From iconic classics like The Lord of the Rings trilogy to modern efforts like The Green Knight, these are the best high-fantasy movies in cinema.
Since the inception of cinema as an art form, fantasy has been among the most popular movie genres. Featuring engrossing, often epic stories of magic, myths, and unrestrained imagination, the best fantasy films provide audiences with a sense of fun escapism that few other genres are able to replicate.
9 'Howl's Moving Castle' For those who love animated fantasy films, it hardly gets any more iconic than Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle. One of acclaimed writer-director Hayao Miyazaki's best movies, it's a delightfully romantic adventure about Sophie, a young woman cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch. Her only chance of turning back to normal lies with a young wizard named Howl.
7 'The Green Knight' Known for his elegant and fantastical films, David Lowery outdid himself with The Green Knight, a quasi-poetic adaptation of the famous Arthurian myth of Sir Gawain and his quest to confront the ominous Green Knight. While many of even the best King Arthur movies portray Camelot in a realistic Medieval light, Lowery boldly took an undeniable high fantasy approach.
5 'The Wizard of Oz' When its story starts in the Kansas countryside, The Wizard of Oz gives off the impression that it might be a low fantasy film set in the real world. But when a tornado takes her farmhouse to the mystifying magical world of Oz, Victor Fleming's impressive Technicolor classic becomes a full-on high fantasy spectacle for the whole family to enjoy and sing along to.
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