Magic moment: ‘My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!’ Enough said. Magic moment: The still-iconic fight between muscle-men and a sword-wielding skeleton army. | Stars: Ron Perlman, Jim Henson $11.17M, R Christopher Plummer, Votes: Stars: Drama, Fantasy. The world is so called after the country of Narnia, in which much of the action of the Chronicles takes place. | Gross: Andrew Ruhemann, | The third film of a five-part art-installation epic -- it's part-zombie movie, part-gangster film. | Gross: https://dhumor.in/bollywood-movies-that-are-based-on-imaginary-world | | | Stars: 30,344 119 min Stars: Hendel Butoy, Their genius is to treat the fantastical elements completely seriously – the costumes are ornate, the special effects never look goofy and the world of the film is totally convincing, allowing the humour to shine through. 75 min There will always be huge problems in the world, but escaping into a fantasy world doesn’t help any more than dulling the pain with heroin would. François De Brigode, Votes: Certainly it has some of his finest creations: towering bronze giant Talos looming out of the ocean, the winged harpies and the seven headed Hydra. | Animation, Adventure, Family. Tim Minchin, PG-13 | Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit. Stars: A. Magic moment: We all dream of having three wishes – but how many of us would ask for sausages? I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world. It was beauty killed the beast.’. Buy, rent or watch ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’. Thanks for subscribing! 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With only the legs operational and the missing top half flopping around under layers of clothes, the three bluff their way through a quest to find a magical gem and finish the job. | Justine Waddell, Hamilton Luske, Mieko Harada, Votes: | $60.66M, G Paul Schrader Johnny Depp and Tim Burton did an okay job years later with Roald Dahl’s children’s classic, but their version is not a patch on the 1971 original. ... 2007. Magic moment: When we learn how the skulking, super-smart rats gained their powers. 34,890 TM & © 2011 Marvel. | Gross: Ivana Baquero, CGI never created anything quite so unique as special effects master Ray Harryhausen’s model figures. Many people walked out of the cinema after watching the latest movie in the Mission Impossible series saying that they absolutely loved the action shown in the movie. Jack Kinney ENTER CITY, STATE OR ZIP CODE GO. Narnia from The Chronicles of Narnia. Stars: But when the curtains go up and the ballet begins, the film spirals off into a world of dizzying make-believe, with Powell at the peak of his powers as he combines cinema, music, performance, art, costume and animation into a breathless whirl of sound and colour. If your plans change, it’s easy to refund or exchange your tickets! It’s a sly, wise comment on things such as English history, sexuality and class, all of it wrapped in a beautiful, transporting fantasy. I have a fairly complete imaginary world going on in my head too. Possibly. After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. | | | David Bowie, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), 12. Host Eric Molinsky talks with novelists, screenwriters, comic book artists, filmmakers, and game designers about their craft of creating fictional worlds. | Gross: Stars: Gerry Robert Byrne, Votes: | And that’s the reason why Jackson’s ‘Rings’ movies work, and will continue to thrill moviegoers for generations to come: the characters are as important as the special effects. Animation, Adventure, Fantasy. Animation, Drama, Fantasy. Buy, rent or watch ‘Céline and Julie Go Boating’. Colton James, Votes: In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. | A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland. Animation, Adventure, Family. $40.58M, Not Rated $0.44M, R $56.95M, R The only film that truly captures the grandeur of Arthurian myth is John Boorman’s intermittently ridiculous but cumulatively breathtaking ‘Excalibur’, the grittiest, mistiest, earthiest British fantasy movie of them all. https://onedio.co/content/36-beautiful-movies-taking-us-to-another-world-11764 From Middle Earth to Manhattan, we've chosen 50 of the best fantasy films. Much like it's cousin science-fiction, fantasy, which was once a genre dismissed as nerdish, has grown and is headed into the mainstream, thanks in part to Peter Jackson's ‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘Harry Potter’ and a certain HBO vehicle called ‘Game of Thrones’. | Gross: Will she get home? Animation, Adventure, Family. Set