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Plot Summary:
In 1988, in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, an 11-years-old boy is worried for his grandmother's life. Worn out by illness, the old storyteller tries to convince her grandson that Death no longer exists. Her story will bring back to life the extraordinary people from the village in 1927 who, by using rocambolesque tricks, will eliminate Death that threatens them. From now on, Death will coincide with the birth of legends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
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Gorchlach: The Legend of Cordelia (2016)
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Ancient esoteric artefact of Celtic origin, witnessed of the passing of the ages between the mountains and fulcrum of the articulated plot, the Gorchlach will lead the two protagonists Guglielmo Corsaris (Federico Mariotti) and Rachel Blackwood (Alice Lussiana Parente) into a journey that will take them to discover secrets hidden for centuries and only considered as legends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 45 min
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Sorcery (2023)
Plot Summary:
Chiloé Island, 1880. Rosa Raín is a Huilliche girl who, after the murder of her father at the hands of German settlers, seeks justice with Mateo, leader of an organization of sorcerers called “La Recta Provincia”.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Mexico, Germany, Chile
Duration: 100 min
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Tales from the Neverending Story: The Beginning (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Childlike Empress lies in limbo between life and death and the only hope for her kingdom lies in the ability of a young boy to transcend the boundaries of fantasy in this tale of myth and magic that is certain to capture the imagination. As young Bastian opens the pages of "The Neverending Story," he learns that the Childlike Princess is near death and Fantasia is in danger of falling prey to the Dark Princess Xayide. Soon falling through the written page and into a world beyond his wildest imagination, Bastian's alter ego Atreyu must enlist the help of his trusty sidekick Fly Girl and mischievous hucksters Rip Rowdy and Wexlerian if there is any hope of unlocking the mystery of the Southern Oracle and awakening the Childlike Empress to bring order back to Fantasia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
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Madam White Snake (1962)
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This Classic Seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers' backs. The Lovely Linda Lin Dai (Les Belles, The Kingdom And The Beauty) and margaret Tu Chuan (The Dream of The Red Chamber) play the two sister serpents, Pak Su-cheng and Ching Ching. Su-cheng meets Hsu Hsien (Chao Lei) one day and recognizes him as her savior in another life 1,000 years ago. She marries him to reward him but the snake-human union brings about problems beyond imagination.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
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Water Monster (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shui Sheng witnessed his father being killed by the "water monkey" monster when he was young. Ten years later, the water monster reappeared and killed the younger brother and father of the heroine Xiang Lan. In order to save her, Shui Sheng launched a fierce battle to break feudal superstitions and to catch the water monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 78 min
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Iaga (2015)
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Iaga secretly exposes the marriage between Desdemona and Othella, but when the marriage is accepted by Venetian nobility, Iaga plots to drive a wedge between Othella and Desdemona using handsome Cassio as her pawn.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
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Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Pound (1970)
Plot Summary:
In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: controversial, grindhouse, offbeat, experimental, surreal, semi serious, biting, underground film, suspense
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Cinderella: After Ever After (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min
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Rapunzel: A Princess Frozen in Time (2019)
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In this modern adaptation of Rapunzel, a young girl who has lived her entire life in a room catered by her mother, the infamous scientist Dr. Gothen, must come to terms with her reality in order to expand her horizons.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, dramatic
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At Night All the Cats Are Black (2022)
Plot Summary:
A crew is shooting a libertine costume film in the countryside when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigates, the film shoot continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director’s lover, follows a promise and reaches the Mexican Pacific.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: avant garde, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Otherworld (2016)
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The Otherworld is an original story and mystical tale inspired by Celtic mythology and Irish legends. One of the most fascinating characters in Celtic mythology, the Warrior Lugh, crosses Woodland heading to Tara to join the court of King Nuada and the Tuatha De Danann. Nuada and his kingdom are at this time oppressed by the Fomorian tribe, and trying to retaliate for their land and freedom. During Lugh's travel, he is bewitched by a faerie (Immrama) to a Beltane celebration, when the line between the human and fairy world are vulnerable and Lugh crosses unaware to The Otherworld - the fairy realm. Lugh and Immrama fall in love. However, they live in different times and worlds.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Kicking Blood (2021)
Plot Summary:
A female vampire is inspired to kick blood and become human again when she inadvertently helps a charming alcoholic become clean. The only problem is, withdrawal could kill her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Shadowland: The Legend (2012)
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Frank (12) and his sister Caroline (16) arrive in mythical Attic Town in Shadowland, where the Great Syndicate is ruling and robbing citizens. An army of Shadows kidnaps anyone out after dark and the Patrolling Thieves make the daylight miserable for everyone. Attic Town is a place where the streets have no names and there is no turning back. Not realizing that they shifted in space and time, Frank and Caroline part, looking for directions. Wandering the streets, the boy meets Donlore, a young Patrolling Thief, and trusts this somewhat shadowy figure despite his first instincts. Caroline finds herself on a farm outside of town. She soon sets on a journey to find her brother and help him realize his mistake. She has to find him before dark. When the night falls, he will remain one of the dark rulers forever and there will be no way back. In the meantime, the underground opposition of Attic Town begins to revolt.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, stylized, humorous
