Defending Your Life (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Starring: Albert Brooks, James Eckhouse, Rip Torn, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Lee Grant
Director: Albert Brooks
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (TV Series 2013)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. An invisible cat, a hookah-smoking caterpillar and playing cards that talk are just some of the fantastic things she’s seen during this impossible adventure. Surely this troubled girl must be insane and her doctors aim to cure her with a treatment that will make her forget everything. Alice seems ready to put it all behind her, especially the painful memory of the genie she fell in love with and lost forever — the handsome and mysterious Cyrus. But deep down Alice knows this world is real and just in the nick of time, the sardonic Knave of Hearts and the irrepressible White Rabbit arrive to save her from a doomed fate. Together, the trio will take a tumble down the rabbit hole to this Wonderland where nothing is impossible.
Starring: Sophie Lowe, Michael Socha, Peter Gadiot, Emma Rigby, Naveen Andrews, John Lithgow, Brian George
Creator: Jane Espenson, Zack Estrin, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
The Monkey King / Xi you ji: Da nao tian gong (2014)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Sun Wukong, (The Monkey King) is a monkey born from a heavenly stone who acquires supernatural powers. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to India. Thus, according to legend, Buddhism is brought to ancient China. This much beloved story, is as much a part of Asian culture as The Iliad and The Odyssey or The Wizard of Oz are to the West. This first installment in a trilogy of live action 3-D movies is actually a prequel to The Journey To The West, the much told story of the Monkey King's adventures on the road to India. The Monkey King: Havoc In The Heavenly Palace will be released in the U.S. as The Monkey King. The first movie is the origins story – beginning with the birth of Sun Wukong and ending with his imprisonment for his crimes under the Five-Peaked Mountain. Along the way he acquires incredible powers, battling the armies of the gods and the armies of the demons to find his rightful place in the Heavens.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Yun-Fat Chow, Aaron Kwok, Yitian Hai, Peter Ho, Joe Chen, Xia Zitong
Director: Pou-Soi Cheang
The Philosophers / After the Dark (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Starring: James D'Arcy, Sophie Lowe, Daryl Sabara, Freddie Stroma, Rhys Wakefield, Bonnie Wright, Jacob Artist
Director: John Huddles
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion / Gekijôban Mahou Shojo Madoka Magica Shinpen: Hangyaku no Monogatari (2013)
Animation | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Madoka Kaname. Once a normal girl who led a happy life, she sacrificed herself to save other magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them. Unable to let her memories of Madoka die, magical girl Homura Akemi continues to fight alone in the world that Madoka left behind, dreaming of meeting that nostalgic smiling face one more time…
Starring: Aoi Yuki, Chiwa Saito, Kaori Mizuhashi, Eri Kitamura, Ai Nonaka, Emiri Katou, Kana Asumi
Director: Akiyuki Shinbo, Yukihiro Miyamoto
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Shirley MacLaine, Sean Penn, Kathryn Hahn
Director: Ben Stiller
Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend / Figyua na anata (2013)
Drama | Erotica | Fantasy | Romance
A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.
Starring: Kokone Sasaki, Tasuku Emoto, Mitsu Dan, Yuki Mamiya
Director: Takashi Ishii
Viy / Forbidden Empire (2014)
Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Western Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods of Ukraine. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Aleksey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskite, Andrey Smolyakov, Igor Jijikine, Oleg Taktarov
Director: Oleg Stepchenko
Destová víla / The Rain Fairy (2010)
Family | Fantasy
The Elements that control everything – Air, Fire, Earth and Water – do a regular inspection of people. We are following Water, called Rain Fairy, dressed as a poor woman going through countryside. She finds out that people became selfish, envious and lust for money and that love and goodness are fading. Elements decide that people should be punished and so it stops raining…
Starring: Lenka Vlasáková, Vica Kerekes, Jakub Gottwald, Miroslav Donutil, Simona Stasová, Marián Labuda, Martin Dejdar, Petr Nározný
Director: Milan Cieslar
Waking (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Ben's life is on a predictable but seemingly perfect path, with success in his future in both his career and personal life. He has a fine fiancee, a great job working for her dad, and it looks like he may be about to take over her dad's practice as a psychologist once he ties the knot with the daughter. But a chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Nadia changes everything. After meeting her, recurring dreams of her turn into something much more. He finds he is able to connect with Nadia in dreams, getting her real phone number through a dream initially, then going on beautiful journeys together through their past memories, in dreams. Ben must decide if this one in a million connection actually is real, and if he is meant to throw away a good life, for… literally, the girl of his dreams.
