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35 films tagged fairy tale
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2025 · Fantasy
A husband leaves his wife for a hundred days to test her fidelity, and his friend is promised the estate if he can seduce her. She and her maid hold him off with stories, night after night.
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2025 · Musical
A princess kept as a servant by the stepmother who took her father's throne escapes into the forest, where she finds seven magical beings and a young bandit. A live-action retelling of the Disney film, with songs.
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2025 · Horror
Cinderella from the stepsister's side: a mother with no money puts her eldest through crude, painful surgery to make her fit to win the prince at the ball. The body horror is close up and does not look away.
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2025 · Horror
Here Peter Pan is a killer who steals children away to Neverland, and when he takes her younger brother Wendy Darling goes looking for him. A straight slasher: chases, hiding places and a lot of blood.
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2025 · Fantasy
A runaway teenager takes refuge in a 1970s film studio where an actress is shooting The Snow Queen, and cannot stop watching her. The two circle each other, and it moves slowly.
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2026 · Musical
Red and Chloe hide a magic pocket watch in Wonderland's royal vault and start finding out what their trip to the past changed, including a sister Red never had. Songs throughout, made for kids.
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2026 · Family
Three children dragged from the city to a run-down country barn find a tree with a different world at the top of it, and a fairy who invites the youngest to tea. It is made for kids and moves fast.
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2026 · Comedy
A fisherwoman in a medieval village, mocked for her smell and for staying unmarried, sarcastically orders a husband woven out of wicker, and the weaver brings him to life. It is a fairy tale played as comedy, in one small town.
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2026 · Horror
Sent to live with his grandfather Geppetto after his parents die, a fourteen-year-old is given a wooden friend built never to leave him. The puppet decides to rid the world of bad things, and takes that literally.
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Little-known
2026 · Musical
A carpenter who wants a son carves one out of a talking log, and the wooden boy runs off to a puppet theatre on his first day of school. A song-and-dance version of the Pinocchio story.
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2026 · Fantasy
Every four years the nymphs of a Ukrainian forest lake come into the human world, and this time a group of biology students is camping nearby. One of them falls for a girl he meets there, and she falls back.
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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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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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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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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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2005 · Animation
A nervous groom practises his vows in a wood and accidentally marries a dead woman, who takes him below. Stop-motion, short, and the land of the dead is the cheerful part.
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2001 · Fantasy
An eleven-year-old raised in a cupboard is told he is a wizard and sent to a boarding school with moving staircases. Mostly about learning where everything is.
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1986 · Fantasy
A teenager wishes her baby brother away and is given thirteen hours to cross a goblin maze and get him back. Puppets throughout, and songs.
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2025 · Animation
A demon child and his dragon-prince friend, both without bodies, are given one chance to get them back, and it goes badly. Enormous, fast and packed with fighting.
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2012 · Fantasy
A comfortable hobbit is talked into joining thirteen dwarves walking east to take back their mountain. Long, and the first third is a dinner party.
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1984 · Fantasy
A bullied boy hides in a school attic with a stolen book about a land being eaten by nothing, and the book starts addressing him. Practical effects throughout.
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1993 · Animation
The pumpkin king of Halloween Town gets bored, finds Christmas Town, and decides to run it himself this year. Stop-motion, songs, seventy-six minutes.
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1987 · Fantasy
A grandfather reads his sick grandson a story about a farm boy, a kidnapped princess and a six-fingered man. Endlessly quoted, and it knows it is a story.
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2025 · Musical
The two witches are now on opposite sides of Oz, one hunted and one running the palace's public relations. Big songs, and it takes the politics seriously.
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1971 · Family
A poor boy wins one of five tickets to tour a secretive chocolate factory with four other children. Songs, and the host is not entirely reassuring.
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