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- StarsVanessa HesslerMarco BocciPaz VegaA woman goes on a magical journey to find her prince, Aladdin, in this adventure. Evil sorcerers, gentle genies, magical castles, and dangerous deserts feature in this tale of Lady, a woman searching for her true love.
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsEwan McGregorHayley AtwellBronte CarmichaelA working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.
- DirectorWolfgang EisslerStarsJytte-Merle BöhrnsenLucas PrisorHeinz HoenigThe king orders his haughty daughter to pick a groom, but she insults every suitor at first sight. One prince, whom she met undercover at the market, persists, and accepts a seemingly impossible task: bringing as 'wedding gift' the magical tree that sings and chimes. He sets out into the dark forest for it, where he bumps into a mean spirit who has it and sets a high price: himself if her lack of love stops it from singing. This happening, he's caught in a magical bubble around a barren cave, forced to survive on dug-up roots and an impossible task of chopping wood to buy his freedom. The king sets out to find them, also reaches the spirit, and bargains the tree for the first creature that will meet him from the castle, unaware it will be his daughter. The prince and princess are kept together, his love having been turned into bitterness, yet forced to collaborate to survive, they grow closer and ultimately take on the spirit.
- DirectorTobias WiemannStarsTim Oliver SchultzIsolda DychaukAnna ThalbachMichel knows no fear, so he sets out to learn it. He meets Princess Elisabeth and her father, a king, who live in a tent city because their castle is haunted. The king has promised Elisabeth's hand to the one who can vanquish the ghosts.
- StarsFrank CrudeleIlaria SpadaMariella ValentiniThe timeless classic gets a fresh spin in this miniseries. Aurora, a young, talented pianist living in poverty, finds a world of romance and magic in the bustling streets of 1950s Rome.
- StarsBlanca SuárezAlessandro PreziosiGiusy BuscemiBelle's father owes Prince Leon money, but can't pay, so he gives him his daughter until he's able to pay.
- DirectorFrank StoyeStarsMala EmdeLeonard SeydSven GielnikDoctor Karl Stahlbaum's kids Fritz and Marie receive a special, mechanically-driven musical cabinet from inventor Uncle Anselmus Drosselmeier as a novelty Christmas present. While Fritz soon turns to his tin soldiers gift from their parents, Marie dreams about the fairy tale characters from the tales Anselmus chose them from, which start coming alive in her dreams, especially as she falls ill. Sugar Fairy is defended by a brave Nutcracker soldier, who lost an arm when Fritz tried cracking a cannonball, against the mean, ambitious mouse king. When she recovers, a charming visitor fits her dreams.
- DirectorWolfgang EisslerStarsCarlo LjubekInez Bjørg DavidDieter HallervordenKing Karl is desperate. His 12 daughters hold secrets from him. Every morning their dancing shoes have holes in their soles. Only Amanda's shoes don't have holes. Many princes already tried to unveil their secrets, but didn't succeed and ended at the gallows. Soldier and puppeteer Anton falls in love with Princess Amanda the first time he sees her. He isn't easily scared off and tries to get behind the princesses' secrets with help from a strange old woman.
- DirectorUwe JansonStarsAnja KlingMila BöhningFriedrich HeineWith Hansel and Gretel's woodcutter father being too poor to provide for the family, their stepmother persuades him to abandon them while foraging in the forest. Wandering hungry, they find and feast on a witch's cabin made of gingerbread covered in all kinds of candy and other treats. The seemingly hospitable crone owner soon cages Hansel to be fattened as her own feast, while Gretel serves as her maid. the pair must outsmart the hag to survive and escape or be eaten.
- DirectorMarc-Andreas BochertStarsMaximilian SimonischekCornelia GröschelJürgen TarrachThe story of Beauty and the beast.
- DirectorTarsem SinghStarsLily CollinsJulia RobertsArmie HammerAn evil queen steals control of a kingdom and an exiled princess enlists the help of seven resourceful rebels to win back her birthright.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMatthew BroderickRutger HauerMichelle PfeifferThe thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
- DirectorBodo FürneisenStarsLlewellyn ReichmanJonas NayKatja FlintPlayful, resourceful knave Joringel's shenanigans and chore flaws constantly vex the innkeeper, his employer and father of his beloved Jorinde, who wants to kick the knave out. yet when the local robber knight passes on one of his pillaging tours, Joringel's tricks save the boss's purse. Still he gets blamed after Jorinde disappears, actually seized by a grim sorceress who keeps love-'challenged' girls half-time caged transformed into birds, claiming to spare them a life of heartache. Joringel is welcomed in the castle of the knight, who wants him as junior partner, yet can't resist running off with his mysterious magical flower which warded off the sorceress, despite the knight's warning of terrible effects in term. It allows Joringel to reach the sorceress's magical home, but the price seems all too tragic.
