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Fantasy Films

Fantasy Films, unlike science fiction films that base their content upon some degree of scientific truth, take the audience to netherworld, fairty-tale places where events are unlikely to occur in real life. In mythological or legendary times, they transcend the bounds of human possibility and physical laws. Fantasy films are often in the context of the imagination, dreams, or hallucinations of a character or within the projected vision of the storyteller. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. They may appeal to both children and adults, depending upon the particular film. Below is a collection of films where imagination has no bounds. Where entire worlds have been created and populated with mythical creatures, magical quests and larger than life heroes and villains.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park ( Blu-ray ) (1997)

6.5/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Arliss Howard, Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite

Four years on from the events at Jurassic Park on the island of Isla Nubar, dinosaurs have bred on the neighbouring site of Isla Sorna. The park's fou... Read more

The Lovely Bones (2009)

6.7/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Imperioli, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, S...

Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller set in 1970s New England is the extraordinary story about one girl's life, and everything that... Read more

The Lovely Bones ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

6.7/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Imperioli, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, S...

Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller set in 1970s New England is the extraordinary story about one girl's life, and everything that... Read more

The Lure (Blu-ray) (2015)

6.3/10
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska

In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of... Read more

The Magicians: Season 1 (2015)

7.5/10
Starring: Hale Appleman, Summer Bishil, Olivia Taylor Dudley

After being recruited to a secretive academy, a group of students discover that the magic they read about as children is very real-and more dangerous... Read more

The Magicians: Season 2 (2017)

7.6/10
Starring: Hale Appleman, Summer Bishil, Olivia Taylor Dudley

After being recruited to a secretive academy, a group of students discover that the magic they read about as children is very real-and more dangerous... Read more

The Magus (1968)

5.9/10
Director: Guy Green
Starring: Candice Bergen, Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Anna Karina

John Fowles's complex novel (he also wrote the screenplay) is the basis for this bizarre and surreal classic. Michael Caine is an English school teac... Read more

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

6.4/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Adam Driver, William Miller, Will Keenan

Toby, a cynical but supposedly genius film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himsel... Read more

The Mask (1994)

6.9/10
Director: Charles Russell
Starring: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Green

Inspired by the manic 1940s cartoons of Tex Avery and based on the comic book of the same name, this loopy tale has a bank clerk discovering an ancien... Read more

The Mask ( Blu-ray ) (1994)

6.9/10
Director: Charles Russell
Starring: Amy Yasbeck, Cameron Diaz, Jim Carrey, Peter Green, Peter Riegert, Richard Jeni

Inspired by the manic 1940s cartoons of Tex Avery and based on the comic book of the same name, this loopy tale has a bank clerk discovering an ancien... Read more