20 best movies like Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1955)

List of the best movies like Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1955): The Visitors: Bastille Day, The One and Only Ivan, Time Bandits, The Three Veterans, More Than a Miracle, The Almighty Johnsons, Axe Giant - The Wrath of Paul Bunyan, Isn't It Romantic, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Into the Woods.

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Markimdb: 4.5
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy
CountryFrance, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration01:24

Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the descendants of Godefroy and Jacquouille had their castle and all their property confiscated by arrogant aristocrats, fleeing and lifes hanging by a thread.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:56

Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryCzechoslovakia

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:44

A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryNew Zealand

The Almighty Johnsons is a New Zealand fantasy comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and is produced by South Pacific Pictures. It began airing its first series of ten episodes in New Zealand on 7 February 2011.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Axe Giant - The Wrath of Paul Bunyon is a dark, contemporary take on the tall tale. Kids at a first-time offenders' boot camp discover the legend of lumberjack Paul Bunyan is real, but is much more horrifying than they could have imagined. They incur the wrath of the 15-foot monstrous giant, who was banished from town 100 years ago and thought dead.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration02:36

For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUSA

A modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The new version takes place in present-day Hollywood where fantasy and reality collide. It’s set in a world where glamorous stars, commanding moguls, starving artists and vaulting pretenders all vie to get ahead.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

    In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    Following a wild night out with his Best Man, Rob Anderson wakes up to find himself naked in an elevator on the morning of his wedding day and is forced to relive the morning over and over again.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    Charles Whitley travels from 1903 to 2020 where he meets Megan Turner, a tour guide at his historic mansion, and experiences a 21st Century Christmas.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryIndia
    Duration01:45

    A story-writer attempts to convince a producer to accept four erotic stories from the Panchtantra.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:34

    Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:46

    After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White launches an epic battle of good vs. evil...

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA, Canada, South Africa

    A group of unwitting sorority sisters accidentally awaken the serial-killing Leprechaun after they build a sorority house on his hunting grounds.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountrySoviet Union, India
    Duration02:13

    This is a story of Ajooba, the masked legend, who was treated as the only protector of the people of Baharistan. Ajooba is none other than Ali, the real heir to the kingdom of Baharistan. Unfortunately for Ali, when he was just born, his father and mother were overthrown by the evil designs of the Vazir. Ali survived as destined and was brought up by a blacksmith who was unaware of Ali's real identity. In the guise of Ajooba, Ali takes up the very difficult task of finding his lost parents and then to re-instate them to the throne with great honour.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:21

    A band of ninja warriors, led by an Iga Ninja named Yamata, witness a giant ball of fire drop from the sky and crash into the forest. When the warriors find and attempt to identify the object, they discover aliens that attack and feast on them. Yamata and the survivors swear vengeance, but in challenging the aliens, they learn that their weapons have no effect.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, New Zealand
    Duration02:18

    For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:20

    Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Prince Galavant lost the love of his life, Madalena, to the evil King Richard. Now, our fallen hero is ready to take revenge and restore his “happily ever after.” But it won't be without a few twists and turns along the way in this fairytale musical.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
    CountryCzechoslovakia

    When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryNetherlands
    Duration01:43

    One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out-of-work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no-one will go unpunished for this.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Italy

    Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter, Carolina, is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantasy, comedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:56

    Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryIndia, Sweden
    Duration02:27

    India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, Canada

    An architect heads to the altar with her fiancé, unsure of her marriage and their future. She relives her disastrous wedding day, put together by her fiance’s overbearing mother, over and over until, with the help of his brother, she begins to face her biggest fears and discover what she really wants in herself and in her life.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

      A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:29

      The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:18

      Faced with extinction, two park rangers are forced to defend the national park against hordes of rampaging orcs. Ancient and long forgotten, these orcs are unleashed from the depths of the mountains, and they won't stop until we're all dead.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:23

      Performing the traditional New Year's call on the unknown phone number Andrey didn't even suspected, that just after his return to Moscow, he had bought a magic starting pack of cellular communications operator. Getting through to the deserted in New Year's eve Alyona, Andrey almost falls in love with her, but there exists a temporal problem. Alyona is celebrating coming 2008 year and Andrey is going to meet 2009. Trying "to set a contact" with Alyona's «future variant» he comes to know the terrible truth about the events, that appended in the end of 2008. Now the main goal of Andrey and all his friends - to prevent the awful tragedy and to turn into reality the meeting of Alyona and Andrey...

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:32

      Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryJapan

      Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountrySweden
      Duration01:34

      When Anders wakes up on his wedding day, he finds himself naked in an elevator, only remembering some of what happened.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryCzechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, Austria

      A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evil desires.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, musical, family
      CountryIndia

      As the only employed member of a large family, Aditya Singh a big-hearted mechanic, works hard to provide for his siblings, his grandmother and a bevy of nieces and nephews. But, when he is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, his family's future becomes a murky prospect. Fearful for their safety and happiness, Aditya convinces Yamraj the Hindu god of death, to give him a chance to return -- as a ghost -- to carry out the unresolved business of his life.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
      CountrySpain, France
      Duration01:53

      In this heist film turned horror fest, director Álex de la Iglesia's love of mayhem is on full display as a gang of gold thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual -- and in need of a sacrifice.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      George Murray's fiancée Jane Gardner gets cold feet after accepting his ring, terrorized by her first wedding with Doug, who cheated that very day with their wedding coordinator. After a car crash, George finds himself 10 years in the past, just days before Doug's day.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      Harper was one of the best dancers to hit Broadway, but an injury caused her to leave the spotlight, become a choreographer, and raise her daughter Mirabella. When Mirabella decides to quit the show to get married, her mother is determined to put a stop to the wedding and show Mirabella that she cannot give up her career for love.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, musical
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:26

      A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

      Markimdb: 3.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, family, cartoon
      CountryCzechoslovakia, Czech Republic
      Duration01:30

      When Your mum is a Witch, be careful what You play with

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, short
      CountryAustralia

      A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the internet.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryCzech Republic
      Duration01:32

      Based on a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh, Angels of everyday focuses on a few intimate family members: a recently widowed young doctor Ester; a school canteen cook and her son; a driving instructor, his wife, and their closest relatives.




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