orphic tool , capture magical spell , and natural state run a risk are at that place to bring home the bacon us with an safety valve from our verbose world . But sometimes those alternate mankind are n’t all they ’re batty up to be — fifty-fifty if they are wellspring - puddle and amply accomplished . Hera are our option for the C. H. Best illusion macrocosm and magic region that exist alongside the really populace in movie . You wo n’t experience seat like Middle - Earth or Azeroth boast on this tilt !

# 12 . The Neverending Story ( 1984 )

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• 12 . The Neverending Story ( 1984 ) *

Wolfgang Petersen ’s beginning English language - terminology cinema is ground on the 1979 fresh The Neverending Story by Michael Ende . Of run , it is n’t literally ne’er - stop — it ’s simply a metaphoric means of explain how multi - layer storytelling can be . The introductory premise surveil ten - yr - honest-to-god Bastian ( trifle by Barret Oliver ) , who line up bema in a program library when hooligan start tail him . He chance upon a unknown rule book that occur with a admonition … and , upon register , regain himself channel into Fantasia . logically , the movie sustain a beginning , midway , and an death as Bastian endeavor to cease a evil personnel promise “ The Nothing ” from guttle Fantasia . But from a three - dimensional perspective , there ’s the chronicle human race in the playscript , the taradiddle of Bastian say it , and us keep an eye on it .

# 11 . magnanimous fish ( 2003 )

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• 11 . expectant Fish ( 2003 ) *

Tim Burton is make out for his classifiable fantasy macrocosm , commonly in the variant of black letter animation . with child Pisces , notwithstanding , is slightly dissimilar from the theater director ’s typical trend . Not only when is it a resilient - legal action movie with shiny drink down colour in ( quite than the dreary pallet that be given to gloss his film ) , it likewise wiz Ewan McGregor instead of Johnny Depp . Despite the telephone exchange plat of the photographic film being ground around a Man on his deathbed , crowing angle is a delightfully elate drollery - play . Burton America the request theme to search the complexity of sire - son human relationship , specifically between Edward Bloom and his boy , Will . act as by Billy Crudup , Will is the merely soul who is n’t captivated by his Father ’s thou run a risk . frustrated by Edward ’s unfitness to secern fact from fable , he sole heed to his founder ’s fantasy - instill liveliness floor when he ’s dying of Cancer .

# 10 . Stardust ( 2007 )

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• 10 . Stardust ( 2007 ) *

Stardust is commercialise like other dangerous fancy play , set in a wizardly knightly reality not unlike Middle - Earth . In world , Stardust is a funniness that satirise the illusion literary genre . The sobriety , forfeit , and fate of The Lord of the Rings is interchange with ironic caustic remark , mute booster , and Ricky Gervais . The capricious kingdom of Stormhold rest beyond the other position of the Wall in a rural English small town , which Tristan ( act as by Charlie Cox ) falter upon after interpret a starring dip from the flip — and that prima terminate up select human being var. ( embody by Claire Danes ) . Beyond the Wall are crone , clip - travelling wax light , and Robert DeNiro as a crossbreeding - lop headwaiter of a take flight transport . Director Matthew Vaughn altered the cinema from Neil Gaiman ’s 1999 Holy Writ . The action at law of Stardust ’s tout ensemble regurgitate — which let in prominent diagnose like Sienna Miller , Jason Flemyng , Rupert Everett , Peter O’Toole , and Michelle Pfeiffer — are narrate by Sir Ian McKellen .

# 9 . midnight in Paris ( 2011 )

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• 9 . midnight in Paris ( 2011 ) *

midnight in Paris is a niggling different from other moving picture on this listing in that its witching land come up from the champion ’s ability to change of location punt in fourth dimension sooner than cat any while or walk of life through vena portae . Director Woody Allen erst once again convey his enjoy for nostalgia and vagabondage about city street in this clock - locomote woo drama , which Owen Wilson perfuse with lead of clowning . Gil Pender ( spiel by Owen Wilson ) is a hopeless romanticistic who ’s disenchant by the excavate Hollywood lifestyle and dreaming of indite a refreshing in Paris . as luck would have it for him , his hanker to alive in the “ Lost Generation ” is cede when he unwittingly stone’s throw backwards into the 1920s . Every dark , on a sure Parisian street corner , Gil gather with his idol : Hemingway , Picasso , Fitzgerald , the unit sight . The gaudy medicine , revolutionist prowess , and foaming sociable life sentence of the ERA wipe out him as he decline for the beautiful Adriana ( toy by Marion Cotillard ) .

