Top Fantasy Movies


The Top Fantasy Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Fantasy List". Lists are calculated daily.

71. Thor: Ragnarok

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Taika Waititi
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Karl Urban, Idris Elba, Cate Blanchett
Plot: The return of Hela, goddess of death, sets in motion Ragnarok, which will destroy Asgard and all of its people. Thor races back home and races against time to prevent these end times against his people, but what will he do when he loses the power of his mighty hammer, Mjolnir and then is pitted against the Hulk in a gladiatorial match.

72. The Shape of Water

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones
Plot: Set against the backdrop of the Cold War - Elisa works in a highly
classified and isolated secret government facility. Her days are as cold
and lonely as the place she works but everything changes when she and her
co-worker, Zelda, uncover secret classified experiment.

73. Hellraiser

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clive Barker
Actors: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman, Doug Bradley, Oliver Smith
Plot: A man gets more than he bargains for when he opens the door to hell. His ex-lover, now his brother's wife, has found a way to bring him back but his tormentors, the Cenobites, aren't going to let him go easily.

74. Watchmen

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Jackie Earle Haley, Carla Gugino, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson
Plot: Based on the graphic novel, Watchmen takes place in an alternate 1985, where costumed vigilantes have been outlawed except those working for the government. When a masked veteran is murdered, heroes unite to find the killer, but as the truth is revealed a far more sinister plot is uncovered.

75. Conan the Barbarian

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Milius
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson, Cassandra Gava
Plot: Conan's parents are killed by the evil sorcerer Thulsa Doom and he is enslaved. He into a powerfully man determined to get revenge for his parents' death and bring down the snake cult.

76. Eraserhead

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near
Plot: Henry Spencer lives in an industrial wasteland where he must contend with a new, strange baby, an unreliable girlfriend, a beautiful girl across the hall and the lady in the radiator.

77. The Tree of Life

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Joanna Going, Fiona Shaw, Jessica Chastain, Jackson Hurst
Plot: The Tree of Life follows one boy, Jack - one of three brothers as he goes through life - as a child everything seems filled with wonderment, but as he grows, and his parents vie for his attention, sickness, death all take that sense of wonderment away. As an adult, Jack is disillusioned - a lost soul in a modern world - as he searches for meaning in the grand scheme of existence.

78. A Ghost Story

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lowery
Actors: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Kesha, Jonny Mars, Will Oldham, Kenneisha Thompson
Plot: Life, loss, love and legacy - a recently deceased man reappears as a white-sheeted ghost, hoping to comfort his bereft wife in their suburban home.

79. The Wolf Man

Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Waggner
Actors: Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Fay Helm, Ralph Bellamy
Plot: A man gets bitten by a werewolf... and becomes one himself!

80. Russian Ark ( Russkiy kovcheg )

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Actors: Sergei Dontsov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky, David Giorgobiani, Aleksandr Chaban
Plot: Fantasy following a 19th century French aristocrat - who is quite critical of the Russian way of life - as he travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and interacts with historical figures covering over 200 years of Russian history.

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