Pastoral: To Die in the Country / Den-en ni shisu (1974)
Drama | Fantasy
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Starring: Kantarô Suga, Hiroyuki Takano
Director: Shûji Terayama
Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire (2000)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
Adam Hansen and his best friend Duffy have tickets to a cool concert. Sister Chelsea Hansen has a date with her boyfriend. Unfortunately, both Adam and Chelsea are grounded. To get their mom out of the house, they come up with a scheme to get her a date with a mysterious man. But the fun doesn't really get started until their little brother, Taylor, figures out that mom's mysterious date is actually a vampire.
Starring: Matt O'Leary, Laura Vandervoort, Myles Jeffrey, Caroline Rhea, Robert Carradine, Karl Pruner
Director: Steve Boyum
Ghosthunters on Icy Trails / Gespensterjäger (2015)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
They couldn't be more different, the members of the trio that allies in the fight against an Ancient Ice Ghost (AIG): Tom, an easily scared boy, Hetty, a professional ghosthunter and the loveable, but pretty slimy Hugo – a ghost. Will the team manage to save their town from the next ice age?
Starring: Anke Engelke, Milo Parker, Bastian Pastewka, Karoline Herfurth, Christian Tramitz, Christian Ulmen, Julia Koschitz, Ruby O. Fee
Director: Tobi Baumann
The Scream Team (2002)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror
Excentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
Starring: Mark Rendall, Kat Dennings, Robert Bockstael, Eric Idle, Tommy Davidson, Kathy Najimy, Kim Coates
Director: Stuart Gillard
Halloweentown High / Halloweentown III (2004)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
When Marnie convinces the Halloweentown Council to send several teenagers to her high school in the mortal world, she even promises to give up her magic if any harm comes to them. But soon, Marnie and her new friends are in trouble and out of luck when the evil Knight Of The Iron Dagger appears. He's determined to destroy all things magical, and it's up to Marnie to save her high school, the human world, and her magic.
Starring: Kimberly J. Brown, Debbie Reynolds, Judith Hoag, Joey Zimmerman, Emily Roeske, Finn Wittrock
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
Halloweentown (1998)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Judith Hoag, Kimberly J. Brown, Phillip Van Dyke, Joey Zimmerman, Emily Roeske
Director: Duwayne Dunham
Da Vinci's Demons (TV Series 2013-2015)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | History | Mystery
Written by David S. Goyer, the series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
Starring: Tom Riley, Laura Haddock, Gregg Chillin, Eros Vlahos, Blake Ritson, Elliot Cowan, Hera Hilmar, James Faulkner, Lara Pulver, David Schofield, Ian Pirie, Alexander Siddig
Creator: David S. Goyer
Kaidan / Kwaidan / Ghost Stories / Hoichi the Earless / Weird Tales (1964)
Fantasy | Horror
This film contains four stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": A woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea…
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Michiyo Aratama, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music | Romance
A 43 year old mother and housewife that's facing divorce is thrust back in time when she tries to plan a high-school reunion. Given the chance to change the course of her life she finds herself making many of the same choices.
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
The Arti: The Adventure Begins / Qi Ren Mi Ma: Gu Luo Bu Zhi Mi (2015)
Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Produced by Taiwan's insanely popular Pili Puppetry, the film follows the story of the children of a family accused of treason who are forced to cross a desert while being pursued by a jealous prince planning to construct a robot army. Featuring Pili's unique fusion of traditional Chinese puppetry and CGI, it was released over the lunar new year holiday in Taiwan and produced with a budget of $10 million, probably making it the most expensive non-Henson/Muppet independent puppet film ever made.
Starring: Ricky Hsiao, Hsiao-shun Hsu, Chia-chia Peng, Yan Pui, Huang Wen Tze
Director: Huang Wen Chang
OzLand (2015)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
In a dry and dusty post-apocalyptic world, two wayfarers wander aimlessly until Leif finds a copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Using the world around him to interpret what he reads, Leif allows the book to challenge the beliefs, friendship, and even the very survival of these two divergent travelers.
Starring: Casey Heflin, Glenn Payne, Dunlap Peeples IV, Zack Ratkovich
Director: Michael Williams
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Inside Out (2015)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Kaitlyn Dias
Director: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
The Land Before Time (1988)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Five orphan dinosaurs travel the ruins of their world, while grieving the loss of their families and banding together to face the odds of survival.
Starring: Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Judith Barsi, Will Ryan, Helen Shaver, Burke Byrnes
Director: Don Bluth
Inside Out (2015)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Kaitlyn Dias
Director: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
Supernatural (TV Series 2005- )
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) are two brothers with a special talent. Well-versed in the supernatural after their father became convinced that their mother was captured by unholy spirits, Dean and Sam dedicated their young lives to hunting down these otherworldly terrors. But adulthood saw Sam drift away from these preternatural activities, instead choosing to settle down in a life of domestic bliss with his girlfriend. But when the Winchesters' dad goes missing, both Dean and Sam know what they have to do – leading to some epic cross-country trips as the brothers try to find their father.
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles
Creator: Eric Kripke
Grimm (TV Series 2011-2017)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
Remember the fairy tales your parents used to tell you before bedtime? Those weren't stories — they were warnings. Nick Burkhardt thought he prepared himself for the realities of working as a homicide detective until he started seeing things he couldn't quite explain. When his ailing Aunt Marie arrives, Nick's life turns upside down when she reveals they are descendants of an elite group of hunters, also known as "Grimms," who fight to keep the balance of humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world. As Nick digs deeper into her past, he realizes that he will have to shoulder the responsibility of his ancestors — and contend with a larger-than-life mythology of the Brothers Grimm that is now all too real.
Starring: David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Reggie Lee, Elizabeth Tulloch, Bree Turner, Claire Coffee
Creator: Stephen Carpenter, David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
29-year-old Adaline survives a near-death experience, and from that day on, never grows older. Adaline guards her secret and her heart for eight decades until a charming philanthropist and his parents force Adaline to confront her destiny in this tale about the timeless power of love.
Starring: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Ellen Burstyn, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Monster Hunt / Zhuo yao ji (2015)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy
The cute baby monster Huba is the child of a human man and a monster queen, threatened by both monster-hating humans and monsters attempting to capture the new-born in an ancient world based on medieval China.
Starring: Baihe Bai, Boran Jing, Wu Jiang, Elaine Jin, Wallace Chung, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng, Wei Tang, Chen Yao, Ni Yan, Jianfeng Bao
Director: Raman Hui
Ineo gongju / My Mother the Mermaid (2004)
Drama | Fantasy
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Hae-il Park, Du-shim Ko, Bu-seon Kim
Director: Heung-Sik Park
Fire City: End of Days (2015)
Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Demons have been living secretly among humans for centuries. It was a fragile balance that has now been shattered when their life source is destroyed. The demon population must rise up and take all necessary steps for survival or their species will cease to exist. The battle for the Earth has begun.
Starring: Danielle Chuchran, Harry Shum Jr., Mary-Margaret Humes, Tobias Jelinek, Kristin Minter
Director: Tom Woodruff Jr.
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