Category: Fantasy
Posted on February 10, 2013 |
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Saludos Amigos (1942)
Animation | Family | Fantasy | Music | Short
Live-action segments show members of the Disney staff touring South America and recording their impressions in sketches. These segue into four animated sections: "Lake Titicaca" depicts tourist Donald Duck's troubles with a stubborn llama; "Pedro" tells of a little mail plane's adventures flying over the treacherous Andes; "El Gaucho Goofy" transplants an American cowboy into the Argentine pampas; and in "Aquarela do Brasil," Jose Carioca shows Donald the sights and sounds of Rio de Janiero.
Starring: José Oliveira
Narrator: Fred Shields
Director: Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts
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Posted on February 7, 2013 |
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The Five Star Stories / The Five Star Monogatari (1989)
Action | Animation | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Amaterasu is the god of light, the future emperor of the Joker Star System. Under the guise of young mecha conceptor Ladios Sopp, he is compelled by an old friend, Dr Ballanche, to save his two latest Fatimas Lachesis and Clotho. And so began the stories of the Joker System, as well as Amaterasu's love for Lachesis.
Starring: Ryô Horikawa, Maria Kawamura, Rei Sakuma, Norio Wakamoto
Director: Kazuo Yamazaki
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Posted on January 31, 2013 |
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Weird Science (1985)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to becoming accepted, they encounter many hilarious obstacles, which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton
Director: John Hughes
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Posted on January 31, 2013 |
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Strings (2004)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy
Hal Tara is the son of The Kahro of the city of Hebalon and heir to the throne. When The Kahro kills himself, Hal is chosen to taken his place to rule Hebalon. But the discovery of The Kahro's suicide letter, that his father's death was no suicide, and was conducted by rivals of the city known as The Zeriths, Hal disguising himself as a commoner leaves the city and sets out to find the Zeriths and avenge his father. But Nezo, The Kahro's evil advisor who discovered the Kahro's body sends a warrior known as Erito to join Hal and to kill him. Entering the Zerith's camp, unaware of his identity, Hal falls in love with Zita, a Zerith female warrior, unaware Nezo has evil schemes to take over ruler ship of the city and Erito's wife Eike and Hal's sister Jhinna have uncovered his evil plot.
Starring: James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart, Claire Skinner, David Harewood, Samantha Bond
Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
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Posted on January 30, 2013 |
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Labyrinth (TV mini-series 2012)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
The series follows two women, modern-day archeologist Alice Tanner (Vanessa Kirby) and medieval Alaïs Pelletier du Mas (Jessica Brown Findlay) who lives through the Crusades and Cathar massacres in medieval France-and their quest to find the Holy Grail. Alice, a volunteer at a French archaeological excavation, discovers the skeletal remains of two people in a cave, as well as a labyrinth-engraved ring, which attracts the attention of unscrupulous individuals. In 1209, newly married Alaïs is living in Carcassonne, a stronghold of Cathars who have been declared heretical by the Church. Alaïs and her father are protecting three sacred books that reveal the secret of the Holy Grail from the Crusaders.
Starring: John Hurt, Tom Felton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tony Curran, Vanessa Kirby, Sebastian Stan, Emun Elliott, Katie McGrath
Creator: Kate Mosse
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Tags: Emun Elliott, Jessica Brown Findlay, John Hurt, Kate Mosse, Katie McGrath, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Tony Curran, Vanessa Kirby
Posted on January 30, 2013 |
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Spooky Encounters / Gui da gui (1980)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
It is a tale about Cheung, a cuckolded husband, sent on a wild roller coaster ride of spooky encounters when his wife's wealthy lover tries to do away with him with the help of black magic by a Taoist monk. How Cheung defiles his enemies is an uproarious comedy featuring hopping vampires, supernatural possession, copious splashings of chicken blood and relentless chanting, all mixed with an exhilarating dose of kung fu and slapstick humour.
Starring: Sammo Hung, Ha Huang, Dick Wei, Fat Chung, Lung Chan
Director: Sammo Hung
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Posted on January 29, 2013 |
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Lost Girl (TV Series 2010-2016)
Drama | Fantasy
Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.
Starring: Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, Zoie Palmer, Richard Howland, Ksenia Solo, K.C. Collins, Rachel Skarsten
Creator: Michelle Lovretta
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Posted on January 28, 2013 |
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Chances Are (1989)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson, Christopher McDonald
Director: Emile Ardolino
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Tags: Christopher McDonald, Cybill Shepherd, Emile Ardolino, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal
Posted on January 27, 2013 |
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The Little Prince (1974)
Family | Fantasy | Musical | Sci-Fi
Based on the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a pilot makes a forced landing on the barren Sahara Desert. He is befriended by a "little" prince from the planet Asteroid B-612. In the days that follow, the pilot learns of the small boy's history and planet-hopping journeys in which he met a King, a businessman, an historian, and a general. It isn't until he comes to Earth that the Little Prince learns the secrets of the importance of life from a Fox, a Snake, and the pilot.
