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Gate (2015) TV Show

7.5 193 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: On August 20XX, a gate suddenly appears in Tokyo's Ginza district, unleashing a portal where monsters, medieval knights and other fantasy beings come from another world and wreak havoc on Tokyo. The Japanese Defense Force take action against these monsters and push them back into the "Gate". Third Reconnaissance Team is dispatched to the "Special Region" lead by officer (and otaku) Youji Itami. On their travels, they are joined by a beautiful elf girl who is a survivor from the dragon's rampage and guide the group across the dangerous new world.

Plot: elves, kidnapping, magic, air force, politics, conspiracy, disaster, gunfight, ...

Cast

Abbi Jacobson

Lucy Montgomery

Nat Faxon

Tress MacNeille

Disenchantment (2018) TV Show

7.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 50

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Set in a ruined medieval city called Dreamland, Disenchantment follows the grubby adventures of a hard-drinking princess, her feisty elf companion and her personal demon.

Style: absurd

Plot: elves, fairy tale, kingdom, princess, female protagonist, demon, adult animation, fantasy world, ...

Time: medieval

Cast

Martin Freeman

Ian McKellen

Richard Armitage

James Nesbitt

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

7.4 19.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: New Zealand, United States of America

Duration: 169 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

Plot: based on novel or book, elves, dwarf, magic, horseback riding, sword, burglar, legend, ...

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Cast

Ian McKellen

Martin Freeman

Richard Armitage

Orlando Bloom

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

7.3 15.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: New Zealand, United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.

Plot: gold, corruption, based on novel or book, elves, dwarf, mine, mountain, sequel, ...

Cast

Yuuichirou Umehara

Yui Ogura

Nao Toyama

Yuichi Nakamura

Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown (2020)

7.3 307 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Goblin Slayer and his party head up to the snowy mountains in the north after receiving that request from the Sword Maiden to find any information on the Noble Fencer that disappeared after leaving to slay some goblins. A small village gets attacked, they encounter a mysterious chapel, and something about how these goblins are acting bothers the Goblin slayer. In order to save the captured Noble Fencer, the Goblin Slayer and his party head to an ancient fortress covered in snow to face off with a powerful foe and a horde of goblins!

Plot: rape, based on novel or book, elves, magic, murder, religion, massacre, adventurer, ...

Cast

Alan Cumming

Evan Rachel Wood

Sam Palladio

Elijah Kelley

Strange Magic (2015)

7.3 574 votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.

Plot: elves, fairy, musical, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, love potion, 3d animation

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Cast

Charlie Vickers

Morfydd Clark

Robert Aramayo

Charles Edwards

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) TV Show

7.2 3.8K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 17

Audience: TV-14

Story: Beginning in a time of relative peace, we follow an ensemble cast of characters as they confront the re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.

Plot: elves, dwarf, based on novel or book, prequel, troll, battle, fantasy world, mysterious stranger, ...

An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride (2024) TV Show

7.1 53 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Zagan might be the most feared evil sorcerer, but when it comes to social interactions, he's the most inept. All those days studying the dark arts won't help him when he falls in love at first sight with Nephelia, the beautiful elven slave, and spends his entire fortune to purchase her. With no clue how to talk to each other, the awkward arrangement for a bumbling sorcerer and timid elf begins.

Plot: elves, romance, demon, anime, fantasy, demon lord, based on light novel, magie, ...

Cast

Natsumi Fujiwara

Makoto Furukawa

The Beginning After the End (2025) TV Show

6.9 77 votes

Genre: Action, Animation

Country: Japan, China

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: After a mysterious death, King Grey is reborn as Arthur Leywin on the magical continent of Dicathen. Although he enters his second life as a baby, his previous wisdom remains. He begins to master magic and forge his own path as the years go by, seeking to correct the mistakes of his past life.

Plot: elves, magic, reincarnation, based on comic, anime, high fantasy, sword and sorcery, isekai, ...

Cast

Vivelill Su00f8gaard Holm

Ann Eleonora Ju00f8rgensen

Sonja Steen

Peder Thomas Pedersen

Elves (2021) TV Show

6.9 243 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Denmark

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-14

Story: A Christmas vacation turns into a nightmare for a teenager and her family when they discover an ancient menace that stalks their island getaway.

Plot: elves, island, miniseries, danish, christmas

Place: denmark, scandinavia

Cast

James McAvoy

Hugh Laurie

Bill Nighy

Jim Broadbent

Arthur Christmas (2011)

6.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

Plot: sleigh, elves, holiday, assistant, santa claus, wish, reindeer, family, ...

Cast

Freddie Highmore

Sarah Bolger

David Strathairn

Mary-Louise Parker

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

6.7 2.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

Plot: sibling relationship, parent child relationship, elves, fairy, twin brother, family relationships, single mother, twins, ...

Cast

Will Ferrell

James Caan

Bob Newhart

Ed Asner

Elf (2003)

6.7 4.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.

Style: whimsical

Plot: elves, dwarf, holiday, adoption, santa claus, sarcasm, looking for birth parents, romance, ...

Cast

Billy Bob Thornton

Tony Cox

Lauren Graham

Brett Kelly

Bad Santa (2003)

6.6 2.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: You'd better watch out - Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.

Plot: elves, holiday, department store, christmas party, safe, drink, little people, christmas, ...

Cast

Anne Hathaway

Hugh Dancy

Cary Elwes

Aidan McArdle

Ella Enchanted (2004)

6.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called gift, however, is obedience. This birthright proves itself to be quite the curse once Ella finds herself in the hands of several unscrupulous characters whom she quite literally cannot disobey. Determined to gain control of her life and decisions, Ella sets off on a journey to find her fairy godmother who she hopes will lift the curse. The path, however, isn't easy -- Ella must outwit a slew of unpleasant obstacles including ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, elves and Prince Charmont's evil uncle, who wants to take over the crown and rule the kingdom.

Plot: based on novel or book, elves, magic, fairy tale, fairy, prince, fantasy world, giant, ...

Cast

Travis Fimmel

Paula Patton

Ben Foster

Dominic Cooper

Warcraft (2016)

6.4 7.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.

Plot: elves, dwarf, magic, betrayal, king, guardian, based on video game, wizard, ...

Cast

Will Smith

Joel Edgerton

Lucy Fry

Noomi Rapace

Bright (2017)

6.2 6.0K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.

Plot: police, elves, magic, fairy, los angeles, california

Cast

Tim Allen

Judge Reinhold

Wendy Crewson

Elizabeth Mitchell

The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

6.0 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: G

Story: Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscure clause in his contract requiring him to take on a wife. He has to leave the North Pole to fulfill his obligations, or else he'll be forced to give up his Yuletide gig.

Plot: elves, magic, winter, holiday, home, christmas party, son, santa claus, ...

Cast

Billy Bob Thornton

Kathy Bates

Tony Cox

Christina Hendricks

Bad Santa 2 (2016)

5.4 877 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior.

Plot: elves, holiday, santa claus, villain, shopping mall, sequel, mad, masturbation, ...

Cast

Ed Speleers

Jeremy Irons

Sienna Guillory

Robert Carlyle

Eragon (2006)

5.1 3.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Family

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

Plot: princess, based on novel or book, elves, magic, kingdom, telepathy, bravery, mythology, ...

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