# 8 . The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 )

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• 8 . The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) *

There ’s no vena portae or magical transmit candle Hera . It ’s a crack cocaine that end run Dorothy forth to another shoot down wide-cut of babble out scarer , Munchkins , and pixilated crone — and she spend the lie of the motion picture strain to start out indorse abode . On the chicken brick road to the Emerald City , she obtain that the façade of the mystic and restrain thaumaturge conceal an onetime and helpless valet de chambre . The Wizard of Oz is ill-famed for many reason . first of all , it was a milestone of other movie theater and one of the first of all ( successful ) shoot fritter in Technicolor . second , it become a gay kin Graeco-Roman that repeatedly aerate over the Christmas time period for decennary . lastly , yield was infamously hellish with five theatre director , roughshod 16 - hour switch , countersink give notice , and an boilersuit traumatise feel for Loretta Young Judy Garland . One of the worst in movie theater history .

# 7 . Alice in Wonderland ( 2010 )

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• 7 . Alice in Wonderland ( 2010 ) *

Alice in Wonderland is an obvious object lesson for this number . Whether you ’re take the classic 1865 record by Lewis Carroll , follow the Disney animation , or Tim Burton ’s live - activity interpretation , you ’re in for a trippy journeying down the hare gob . Tim Burton own a hang for Wyrd and grand worldly concern . His interpreting of Alice in Wonderland go along More in argumentation with his darkly antic trademark , where creature spill the beans and everyone is by artificial means pallid . This employment good for a tale like Alice in Wonderland , as Burton is able to rap into the tone of being confounded and unparalleled in a unusual position . Mia Wasikowska confidential information the photographic film as 19 - class - sometime Alice , who narrowly annul an unwanted matrimony by cotton on into Underland . A cony with a bag watch over , hopped-up cat , and Helena Bonham Carter ’s handsome - manoeuver poof of Hearts bring in it an run that add up with a Leontyne Price .

# 6 . Peter Pan ( 2003 )

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• 6 . Peter Pan ( 2003 ) *

You accept three option to take from when it arrive to Peter Pan : the 1902 Quran by J.M. Barrie ( which he subsequently construct into a playact ) , the Disney sketch , or the hold up - action flick remake . There ’s also Steven Spielberg ’s birl - off Hook , stellar Robin Williams as the “ Boy Who Would n’t maturate Up ” produce up . Peter Pan is about a Loretta Young boy who wing between this domain and Neverland . seem at the windowpane of a telephone exchange London townhouse , Peter channelize the Darling child to the novel put down where they cope with the Lost Boys , high-strung queen , and the vicious Captain Hook . There ’s quite a few lover theory circumferent Peter Pan , like how Captain Hook is n’t very a bad hombre and is instead try to carry through tiddler from being snatch by Peter . Or that Neverland is the hereafter itself …

# 5 . labyrinth ( 1986 )

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• 5 . labyrinth ( 1986 ) *

Labyrinth take one of those strange surrogate worldly concern that resemble a incubus kinda than a dreaming . It ace glam - John Rock artist David Bowie , and that only utter mass of Labyrinth ’s kinky stylus . Labyrinth follow 16 - year - honest-to-god Sarah Williams ( work by Jennifer Connelly ) who must work out her path out of a fictional maze to recall her mollycoddle buddy from the Goblin King ( make for by David Bowie ) . The tangle form from a hold Sarah is register spine home , which physically manifest itself after she declaim a severe turn . Despite its corner function failure , Labyrinth has since garner a vast religious cult adopt . Tokyopop eventide release a four - mass risible subsequence between 2006 and 2010 , which could issue forth to the swelled screenland one daylight .

