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Matilda is a 1996 American fantasy film directed by Danny DeVito, based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was released by TriStar Pictures on August 2, 1996.
Matilda Wormwood is an extremely intelligent girl with a bright personality from an early age, but her spiteful and ignorant parents, Harry and Zinnia , neglect and even mistreat her.
When Matilda's telekinetic powers manifest during an argument with Harry, Matilda trains herself to use her ability at her own will, and her first act is to sabotage the FBI agents' attempt to search Harry's garage without a warrant.
Source: Wikipedia
Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfJAvIA9aJY
Keywords: fantasy, intelligent girl, careless parents, school life

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters interact directly with human beings.
In 1947, cartoon characters, commonly called "toons", are living beings who act out cartoons in the same way that human actors make live-action production. Toons interact freely with humans and live in Toontown, an area near Hollywood, California. R. K. Maroon is the human owner of Maroon Cartoon studios; Roger Rabbit is a fun-loving toon rabbit, one of Maroon's stars; Roger's wife Jessica Rabbit is a gorgeous toon woman; and Baby Herman is Roger's costar, a 50-year-old toon who looks like an infant. Marvin Acme is the practical joke-loving owner of Toontown and the Acme Corporation.
Source: Wikipedia
Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFCIaMyMORg
Keywords: fantasy, comedy, cartoon characters + live action, detective

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Monika Bandi

The Tree of Life (2011)
PG13
A family in Texas in the 1950s. The film follows Jack through childhood and adult years, he feels lost in the modern world and keeps turning back to seek answers and in the same time doubting the existance of faith.

Keywords: childhood, journey, loss of innocence, time

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Edward is an inventor's creation who died before he could finish his hands and so he had scissors instead of hands. He is found by a woman and is, at first welcomed in the community.

Tagline: The story of an uncommonly gentle man.
Keywords:love, creation, snowing, different

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

Oscar Diggs is a circus magician who gets from Kansas to the Land of Oz where he meets three witches who are not convinced of his being a great wizard. He has to prove that he really is the great and powerful Oz.

Keywords: magician, wizard, circus, Kansas, illusion

Stardust (2007)

PG 13
A young boy promises his beloved a star to prove his love and in order to get one he enters a world of fantasy that starts at the end of a wall at the borders of an English village. He gets the star but it is not just a lump of rock ...

Keywords: village, magic, king, witch

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

PG 13
Bilbo Baggins is convinced to take part in a quest to reclaim the lost kingdom of Erebor. He sets out in this journey together with some dwarfs and Gandalf and they meet goblins, orcs, wags and sorcerers.

Keywords: mountain, ring, journey, dragon, fire, fight

How to train your dragon (2010)

Animation
A young Viking who is aspiring to hunt dragons becomes the friend of a young dragon and they end up fighting ignorance together.

Keywords: dragon, viking, ignorance, friendship, flight

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone (2001) - adventure, family, fantasy.
Keywords: wizard, witchcraft, boy, friends.

The first movie in the Harry Potter series, based on J.K. Rowling's novels.
Harry Potter, an 11-year-old orphan who lives with his uncle and aunt, finds out one day that he is actually a wizard, and he is invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. He becomes very popular there, due to an incident that happened at his birth, and he also manages manages to make friends.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)