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The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra is a 2002 Hong Kong/Taiwanese TV series based on the classic Chinese novel: Journey to the West. It is also a remake of the 90's TVB version. This is the second Monkey King that is portrayed by Dicky Cheung, the other one being "Journey to the West I". It is also the first Monkey King series that is not called "Journey to the West". This was just broadcast on TVB however it is a co-production of Taiwanese-Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting
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Dwarf (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, urban fantasy
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Dance of the Phoenix (2020)
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Once hailed as a genius girl, Feng Wu is discarded after falling victim to a plot against her. A modern-day girl enters the world of cultivation in the body of Feng Wu and falls in love with Jun Linyuan.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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The Protected: The Return (2021)
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It's been ten years since the Castillo Rey family had a happy ending. But life goes on and time, destiny and an unknown event tore them apart. Now, a serious threat is on them, which will lead them to a new mission and a unforgettable reunion.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Hero Yoshihiko (2011)
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The story is set in an ancient time, when the whole country was covered in thick forests. A mysterious plague breaks out, resulting in countless deaths. A pure young man named Yoshihiko becomes chosen as a hero, and he sets out on a journey in order to save a village. He has two goals – to bring back the legendary plant that can cure the plague, and to rescue his father Teruhiko who left to find the plant but never returned.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, sexy, parody, heroic, spoof
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Surprise (2015)
Plot Summary:
A monster crosses paths with the foursome from the classic Chinese story Journey To The West.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Learning Curve of a Warlord (2018)
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During the chaotic Warlord Era, an eccentric soldier has a sudden stroke of luck and is promoted seven ranks to Marshal. He, along with his three silly friends, do all sorts of bizarre things. Meanwhile, externally, three wild warlords are eyeing him like a tiger. Internally, he doesn't know whether any of his three wives are spies. Ultimately, a battle for hegemony unfolds, with shells flying and dilemmas between friends.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Ten Brothers (2007)
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Loosely based on the Chinese mythology of the same name, the TV drama tells of a young couple whose lives change when the woman accidentally drinks the soup of ten magical beans. From the ten beans, the woman conceives ten sons. Fearful and unprepared for their sons growing into adults, the couple abandons them. One day, a mysterious white-haired man appears in one of the brother's visions and delivers a prophecy that could change the ten brothers forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: fairy tale, funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Wu yen (2001)
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Lost in the woods, the Emperor Qi (Anita Mui) stumbles across local chief Wu Yen (Sammi Cheng), his predestined bride, only to accidentally free a promiscuous fox fairy (Cecilia Cheung) who promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between man and woman to clumsily woo each, setting the scene for a constantly shifting triangle with the emperor torn between both the fox fairy and Wu Yen and the fox fairy after whichever one will agree to marry her/him first.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, fairy tale
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The Golden Monk (2017)
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The film tells the story of a monk who realizes he is the reincarnation of Golden Child / Taming Dragon Lohan who was cast down from heaven to experience life and death one hundred times as he broke a sacred rule by falling in love with another fairy, Jade. While Golden Child’s memories were erased, Jade refused to forget their love and accumulated goodwill over one hundred reincarnations….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic, scenic
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The Great Sage Sun Wukong (2019)
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Because of the drought around the world, Mountain Huaguo with a water source is harassed by powerful monsters around. To investigate the cause of the drought and also obtain a suitable weapon to fight the powerful monsters, Sun Wukong and his good friend Chikaoma Monkey participate in the Treasure Competition in the East Sea, but they get involved in an intrigue. With the Little Dragon Princess' help, Sun Wukong defeats the evil dragon Aoluan that wants to destroy the human world, gets the Ruyijingu Cudgel, and saves the human world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Suite PreCure (2011)
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Suite PreCure♪, or Suite Pretty Cure♪, is a Japanese anime series and the eighth Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation, the series is directed by Munehisa Sakai, who directed the One Piece anime series and character designs by Akira Takahashi, who previously worked on Kaidan Restaurant. The series aired on TV Asahi's ANN network from February 6, 2011 to January 29, 2012, replacing HeartCatch PreCure! in its initial timeslot, and was succeeded by Smile PreCure! A manga adaptation is also being serialised in Kodansha's monthly Nakayoshi magazine. The series theme is music, which are prominent to the names of the Cures and the magical devices they use.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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The Wizards of Aus (2016)
