Subgenre Sampler
Family > Fantasy: 292 Films to Buy & Rent
Castle in the Sky (Laputa) (1986)
- Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Feat. Anna Paquin, James Van Der Beek, Cloris Leachman
- A triumph of craft and narrative sophistication, this is an epic, supremely imaginative feature from master animator/storyteller Miyazaki that will…
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young…
- An ordinary boy is thrown behind the wheel of a fantastic flying machine, accompanied by an assortment of bizarre aliens. A fun–filled odyssey…
Labyrinth (1986)
- Dir. Jim Henson
Feat. David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly
- Jennifer Connelly goes in search of her baby brother, kidnapped by the Goblin King (David Bowie). An entourage of creatures from Jim Henson highlight…
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
- Dir. Bill L. Norton
Feat. William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan
- Adventure fantasy film about a paleontologist and her husband who discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from a…
Explorers, The (1985)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix
- Imaginative space adventure film also has enormous fun at the expense of American popular culture. Among the explorers are a very baby–faced…
Goonies, The (1985)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton
- Junior edition of 'Indiana Jones', from a Steven Speilberg story, has seven bored kids on the Oregon coast hunting for pirate booty after they…
Return to Oz (1985)
- Dir. Walter Murch
Feat. Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh
- This unusually–conceived sequel to THE WIZARD OF OZ is almost too scary for kids, with a disturbed Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) blown by a storm from…
Dream One (Nemo) (1984)
- Dir. Arnaud Sélignac
Feat. Jason Connery, Harvey Keitel, Mathilda May
- Very strange, tonally confused but often fascinating fantasia, a very loose adaptation of Winsor McKay's 1920s comic strip Little Nemo – itself…
Ghostbusters (1984)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver…
- Blockbuster supernatural comedy follows the lives of three flaky paranormal investigators who find themselves in countless gooey situations. The…
Neverending Story, The (1984)
- Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Barret Oliver, Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn
- A boy escapes the neighbourhood bullies by retreating into a mysterious book, where fantasical and exhilirating adventures take flight. Visually…