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No Such Thing (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tells the story of Beatrice (Sarah Polley), a tabloid journalist whose fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. She ends up falling in love with the monster in the end. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by ...
Style: fairy tale, satirical, stylized, humorous, cult classic ...
Plot: beauty and the beast, monster, dangerous attraction, love and romance, fish out of water, friendship, haunted by the past, satire, hospital, mad scientist, creature, social commentary ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: iceland, europe, reykjavik iceland, new york
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The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into ...
Style: feel good, touching, exciting, humorous, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: rich and poor, youth, switching roles, hidden identity, mistaken identity, fish out of water, young heroes, social differences, tudors, dishonesty, intrigue, human nature ...
Time: 16th century
Place: europe, england
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 5.2
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Lovespell (1981)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
Style: arthurian, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, medieval, love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, tragic love, couples, head of state, love and romance, unfulfillment, fall in love, rivalry ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 6th century, year 1981
Place: ireland, cornwall, europe, britain
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 6.3
 2K
Grimm (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story: One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out-of-work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle ...
Style: semi serious, surreal, atmospheric, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: woods, family life, parents and children, forced sexual contact, survival, escape, surrealism, family relations, dark humor, female on male rape, rottweiler, homeless ...
Place: spain, europe
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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Belle prepares the castle for Christmas against Beast's wishes, trying to bring him happiness for the season...
Style: christmas special, fairy tale, christmas classics, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, beauty and the beast, holiday, disney princess, beast, beauty, princess, xmas, imaginary kingdom, love, storytelling, snow ...
Time: 90s, 18th century
Place: france, europe
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Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: China, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging father's stead. The warrior's remarkable courage drives her through powerful battle scenes and ...
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, realistic, epic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female warrior, cross dressing, heroic mission, female soldier, gender, martial arts, female fighter, medieval, tough girl, military, escapades, heroes ...
Place: china, ancient china, asia
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain ...
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting, intense, scenic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, date night ...
Plot: magic, witch, good versus evil, snow white, princess, fantasy world, heroine, evil queen, sorceress, immortality, queen, imaginary kingdom ...
Time: year 2012, middle ages, 2010s, medieval times
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Harry and the Hendersons (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Harry and the Hendersons is an American sitcom based on the film of the same name, produced by Amblin Entertainment for Universal Television. The series aired in syndication from January 13, 1991 to June 18, 1993, with 72 half-hour episodes ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, touching, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: creature, sasquatch, family relations, bigfoot, fish out of water, friends, parents and children, pets, disorder, family life, animal, myth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, seattle
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Chupacabra Territory (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four friends hike into the Pinewood forest to find evidence of the Chupacabra, a creature believed to be responsible for the disappearance of a group of experienced hikers a year earlier.
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, bleak ...
Plot: found footage, monster, chupacabra, murder, supernatural power, escapades, evil, youth, characters in danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Skookum: The Hunt for Bigfoot (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Deep in the Louisiana swamp lives a legend. In the fall of 2013, the legend comes to life. Many have seen, some have heard, and none have forgotten: the giant hairy creature with glowing red eyes that locals refer to as the Beast of Bayou Dorcheat. ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic, suspense, scary
Plot: bigfoot, monster, supernatural, death, characters in danger, revenge, supernatural ability, murder, creature, good versus evil, deadly creature, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 2.6
 1K
Abominable (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: sasquatch, bigfoot, giant creature, creature, monster, creature feature, giant monster, violence, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, chases and races, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas. It focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while detailing certain sightings of the monster. This title was a drive-in B movie favorite for ...
Style: scary, independent film, mockumentary, grindhouse, southern gothic ...
Plot: bigfoot, found footage, sasquatch, monster, swamp, exploitation, danger, small town, cryptozoology, creature feature, cryptid, forest ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: arkansas, usa
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Creature from Black Lake (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps run into a Bigfoot-type creature.
Style: anamorphic, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: bigfoot, lake, sasquatch, underwater, swamp, redneck, creature, road trip, small town, hillbilly, beast, woods ...
Place: louisiana
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Return to Boggy Creek (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three children and two adults become trapped in the woods during a hurricane and it is up to a Bigfoot-like creature called 'Big Bay-Ty' to come to their rescue.
Style: southern gothic, psychotronic, independent film, spooky
Audience: horror for children
Plot: bigfoot, monster, sasquatch, killer animal, exploitation, youth, redneck, swamp, hurricane, creature feature, rainstorm, flooding ...
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Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Scientists mount an expedition to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
Style: semi documentary, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: bigfoot, sasquatch, monster, creature feature, creature, bear, expedition, scientist, narration, scared, redsploitation, paranormal ...
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Night of the Demon (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A professor and his students have a grisly encounter with a sasquatchlike creature that prowls the backwoods.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: bigfoot, raped by monster, forest, dangerous animal, monster, danger, deadly creature, supernatural, youth, escapades, sexual abuse, teenage life ...
