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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
36 films tagged quest
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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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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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2019 · War
Two young British soldiers are sent on foot across enemy ground to call off an attack that would walk sixteen hundred men into a trap. Shot to look like one unbroken take, so it runs at their pace.
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2019 · Action
What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.
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2018 · Action
A warlord crosses the galaxy collecting six stones that would let him do anything he likes with the universe, and every hero on the board tries to stop him. It cuts between half a dozen groups on different planets.
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2013 · Adventure
A photo archivist who daydreams elaborately and does very little finally leaves the building, chasing a missing negative across Greenland and Iceland. The daydreams stop once the trip starts.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Horror
An anxious man sets out to fly home to his mother and falls instead through one strange situation after another. It runs three hours and looks less like the real world the further it goes.
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2008 · Science fiction
A going-away party in Manhattan is cut short by something very large coming ashore, and the whole night is filmed on one guest's camcorder. Short, shaky and more or less in real time.
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2017 · Animation
A boy from a Mexican family that has banned music wants to play, and on the Day of the Dead he ends up in the land where his ancestors live. Bright, quick, and built around songs.
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Little-known
2020 · Drama
Four Black veterans go back to Vietnam for the body of their squad leader and the crate of gold buried with him. Long, cutting between now and the war, and stopping to argue about history.
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2003 · Animation
A clownfish whose son is scooped up by a diver swims the length of the ocean to get him back, with a fish who forgets everything for company. Bright and quick, and funny most of the way.
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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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2014 · Action
A small-time thief picks up a mysterious orb and ends up in an alien prison with a green assassin, a talking raccoon and a tree. Big, loud, colourful, and joking most of the way through.
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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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2018 · Animation
A Japanese city banishes every dog to a rubbish island, and a boy flies out there alone to find his. The dogs talk in flat deadpan, and the whole thing is stop-motion built like a doll's house.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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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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2017 · Adventure
A girl in the Korean mountains has raised a hippo-sized pig for ten years, and the company that made the animal wants it back in New York. It swings between sweet and rough, sometimes in the same scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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2021 · Drama
A man who lives alone in the Oregon woods with his truffle pig goes back into Portland when somebody takes her. Quiet and slow, and much of it is people talking about food.
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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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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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2018 · Science fiction
In a future where almost everyone spends the day inside a vast online world, its dead creator has hidden three keys in it for whoever wants his fortune. A treasure hunt at full speed, stuffed with references to old films and games.
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2010 · Comedy
A slacker bass player in Toronto falls for a girl on rollerblades and learns he has to fight her seven evil exes to date her. Video game rules, comic book panels, and it never slows down.
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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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2015 · Science fiction
A scavenger on a desert planet and a stormtrooper who walks off his post end up carrying something the new empire badly wants. Big and fast, and built to feel like the ones from the seventies.
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2022 · Animation
A teenage girl in a seaside town finds a door standing on its own in some ruins, and ends up crossing Japan closing others like it. Big weather, big feelings, and a talking three-legged chair.
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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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2014 · Animation
An ordinary construction worker in a Lego city follows the instructions like everyone else, until he is mistaken for the one person who can stop the president gluing the world in place. Very fast, very silly, and packed with gags you will miss first time.
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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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2019 · Animation
Woody's new kid makes a toy out of a plastic fork, and when it runs off he sets out to bring it back. Bright and funny, with a long stretch in an antiques shop and a carnival.
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2009 · Animation
A widowed balloon seller ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats it towards South America, with an eight-year-old scout on the porch by accident. Bright and funny, with one very sad stretch early on.
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2012 · Animation
The bad guy in an old arcade game is tired of being the bad guy and sneaks into other machines to win himself a medal. Bright, quick, and packed with games you may recognise.
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