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Fed up with the Magical Realm's obsession with large-scale fantasy warfare, Jack the Wizard decides to migrate to the sanest place he can think of: Melbourne's Western suburbs. After accidentally causing Flinders Street Station to turn ever so slightly into a giant Fish monster, his existence (and that of his fellow magical immigrants) is revealed to the Australian public. Fearing a backlash against himself and his kind, Jack swears off using magic in a bid to better assimilate into human life. But of course, fitting in was never going to be easy when people tend to get a bit 'explode-y' whenever you sneeze.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, entertaining, stylized, psychotronic, semi serious, hilarious
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Just Another Pandora's Box (2010)
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Qing Ye Se only knows how to be a thief, but he runs into major trouble when he accidentally steals the heart of Rose, an immortal fairy. During a chaotic chase, Qing gets ahold of the Pandora's Box, sending them both back in time to the Three Kingdoms era. Mistaken as a general, Qing is thrown right into the middle of the Battle of Red Cliff. Meanwhile, Rose continues to devise new ways to earn Qing's affection, even if it means having to be someone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, entertaining
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Guardians of the Ancient Oath (2020)
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During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Yan State was established by Xianbei's Murong family and the wolf tribe outside the mainlands. The Yan king was young, and political battles between the royal families were prosperous. An incident of an adoptive daughter causes the Duke of Zhen's manor to be turned upside down. The eldest son Murong Yan was beheaded, the second son Murong Chen was sent to exile, and the adoptive daughter Murong Yi was sent back to the Wolf tribe's Khan Ming Yefeng, cast aside by the Yan people. Under the help of the evil spirits, Murong Yan, who faked his death, wants to make a comeback and win the ancient gods. Murong Chen studied the powers of vanquishing devils in order to take revenge, and he meets Murong Yi who has transformed into a devil. The three siblings were being coerced by the hate and revenge of the nations, leading to the unraveling of a thousand-year conspiracy to be unraveled.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God (2020)
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Welcome to the world of the Egyptian gods. This is where the famous gods of Ancient Egypt, from Anubis to Thoth, live their lives freely. How freely, you ask? Bastet appears out of nowhere, singing and dancing. Medjed is always stone-faced. Horus works a part-time job. Set is devoted to pulling pranks. Ra's off traveling and rarely comes home... All the Gods basically just do whatever they want! These cute mascot Egyptian deities make the most of their unrestrained divine lives. The extremely popular characters of "Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God" now have their own anime!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Idol × Warrior Miracle Tunes! (2017)
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The Music Kingdom contains musical treasures called Sound Jewels, which together produce the "Song of Blessings." The Sound Jewels are stolen by Maou, who corrupts them into Negative Jewels. Through the Dokudoku-dan, the Negative Jewels are used to turn humans into Negative Jewelers to spread a Negative Aura for Maou to use in his plan to conquer the human world by composing an evil song. In order to recover the Sound Jewels, the goddess of the Music Kingdom sends the Fairy Rhythms; Poppun, Rocky, and Kuranosuke, to the human world to seek help.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Fantasy
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, mahou shoujo
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The Amazing Extraordinary Friends (2006)
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The Amazing Extraordinary Friends is a New Zealand children's program featuring the adventures of a modern day superhero teenage boy and his friends. The protagonist is a teenage boy called Ben Wilson who finds out about a superhero insignia which gives him powers. He has difficulty with them, especially flight and using eye lasers at first, but soon learns to control them fairly well. His grandfather is also a superhero, and this is how he comes to acquire the insignia. His mother hates all the superhero business going on for the sake of safety, but his father and stepfather both encourage him, his father being the previous superhero in Ben's position, Captain Xtraordinary or simply Captain X, and his stepfather being the son of a supervillain, The Comedian. The position, it is found out in the show, has been held by many heroes in the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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The Wrong Door (2008)
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The Wrong Door is a comedy sketch show, first aired on BBC Three on 28 August 2008. The programme is the first comedy show in which almost all of the sketches have a CGI element. As such, it was produced under the working title of The CGI Sketch Show. The show also contains strong language, adult humour and toilet humour.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: surreal, semi serious, exciting, humorous, sketch comedy, offbeat, stylized, computer animated
