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The Last Unicorn (1982)

7 March 200413 October 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Unicorn’s Quest/Animation

Director: Julie Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr
Actors: Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Tammy Grimes, Christopher Lee, …
Category: Fantasy

Life During Wartime (2009)

31 December 200928 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Interwoven Dramas/Ghosts of Ex Boyfriends

Director: Todd Solondz
Actors: Shirley Henderson, Ciaran Hinds, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, …
Category: Fantasy

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

3 March 200231 January 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Magical Realism/Magic Cooking

Director: Alfonso Arau
Actors: Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne, Marco Leonardi
Category: Fantasy

Liza, The Fox-Fairy (2015)

5 February 201631 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Hungarian Black Comedy/Woman and Her Jealous Ghost Companion

Director: Karoly Ujj Meszaros
Actors: Moni Balsai, Szabolcs Bede Fazekas, David Sakurai, Piroska Molnar
Category: Fantasy

The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine (2024)

23 March 202523 March 2025

Rating: ★★½

Last Man on Earth

Director: Graham Skipper
Actors: Graham Skipper, Christina Bennett Lind, Paul Guyet
Category: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

23 December 200331 December 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Epic Fantasy Adventure

Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Sean Astin, …
Category: Fantasy

Lovesick (1983)

9 May 20013 November 2023

Rating: ★

Psychotherapy Romantic Comedy/Freud’s Ghost

Director: Marshall Brickman
Actors: Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, John Huston, …
Category: Fantasy

Lucky Encounter (1992)

8 June 200218 November 2024

Rating: ★★

Hong Kong Ghost Child Comedy

Director: Johnny To
Actors: Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Kent Cheng
Category: Fantasy

The Magical Land of the Leprechauns (1999)

1 May 20104 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

Leprechaun Fantasy

Director: John Henderson
Actors: Randy Quaid, Colm Meaney, Whoopi Goldberg, Orla Brady, …
Category: Fantasy

Mariko Rose the Spook (2009)

3 July 20126 October 2020

Rating: ★★½

Japanese Gay Film/Ghost of a Drag Queen

Director: Devi Kobayashi
Category: Fantasy

The Master of Disguise (2002)

7 January 20257 January 2025

Rating: ★

Disguise Expert Comedy

Director: Perry Andelin Blake
Actors: Dana Carvey, Brent Spiner, Jennifer Esposito, Harold Gould, …
Category: Fantasy

Match Point (2005)

21 June 200622 May 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Murder and Conscience

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, …
Category: Fantasy

Meridian (1990)

6 November 20039 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

Erotic Fairytale

Director: Charles Band
Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Malcolm Jamieson, Charlie Spradling, Hilary Mason
Category: Fantasy

Mermaid Down (2019)

7 August 202028 November 2023

Rating: ★★

Mermaid in an Asylum

Director: Jeffrey Grellman
Actors: Alexandra Bokova, Burt Culver, Meggan Kaiser, Michell Gallagher, …
Category: Fantasy

Moksha – Or The World and I, How Does That Work? (2012)

13 October 201224 September 2020

Rating: ★★½

Man Chained Up/Existential Parable

Director: Koo Sungzoo
Actors: Jang Sukhyun, Min Kyungjin, Kim Jungsuk, Park Gilsu, …
Category: Fantasy

Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007)

19 October 20084 July 2022

Rating: ★★

Italian Occult Horror

Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Asia Argento, Udo Kier, Daria Nicolodi
Category: Horror

Mr. Tree (2011)

31 December 201119 February 2024

Rating: ★★

Life in Rural China/Advice from Ghosts

Director: Jie Han
Actors: Wang Baoqiang, Tan Zhuo
Category: Fantasy

Mulan (1998)

10 April 199919 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Disney Animation/Chinese Legend

Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Actors: Ming Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, B.D. Wong, James Hong, …
Category: Fantasy

Mystery Train (1989)

2 September 201114 September 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Anthology of Tales from a Memphis Hotel/Ghost of Elvis

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Screamin Jay Hawkins, Cinque Lee, Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, …
Category: Fantasy

Nekrotronic (2018)