in a fantastical land populated by evolved cyclops, fauns, mages and all manner of mythical fauna who have switched from magic to mod cons, ‘Onward’ is a cometh-of-age tale that makes playful capital from our habit of turning the past into touristy kitsch. Paul Brady, Votes: | Mitsuko Baishô, Poet-turned-director Jean Cocteau created hallucinatory reveries in his adaptation of the fairytale – most memorably the disembodied arms appearing through the walls of the Beast’s castle to hoist the candelabras lighting Belle’s path. Akira Kurosawa, Director: A sense of the beyond creeps over the movie, as one of the men becomes enchanted with a mysterious noblewoman, taking leave of both his senses and his family in one fell swoop. As Peter Jackson proved a … 90 min | | | Gross: Jim Henson, Ford Beebe Jr., 23,782 Animation, Adventure, Comedy. Director: Ishirô Honda Barret Oliver, Magic moment: The mournfully psychedelic junkyard sequence strikes a jarring but memorable tone of doom amid all the furry, freaky goings-on. | Gross: What do they really mean by that? Swinton plays Orlando, in turns a man and a woman, as s/he travels in half-century leaps from the Elizabethan court to the twentieth century, via the Civil War, early colonialism and more. | Gross: Director: Comedy, Fantasy. Dominique Pinon, Votes: Adapted from Mike Mignola’s comic books, this sequel to the patchily brilliant superhero adventure ‘Hellboy’ crams in all the psychotic fairies, marauding elves, fantastical landscapes and berserk action set-pieces you could possibly ask for, and adds a rich seam of hearty, self-satirising humour. 105 min Samuel Armstrong, Stanley Kubrick | Gross: | In Narnia, some animals can talk, mythical beasts abound, and magic is common. | 598,379 100 min Stéphane Aubier, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy. King Kong (1933) Film Animation. Magic moment: Gollum and Sméagol have a psychotic conversation and never once do you think about CGI. Yasiin Bey, Bill Plympton Jim Carrey, Déjà vu! 431,136 | Sterling Holloway, R This is an overflowing goody-bag of a film, crammed with bar-raising action set-pieces, wonderfully sketched characters and just enough old-school Whedon wit to reward those who’d stuck with him all along. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), 19. Director: Luc Besson Magic moment: Belle cries tears of sparkling diamonds. Host Eric Molinsky talks with novelists, screenwriters, comic book artists, filmmakers, and game designers about their craft of creating fictional worlds. | Gross: Hiroshi Mikami, Director: Since the 1950s, numerous movies have depicted a rugged and dangerous imaginary world in which the Greek gods walk among men. This Magic Moment: Scorsese got it right: that first flash of colour still sends a chill up your spine. ‘Fly my pretties!’. Animation, Adventure, Comedy. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars. From its very beginning, cinema was indebted to fantasy, with Georges Méliès leading the way. It was author Gary K Wolf who had the masterstroke realisation that Hollywood’s brooding, self-reflexive 1940s film noir period happened to coincide with the golden age of studio cartoons, and decided to smash the two of them together. Bewitching and mesmerising, ‘Uncle Boonmee’ is a perfect film to lose yourself in. No two movies are the same, yet they can be similar in certain aspects. 119 min 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. $9.93M, PG Stars: Zade Rosenthal © 2011 MVLFFLLC. Andy Serkis’s Gollum – a fully fleshed digital creation – stole the show, yet this film also digs deep to depict the rallying redemption of King Théoden, from weeping at the grave of his son to leading the armies of Rohan into battle. A pair of grieving elf brothers turn to magic to reanimate, for 24 emotional hours, the dad they never really knew. Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi. Buy, rent or watch ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’. | Director: click below to subscribe or support the show. Following the not not-creepy inter-dimensional love affair between a poor painter and a girl named Jennie who seems to be from the past and aging rapidly, the film is a lot to swallow, but the squall it builds to is a perfect storm of truly impossible romance. What’s left to say about ‘King Kong’? Shangri-La is the ultimate earthbound fantasy – an ancient magical kingdom buried deep in the Himalayas, ruled by peaceful Tibetan philosophers who have discovered the secret of eternal youth. 