Romantic Fantasy
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    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

    A London widow (Gene Tierney) falls in love with a sea captain's ghost (Rex Harrison) haunting her...

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    A Guy Named Joe

    A bomber pilot (Spencer Tracy) goes to heaven and becomes guardian angel to another pilot (Van...

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    I Married a Witch (1942)

    A politician's campaign for governor is complicated by a seductive witch with romance and revenge on...

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    Les Visiteurs Du Soir (1947)

    Originally released in 1942 as Les Visiteurs du Soir, The Devil's Envoys is another masterful...

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    Lost Horizon (1937)

    An airplane crash results in a British diplomat (Ronald Colman) and other Westerners being taken to...

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    Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

    Something seems fishy when a married man finds new adventure and romance in this comic fantasy....

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    Portrait of Jennie (1949)

    A New York artist (Joseph Cotten) paints a picture of a strange beauty (Jennifer Jones) from another...

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    The Sorrows of Satan

    Though D.W. Griffith had given up his independent-filmmaker status by joining Paramount Pictures in...

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    Sylvie et le Fantome

    Claude Autant-Lara's literally haunting romantic tale Sylvia and the Phantom stars Odette Joyeaux as...

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    Destiny

    A 19th-century woman (Lil Dagovar) bargains with Death for her lover, snatched by Fate. Silent.

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    An Arabian Knight

    Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa is cast as an ancient Egyptian donkey boy in An Arabian Knight. The...

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    Berkeley Square (1933)

    A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets...

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    Cave Man

    In his 35th and last Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin parodied the recent hit, D.W. Griffith's...

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    Children of the Night

    Prolific writer Max Brand, famous for such oft-filmed works as Destry Rides Again, penned the story...

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    Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

    In this adaptation of Alberto Casella's stage play, Death assumes human form in order to discover...

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    The Enchanted Cottage

    The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded...

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    It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

    A man's ability to predict the future through tomorrow's paper takes a disturbing turn when he reads...

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    A Kiss for Cinderella

    As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was...

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    La Beauté du Diable

    La Beaute du Diable came into being when French filmmaker Rene Clair became fascinated with a...

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    A Lover's Oath

    Artistic backgrounds and trick photography were the draws in this romantic drama, based on The...

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    The Man without Desire

    A man without desire? That was but one of the novelties of the silent British romantic fantasy....

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    Marriage Maker

    This fantasy tale was based on the stage play The Faun by Edward Knoblock, which starred William...

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    The Mistress of Atlantis

    In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of...

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    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

    A mysterious painting precipitates romance between the stunningly beautiful Pandora Reynolds--a...

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    Peter Ibbetson (1935)

    "I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film...

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    The Puppet Crown

    One of stage actress Ina Claire's earliest forays into filmmaking was the 1915 5-reeler The Puppet...

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    Al Diavolo la Celebrita (1949)

    A professor needs help from the devil to win a girl.

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    Cinderella

    Combining the star appeal of Mary Pickford with this fairy tale seemed like a sure thing to Famous...

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    Phantom

    A clerk (Alfred Abel) is smitten with a mysterious woman who drives a carriage pulled by white...

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    La Tendre Ennemie

    An early esoteric exercise from director Max Ophuls, La Tendre Ennemie (Tender Enemy) was adapted...