List of fantasy films of the 1980s
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A list of fantasy films released in the 1980s.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
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| 1980 | ||||||
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Robbie Coltrane, Ornella Muti, Peter Wyngarde, Brian Blessed | United States United Kingdom |
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| Hawk the Slayer | Terry Marcel | Jack Palance, John Terry, Bernard Bresslaw, Patricia Quinn, W. Morgan Sheppard | United States United Kingdom |
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| Return of the King | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Orson Bean, John Huston, Roddy McDowall | United States | Television movie, Animated film | ||
| Xanadu | Robert Greenwald | Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, Sandahl Bergman | United States | |||
| 1981 | ||||||
| The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire | Nicholas Corea | Lane Caudell, Belinda Bauer, , Kabir Bedi, George Kennedy | United States | German: de:Der Zauberbogen | ||
| Clash of the Titans | Desmond Davis | Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith, Burgess Meredith, Ursula Andress, Neil McCarthy, Judi Bowker, Neil McCarthy, Siân Phillips | United Kingdom United States |
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| Dragonslayer | Matthew Robbins | Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ian McDiarmid, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre, Albert Salmi | United Kingdom | |||
| Excalibur | John Boorman | Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart, Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Nicol Williamson, Nigel Terry, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi | United Kingdom | |||
| Heavy Metal | Gerald Potterton | John Candy, Eugene Levy, John Vernon, Richard Romanus | Canada | Animated film | ||
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Kenny Baker, Jim Broadbent, Derrick O'Connor, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan, David Rappaport, David Warner | United Kingdom | |||
| 1982 | ||||||
| Along Unknown Paths (ru) | Tatyana Peltzer, Aleksandr Filippenko, | Soviet Union | [1] | |||
| Ator the Fighting Eagle | Joe D'Amato | Miles O'Keeffe, Sabrina Siani, | Italy | |||
| Sorceress | Jack Hill | Leigh Harris, , , , Bruno Rey | United States Mexico |
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| The Beastmaster | Don Coscarelli | Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos, Rod Loomis, Ralph Strait, Billy Jayne, | United States | |||
| Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Mako, Franco Columbu, Sven-Ole Thorsen | United States | |||
| The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson | Frank Oz, Kathryn Mullen, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold, Mike Quinn | United States United Kingdom |
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| The Flight of Dragons | Jules Bass, | John Ritter, James Earl Jones, Arthur Rankin Jr., Victor Buono, Harry Morgan, Larry Storch, Ed Peck, Nellie Bellflower, | United States | Television movie, Animated film | ||
| Forbidden Zone | Richard Elfman | Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell | United States | |||
| The Last Unicorn | Jules Bass | Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Alan Arkin, Arthur Rankin Jr., Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein, Christopher Lee, Nellie Bellflower, Keenan Wynn | United States | Animated film | ||
| The Secret of NIMH | Don Bluth | Hermione Baddeley, John Carradine, Tom Hatten, Dom DeLuise, Wil Wheaton, Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Arthur Malet, Shannen Doherty, Paul Shenar, Peter Strauss | United States | Animated film | ||
| The Sword and the Sorcerer | Albert Pyun | Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale, George Maharis, Richard Lynch | United States | |||
| 1983 | ||||||
| Conquest | Lucio Fulci | Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Sabrina Siani | Italy Mexico Spain |
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| The Dead Zone | David Cronenberg | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen | United States | Horror | ||
| Deathstalker | , Barbi Benton, Richard Brooker | United States | ||||
| Fire and Ice | Ralph Bakshi | Randy Norton, | United States | Animated film | ||
| Hercules | Luigi Cozzi | Lou Ferrigno, Sybil Danning, Brad Harris, Rossana Podesta, Mirella D'Angelo, William Berger, Eva Robin's | Italy, United States | |||
| Hundra | Matt Cimber | Spain, United States | ||||
| Krull | Peter Yates | Ken Marshall, Liam Neeson, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Robbie Coltrane, Bernard Bresslaw | United States United Kingdom |
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| The Man Who Wasn't There | Bruce Malmuth | Steve Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Lisa Langlois | United States | |||
| Mary Poppins, Goodbye | Leonid Kvinikhidze | Natalya Andrejchenko, Albert Filozov, Lembit Ulfsak | Soviet Union | |||
| Sorcerers | Aleksandra Yakovleva, Aleksandr Abdulov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Valentin Gaft | Soviet Union | ||||
| Thor the Conqueror | Tonino Ricci, Anthony Richmond | , , Maria Romano | Italy | |||
