Fantasy films about Christianity

List of the best fantasy films about Christianity according to the audience: Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, Only Lovers Left Alive, Bear's Kiss, Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair, Skellig, Red, Honest, in Love, A Distant Neighborhood, After Life, Valley of Flowers, Scarlet Sails.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:11

A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the kingdom.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France
Duration01:58

    A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, Sweden, Russia, Spain, France, Italy
    Duration01:41

    A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:25

    Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds of intrigue and treachery.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantasy, drama, family, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:40

    An ordinary boy named Michael is going through some extraordinary changes in his life. His family has just moved into an unfamiliar house, and his brand new baby sister has fallen ill. One day, while cleaning out the garden shed, he stumbles across something mysterious, a strange creature huddled in the corner; weak of body but strong of will. This is Skellig.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantasy, family
    CountrySoviet Union

    A story about a young fox Ludwig XIV Larsen and his friendship with a handsome chicken Tutta Karlson. Based on Jan-Olof Ekholm book.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryBelgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany
    Duration01:38

    Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryJapan

    After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryIndia, France, Japan, Germany
    Duration02:35

    A Himalayan legend of a love struggling against the inevitability of death, an astonishing tale spanning from the early 19th century mountain existence, to hectic, bustling modern day Tokyo.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySoviet Union

    A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful romantic girl.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:35

    After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryAustralia

    Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he's jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary. Trapped in an endless cycle of time jumps, transported another year ahead every few minutes, he is faced with a race against time as his life crumbles around him.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantasy, drama, family
    CountryWest Germany, Soviet Union
    Duration02:03

    Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:31

    A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryItaly, France

    Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:06

    The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, family
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:06

    A merchant is living in a fairytale Russia of hundreds of years ago. When he is making a journey to market, his three daughters each ask for a present to be brought back...

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryFrance, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
    Duration02:41

    This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:18

    A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, family
    CountryCzechoslovakia
    Duration01:24

    Brave sons of the king, twin brothers Jaroslav and Jaromír love and help each other. It was they and another brother - Jindrich, who once saw the portrait of Princess of Diamond Mountains, fell in love and went on her quest.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, fantasy, melodrama
    CountryIndia
    Duration01:25

    When Mahendra, the son of Bahubali, learns about his heritage, he begins to look for answers. His story is juxtaposed with past events that unfolded in the Mahishmati Kingdom.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration02:13

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    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryCanada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:55

    After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryItaly, Luxembourg, France, Germany
    Duration01:42

    Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryItaly, Morocco, France, West Germany

    Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryFrance, Germany
    Duration01:49

    Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryNew Zealand
    Duration02:32

    New Zealand milk farmer Rob gives his lover Lucinda a ring. Trying to spark up her relationship with Rob, she takes her friend Drosophila's advice and starts to try and make Rob angry. But she tends to go too far. Admiring her ring while driving a lonely road, she has a run-in with an older woman that sets off a chain of events that begins with her quilt being stolen

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, detective, music
    CountryFrance, Poland, Norway
    Duration01:38

    Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:46

    Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:37

    In 19th-century France, a man (Thomas Coumans) magically has his wishes come true but at a price that shortens his life.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrefantasy, adventure
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:30

    Sadko is based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian epic tale of the same name. In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voiced bird of happiness. They laugh at him, but he is offered help by the Ocean King's daughter, who is mesmerized by Sadko's singing and is in love with him. The hero is destined to visit many lands in his search of the bird. First shown in the USA in 1953 with English subtitles. This entry is for 1962 English-dub by Roger Corman's Filmgroup, which runs about 8 minutes shorter (removes much of the music) than the Russian original (see, Sadko, 1953)

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genrefantasy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:10

    A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Unlucky in love, chemist Paul Matthews visits gypsy Madame Rosa for help. Quickly realizing he is a hopeless nerd, she gifts him with Love Potion No. 8, which makes anyone who wears it irresistible to the opposite sex for four hours. Paul and animal psychologist coworker Diane Farrow decide to test it on themselves. The awkward pair suddenly find themselves alluring to anyone they approach, but soon realize they are most attracted to each other.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:05

    A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy
    CountryFrance
    Duration00:55

    Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios. This film is the first part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy
    CountryFrance

    A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle. He and the viewer get more than they bargained for, however, in this anarchic comedy that rides roughshod over the City of Light. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, the audacious Zazie dans le Métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, fantasy
    CountryCzechoslovakia, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, West Germany
    Duration01:26

    A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.

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