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Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated and live action fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
Troubled by a strange recurring dream and mourning the loss of her beloved father , nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsleigh attends a garden party at Lord Ascot's estate, where she is confronted by an unwanted marriage proposal and the stifling expectations of the society in which she lives. Unsure of how to reply, and increasingly confused, she runs away to chase after a rabbit in a blue waistcoat, and accidentally falls into a large rabbit hole.
SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
Keywords: fantasy, adventure, dragon-like creature, underland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9POCgSRVvf0 – trailer

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Tangled is a 2010 American computer animated musical fantasy-comedy film produced byWalt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 50th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It is loosely based on the German fairy tale "Rapunzel" in the collection of folk tales published by the Brothers Grimm.
A baby princess is born with beautiful golden hair that contains healing properties. An old woman named Mother Gothel , wanting to reclaim her immortality and youth, breaks into the royal nursery to cut a lock of the princess's hair, only to discover this causes it to lose its magic. She kidnaps the princess instead and names her "Rapunzel," raising her as her own in an isolated tower. The king and the queen honor their missing daughter by releasing floating lanterns on the night of her birthday each year in hopes that one day, their lost princess would return.
SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

Keywords: fantasy, adventure, eternal beauty, healing powers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_0CFKTO9E - trailer

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Gnomeo & Juliet is a 2011 3D computer-animated family film based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The film was directed by Kelly Asbury. The film was released onFebruary 11, 2011.
Mrs. Montague and Mr. Capulet are two elderly neighbors who despise each other. When they leave the garden, their garden gnomes come alive. The Montague garden is filled with blue-hat gnomes, and the Capulet garden has red-hat gnomes. Like their human gardeners, the gnomes also despise each other.
SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
Keywords: rivalry, fantasy, secret love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_L_5vrHoWQ -trailer

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Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil is a 2011 American computer-animated 3D family actioncomedy film and the sequel to 2005's Hoodwinked!, directed by Mike Disa and released on April 29, 2011.

Wolf , Granny , and Twitchy are on a rescue mission to save Hansel and Gretel from an evil witch named Verushka . The plan goes wrong however and Granny is kidnapped as well. Meanwhile, Red is in training with a mysterious group called the Sisters of the Hood where she learns that a secret all powerful truffle recipe has been stolen. She teams up with Wolf and Twitchy to find the recipe and save her grandma, but she and Wolf can't get along and the team splits up. Meanwhile, Verushka, who stole the truffle recipe, tries to force Granny into making it for her.
SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
Keywords: fantasy, team work, fairy tale characters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RhwaIwx0Is - TRAILER

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Brave is a 2012 American computer-animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

In Scotland, King Fergus of Clan Dunbroch presents his young daughter Merida with a bow for her birthday. While practicing, Merida encounters a will-o'-the-wisp. Soon afterwards, Mor'du, a giant demon bear, attacks the family. Merida escapes along with her mother Queen Elinor while Fergus fights off the bear at the cost of his left leg. Years later, Merida has become a free-spirited 16-year-old and an older sister of identical triplets: Hamish, Harris and Hubert. Elinor informs her that she is to be betrothed to one of her father's allied clans. Reminding Merida of a legend about a prince who ruined his own kingdom, Elinor warns her that failure to marry could harm Dunbroch, but Merida is dissatisfied with the arrangement.

SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
Keywords: fantasy, history, clans, legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEHWDA_6e3M - trailer

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Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy-comedy film produced byPDI/DreamWorks, released by DreamWorks Pictures, directed by Andrew Adamson andVicky Jenson
It is loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!, and somewhat serves as a parody film, targeting other films adapted from various children’s fantasies (mainly Disney films).
Shrek , a grouchy, terrifying green ogre that has always enjoyed living in peaceful solitude in his swamp, finds his life disrupted when thousands of various fairytale characters are exiled into his swamp by order of the obsessive, evil, fairy-tale hating Lord Farquaad .
Source: Wikipedia

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37DlG1i61s

Keywords: fantasy, adventure, ogre, fairytale character

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The Polar Express is a 2004 motion capture computer-animated fantasy film based on thechildren's book of the same title by Chris Van Allsburg. Written, produced, and directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film's human characters were animated using live action performance capture technique, with the exception of the waiters who dispense hot chocolate on the train, because their feats were impossible for live actors to achieve. The 21st century technology used incorporated the movements of live actors into three-dimensional animation.
Source: Wikipedia
Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVfB6GhlwIM
Keywords: fantasy, Christmas wish, North Pole

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 book of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton.
A little boy, whose family is a poor one, becomes the owner of a chocolate factory, by means of finding the Golden Ticket , that enables him to visit Mr . Wonka,s factory
Source: Wikipedia
Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyB4s9eox2o
Keywords: fantasy, family, chocolate factory, spoiled kids

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Casper is a 1995 American comedy fantasy film starring Bill Pullman and Christina Ricci, based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost animated cartoons and comic books. The ghosts featured in the film were created through computer-generated imagery. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Source: Wikipedia
Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kppS6cJE02M
Keywords: fantasy, comedy, ghost

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James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 British-American musical fantasy film directed byHenry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was produced byTim Burton and Denise Di Novi. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation.
In the 1930s, James Henry Trotter is a young boy who lives with his parents by the sea in theUnited Kingdom. On James's birthday, they plan to go to New York City and visit the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world. However, his parents are later killed by a ghostly rhinoceros from the sky and finds himself living with his two cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge.
He is forced to work all day and they threaten him with beatings to keep him in line and taunt him about the mysterious rhino and other hazards if he tries to leave.
Source: Wikipedia
Trailer http://www.youtube.com/embed/_0caNkowWJI
Keywords: fantasy, musical, live action, stop-motion animation, child labour

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