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Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, adventure, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, adventure, family, military |
Country | Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany |
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
Mark | imdb: 4.1 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Japan, France |
Duration | 01:44 |
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, melodrama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:36 |
An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, fantasy, adventure, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:51 |
Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.
Mark | imdb: 3.5 |
Genre | fantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:29 |
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) must team up with their hated stepmother. Carmen and Juni have since also grown up and will provide gadgets to them.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:41 |
After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA, Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:50 |
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantasy, melodrama, adventure, family |
Country | Hungary, United Kingdom, France, Australia, USA, New Zealand |
Duration | 01:43 |
When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:59 |
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Mark | imdb: 3 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:21 |
A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, fantasy, melodrama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom |
Set near the end of the Third Age of Middle-earth. Arathorn takes refugees to Taurdal, the village of his father, Arador. Then as Arador begins his campaign against the gathering orc bands in the north, he sends Arathorn onward to find the motive behind these Orcs attacks.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, detective |
Country | West Germany |
A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not everything is good for Joey as his newly gained powers accidentally awake an evil supernatural force that is contained inside the body of an old ventriloquist's dummy that Joey found in an abandoned house. The supernatural Dummy shows similar powers to Joey's, and soon he puts the lives of everyone near Joey in danger as the evil Dummy has dark plans for Joey's special powers.
Mark | imdb: 2.5 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA, Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:25 |
The young warrior Son Goku sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo, to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | fantastic, adventure, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and the authorities. When everyone around them refuses to take the messages seriously, the three embark on a secret adventure to crack the code and follow it to its source. But taking matters into their own hands gets the trio in way over their heads when they discover a mysterious being from another world who desperately needs their help. The epic, suspenseful and exciting journey that follows will change all of their lives forever.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | fantasy, adventure, family, detective |
Country | Australia |
Duration | 01:33 |
When teenagers JOSH (Louis Corbett) and LING (Li Lin Jin) join their respective parents, CHRIS (Sam Neill) and Dr LI (Wang Ji) on an archaeological dig in China they encounter something trapped beneath a temple beyond their wildest imagination. A real live Chinese dragon. Two thousand years earlier, to defend his kingdom, the dragon lent an emperor his all powerful pearl. Instead of being returned, the pearl was buried with the emperor beneath his palace, and helpless without its source of power the dragon has remained entombed ever since.
Mark | imdb: 3.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA |
The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!
Mark | imdb: 4.1 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:34 |
In a hyper-linked social media age, an orphaned teenage girl, Jerrica Jem Benton, becomes an online recording sensation, and she and her sisters embark on a music-driven scavenger hunt - one that sends them on an adventure across Los Angeles - in an attempt to unlock a final message left by her father.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family |
Country | USA, Malta |
Duration | 01:54 |
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | USA, Australia |
Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Australia |
Duration | 02:24 |
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, adventure, family |
Country | Canada |
Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any other.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | fantasy, adventure, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:16 |
In this version of the Lewis Carroll classic, Alice (Charlotte Henry) discovers that an ordinary library mirror is actually a portal into another world. As she adjusts to her constantly changing size, thanks to some mysterious cookies, she follows a rabbit with a pocket watch, stumbles upon a deranged tea party and seeks advice from the shadowy Cheshire Cat (Richard Arlen). Later, Alice runs into Humpty Dumpty (W. C. Fields), whose unfortunate tumble sets even stranger events in motion.
Mark | imdb: 3.3 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
In a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin – a reluctant warrior with a dark past – sets off on mission to fulfill his destiny. Having fought to the death to save his wife and son from the planets evil dictator – Griffin – and his elite army of hunters, the lone warrior is left for dead in the vast desert. Armed with his samurai blade, Hirokin is forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family and fighting for the freedom his people. In a twist of fate and with a small rebellion by his side Hirokin s vision finally becomes clear.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | action, fantasy, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Hungary |
Duration | 01:44 |
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Mark | imdb: 3.3 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA, Bulgaria |
Duration | 01:28 |
It is 2020 and the impending apocalypse is inevitable. Due to a rapidly growing Black Hole headed straight for the sun, Earth begins to fall into darkness, waves rise above Los Angeles, Paris is rocked by extreme earthquakes and Japan is crumbling. Governments around the world race to build massive space arks for the lucky few who will escape Earth's tragic fate, though billions of people will be left behind. At the same time in the ruins of a Mayan temple a solution is discovered: 12 ancient skulls, that when brought together can stop the destruction. A team of scientists set out to find the hidden skulls and rescue mankind from imminent destruction.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:25 |
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of Buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | fantastic, adventure, family |
Country | USA, Spain, France, Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:22 |
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:48 |
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.