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List of based on fairy tale movies

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Captain Sindbad (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is being run by a brutal dictator played by Pedro Armendariz. He's got designs on the beautiful ...
Style: psychotronic, exciting, semi serious, epic
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: giant bird, sword and sorcery, sorcery, underdog, magician, dragon, mythical creature, arabian nights, sword fight, swashbuckler, danger, adventurer ...
Time: year 1963, 8th century
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Sleeping Beauty (1987)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, independent film, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night, preschool
Plot: sleeping beauty, sleeping, magical, beauty, cinderella, princess, king, queen, curse, magic, elf, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 16th century
Place: europe, france
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 6.5
 930
Snow White (1987)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A prince, seeking the greatest treasure, stumbles upon seven little men guarding a coffin. They tell him the story of Snow White, a beautiful princess who was forced to run away from home after her jealous stepmother tried to have her killed. When ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, period piece, independent film, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, date night, preschool
Plot: snow white, cinderella, magical, house, prince, sleeping, chase, wish come true, physical appearance, royal family, imaginary kingdom, cinderella story ...
Place: germany, europe
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 5.4
 1K
1001 Nights (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the ...
Style: fairy tale, satirical, vintage
Plot: genie, parachuting, erotica, love and romance, king, magic, desert, heroes, journey, wife, trick, female pubic hair ...
Place: london, middle east
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The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques.
Style: cult classic, dark, disturbing, surreal, claymation ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stop motion, surrealism, distopia, mad scientist, minimal dialogue, dystopia, sword and sorcery, adventurer, folklore, manipulation, laboratory, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future
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 7.1
 216K
Enchanted (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Algeria, New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on ...
Style: fairy tale, romantic, feel good, stylized, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: princess, magic, witch, magical, good versus evil, true love, fantasy world, fall in love, prince, imaginary kingdom, love and romance, dragon ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 5.9
 438
The Snow Queen (2005)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 56 min.
Story: When Gerda befriends penniless Kay their growing friendship is cut short as one cold winter night a fragment of glass pierces Kay's eye, turning his heart cold. Enchanted by the Snow Queen he is swept away on her chariot over the glittering ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: young heroes, evil queen, heroic mission, rescue, good versus evil, rivalry, daring rescue, escapades, friendship, imaginary, danger, youth ...
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Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Romania
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is not only taught the craft of milling, but is also instructed in the sinister world of the darker ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, captivating, fairy tale
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: teachers and students, friendship, curses spells and rituals, wizards and magicians, supernatural, supernatural ability, danger, rivalry, raven, buddies, apprentice, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2008, 17th century
Place: europe
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Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Elle wants to be a singer/songwriter, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her parents. She moves in with her adoptive uncle, who runs a small independent record label whose biggest act, Sensation, is also Elle's biggest pain.
Style: sentimental, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: teenage love, cinderella story, cinderella, musician's life, love and romance, follow your dream, youth, family relations, fall in love, teenage life, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Place: usa
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Sinbad and the Minotaur (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sinbad, armed with rumors of ancient gold, finds himself sneaking into the desert camp of the evil sorcerer Al-Jibar. Hidden among the many relics is an ivory scroll case containing the logs of the pirate Captain Minos, which will lead Sinbad to the ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, captivating, exciting, psychotronic
Plot: folk hero, wizards and magicians, deadly creature, treasure hunt, escapades, danger, imaginary, good versus evil, medieval, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, rivalry ...
Place: europe, greece
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 5.6
 26K
Disenchanted (2022)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Denmark, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle turns to the magic of Andalasia for help. Accidentally transforming the entire town into a ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, funny, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: love, spell, kingdom, princess, prince, marriage, magic, disney princess, desire, queen, friend, cat ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
Style: fairy tale, colorful, light, entertaining, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: witch, magic, imaginary kingdom, wizard of oz, good versus evil, circus, wizards and magicians, magic trick, prophecy, medieval, transformation, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, 1900s
Place: kansas
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The 7 Adventures of Sinbad (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sinbad, the original Prince of Persia, must complete seven tasks in order to save the world from catastrophe.
Style: exciting, semi serious, captivating, stylized, mockbuster ...
Plot: save the world, heroes, heroic mission, chaos, escapades, chases and races, danger, rivalry, race against time, medieval, imaginary, legends and myths ...
Place: somalia
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 6.8
 3K
Rags (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Rags follows the story of Charlie Prince, an orphan living with his acerbic and unloving stepfather and spoiled, simple-minded stepbrothers. Charlie's dream is to be a singer, and while he is vocally talented and can write music, he can't ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, fairy tale, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: cinderella story, cinderella, teenage love, orphan, showbiz, youth, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, step siblings, social differences, love and romance, unlikely couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Grimm's Snow White (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, exciting, mockbuster, romantic ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: snow white, imaginary kingdom, sword fight, rescue, imaginary, escapades, danger, woman in danger, love and romance, heroes, elf, cinderella story ...
