A knight plays chess with Death during the plague; the image everyone knows of Bergman.
George Bailey sees the world without him and Bedford Falls at Christmas became a ritual.
Stop-motion Pinocchio in Mussolini's Italy, about death rather than obedience.
A Scottish princess refuses her betrothal and turns her mother into a bear.
A mute cleaner falls for an amphibian man held in a Cold War lab.
Barrel-riding down the Forest River and the dragon under the Lonely Mountain.
Smaug falls on Lake-town and five armies meet at the gates of Erebor.
Bilbo leaves Bag End with thirteen dwarves and a wizard.
Miyazaki's late, strange masterpiece about grief and a tower between worlds.
Helm's Deep, Gollum, and the best battle sequence of its decade.
A man born old ages backwards through the twentieth century.
Nine walkers set out from Rivendell; New Zealand becomes Middle-earth.
Eleven Oscars, Pelennor Fields and a very long goodbye.
How Willy Wonka got the factory, as a musical with Chalamet and a Hugh Grant Oompa-Loompa.
A bank clerk finds a Norse mask and turns into a cartoon; the film that made Carrey a green blur.
A board game that empties the jungle into a New Hampshire town, and the boy who was stuck inside it.
A chain-smoking exorcist with lung cancer bargaining his way out of hell.
A grown-up Peter Pan, played by Robin Williams, has to remember how to fly.
Death row in 1935 Louisiana and the gentle giant who can heal with his hands; three hours that earn their length.
Tim Curry as Darkness under six hours of makeup a day, in a forest built on the 007 stage.
Shrek signs away a day of his old life to Rumpelstiltskin and wakes in an ogre resistance.
A surgeon learns magic and the buildings fold; Marvel's Inception.
Shrek looks for someone else to inherit Far Far Away and finds Arthur at a medieval high school.
Ash is thrown back to 1300 with a chainsaw, a shotgun and an incantation he cannot remember correctly.
A cooper's apprentice against a monster in a filthy medieval kingdom; Gilliam's first solo film.
A boy and six dwarfs steal a map of the holes in time; Napoleon, Robin Hood and Evil.
A disgraced radio host and a homeless medievalist in New York; Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges.
The Penguin, Catwoman and a Gotham of black ice; the darker Burton Batman.
Depp's Wonka and a factory of Oompa-Loompas played by one actor.
The tallest tales, staged at ruinous cost; the moon, a whale and a cannonball ride.
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