Best Fantasy movies of 1980s

Actors : Noriko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuki Kazamatsuri, Jun Miho,
Directors : Kôsei Saitô,

A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the ...

Actors : Margaret Lenzey, Dina Morrone, Donald O'Brien, Eric Allan Kramer,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Once upon a time a god gave a mighty sword to the king of Aquiles to bring justice to his people. Now he wants it back - but the king rather gives his life than the sword. Goddess Dehamira,...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Oliveira Lopes,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jane Birkin, Isabelle Linnartz,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house, an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blur.

Actors : Enrico Papa, Renato Pozzetto, Lia Tanzi, Eleonora Giorgi,

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times...

Actors : Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, Timothy Kauffman, Michelle Bauer,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

Melody, Marci, and Mickey are three geeky college girls who can't get a date. One night, they invite some geeky college guys over and have a seance that results in the girls becoming ...

Actors : Michael Shaner, Peter Nelson, David Carradine, Sherilyn Fenn,
Directors : Luis Llosa,

Helen and Bone live in a repressive futuristic dystopian society they badly want to escape from. Mysterious Jason hires them to steal a disc for him. It's practically a suicide mission, but he claims he can smuggle them out, in return.

Actors : Fumi Hirano, Akira Kamiya, Saeko Shimazu, Toshio Furukawa,
Directors : Mamoru Oshii,

When everyone in town receives invitations to Ataru's wedding, they are shocked to see that his sweetheart Lum is not the bride. Eventually they learn that when Ataru was playing games as a...

Actors : Viktor Avilov, Anna Demyanenko, Mikhail Kozakov, Ivan Krasko,
Directors : Oleg Teptsov,

A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.

Actors : Chia Ling Ha, So Man, Amy Yip, Hitomi Kudô,
Directors : Ngai Choi Lam,

Three vixens have meditated for 1,000 years to able to shed their animal natures and become human. For the final month of their rigors, they have moved near a village where women pray to a ...

Actors : Melanie Kilgour, James Stevens, Thom Schioler, Frank Wilson,

In post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan.

Actors : Suzan Crowley, Stefan Kalipha, O.T., Peter Firth,
Directors : Jamil Dehlavi,

A musician searches for the Master Flautist, a supernatural creature who is planning to blow up the world.

Actors : Wu Ma, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Cherie Chung, Ching-Ying Lam,
Directors : Wu Ma,

Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together with his oddball friends Lai Li and Momo, Wah Li helps Uncle to run the local funeral ...

Actors : Oleg Borisov, Sergey Nikonenko, Sergey Shakurov, Aleksandr Pashutin,
Directors : Vadim Abdrashitov,

In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. A rare ...

Actors : Diana Musca, Ernest Maftei, Elena Dragoi, Florina Cercel,
Directors : Gheorghe Naghi,

Adapted from Mihail Sadoveanu's 1926 novel. Lizuca is a 6 year old girl whose mother died and whose father is married to a nasty woman. She has to leave her grandparents, who she lived with...

Actors : Armand Babel, Raymond Jourdan, Lorella Di Cicco, Michel Robin,
Directors : Jean-François Laguionie,

Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.

Actors : George Estregan, Ramon Revilla, Paquito Diaz, Elizabeth Oropesa,
Directors : Efren C. Piñon,

To fullfil his dead uncle's task and to save his kidnapped daughter, an ex-convict must go and fight a powerful but villainous magician. This fight would lead him eventually to a battle against Satan himself.

Actors : Beatriz Escudero, Shigeru Amachi, Junko Asahina, Paul Naschy,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

n the 16th Century, the lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky goes from his native Europe to Japan, seeking a way to cure himself of being a werewolf. Only a Japanese sorcerer named Kian and a magic silver sword can save him.

Actors : Kate Mulgrew, Richard Burton, Nicholas Clay, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Tom Donovan,

The classic Arthurian tale of tragic love. In medieval times, Lord of Cornwall decides to marry an Irish princess Isolde. However, his most loyal knight Tristan becomes bewitched by her beauty and they fall hopelessly in love.