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Aug 23, 2024 · An extraordinary blend of universal fantasy tropes and distinctive cultural ideologies, these cinematic masterpieces have reshaped the fantasy genre from a foreign perspective, offering viewers an enticing fusion of the familiar and the exotic.
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- Pan's Labyrinth (2004) Country: Spain. Pan's Labyrinth. War. Drama. Fantasy. Release Date. January 19, 2007. Director. Guillermo del Toro. Cast. Sergi López , Doug Jones , Ivana Baquero , Ariadna Gil , Maribel Verdú.
- Spirited Away (2001) Country: Japan. Spirited Away. Release Date. July 20, 2001. Director. Hayao Miyazaki. Cast. Rumi Hîragi , Daveigh Chase , Miyu Irino , Jason Marsden , Aoi Nakamura , Bob Bergen.
- Akira (1988) Country: Japan. Akira is an animated cyberpunk film based around motorcycle gangs and telekinesis in Neo-Tokyo. The film was adapted from a manga written Katsushiro Otomo and is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.
- Song Of The Sea (2014) Country: Ireland. Song of the Sea is an animated film that pulls from Irish folklore. A young boy discovers that his sister is a selkie with a great destiny ahead of her.
Jun 22, 2024 · The following films come from places around the world, including Spain, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and Mexico, and are ranked below, beginning with the very good and then ending with the titles that...
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Border
- Godzilla
- Song of The Sea
- Spirited Away
- Wings of Desire
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- 8 ½
- Le Charme de La Bourgeoisie
- Metropolis
- Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
Known as Gränsin it’s native Sweden, this 2018 film is based on the short story by Ajvide Lindqvist of the same name. The story is about an extremely unattractive border agent name Tina, who lives with a dog trainer in a house in the forest. She has the ability to smell other people’s emotions, which she uses to find people who are smuggling things...
The first ever film in the now famous franchise, it was produced in 1954 in Japan, where it’s known as Gojira. When a Japanese freighter goes missing, another ship is sent to find out what happened, only to also be destroyed. An elder in Odo blames the destruction and lack of fish caught by the fishermen on a mysterious monster, the titular Godzill...
An animated offering from Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, France, and Luxembourg, Song of the Sea (released in 2014) is the second feature film from Cartoon Saloon, following their 2009 The Secretof Kells. In the film, an Irish boy discovers a secret about his sister. This sets off a Celtic mythology themed adventure story, where they meet the inhabitan...
Written and directed by the acclaimed Hayao Miyazaki, this 2001 animated offering from the Japanese Studio Ghibli features Chihiro, a 10 year old girl who is on a trip with her parents when a shortcut leads them to a tunnel. The family begins to explore an abandoned amusement park they find on the other side of the tunnel, but when Chihiro’s parent...
A 1987 romantic fantasy, this film that would later inspire the American film City of Angelswas produced in West Germany. In a divided Berlin, angels watch over the city, unknown by the humans living there. Unable to interact with the humans the watch, they observe their lives as they move through the city. The angel Damiel eventually starts to fal...
A Spanish/Mexican coproduction, this 2006 Spanish language film was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. Set during the reign of General Franco in 1944, a ten year old girl travels to meet her new stepfather— a fervent Francoist. She eventually stumbles upon a labyrinth, one of many set up by a fairy king who longs for his lost daughter to r...
A surrealist film by famed Italian director Frederico Fellini, this 1963 film portrays a director as he struggles to direct a science fiction movie. With strong overtones of being a somewhat autobiographical film on Fellini’s part, it follows the director, Guido, as he runs from his film and hides himself away in a spa. A critic he has hired to hea...
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisieis another surrealist fantasy on the list, this time made in 1972 France by Luis Buñuel. It looks at several groups of upper middle class friends as they dine together, and the dreams of some of the characters. The groups all try to have their fine meals for the evening, but are frustrated time and time again, b...
A 1927 German Expressionist film from Fritz Lang, Metropolisset in a dystopian future distinctly similar to interwar Weimar Germany. With a two and a half hour original runtime, the film was cut and recut over the years, leaving several different versions— not all of which follow the intent of the original, but a restored cut that is nearly complet...
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror, is the second silent film on this list after Metropolis. Made in Germany in 1922, it was obviously an adaptation of the novel Dracula, which they hadn’t acquired the rights for, leading to suit against the production from his heirs, and a court demanded all copies of the film be destroyed when they won. Several copi...
- Beauty And The Beast (1946) Fairy tales continue to be committed to the screen on a regular basis. This year we have Disney’s Frozen to look forward to, in which Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen will get a facelift.
- The City Of Lost Children (1995) Hollywood can give you a bad Santa, but foreign-language films can give you downright evil ones. Finnish fantasy Rare Exports (2010) is a great example of this, but no Santa strikes fear into my heart quite like the one in The City Of Lost Children.
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) You know the bit in Kung Fu Panda when Po finally gets to watch the Furious Five in training? He’s just so happy to be in the presence of the best of the best that he stands there, with a big panda grin on his face, marvelling at their brilliance.
- Destiny (1921) It could be argued that death is a presence in every movie. He’s not always on the list of dramatis personae though. Foreign-language films that make Death come to life include Bergman’s influential The Seventh Seal, Cocteau’s Orphee, and gems such as Mexican fable Macario, but I think the first time he made an appearance was in Fritz Lang’s Destiny.
A list of awesome looking foreign fantasy films mostly from China and Eastern Europe.
Dec 12, 2014 · In the following list, you’ll find films running from four minute shorts to five hour epics, genres and styles from silent horrors to fantasy musicals, and settings which take the viewer from pre-history Colchis to the gay underground of 1960s Tokyo.
