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Fantasy movies

Step into realms of magic, mythical creatures, and supernatural events where the impossible becomes reality.

Subgenres include: Epic Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Fantasy.

It's a Boy Girl Thing

1021. It's a Boy Girl Thing

Comedy Fantasy Romance Awkward Comedy Romantic Comedy
6.2

20061h 35min

Canada, United States

Director: Nick Hurran

A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.

Themes

Appearance vs reality, Popularity vs scholarship, Role reversal among rivals, Empathy through shared experience, Competitive pressure and identity shifts, Rumor dynamics and social humiliation

Available on

Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

1022. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Adventure Fantasy Action Treasure Hunt Swashbuckling Fantasy
7.4

20062h 31min

United States

Director: Gore Verbinski

Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.

Themes

Debt as leverage, Loyalty under competing authorities, Power through artifacts, Deception and manipulation, Alliances and betrayals, Freedom versus servitude

Available on

Disney Plus
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Monster House

1023. Monster House

Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Family Animation
6.7

20061h 31min

United States

Director: Gil Kenan

Three tech-obsessed teens treat Halloween like a game, until a cranky neighbor’s decrepit house turns into a living, breathing monster that targets them, trapping their gadgets, their friends, and their courage inside its walls.

Themes

Community resilience under pressure, Parental absence, Space as threat, Youth agency, Fear of the unseen, Grief embodied in space

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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The Science of Sleep

1024. The Science of Sleep

Comedy Drama Fantasy High-Concept Comedy Psychological Drama
7.2

20061h 46min

France, Italy

Director: Michel Gondry

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Themes

Escape through imagination, Dreams versus reality, Artistic collaboration under pressure, Creative self-doubt, Insecurity and love, Surrealism in daily life

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Click

1025. Click

Comedy Drama Fantasy High-Concept Comedy Family Drama
6.4

20061h 47min

United States

Director: Frank Coraci

A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

Themes

Time travel consequences, Promotion-driven decisions, Divorce and remarriage dynamics, Obesity and health costs, Death as consequence, Wealth vs family

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Death Note

1026. Death Note

Fantasy Mystery Thriller Supernatural Fantasy Investigation Mystery
7.5

20062h 6min

Japan

Director: Shusuke Kaneko

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

Themes

Moral ambiguity, Murder as justice proxy, Battle of wits, Criminal accountability, Fbi police dynamic, Death vs law

Available on

Apple TV
Google Play Movies
Rakuten TV
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The Bothersome Man

1027. The Bothersome Man

Comedy Drama Fantasy Psychological Drama Dark Comedy
7.2

20061h 30min

Iceland, Norway

Director: Jens Lien

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.

Themes

Dreams confinement, Modern society pressure, Surreal alienation, Consumerism emptiness, Romance isolation, Revolution suppression

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur

1028. Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur

Animation Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction
7.2

20061h 47min

Director: Ayumu Watanabe

After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.


Underworld: Evolution

1029. Underworld: Evolution

Fantasy Action Thriller Dark Fantasy Epic Action
6.7

20061h 46min

United States

Director: Len Wiseman

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.

Themes

Loyalty under pressure, Enduring clan war, Forbidden love, Lineage and immortality, Hidden history, Secrets of power

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Angel-A

1030. Angel-A

Romance Comedy Drama Fantasy Romantic Comedy
7.0

20051h 31min

France

Director: Luc Besson

A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?

Themes

Performance under pressure, Trust and manipulation, Unlikely partnership, Romance vs deception, Ambition and control, Fate vs coincidence

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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