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Plot Summary:
Take a son and make sure he dreams; wake him up and start telling him a story. Rock him with your most beautiful voice, lower and lower, until he goes back to sleep but still listening, subliminally. Now, he must be dreaming, but completing the story you were whispering. When the son wakes up, he must feel like the story chose him and not the opposite. Immortal story, was the title of an Orson Welles' film (who also acted in a previous version of Stevenson's Treaure Island); but every story is immortal, is what any Raoul Ruiz's film tells us.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in their late Grandfather's country cottage with no TV, Anthea, Robert and Chris are resigned to a boring week until they find a mouldy old carpet and a strange golden egg. But when the egg accidentally falls into the bonfire, it hatches into the mythical firebird, the Gloden Phoenix. So begins an amazing journey and the adventure of a lifetime, as the Phoenix takes them to a land of enchantment, magic and fantasy - via a magic flying carpet. Written by L.H. Wong.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
City of Pirates (1983)
Plot Summary:
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, rough, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 76%
Nemo (1984)
Plot Summary:
Based on Windsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, independent film
Similar in 88%
The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sir Francis Drake goes on a quest to find the legendary Tree of Life, battling the Spanish Armada, sea monsters, sorceress and his bitter nemesis Captain Don Sandovate on the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, entertaining, stylized, intense, mystical
Similar in 89%
Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this classically surreal fantasy, a sailor, known for telling tales, sees a student killing his teacher and decides to spin a few yarns for him. He tells the boy of his many adventures in exotic South American ports where he visited opium dens and stayed in cathouses. In such dark, dreamlike places, the sailor meets many strange, mystical characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, serious, experimental, surreal, contemplative, stylized, postmodern
Similar in 81%
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001)
Plot Summary:
Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca and the painter Salvador Dalà are on a search for the mythical table of King Salomon, which is known to have the power to see in the past, the present and the future. Their scour paths them through hilarious moments of absurdity and lots of references to movie history.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Mexico, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: clever, surreal, contemplative, stylized, manga, offbeat, serious, mind bending
Similar in 87%
Treasure Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles. A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasure map. A baroness flamboyant, unscrupulous, praying mantis, penniless, but with a boat. A young man without fear and without brains, but with the treasure map engraved somewhere in his failing memory. A doctor without drinking, providential specialist of failing memories and other atypical amnesia ... It is this dream team that sails anchor one morning in the year of grace a thousand and seven hundred and a few, towards the treasure island and its coves of pink sand.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK, Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984)
Plot Summary:
Manuel is a young boy who travels from long ago to the present and then to the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Taxandria (1994)
Plot Summary:
young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Befriended by the keeper, he learns of a secret world he can see inside the light of the lamp - the world of Taxandria ruled by the dictatorship of the 'eternal present' where all machines, progress and time have been banned. However, a naive but creative printing clerk unwittingly causes a revolution when he upsets a printing press and tries to replace the spilled letters only to have his new words taken for a subversive code. On the run he falls in love with a palace princess, discovers the forbidden art of photography and sets out to fulfill his dream of building a flying machine. Written by L.H. Wong.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surreal, anime, independent film, fairy tale, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, stylized
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Pirates of the Plain (1999)
Plot Summary:
"Pirates of the Plain" details the adventure of Jezebel Jack, a pirate with a heart of gold that is sent to the future where he meets Bobby, a young boy with an overactive imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious
Similar in 83%
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Plot Summary:
In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Lowell S, Hawley based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: entertaining, scenic, exciting, sweet, witty, humorous, semi serious, juvenile, fairy tale, clever
Similar in 81%
Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of adventurers are gathered together to retrieve some mystical gems which are in the possession of a deadly cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, gothic, splatter, odd
Similar in 88%
Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
Plot Summary:
Fantasy tale based on the tale of the legendary sailor. Here Sinbad must recover five magical stones to free the city of Basra from the evil spell cast by a wizard. His journey takes him to the isle of the Amazons where the queen tries to capture him, to a battle with ghost warriors on the isle of the dead, and ultimately to a battle with his own double.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, independent film, exciting, feel good, stylized, semi serious
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Cold River (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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King Solomon's Treasure (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
Trouble at Timpetill (2008)
Plot Summary:
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, atmospheric, offbeat, stylized, semi serious
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The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)
Plot Summary:
Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: mysterious, independent film, fairy tale, atmospheric, touching, feel good, serious, crying, psychotronic
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Crystalstone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Deserted by their father and with their mother dead, nine-year-old Pablo and his little sister Maria refuse to be separated from each other by their caretaker aunt. With a cross as their guide, they embark on a perilous, but ultimately rewarding adventure in search of a mystical gem that holds the key to happiness. They escape the fearsome metal hook of a pirate and are helped by a delightfully drunken Captain in their quest for the magic stone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, touching, semi serious
Similar in 82%
Treasure Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A terrible storm is raging the night it all begins - with a knock on the door. 17-year-old Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run their little tavern on the coast of 19th century England. When the door is opened they are startled by a sight that makes their blood run cold.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, intense, talky
Similar in 82%
Pirates of Treasure Island (2006)
Plot Summary:
Starting as a prequel to the novel "Treasure Island", we see the infamous pirate treasure buried by Billy Bones and Long John Silver.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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TimeCrafters: The Treasure of Pirate's Cove (2020)
Plot Summary:
While searching for lost treasure, time traveling pirates end up in the modern day and do battle with unlikely foes: a group of kids with the latest in techy gadgetry.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
Similar in 75%
Time Raiders (2016)
Plot Summary:
Time Raiders is based on the online novel series Daomu Biji written by Xu Lei. It tells the story of explorers searching for the secrets of immortality in ancient tombs.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic, scenic
Similar in 81%
Treasure Island (1999)
Plot Summary:
Young Jim Hawkins and peg-legged Long John Silver set sail for adventure in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of dastardly pirates, swashbuckling heroes, buried treasure and a young boy's amazing courage. The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim out of his rightful share of the treasure and so Jim then teams up with Silver.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, surprise ending, baroque
Similar in 87%
Nim's Island (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, scenic, captivating, fairy tale, sad, light, colorful, touching, humorous, realistic
Similar in 79%
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
Plot Summary:
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, mysterious, anamorphic, independent film, semi serious, exciting
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Peter Pan (2003)
Plot Summary:
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet, light, romantic, scenic, teen, colorful
Similar in 84%
The Fall (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, visual, visually stunning, touching, visually appealing, mind bending, light, psychological
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The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (2022)
Plot Summary:
A gutsy crew of Joseon pirates and bandits battle stormy waters, puzzling clues and militant rivals in search of royal gold lost at sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, action comedy, perverse
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Treasure Island (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: dramatic, cult classic, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, scary, light, enigmatic, breathtaking
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Pan (2015)
Plot Summary:
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, visually appealing, exciting, stylized, serious, tense, humorous, mysterious, mystic, period piece