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Ursus in the Land of Fire
🇹🇳 Tunisia Ancient HistoryHamilan, a cruel and ambitious general, murders his king and places himself on the throne with the former king's evil niece as his queen. He then wages war against his peaceful neighbors, killing their women and enslaving their men. A hero named Ursus appears at a tournament to challenge Hamilan's authority. Though victorious at the tournament, Ursus is arrested and forced to turn a grist-mill under an overseer's lash. Meanwhile, the former king's virtuous daughter, Diana, is tormented by her evil cousin, the new queen. Sentenced to a slow and tortuous execution, Ursus breaks free and a revolt breaks out. Ursus throws Hamilan to his death in a fiery pit and then Ursus and Diana enjoy the cheers of a grateful populace. - Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis
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The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules
🇬🇷 Greece The 4th Century BCItalian sword & sandal thrills as the son of Hercules is pitted against an evil king and his wretched followers.
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The Magic Sword
The Middle AgesThe Most Incredible Weapon Ever Wielded! — The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
🇩🇪 Germany The 1800s The 1810sWONDERFUL THRILLS! ADVENTURE! ROMANCE! — The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. In the movie they write a family history for a duke which includes reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
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Journey to the Seventh Planet
The 2000sWhat is this monstrous THING? With the power of mind over matter?... There beyond the stars your unspeakable fears...deepest desires...come alive...and you are trapped in a spectacle of terror- your secret fears pitted against you! — A space expedition to Uranus is menaced by a giant brain that can make illusions come true.
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
🇹🇷 Turkey The Moon The 18th CenturyThe 20th century's first man lands on the moon and discovers - that Baron Munchausen has already beaten him to it, along with Cyrano and characters from Jules Verne's lunar-landing novel. The Baron spirits the young cosmonaut by horse-drawn ship back to an ancient "Earth", where they insult a sultan, rescue a princess, fall in love with the princess, and then as a trio have further experiences in a world of pastel colors, ornate dreamlike settings, and the inevitable angry disrupters of peacefulness and love.
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Boccaccio '70
🇮🇹 Italy The 1960sThe first 3-act motion picture ever presented! — An anthology of four adult tales: a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wife’s supposed pregnancy from their place of employment; a billboard photo of a scantily clad woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is held in which the prize is to spend the night with a beautiful woman; an aristocratic couple comes to terms with life and marriage after the domineering husband is caught visiting sex workers by the press.
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The Witch's Curse
ScotlandAfter the fires of Hades and frenzied attacks by ferocious beasts, there remained only the venom of 'The Witch's Curse' — Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.
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The Two Who Stole the Moon
The MoonTwin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
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The Golden Arrow
🇸🇾 SyriaScimitars Clash in a Mighty Spectacle! — Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.
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My Son, the Hero
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryAn evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.
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Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryUlysses offends the gods so they send Hercules to capture him and bring him to them.
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Vulcan, Son of Giove
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryA superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.
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Journey Beneath the Desert
Africa - General Atlantic OceanA helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
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The Giant of Metropolis
Atlantic Ocean10,000 Years Ahead...To The Unknown! — Obro the muscleman (Gordon Mitchell) goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king (Bella Cortez) who knows the secret of immortality.
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Mysterious Island
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sA world beyond imagination! Adventure beyond belief! — During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
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Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Atlantic OceanSIGHTS NEVER BEFORE SEEN - Adventure never before experienced! — A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that can fire a heat ray to destroy whatever it touches.
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Babes in Toyland
🇪🇸 SpainAll roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" helps put Barnaby in his place, and ensures a "happily ever after" for Tom and Mary!
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Hercules and the Captive Women
Atlantic OceanWhen strange atmospheric events occur in the disunited city states of Ancient Greece, a forum debates what action to take. As there is no agreement, Androcles King of Thebes seeks the assistance of his friend, the legendary Hercules. Hercules, now married to Deianira with a son named Hylas does not wish to leave the comfort of his family, though Hylas is keen for adventure.
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The Monkey King
🇨🇳 China The 7th CenturyHavoc in Heaven, also known as Uproar in Heaven, is a Chinese animated feature film directed by Wan Laiming and produced by all four of the Wan brothers. The film was created at the height of the Chinese animation industry in the 1960s, and received numerous awards. It earned the brothers domestic and international recognition. The stylized animation and drums and percussion accompaniment used in this film are heavily influenced by Beijing Opera traditions.
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Ghosts of Rome
🇮🇹 ItalyAn old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
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Master of the World
The 19th CenturyThe fabulous adventures of the man who conquered the earth to save it! — A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
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Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 18th CenturyThe story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
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Duel of the Titans
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe Legendary Conflict of Mankind's Mightiest Mortals! — Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.
