What’s easier to find: true love or a good fantasy movie on Netflix? Considering that we’ve already compiled this list of the best fantasy movies on Netflix, the answer is clearly the former. But locating great fantasies on Netflix is very challenging because the streamer rarely adds them, even when borrowing movies from other studios. Sci-fi movies on Netflix have a similar problem, but at least a handful of new titles fall under that category every month. By contrast, fantasy fans are starving for new options.
Our latest selections for the best fantasy movies on Netflix include Jurassic Park, Love and Monsters, and even Bruce Almighty. The other two Jurassic Park movies are also currently on Netflix, but they just aren’t as good as the first one. Keep reading for more of our fantasy movie picks that you can find on Netflix.
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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Love and Monsters2020
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Jurassic Park1993
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Bruce Almighty2003
Love and Monsters (2020) new
The most refreshing thing about Joel (Dylan O’Brien) in Love and Monsters is that he’s neither a fighter nor a hardened survivor. He’s just a regular guy who lost everything in the Monster Apocalypse, including his bond with his girlfriend, Aimee (Jessica Henwick). Even discovering that Aimee is still alive can’t fill the hole in Joel’s heart, especially when they’re separated by a vast distance in a world overrun by monsters.
After resolving to start changing himself for the better, Joel sets out to make the dangerous journey to Aimee’s colony in the name of love. Along the way, a stray dog proves to be Joel’s best companion. Yet if he wants to survive in the new world, Joel needs to realize that he can’t just outfight the monsters. He has to understand them as well.
Jurassic Park (1993) new
At the height of his career, Steven Spielberg regularly directed blockbuster flicks. Jurassic Park was by far Spielberg’s most successful film, largely thanks to the very convincing mixture of animatronic and CGI dinosaurs. Sam Neill stars as Dr. Alan Grant, with Laura Dern as Alan’s girlfriend, Dr. Ellie Sattler, and Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm.
This unlikely trio have been invited to a remote island by Dr. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), who reveals that he and his scientists have successfully cloned dinosaurs for his new theme park. But if Hammond wanted approval for his plans, he should have had tighter security. Because when the dinosaurs escape from captivity, the humans in the park become their prey.
Bruce Almighty (2003) new
Bruce Almighty is a comedy and a fantasy that features Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a TV newsman who gains the power of God (Morgan Freeman). Bruce’s newfound divinity comes at a low point in his personal and professional lives, and he wastes little time using his powers to get himself his dream job and romancing his girlfriend, Grace Connelly (likable Friends star Jennifer Aniston), with grand gestures of love.
Although Bruce assumes that being God would be easy, he is soon overwhelmed by just a portion of the prayers the Lord receives daily. And when Bruce loses Grace’s trust, not even God’s powers can keep their relationship intact.
Hellboy (2004)
Guillermo del Toro was so passionate about Mike Mignola’s Hellboy comic that he directed two different movies featuring the world’s greatest paranormal investigator. The first film is by far the best. Ron Perlman is impeccably well-cast as Hellboy, a demon from Hell who has been raised as a human by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm (John Hurt), the leader of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
In the present, Hellboy is friends with his fellow agent, Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), and in love with Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), a pyrokinetic who fears her own powers. Hellboy feels threatened when a new BPRD agent, John Myers (Rupert Evans), starts getting close to her. However, the return of Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) is a much bigger problem because he intends to use Hellboy’s feelings for Liz to bring about the end of the world.
Goosebumps (2015)
The first Goosebumps movie takes a unique approach to the adaptation of R.L. Stine’s novels by making Stine one of the central characters, as played by Jack Black. The film follows high school student Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette), who shares an attraction to Stine’s daughter, Hannah (Odeya Rush).
Eventually, Zach and his friend, Champ (Ryan Lee), realize who Stine really is and accidentally unleash his Goosebumps characters into the real world. That includes Slappy the Dummy (voiced by Black), the most evil creation of Stine, who wants his revenge.
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]
Some of the best fantasy stories are the oldest. Case in point — Errementari: The Black Smith and the Devil, based on a Basque reimagining of the fairy tale The Smith and the Devil. In 19th-century Spain, the supposed government investigator Alfredo Ortiz (Ramón Agirre) arrives in a small village looking for lost treasure. His search leads him to a forge in the nearby woods where the blacksmith Paxti (Kandido Uranga) lives in solitude. When Ortiz hires men to help him raid the forge, a young girl named Usue (Uma Bracaglia) sneaks in to recover a lost doll — and makes a terrifying discovery. Errementari is a wonderful fusion of fantasy and bone-chilling horror that still captures the sense of fascination children have for fairy tales and folklore.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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