Topic: Fairy Tales

Direction Andrew Adamson · Vicky Jenson

Plot When a green ogre called Shrek discovers his swamp has been 'swamped' with all sorts of fairytale creatures by the scheming Lord Farquaad, Shrek sets out, with a very loud...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot An old man makes a living by selling bamboo. One day, he finds a princess in a bamboo. The princess is only the size of a finger. Her name is...

Direction Tomm Moore

Plot The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · Josette Day · Marcel André · Mila Parély

Plot A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son Ludovic and his three daughters. Two of the daughters, Felicie and Adelaide, are real shrews, selfish, pretentious, evil. They exploit...

Direction Yuriy Norshteyn

Plot Tale of Tales, like Tarkovsky's Mirror, attempts to structure itself like a human memory. Memories are not recalled in neat chronological order; instead, they are recalled by the association of...

Direction John Musker · Ron Clements

Plot After a sultan (Douglas Seale) gives his daughter, Jasmine (Linda Larkin), three days to find a husband, she escapes the palace and encounters the street-savvy urchin Aladdin (Scott Weinger), who...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Judy Garland · Frank Morgan · Ray Bolger · Bert Lahr

Plot Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas until a cyclone arrives, and picks her, her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. Things in...

Direction Gary Trousdale · Kirk Wise

Plot Belle is a bright and beautiful young woman who's taken prisoner by a hideous beast in his castle. Despite her precarious situation, Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff—a teapot, a...

Direction Raphaëlle Bourgon · Anchi Huang · Vega Lazaro · Son Tra Le

Plot Suffocating in her older sister's flawless system, Mae, a young goddess, questions her tedious work of maintaining an eternal spring.

Direction Jirí Barta

Plot The story is a dark retelling of the Pied Piper, a traditional folk story.

Direction Guillermo del Toro

Cast Ivana Baquero · Sergi López · Maribel Verdú · Doug Jones

Plot In 1944, the third year of peace a thirteen-year-old girl, Ofelia moves to asmall village with her mother, Carmen who is in the last stages of pregnancy.Vidal, a cruel captain...

Direction Jim Henson

Cast Jennifer Connelly · David Bowie · David Goelz · Toby Froud

Plot 15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours.

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Veronika Zilková · Jan Hartl · Jaroslava Kretschmerová · Pavel Nový

Plot Karel Horak and his wife Bozhena are depressed at being childless. When he digs up the root of a tree in the garden, he brings it to her, taken by...

Direction Ben Hibon

Cast Emma Watson

Plot The Tale of the Three Brothers was a fairy tale often told to wizard children. It is believed to have been written by Beedle the Bard and was published as...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Kristýna Kohoutová · Camilla Power

Plot A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll's novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', mixing one live actor (Alice) with a large variety of stop-motion animated creatures, ranging from the complex...

Direction Ivan Aksenchuk

Direction Clyde Geronimi · Hamilton Luske · Wilfred Jackson · Jack Kinney

Plot Peter Pan has a special place in the realm of classic animated Disney films: it instils an element of child-like wonder. The 1953 version of James M Barrie's story is...

Direction Kerrigan Mahan · Tom Wyner

Plot Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (Grimm Meisaku Gekijou) is a Japanese animated anthology series by Nippon Animation. The episodes are adaptations of a variety of folk and fairy tales, and not...

Direction Paul Grimault

Plot The story about the King V and three makes 8 and 8 makes 16. It got excellent reviews.

Direction Clyde Geronimi · Hamilton Luske · Wilfred Jackson

Plot On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow - and enters the merry,...