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1. Inkheart (2008)
PG | 106 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A teenage girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.
Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Sienna Guillory
Votes: 82,413 | Gross: $17.30M
2. Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah
Votes: 236,608 | Gross: $40.14M
3. Ruby Sparks (2012)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas
Votes: 105,502 | Gross: $2.54M
4. Saturday the 14th (1981)
PG | 75 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangerous 'Book of Evil' that has all the monsters of the world trapped inside it.
Director: Howard R. Cohen | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Jeffrey Tambor, Severn Darden
Votes: 5,037
5. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson, Jake Morgan-Scharhon
Votes: 3,717 | Gross: $0.23M
6. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
80 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
"What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?" a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Dana Medrická, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová, Juraj Visny
Votes: 1,157
7. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011)
TV-G | 15 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Morris Lessmore, a young writer, wanders into a mysterious library after a storm devastates his city. The library is home to magical flying books that literally come to life.
Directors: William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
Votes: 5,806
8. Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Musical, Animation
Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all ... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Tashlin, Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Basin Street Boys, Dorothy Compton
Votes: 834
9. Book Revue (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
As the literary characters come to life in a bookstore at night, Daffy Duck sings and dances before being chased by the Big Bad Wolf.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Richard Bickenbach
Votes: 1,539
10. Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998)
90 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Young Anthony and his grandfather read a magical book about their ancestor Sinbad and become participants in it. Sinbad and wizard Sage must stop evil wizard Bophisto and his minion Nimbus from obtaining the key to all knowledge.
Director: Alan Mehrez | Stars: Richard Grieco, Ryan Slater, Dean Stockwell, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 193
11. A Coy Decoy (1941)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Characters on book covers come to life, including Porky and Daffy. The "Wolf of Wall Street" chases Daffy through "The Hurricane," "The Storm" and across "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" before expiring in "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
Director: Robert Clampett | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 330
12. Rampo (1994)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts... See full summary »
Directors: Rintarô Mayuzumi, Kazuyoshi Okuyama | Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Masahiro Motoki, Teruyuki Kagawa
Votes: 610 | Gross: $0.31M
13. Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936)
20 min | Musical, Comedy, Short
A director falls asleep and dreams Shakespearean characters come to life and want Hollywood careers
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Carolyn Marsh, Loretta, Harris Twins, Allan Mann
Votes: 49
14. Beauty and the Beast (1934)
TV-G | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A little girl falls asleep and dreams she is in Toyland, where she and a toy soldier contend with the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast."
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Bernard B. Brown, The Guardsmen, Cy Kendall, Dudley Kuzelle
Votes: 286
15. I Like Mountain Music (I) (1933)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The magazines and books in a drugstore come to life and sing the title song, among others. Some celebrities shown: Will Rogers, Sonja Henie, Kay Kyser; like most of this genre, there's an ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Rudolf Ising, The King's Men, Johnny Murray
Votes: 272
16. Sniffles and the Bookworm (1939)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
Literary characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse with swing music until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Johnnie Davis, Bill Days, Mel Blanc, Margaret Hill-Talbot
Votes: 295
17. Schatzritter (2012)
93 min | Adventure, Family
Four children free a mermaid, and in so doing must face an enemy and their fears.
Director: Laura Schroeder | Stars: Anton Glas, Lana Welter, Thierry Koob, Tun Schon
Votes: 132
18. Speaking of the Weather (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, The Debutantes
Votes: 371
19. Good Little Monkeys (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The Devil comes out of Dante's Inferno, hoping to get the See No Evil, Speak No Evil and Hear No Evil monkeys to his side, but a bunch of literary characters come to the rescue of the monkeys.
Director: Hugh Harman | Stars: Homer Hall, The Rhythmettes
Votes: 133
20. Three's a Crowd (1932)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
An old man is reading a book by the fire. The clock strikes 8, and he heads off to bed. From his book, Alice in Wonderland, out crawls Alice, who turns the radio to the title tune. This ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Ken Darby, Rudolf Ising, The King's Men, Johnny Murray
Votes: 165
21. You're an Education (1938)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Family, Musical
The brochures in a travel agency come to life. After a series of quick gags (flying fish in airplanes, a wave washing swimmers out to sea and back, etc). , there's a musical interlude ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Paul Taylor Group, The Symphonettes
Votes: 331
22. Priklyucheniya v gorode, kotorogo net (1974)
80 min | Fantasy, Musical
Director: Leonid Nechaev | Stars: Yevgeny Goryachev, Igor Anisimov, Valentins Skulme, Vyacheslav Baranov
Votes: 41
23. The Bookworm Turns (1940)
9 min | Comedy, Animation, Short
Poe's Raven, not feeling well, goes in search of a doctor, and in a nearby book finds Dr. Jekyll. The doctor offers to transfer the bookworm's brain to the raven.
Directors: Friz Freleng, Hugh Harman | Stars: Mel Blanc, Frank Elmquist, Kent Rogers
Votes: 116
24. Bibliofrenia (2003)
Short, Fantasy, Mystery
Director: Marcos Moreno | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Marieta Orozco, Emma Cohen
25. The Deadlines (2010)
90 min | Thriller
Travis Levon (Rickey Bird) is forced to finish a novel from famous author, Simon Woodburn (Robin Steffen) after he suddenly dies, in order to meet a deadline. Gavin Stone (James MacPherson)... See full summary »
Directors: Blake Hooks, Jason Sanders | Stars: Rickey Bird Jr., Jenna Marie Bowers, James MacPherson, George McArthur
Votes: 11
26. I'm Just a Jitterbug (1939)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
At a cartoon studio, a drawing of a jitterbug comes to life and encourages the other drawings to dance and sing. Meanwhile, the cuckoo bird in the cuckoo clock is desperate for sleep.
Director: Alex Lovy | Stars: Chuck Lowry, The Pied Pipers, Danny Webb
Votes: 26
27.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997–2000)
Episode:
Honey, Let's Trick-or-Treat
(1998)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Wayne creates the Szalinski Scan-O-Caster a machine that scans text, converts the narrative into tangible holograms, and projects the stories as 3-D images. A book accidentally falls on the... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Peter Scolari, Barbara Alyn Woods, Hillary Tuck, Thomas Dekker
Votes: 24
28.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Royale
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Worf, Data, and Riker find themselves trapped in a re-creation of a poorly written novel.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,761