241. Night of the Demon ( Curse of the Demon )
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond
Plot: An American psychologist, and occult skeptic, finds himself pitted against a British cult leader over the existence of true evil.
242. Naked Lunch
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure
Plot: David Cronenberg's attempt to film the unfilmable Naked Lunch is a tour throught Willam S. Burroughs world filled with paranoia, mugwumps and transforming typewriters.
243. The Giver
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Alexander Skarsgård, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, Cameron Monaghan
Plot: In a seemingly perfect world, where everyone is always happy, Jonas, a 12-year-old boy, is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. He trains with an old man known as The Giver - and is introduced to pain, sadness, war - and all the other unhappy truths of the "real" world. He soon realizes his perfect world isn't real - and he must come to terms with he choices and his future.
244. Faust
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Actors: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla, Antje Lewald
Plot: Doctor Faust eats and sleeps where he studies dead people's bodies. Gradually he ends up selling his ... soul to a deformed man who lures him into catacombs and finally to his doom.
245. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Hall
Actors: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason
Plot: A boxer dies prematurely in a plane crash, but it's not his time, so the celestial powers must find him another body.
246. Tideland
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly, Jeff Bridges, Dylan Taylor
247. Alice in Wonderland
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Bud Townsend
Actors: Kristine DeBell, Bucky Searles, Gila Havana, Ron Nelson, Alan Novak, J.P. Paradine
Plot: Billed as the first "adult musical" - a prude of a librarian, whose rebuffs suitor William for being too forward, falls asleep and finds herself in the Wonderland where she loses her inhibitions and learns about pleasure but in the end must find a way to return to William.
248. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Moto Sakakibara
Actors: Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland
249. The Zero Theorem
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Lucas Hedges, Ben Whishaw, Tilda Swinton
Plot: An expert hacker is on a quest to discover the reason behind human existence. But The Management is constantly trying to undermine his efforts - first by sending in a teenager and again with lusty could-be love interest.
250. The Old Guard
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Actors: Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Harry Melling, Matthias Schoenaerts, Natacha Karam, Marwan Kenzari
Plot: A group of immortal mercenaries has worked to protect humanity throughout the ages. When their latest mission uncovers a new immortal - it also exposes their secret - and they must now work to stop those who would harness their power for nefarious purposes.
