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Theme: Spirits

The Asphyx (1972)

2 June 199922 September 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Capturing the Spirit of Death

Director: Peter Newbrook
Actors: Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire
Category: Horror

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)

19 October 200225 September 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Inuit Legend and Culture

Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Actors: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk, …
Category: Fantasy

Battle League Horumo (2009)

13 June 20124 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Combat Tournaments with Miniature Creatures

Director: Katsuhide Motoki
Actors: Takayuki Yamada, Sei Ashina, Chiaki Kuriyama, Gaku Hamada, …
Category: Fantasy

Beauty and the Beast (2014)

18 January 20157 November 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Fairy-Tale

Director: Christophe Gans
Actors: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Andre Dussolier, Eduardo Noriega, …
Category: Fantasy

The Blue Bird (1976)

28 October 201419 February 2020

Rating: 0­

Fairy-Tale

Director: George Cukor
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Patsy Kensit, Jane Fonda, George Cole, …
Category: Fantasy

Bugmaster (2006)

10 December 201224 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Wandering Exorcist/Manga Adaptation

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Actors: Jo Odagiri, Nao Omori, Yu Aoi
Category: Fantasy

Cemetery of Splendor (2015)

20 October 20153 February 2022

Rating: ★★

Thai Supernatural

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Actors: Jenjira Pongpas
Category: Fantasy

A Christmas Carol (1938)

7 April 200119 April 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Miser’s Redemption

Director: Edwin L. Marin
Actors: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll, Ann Rutherford, …
Category: Fantasy

A Christmas Carol (1984)

25 December 202425 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Miser’s Redemption

Director: Clive Donner
Actors: George C. Scott, Edward Woodward, David Warner, Frank Finlay, …
Category: Fantasy

A Christmas Carol (1999)

31 October 200810 December 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Miser’s Redemption

Director: David Jones
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Saskia Reeves, …
Category: Fantasy

A Christmas Carol (2004)

11 February 200625 December 2022

Rating: ★★★

Miser’s Redemption Musical

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jane Krakowski, Jason Alexander, …
Category: Fantasy

A Christmas Carol (2009)

14 November 20095 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Miser’s Redemption/Animation

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, …
Category: Fantasy

A Christmas Carol (2019)

25 December 20204 July 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Miser’s Redemption/Dark Adult Retelling

Director: Nick Murphy
Actors: Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Stephen Graham, Joe Alwyn, …
Category: Fantasy

Cold Fever (1995)

14 August 20049 March 2023

Rating: ★★★

Quest to Iceland/Magical Realism

Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Actors: Nagase Masatoshi, Fisher Stevens, Lili Taylor
Category: Fantasy

Djinn (2013)

4 February 201516 August 2020

Rating: ★

Islamic Horror Film/Haunted Apartment Block

Director: Tobe Hooper
Category: Horror

Dreamkeeper (2003)

13 March 200618 December 2024

Rating: ★★★½

American Indian Myths and Legends

Director: Steve Barron
Actors: August Schellenberg, Gil Birmingham, Sheila Tousey, Chaske Spencer, …
Category: Fantasy

Fantasia 2000 (1999)

3 January 20004 January 2022

Rating: ★★

Disney Animation and Music Anthology

Director: Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt, Hendel Butoy, Eric Goldberg, …
Actors: Penn Jillette, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, …
Category: Fantasy

Fear Clinic (2015)

3 February 201717 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Experimental Fear Treatment Opens Up Other Dimension

Director: Robert Hall
Actors: Fiona Dourif, Robert Englund, Felisha Terrell, Cleopatra Coleman, …
Category: Horror

Forest Warrior (1996)

16 January 200516 December 2020

Rating: ★

Environmental Ghost Warrior

Director: Aaron Norris
Actors: Chuck Norris, Terry Kiser, John Dennis Johnston, Max Gail, …
Category: Fantasy