- DirectorUwe JansonStarsLea MüllerMaximilian EhrenreichNina KunzendorfPre-teen foundling Emil and slightly older middle class orphan Inga seek to comfort each-other in the pitiful conditions at Mrs. Landfried's orphanage. She sells the shoes the produce in a Dickensian poorhouse workshop but keeps most profits, only ambitious eldest turned foreman Franz gets a bonus. For Christmas, the kids must sell I town the sets of matchsticks she bargained as bonus with the shoes, the winner gets a goose helping, sub)standard sale means a caning. After chasing the duo from the lucrative market, Frans wins and even gets to cane Emil, but lets him off with loud pretense. Inga ran away, dreaming in the rundown family home of her late parents welcoming her home whenever she strikes a match. Emil informs the homonymous friendly cop they met on the market, who sees the tyrant is replaced by a proper administrator.
- DirectorIrina PopowStarsZoe MoorePhilipp DanneBen BeckerKing Sigismund orders his son Nikolas to finally get married and become a proper heir to the throne. Nikolas, failing to fall in love of an even properly date, the king arranges a politically suitable bride, spinster princess Anneline. Enjoying his last 'free man days' incognito, gallivanting with his trusted squires, athletic Nikolas goes swimming but nearly drowns. When he beaches up, Anneline falls in love with the handsome stranger but rides on to court. Nikolas's party tries to thank the mystery woman who rescued him, ignoring its sea god Neptune's rebellious daughter, mermaid Undine, who has such a bad crush that she accepts the sea witch Mydra's deal to change her tail into legs but render her deaf and end her life unless she finds true love. She becomes Nikolas's favorite playmate, but he seems determined to do his dynastic duty by wedding princely.
- DirectorCarsten FiebelerStarsXenia AssenzaFranz DindaMichael KindBaron von und zu Wildungen enjoys giddy king Richard's favor, but not his 'election' as husband for the airhead princess Zilly, so he promises to find her a better catch. The baron aims at studious or prince Arthur, who drives his grim father king Johann to despair by showing no interest in matters of state or suitable girls. The only exception is farm maiden Siebenschön ''seven beauty'), whose parents are arrested and the homestead burnt on the baron's instructions. Masquerading as a knave, she finds employ as king's servant and uses the medicinal skills she learned in the nunnery to deal with his back-ache better then the official quack.
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsLily JamesCate BlanchettRichard MaddenWhen her father unexpectedly dies, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her scheming stepsisters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsMia WasikowskaJohnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterNineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
- DirectorJames BobinStarsMia WasikowskaJohnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterAlice is appointed to save her beloved Mad Hatter from deadly grief by travelling back to the past, but this means fatally harming Time himself, the noble clockwork man with the device needed to save the Hatter's family from the Red Queen.
- DirectorSibylle TafelStarsKaroline HerfurthFlorian LukasSusanne BormannIn a tiny kingdom, a goose herd girl seizes her chance for 'revenge' on royal heiress Elisabeth whose haughty entourage once humiliated the maiden by ordering her to fetch water for a drunk the princess didn't even want. Indeed she is part of the train with magic horse Florian when the princess is sent to her betrothed, king Gustav's studly son Leopold. Thus the maiden sheds the third of the queen's blood drops shed to protect the princess and forces her, by near-drowning, to accept an identity-swap.
- DirectorWolfgang EisslerStarsOdine JohneHans-Laurin BeyerlingAndrea SawatzkiAfter Brüderchen and Schwesterchen's (German for young/dear brother/sister) mother's death, their dad finds a new wife and mother for them. But she's a witch who poisons him and reduces the siblings to slaves for her and their nasty stepsister. After an escape attempt, the witch transforms the boy into a deer. When he finally has a run in the woods, the young king's hunting party wounds it badly. By tracking his prey, the ruler discovers and falls in love with his sister. The whole family moves into the royal palace, where the witch tries new tricks.
- DirectorWolfgang EisslerStarsAnna Maria MüheMaxim MehmetSunnyi MellesA young, bored king will lose his throne to his married nephew unless he weds before reaching thirty. To his mother's despair, the king has no interest in the suitors she has parading for twelve years, only caring for astronomy. A landless farmer's daughter cunningly abuses this passion to attract royal attention and successfully ask for land the family can farm. Having found a golden mortar on it, the honest father brings it to his majesty, but is jailed, suspected of holding back a golden pestle. The daughter gets him freed by winning a riddle dare, with the unsolicited extra price of became the royal fiancee. That ill-considered engagement is easily compromised by challenging the king's misrule on an absurd foal claim.
- DirectorPeter RamseyStarsHugh JackmanAlec BaldwinIsla FisherWhen the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.
- DirectorDean DeBloisChris SandersStarsJay BaruchelGerard ButlerChristopher Mintz-PlasseA hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
- DirectorOliver DieckmannStarsLotte FlackFrançois GoeskeHannelore ElsnerRaised on a farm, energetic fearless Fynn is eager to be join uncle August in the royal castle as apprentice in the stables. He's quickly humiliated having inadvertently dared prince Eric to sword sparring, but gets discrete lessons from his surprisingly able kin. Like many high aristocrats around, Eric boldly sets out to win a princess's hand and royal crown in a century-long enchanted castle, but is fatally defeated by its impenetrable envelop of thorny vines. Having learned more from August about the curse, Fynn also has a go, but differently and with better results.