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1950s Fantasy Movies

Public list by WPS with 58 movies or TV shows/series

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Scrooge(1951)

PG
| 1h 26min | Fantasy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

Ugetsu(1953)

1h 36min | Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 228 votes)

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

The Snow Queen(1957)

3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him.

Directed by Lev Atamanov, Nikolay Fyodorov

Orpheus(1950)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 101 votes)

At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio.

Rodan(1956)

PG
| 1h 12min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 64 votes)

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms(1953)

NR
| 1h 20min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.

Black Orpheus(1959)

PG
| 1h 40min | Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 86 votes)

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

The Twelve Months(1956)

3.2/5 (with 20 votes)

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.

Lost Continent(1951)

1.7/5 (with 13 votes)

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...

Pathala Bhairavi(1951)

3h 15min | Drama, Fantasy
4.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The son of the gardener Thota Raamudu (NTR) falls in love with the princess of Ujjain (Malathi). When he faces resistance from the king, he approaches a Sorcerer (SVR), who actually plans to sacrifice this young, brave lad to the goddess Patala Bhairavi (Girija) to attain the magic statuette, which would grant any wish. Raamudu finds about this plan and sacrifices the sorcerer and obtains Paataala Bhairavi.

Directed by Kadiri Venkata Reddy - With N. T. Rama Rao, S. V. Ranga Rao, Relangi Venkata Ramaiah, Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao, Malathi, Chilakalapudi Seeta Rama Anjaneyulu, ...

The Legend of the White Serpent(1956)

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Tarzan and the Slave Girl(1950)

NR
| 1h 14min | Action, Adventure
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.

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Journey to the Beginning of Time(1955)

1h 25min | Adventure, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.

Directed by Karel Zeman - With Petr Herrmann, Vladimír Bejval, Bedřich Šetena, Zdeněk Husták

The White Reindeer(1952)

1h 14min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
3.3/5 (with 22 votes)

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.

Directed by Erik Blomberg - With Mirjami Kuosmanen

Johann Mouse(1953)

3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

At the home of Viennese composer Johann Strauss lived Johann Mouse. Whenever the composer played his waltzes, the mouse would dance to the music, unable to control himself. One day, when Strauss was away, the house cat played his master's music. When word got out about a piano-playing cat and a dancing mouse, they were commanded to perform for the emperor.

The Man Who Could Cheat Death(1959)

3.0/5 (with 25 votes)

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.

Varan the Unbelievable(1962)

2.3/5 (with 10 votes)

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

Cult of the Cobra(1955)

1h 22min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of women who can change into serpents). When discovered by the cult, the High Lamian Priest vows that "the Cobra Goddess will avenge herself". Once back in the United States, a mysterious woman enters into their lives and accidents begin to happen. The shadow of a cobra is seen just before each death.

The Sword and the Dragon(1956)

1h 33min | Adventure, Fantasy
2.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full health, Ilya begins an adventure to protect the village and the royal family from harm.

Mayabazar(1957)

3h 1min | Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

Balarama promises Subhadra to get his daughter married to her son. However, when he loses his kingdom to the Kauravas, Balarama has no choice but to break his promise.

Directed by Kadiri Venkata Reddy - With N. T. Rama Rao, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Savitri, S. V. Ranga Rao, Suryakantham, Chilakalapudi Seeta Rama Anjaneyulu, ...

The Giant Behemoth(1959)

2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain(1956)

2.1/5 (with 23 votes)

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

The Severed Heads(1957)

21min | Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie was found in 2006 by the son of Ruth Michelly and Saul Gilbert when he found it in his mom's attic in Munich.

Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky - With Micheline Beauchemin, Raymond Devos, Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Princess with the Golden Star(1959)

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.

Varan(1958)

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

Tarzan and the She-Devil(1953)

1h 15min | Action, Adventure
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

The king of the jungle fights off ivory poachers.

Teenage Cave Man(1958)

1.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Roger Corman's post-holocaust quickie about an adolescent tribesman who dares to explore the feared "forbidden zone.".

Jungle Hell(1956)

1h 18min | Adventure, Action
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide burn healing methods caused by radioactive rocks discovered when the elephants were felling trees.

Directed by Norman A. Cerf - With Serena Sande

Mysterious Island(1951)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.

Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet - With Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Ralph B. Hodges

Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace(1953)

49min | Horror
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl. The dead woman's cat licks her blood and becomes a demon, seeking revenge on Okoyo.

Directed by Ryohei Arai - With Takako Irie
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