Genre: Fantasy
King Kong
Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
At the time of its release, King Kong was the greatest spectacle the filmgoing public had ever seen. A classic …
Kooky
Directed by Jan Svěrák
Sverak’s charming family film combines puppet animation, stop-motion, and live-action to tell the story of a young man with asthma …
Liza the Fox-Fairy
Directed by Károly Ujj Mészáros
Liza’s a lonely nurse whose search for a companion always ends in the same way— with the death of her …
My Neighbor Totoro
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
The third Studio Ghibli feature tells the story of two young sisters, Satsuki and Mei Kusakabe, who move with their …
My Twentieth Century
Directed by Ildikó Enyedi
Enyedi’s debut—pitched directly between Edison’s 1880 invention of the light bulb and the turn of the 20th Century—concerns twin sisters …
Princess Mononoke
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
A landmark of animation and a film of unsurpassed power and beauty, Miyazaki’s epic story of conflict and balance between …
Russian Ark
Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
“RUSSIAN ARK is both a dazzling technical tour-de-force and a love letter to Russian culture. Unfolding in real time in …
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Directed by Roy Rowland
The magnificently eccentric mind of Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) broke its children’s literature leash to conjure up this outrageous …
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Directed by Nathan Juran
While today’s digitally rendered animated films astound in looking virtually real, Ray Harryhausen’s timeless, hand-crafted wonderwork —his first film in …
The Apostle
Directed by Fernando Cortizo
Ramon, a convict who has escaped from jail, arrives in a remote Galician mountain village searching for a treasure hidden …
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Directed by Karel Zeman
Originally released in the United States in 1961, Zeman’s classic film is based on Jules Verne’s nineteenth-century tale of a …
The Holy Mountain
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
An alchemist undertakes a journey with a messianic man and seven other totemic representatives to a holy site that promises …