Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also fairytale-like
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and fairytale-like movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and fairytale-like, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Weathering with You (2019)
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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- 2019-06-19 | Animation / Drama
Cast
- Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori
Rating
8.02
2 Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
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- 2022-08-24 | Fantasy
Cast
- Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba
Rating
7.0
3 Pinocchio (2019)
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.
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- 2019-12-19 | Drama / Family
Cast
- Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni
Rating
6.6
4 Lamb (2021)
An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
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- 2021-08-12 | Drama / Fantasy
Cast
- Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Rating
6.474

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5 Strawberry Mansion (2021)
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of Arabella “Bella” Isadora, an eccentric, aging artist. Entering Bella’s vast VHS archive, which contains a lifetime of dreams, Preble stumbles upon a secret that offers him a chance at love—and hope for escape.
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- 2021-07-22 | Fantasy / Romance
Cast
- Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley
Rating
6.393
6 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
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- 2019-10-16 | Family / Fantasy
Cast
- Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning
Rating
7.344
7 Above the Shadows (2019)
A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.
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- 2019-05-31 | Fantasy / Romance
Cast
- Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson
Rating
6.9
8 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
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- 2022-11-09 | Animation / Fantasy
Cast
- Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor
Rating
8.265
9 The School for Good and Evil (2022)
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
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- 2022-10-19 | Fantasy
Cast
- Sofia Wylie, Sophia Anne Caruso
Rating
7.17
10 Gretel & Hansel (2020)
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
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- 2020-01-30 | Fantasy / Horror
Cast
- Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey
Rating
6.0