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The Thief of Baghdad
🇮🇶 IraqThe fantastic deeds... The Incredible daring of the thief who defied an empire! — When Karim impersonates a prince Osman, he steals the heart of Amina the Sultans daughter. The real prince intends to get Amina back by giving her a love potion. But his plan backfires and Amina becomes deathly ill. Karim must make it through 7 doors to retrieve the only thing that can save his love-a mystical blue rose. A timeless, enchanting story!
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Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World
🇲🇳 Mongolia The 13th CenturyHE WAS TEMPTATION to a 1000 and one women! — Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.
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Prince Violent
The Middle AgesViking Yosemite Sam arrives to storm the castle. But Bugs takes charge of the defenses, and between Bugs' cleverness and Sam's stupidity, the castle is never seriously threatened, even when Sam enlists the help of an elephant.
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The Time Machine
England The 1960s The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800sYou Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future! — A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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Zazie dans le Métro
🇫🇷 FranceLiberté... Insanité... Hilarité! — A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle. He and the viewer get more than they bargained for, however, in this anarchic comedy that rides roughshod over the City of Light. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, the audacious Zazie dans le Métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects.
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The Lost World
England 🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the middle of the twentieth century, you fall off the brink of time! — Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
The 17th CenturyIn a World as different as Night and Day ! — Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
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The Boy and the Pirates
Massachusetts The 18th CenturyBoy Against Buccaneer! — Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.
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Goliath and the Dragon
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryThe mightiest adventure of them all! — A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.
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Journey to the West
🇨🇳 China The 7th CenturyDuel of the Prehistoric Beasts! Summit Meeting of the Monsters! — Alakazam is a young and brave monkey who has been encouraged by all the other monkeys to become their king. After attaining the throne, he becomes rude and dictatorial, and does not believe that human beings are greater than he is. Then he tricks/forces Merlin the magician to teach him magic (reluctantly on Merlin's part, who warns Alakazam that the powers he acquires now will bring him much unhappiness later). Alakazam becomes so arrogant that he abuses his magic powers, and chooses to go up to Majutsu Land (the Heavens), to challenge King Amo. He is defeated by King Amo. For his punishment, he is sentenced to serve as the bodyguard of Prince Amat on a pilgrimage; in order to learn humility, mercy and to fight with wisdom. Ultimately, he learns his lesson and becomes a true hero.
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Faust
The 16th CenturyIn 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The brilliant production was a huge success and ran for a couple of years. In 1959 Peter Gorski captured the performance on film in his directorial film debut. Basically it is a registration of the production, but Gorksi did manage to accentuate the details of the acting by using enough medium and close-up shots which give a view on the acting you normally would not able to see in a theater.
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The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryKing Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minotaur. Theseus, the Greek hero, tries to prevent it.
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Rip van Wyk
🇿🇦 South AfricaRip van Wyk, a slow-witted Afrikaner, is transported from the 1850s to 1959.
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The Dybbuk
🇺🇦 UkraineThe Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her father arranges her marriage with another man. The grief of this causes Sender to die, but his spirit passes into the body of his beloved on her wedding day. Rabbi Azrael (Ludwig Donath), who serves as our narrator through the beginning of the film, is charged with the task of exercising Sender’s Dybbuk (sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living) from Leah’s body.
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Sleeping Beauty
The 14th CenturyAwaken to a World of Wonders! — A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Determined to protect her, her parents ask three fairies to raise her in hiding. But the evil Maleficent is just as determined to seal the princess's fate.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Scotland 🇮🇸 Iceland Atlantic Ocean The 1880sA fabulous world below the world — An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
🇮🇪 IrelandWALT DISNEY SPINS MOTION PICTURE MAGIC With a Touch O'Blarney A Bit O'Romance and a Heap O'Laughter! — Take a wee bit of ancient folklore, mix in some spectacular special effects and a magical cast (including Sean Connery) -- and you've got one of the most enchanting fantasies of all time! A frisky old storyteller named Darby O'Gill is desperately seeking the proverbial pot of gold. There's just one tiny thing standing in his way: a 21-inch leprechaun named King Brian. In order to get the gold, Darby must match his wits against the shrewd little trickster -- which proves no small task, indeed! Fall under the spell of DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE for a fun-filled evening of magic, mirth, and nonstop shenanigans!
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Donald in Mathmagic Land
New York 🇫🇷 France 🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryDisney used animation here to explain through this wonderful adventure of Donald how mathmatics can be usuful in our real life. Through this journey Donald shows us how mathmatics are not just numbers and charts, but magical living things.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
🇬🇷 GreeceThe 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 popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jirí Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
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Hercules Unchained
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryEn route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
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Black Orpheus
🇧🇷 BrazilThe film that introduced Bossa Nova to the world... — Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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The Headless Ghost
EnglandThree teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
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The Three Treasures
The 2nd CenturyThe Birth of Japan! — The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
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Bell, Book and Candle
New YorkGetting here is half the fun... — A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The 8th CenturySee these incredible scenes before your unbelieving eyes! — When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
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Hercules
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryIn this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
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