614,594 Ariadna Gil, Now one of the highest-grossing films of all time, ‘Black Panther’ is not just an important movie, it’s also a great movie. Adventure, Comedy, Family. But the spell is broken halfway through, leaving them with, well, half a dad. Kristýna Kohoutová, Jim Henson, 9000. Frank Capra’s adaptation of James Hilton’s hugely successful, Hitler-inspiring novel is a glorious, naïve fantasy adventure, the most expensive movie ever made at the time. Buy, rent or watch ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’. Therefore whenever I read a novel, play a game or watch a movie that takes place in a fictional world I need to look at the map to mentally comprehend it. | In the latter, a celestial court must decide if Niven’s pilot will be spared or not, and the film’s fantastical conceit taps into a postwar spirit of inquiry into how best to run our lives. 1. Sarah Polley, She loses her scarf and when a curious onlooker retrieves it, the chase is on, one that plunges into exchanged female identities, interdimensional time travel and a mysterious house where nothing is set in stone. With only the legs operational and the missing top half flopping around under layers of clothes, the three bluff their way through a quest to find a magical gem and finish the job. And while the pre-pubescents continually scream, their doting parents prove equally odious in a finale of astounding sentimentality. Clyde Geronimi, Miyu Irino, When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories. Robert Zemeckis’s adaptation of his novel takes this idea and runs with it, creating a through-the-looking-glass LA where technicolour mayhem and monochrome angst go hand-in-hand, and you’re just as likely to star-spot Bugs Bunny as Humphrey Bogart. | Director: Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack’s colonialist creature feature is still a stirring and tragic story about why the Empire State Building is such a terrible tourist trap. A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play. Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller. 125 min | 182 min Why director Russell Mulcahy cast a Frenchman (Christopher Lambert) as a Scottish clansman and a Scotsman (Sean Connery) as a Spanish noble is anyone’s guess, but when the plot’s this crazed, the direction’s this MTV-tight and the villains are this insanely badass, we’re really not about to argue. Director: 22,260 | Drama, Fantasy. | Gross: 186,536 Stars: | James Frawley | 123,190 Frank Oz, Director: Pete Docter, Chieko Baishô, 112 min 94,968 © 2020 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. It’s now the third highest grossing movie of all time. | Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited. Maribel Verdú, Votes: Maya Banno, Buy, rent or watch ‘The Neverending Story’, Talk about a vindication. 642,382 Stars: Michel Gondry Stars: Ultrastylish commercials director Tarsem Singh spent millions of his own dollars collecting footage over several years for this entrancingly exotic fantasy, rooted in the medicated ramblings of a wounded stuntman (Lee Pace) who charms a little girl in the hospital with his outlandish tales. When Lieutenant General Leland Zevo (Sir Michael Gambon) inherits a toymaking company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever. Ben Sharpsteen The theme tune’s terrific, too. 5 Gotham City Map. Edward Asner, Jerry Nelson, Francis Glebas, Stars: $1.51M, PG-13 Dave McKean | | ‘You! A songwriter in love with his demanding boss's secretary enters an alternate, wacky world where a much-needed hit tune may be created from his heart. Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Here is our selection of the 50 best fantasy movies. Robert De Niro, Maureen McElheron, It tells of Mrs Frisby, a fieldmouse, widow and mother trying to look after her young brood, one of whom is very ill, in the face of threats from humans and a race of souped-up, intelligent rats. $76.41M, PG Imaginary Worlds is a bi-weekly podcast about science fiction and other fantasy genres. 93 min William Sylvester, Fascism is a common theme in fantasy worlds, especially the rebels vs. evil … Lust, Caution earned an … Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it. We already have this email. 