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Mr. Deeds(2002)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 979 votes)

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.

Directed by Steven Brill - With Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Allen Covert, Erick Avari, ...
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The Little Prince(1974)

G
| 1h 28min | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Kids & Family, Music
3.4/5 (with 48 votes)

Based on the story by Antoine deSaint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a pilot (Richard Kiley) makes a forced landing on the barren Sahara Desert. He is befriended by a "little" prince from the planet Asteroid B-612. In the days that follow, the pilot learns of the small boy's history and planet-hopping journeys in which he met a King, a businessman, an historian, and a general. It isn't until he comes to Earth that the Little Prince learns the secrets of the importance of life from a Fox (Gene Wilder), a Snake (Bob Fosse), and the pilot.

Directed by Stanley Donen - With Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder, Donna McKechnie, Joss Ackland, Victor Spinetti, ...
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The Devil's Carnival(2012)

55min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 36 votes)

Sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions. What chances do a conniving kleptomaniac, a gullible teenager, and an obsessed father stand when facing their own moral failings? Lucifer and his colorful cast of singing carnies invite you to grab a ticket to The Devil’s Carnival to find out!

Directed by Darren Lynn Bouseman - With Sean Patrick Flanery, Briana Evigan, Jessica Lowndes, Paul Sorvino, Terrance Zdunich, Bill Moseley, ...
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The Little Fox(1981)

1h 14min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 24 votes)

A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.

Directed by Attila Dargay

Aesop's Fables(1983)

1h 1min | Animation, Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Aesop is a trouble-making young boy who finds himself in another world filled with creatures he never believed to exist, such as fairies and talking donkeys. He sets off to find a way back to the normal world. On his journey he befriends many classical creatures from well-known fables and encounters many trials, each teaching him a valuable lesson.

Directed by Norio Hikone

My Little Goat(2018)

10min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
4.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A mother goat rescues her kids from the belly of a wolf, but where is her eldest son Toruku?

Two(1965)

12min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. Their rivalry (a kite shot down by a toy rifle, for example) concludes with the opposition between the world of noise (the toys inside the house) and that of music (the street child's flute).

Directed by Satyajit Ray

Tango Shalom(2021)

PG-13
| 1h 55min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

When a Tango dancer asks a Rabbi to enter a dance competition, there’s one big problem—due to his Orthodox beliefs, he’s not allowed to touch her! But the prize money would save his school from bankruptcy, so they develop a plan to enter the competition without sacrificing his faith, and the bonds of family and community are tested one dazzling dance step at a time in this lighthearted fable.

Directed by Gabriel Bologna

The Daydreamer(1966)

G
| 1h 41min | Animation, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Music
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

In this hybrid of live-action and stop-motion animation, a young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Directed by Jules Bass - With Paul O'Keefe, Jack Gilford, Ray Bolger, Margaret Hamilton, Burl Ives, Hayley Mills, ...

Stepan's Remembrance(1976)

1h 25min | Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The heiress of a gem mage travels to St. Petersburg to fulfill her father's dream and her destiny.

Directed by Konstantin Yershov - With Natalya Andrejchenko, Igor Kostolevsky

The Playground(2017)

2h 31min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
1.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interlocking tale assembled by a dark orchestrator.

Directed by Edreace Purmul - With Shane P. Allen, Raye Richards, Jennifer Paredes, Merrick McCartha, Ghadir Mounib, Taylor Koster, ...
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Reineke Fuchs(1989)

1h 20min | Animation, Kids & Family
4.3/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Manfred Durniok, He Yumen, Zhuang Minjin
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Aesop's Fables(1971)

25min | TV Movie, Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Fantasy

A collection of the classic morality tales narrated by Bill Cosby as "Aesop" that have been passed down from family to family for thousands of years. Every story has a lesson.

Lucy's Revenge(1998)

1h 30min | Comedy

After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.

Thumbelina(1978)

1h 5min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

A tiny girl, only as long as a man's thumb, is born to a childless woman, abducted by frogs who want her to marry their son, but escaping instead (with the help of a bumblebee) to find a real prince without having to kiss the frog first.

Directed by Yūgo Serikawa

Park City(2011)

G
| 21min | Drama
4.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

Directed by Alessio Di Zio

The Rooster Crows at Midnight(1964)

17min | Animation

Chinese puppet fable.

Seven Angels(2023)

1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal retelling of the Orpheus tale suffused with Ifergan's striking paintings, sculpture and conceptual photography.

Banyan Deer(1959)

Animation

First Indian animated film in color, based on a tale from the Buddhist Jatakas.

Rabbit Ears - The Fool and the Flying Ship(1991)

G
| 29min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Long ago in Russia, a proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. But when a country bumpkin and his oddball crew of extraordinary friends show up to claim her, the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts.

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The Red Hood(2009)

9min | Drama

A dark re-telling of the classic fable 'Little Red Riding Hood' set in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression.

Am-am shou(1989)

4min | Animation
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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L'horizon de Bene(2016)

13min | Animation
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Sport Competition in the Forest(1952)

11min | Animation

Fable about woodland creatures holding a competitive sporting event. However, when the wolf and fox kidnap the napping pig, everyone bands together to boil the kidnappers alive.

Directed by Gyula Macskássy

The Giant On The Hill(2020)

2min | Animation, Fantasy, Kids & Family

An animated fable about the UK housing crisis.

On the Forest Stage(1954)

11min | Animation

The animated film was created based on the fables of Sergey Mikhalkov "Cautious birds" and "Hare in the hops." Drake with his assistants arranges a performance on the forest stage for animals. He tells fables about forest dwellers from the stage.

Directed by Ivan Aksenchuk

Monkey Business(1924)

6min | Comedy, Fantasy, Animation

An Aesop's Fables cartoon with monkeys monkeying around.