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About the Little Red Riding Hood (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A sequel to the well-known story about a Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka). This time, a family of a slain wolf decides to avenge his death. So they falsely inform Little Red Riding Hood that her grandma is sick and prepare to eat her on ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, light, crying
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: little red riding hood, family relations, friendship, parents and children, young love, rural setting, stargazing, public nudity, cattle, pond, pretty girl, dog ...
Place: russia
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 6.0
 88
Elaan (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Naresh Kumar Saxena lives with his widowed mom and sister, Seema. He works as a freelance photographer and journalist. One day he meets with Mala Mehta and her dad, who is the Editor of a Newspaper. Mr. Mehta hires Naresh and assigns him to go to a ...
Plot: invisibility, reporter, brother sister relationship, fistfight, widow, photographer, magical ring, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, scientist, journalist, invisible man ...
Time: 70s
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Forbidden Empire (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing ...
Style: dark fantasy, mystic, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, remote village, demon, supernatural, monster, sword and sorcery, church, religion versus science, good versus evil, deadly creature, twists and turns ...
Time: 18th century
Place: ukraine, europe
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The Book of Masters (2009)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If ...
Style: fairy tale, touching, humorous, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: magic, evil wizard, wizards and magicians, friendship, evil witch, evil sorcerer, showdown, good versus evil, sorceress, wizard, magician, black magic ...
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 6.5
 6K
Faust (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Faust is a 2011 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German. The film won ...
Style: contemplative, disturbing, bleak, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: temptation, life is a bitch, tragic hero, unfulfillment, ambition, blind ambition, downfall, body horror, obsessive quest, faust, scientific research, anatomy ...
Time: year 2011, victorian era, 19th century, 18th century
Place: germany, europe, russia
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 6.3
 10K
Neverland (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they've been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook to snatch a priceless, some believe, magical ...
Style: exciting, fairy tale, stylized, serious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: pirate, troubled teen, danger, fairy, mysterious place, peter pan, youth, orphan, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, treasure, rescue ...
Time: turn of the century, 20th century, 1900s, 18th century
Place: london
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 4.0
 458
Zinderella (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Masha Krapivina - is yet beautiful, and not that clever. She is just an ordinary girl, like thousands of her peers from different parts of the country, who risked to try to conquer Moscow and left their native country town.
Style: humorous, feel good, romantic, captivating
Plot: cinderella story, new year's eve party, cinderella, celebrity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chance meeting, fall in love, storytelling, party, young girl, divorce, suicide ...
Place: russia
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Beauty and the Beast (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. When she was a teenager, she witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen and herself was saved by someone – or something. Years have passed and while ...
Style: fairy tale, touching, captivating, sentimental, detective ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: beast, beauty and the beast, fall in love, unlikely couple, opposites attract, superhuman powers, female detective, impossible love, love and romance, couples, monster, experiment ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 4.6
 5K
Viking (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, serious, factual ...
Plot: cold weather, medieval, viking, russian history, murder, fratricide, betrayal, sex scene, barbarian, heroes, danger, death ...
Time: middle ages, ancient times, 10th century
Place: ukraine, russia
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 6.2
 4K
Furious (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story of a legendary battle, where seventeen fearless warriors defend their land against an army of thousands well-trained soldiers. In 13th-century Mongol warrior hordes and their leader, Batu Khan, control most of the known world. As the Mongols ...
Style: serious, tense, rough, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: medieval, children, swordsman, friendship, murder, heroic mission, heroes, beautiful scenery, fire, love, barbarian, russian history ...
Time: 13th century, medieval times, middle ages
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The Last Warrior (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: ivan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. in this parallel universe where characters of russian fairy tales live, magic is an integral part of the daily life, and arguments are settled with the ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, captivating, stylized, folk tale ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: magical, good versus evil, imaginary, chase, magician, fantasy world, magic, sorceress, spell, magical power, mythology, wizard ...
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The Pied Piper (1986)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art ...
Style: fairy tale, expressionism, surreal, experimental, anime ...
Plot: stop motion, magic realism, folklore, nightmare, rat, arthouse horror, children, greed, money, part animation, puppet animation, no dialogue
Time: year 1986, medieval times
Place: czechoslovakia
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
Story: A retelling of the popular fairy tale that mixes live action and animation.
Style: fairy tale, psychotronic
Plot: giant, jack and the beanstalk, merchant, dancing, princess, mouse, dance, cat, tap dance, magic, goose, cow ...
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 6.4
 888
The Pied Piper (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father ...
Style: fairy tale, stylized, art house, independent film, serious ...
Plot: bubonic plague, ancient, wedding, burned alive, clergy, revenge, witchcraft, siblings relations, parents and children, society, vengeance, dealing with death ...
Time: year 1972, 14th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place: germany, europe, northern germany
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King Thrushbeard (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: King Thrushbeard
Style: fairy tale, fable
Plot: queen, prince, bird, folklore, disguise, prisoner, prison, class differences, beggar, knight, pride, jester ...
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