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In theory fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic or exotic fantasy worlds, as distinct from science fiction films or horror films. The category has as much to do with approach as with context. Surrealist film also describes the fantastic. However it dispenses with genre narrative conventions and commercial and financial aims.
Examples include:
Many fantasy films are considered to be among the ranks of the classics:
- The Wizard of OzThe Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film based on L. Frank Baum's turn-of-the-century children's story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in which a resourceful American girl is snatched up by a Kansas tornado and deposited in a fantastic land of witches,
- Alice in Wonderland (1933 movie)The 1933 live-action film Alice in Wonderland is a version of the children's book of the same name by Lewis Carroll. It is considered by many to be the best film version of the book yet made. This version was an all star Paramount Studios classic, starrin - with Charlotte Henry, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant
- Alice in Wonderland (1951 movie)Alice in Wonderland has been frequently adapted for film. A notable adaptation was released by the Walt Disney Company on July 26, 1951. This adaptation solved the problems of the setting by using animation. The film uses the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as - Disney animated film
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Others have become cultA cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of obsessive fans or one that has remained popular over successive years amongst a small group of followers. Often the film failed to achieve mainstream success on its original release, but th favourites:
- HighlanderHighlander can also refer to a person from the Scottish Highlands. Highlander is a series of fantasy movies featuring Connor MacLeod ( Christopher Lambert), the Highlander of the title. Born in Glenfinnan, in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, Ma
- LadyhawkeLadyhawke is a 1985 film starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. The film is set in medieval Europe. Hauer and Pfeiffer play a castle-guard captain and a noblewoman who fall in love, but are torn apart by means of a curse cast upon
- The Last UnicornThe Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel written by Peter S. It was made into an animated movie by Rankin-Bass. The story is about a unicorn who one day wonders whether she is the last of her kind, and sets out on a long journey to find others. Along the way s
- The Neverending Story
- The Princess Bride
- Willow
See also: List of fantasy films.
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