Horsehead (2014)
Fantasy | Horror
A stylish and surreal shocker, Horsehead is a horror-fantasy about Jessica, a young woman who returns to her family's estate, only to be haunted by primal nightmares of a horse-headed phantom, which she investigates with "lucid dreaming."
Starring: Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Murray Head, Gala Besson, Philippe Nahon
Director: Romain Basset
Smosh The Movie (2015)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
From the creators of SMOSH, Ian and Anthony go inside the YouTube portal to delete an embarrassing video of Anthony before his high school crush, Anna, has the chance to see it. They run into one YouTube celebrity after another on their quest to rewrite history before their high school reunion.
Starring: Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla
Director: Alex Winter
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
From the beloved best-selling series of books comes The Spiderwick Chronicles, a fantasy adventure that reveals the rest of the world around us. Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory and their mom) leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great-great-uncle, Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the siblings investigate what's really going on and uncover the extraordinary truth of the Spiderwick estate and the creatures that inhabit it.
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger, Andrew McCarthy, Joan Plowright
Director: Mark Waters
tom thumb (1958)
Family | Fantasy | Musical
The Wonderful Musical Adventure Things are looking up for the woodcutter's lad named tom thumb. Of course, when you're a mere 5 1/2 inches tall, that's the only way things can look. The tiny hero overcomes hard luck and huge obstacles while saving his parents from harm in this beloved Best Special Effects Academy Award winner based on the brothers Grimm tale and produced and directed by trailblazing effects moviemaker George Pal. Russ Tamblyn plays the title role, bringing athletic enthusiasm to an imaginative story in which toys spring to life (but only for Tom!) and unoccupied shoes happily cavort. Peggy Lee composes two of the five songs. And Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers provide gleeful villainy. Good things do indeed come in small packages.
Starring: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles
Director: George Pal
Home (2015)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.
Starring: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin, Matt Jones, Brian Stepanek
Director: Tim Johnson
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | War
A dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge, becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. Ted Randall, guiding Randall through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her devotion to Sandidge's memory.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore, Barry Nelson, Esther Williams
Director: Victor Fleming
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
An eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka, long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle
Director: Tim Burton
The Hobbit (1977)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
A wonderous animated version of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic about the magical world of Middle Earth and the adventures of lovable hobbit named Bilbo Baggins.
Starring: Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Brother Theodore
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Magic in the Water / Glenorky (1995)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
A divorced radio psychiatrist who has been so immersed in his career that he has neglected his two kids, Ashley and Josh. Rectify the situation by taking them to a lakeside cabin in Glenorky, BC the supposed home of a giant mythological reptilian monster. While he works on his book the children head out to explore. It is Ashley who first sees the mythical monster. She tells her dad, and of course, he initially disbelieves her, but the girl seems so earnest that he begins to wonder. His investigation of the matter leads him down a magical road to reconciliation with his children and the rediscovery that there is a wonderful life outside of his career. He even manages to find a little love along the way.
Starring: Mark Harmon, Joshua Jackson, Harley Jane Kozak, Adrien Dorval, Tom Cavanagh, David Rasche
Director: Rick Stevenson
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood.
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, Carrie Fisher, Bridget Fonda
Director: Ate de Jong
Cinderella (2015)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
The story of "Cinderella" follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters Anastasia and Drizella into the family home. But, when Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella since she used to work in the cinders, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind." She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an employee at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
A widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widow handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of her 10 and his 8 children.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Sean Faris, Katija Pevec, Dean Collins, Tyler Patrick Jones
Director: Raja Gosnell
Hot to Trot (1988)
Comedy | Fantasy
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.
Starring: Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy, Virginia Madsen, Cindy Pickett, Jim Metzler
Director: Michael Dinner
The Good Night (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music | Romance
Penelope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Danny DeVito co-star in this dark comedy about an obsessed man who will do anything to make his passion-filled dream life a reality.
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Gwyneth Paltrow, Danny DeVito, Martin Freeman, Simon Pegg, Keith Allen
Director: Jake Paltrow
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Jack Nicholson
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Like Mike (2002)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sport
At a scrawny, unpolished 14 years old, Calvin Cambridge dreams of becoming a professional basketball player, but that seems like a far-off fantasy when you compare him to those athletically gifted NBA giants! However, when he laces up a mysterious pair of old sneakers inscribed with the faded initials "MJ," Calvin leaps from playground hijinks to NBA superstardom, teaching his teammates a few off-the-court lessons as well.
Starring: Shad Moss, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Brenda Song, Jesse Plemons, Crispin Glover
Director: John Schultz
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
When ruthless landlord Max Devlin is struck by a bus, he meets a diabolical "soul manager" with an offer he can't refuse. Max can return to life on earth if he can convince three innocent people to sign their souls over to the devil within two months. In a riotous race against time, all his targets have other ideas.
Starring: Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach, Julie Budd, Sonny Shroyer, Chuck Shamata
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Neverwas (2005)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, William Hurt
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
Drama | Fantasy
An autistic boy who dreams of flying touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.
Starring: Jay Underwood, Lucy Deakins, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Savage, Colleen Dewhurst, Fred Gwynne
Director: Nick Castle
Xanadu (1980)
Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Olivia Newton-John stars in this fantastical musical odyssey as a Greek muse who visits Earth as a human and, with the help of a rollerskating Gene Kelly, inspires young artist Michael Beck to open a glitzy disco roller rink.
Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss, Fred McCarren
Director: Robert Greenwald