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The Wizard of Stone Mountain (2011)
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Determined to win the respect of his people and the love of his life, Teela; Malik, The Wizard of Stone Mountain, makes a bargain with a demon to wield great power. It is up to the heroic warriors to save Malik from himself when the demon takes control and claims Malik's soul!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anime
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The Dwarves of Demrel (2018)
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In this steampunk fantasy adventure, a collapse imprisons three dwarven miners who must now work collectively to combat starvation, despair, and a mysterious creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Red Venom Kills (2017)
Plot Summary:
Alluring young Scarlet Silk is a vengeful hooker gone crazy after her parents murder, and being stabbed several times. The audacious naughty teen changes her destiny near death by discovering a mysterious crate from the Amazon jungle left behind by her mother that has two mystical bottles of red venom; one that heals, and the other that poisons. Scarlet then transcends herself into becoming the deadliest predator in the jungle, as her mission is to inject her poisonous venom into the diabolical underworld queen Dark Widow.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse, comic
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Dark Moon Rising (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of shape-shifting werewolves descend upon a small town in search of a girl who is re-born once every 2000 years. She holds the key to their survival and all will die who stand in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating
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Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow follows a family who goes on a hunt for a Bigfoot-like creature called the Howling Hoodoo during a visit to the house of their kooky aunt (played by Last Man on Earth’s Mary Steenburgen). The Howling Hoodoo itself is difficult to find, but they come across some other monsters in the woods that they didn’t even know they were looking for.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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The Frog Prince (1991)
Plot Summary:
German/Czechoslovakian depiction of the famous fairy tale 'The Frog Prince', by the Brothers Grimm. When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang, and a young prince refuses to give up all his vices and mischief, an aquaphobic fairy takes their fate into her hands. The princess then falls in love with the prince, who declares eternal fidelity to her. When he however breaks this promise, the fairy turns him into a frog. With which the loyalty of the princess is being tested as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, fable
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Marker (2005)
Plot Summary:
In an isolated small town in the Pacific Northwest, Sylvia's teenaged life of juggling two boyfriends and an overprotective father is turned upside down when she discovers she has a bizarre virus which has randomly plagued the women in her community for decades and shamefully forced those afflicted into hiding. Sylvia undergoes a horrifying physical transformation, and she finds herself drawn into a persecuted underworld where she begins an astonishing journey of freakish self-discovery. Marker is a classic coming-of-age tale with a horror twist, which pits its heroine against her oppressors - the town's non-afflicted - in a battle for self-determination--and survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, offbeat
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Goblin (2010)
Plot Summary:
Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in it's path.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, tense, captivating, demonic, serious, suspenseful, computer animated
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The Witch Princess (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, tense, captivating, suspense, stylized
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Green Snake (1993)
Plot Summary:
A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, stylized, cult classic, allegory, cult film
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Dragon Knight (2022)
Plot Summary:
Many years after the war has been lost, and all the dragons slain, a lone knight travels the lands of Agonos seeking to raise an army against the demon lord Abaddon. When a healer's vision reveals that one dragon still lives, and together with an eager young squire, the knight sets off in search of the fabled creature. As the armies of Abaddon descend on the human kingdoms, the dragon is their last hope of fending off the horde, before it lays waste to the lands of men. But does the creature even exist? And if it does, will it fight for them once more?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Blade of the 47 Ronin (2022)
Plot Summary:
In this sequel to "47 Ronin," a new class of warriors emerges among the Samurai clans to keep a sought-after sword from falling into the wrong hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Alzur's Legacy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Quarter the century after the Rivian Pogrom (the very last events from the Witcher Saga) Kaer Morhen, an old keep of the witchers from the school of the Wolf, is being attacked. Leader of the assault is a mighty warrior - Agaius. A few years later from Aretuza, newly rebuilt school of the sorceress, runs Ornella, who has been suspected of finding the legendary Alzur's Almanac. In pursuit comes Triss Merigold, with help of an old bard, Dandelion, his bastard son Julian and Lambert, the last monster slayer, seeking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized
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Every Witch Way: Spellbound (2014)
Plot Summary:
Every witch way like you have never seen it before all your magic comes back in this movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Bibi & Tina (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Girl Witch Bibi Blocksberg and her best friend Tina have adventures on a horse ranch.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized
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Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
Plot Summary:
George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige. Oops! Seems the fellow was watched over by God as a baby, so now the almighty and his nemesis have to duke it out over the soul. Written by Steve Derby.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, inspirational, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure
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The Hexer (2001)
Plot Summary:
The TV series and the film were loosely based on Andrzej Sapkowski's book series The Witcher (Wiedźmin).
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, offbeat