| Videodrome | David Cronenberg | James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits | Canada | Horror, Science fiction | ||
| Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Antonio Margheriti | Reb Brown, Corinne Cléry, John Steiner | Italy France Turkey |
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| Zu Warriors | Tsui Hark | Yuen Biao | Hong Kong | |||
| 1984 | ||||||
| All of Me | Carl Reiner | Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Richard Libertini | United States | |||
| Ator 2 - L'invincibile Orion | Joe D'Amato | Miles O'Keeffe, Lisa Foster, | Italy | |||
| Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure | John Korty | , Warwick Davis, Fionnula Flanagan | United States | [2] | ||
| The Company of Wolves | Neil Jordan | Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea | United Kingdom | |||
| Conan the Destroyer | Richard Fleischer | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain | United States | |||
| A Fairy Tale of Wanderings | Alexander Mitta | Andrei Mironov, | Soviet Union | [3] | ||
| Formula of Love | Mark Zakharov | Nodar Mgaloblishvili, Aleksandr Abdulov, Semyon Farada | Soviet Union | |||
| Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis | United States | Horror, Science fiction | ||
| Gremlins | Joe Dante | Hoyt Axton, Keye Luke, Don Steele, Scott Brady, Zach Galligan | United States | |||
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | Anime film | |||
| The NeverEnding Story | Wolfgang Petersen | Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach | West Germany United Kingdom |
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| Ronia, the Robber's Daughter | Tage Danielsson | Hanna Zetterberg, Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman | Sweden Norway |
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| Sheena | John Guillermin | Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott | United States | |||
| Splash | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy | United States | |||
| Supergirl | Jeannot Szwarc | Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Hart Bochner, Peter O'Toole | United Kingdom | |||
| Sword of the Valiant | Stephen Weeks | Miles O'Keeffe, Sean Connery, Cyrielle Clair, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing, John Rhys-Davies | United Kingdom | |||
| The Tale of Tsar Saltan | Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Lev Milchin | Soviet Union | Animated | |||
| The Warrior and the Sorceress | David Carradine, Luke Askew, Maria Socas | United States | ||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Hercules | Luigi Cozzi | Lou Ferrigno, Milly Carlucci, Sonia Viviani, William Berger, Venantino Venantini, Eva Robin's | Italy, United States | |||
| After the Rain, on Thursday (ru) | Oleg Tabakov, Tatyana Peltzer, Semyon Farada, Georgi Millyar | Soviet Union | [4] | |||
| Asterix Versus Caesar | Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi | France | Animated | |||
| Barbarian Queen | Héctor Olivera | Lana Clarkson, Victor Bo, Dawn Dunlap | United States Argentina |
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| The Black Cauldron | Ted Berman, Richard Rich | , Susan Sheridan, Nigel Hawthorne, Freddie Jones, Arthur Malet, Phil Fondacaro, John Hurt | United States | Animated film | ||
| Brazil | Terry Gilliam | Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Robert De Niro | United Kingdom | |||
| The Dungeonmaster | Various | Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing | United States | |||
| Ewoks: The Battle for Endor | , Ken Wheat | Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis | United States | [5] | ||
| The Knight of the Dragon | Fernando Colomo | Harvey Keitel, Klaus Kinski, Fernando Rey, María Lamor, Miguel Bosé, Julieta Serrano | Spain | |||
| Ladyhawke | Richard Donner | Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer | United States | |||
| Legend | Ridley Scott | Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry | United States | |||
| The Peanut Butter Solution | Michael Rubbo | , Siluck Saysanasy, | Canada | |||
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello | United States | |||
| Return to Oz | Walter Murch | Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Fairuza Balk | United States | |||
| Red Sonja | Richard Fleischer | Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman | United States | |||
| Santa Claus: The Movie | Jeannot Szwarc | David Huddleston, John Lithgow, Dudley Moore | United States United Kingdom |
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| Travels of Mr. Kleks | Piotr Fronczewski, | Poland | ||||
| Wizards of the Lost Kingdom | Héctor Olivera | Bo Svenson, | United States | |||
| 1986 | ||||||
| Asterix in Britain | Pino Van Lamsweerde | France | Animated | |||
| Big Trouble in Little China | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong | United States | |||
| Castle in the Sky | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | Anime film | |||
| Dream Lovers | Tony Au | Chow Yun-fat, | Hong Kong | |||
| The Golden Child | Michael Ritchie | Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis | United States | |||
| Highlander | Russell Mulcahy | Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown | United Kingdom United States |
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| Labyrinth | Jim Henson | David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud | United Kingdom United States |
