Once upon a time..

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poster Anything Once!

Anything Once!

ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump …

poster Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time

75mn - Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The Princess of Illyria has spurned every suitor, when a gypsy loitering around the castle catches her eye. In actuality, he is the Prince of Denmark, there with his friend Kasper Røghat. The prince capti…

poster Cinderella

Cinderella

7mn - Animation

Cinderella, the "ash girl," is kept in menial labor by her two wicked stepsisters. Meanwhile the handsome prince of the territory is out hunting bears. His father invites everyone in the country to a ball…

poster Tam Cam: The Untold

Tam Cam: The Untold

90mn - Drama, Fantasy

"Tam Cam: The Untold" is inspired by the fairy tale Tam Cam. Father died early, the stepmother and Cam bullying Tam until she meet Prince (Isaac) and became his wife. However, the story of the film much i…

poster Jack the Chimney Sweep

Jack the Chimney Sweep

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the court. Then he wakes up, and it turns out that he's an ordin…

poster Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

89mn - Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

Timeless tale of Beauty and the Beast set in the period of the Vikings. Freya, a warrior and the beautiful daughter of a Viking king, is held prisoner on an island castle by a Beast whom has been cursed b…

poster Grandmother's Tale and Child's Dream

Grandmother's Tale and Child's Dream

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they begin dreaming of an angel standing over their bed and whis…

poster Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

9mn - Fantasy, Family

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall o…

poster Goode Knight

Goode Knight

8mn - Animation

The classic story of Robin Hood, with Brownie Bear as the prince of thieves.

poster The Star Prince

The Star Prince

61mn - Drama, Family, Fantasy

The Star Prince has fallen to Earth and because of his cruelty towards a beggar, he is turned into a grotesque pauper. He goes on a quest to find his mother, meeting a wicked witch and princess on his way…

poster Alice's Wonderland

Alice's Wonderland

12mn - Animation

Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room.

poster The Palace of the Arabian Nights

The Palace of the Arabian Nights

21mn - Adventure, Fantasy

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs of ancient Araby. Guided by the mysterious Khalafar, th…

poster A Modern Cinderella

A Modern Cinderella

This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being th…

poster The Magic Sword

The Magic Sword

3mn - Fantasy, Romance

On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about …

poster Scarlet Days

Scarlet Days

77mn - Adventure, Romance, Western

Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Because her daughter, who knows nothing of her mother's s…

poster Foney Fables

Foney Fables

8mn - Animation, Comedy

A series of fractured fairy tales vignettes.

poster The Story of Little Red Riding Hood

The Story of Little Red Riding Hood

9mn - Animation, Fantasy

Based on the classic European fairytale. A young girl is pursued and tricked by a big bad wolf who wants to eat her. Animated by Ray Harryhausen.

poster Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

10mn - Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges …

poster His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz

His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz

59mn - Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A wicked king has taken over the Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera follows two farmers pla…

poster Their One Love

Their One Love

15mn - Action, Drama, War

In the 1850s twin girls fall in love with the same young man, and must struggle with their feelings once he goes off to fight in the Civil War.

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