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1. Ghostbusters (1984)
PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis
Votes: 450,078 | Gross: $238.63M
2. Inkheart (2008)
PG | 106 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A teenage girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.
Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Sienna Guillory
Votes: 82,342 | Gross: $17.30M
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman
Votes: 55,265 | Gross: $10.63M
4. The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the U.K.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: John Bryans, John Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing
Votes: 7,502
5. iGirlfriend (2016)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A teen comedy about a nerdy teenager who creates an iPhone app to be his girlfriend. When she miraculously comes to life, things go hilariously wrong, and she tries to kill him.
Director: Scott Coones | Stars: Dalton Edward Phillips, Tony Vespe, Kelsey Pribilski, Gabriella Gonzalez Biziou
Votes: 347
6. Slipstream (2007)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.
Director: Anthony Hopkins | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Stella Hopkins, Christian Slater, John Turturro
Votes: 4,912 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy (1981)
82 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A science fiction writer is gifted with the ability to materialize his thoughts and inadvertently brings a group of aliens to Earth.
Director: Dusan Vukotic | Stars: Ljubisa Samardzic, Zarko Potocnjak, Lucie Zulová, Jasminka Alic
Votes: 533
8. Santa Jaws (2018)
TV-PG | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Trying to survive his family Christmas, Cody makes a wish to be alone, which ends up backfiring when a shark manifests and kills his entire family.
Director: Misty Talley | Stars: Reid Miller, Courtney Lauren Cummings, Jim Klock, Carrie Lazar
Votes: 1,455
9. Arabela (1980–1981)
30 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Princess Arabela, the daughter of the King of the fairy tale world escapes before the revenge of a cunning and deceitful magician Rumburak and leaves the world of fairy tales. She meets ... See full summary »
Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Stella Zázvorková, Jana Nagyová, Veronika Tyblová
Votes: 1,486
10. Screamtime (1983)
R | 89 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A trilogy of three improbable stories of horror and the supernatural are combined into this low budget thriller: "That's the Way to Do It," "Dreamhouse,," and "Do You Believe in Fairies?"
Directors: Michael Armstrong, Stanley A. Long | Stars: Vincent Russo, Michael Gordon, Marie Scinto, Kevin Smith
Votes: 1,012
11. Storm (2005)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A shiftless loner finds that he suddenly has something worth living for, as he tries to protect the enigmatic love of his life from the men who want to do her harm.
Directors: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein | Stars: Eric Ericson, Eva Röse, Jonas Karlsson, Lina Englund
Votes: 2,745
12. Arabela se vrací (1993–1994)
30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The series is the continuation of the series Die Märchenbraut.
Stars: Vladimír Dlouhý, Alena Karesová, Jirí Lábus, Ondrej Kepka
Votes: 412
13. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
80 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
"What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?" a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Dana Medrická, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová, Juraj Visny
Votes: 1,156
14. Betlémské svetlo (2022)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Everyday existence of writer Sejnoha is enlivened by persistent characters from his stories to remind him of some major questions. How to fulfill our own expectations of a better existence without destroying everything we have?
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová, Vojtech Kotek, Tereza Ramba
Votes: 143
15. Kill your darlings (2021)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The writer of detective novels has to travel to another dimension to save many lives.
Director: Dimitri Kanjuka | Stars: Roman Dvorak, Daniel Svoboda, Dominik Vrba
16. Mach, Sebestová a kouzelné sluchátko (2001)
94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A live-action adaptation of the popular children's cartoon series about a couple of school kids who live through an incredible adventure thanks to a magic telephone receiver. In the feature... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Robert Hájek, Kristyna Kvetova, Stella Zázvorková, Iva Janzurová
Votes: 166
17. Incorrectly Drawn Hen (1963)
13 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Director: Jirí Brdecka | Stars: Antonín Jedlicka, Jaroslav Mares
Votes: 87
18. Cowboy Jimmy (1957)
10 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Cowboy Jimmy is the prototypical Western hero, over the top. After a bit of his adventures, we see him jump off the screen and interact with a young fan. The fan takes him home to a ... See full summary »
Director: Dusan Vukotic
Votes: 74
19. Black and White Sylva (1961)
27 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
The heroine of a motion picture falls from the screen and into the real world.
Directors: Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt | Stars: Zuzana Stivínová, Václav Sloup, Felix Le Breux, Lubomír Lipský
Votes: 84
20. The Great Movie Robbery (1986)
77 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czech and Slovak respective film industries, to be held at ... See full summary »
Directors: Oldrich Lipský, Zdenek Podskalský | Stars: Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus, Jaroslav Moucka, Jirí Nemecek
Votes: 91
21. Tezký zivot dobrodruha (1941)
89 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes.
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Otomar Korbelár, Ladislav Pesek, Adina Mandlová, Jaroslav Marvan
Votes: 70
22. Rozverné léto (2017)
28 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A poetically tuned chamber drama about the relationship triangle between father, son, and Linda; characterized by a theme of love that can take many forms.
Director: Michaela Poláková | Stars: Kristýna Boková, David Novotný, Josef Trojan
Votes: 14
23. Láska malovaná (1974 TV Movie)
32 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
There are women who want everything they see. This is exactly how the female character manifests itself in the small musical "Love Painted" filmed in 1974.
Director: Zdenek Sirový | Stars: Petra Cernocká, Jirí Hrzán, Waldemar Matuska
24. Monsieur Dubois n'en croit pas ses yeux (1961 TV Movie)
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: René Lucot | Stars: André Gille, Rosine Luguet, Jean-François Vlerick
25. Aubergine (2006)
3 min | Short, Drama, Music
What if the characters we create while painting or writing could live a life as we know it - beyond the pages they are traditionally confined to? Think Frankenstein meets Pinocchio meets the creation of Adam.
Director: Matt Schramer | Star: J. Kirk Richards
26. Your Date Is Here (2017)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
After dusting off an old Mystery-Date style board game, a mother and daughter realize the game holds more evil than amusement.
Directors: Todd Spence, Zak White | Stars: Rebecca Flinn-White, Phil Haney, Patrick Keane, Dani Tiernan
Votes: 69
28. Sofian Medjmedj: To te to baví (2019 Music Video)
4 min | Fantasy, Music
Female character from a video game materializes and becomes a part of real life of an obsessive gamer.
Directors: Lukás Chromek, Zdenek Sopusek | Stars: Sofian Medjmedj, Naomi Adachi
Votes: 19
29.
Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Episode:
Deadliners
(1997)
TV-Y7 | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A group of demonic creatures (based on Cenobites from Hellraiser (1987) franchise) kidnap people and turn them into monsters. The Ghostbusters learn that their creator is a famous author of horror novels for children that Eduardo loves.
Director: Scott Wood | Stars: Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Pat Musick
Votes: 70