Subgenre Sampler
Fantasy: 809 Films to Buy & Rent
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
- Dir. The Beatles
Feat. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison…
- The Beatles take us on a spiritual/musical journey with a distinctly pychedelic ethos. Full of subversive satire that marked many British films of…
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…
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd…
- A team of 'experts' are miniaturized and injected into a high–ranking scientist as a last resort to repair his medical condition.
An…
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…
Monkey - Journey to the West (The Monkey Goes West, Princess Iron Fan, The Cave of Silken Web, The Land of Many Perfumes) (1966-1968)
- Dir. Meng-Hwa Ho
- Generous, richly–hued Shaw Brothers adaptation of the Chinese folk tale 'Journey to the West', spread across four lushly presented widescreen…
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert
- One of Hammer Studios greatest hits, this genuinely well–made adventure is set among cavemen and cavewomen struggling to survive in a world of…
Ultraman (TV Series) (1966)
- When the world is threatened by aloien invaders and giant prehistoric monsters, There is only one agency equipped with the high tech weaponry to…
City Under the Sea (1965)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Vincent Price
- Cornish villagers discover a subterranean cult lead by Vincent Price in this hammy fantasy yarn.
I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) (1965-70)
- Feat. Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman
- Sitcom magic with a BEWITCHED–inspired premise, features Barbara Eden as the obliging but overzealous (and of course, sexy)…
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina
- Perhaps the female flipside of Fellini's 8 1/2, he again infuses stylised flashbacks and fantasies into the real world of a gregarious housewife who…