23. Robin Williams, 87,971 | 86 min Magic moment: Ronald Colman’s climactic realisation that it was all real – and he has to get back there! Magic moment: Parents are transformed into pigs, and our heroine is truly on her own. Buy, rent or watch ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’. Its story is magnificent, too, proving it to be one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s best standalone outing, and the acting feels electric, with the performances by Boseman, Jordan and Wright really standing out. Sergi López, 15 min Director: Takahiro Satô, Narnia is an epic world full of fantastic creatures and fierce … | Quincy Jones, Votes: Tôru Emori, | Magic moment: The series’s greatest showdown, as Gandalf faces the fiery Balrog on the bridge of Khazad-Dum. Animation, Family, Fantasy. It gives a whole new meaning to the idea of the fantasy movie. Director: The Marvel Cinematic Universe boldly straddles sci-fi, comic-book action and fantasy – never more so than in the ‘Thor’ movies, with their Tolkein-influenced take on Norse mythology and outrageous ‘Flash Gordon’-style fetish costumes. | Stephanie Leonidas, With his grand, globe-conquering adaptation of JRR Tolkein’s genre-defining trilogy, Peter Jackson dragged fantasy into the digital age, managing beyond all the odds to make it at least semi-cool in the process. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), 22. 102 min Nicolas Buysse, Star: By the time of ‘The Avengers’, director Joss Whedon had been through the grinder of cancelled TV shows, mangled scripts and failed directorial attempts. It’s a classic quest story: Jen, a Gelfling, must fulfil a prophecy and defeat the ageing, decaying race of Skeksis in favour of the gentler, wiser Mystics. | ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ may have won over the highbrow critics, but ‘Hellboy II’ is fantasy master Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece. Jan Svankmajer Magic moment: One-Eyed Willie's galleon, the Inferno, is revealed in the grotto... and it's filled with treasure. Teri Hatcher, A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. | Magic Moment: Without a doubt, our first glimpse of Wakanda. | Tarsem Singh Wolfgang Petersen | I don't think I'm crazy, really, but I know I pay less attention to it when I'm happy with myself and my life. Magic moment: The Baron and his sidekick Sally travel to the moon and find a Lumiere-inspired madhouse peopled with giant schizophrenics. A fictional universe, or fictional world, is a self-consistent setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world. $1.96M, PG-13 Adventure, Sci-Fi. Reserve your tickets now! Gerald McRaney, Votes: Stars: Akira Terao, In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay. | So it was pretty big of Marvel to hand him the reins to the most anticipated comic-book movie of all time. | Frank Oz | Gross: Kate Winslet, Catinca Untaru, doomed to repeat the same day over and over again. | Deems Taylor, Steve Martin, | Gross: Daveigh Chase, The Spanish desert backdrops are stunning, the production design is spectacular and Arnold Schwarzenegger punches a camel. Sixteen-year-old Sarah is given thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother Toby when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King Jareth. 50,464 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), 20. Stars: Buy, rent or watch ‘A Matter of Life and Death’. The best moments of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ are woozily eerie, like memories of a dream. Latest episode: Monsters of 2020 . Tell us what you think about this feature. $293.00M, PG | Gross: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Akihiro Miwa, Votes: 117 min Adventure, Family, Fantasy. 196,073 Close. Notable cinematic entries from the past include the stop motion gems of Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Clash of the Titans (1981). 124 min A simple tactic, perhaps, but a blindingly effective one. One of a number of classic fantasy movies based around the contradictory idea that the purest imaginative worlds can only be found in books (see also ‘The Princess Bride’), ‘The NeverEnding Story’ draws on the entire pantheon of fantastical fiction – from Norse and Egyptian folklore to Wagnerian excess to post-Tolkein adventure stories – and creates a uniquely dreamlike world of wonder and wish-fulfilment. The meditations on aging, the literal and metaphorical passing of time and our experience with youth are deftly handled, as the fat of the novel is trimmed expertly to propel both plot and characterisation. $20.16M, R | Riki Takeuchi, Fandango FANALERT® Sign up for a FANALERT® and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area. Family World Me. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s second film on this list isn’t fantasy in the strictest sense. A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process. 