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Wings of Desire (1987)

Summary: An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

Release Date: May 06, 1988

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Director: Wim Wenders

Writers: Wim Wenders

, Peter Handke

, Richard Reitinger

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Road Movies Filmproduktion, Argos Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Argos Films

Distributor: Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Janus Films, HBO Max, MGM World Films, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 3,333,969

International: $ 139,875

Drop Dead Fred (1991)

Summary: A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood.

Release Date: May 24, 1991

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Ate de Jong

Writers: Elizabeth Livingston

, Carlos Davis

, Anthony Fingleton

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films, Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Distributor: New Line Cinema, Artisan Entertainment, Family Home Entertainment (FHE), Fox Network, HBO Max, Live Home Video, Manifesto Film Sales, Severin Films, Vinegar Syndrome

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,788,000

Domestic: $ 13,878,334

International: $ 77

Dead Alive (1992)

Summary: A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.

Release Date: February 12, 1993

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Peter Jackson

Writers: Stephen Sinclair

, Fran Walsh

, Peter Jackson

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Filmax, WingNut Films, New Zealand Film Commission, Avalon/NFU, NN Film P

Distributor: Trimark Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Trimark Home Video, Vidmark Entertainment

Country: New Zealand

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 242,623

Fire in the Sky (1993)

Summary: An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.

Release Date: March 12, 1993

Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Robert Lieberman

Writers: Travis Walton

, Tracy Tormé

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Fox Network, Paramount Home Entertainment, Scream Factory, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,885,552

Vampire Hunter D (1985)

Summary: When Doris Lang is chosen as the next bride for the vampire Count Magnus Lee, she will hire a mysterious vampire hunter known only as D in an attempt to escape her ill-gotten fate.

Release Date: March 26, 1993

Genres: Animation, Action, Fantasy

Director: Toyoo Ashida

Writers: Hideyuki Kikuchi

, Yasushi Hirano

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Ashi Productions Company, CBS Sony Group Inc., Epic/Sony

Distributor: Pushkar Films, Lumivision, Orion Home Video, Sentai Filmworks, Streamline Pictures, The Sci-Fi Channel, Turner Broadcasting Service, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), Urban Vision Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)

Summary: In this sequel, a couple must use a portal through time to defeat evil.

Release Date: May 11, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Anthony Hickox

Writer: Anthony Hickox

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Electric Pictures, Contemporary Films, Lost In Time Productions, Electric Pictures

Distributor: Artisan Home Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

Summary: After a string of bad luck, a debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a ravishing female ghost and later battles to save her soul from the control of a wicked tree demon.

Release Date: July 18, 1987

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Siu-Tung Ching

Writers: Songling Pu

, Kai-Chi Yuen

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Cinema City Film Productions, Film Workshop

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Cantonese

Movie budget: $ 5,600,000

The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)

Summary: Young Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.

Release Date: February 03, 1995

Genres: Drama, Family, Fantasy

Director: John Sayles

Writers: Rosalie K. Fry

, John Sayles

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Jones Entertainment Group, Skerry Productions

Distributor: First Look International, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United States, Ireland

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,159,269

Gandahar (1987)

Summary: An evil force from a 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.

Release Date: September 20, 1989

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: René Laloux

Writers: René Laloux

, Jean-Pierre Andrevon

, Raphael Cluzel

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Col.Ima.Son, Films A2, Revcom Télévision, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication

Distributor: Miramax

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 370,698

Sleepwalkers (1992)

Summary: A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures move to a small town to seek out a young virgin to feed on.

Release Date: April 10, 1992

Genres: Fantasy, Horror

Director: Mick Garris

Writer: Stephen King

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Victor & Grais Productions, Ion Pictures

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Scream Factory, TBS Superstation

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,524,763

Begotten (1989)

Summary: Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.

Release Date: June 05, 1991

Genres: Fantasy, Horror

Director: E. Elias Merhige

Writers: E. Elias Merhige

, Tom Gunning

Runtime: 1 h 12 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Theatre Of Material

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 33,000

Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1988)

Summary: Judith arrives at Bluebeard's dark castle hoping her love can convince him to reveal the secrets behind the locked interior doors.

Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Music

Director: Leslie Megahey

Writer: Béla Balázs

Runtime: 1 h 04 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: Hungarian

Highlander (1986)

Summary: An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".

Release Date: March 07, 1986

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Writers: Gregory Widen

, Peter Bellwood

, Larry Ferguson

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Davis-Panzer Productions, Highlander Productions Limited

Distributor: Thorn EMI, Twentieth Century Fox, HBO/Cannon Video, HBO Video, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Image Entertainment, Weintraub Entertainment Group, Republic Pictures Home Video, WGN, Republic Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, StudioCanal, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Highlander

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,900,000

International: $ 712

Beetlejuice (1988)

Summary: The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

Release Date: March 30, 1988

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Tim Burton

Writers: Michael McDowell

, Larry Wilson

, Warren Skaaren

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: PG

Production: The Geffen Company

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Disney Channel, HBO Max, KTLA, WPIX, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 74,664,632

International: $ 50,088

Prancer (1989)

Summary: A farm girl nurses a wounded reindeer she believes is one of Santa's, hoping to bring it back to health in time for Christmas. Her holiday spirit inspires those around her, something her disheartened father is having trouble under...

Release Date: November 17, 1989

Genres: Drama, Family, Fantasy

Director: John D. Hancock

Writer: Greg Taylor

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: G

Production: Cineplex Odeon Films, Nelson Entertainment, Cineplex Odeon Films, Raffaella Productions

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Nelson Entertainment, Orion Home Video, New Line Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Paramount Television, Shout! Factory, Sony Corporation of America, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Viacom, WGN

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 18,587,135

The Addams Family (1991)

Summary: Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.

Release Date: November 22, 1991

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers: Charles Addams

, Caroline Thompson

, Larry Wilson

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Orion Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 113,502,426

International: $ 78,000,000

Sukkubus (1989)

Summary: After a delirious night of drinking, two herdsmen and a boy who are all alone in the alps with their cattle, create a primitive female doll. When their creation comes to life as a beautiful succubus, they have to fear for their li...

Release Date: August 10, 1989

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Georg Tressler

Writer: Franz Seitz

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

Production: Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Roxy Film

Country: West Germany

Language: German