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Plot Summary:
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic. His most characteristically behavior is that he would help children who were experiencing some sort of difficulties in-between their dreams and reality, like finding a place for skiing, settling family problems on Christmas, and even give a boy a good time at a fair when he is supposed to have piano lessons. To adults, he usually remained invisible.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: urban fantasy
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The Invisibles (2014)
Plot Summary:
A businessman discovers he has a hidden gene that enables him to breathe water, threatening the existence of the secret Aquarian race, in this charming, comedic fantasy drama from the Czech Republic.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: urban fantasy
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The Twins & Santa Claus (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Danish Christmas themed series.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 30 min
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Ready, Steady, Wiggle! (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Wiggles perform songs for the children with their friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 11 min
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Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure (1998)
Plot Summary:
A girl from high society joins an all-male expedition to Alaska during the 1899 gold rush.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The Magician's House (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Magician's House is a quartet of children's fantasy books by William Corlett. Two mini-series were produced in 1999 for British television, which were directed by Paul Lynch. The series featured Jennifer Saunders and Stephen Fry voicing some of the animal characters. The books were published in the early 1990s, and named as follows: ⁕The Steps up the Chimney ⁕The Door in the Tree ⁕The Tunnel behind the Waterfall ⁕The Bridge in the Clouds Although in a rural setting, this series' focus on subjects such as industrial development and the combining of present-day and past settings in the plotline gives it a feeling tending more towards urban fantasy than simply contemporary fantasy. In addition, though there is no specific mention of Welsh myths and legends, the strong part nature plays in the stories and the settings bring to mind other British children's authors. Authors like Alan Garner, who is perhaps best known for The Owl Service and Elidor, and Susan Cooper, famous for The Dark Is Rising sequence of books, who allude more specifically to British myth and legend in their writings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min
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The Famous Jett Jackson (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Famous Jett Jackson is a joint Canadian and American Disney Channel Original Series coming-of-age television series for children about a boy named Jett Jackson who plays a teenage secret-agent on a fictional TV show-within-a-show called Silverstone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, nostalgic
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Simon and the Witch (1987)
Plot Summary:
Simon is a very sensible young schoolboy, who has a friend who is a real witch. She is very silly, and a huge showoff.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min
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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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Mr. Headmistress (1998)
Plot Summary:
Tucker recently got out of prison, but is soon sought after by other bad men. So to escape them, he disguises himself as the new Headmistress of an all-girl school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Catweazle (1970)
Plot Summary:
Catweazle is a British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970. A second season in 1971 was directed by David Reid and David Lane. Both series had thirteen episodes each, with Geoffrey Bayldon playing the leading role. The series was broadcast in Ireland, Britain, Gibraltar, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua and Quebec. The first episode is available to view in full at the BFI Screenonline site.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Plot Summary:
Bibi and Tina experience an exciting summer with their friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, spooky
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The Visitors (1983)
Plot Summary:
It's the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising - Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of 20th century developed 500 years ago an ingenious formula for easy transporting of continents and even worlds. Unfortunately, he made this discovery at the age of 11 and the exercise book containing it was destroyed in the fire. But this is not a challenge to Academic Filip who decides to send an expedition back in time to retrieve the precious exercise book from the fire. But everything is not so simple as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 30 min
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Plot Summary:
Children's nature series. Andy Day embarks on wild adventures with his puppet friend Kip the cat. Their adventures take them all around the world in search of weird and wonderful animals.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 14 min
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Arabela (1980)
Plot Summary:
Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech language.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, metafiction, urban fantasy
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: educational, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, weird, learning, nostalgic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, vintage
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Plot Summary:
Two mismatched students at a magical school for knights in training form an unlikely alliance to protect each other’s secret and pursue their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, semi serious, exciting, light, colorful, teen comedy, colourful
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H.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States. It was the first Krofft live-action, life-size puppet program. The seventeen episodes were originally broadcast from September 6, 1969 to December 27, 1969. The broadcasts were successful enough that NBC kept it on the Saturday morning schedule until August 1972. The show was shot in Paramount Studios and its opening was shot in Big Bear Lake, California. Reruns of the show aired on ABC Saturday morning from September 2, 1972 to September 8, 1973 and on Sunday mornings in some markets from September 16, 1973 to September 8, 1974. It was syndicated by itself from 1974 to 1978 and in a package with six other Kroft series under the banner Kroft Superstars from 1978 to 1985. In 2004 and 2007, H.R. Pufnstuf was ranked #22 and #27 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
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Plot Summary:
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
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Plot Summary:
Mildred Hubble is a young witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch" because she's always caught getting into trouble.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min
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Plot Summary:
Sabrina and her friend Gwen, while on vacation at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, try to save a secret mermaid colony who's habitat is threatened by ocean pollution.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
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Plot Summary:
Eleven-year-old Annie has been living in an orphanage her whole life run by cruel Miss Hannigan. After unsuccessful escape attempts, Grace Farrell comes to take the child home to live two weeks with billionaire Oliver Warbucks during Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, christmas special, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, corny
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Life-Size (2000)
Plot Summary:
After her mom's death, Casey pulls away from everyone in her life, including her emotionally distant dad. With help from a magic spell, she tries to bring her mother back from the dead; instead, Casey's words accidentally awaken one of her least favorite toys: a statuesque Barbie clone named Eve. Things get worse when Casey's dad develops a crush on his daughter's living doll.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, teen, sweet, surprise ending, teen comedy, whimsical, corny
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Wizards of Waverly Place (2007)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle to balance their ordinary lives while learning to master their extraordinary powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, not serious, sitcom, teen, slapstick, parody, urban fantasy, nostalgic
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Toothless (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, stylized, fairy tale, nostalgic
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Eerie, Indiana (1991)
Plot Summary:
Eerie, Indiana is an American television series that originally aired on NBC from 1991 to 1992. The series was created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with Joe Dante serving as creative consultant. A total of nineteen episodes were produced. The final episode aired for the first time in 1993, when the series was syndicated on The Disney Channel. In 1997, the show generated a new fan base, when Fox's children's programming block Fox Kids aired the series, gaining something of a cult following despite its short run. The renewed popularity in the series, encouraged Fox to produce a spin-off Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, lasting only one season in 1998.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: spooky, scary, anthology, sitcom, detective, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, urban fantasy, weird
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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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Home Alone 4 (2002)
Plot Summary:
Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two movies, partners up with a new criminal named Vera to hit Natalie's mansion.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, captivating, hilarious, exciting, realistic, not serious, slapstick