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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 118.

Simon Magus (1999)

Drama, Mysterie, mystery film, romance film

In 19th century Poland, a Jew named Dovid Bendel (Stuart Townsend) tries to revive his dwindling shtetl village by building a railway station next to it. The squire (Rutger Hauer) agrees to provide the land, on the condition that Dovid will read his poetry. A cunning business man (Sean McGinley) is also interested in the land and he tries to compete using money and threats.

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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1998)

fantasy film, Romantic drama, speculative fiction

A newly released prisoner, Peter Glahn, returns home to the land of Mandragora, where the sun never sets. Aboard the ship, Glahn has a romantic encounter with Juliana Kossel, then proceeds to the family ostrich farm, which is run by his sister Amelia. Amelia is in love with Dr.

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That Lady in Ermine (1948)

Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

In 1861, Countess Angelina, ruler of Bergamo in North Italy near the Swiss border, marries Mario, a baron she has known since childhood. When the castle is threatened by Hungarian hussars led by Colonel Teglash on their wedding night, Mario flees. At midnight, the paintings in the ancestral gallery come to life, and their subjects ask Francesca, Angelina's great-great-great-great-grandmother who looks exactly like Countess Angelina, to save the castle just as she did in the 16th century.

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Munchie Strikes Back (1994)

Comedy, Family Comedy, fantasy film

Because of the repercussions left from his last adventure, Munchie must appear before a celestial court presided over by Kronus. The tribunal proceeds to blame Munchie for a number of historical calamities, including the sinking of Atlantis, the crash of the Hindenburg, the cataclysm of Vesuvius and the meltdown of Chernobyl. As punishment, he is sentenced to help single mother Linda McClelland.

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Meet Monica Velour (2010)

Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy

A young man meets his dream woman (and isn't the least rather troubled that she's a washed-up porn actress 30 years his senior) in this independent coming-of-age comedy. Tobe Hulbert (Dustin Ingram) is a 17-year-old high school graduate who is the working definition of a loser—he's nerdy and socially inept, he lives with his eccentric grandfather (Brian Dennehy), his closest friend, Kenny (Daniel Yelsky), is only 12 years old, and he drives a beat-up hot-dog wagon with a giant frankfurter bolted to the roof. Among his other obsessions, Tobe is fascinated with adult movies of the 1970s and 1980s, and his favorite actress is Monica Velour…

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Fei hap siu baak lung (2004)

Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Romantic drama

Black Phoenix, who is born with a beautiful appearance and comes from a privileged background, attends a school for children of elite families. After winning a beauty contest in school, she attracts the attention of the Second Prince Tianyang, who presents the award to her. One day, a blind assassin called Chicken Feathers comes to kill the principal and gets into a fight with the janitor, who is secretly a famous martial artist known as White Dragon.

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Fatty Finn (1980)

Comedy, Family Comedy

Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in Sydney, New South Wales in 1930, the neighbourhood nice guys are led by Fatty (real name Hubert Finn), an ambitious ten-year-old with an eye for making a quid. From shady frog jumping contests to a fixed goat race, Fatty uses his enterprise to raise enough money to buy a crystal set (radio without a separate power supply) that is worth seventeen shillings & sixpence (17/6), more than his Dad is able to save up in a year. Bruiser Murphy the bully and his gang try to stop him.

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Francis Goes to the Races (1951)

Comedy, fantasy film

Francis the Talking Mule and his sidekick Peter Sterling visit Colonel Travers and his granddaughter on their family horse farm, where Peter becomes involved in the world of horse racing. A crime boss and his men trying to fix races involving the Travers' horses. Peter accepts an offer to have Francis boarded at the race track stables as a companion animal.

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Camp Daze (2005)

Comedy horror, fantasy film, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction, Slasher, teen film

During a sing-along at Camp Hiawatha in 1981, two revelers sneak away to have sex and are killed by an unseen assailant. Twenty-four years later, four friends (Angela, Jen, Mario, and Vade) are driving through the area on their way to Boston. The quartet becomes lost (passing the same sign several times) and their SUV breaks down after night comes unusually early.

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Happy Land (1943)

Drama, fantasy film, romance film, war film

Lew Marsh receives a message that his only son, Rusty, has been killed in the war. Lew, a pharmacist in the small town of Hartfield, Iowa, is so grief-stricken, he neglects everything and isolates himself. One day, Lew is visited by his dead grandfather's spirit.

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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

Comedy, fantasy film

thumb|Angel on My Shoulder (1946) After his release from prison, gangster Eddie Kagle is killed by his partner in crime, Smiley Williams. Kagle ends up in Hell, where "Nick" offers him a chance to leave and avenge his own death in exchange for help with a problem. Kagle looks exactly like Judge Frederick Parker, an upright man who is causing Nick distress because he is honest.

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Closed Mondays (1974)

Stop motion

The film opens with the words "CLOSED MONDAYS" written in white against a black background, filling the screen. Using a pull-back shot, the camera then shows the viewer that the words are part of a sign that reads: A version of the film released on home video blacks out the "USUAL CRAP" part of the sign. It is night.

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Santa and the Three Bears (1970)

animated cartoon, Christmas film

Two young bears, Nikomi and Chinook, know nothing of Christmas until the local park ranger tells them about the legend, and they become curious to meet Santa Claus. Their mother, Nana, is preparing for Winter hibernation and cynically tells her children there is no Santa, but they are determined to believe. Mother finds it impossible to begin their sleep, since the young cubs wish to stay awake until Santa arrives.

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Francis Joins the WACS (1954)

Comedy, fantasy film

A computer error mistakenly assigns junior officer Peter Stirling to the Women's Army Corps (WAC). Peter's old friend Francis, a talking mule, helps him through his various military and personal problems, including several familiar stays in the base's psychiatric ward. The WACs are initially highly suspicious of him, suspecting him of having been sent by General Ben Kaye to sabotage their efforts to prove themselves.

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The Gamers: Hands of Fate (2013)

fantasy film

The movie begins with a team of players playing the Pathfinder RPG (a tabletop role-playing game based on Dungeons and Dragons). Though the team experiences problems in its schedule and it is unable to meet for more than a year partially because one of the players, Leo, a hobby store owner, spends a lot of time on a fictionally old card game, Romance of the Nine Empires (R9E), by selling cards and organizing tournaments. At that point, the main character of the film, Cass, who dislikes collectible card games because of the amount of money the player has to spend and the lack of narrative, meets a veteran female player Natalie and quickly…

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