Starring: Skyler Caleb, Meg Cionni, Tim Daly, Alison Haislip, Tara Erickson, Steve Moulton
Director: Ben Shelton
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47 Ronin (2013)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
In this fictional version of 18th century Japan's most enduring tale, an outcast named Kai joins a group of Samurai, led by Kuranosuke Oishi. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honor to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rinko Kikuchi, Ko Shibasaki, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Carl Rinsch
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Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
While vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, the Henderson clan accidentally run over a strange animal with their car, and when they get out to see what it is, they find the seemingly dead body of a hairy Bigfoot-type monster. Believing that the creature is a grizzly bear, the Hendersons take it home, planning to stuff the beast and put it on display in their living room. Predictably, the hirsute monster revives and is adopted by the family as a pet.
Starring: John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Kevin Peter Hall, David Suchet
Director: William Dear
Death Note: The Last Name / Death Note 2 / Desu nôto: The last name (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself—and get rid of L.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Shidô Nakamura, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Death Note / Death Note 1 / Desu nôto (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
A battle between the world's 2 greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Cesta do praveku / Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Four young boys visit a dinosaur exhibit at the New York city Museum of Natural History. They then row out onto Central Park Lake where they find a secret cave and paddle into a wondrous prehistoric world filled with the very dinosaurs they had just seen.
Starring: Vladimír Bejval, Petr Herrman, Zdenek Hustak, Josef Lukás
Director: Karel Zeman, Fred Ladd
Anohana the Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day / Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day – The Movie / Ano hi mita hana no namae wo bokutachi wa mada shiranai (2013)
Animation | Fantasy | Teen
She suddenly appeared before us one day… 6 of us…friends…we were always together. I believed that I wasn't afraid of anything. But, then it happened. I didn't mean to hurt her. I'll just tell her sorry tomorrow, that's what I thought. But… That "tomorrow" never came. So, time passed by and then one summer day, a miracle happened. Because of an accident during their childhood, 6 friends' hearts were closed shut, and they grew apart from one another. One summer day, their friend who passed away in the accident appears before them. But, she cannot remember the reason why she came back. The friends meet once more to figure out just what her "reason" was.
Starring: Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Haruka Tomatsu, Takahiro Sakurai, Saori Hayami, Takayuki Kondô
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
The Wrath of Vajra / Jin gang wang (2013)
Action | Fantasy | Horror
Japanese assassin's cult kidnaps children and trains them to grow into lethal killing machines. Vajra, the best fighter, escapes to China joins Shaolin and fights to protect against the deadly cult.
Starring: Yu Xing, Sung-jun Yoo, Heon Jun Nam, Baocheng Jiang, Yamei Zhang, Yasuaki Kurata, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Director: Wing-cheong Law
Mr. Vampire / Geung si sin sang (1985)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
Starring: Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-hou Chin, Wah Yuen, Anthony Chan, Ma Wu, Moon Lee
Director: Ricky Lau
The Rainbow Thief (1990)
Drama | Fantasy
A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Christopher Lee
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Král Drozdia brada / King Thrushbeard (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a beggar. The poor life, hard work and love teach the princess a lesson and turn her into a loving and kind person.
Starring: Adriana Tarábková, Lukás Vaculík, Zita Furková, Maria Schell, Gerhard Olschewski, Marián Labuda
Director: Miloslav Luther
