Time Out London 50 Best Fantasy Movies
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If film is the ultimate escapist medium then fantasy is its purest, most dreamlike expression, sweeping the viewer away to distant lands and exploring dizzying imaginative concepts far removed from our humdrum reality. Too often dismissed as a genre for nerds, in the past decade fantasy has thundered into the mainstream courtesy of Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. But as our list proves, great fantasy movies have been around since the birth of cinema, spanning sword and sorcery, romance, animation, action and more – here are 50 of the best.
* 51 Movies because Die Nibelungen is listed here as two separate films
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5 new
La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
7 new
A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
9 new
Groundhog Day
1993, in 22 top lists Check -
11 new
The Red Shoes
1948, in 27 top lists Check -
15 new
Edward Scissorhands
1990, in 10 top lists Check -
18 new
Der Himmel über Berlin
1987 — a.k.a. Wings of Desire, in 21 top lists Check -
21 new
Wo hu cang long
2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check -
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Portrait of Jennie
1948, in 5 top lists Check -
42 new
Orlando
1992, in 7 top lists Check -
44 new
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
46 new
13 Going on 30
2004, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Jun 8, 2015 by SanderO; source