Time: 70s
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The Loch Ness Horror (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hunters set out to catch the legendary Scottish monster that has defied explanation and eluded capture since the 1940s.
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: kaiju, loch ness monster, giant monster, monster, boat, creature, water monster, exploitation, cryptid, octopus, prehistoric animal, cryptozoology ...
Place: scotland
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Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: bigfoot, sasquatch, wildlife, happy ending, fish out of water, family drama, mentor, police investigation, brothers, kindness, animal, creature ...
Time: 80s
Place: seattle, washington state, usa, north america
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To Catch a Yeti (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Big Jake's after Bigfoot in the Big Apple. It's the biggest chase this town has ever seen.
Audience: kids
Plot: bigfoot, yeti, monster, youth, stupid kid, creature, sasquatch, trapper, kidnapping, electrocution, wealth, spoiled brat ...
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Wendigo (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A duo of gun happy redneck hunters stupidly break a sacred circle in a hunting spree, which releases the deadly wendigo. The wendigo kills many of the hunters gruesomely, leaving the chosen woman and a gun toting idiot to destroy the deadly beast.
Style: grindhouse, christmas horror, independent film, serious, scary ...
Plot: wendigo, monster, zombie, xmas, creature feature, giant monster, cryptid, native, kaiju, creature, stop motion, snow ...
Time: 90s
Place: michigan, usa
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Little Bigfoot 2: The Journey Home (1998)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A single father and his children come to Little Bigfoot's rescue when a wealthy landowner hunts him down, hoping to use him as a profitable circus attraction.
Style: independent film, serious, touching, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: bigfoot, stupid kid, youth, woods, mountain, animal life, circus, escapades, young heroes, getting home, rescue, heroes ...
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The Last Broadcast (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit an assistant and venture into a forest in search of the mythical and horrifying Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of the trio emerges. He becomes the prime suspect ...
Style: mockumentary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot: found footage, danger, murder, forest, uncover truth, supernatural, amateur detective, ghost, obsessive quest, satellite, psycho, filmmaking ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
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The Capture of Bigfoot (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A series of killings occur, with no suspects, the locals soon decide that Bigfoot is responsible.
Style: independent film, scary, serious, rough, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bigfoot, monster, sasquatch, creature, yeti, camping trip, camping, exploitation, camp, small town, social relations, disorder ...
Time: 70s
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Bigfoot and Wildboy (1977)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Children's series about Wildboy, an orphan who was raised in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest by the legendary Sasquatch. Wildboy and Bigfoot roamed the countryside stomping out pollution, capturing diabolical villains, and rescuing ...
Style: weird
Audience: kids
Plot: bigfoot, monster, superhero, superpower, heroes, american indian, native american, legend, feral child, father daughter relationship, forest ranger, adventurer ...
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 3.5
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The Untold (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on actual accounts, The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: experiment gone awry, sasquatch, grizzly bear, bigfoot, missing person, supernatural, survival, rescue, danger, legends and myths, heroic mission, dangerous animal ...
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 2.9
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13th Child (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: People are being killed by someone or something using superhuman strength. A clever DA Assistant is sent to investigate. Is this just a way to commit the perfect murder or will the legend of the Jersey Devil prove to be true?
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious
Plot: demon, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, law enforcement, gory, devil, brutality, rescue, urban legend, folklore, monster ...
Place: new jersey, usa
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 5.1
 5K
Wendigo (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency. Needing some time away from the city, Jake, his wife Kim, and their son Miles head to upstate New York to ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, suspense, creepy ...
Plot: wendigo, isolation, beast, snow, gory, family relations, spirit, danger, family in crisis, parents and children, winter, monster ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, new york state, usa
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Legend of the Chupacabra (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Is the legend of Chupacabran (roughly translated to getsugare) true? Or is it just folklore? Or a madman in latex suit? When Maria Esperanza's uncle and his goats are assaulted and killed, she collects together a team of crypto zoology student ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, funny ...
Plot: found footage, creature feature, deadly creature, uncover truth, supernatural, chupacabra, danger, legend, monster, escapades, gory, urban legend ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
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Satan's Playground (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: SATAN'S PLAYGROUND is a supernatural shocker chronicling a family's spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey's legendary Pine Barrens region. En route to a wilderness camping retreat, their car inexplicably breaks down. As darkness falls, ...
Style: slasher, surreal, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, ghost, serial killer, family relations, isolation, psychopath, danger, supernatural, supernatural ability, survival, voyeur, destiny ...
Place: new jersey, texas, usa, europe, england
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 3.1
 154
Among Us (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: B-movie director Billy D'Amato has made a career out of horror movies...but when he meets a real "monster in the woods" on a shoot, he is forced to re-evaluate, and fight for, his life.
Style: independent film, psychotronic, fake documentary
Plot: bigfoot, found footage, monster, sasquatch, filmmaking, cryptozoology, professor, paranoia, creature, forest, creature feature, lake ...
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