132 min Stars: Director: TH. Guillermo del Toro All of Wes Anderson’s ornate, painstakingly precious films take place in a world just removed from our own, where anything seems possible. This is a film bursting with ideas – philosophical, literary, mathematical, even spiritual – and the ornate, crumbling Labyrinth is a wholly unique imaginative landscape. Kathryn Beaumont, Writer-director Guillermo del Toro is the most original and uncompromising cinema fantasist of the modern era, and ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ is his most striking statement. Kathryn Mullen, Stars: Alain Chabat, Votes: Crammed with magical horses, terrifying transformations and gigantic genies, ‘The Thief of Baghdad’ made an international star of low-born Indian actor Sabu, aka the Elephant Boy. | As Peter Jackson proved a few years back: not very much. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Junya Fukuda, Votes: Magic moment: All aboard the feline express. The film’s character design is as remarkable as its faith in the imagination of children. Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Votes: Stars: | It’s still the highest-grossing movie in Japanese history. The dreamlike story he cooks up is tinged with traumatic catastrophe, but also one of the most glorious adventures ever captured on film. Hamilton Luske, | When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "imaginary-world". An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. Directors: Directors: 61,773 1 Middle Earth Map. Director: 120 min The Movie Database (TMDb) is a popular, user editable database for movies and TV shows. Director: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy. The fight choreography has yet to be topped, and every balletic moment of soaring wire-fu reveals something about the character who’s swooping through the air. Fan films allow filmmakers to tell stories set in the worlds of their favorite licensed characters, and fan films have taken off in recent years, thanks to affordable special effects and online distri... – Listen to Fan Films Go Pro by Imaginary Worlds instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed. Pixote Hunt Amen. Try another? A high point not only of the consistently excellent output of Japan’s Studio Ghibli but of animation as a whole, this magical adventure turns the wanderings of a lonely ten-year-old girl into an updated ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, complete with nods to ancient folklore and modern ecological anxieties. 107 min Nearly 70 years after its release, the magic of ‘La Belle et la Bête’ still casts a spell. Magic moment: Repressed suburban Mom Joan Allen tries her hand at a little sexual self-fulfilment, and a tree outside the window explodes into glorious colour. Charlie Kaufman Drama, Sci-Fi. | Gross: Buy, rent or watch ‘Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives’. | Gross: An environmentalist epic about giant forest gods, the blind greed of human industry and a warrior princess raised by wolves, this grand fantasy story is animation on a scale unlike anything Disney has ever tried. Gary Oldman, Magic moment: The beautiful moment Uncle Boonmee visits a cave filled with sparkling lights, and his life slips away. It may lack the blood and thunder of later instalments, but for us the first ‘Rings’ film remains the best: it has the most direct narrative – a road movie, essentially, from the rustic middle-English hush of the Shire to the forbidding shores of the Anduin – and the sweetest character moments, from Bilbo’s sad departure to Boromir’s sacrificial end. Milla Jovovich, The ambition of today’s multi-feature sagas can be traced back to Fritz Lang’s two-part 1924 silent based on the mythic German poem ‘Nibelungenlied’ and lavished with groundbreaking special effects, comely princesses and tons of swordplay. Daniel Richter, Votes: | 926,247 Imaginary Worlds times Favorite Movie Button Overview; Movie Times + Tickets; Movie Reviews; Looking for movie tickets? Magic moment: The heartbreaking ending, as the performers recreate the titular ballet without their star dancer, just an empty space where she should have been. A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams. David Hand, By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Aimee Mullins, It also features the least cuddly, most terrifying wise old owl you could imagine. Buy, rent or watch ‘Jason and the Argonauts’. The story of a prima ballerina (Moira Shearer) and the power-mad Svengali (Anton Walbrook) who loves and exploits her, it takes place, for the most part, in the ‘real’ world. | An eccentric man living alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo periodically transforms into a 100-foot tall giant in order to defend Japan against similarly sized monsters. 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