Once upon a time...

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poster Anything Once!
Anything Once!
(3.2/5)
20mn - Comedy
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
(3.2/5)
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
(2.8/5)
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 Jack the Chimney Sweep
Jack the Chimney Sweep
10mn -
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 The Star Prince
The Star Prince
(2.7/5)
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 Tam Cam: The Untold
Tam Cam: The Untold
(2.8/5)
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 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 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 Goode Knight
Goode Knight
(2.8/5)
8mn - Animation
The classic story of Robin Hood, with Brownie Bear as the prince of thieves.
poster Foney Fables
Foney Fables
(3.1/5)
8mn - Animation, Comedy
A series of fractured fairy tales vignettes.
poster Grandmother's Tale and Child's Dream
Grandmother's Tale and Child's Dream
5mn - Fantasy
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 The Story of Little Red Riding Hood
The Story of Little Red Riding Hood
(3.4/5)
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 His Prehistoric Past
His Prehistoric Past
22mn - Comedy
Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was as…
poster The Palace of the Arabian Nights
The Palace of the Arabian Nights
(3.1/5)
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 His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
(2.7/5)
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 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 The Waif and the Wizard
The Waif and the Wizard
2mn - Drama, Fantasy
The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines …
poster The Bewitched Shepherd
The Bewitched Shepherd
6mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young peasant leaves his cottage after a quarrel with his wife, and meets a witch. She takes him to a cavern, where after a series of encounters with goblins and other elusive creatures, he is presented…
poster The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess
The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess
(2.7/5)
14mn - Fantasy
A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.
poster Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
59mn - Family, Fantasy
Alice goes with her sister to a picnic and then she falls asleep and starts dreaming about a wonderland full of talking animals and walking playing cards.
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