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1. Wonka (2023)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
Director: Paul King | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Gustave Die, Murray McArthur, Paul G. Raymond
Votes: 143,046 | Gross: $218.40M
2. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 227,777 | Gross: $4.00M
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 530,085 | Gross: $206.46M
4. Matilda (1996)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 174,971 | Gross: $33.08M
5. The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Capaldi
Votes: 15,152 | Gross: $1.19M
6. Matilda: The Musical (II) (2022)
PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.
Director: Matthew Warchus | Stars: Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham
Votes: 28,380
7. The Witches (2020)
PG | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock
Votes: 46,660 | Gross: $0.20M
8. The BFG (2016)
PG | 117 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement
Votes: 93,373 | Gross: $55.48M
9. James and the Giant Peach (1996)
PG | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.
Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, Simon Callow
Votes: 74,086 | Gross: $28.93M
10. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
To stall a witch plotting to eat him, a boy reads her horror tales dealing with a collegian's resurrection of a mummy, a murderous cat, and an artist's pact with a gargoyle.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Debbie Harry, Matthew Lawrence, Christian Slater, David Forrester
Votes: 19,397 | Gross: $16.32M
11. The Turning (2020)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young governess is hired to look after an orphaned girl, but the return of the girl's problematic brother uncovers secrets from their past. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw."
Director: Floria Sigismondi | Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Barbara Marten
Votes: 16,172
12. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
PG | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.
Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt | Stars: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman
Votes: 51,468 | Gross: $31.05M
13. Alice (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Votes: 14,011
14. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera
Votes: 7,163 | Gross: $8.72M
15. Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017 Video)
Not Rated | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The classic Roald Dahl tale gets a modern twist when Tom and Jerry enter the amazing world of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
Director: Spike Brandt | Stars: JP Karliak, Jess Harnell, Lincoln Melcher, Mick Wingert
Votes: 1,486
16. The BFG (1989)
91 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.
Director: Brian Cosgrove | Stars: David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne, Ballard Berkeley
Votes: 7,516
17. Tam Lin (1970)
PG-13 | 106 min | Horror, Mystery
An older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends. Based on an ancient Scottish folk song.
Director: Roddy McDowall | Stars: Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Richard Wattis, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 739
18. Faust (1994)
97 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
An ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal
Votes: 4,299
19. The Hobbit (1966)
12 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A homebody hobbit finds himself going on a quest to save a dwarven treasure from a dragon in this loose adaptation of the classic novel.
Director: Gene Deitch | Star: Herb Lass
Votes: 587
20. Revolting Rhymes (2016)
29 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stars: Dominic West, Rose Leslie, Gemma Chan, Rob Brydon
Votes: 655
21. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
76 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Trnka | Stars: Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton, Tom Criddle
Votes: 469
22. Jonathan (1970)
110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In a apocalyptic 19th century landscape where wealthy vampires have taken over the world, a group of humans prepare an uprising, and select an adventurous young man to track down the leader of the undead and destroy him.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Jürgen Jung, Hans-Dieter Jendreyko, Paul Albert Krumm, Hertha von Walther
Votes: 331
23. Kalle och chokladfabriken (1983– )
Family
Berättad av Ernst Hugo Järdegård utifrån tecknade stillbilder.
Star: Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Votes: 31
24. James and the Giant Peach (1976 TV Movie)
45 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
Director: Paul Stone | Stars: Simon Bell, Anna Quayle, Ann Beach, Arthur Hewlett
Votes: 16
25. Frankenstein 90 (1984)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Eddy Mitchell, Fiona Gélin, Herma Vos
Votes: 394
26. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Playroom (2012 Video)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Stars: Jessica Fildes, James Fildes
Votes: 38
27. The Magic Finger (1990 TV Movie)
25 min | Animation
When the Magic Finger is put upon the Gregg family for shooting some ducks, only the inventive imagination of Roald Dahl could have devised the events which take place.
Star: Anne Clements
Votes: 13
28. The Talking Parcel (1978 TV Movie)
Unrated | 40 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A little girl finds an odd parcel on the seashore, and in It a talking parrot who takes her on an epic journey to a fantasy land called Mythologia to rescue a wizard imprisoned by an evil cockatrice. They must gather allies along the way.
Director: Brian Cosgrove | Stars: Lisa Norris, Freddie Jones, Mollie Sugden, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 85
29. Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966)
G | 52 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
After Wonderland, Alice dreams of going to Paris. A mouse named Francois, the grandson of Anatole, agrees to take her there if she will tell him her favorite cheese. Along the way they share several stories.
Director: Gene Deitch | Stars: Luce Ennis, Norma MacMillan, Howard Morris, Carl Reiner
Votes: 216
30. Kentervilskoe prividenie (1970)
20 min | Animation, Short, Family
A story about a ghost being pestered by the new owners of its castle.
Directors: Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg | Stars: Vladimir Kenigson, Aleksey Konsovskiy, Rina Zelyonaya, Evgeniy Vesnik
Votes: 610
31. The Canterville Ghost (1989 TV Movie)
77 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An ... See full summary »
Director: Vít Olmer | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Jirina Bohdalová, Michal Dlouhý, Anna Ferencová
Votes: 35
32. Hrabé Drakula (1971 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Jonathan Haker travels to Transylvania to seal a business deal with the mysterious Count Dracula.
Director: Anna Procházková | Stars: Ilja Racek, Jan Schánilec, Klára Jerneková, Jirí Zahajský
Votes: 64
33. Dirty Beasts (1990 TV Movie)
28 min | Animation
Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold with some amusing twists by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.
Director: Jo Pullen | Stars: Timothy West, Prunella Scales
Votes: 11
34. Poslední odmena (2013)
40 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Ladislav Plecitý | Stars: Jarek Hylebrant, Marko Igonda, Tomás Matonoha, Lenka Zahradnická
Votes: 12
35. Revolting Rhymes (1990 TV Movie)
27 min | Animation
Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold with some amusing twists by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.
Stars: Timothy West, Prunella Scales
Votes: 14
36. Nezkusený duch (1987 TV Short)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Miroslav Vladyka
37. Malvína (2003 TV Movie)
56 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: Miroslav Balajka | Stars: Lucie Vondrácková, Jirí Hána, Chantal Poullain, Josef Somr
Votes: 22
38. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1973 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In the course of one night, the world of real and fairy tale characters collide, the ruler Theseus plans a wedding, the capricious elf king Oberon longs to punish his consort Titania, and ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Belka | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Josef Bláha, Kveta Fialová, Jirí Hrzán
Votes: 21
39. Co jsem princi nerekla (1975)
9 min | Animation, Short, Family
Director: Jirí Brdecka | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Jana Hlavácová
Votes: 11
40. Slavík a ruze (1967)
Animation, Family, Short
Director: Josef Kábrt | Star: Eduard Cupák
Votes: 7
41. Nadmerné malickosti: Duch modrého pokoje (2004 TV Movie)
42 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Milan Lasica | Stars: Jaroslava Adamová, Lubomír Lipský, Jirí Lábus, Petr Nározný
Votes: 13
42. Carovná rybí kosticka (1984 TV Movie)
42 min | Family, Fantasy
Director: Milos Bobek | Stars: Pavel Pavlovský, Jana Preissová, Vera Kubánková, Bohuslav Cáp
43.
Long Ago and Far Away (1989–1993)
Episode:
The Talking Parcel
Animation, Drama, Family
Director: Brian Cosgrove