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Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2020)
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Mysterious aliens and evil monsters that shouldn’t exist are attacking! Zero, Ribut, Taiga, Z (Zett), 80, Max, Mebius, Great, Powered, Grigio, and many more Ultra Heroes fight together to solve this mysterious case, which could end up affecting the whole universe. However, this is only the beginning! A conspiracy is underway – and stories are intersecting. What is the aim of the golden giant working in the shadows?! While connecting to the TV series Ultraman Z as well, a new history of Ultraman begins!.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, super sentai
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Laughing in the Wind (2001)
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Laughing in the Wind is a 2001 Chinese television series produced by Zhang Jizhong, starring Li Yapeng and Xu Qing in the leading roles. The series is an adaptation of Louis Cha's novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. It was first broadcast on CCTV in China in 2001.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Holy Pearl (2011)
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The Holy Pearl is a 2011 Chinese Television series starring Gillian Chung as the daughter of an archeologist. She time travels back in time to discovers she is a reincarnation a warrior priestess. She teams up with a human-dragon hybrid, to recover a broken magical vase. The story is an unofficial adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's popular Japanese manga series InuYasha.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, xianxia
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Dragon Knight (2022)
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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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Dwight in Shining Armor (2018)
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Dwight, a 21st century teen, falls into an ancient, underground chamber and lands lip-to-lip with Gretta, a gothic princess who has been magically sleeping for a thousand years.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, exciting
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Kaamelott: The First Chapter (2021)
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Following the end of the acclaimed tv series, King Arthur will oppose Lancelot's army to get the throne back after his flee to Rome.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, exciting
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Martial Universe (2018)
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Lin Dong, a child from a small village isn't favored by his clan. By chance, Lin Dong obtains a mysterious artifact that is coveted by many clans in the martial world. Because of this artifact, Lin Dong is approached by many people of different clans and is forcibly involved in various events of the martial universe.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, anime, xianxia, costume drama, exciting, period drama
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Jellyfish Eyes (2013)
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In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy. Artist Takashi Murakami ‘s debut film is an amazing epic story that is an X-Ray of children’s hopes and fears with the artist’s unmistakable visual style.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal
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The Last Warrior (2017)
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ivan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. in this parallel universe where characters of russian fairy tales live, magic is an integral part of the daily life, and arguments are settled with the help of sword ght. Unexpectedly, ivan nds himself in the middle of the battle between the good and evil. He has to nd out why everyone thinks that he should play the main role in the occurring events.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, captivating, stylized, folk tale, colorful, colourful
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The Book of Masters (2009)
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A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If the greatest gem-cutter in the world brings the stone of Alatyr to life, though, she'll become the ruler of the world. The Stone Countess, now cruel and selfish, is fascinated with the idea. She starts searching for the best gem-cutters and forces them to work with Alatyr, so the magical stone would become a living thing. Neither of the gem-cutters succeeds, so she kills them. While being imprisoned in her tower, they work on a large book about the secrets of gem-cutting. Each of them edits the book, so it's later named "the Book of Masters".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, touching, sentimental, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light
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Zapped (2016)
Plot Summary:
Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is), finds himself abruptly transported to a parallel world, a place of bizarre creatures, magical forces and psychopathic fairies.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, witty, captivating, entertaining, humorous, funny, sitcom
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GARO (2005)
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"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of Knights, Mankind was given hope." The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, weird