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Best Fantasy Movies Alone On A Rainy Night With Incredible Cinematography

The best fantasy movies alone on a rainy night with incredible cinematography. Includes The Seventh Seal, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, My Hero Ac...

There's a particular kind of film for a rainy night alone - absorbing enough to pull you fully in, good enough that you don't check your phone once.

Great fantasy films don't ask you to suspend disbelief - they build worlds so vivid that disbelief simply evaporates.

The Seventh Seal movie poster
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1957 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms movie poster
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2018 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation... until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! His power is eerily familiar, and it looks like Shigaraki had a hand in the plan. But with All Might retired and citizens' lives on the line, there's no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they're the island's only hope.

Ne Zha 2 movie poster
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2025 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After a catastrophic event leaves their bodies destroyed, Ne Zha and Ao Bing are granted a fragile second chance at life. As tensions rise between the dragon clans and celestial forces, the two must undergo a series of perilous trials that will test their bond, challenge their identities, and decide the fate of both mortals and immortals.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie poster
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2021 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem-his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?

These films use impossible settings to tell completely real stories. The dragons and doorways are just the medium.

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.

Soul movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

Zack Snyder's Justice League movie poster
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2021 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

Flow movie poster
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2024 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.

Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After the vicious slaughter of his family by stone-cold mercenary Sub-Zero, Hanzo Hasashi is exiled to the torturous Netherrealm. There, in exchange for his servitude to the sinister Quan Chi, he's given a chance to avenge his family - and is resurrected as Scorpion, a lost soul bent on revenge. Back on Earthrealm, Lord Raiden gathers a team of elite warriors - Shaolin monk Liu Kang, Special Forces officer Sonya Blade and action star Johnny Cage - an unlikely band of heroes with one chance to save humanity. To do this, they must defeat Shang Tsung's horde of Outworld gladiators and reign over the Mortal Kombat tournament.

Cinematography is the argument the film is making before anyone speaks. These films make their argument beautifully.

A great fantasy film leaves you with that rare ache - a longing to return to a world that never existed.

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