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Plot Summary:
Believing he's destined for greatness, an unlikely hero named Throg (Dana Lee) embarks on a wild adventure filled with Greek gods, Arthurian knights, certified loonies, nasty harpies, talking pigs, garbage collectors and one twisted forest dweller in this medieval fantasy spoof. Bungling his way through the centuries, the immortal Throg lurches along a path leading to an ultimate showdown with the bloodthirsty Urshag the Destroyer (Dennis Green).
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick, dark comedy
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Fatty Drives the Bus (1999)
Plot Summary:
Oh no! It appears as if Satan isn't going to fill his soul quota this month! So of course, he turns himself into a tour guide and takes a bus-load of unsuspecting tourists on a ride down the highway to hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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1 For All (2019)
Plot Summary:
1 For All follows a group of dysfunctional friends as they play D&D together, cutting between the players at the table and the characters in the fantasy world.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: dark comedy
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The Cat's Move or The Odessa Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
A determined student from Chicago is forced to fulfill the last wish of his ailing grandfather. He has to travel to Odessa, Ukraine, and bring back his grandfather's cat.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: bilingual
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Kung Fu and Titties (2013)
Plot Summary:
Richard Titties, an out-of-shape martial arts wannabe, is shot into an alternate dimension after his girlfriend Cynthia is kidnapped. Her captors are a group of tittie obsessed madmen led by Zeefros, the master of the supernatural realm. Zeefros kidnaps women for the sole purpose of seeing their titties. Richard joins up with his sister Raine Brown, a Gorilla and a gaggle of other strange characters, in order to save his girlfriend. He must search inside, overcome his futile martial arts skills, and find the kung fu fighter within if he is to save himself and all those that dwell in the alternate world.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, parody, independent film, slapstick, slapstick comedy
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Hero from Beyond the Boundary of Time (1993)
Plot Summary:
Wai Siu-Bo travels to the future on a mission to cure the emperor's illness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Goddess of Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Frau Venus und ihr Teufel (1967)
Plot Summary:
Hans Müller finds himself on a trip in Thüringen, accompanied by his loving female friend, Moritz. Hans doesn't understand much about trust, which constantly leads to problems between the two of them. During one of their fights, Lady Venus intervenes and sends the young man back to the Middle Ages - so he can learn the true meaning of love. Disguised as Tannhäuser, he has to stand his ground against a horde of minstrels. At a singing competition, he blunders, without the support of Moritz, who had also been thrown back into the 13th century. And with the help of Frau Venus, his adventure will surely turn out even worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Musical, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Escape from Atlantis (1997)
Plot Summary:
In order to try to bring together his bickering family, a single father takes his three rebellious teenagers on a vacation trip to the Bahamas. They inadvertently wind up in the Bermuda Triangle, where they are whisked through a time portal and brought to the mythical island of Atlantis. There they are drawn into a fantastical conflict between the peace-loving population and a would-be tyrant determined to take over the island. In their desperate attempts to return home they encounter mythical creatures, evil magicians, and ancient powers.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Beautiful Accident (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a single, successful female lawyer is involved in a highway car accident, she wakes up to find herself in an alternate reality where she's forced take on the responsibility of a full time mother and wife, dealing with her demanding architect husband and two difficult children.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan, China, South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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2000 Years Later (1969)
Plot Summary:
A satirical film on fads in the US. A TV host on a late night show tries to convince his viewers that they should return to Rome and Roman ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: artsy, independent film
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A Witch Without a Broom (1967)
Plot Summary:
A flirtatious sorcerous fancies a handsome human professor. Cross time antics arise when she attempts to bring the hapless professor into her alternate dimension.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic
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The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the Heian period, the setting for the famous novel. Armed with a pamphlet on the history of the period and a bottle of headache tablets he passes as an onmyoji (magical protector of the capital) and is hired by the emperor’s wife Nyogo Kokiden. Fearless and coldly analytical she plots to have her son take over the Emperor’s position. Rai is expected to help. This light-hearted historical fantasy is a treat for lovers of sumptuous kimono.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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The Lost Digit (2017)
Plot Summary:
Suburban every-man George Cassermeyer cuts his middle finger off in a carpentry accident. From then on the loss of his finger has a strange and profound effect on him. Lost in his own existential crisis over his finger his marriage, career, and even his grasp on reality end up suffering. Conventional notions of time and space begin to distort and he finds himself "skipping" through moments in his life without a clue to their order or significance. What follows is his quest to understand and stop the strange phenomena before his life literally flashes before his eyes.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962)