30 August 202019 November 2024

Rating: ★★

Demon Hunters

Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
Actors: Ben O'Toole, Monica Bellucci, David Wenham, Caroline Ford, …
Category: Horror

Night of the Flood (1996)

28 November 200419 January 2025

Rating: ★★

End of the World Dance Film

Director: Bernar Hebert
Category: Fantasy

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

8 February 200423 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Halloween Denizens Take Over Christmas/Stop-Motion Animation

Director: Henry Selick
Actors: Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, …
Category: Fantasy

No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)

7 January 200121 January 2025

Rating: ½

Martial Arts/Ghost of Bruce Lee

Director: Corey Yuen
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kurt McKinney
Category: Fantasy

Odd Thomas (2013)

10 November 201323 January 2025

Rating: ★★½

Eccentric Clairvoyant-Medium/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation

Director: Stephen Sommers
Actors: Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha Raw, …
Category: Fantasy

Over Her Dead Body (2008)

30 November 200930 September 2023

Rating: ★

Ghostly Ex Comedy

Director: Jeff Lowell
Actors: Eva Longoria, Lake Bell, Paul Rudd, Stephen Root, …
Category: Fantasy

ParaNorman (2012)

16 August 201228 December 2023

Rating: ★★★

Stop-Motion Animated Children’s Film/Kid Sees Dead People

Director: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Actors: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, …
Category: Horror

Peacock King (1988)

29 December 201629 April 2021

Rating: ★★

Wu Xia Film

Director: Ngai Kai Lam
Actors: Yuen Biao, Narumi Yasuda, Gloria Yip, Siu-fung Wong, …
Category: Fantasy

The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)

5 January 20033 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Gonzo Children’s Film

Director: Michael Rubbo
Actors: Matthew Mackay, Michael Hogan, Michel Maillot, maillot
Category: Fantasy

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

24 December 20023 February 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Overgrown Adolescent’s Nonsense Adventures

Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen, …
Category: Fantasy

Play It Again Sam (1972)

2 February 200122 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Romantic Advice from Humphrey Bogart’s Ghost Comedy

Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Ross, Susan Anspach
Category: Fantasy

The Polar Express (2004)

28 November 20044 December 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Animation/Train Journey to the North Pole

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara, Jimmy Bennett
Category: Fantasy

Pom Poko (1994)

11 April 200511 February 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Raccoons Declare War on Humanity

Director: Isao Takahata
Category: Fantasy

Pop Skull (2007)

27 July 20089 April 2021

Rating: ★★½

Drug Hallucinations and Madness

Director: Adam Wingard
Actors: Lane Hughes, Brandon Carroll, Hannah Hughes
Category: Fantasy, Horror

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

13 April 200010 May 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Supernatural Romance

Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore, David Wayne, …
Category: Fantasy

Posthumous Memoirs (2001)

10 November 200612 February 2025

Rating: ★★★

Dead Man Narrates His Life Story

Director: Andre Klotzel
Actors: Reginaldo Farias, Sonia Braga
Category: Fantasy

Pretty Ghost (1991)

27 June 202427 June 2024

Rating: ★★

Hong Kong Ghost Comedy

Director: Teddy Chan
Actors: Tony Leung Ka-fai, Rosamund Kwan, Ellen Chan
Category: Fantasy

The Princess and the Goblin (1992)

14 August 200622 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Fairytale

Director: Jozsef Gemes
Actors: Rik Mayall, Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, Roy Kinnear, …
Category: Fantasy

Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)

24 September 20216 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Gonzo Post-Apocalyptic Film

Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, …
Category: Science Fiction

Psyched By the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1972)

7 May 200218 February 2025

Rating: 0­

Sex and Witchcraft

Director: Victor Luminera
Category: Horror

Rashomon (1950)

1 November 200228 February 2021

Rating: ★★★★★

The Subjectivity of Perception

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Category: Fantasy

Ratatouille (2007)

9 September 200724 February 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Pixar Animation/Talking Rat Chef

Director: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
Actors: Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Ian Holm, Janeane Garofalo, …
Category: Fantasy

The Red Tent (1969)

23 April 201526 December 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Ill-Fated Expedition to the North Pole/Ghosts of the Dead

