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Fantasy movies

Explore magic, fantastic creatures and imagined worlds.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,692 films · Page 114.

Grendel (2007)

Drama, fantasy film, medieval film, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Science fiction

Villagers ask a man named Beowulf to kill a monster living nearby. Together with his protégé Finn, he enters a cave. The monster turns out to be a gigantic snake, which Beowulf beheads.

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The Thief of Bagdad (1961)

fantasy film

In the time of the Arabian Nights, the city of Baghdad was ruled by Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually controlled by the scheming Grand Vizier Ghamal. The poor of Baghdad are aided by Karim, the Thief of Baghdad. Prince Osman is due to arrive at the palace to ask for the hand of Sultan Ali's daughter Amina in marriage.

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Anonymous Rex (2004)

Action, fantasy film, Science fiction

In an alternate timeline, dinosaurs have managed to survive the KT Extinction Event, having since evolved into humanoid forms and now live amongst humans using hard light holographic disguises (formerly rubber suits, paper masks, etc). Vincent Rubio is a Velociraptor private investigator along with his partner, Ernie Watson, a Triceratops. When Ernie's ex-girlfriend's brother is found dead, the incident is dismissed as suicide.

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Prince Charming (2001)

Adventure, fantasy film, romantic comedy

Prince John of the fictional province of Anwyn prides himself on having rescued countless maidens as a way of eventually bedding them. In order to end three centuries of war with the realm of Lothian, he is made to marry the princess, who is convinced that they will live happily ever after. However, on his wedding day, Prince John commits a romantic indiscretion and is discovered, breaking the heart of the princess.

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Death at Love House (1976)

Horror

While on a tour in Hollywood, a young couple, Joel and Donna Gregory, arrive at the house of Lorna Love, an infamous actress who died in 1935. There, they meet with housekeeper Clara Josephs and agent Oscar Payne, to investigate the mystery behind Lorna and finish a book that they are writing on the actress, an interest that came out of the discovery that Joel's father was her lover. While staying at the mansion, unusual incidents occur.

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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2004)

Drama, fantasy film, Science fiction

A 19th-century opera singer is murdered on-stage shortly before her forthcoming wedding. Soon after being slain by the nefarious Dr. Emmanuel Droz during a live performance, Malvina van Stille is spirited away to the inventor's remote villa to be reanimated and forced to play the lead in a grim production staged to recreate her abduction.

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Independents' Day (2016)

Action, disaster film, fantasy film, mockbuster, Science fiction

The alien Orions, believing that humans are too violent, attack Earth and destroy many of the planet's capital cities. They then apparently heal many of the sick and offer to transport them; those who are hungry and others who wanted to go to another planet and many of the earthlings volunteer to go. An "Earth First" militia forms to fight the aliens, while the US Vice President (as the aliens have killed the President) negotiates with the aliens.

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Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010)

Adventure, fantasy film

The film opens with Gobber's house on fire and the Vikings and resident dragons getting it under control. Gobber is convinced that his old nemesis The Boneknapper Dragon, a giant, yet perfectly silent dragon that clothes itself in bones for armor, is responsible. However no one else believes that the Boneknapper even exists, much less that it burned his house, especially when the evidence suggests that the fire was started by his underwear drying at his hearth and catching fire.

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Twice Upon a Yesterday (1998)

Comedy, Drama, fantasy film, romance film, romantic comedy

Victor is an actor in London who is desperate to stop his ex-girlfriend, Sylvia, to whom he was unfaithful, from marrying another man. After meeting two mysterious dustmen, he is given the chance to travel back in time and relive his romance. However, he finds that things develop differently this time around—Sylvia has an affair with Dave, and she leaves him.

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Nocturna (2007)

children's film, fantasy film

Tim, a young boy living in a dilapidated orphanage, is bullied for his fear of the dark. At night, he sneaks onto the roof of the orphanage to gaze up at the stars in the sky. When Tim is too afraid to retrieve a ball from the basement, the other children retaliate by stealing the doorknob he uses to gain access to the roof, forcing Tim to find a different route to the rooftop.

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Strange Love (2008)

fantasy television series

Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), is a blonde, telepathic waitress working at Merlotte's bar in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana when Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a 173-year-old vampire, enters the bar. Sookie is excited, as he is the first vampire the bar has had since vampires "came out of the coffin" two years ago. Her boss, Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), and best friend Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley), are apprehensive about Bill's arrival.

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A Carol Christmas (2003)

Christmas film, Comedy, fantasy film

Carol Cartman is a conceited sensationalist talk show host. She is cynical, selfish, and generally treats her employees with cold contempt. She has been coached by her late Aunt Marla to behave this way, and holds true to it; she despises Christmas and values hardly anyone.

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The Unwanted (2014)

Drama, Family Drama, fantasy film, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, thriller film

Carmilla arrives in South Carolina to investigate a woman named Millarca. The only information she has is an address, but Troy, the owner of the house, says nobody named Millarca has ever lived there. He offers to give Carmilla a ride into town, and she later coincidentally visits a restaurant where Troy's daughter, Laura, works.

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The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)

Comedy, fantasy film, Science fiction

The film begins in the celestial realms, with three superhuman entities – gods, or perhaps angels – regarding the planet Earth. Despairing of these "animals" that one of them continues to care about, the other two dare him to conduct an experiment to see if such lesser creatures can handle the kind of power over reality that might let them deserve to reach the stars. As the experiment's only limit, the Celestials will allow no control over a person's free will, as decreed by their master (possibly God).

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White Dwarf (1995)

Adventure, Coming-of-age, fantasy film, Science fiction

In the year 3040, New York medical student Driscoll Rampart (Neal McDonough) arrives from Earth to the planet of Rusta for a six-month internship at the Light Side clinic run by Dr. Akada (Paul Winfield). Rampart's ambition is to eventually set up a private practice in Manhattan on Park Avenue.

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