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Explore magic, fantastic creatures and imagined worlds.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,692 films · Page 129.

Hokus Pokus (1949)

Comedy

The Stooges are employed as paperhangers who concurrently attend to the care of Mary, an invalid purportedly unable to walk. However, Mary's apparent physical limitations belie her clandestine scheme to defraud her insurance company of $25,000 by feigning disability. Amidst their professional duties of affixing posters, the Stooges chance upon an advertisement promoting the services of a renowned hypnotist, Svengarlic, renowned for his purported ability to elicit profound transformations in individuals.

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Gathering of Heroes: Legend of the Seven Swords

Action, fantasy film, Science fiction

In the mystical realm of Ryntia, the forces of the underworld are aligning to unleash a plague of evil upon the surface. The deadly bat-like Blood Reavers, the Goblin Hordes, the Saurian Maurauders, the Orcish Warmongers and the feline Shadowcat mercenaries have pledged their respective clans to the service of Bre'Gwen, queen of the deep elves. Together they seek to destroy the human and Elven kingdoms and rule all of Ryntia in the name of evil.

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Santa Claus (1912)

fantasy film

thumb|left|upright|Leedham Bantock as Santa Claus and Favronova as Ting-a-ling thumb|upright|Ting-a-ling at the Naughty Boy's window Little Elsie is put to bed on Christmas Eve, and after her mother wishes her good night, she falls asleep. Her dream forms the theme of the story. Old Santa Claus appears to her with his assistant Ting-a-ling (named for the sleigh bells on her clothing) and persuades her to come with him up the old-fashioned fireplace.

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Aimy in a Cage (2015)

fantasy film

Aimy is a young teenager living in a world where a plague is slowly spreading throughout the world. Any teenagers that rebel against the system are given Wolworth Surgery, which changes them into controllable model citizens. The film takes place entirely within the family's apartment, while they attempt to civilize Aimy in an escalating cat and mouse battle, and the world ends around them.

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Still Small Voices (2007)

Drama, fantasy film, Mysterie, thriller film

Michael Summer is a 911 dispatcher who lives with her husband, Ash, a doctor. The only other person in her life is her mother, Anne Hartley. Michael suffers from recurring nightmares involving a dangerous-looking man attempting to break through a door, alongside visions of a young girl in a blue dress.

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The Gladiator (1938)

fantasy film

Hugo Kipp, a man, upon returning to college is invited into playing for the football team. He is considered a loser on the team, until an professor Danner send him a drug that gives him super strength. After the formula turns him into a campus hero, Hugo Kipp enters a wrestling ring against Man Mountain Dean to raise money for an orphanage.

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It Came from the Sky (1999)

Comedy drama

Donald Bridges and his wife Alice have a young son, Andy, who is emotionally disturbed due to a near-drowning accident. The parents frequently argue with each other about how to raise their son until they have uninvited houseguests when a plane carrying Jarvis Moody and Pepper Upper falls from the sky and crashes right onto their roof. Jarvis and Pepper are a pair of wealthy eccentrics who give Donald and Alice a lesson in how to enjoy life.

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Smilin' Through (1941)

fantasy film, musical film, war film

In late Victorian England Kathleen is a young Irish woman in love with an American, Kenneth Wayne. The romance, however, is opposed by her adopted father John Carteret, who recalls the painful memory of his tragically thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean Clare many years before.

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A Short Film About John Bolton (2003)

fantasy film, Vampire

In a posh London gallery, Carolyn Dalgleish (Carolyn Backhouse) prepares a showing of the latest works by John Bolton: disturbing portraits of beautiful, vicious vampiric women he encountered whilst pot holing. The Interviewer (Marcus Brigstocke) collects information on Bolton, who seems to perplex those who work with him and collect his art (like radio personality Jonathan Ross (playing himself)). Bolton appears to review the placement of the paintings before the opening.

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Tales of Poe (2014)

fantasy film, Horror, independent film

Based on the classic works of Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Poe is a series of three chilling stories adapted for the screen and based on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", and one of his more obscure poems "Dreams". Bart Mastronardi wrote and directed his award-winning The Tell Tale Heart starring horror star Debbie Rochon and changes the genders from the original story to female in this macabre story that takes place in a mental asylum. Alan Rowe Kelly wrote, directed and stars in an updated adaptation of The Cask with co-stars Randy Jones and Brewster McCall in a love triangle gone awry in a Giallo styled film of…

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The Piper (2023)

fantasy film, Horror

Melanie Walker, a talented flautist performing under renowned conductor Gustafson, is preparing for an important orchestral concert when the sudden death of celebrated composer Katherine Fleischer throws the program into disarray. Gustafson had planned to premiere Katherine’s final concerto, but the score is nowhere to be found. Having once studied under Katherine, Melanie volunteers to locate the missing work.

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A Piece of Cake (1948)

Comedy, fantasy film

In the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril Clarke composes comical odes for an act for the BBC. As his wife Betty continuously interrupts him to remind him that he needs to obtain supplies from his "under-the counter" contacts for the dinner party they are hosting that evening, he creates an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. When he later falls asleep at his desk, he dreams that Merlin has become real and grants his host's wishes for those rationed items of drink and fine food, not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but obtaining them from other people's…

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