The filmed fairy-tale is a comedy based on the classical story about Reason and Happiness. This enchanting couple is ever debating on which of the two is more important for mankind, their encounters are watched by the third fairy-tale figure aunt Envy. A story of true love that wins over the evil powers of immortal human envy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, campy
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The Prince and the Evening Star (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young Prince Velen , who is left in charge of the castle and his three sisters. During the night he has a visitation and before he knows it, all his sisters are married off and gone away, and himself falls in love with beautiful Večernice.Now he is faced with the King's wraths and charged with a quest. The journey, however, hides obstacles and danger; not only treacherous merchants and robbers, but also a evil wizard Mrakomor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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The Third Prince (1983)
Plot Summary:
Brave sons of the king, twin brothers Jaroslav and Jaromír love and help each other. It was they and another brother - Jindrich, who once saw the portrait of Princess of Diamond Mountains, fell in love and went on her quest.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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The Incredibly Sad Princess (1968)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, cult film
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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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Fuchsia the Mini-Witch (2010)
Plot Summary:
Great adventures can hatch from the smallest eggs. Fucsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and so is pleased as punch when she is allowed to go to witches' school. There, Fucsia learns to make wind and conjures with the clouds. But her magic often has unexpected results, however, as she is sometimes that little bit too ambitious.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, mystic
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The Little Witch (2018)
Plot Summary:
The little witch really wants to dance with the other witches in the Walpurgis night, but she is only 127 years old and thus far too young for it. She tries to secretly sneak into the party but is caught doing so, and as a punishment, she has to learn all the spells from the great magical book in just one year. This proves to be more difficult than she first thought, since there are some adversities: The evil witch Rumpumpel wants to stop her from doing so and the little witch is not very diligent. So she tries to find easier way, along with her speaking raven Abraxas, to prove herself as a good witch, and thus provides a lot of excitement in the witch world.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, captivating, exciting, colorful, entertaining, enigmatic, colourful
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Princess Lost in Time (2020)
Plot Summary:
Every day princess Elen wakes up to her birthday celebrations knowing that she must kill the evil witch who cursed her or find a true love. In case she didn't make it, the kingdom will be destroyed by dark storm, as it already had happened multiple times. Luckily, the princess is protected by a magical mark which she was given by court alchemist. However, will she be able to persuade her friends, break the strong warding spells and defeat the powerful witch? The mark weakens and is unluckily revealed and destroyed by the witch. Princess has got one last chance to save herself and the kingdom. Her friends are willing to sacrifice everything but why should they be successful right now? Well, maybe destroying the witch is not the only way and the princess will have to sacrifice much more.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, light, feel good, crying
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Cinderella (2021)
Plot Summary:
A modern reimagining of the traditional tale of the orphaned girl with an evil stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, inspirational, captivating, psychological, sincere, touching, feel good, costume drama, anamorphic, visual