Subgenre Sampler
Family > Fantasy: 292 Films to Buy & Rent
Herculoids, The (TV Series) (1967)
- Dir. Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
- Saturday–morning cartoon from Hanna–Barbera in the late 60's, following a space barbarian family and their giant pets the Herculoids…
Alice in Wonderland (1966)
- Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Peter Cook, Michael Redgrave, Peter Sellers…
- Cult BBC version of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, in which drowsing Alice enters the dreamscape of 'Wonderland'.
Influenced by the…
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
- Dir. Chuck Jones
- A classic Warner Bros cartoon, puts an animated spring into Dr Seuss's tale of the vicious Grinch who tries to steal Christmas from the folk at…
Mary Poppins (1964)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke
- Disney's beloved live–action feature is a timeless, dazzling musical with Julie Andrews as an enchanted London nanny. Dick Van Dyke…
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack
- Masterpiece of fantasy based on Greek mythology features the best stop–motion animation work from Ray Harryhausen. The skeleton…
Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher…
- From the same stable as Sinbad, comes another fantasy using wonderful stop–motion animation. Jack, against all odds, fights the evil Pendragon…
Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
- Dir. Jack Sher
Feat. Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn…
- Gulliver's travels bring him to the lands of the giants and the tiny in this adaptation of Johnathan Swift's classic. The then break–through…
Shaggy Dog, The (1959)
- Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk…
- Fred MacMurray excels in this Disney live–actioner, playing a postman whose son accidentally transforms himself into a talking sheepdog with…
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (7th Voyage of Sinbad) (1958)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant (Crosby), Richard Eyer…
- In his first and most engaging adventure, Sinbad convincingly duels the Cyclops, a dragon and a hyperactive skeleton without any computer assistance,…
Sinbad Collector's Edition (Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger) (1958-1977)
- Feat. Kerwin Mathews, John Phillip Law, Patrick Wayne