Plot Summary:
The Three Stooges manage to crash through the time barrier with their slap-happy antics in this classic feature-length comedy. Larry, Moe, and Curly-Joe are friends of a young scientist, Schuyler Davis, who has created a time machine. Together with Schuyler's girlfriend, Diane, they are all transported back to ancient Ithaca which is ruled by the tyrannical King Odius. The lecherous king promptly takes a liking to Diane and banishes Schuyler and The Stooges to the galleys. When they manage to escape, they begin promoting Schuyler as "Hercules" at local gladiatorial combats - until the real Hercules shows up. But, with their unique "charm," The Stooges convince Hercules to help them rescue Diane. Written by Robert Lynch.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, slapstick, exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, not serious, psychotronic, slapstick comedy
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Lords of Magick (1989)
Plot Summary:
A pair of sorcerer brothers from 10th-century England are sent to modern-day California on a quest to rescue a princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this light-hearted fantasy, a talented young magician stumbles across an unusual ring and ends up in Camelot before King Arthur. It turns out the ring belongs to none other than Merlin.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)
Plot Summary:
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son. Can this family arrangement work?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: manga, offbeat, humorous, surreal, semi serious, spoof, parody, weird
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An American Pickle (2020)
Plot Summary:
An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, funny, inspirational, feel good, surreal, weird
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Nothing Left to Do but Cry (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teacher (Saverio) and a schoolkeeper (Mario) get lost in the Italian countryside. They find themselves in the late 15th century, they met Leonardo da Vinci and try to teach him how to play cards, they try to stop Columbus, they sing beatles's song etc.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, buddy comedy, atmospheric, humorous, semi serious
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Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust (2007)
Plot Summary:
It's 2007 and the Japanese Ministry of Finance have calculated that the economy will collapse in two years' time. They intend to prevent this by sending home appliance designer Mariko back in time 17 years using a time machine she accidentally invented. However, things don't go as planned and Mariko's daughter, Mayumi, is also sent back to find her mother and save Japan's economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Cavegirl (1985)
Plot Summary:
On a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him back to the stone ages, where he meets a group of prehistoric fellows and the gorgeous Eba. While teaching her English and doing some pseudo-research on her fellows, his main goal is to get her sleeping with him. However the curiosity of the clan chief disturbs his attempts.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, independent film, humorous, not serious, sexual, eighties, hot, cult film
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How Long Will I Love U (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gu Xiaojiao, a young girl from 2018 and Lu Ming, a man from 1999, discover that they have both woken up in the same bed at the same space-time. More surprisingly, they realize that they can time travel by exiting the bedroom door. The fun begins when they start to plan a number of changes within these two eras. However, they do not know that their destiny is in the hands of a mysterious person.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Three Kings (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny
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Teen Sorcery (1999)
Plot Summary:
Dawn (A.J. Cook), the new girl in school, discovers that her classmate Mercedes (Lexa Doig) is actually a witch and must do everything she can to stop her from using her powers for evil. She is soon plunged into a life and death battle against an evil spirit, a sleeping spell and an angry dragon.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Two Worlds (2007)
Plot Summary:
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, offbeat, not serious
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The Corridors of Time: The Visitors II (1998)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, semi serious
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The Visitors (1993)
Plot Summary:
This outrageous time-travel comedy follows the misadventures of a wacky medieval knight (Jean Reno) and his faithful servant when they are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. Mayhem rules as these 12th-century visitors try adapting to the wildly confusing modern world. To avoid being stuck here for good, however, they soon begin an all-out cosmic assault on their former castle -- now a luxury hotel -- in their quest to return to the past.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, absurd, hilarious, sexy, psychological, parody, feel good, entertaining
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Meet the Spartans (2008)
Plot Summary:
From the creators of Scary Movie and Date Movie comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epics, dubbed Meet the Spartans. The 20th Century Fox production was written and directed by the filmmaking team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Sure, Leonidas may have nothing more than a cape and some leather underwear to protect him from the razor-sharp swords of his Persian enemies,.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, absurd, humorous, slapstick, slapstick comedy, scary, epic, satirical, ironic
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Black Knight (2001)
Plot Summary:
Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, hilarious, funny, parody, entertaining, light, slapstick, captivating, sweet
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Just Visiting (2001)
Plot Summary:
A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, feel good, exciting, funny, hilarious, not serious, independent film, light, romantic