Starring: Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland, Clive Revill, Victor Spinetti, Graham Crowden, Donna McKechnie, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder
Director: Stanley Donen
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Tags: Bob Fosse, Clive Revill, Donna McKechnie, Gene Wilder, Graham Crowden, Joss Ackland, Richard Kiley, Stanley Donen, Steven Warner, Victor Spinetti
Posted on January 25, 2013 |
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Holy Motors (2012)
Drama | Fantasy
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man…
Starring: Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Denis Lavant, Kylie Minogue, Jeanne Disson, Michel Piccoli, Elise Lhomeau
Director: Leos Carax
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Tags: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Elise Lhomeau, Eva Mendes, Jeanne Disson, Kylie Minogue, Leos Carax, Michel Piccoli
Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. He can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protege. The sorcerer gives his unwilling apprentice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Monica Bellucci, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer, Toby Kebbell
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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Posted on January 20, 2013 |
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Dagon / Dagon, la secta del mar (2001)
Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of the macabre, Dagon tells the story of Paul Marsh, a young man who discovers that the truth will not set him free instead it condemns him to a waking nightmare of unrelenting horror. A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca looking for help. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul finds himself pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's dark secret: that they pray to Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea. And Dagon's unholy offspring are freakish half-human creatures on the loose in Imboca…
Starring: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez, Brendan Price, Birgit Bofarull
Director: Stuart Gordon
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Posted on January 15, 2013 |
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Lost Girl (TV Series 2010-2016)
Drama | Fantasy
Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.
Starring: Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, Zoie Palmer, Richard Howland, Ksenia Solo, K.C. Collins, Rachel Skarsten
Creator: Michelle Lovretta
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Posted on January 13, 2013 |
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Peter Pan II: Return to Neverland / Return to Never Land / Peter Pan 2 (2002)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
In London during World War II, Wendy comforts her children with stories about her youthful adventures with Peter Pan in the fantastic world of Neverland. Young Danny loves the stories and believes that they're real, but his older sister, Jane, isn't so certain. Jane soon discovers her mother is indeed telling the truth when she's kidnapped by the evil Captain Hook and spirited away to his lair in Neverland. Hook is still trying to capture his nemesis, Peter Pan, after all these years, and is certain he'll come to the rescue of his old friend, Wendy; however, Hook realizes too late that he's carried away Wendy's daughter instead. Peter comes to the aid of young Jane, but as they do battle with Hook, he realizes it will take some work before Jane will fit in with the Lost Boys.
Starring: Blayne Weaver, Corey Burton, Jeff Bennett, Kath Soucie, Andrew McDonough, Roger Rees
Director: Robin Budd, Donovan Cook
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Posted on January 12, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on January 12, 2013 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | War
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." The opening words of the famous novel are the quickest summary of this haunting, funny film. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past as a young American POW, in the future as a well-cared-for resident of a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and in the present as a middle-aged optometrist in Ilium, N.Y.
Starring: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine
Director: George Roy Hill
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Posted on January 11, 2013 |
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Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Music | Musical | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When a record producer steals a composer's music and girlfriend, the composer becomes "The Phantom" of the producer's rock palace and attempts to exact his revenge.
Starring: Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham, George Memmoli
Director: Brian De Palma
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Posted on January 10, 2013 |
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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Musical
The movie is about Sita, the Hindu Goddess from the epic "The Ramayana", who accompanies Lord Rama on a 14 year exile in forest. Sita is abducted by Ravana, the ruler of Lanka. This movie tells the story of Rama and Sita, along-with a biographical account of the director's relationship with her husband.
Starring: Annette Hanshaw, Reena Shah, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Pooja Kumar, Debargo Sanyal
Director: Nina Paley
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Posted on January 9, 2013 |
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Kids of Today / Des jeunes gens mödernes (2011)
Drama | Fantasy | Musical
A legendary 70's rock critic takes hold of a group of young counter-culturalist. From Paris to Beijing, by way of New York, Montreal and Hong Kong, the nightdwellers ride a William Burroughsy wave. As the decadent pasts and urban futures interlace, music from yesterday and today pave a revolutionary road. With his skeleton silhouette coiffed with a big black chapka, the bizarre sixty-something introduces himself : 69-x-69, Yves Adrien's testament executor, the inventor of punk, of novö, the famed music critic of times past.
Starring: Yves Adrien, Lio, Edwige, Aurélie Benchekri, Antoine Capet
Director: Jérôme de Missolz
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Tags: Antoine Capet, Aurélie Benchekri, Edwige, Jérôme de Missolz, Lio, Yves Adrien