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| Momo | Johannes Schaaf | Radost Bokel, Mario Adorf, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sylvester Groth | Germany Italy |
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| Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola | Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller | United States | |||
| The Worst Witch | Robert Young | Fairuza Balk, Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae, Tim Curry | United Kingdom United States |
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| 1987 | ||||||
| The Barbarians | Ruggero Deodato | David Paul, Peter Paul, Richard Lynch | Italy United States |
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| Batteries Not Included | Matthew Robbins | Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña | United States | |||
| A Chinese Ghost Story | Ching Siu Tung | Leslie Cheung, , Wu Ma | Hong Kong | |||
| Date with an Angel | Tom McLoughlin | Michael E. Knight, Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Béart | United States | Fantasy comedy | ||
| Gor | Fritz Kiersch | , | United States | |||
| Harry and the Hendersons | William Dear | John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche, David Suchet | United States | Fantasy comedy[6] | ||
| Kingsize | Juliusz Machulski | Jacek Chmielnik, Katarzyna Figura, Jerzy Stuhr, Jan Machulski | Poland | |||
| Mannequin | Michael Gottlieb | Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, James Spader | United States | Fantasy comedy | ||
| Masters of the Universe | Gary Goddard | Dolph Lundgren, Courteney Cox, Frank Langella, Meg Foster | United States | |||
| Mio in the Land of Faraway | Vladimir Grammatikov | Christopher Lee, Christian Bale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms, Susannah York | Sweden Soviet Union Norway |
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| The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon | United States | |||
| Rouge | Stanley Kwan | Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, | Hong Kong | |||
| Snow White | Diana Rigg, Billy Barty, Sarah Patterson | United States | ||||
| Wicked City | Japan | |||||
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk | West Germany France |
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| The Witches of Eastwick | George Miller | Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer | United States | Fantasy comedy | ||
| 1988 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle | United Kingdom West Germany |
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| Alice | Jan Švankmajer | Czechoslovakia Switzerland |
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| Beetlejuice | Tim Burton | Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder | United States | Horror | ||
| Big | Penny Marshall | Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, John Heard, Robert Loggia | United States | |||
| Gandahar | René Laloux | France | Animated film | |||
| The Land Before Time | Don Bluth | Gabriel Damon, , Judith Barsi, Will Ryan, Pat Hingle | United States | Animated film | ||
| My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | Anime film | |||
| (ru) | Oleg Tabakov, Nikolai Karachentsov, Semyon Farada | Soviet Union | Steampunk fantasy | |||
| Peacock King | Nam Lai Choi | Yuen Biao, Gloria Yip, Hiroshi Mikami | Hong Kong | |||
| Wu Ma | Hong Kong | |||||
| To Kill a Dragon | Mark Zakharov | Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Yankovsky, Yevgeny Leonov | Soviet Union | |||
| Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller | Michael Rubbo | Canada | ||||
| Tryumph of Mr. Kleks | Piotr Fronczewski, | Poland | ||||
| Vice Versa | Brian Gilbert | Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer | United States | |||
| Willow | Ron Howard | Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis | United States | |||
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy | United States | Comedy | ||
| 1989 | ||||||
| Asterix and the Big Fight | France | Animated | ||||
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin | United States | |||
| Dream a Little Dream | Marc Rocco | Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Meredith Salenger, Jason Robards Jr. | United States | |||
| Erik the Viking | Terry Jones | Tim Robbins, Terry Jones, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt | United Kingdom United States |
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| Ghostbusters II | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis | United States | |||
| Kiki's Delivery Service | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | Anime film | |||
| Little Monsters | Richard Alan Greenberg | Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Rick Ducommun | United States | |||
| Teen Witch | Robyn Lively, Dan Gauthier, Joshua Miller | United States | ||||
References[]
- ^ Along Unknown Paths 1982 ‘Tam, na Nevedomykh Dorozhkakh...’ Directed by Mikhail Yuzovsky
- ^ Boyd, Ian. "Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure". IMDB. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ Skazka Stranstviy (1984)
- ^ After the Rain, on Thursday 1985 ‘После дождичка в четверг’ Directed by Mikhail Yuzovsky
- ^ Ewoks: The Battle for Endor#Cast
- ^ https://www.allmovie.com/movie/harry-and-the-hendersons-v21624
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