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Greatest Early Fantasy Films:
Kriemhild's Revenge (1924, Germ.) (aka Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache) Siegfried (1924, Germ.) (aka Die Nibelungen: Siegfried) The Thief of Bagdad (1924) The Lost World (1925) Metropolis (1927, Germ.) King Kong (1933) Things to Come (1936) Lost Horizon (1937) Topper (1937) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Thief of Bagdad (1940, UK) (remake) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) I Married an Angel (1942) I Married a Witch (1942) The Canterville Ghost (1944) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1944) Angel on My Shoulder (1946) La Belle et La Bete (aka Beauty and the Beast) (1946, Fr.) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Stairway to Heaven (1946, UK) The Bishop's Wife (1947) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Heaven Only Knows (1947) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948) Portrait of Jennie (1948) The Red Shoes (1948, UK) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) Destination Moon (1950) Harvey (1950) A Christmas Carol (1951, UK) Ugetsu (1953, Jp.) Brigadoon (1954) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Ordet (1955, Denmark) The Seventh Seal (1957, Swe.) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) |
Greatest Recent Fantasy Films:
The Time Machine (1960) Mysterious Island (1961) Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Juliet of the Spirits (1965, It.) Fantastic Voyage (1966) Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Fr.) Slaughterhouse Five (1972) The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, UK) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Eraserhead (1977) Oh, God! (1977) and sequels (1980, 1984) Heaven Can Wait (1978) Time After Time (1979) Flash Gordon (1980) Somewhere in Time (1980) Clash of the Titans (1981) Dragonslayer (1981) Excalibur (1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and its sequels (1984, 1989, 2008) Time Bandits (1981, UK) The Beastmaster (1982) Conan the Barbarian (1982) The Dark Crystal (1982) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Krull (1983) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Ghostbusters (1984) The NeverEnding Story (1984) Splash (1984) Supergirl (1984) Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels The Black Cauldron (1985) Brazil (1985, UK) Enemy Mine (1985) Explorers (1985) The Heavenly Kid (1985) Ladyhawke (1985) Legend (1985) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) Highlander (1986) Labyrinth (1986) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) Date With an Angel (1987) The Princess Bride (1987) Wings of Desire (1987, W. Germ.) (aka Der Himmel über Berlin) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) Beetlejuice (1988) Big (1988) Willow (1988) Wings of Desire (1988, W. Ger./Fr.) Always (1989) Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and sequel (1991) Field of Dreams (1989) Millennium (1989) Almost an Angel (1990) Edward Scissorshands (1990) Ghost (1990) The Fisher King (1991) The Rocketeer (1991) Groundhog Day (1993) Angels in the Outfield (1994) Forrest Gump (1994) The Mask (1994) Timecop (1994) Babe (1995) The Prophecy (1995) Tank Girl (1995) Breaking the Waves (1996, Denm.) Dragonheart (1996) Michael (1996) The Preacher's Wife (1996) Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and its sequels A Life Less Ordinary (1997) City of Angels (1998) Ever After (1998) Pleasantville (1998) The Truman Show (1998) What Dreams May Come (1998) Wide Awake (1998) Being John Malkovich (1999) Dogma (1999) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Frequency (2000) Happy Accidents (2000) Amelie (2001, Fr.) (aka Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) Down to Earth (2001) Donnie Darko (2001) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) (aka Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) The Time Machine (2002) Big Fish (2003) Elf (2003) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) King Arthur (2004) Primer (2004) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Idiocracy (2006) Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Mex.) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Enchanted (2007) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Avatar (2009) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) Clash of the Titans (2010) Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2010) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2010) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) The Shape of Water (2017) |