Director: Mickail K. Kalotozov
Actors: Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Kruger, …
Category: Fantasy

Repentance (2014)

13 December 201619 September 2024

Rating: ★½

Imprisonment Thriller

Director: Philippe Caland
Actors: Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Sanaa Lathan, Mike Epps, …
Category: Horror

Restless (2011)

4 March 201226 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Oddball Romance/Ghost Companion

Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Jane Adams, …
Category: Fantasy

The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

14 August 200029 August 2021

Rating: ★★★

Screwball Comedy

Director: Norman Panama
Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Road to Morocco (1942)

8 March 200831 October 2023

Rating: ★★½

Screwball Comedy

Director: David Butler
Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn, …
Category: Fantasy

Safe Haven (2013)

4 December 20136 March 2025

Rating: ★

Romantic Film/Fantastic Twist Ending

Director: Lasse Hallstrƶm
Actors: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, David Lyons, Cobie Smulders, …
Category: Fantasy

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)

17 October 199910 May 2024

Rating: ★★

Sexual Rondeau Comedy/Ghost

Director: Paul Bartel
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Ray Sharkey, …
Category: Fantasy

Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

19 April 20045 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Ghostbusting Team/Cartoon in Live-Action

Director: Raja Gosnell
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini, Freddie Prinze Jr, …
Category: Fantasy

Scooby-Doo (2002)

15 July 200222 November 2024

Rating: ★

Ghostbusting Team/Cartoon in Live-Action

Director: Raja Gosnell
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr, Linda Cardellini, …
Category: Fantasy

Scoop (2006)

27 May 20079 June 2021

Rating: ★★

Journalistic Tips from the Afterlife

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, …
Category: Fantasy

Scrooge (1951)

16 April 19995 July 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Miser’s Redemption

Director: Brian Desmond-Hurst
Actors: Alistair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Michael Dolan, Francis de Wolff, …
Category: Fantasy

Scrooge (1970)

16 December 200021 July 2021

Rating: ★★½

Miser’s Redemption Musical

Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, David Collings, Edith Evans, …
Category: Fantasy

Scrooged (1988)

1 June 200426 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Modernised A Christmas Carol

Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, …
Category: Fantasy

Silent Tongue (1994)

27 February 200212 July 2024

Rating: ★★½

Western/American Indian Ghost

Director: Sam Shepard
Actors: Richard Harris, Alan Bates, River Phoenix, Dermot Mulroney, …
Category: Fantasy

The Simian Line (2000)

22 November 200815 March 2024

Rating: ★★

Magical Realist Ensemble Drama

Director: Linda Yellen
Actors: Lynn Redgrave, William Hurt, Eric Stoltz, Harry Connick Jr., …
Category: Fantasy

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

23 August 20148 March 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Graphic Novel Adaptation/Ultra-Violent Film Noir Tales

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Josh Brolin, Eva Green, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mickey Rourke, …
Category: Horror

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)

1 June 201512 July 2024

Rating: ★

Surrealism

Director: Steve Roberts
Actors: Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee, Harry Fowler, Sheila Reid, …
Category: Fantasy

The Sixth Man (1997)

19 October 200814 March 2025

Rating: ★

Ghost Aids Basketball Team

Director: Randall Miller
Actors: Marlon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison, David Paymer, Kevin Dunn, …
Category: Fantasy

Sole Survivor (1970)

3 September 202424 May 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Deathdream

Director: Paul Stanley
Actors: William Shatner, Richard Basehart, Vince Edwards, Lawrence Casey, …
Category: Fantasy

Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

19 August 200123 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Surreal Vignettes

Director: Roy Andersson
Category: Fantasy

The Spirit is Willing (1967)

5 September 200422 June 2021

Rating: ★★

Ghost Comedy

Director: William Castle
Actors: Sid Caesar, Vera Miles, Barry Gordon, John McGiver, …
Category: Fantasy

Spirited (2022)

25 December 202225 December 2022

Rating: ★★★

Modernised A Christmas Carol

Director: Sean Anders
Actors: Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, …
Category: Fantasy

Stardust (2007)

