Grimm's Snow White (2012)
Adventure | Fantasy
When the King is killed by ferocious reptile beasts, his Queen takes control of the kingdom. She tries to kill her beautiful stepdaughter Snow, but she escapes into the enchanted forest.
Starring: Eliza Bennett, Jane March, Jamie Thomas King
Director: Rachel Goldenberg
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Thriller
Legendary fairytale scribes Jake and Will Grimm are two brothers who travel around the Napoleonic countryside vanquishing monsters and demons in exchange for quick money. But when the French authorities figure out their scheme, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse when they enter an enchanted forest where young maidens keep disappearing under mysterious circumstance. Many of their renowned fairytales including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel&Gretel are woven into the story as the Brothers Grimm are forced to confront all that their imaginations have brought to life.
Starring: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce, Monica Bellucci, Peter Stormare
Director: Terry Gilliam
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
Animation | Family | Fantasy
Belle prepares the castle for Christmas against Beast's wishes, trying to bring him happiness for the season. Forte, a pipe organ, fears that Belle's plans may eventually bring about an end to the curse… the curse that brought him more importance in the Master's life. Forte uses Fife, a flute who desperately wants a solo, to destroy Belle's plans and get rid of her.
Starring: Robby Benson, Paige O'Hara, Jerry Orbach, Tim Curry, Angela Lansbury
Director: Andrew Knight
My Neighbor Totoro / Tonari no Totoro (1988)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Two young girls, Mei and Satsuki, move into a new home that is close to the hospital that their mother is in. In their yard is an extremely large tree which is home to three Totoros, gods of the forest. Soon after, news from the hospital comes up that their mother can't come home as promised, so Mei (the younger daughter) runs away from home to visit her mom. Satsuki then needs to turn to Totoro for help in finding her sister.
Starring: Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Paul Butcher, Dakota Fanning, Frank Welker
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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4:44 Last Days on Earth (2011)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Natasha Lyonne, Paz de la Huerta
Director: Abel Ferrara
Green Lantern (2011)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Tim Robbins, Jay O. Sanders, Taika Waititi, Angela Bassett
Director: Martin Campbell
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Enter the Void (2009)
Drama | Fantasy
The story of a young man, Oscar, who after the brutal death of his parents, makes a promise to his sister never to leave her, no matter what, but is killed at the hands of corrupt police.
Starring: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn
Director: Gaspar Noé
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Hancock (2008)
Action | Crime | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
There are heroes… there are superheroes… and then there's Hancock (Will Smith). With great power comes great responsibility – everyone knows that – everyone, that is, but Hancock. Disgruntled, conflicted, sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock's well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough – as grateful as they are to have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn't a man who cares what people think – until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), and the unpopular superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all.
Starring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Galecki
Director: Peter Berg
The Witches of Oz (2011)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy
The Witches of Oz follows the exploits of the grown Dorothy Gale, now a successful children's book author, as she moves from Kansas to present day New York City. Dorothy quickly learns that her popular books are based on repressed childhood memories, and that the wonders of Oz are very, very real. When the Wicked Witch of the West shows up in Times Square, Dorothy must find the inner courage to stop her.
Starring: Paulie Rojas, Billy Boyd, Eliza Swenson, Sasha Jackson, Jeffrey Combs, Sean Astin, Mia Sara, Lance Henriksen, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Leigh Scott
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Big (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Through a carnival wishing machine, a 12-year-old boy is transferred into the body of a 35- year-old man.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton
Director: Penny Marshall
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Spawn (1997)
Action | Fantasy | Thriller
Five years after he was murdered by his own colleagues in a covert government operation, Al Simmons makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected so that he may see his wife Wanda once more. In return for the favor, the devil requires, in typically Faustian fashion, that Simmons lead Hell's Army for the destruction of humankind. Blessed in life with extraordinary killing skills, Simmons is even more deadly with the backing of his new master and the changling powers he has at his disposal. As he begins to discover and exercise his new strengths, he encounters two figures who direct him to use his powers in order to serve two different agendas. Cogliostro encourages Spawn to fight the devil and become a new champion for humankind, while Clown goads Spawn into continuing to serve his new master and lead the Armageddon.
Starring: Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, Nicol Williamson
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
True Blood (TV Series 2008-2014)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the Vampire Bill, walks into her place of employment two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Chris Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Jim Parrack, Carrie Preston, Alexander Skarsgård, Todd Lowe, Deborah Ann Woll, William Sanderson, Kristin Bauer
Creator: Alan Ball
Altered States (1980)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression.
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Drew Barrymore, John Larroquette
Director: Ken Russell
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Just Call Me Nobody / Da Xiao Jiang Hu (2010)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
A hapless tax collector takes shelter at an abandoned temple, the favorite haunting grounds of a 1000 year old adrogynous tree demon. Beset with perilous traps and temptations by deadly but seductive she-devils, the bumbling hero falls in love with a beautiful ghost, whose spirit is enslaved by the tree demon. The two lovers risk their eternal souls to escape the demon's wrath, searching for happiness together.
Starring: Xiao Shen-Yang, Benshan Zhao, Kelly Lin, Eric Tsang, Jacky Wu
Director: Yen-ping Chu
Barbarella / Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy (1968)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Barbarella, a 41st century earthling, is sent on a mission by the president of Earth to find Duran Duran, a scientist who has disappeared with an all-powerful weapon.
Starring: Jane Fonda, David Hemmings, John Phillip Law, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, Milo O'Shea
Director: Roger Vadim
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Sky Blue / Wonderful Days (2003)
Action | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Would you know the colour "sky blue" if you had never seen the sky in your life? This futuristic Korean animation is set in a world where mankind's reckless exploitation of the environment has sparked a planet杦ide catastrophe that has shielded the sun from view. Can two young freedom fighters find a way to clear the clouds and allow the people of Earth to see the blue sky for the first time in their lives?
Starring: Marc Worden, Cathy Cavadini, Andrew Ableson, Joon-ho Chung, David Naughton
Director: Moon-saeng Kim
Catwoman (2004)
Action | Fantasy
Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she's dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone, a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.
Starring: Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone, Lambert Wilson, Alex Borstein
Director: Pitof
Solomon Kane (2009)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
The movie tells the origins of Solomon Kane and is hoped to be the first of a trilogy of movies. When the story opens Kane is a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I fighting in Africa, but after an encounter with a demon, The Reaper, he realizes he must seek redemption or have his soul damned to Hell. He returns to Engand and lives a life of peace, converting to puritanism, but soon the doings of an evil sorceror upset his plans and he must take up arms again.
Starring: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Mark O'Neal, Robert Orr, Richard Ryan, Frantisek Deak, Christian Dunckley Clark, Ian Whyte
Director: Michael J. Bassett
Velayudham (2011)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Velu (Joseph Vijay) is a village milkman who raises and dotes on his younger sister Kaveri (Saranya Mohan). When her marriage is fixed, Velu decides to collect his hard-earned savings from the Building Society in Chennai. However, his indirect encounters with the Underworld mafia soon lands him in a dilemma of being mistaken as the Superhero "Velayutham" – a fictional character created by Bharathi (Genelia D'Souza), a journalist committed to eradicating terrorism.
Starring: Vijay, Genelia D'Souza, Hansika Motwani, Saranya Mohan, Santhanam
Director: M. Raja
Phenomenon (1996)
Drama | Fantasy
The main character observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intelligent and puts the intelligence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.
Starring: John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, Jeffrey DeMunn
Director: Jon Turteltaub
