Fantasy Films
Fantasy Films, unlike science fiction films that base their content upon some degree of scientific truth, take the audience to netherworld, fairty-tale places where events are unlikely to occur in real life. In mythological or legendary times, they transcend the bounds of human possibility and physical laws. Fantasy films are often in the context of the imagination, dreams, or hallucinations of a character or within the projected vision of the storyteller. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. They may appeal to both children and adults, depending upon the particular film.
Below is a collection of films where imagination has no bounds. Where entire worlds have been created and populated with mythical creatures, magical quests and larger than life heroes and villains.
The New Mutants (Blu-ray) (2020)
5.5/10
Director: Josh Boone
Starring: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy
Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save them... Read more
The Nines (2007)
6.4/10
Director: John August
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis, Elle Fanning
A metaphysical mind-bender following the lives of three artists (all played by Ryan Reynolds) in three short films that intertwine, exploring the noti... Read more
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
5.5/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom, Joe Johnston
Starring: Mackenzie Foy, Jayden Fowora-Knight, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freem...
Young Clara needs a magical, one-of-a-kind key to unlock a box that contains a priceless gift. A golden thread leads her to the coveted key, but it so... Read more
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Blu-Ray) (2018)
5.5/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom, Joe Johnston
Starring: Mackenzie Foy, Jayden Fowora-Knight, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freem...
Young Clara needs a magical, one-of-a-kind key to unlock a box that contains a priceless gift. A golden thread leads her to the coveted key, but it so... Read more
The Odd Couple (1979)
7.7/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Sammo Hung, Ka-Yan Leung , Liu Chia-Liang, Chan Lung, Chung Fat, Ching-Ying Lam
Every ten years the King of the Sword (Sammo Hung) and the King of the Spear (director Liu Chia-liang) meet for a duel that inevitably ends in a draw.... Read more
The Odyssey (1997)
7/10
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Starring: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, Geraldine...
This lavish adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey' stars Armand Assante as Odysseus, a mighty warrior-king, who, after reaping victory in the Trojan War,... Read more
The Orville (2017)
8/10
Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes
Set 400 years in the future, the show follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth's interstellar Fleet.... Read more
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
5.4/10
Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Patrick Wayne, Sarah Douglas, Thorley Walters, Doug McClure
When an expedition in search of a lost colleague traces his last steps in the frozen Arctic, the team discovers a hidden tropical oasis in the middle... Read more
The Phantom (1996)
4.9/10
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams
That masked, purple-clad defender of the jungle leaps from the comic's pages to the screen with this adventure saga. Billy Zane stars as 'The Ghost Wh... Read more
The Phantom (2009)
5.9/10
Director: Paolo Barzman
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Sandrine Holt, Ryan Carnes, Cameron Goodman
Before Superman, Spiderman and Batman there was... The Ghost Who Walks. Young urban daredevil Kit Walker (Ryan Carnes) finds himself recruited by a se... Read more