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Fantasy
see all genres ›Magicians, trolls and talking animals populate the fantasy film. Such films break from observable reality to introduce themes of wonder (often by way of fairy tales and popular myths).
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Genres / Fantasy
SUB-GENRES · Allegory · Dream · Fable · Fairy Tale · Folk Tale · Lost World · Magic · Miracle · Mythology · Superhero · Supernatural · Sword & Sorcery
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Aladin, or the Wonderful Lamp
An extravaganza of early special effects, the Pathé ALADIN (lacking the more common double "d") delights in the story’s magical transformations. Trick shots and striking color tinting accent the elastic reality that comes with the wonderful lamp. The fantasia only lasts a single reel but that's time enough...Start your free trial to watch
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Apple
"In the stillness and the dark before time ever began," opens this faux-trailer for the 1992 film APPLE, "there was a different incantation." Maverick filmmaker Damon Packard, self-described herein as "the hideous director of DAWN OF AN EVIL MILLENNIUM," tells the story of Apple, an elfin girl who matures into a sorceress of...Start your free trial to watch
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Asso
On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar, and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Silvia (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife, he has a hard time convincing her...Start your free trial to watch
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Astropia
When a beautiful high society girl and a regular guest in the national celebrity press finds out that her boyfriend Jolli is about to go to jail, she realizes she has to learn to stand on her own two feet and quickly. Hildur, possessing no skills that she knows of or any practical experience, tries to find work without...Start your free trial to watch
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The Avenging Conscience
D.W. Griffith indulged his lifelong fascination with Edgar Allan Poe in this ambitious amalgam of the writer’s poetry and prose: “Annabel Lee” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” flavored with shades of “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Conqueror Worm." Poe’s tales are interwoven in one...Start your free trial to watch
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Bab'Aziz
A visual poem of incomparable beauty, this masterpiece from director Nacer Khemir (the third in the "Desert Trilogy") begins with the story of a blind dervish named Bab’Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty...Start your free trial to watch
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A Ballad About Green Wood
Split logs dance in sunlight as soon as the axe has cleared away. Czech folk music and time-lapse photography focus animistic energy upon clouds streaming across the sky, rivers raging with melted snow and the earth bursting with raw life. A mythic being born of wood and a crow flies through winter and...Start your free trial to watch
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Baron Münchausen’s Dream
The legendary Baron Münchausen (an actual German aristocrat well-known for his exaggerated stories) has been portrayed many times in dozens of films over the years. In this telling by the equally remarkable Georges Méliès, Münchausen has spent an evening dining with his friends. He retires for the night...Start your free trial to watch
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Bavel's Book
The imaginative possibilities of animation and reading are intertwined in this spirited Koji Yamamura short. Two kids find a dusty book on a park bench and soon become immersed in a "Robinson Crusoe"-like adventure. They’re in for a jolt, however, when their desert island starts swimming. Yamamura’s painted frames swell with...Start your free trial to watch
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Beyond Atlantis
Fishermen discover a mysterious civilization that may be descendants of the lost continent of Atlantis. These half-human, half-fish creatures can stay underwater for great lengths of time. But this lost tribe needs outsiders for mating and when they capture several fishermen, the adventure begins! Will the men live to tell...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Night
Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days indulging his passion for studying insects; if only there were still days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged into a night without end, a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Book of the Dead
In this ravishing film of mystical beauty, master animator Kihachiro Kawamoto’s tour de force adventure tale tells the story of a young noblewoman in 8th-century Japan who leaves her home to follow the apparition of an executed prince. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD takes place as Buddhism is being introduced to...Start your free trial to watch
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The Bothersome Man
Forty year old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment, even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has...Start your free trial to watch
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Bug Me Not!
In this fantasy comedy filled with eye-popping special effects, a major disaster threatens to wipe out both the human and the insect worlds. It is up to the Psychic Park youngsters who possess supernatural powers and the tiny bugs to save the day. An imaginative blend of CG animation and live action, BUG ME NOT is also an...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cameraman's Revenge
After filming several live-action documentaries for the Natural History Museum in Kono, Lithuania, Ladislas Starewicz started a film about fighting stag beetles but was frustrated when the insects refused to perform under lights. Starewicz decided to recreate the fight by articulating dead beetles in...Start your free trial to watch
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Channels
Black Racklin has everything one could dream of in life (success, respect, money) but he's dead emotionally. He has a recurring dream of a train passing by with a passenger beckoning him to "hop on." But Black hesitates and the train moves on. Consumed with the pressures of his profession as a movie producer in Hollywood,...Start your free trial to watch
