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imdb-fun created 11 Nov 2013
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Movies and TV that incorporate a touch of whimsy, either in plot or overall tone.
1.
Amélie
(2001)
Amelie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love. (122 mins.)
2.
Big Fish
(2003)
A son tries to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths he told about his life. (125 mins.)
3.
The Princess Bride
(1987)
While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride. (98 mins.)
4.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
(2009)
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. (87 mins.)
5.
The Truman Show
(1998)
An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a T.V. show. (103 mins.)
6.
Midnight in Paris
(2011)
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight. (94 mins.)
7.
Being John Malkovich
(1999)
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich. (112 mins.)
9.
Groundhog Day
(1993)
A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again. (101 mins.)
10.
Field of Dreams
(1989)
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox come. (107 mins.)
11.
Pushing Daisies
(2007 TV Series)
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress. (44 mins.)
12.
Hugo
(2011)
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. (126 mins.)
13.
Chocolat
(2000)
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. (121 mins.)
14.
Moonrise Kingdom
(2012)
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them. (94 mins.)
15.
Mary Poppins
(1964)
A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family. (139 mins.)
16.
Pleasantville
(1998)
Two 1990s teenagers find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world. (124 mins.)
17.
The Red Balloon
(1956 Short Film)
A red balloon with a life of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris. (34 mins.)
18.
La Luna
(2011 Short Film)
A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very... (7 mins.)
19.
Pan's Labyrinth
(2006)
In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. (118 mins.)
20.
Stardust
(2007)
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. (127 mins.)
21.
My Neighbor Totoro
(1988)
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby. (86 mins.)
22.
Kiki's Delivery Service
(1989)
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service. (103 mins.)
23.
Spirited Away
(2001)
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters, and where humans are changed into beasts. (125 mins.)
24.
Howl's Moving Castle
(2004)
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home. (119 mins.)
25.
Across the Universe
(2007)
The music of the Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist. (133 mins.)
26.
Chicken with Plums
(2011)
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death. (93 mins.)
27.
The Science of Sleep
(2006)
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world. (105 mins.)
28.
Bridge to Terabithia
(2007)
A preteen's life turns upside down when he befriends the new girl in school and they imagine a whole new fantasy world to escape reality. (96 mins.)
29.
Where the Wild Things Are
(2009)
An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world - a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures who crown Max as their ruler. (101 mins.)
30.
Happy Accidents
(2000)
Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she's stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover... (110 mins.)
31.
The Castle
(1997)
A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy... (85 mins.)
32.
Big
(1988)
When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body. (104 mins.)
33.
Miracle on 34th Street
(1947)
When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. (96 mins.)
34.
Stranger Than Fiction
(2006)
An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death. (113 mins.)
36.
Edward Scissorhands
(1990)
An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful girl. (105 mins.)
37.
The Triplets of Belleville
(2003)
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him. (78 mins.)
38.
Enchanted
(2007)
A princess, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer. (107 mins.)
41.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961)
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building. (115 mins.)
42.
The Accidental Tourist
(1988)
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles. (121 mins.)
43.
Local Hero
(1983)
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected. (111 mins.)
44.
Joe Versus the Volcano
(1990)
When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live. (102 mins.)
45.
Labyrinth
(1986)
Fifteen-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in thirteen hours. (101 mins.)
46.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
(2005)
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker. (115 mins.)
47.
Time Bandits
(1981)
A young boy accidentally joins a band of dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal. (116 mins.)
48.
Nanny McPhee
(2005)
Emma Thompson stars as a governess who uses magic to rein in the behavior of seven ne'er-do-well children in her charge. (97 mins.)
49.
The Last Mimzy
(2007)
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine! (90 mins.)
50.
Made in Heaven
(1987)
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy runs away to California. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. In heaven he'll meet a beautiful girl, who has never reincarnated before. (103 mins.)
51.
Danny Deckchair
(2003)
An Aussie becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons. (100 mins.)
52.
Michael
(1996)
Two tabloid reporters checking out a report of the Archangel Michael living with an old woman find that it's true. But that's not the only surprise. (105 mins.)