The Great Yokai War (2005)

15 December 200727 August 2024

Rating: ★★★

War in the Realm of Japanese Spirits

Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Etsushi Toyokawa, Chiaki Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Bunta Sugawara, …
Category: Fantasy

How to Save Us (2014)

24 May 20176 February 2024

Rating: ★★★

Mysterious Borderland Zone

Director: Jason Trost
Actors: Jason Trost, Coy Jandreau, Tallay Wickham
Category: Science Fiction

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)

17 August 20079 May 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Inuit Culture and First Meeting with Europeans

Director: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk
Actors: Natar Ungalaaq, Kim Bodnia, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Category: Fantasy

Kwaidan (1964)

1 May 20022 January 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Japanese Ghost Story Anthology

Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai
Category: Horror

Longing for the Rain (2013)

11 October 201327 August 2021

Rating: ★★½

Woman’s Mystery Dream Lover

Director: Lina Yang
Category: Fantasy

Man-Thing (2005)

9 September 200717 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Marvel Comics Adaptation/Creature in the Swamps

Director: Brett Leonard
Actors: Matthew Le Nevez, Jack Thompson, Rachael Taylor, Alex O'Loughlin, …
Category: Horror

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982)

9 March 20018 January 2025

Rating: ★★½

Period Sexual Rondeau Comedy

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Mary Steenburgen, Julie Hagerty, …
Category: Fantasy

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

26 February 200225 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Muppet Movie

Director: Brian Henson
Actors: Michael Caine
Category: Fantasy

Night of Dark Shadows (1971)

3 June 201510 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Dark Shadows Movie

Director: Dan Curtis
Actors: David Selby, Kate Jackson, Grayson Hall, John Karlen, …
Category: Horror

Nomads (1986)

6 May 200311 January 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Urban Phantoms

Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, Anne-Maria Monticelli, Mary Woronov, …
Category: Horror

Princess Mononoke (1997)

30 November 199911 February 2025

Rating: ★★★★★

Anime/Epic Fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Gillian Anderson, …
Category: Fantasy

Red Sonja (1985)

9 November 20054 July 2024

Rating: ★

Warrior Woman/Sword and Sorcery

Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ernie Reyes Jr, Paul Smith, …
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

Spectral (2016)

29 July 201718 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Soldiers vs Spirit Beings

Director: Nic Mathieu
Actors: James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Bruce Greenwood, Max Martini, …
Category: Horror

The Spirit of the Beehive (1974)

17 February 200325 April 2023

Rating: ★★★★★

Spanish Childhood/Ghost of the Frankenstein Monster

Director: Victor Erice
Actors: Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria, Fernan Gomez, Tersea Gimpera
Category: Fantasy

Spirited Away (2001)

12 April 200212 February 2021

Rating: ★★★★★

Anime/Afterlife Bathhouse

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

The Tempest (1979)

5 July 200422 March 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Derek Jarman
Actors: Heathcote Williams, Toyah Willcox, Karl Johnson, Richard Warwick, …
Category: Fantasy

The Tempest (2010)

10 July 20119 April 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Julie Taymor
Actors: Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, …
Category: Fantasy

Tropical Malady (2004)

29 July 20041 February 2022

Rating: ★★★

Thai Anthology/Ghost Tiger

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Actors: Sakda Kaewbuadee
Category: Fantasy

Under the Shadow (2016)

7 October 201615 May 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Iranian Woman Haunted By a Djinn

Director: Babak Anvari
Category: Horror

Wraiths of Roanoke (2007)

25 April 201317 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Unsolved Mystery/ Malevolent Phantoms

Director: Matt Codd
Actors: Adrian Paul, Rhett Giles, Alex McArthur, George Calil
Category: Horror

Youth Without Youth (2007)

4 April 200911 May 2021

Rating: ★★

Man Regains His Youth

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Iures, …
Category: Fantasy

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Theme Essays

  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns
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