We’ve lost count of how many times we’ve had to add or remove Conan the Barbarian from the list of best fantasy movies on Netflix. There aren’t very many fantasy adventures on Netflix, which is disappointing for fans of the genre. As there are very few new films to choose from, we’ve put the spotlight on the only recent arrival, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, as well as a Netflix original, Halloween-themed fantasy film, The Curse of Bridge Hollow.
As much as we might wish otherwise, Netflix hasn’t shown any indication that it plans to focus on fantasy any time soon. Regardless, there are other films on our list of the best fantasy movies on Netflix right now. There just aren’t very many of them.
We’ve also rounded up the best fantasy movies on Amazon Prime and the best fantasy movies on Hulu if Netflix doesn’t have what you’re looking for.
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bonespg-13 2013
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The Curse of Bridge Hollowpg-13 2022
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
A young woman named Clary (Lily Collins) is thrust into a supernatural war in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Stranger Things‘ Jamie Campbell Bower co-stars as Jace, an enignatic young man who is one of the half-human, half-angel Shadowhunters.
Since Clary is also a hybrid, she becomes a target of demons after learning who and what she really is. And a former Shadowhunter, Valentine (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), won’t stop coming after Clary until he locates a mystical object that could give him enormous power.
The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)
The Curse of Bridge Hollow is a family-friendly horror comedy that features Marlon Wayans as Howard Gordon, a scientist who looks down at Halloween. That’s not a sentiment shared by Howard’s wife, Emily (Kelly Rowland), or daughter, Sydney (Priah Ferguson), especially after they move to a Halloween-obsessed town.
When the big night occurs, Sydney is stunned when the Halloween decorations on her house take on a life of their own. As the title of the movie implies, there is a curse on the town and Sydney’s home. If she can’t find some help from the locals, a vengeful spirit will claim a soul before the end of the night.
Warcraft (2016)
How much do you know about World of Warcraft? The Warcraft movie could probably get you through a pop quiz about the history of Azeroth’s conflict with the orcs. One of the movie’s biggest flaws is it actually tries to convey an overwhelming amount of information for the audience to digest. Once you get past that, there is a lot to enjoy about it, especially the well-rounded portrayal of the orcs themselves.
Unlike some other fantasy franchises, the orcs of Warcraft have their own kind of humanity, especially Durotan (Toby Kebbell), who suspects that his people are being misled. Durotan and a human warrior, Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel), may be the only ones who can face a threat to humanity and orcs alike, if they can figure out that they have common ground before it’s too late.
Hellboy (2019)
Guillermo del Toro directed two really charming Hellboy movies, both of which are better than Neil Marshall’s 2019 Hellboy reboot. But this film is a little closer in spirit to the Hellboy comics by Mike Mignola. Stranger Things’ David Harbour steps into the role of Hellboy, a demon who was raised to be a force for good by his adoptive father, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm (Ian McShane).
While on a mission in England for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy discovers a conspiracy to revive Vivienne Nimue (Milla Jovovich), the Blood Queen, an evil sorceress from the time of King Arthur. And once Vivienne returns, she realizes that Hellboy himself may hold the key to her ultimate revenge on humanity if she can make him unleash the apocalypse.
Damsel (2024)
What if Stranger Things’ Eleven had to fight a dragon without her powers. Princess Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) doesn’t have to imagine that scenario in Damsel, as it’s actually happening to her because she believed in love out of a fairy tale. As soon as she was offered the chance to marry Prince Henry (Nick Robinson), Elodie thought she was getting a happily ever after.
Perhaps Elodie would have been happy with some other prince. As for Henry, he and his mother, Queen Isabelle (Robin Wright), set up the marriage just to use Elodie as a sacrifice to a dragon. Elodie may be a bit naïve, but she’s not taking this lightly. She may not be a warrior, but Elodie is willing to pick up a sword and do whatever it takes to survive.
Monster Run (2020)
Monsters are all too real in Monster Run, and that’s something that a young woman named Ji Mo (Jessie Li) has tried to deny for most of her life. After learning that she can see monsters, Ji Mo is only able to escape being imprisoned in an asylum by pretending that she can not. Instead, she simply tries to live an ordinary life until she runs into a monster hunter, Meng (Shawn Yue).
Once Ji Mo and Meng come together, she can no longer deny that monsters are real. Ji Mo also learns that she has a destiny to fulfill, if she can live long enough to make it happen.
Troll (2022)
Troll is a Norwegian fantasy that depicts an unusual emergence of a mythical creature in the modern world. As a young girl, Professor Nora Tidemann (Ine Marie Wilmann) was told by her father, Tobias Tidemann (Gard B. Eidsvold), that trolls may be real. Unfortunately, Tobias’ academic career was ended over these beliefs. But in the present, Tobias is vindicated when a gigantic troll is discovered in Norway before it goes on a rampage.
Since nothing the Norwegian army can throw at the troll manages to slow it down, it falls to Nora, Tobias, and their colleague, Andreas Isaksen (Kim Falck) to either find a way to communicate with the troll or to permanently end the threat that it represents.
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022)
Wendell & Wild (2022)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
Slumberland (2022)
Nightbooks (2021)
Don’t fancy yourself a storyteller? Well, as the saying goes, necessity can very well be the mother of invention as the young Alex (Winslow Fegley) learns in Netflix’s new dark fantasy film Nightbooks. Based on the 2018 novel by J.A. White, Nightbooks stars Krysten Ritter as a terrifying witch who imprisons Alex. In order to escape certain death at her hands, Alex must tell her a scary story every night to entertain her. Knowing his death is inevitable otherwise, Alex befriends the witch’s servant, Yazmin (Lidya Jewett), and together they try to outwit the evil sorceress to escape her mystical home. Scheduled to start streaming in the middle of September, Nightbooks promises to be both scary and family-friendly while giving Ritter a wonderful chance to play against type./dt_media]
Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2018)
Super Me (2019)
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
I Lost My Body (2019)
Bright (2017)
Fullmetal Alchemist (2017)
Okja (2017)
From Oscar-winning writer-director Bong Joon Ho, Okja is a brilliant mesh of animal rights versus big business, both operating in the body of a beautifully crazy film. The story follows Mija (Seo-hyun Ahn), a South Korean farm girl and owner of a genetically modified super-pig named Okja. Developed by the multinational Mirando Corporation, several prototypes of these genetically modified pigs were sent out into the world. After 10 years of growing to maturity, the company announces that Okja has been awarded the honor of “best super-pig.”
It’s all a ruse, though, and the company wants to move Okja from Mija’s farm to New York for (unbeknownst to the world) experimentation and eventual slaughter. Mirando’s CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) arranges for Mija to travel to New York to be with Okja. However, the plot thickens when the ALF (Animal Liberation Front) kidnaps Okja to expose Mirando, sending the film down a path of much greater moral weight.
A Whisker Away (2020)
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