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14 films tagged fairy tale
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2006 · Adventure
A stuntman laid up in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital tells a wandering adventure story to a little girl with a broken arm, partly to get something from her. The story is shot in real places all over the world.
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2013 · Animation
A princess sets out across the mountains to find her older sister, who has run from the kingdom after her power to freeze things got away from her. A musical for children, with big songs and a talking snowman.
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2004 · Animation
A quiet young hatmaker is cursed into the body of an old woman and takes shelter in the walking castle of a wizard everyone is afraid of. Hand-drawn, warm, and it wanders rather than hurries.
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2019 · Animation
A spoiled postman is posted to a frozen island where the two halves of town have feuded for generations, and finds a woodsman with a cabin full of toys. Hand-drawn, funny, and made for children.
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2006 · Fantasy
A girl moves with her pregnant mother to the forest post of her new stepfather, an army captain hunting rebels in 1944 Spain, and finds something living in an old maze. Fairy tale and war run side by side, and both turn violent.
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2008 · Animation
A goldfish with a human face escapes her father's underwater kingdom, washes up in a jar, and decides she wants to be a little girl and stay with the boy who found her. Made for small children, hand-drawn, and full of water.
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2022 · Animation
Puss in Boots learns he is down to his last life and sets off after a wishing star, with several other parties chasing the same map. Bright, fast and funny, with fights that stop and hold still.
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2001 · Animation
An ogre who just wants his swamp back agrees to fetch a princess from a dragon's tower for the small lord who dumped every fairy tale creature on his land. Fast, loud, and full of jokes aimed over the kids' heads.
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Little-known
2014 · Animation
A boy on an Irish lighthouse island takes his little sister, who has never spoken, on the long way home past the creatures of old Irish stories. Hand-drawn, gentle, and full of singing.
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2010 · Animation
A girl who has spent eighteen years in a tower with seventy feet of hair blackmails a thief into taking her to see the floating lights. Songs all the way through, and mostly the two of them on the road.
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2021 · Fantasy
Gawain, King Arthur's untested nephew, takes a swing at a green stranger who rides into the Christmas feast, and a year later has to go and find him. Slow and strange, told as separate episodes on the road.
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2017 · Fantasy
A mute cleaner at a secret government lab in 1962 Baltimore starts leaving boiled eggs for the creature they are keeping in a tank. A fairy tale for grown-ups, with a Cold War thriller running underneath.
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2013 · Animation
A bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl inside a stalk, and she grows fast into a young woman his new fortune turns into a lady of the capital. Drawn like a brush painting, and gentle for most of its length.
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Little-known
2020 · Animation
In 1650s Ireland, the daughter of an English wolf hunter sneaks out to the forest and meets a girl who runs with the pack at night. Hand-drawn, and the woods look nothing like the town.
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