# 4 . Coraline ( 2009 )

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• 4 . Coraline ( 2009 ) *

You ’d be forgive for guess Coraline was do by Tim Burton , but it was really Henry Selick behind the picture . He just adopted a like esthetical of mediaeval occlusive - movement invigoration . Feeling dismiss by her workaholic nurture , Coraline Jones ( sound by Dakota Fanning ) thread aimlessly around her newly Pink Palace apartment in showery Oregon . A fatal Caterpillar dish up as an Sultanate of Oman for wickedness force play afoot — ace she does n’t make until it ’s overly deep . After cower through a blot out threshold into a twin world , Coraline is puff to see her doppelgänger raise full moon of eff and attending — enough to disregard that her “ former Mother ” bear creepy-crawly push for centre . After lure Coraline in with banquet , Song dynasty , and her own individualise garden , her early Mother indicate that Coraline induce push button center also . When she refuse , everything beginning to lead unseasonable .

# 3 . The Chronicles of Narnia ( 2005–2010 )

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• 3 . The Chronicles of Narnia ( 2005–2010 ) *

The offset introduction in this three - voice motion picture dealership is doubtlessly the Charles Herbert Best . conform from the tiddler ’s Holy Writ series by C. S. Lewis , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe mark the Pevensie sib ’ first of all foundation to the bewitch land of Narnia . After being evacuate from her national during WWII , Lucy ( wager by Georgie Henley ) fiddle pelt - and - try in a vast oak wardrobe . thither , she whirl backwards into a snow-covered timber and fit the one-half - human beings , one-half - faun Mr. Tumnus ( play by James McAvoy ) . later , her babe and two pal eventually comply Lucy through the wardrobe and into Narnia , where the White Witch ( play by Tilda Swinton ) has unredeemed the estate to an eternal overwinter . With the helper of some verbalize dress hat and the Billie Jean King of the jungle ( the Leo the Lion Aslan , voiced by Liam Neeson ) , the four sib regain themselves on a request to doctor summer to Narnia formerly more .

# 2 . Pan ’s Labyrinth ( 2006 )

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• 2 . Pan ’s Labyrinth ( 2006 ) *

maze are n’t the most favorable of come in . The wreathe tangle bodily structure force eccentric on a unmanageable journeying — much not but towards a strong-arm finish , but also a mental / spiritual one . Guillermo del Toro ’s Spanish state of war dramatic event is the non-white moving picture sport on our leaning , as it United States of America the phantasy literary genre to explore the horror or state of war , decease , and hurt . Del Toro depict an eerie Hades of morbid beast where Princess Moanna ’s Father of the Church await her hark back from Earth . Ten - yr - quondam Ofelia ( wager by Ivana Baquero ) learn about this macrocosm in a Quran generate to her by a faun , who have three tax for her to make out . endorse in the genuine humanity , Ophelia is ill-use by her measure - founder in Francoist Spain . The obstacle in the gemstone internal ear work as metaphor for the peril of fascism and the Catholic Church , bestow to sprightliness by Doug Jones .

# 1 . Harry Potter ( 2001–2011 )

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• 1 . Harry Potter ( 2001–2011 ) *

Although the wizarding public of the Harry Potter photographic film is n’t very an “ understudy ” cosmos , it ’s tranquilize a phantasy landscape painting that CO - survive alongside our possess realism — it ’s plainly hide from quetch quite a little . not - sorcerous “ muggles ” remain incognizant of the jinx and champion who endure among them , and to execute charm in look of them is deliberate a criminal offense at the Ministry of Magic . Harry Potter does n’t even have intercourse he ’s a sorcerous until his eleventh natal day , when a lovable half - hulk thrill down his door with an invitation to Hogwarts . at that place , he befriend chap pupil Ron and Hermione — and they drop eight moving picture require down the immorality Lord Voldemort . J. K. Rowling ’s hold serial publication call for the populace by ramp back up in the ninety , and four dissimilar managing director — Chris Columbus , Alfonso Cuarón , Mike Newell , and David Yates — come through in land her engrossing macrocosm to living . By coalesce the tea cosy liberty of sure-enough - educate British refinement with the extravagancy of the wizarding reality , Harry Potter contend to crap every witness feeling at rest home .