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- Instance of
- film genre
- Subclass of
- speculative fiction film
- Image
- Hogwarts's replica in Universal Studio, Orlando.jpg
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- short name
- fantasy
- Commons category
- Fantasy films
- topic's main category
- Category:Fantasy films
- different from
- fantasy television program
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Encyclopedic overview
Poster for The Thief of Bagdad, a 1924 American fantasy film.
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fantasy film” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.