Favorite European fantasy films
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1. Allegro non troppo (1976)
PG | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Bozzetto | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Maurizio Micheli, Marialuisa Giovannini, Néstor Garay
Votes: 3,216
2. The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
PG | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve
Votes: 22,639
3. The Enchanted Forest (1987)
107 min | Comedy, Fantasy
In the fantastic world of the "bosque animado" meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi, Tito Valverde, Paco Cambres
Votes: 1,641
4. The City of Lost Children (1995)
R | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Directors: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 71,680 | Gross: $1.51M
5. Don Kikhot (1957)
PG | 110 min | Drama
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho ... See full summary »
Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Serafima Birman, Svetlana Grigoreva
Votes: 938
6. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
R | 104 min | Comedy
A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti
Votes: 17,189 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Faust (1926)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Votes: 16,626
8. The Machine to Kill Bad People (1952)
83 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A photographer in a small fishing village is visited by a man who claims to be Saint Andrea. The Saint gives him a special camera device to solve the village's ills - by taking a photograph of an existing picture, the photo subject dies.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs, Helen Tubbs
Votes: 888
9. Master i Margarita (2005)
500 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
The devil and his attendants visit Moscow at the times of the Stalin regime. Official atheistic ideology confronts with a series of supernatural events.
Stars: Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vano Miranyan, Semyon Furman
Votes: 4,772
10. Alice (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Votes: 13,991
11. Little Otik (2000)
TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový
Votes: 6,877 | Gross: $0.12M
12. Donkey Skin (1970)
91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle
Votes: 6,364
13. Le pied qui étreint (1916)
92 min | Comedy, Crime
A parody of the serial thrillers popularized in the US with Pearl White and Exploits of Elaine, in France with Les Vampires: Hero and assistant rescue girl from sinister gang.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: André Roanne, Musidora, Kitty Hott, René Poyen
Votes: 30
a 4-part serial parody by Jacques Feyder, ca 70m total.
14. The Treasure Planet (1982)
72 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A villain wants to stop the crew from getting to a gem that will bring life back to earth
Director: Rumen Petkov | Stars: Robert Axelrod, Robert V. Barron, Robin Levenson, Joe Perry
Votes: 204
15. Rare Exports (2010)
R | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
Director: Jalmari Helander | Stars: Jorma Tommila, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi, Tommi Korpela
Votes: 32,152 | Gross: $0.26M
16. The King and the Mockingbird (1980)
Not Rated | 83 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A chimney sweep and a shepherdess seek to escape from the clutches of a tyrannical king.
Director: Paul Grimault | Stars: Jean Martin, Pascal Mazzotti, Raymond Bussières, Agnès Viala
Votes: 5,555 | Gross: $0.03M
17. The Singing Ringing Tree (1957)
74 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A brave prince wants to win the heart of a stubborn princess by finding the singing, ringing tree for her.
Director: Francesco Stefani | Stars: Christel Bodenstein, Charles Hans Vogt, Eckart Dux, Richard Krüger
Votes: 978
18. Free Jimmy (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Comedy
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters, and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
Director: Christopher Nielsen | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Simon Pegg, Phil Daniels, Jay Simpson
Votes: 6,946
19. Heart of a Dog (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev
Votes: 9,091
20. The Brand New Testament (2015)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, François Damiens
Votes: 35,011 | Gross: $0.09M
21. Tunneling the English Channel (1907)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
King Edward VII of England and the President of the French Republic, Armand Fallières, envision tunnelling the English Channel; nevertheless, only a maiden voyage can determine whether this is a triumphant aspiration or an acrid nightmare.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 690
22. Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
During the screening of the film "Daybreak" at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly come alive and begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre.
Director: Wojciech Marczewski | Stars: Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Teresa Marczewska, Piotr Fronczewski
Votes: 1,192
23. Ukradená vzducholod (1967)
84 min | Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Five young boys take off in a lighter-than-air machine from the Centenary Exposition in Prague.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Hanus Bor, Jan Cizek, Jan Malát, Michal Pospísil
Votes: 664
24. Underground (1995)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
Votes: 61,271 | Gross: $0.17M
25. Vampyr (1932)
Not Rated | 75 min | Fantasy, Horror
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz
Votes: 20,524
26. The SuperVips (1968)
TV-PG | 82 min | Animation, Comedy
A satire of modern society recounting the adventures of the last in a line of Supermen, the film pokes fun at the processes that lie behind advertising, politics and our consumer society.
Director: Bruno Bozzetto | Stars: Roberto Bertea, Fiorella Betti, George Birt, Vittorio Cramer
Votes: 614
27. The Visitors (1993)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A medieval knight and his servant ask a familiar wizard to move them back in time to prevent father-in-law's accidentally killing. Instead, they fly away to the 20th century.
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Valérie Lemercier, Marie-Anne Chazel
Votes: 37,990 | Gross: $0.70M
28. To Want to Fly (1991)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Martina is a professional lady whose clients are harmless if eccentric; she sees herself as a social worker. Shy Maurizio dubs sound for cartoons while his outgoing brother dubs more saucy ... See full summary »
Directors: Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro, Mariella Valentini, Patrizio Roversi
Votes: 903
29. Le voyage imaginaire (1926)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In a daydream, a shy bank clerk is led by a fairy into a subterranean world where people transform into animals and waxworks come to life. Lucie, his office crush, follows him but a bad fairy is intent on keeping them apart.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Dolly Davis, Jean Börlin, Albert Préjean, Jim Gérald
Votes: 258
30. Invention for Destruction (1958)
Unrated | 83 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Lubor Tokos, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr
Votes: 2,797
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