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32 films tagged magic
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2001 · Fantasy
A young hobbit inherits a ring that has to be destroyed, and sets out from a very comfortable village with eight companions and a long way to walk. The first of three, and it ends mid-journey.
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2021 · Science fiction
A noble family is handed control of a desert planet that supplies the most valuable substance in the universe, which the family it was taken from has no intention of accepting. It is long, slow, and heavy on names and factions.
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2021 · Animation
Every child in a Colombian family gets a magical gift on their fifth birthday, except Mirabel, and now the house is cracking. Songs every few minutes and a lot of relatives to keep straight.
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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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2011 · Fantasy
The last of the Harry Potter films picks up mid-run, with three teenagers hunting the objects keeping a dark wizard alive, and ends at the school where it all started. Most of it is the final battle.
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2004 · Fantasy
In his third year at Hogwarts, Harry learns that the man who broke out of the wizard prison is looking for him. Greyer and rainier than the first two, and it moves quickly for a long film.
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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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2016 · Animation
A one-eyed boy in old Japan makes origami move with a stringed instrument, and has to find his father's armour before his grandfather's spirits find him. Stop-motion, and it goes to dark places for a kids' film.
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2024 · Horror
A new FBI agent with a knack for hunches is put on a decades-old case of families killed in their own homes, all tied together by coded letters signed with one name. Slow and quiet, with the scary parts kept just out of frame.
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2019 · Horror
A grieving American woman tags along with her boyfriend and his friends to a midsummer festival at a remote Swedish commune where the sun barely sets. Long, very bright, and it takes its time.
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2016 · Animation
The daughter of a Pacific island chief sails past the reef her people never cross, looking for a demigod who can put right what he took. Bright, fast and full of songs, with a lot of open ocean.
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2012 · Animation
A boy who can see and talk to dead people turns out to be the only one who can stop a three-hundred-year-old curse waking up his New England town. Stop-motion, funny, and scarier than most films aimed at kids.
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2003 · Adventure
A blacksmith's apprentice teams up with a pirate who has lost his ship to get the governor's daughter back from a crew that cannot be killed. Big, silly, and full of sword fights.
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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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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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2022 · Horror
A therapist watches a patient do something terrible in front of her, and afterwards starts seeing strangers smile at her the same way. Loud, full of jump scares, and it does not let up.
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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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2021 · Action
With his name public and his life coming apart, Spider-Man asks a wizard for a spell to make everyone forget him, and it goes wrong. Big fights, plenty of jokes, and it leans on the films before it.
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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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2023 · Animation
During the war a Tokyo boy is moved out to his family's country estate after losing his mother, and a talking heron leads him into a tower with another world inside. It wanders, and the rules are never explained.
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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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2003 · Fantasy
Two hobbits climb toward a volcano with a ring while everyone else fights to keep an army looking the wrong way. Well over three hours, with the biggest battles of the three films.
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2002 · Fantasy
The broken company splits three ways: two hobbits heading for the enemy's land behind a strange guide, the rest into a horse kingdom about to be attacked. Three hours, three storylines, and a very long battle at the end.
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2006 · Mystery
Two London stage magicians fall out after an accident and spend years trying to work out and wreck each other's best trick. Told in pieces, out of order, out of the two men's notebooks.
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2009 · Animation
A boy in a walled Irish monastery is meant to be helping build the wall against Viking raids, and instead helps a visiting monk work on an illuminated book. Short, flat and patterned like the drawings in the book itself.
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2021 · Drama
A Scottish general meets three witches who tell him he will be king, and goes home to his wife with the news. Black and white, bare sets, and the original language kept word for word.
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2015 · Horror
A family thrown out of their New England settlement in the 1630s try to farm a patch of land at the edge of a wood, and things go wrong from the first week. Slow, spoken in old English, and grim throughout.
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2022 · Animation
A thirteen-year-old in Toronto who is good at everything discovers that strong feelings turn her into a giant red panda. Loud, fast, funny, and full of 2002 boy bands.
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2019 · Animation
A runaway teenager arrives in a Tokyo where the rain never stops and meets a girl who can clear the sky for a few hours at a time. Bright animation, pop songs, and a great deal of weather.
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2024 · Musical
Two students at a school for wizards in Oz become friends despite having nothing in common: one green and unwanted, one blonde and adored. The first half of the stage musical, with big numbers and a lot of singing.
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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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2001 · Animation
A sulky ten-year-old moving house wanders with her parents into an abandoned town, and by nightfall she is working in a bathhouse for spirits. She has to keep her job, and her name, to get her family out.
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