23 September 200710 March 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Epic Fantasy Adventure

Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, …
Category: Fantasy

The Suicide Shop (2012)

10 March 20131 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Black Comedy

Director: Patrice Leconte
Category: Fantasy

Tales from the Hood 2 (2018)

20 September 20216 December 2024

Rating: ★★

African-American Horror Anthology

Director: Rusty Cundieff, Darin Scott
Actors: Keith David, Kendrick Cross, Bryan Batt, Bill Martin Williams, …
Category: Horror

Teen Titans Go! vs Teen Titans (2019)

15 January 202415 January 2024

Rating: ★★½

Animation/Comic-Book Superhero Team

Director: Jeff Mendikow
Actors: Scott Menville, Tara Strong, Khary Payton, Hynden Walch, …
Category: Science Fiction

Those Dear Departed (1987)

25 June 199920 August 2024

Rating: 0­

Ghostly Vengeance Black Comedy

Director: Ted Robinson
Actors: Garry McDonald, Pamela Stephenson, Su Cruickshank, John Clarke, …
Category: Fantasy

The Time of Their Lives (1946)

31 March 201511 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Ghost Comedy

Director: Charles Barton
Actors: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Marjorie Reynolds, Gale Sondergaard, …
Category: Fantasy

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)

27 April 200330 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Ghosts of Memory

Director: Michael Pressman
Actors: Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, …
Category: Fantasy

Tommy (1975)

27 February 200331 January 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Demented Rock Musical/Messianic Pinball Player

Director: Ken Russell
Actors: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Paul Nicholas, …
Category: Fantasy

Topper (1937)

12 May 200422 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Ghost Screwball Comedy

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Roland Young, Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, …
Category: Fantasy

Topper Returns (1941)

11 September 20135 May 2025

Rating: ★★★

Ghost Screwball Comedy

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Actors: Roland Young, Joan Blondell, Carole Landis, Billie Burke, …
Category: Fantasy

Troll 2 (1990)

13 March 20069 November 2023

Rating: 0­

Evil Goblins/Classic Bad Movie

Director: Claudio Fragasso
Actors: Michael Stephenson, George Hardy, Connie McFarland, Margo Prey, …
Category: Horror

A Valentine Carol (2007)

13 July 200826 May 2025

Rating: ★

Romantic Redemption Fantasy

Director: Mark Jean
Actors: Emma Caulfield, Barbara Niven, John Reardon, Dominic Zamprogna, …
Category: Fantasy

Volver (2006)

11 February 200724 April 2023

Rating: ★★★

Drama/Mother’s Ghost

Director: Pedro Almodovar
Actors: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola DueƱas, Chus Lampreave, …
Category: Fantasy

The Wall (1998)

14 November 19995 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Belgian Dystopia/Magical Realism

Director: Alain Berliner
Category: Fantasy

We Have a Ghost (2023)

10 March 202316 January 2024

Rating: ★★

Ghost Comedy

Director: Christopher Landon
Actors: David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Jahi Winston, Isabella Russo, …
Category: Fantasy

What Josiah Saw (2021)

20 February 202320 February 2023

Rating: ★★★½

Southern Gothic

Director: Vincent Grashaw
Actors: Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Scott Haze, Kelli Garner, …
Category: Horror

When Pigs Fly (1993)

16 December 200923 October 2023

Rating: ★★

Ghosts of Dublin

Director: Sara Driver
Actors: Alfred Molina, Marianne Faithfull, Seymour Cassel
Category: Fantasy

Wonder Man (1944)

19 November 200110 July 2024

Rating: ★★

Ghost Twin Brother/Screwball Comedy

Director: Bruce Humberstone
Actors: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Allen Jenkins, Edward Brophy, …
Category: Fantasy

Written By (2009)

19 May 201015 October 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Meta-Fiction

Director: Wai Ka Fai
Actors: Lau Ching Wan, Kelly Lin
Category: Fantasy

Wu Yen (2001)

14 April 200112 January 2024

Rating: ★★

Mischievous Fairy

Director: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai
Actors: Anita Mui, Cecilia Cheung, Raymond Wong, Sammi Cheng
Category: Fantasy

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