A list of fantasy films released in the 1990s.
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1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
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| 1990 | ||||||
| Les 1001 Nuits | Philippe de Broca | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot | Fantasy comedy | |||
| The Silver Chair | Alex Kirby | David Thwaites, Camilla Power, Tat Whalley, Ailsa Berk | ||||
| A Chinese Ghost Story Part II | Ching Siu Tung | Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Michelle Reis | ||||
| Don Juan, Mi Querido Fantasma | Antonio Mercero | Juan Luis Galiardo, Maria Barranco, Verónica Forqué | ||||
| Dreams | Akira Kurosawa | Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Mitsunori Isaki, Chishu Ryu | ||||
| Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest | ||||
| Erotic Ghost Story | Ngai Kai-Lam | Leslie Cheung | ||||
| Ghost | Jerry Zucker | Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn | ||||
| Ghost Dad | Sidney Poitier | Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas | ||||
| Heart Condition | James D. Parriott | Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb | ||||
| Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Masami Hata and William T. Hurtz | Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney, Bernard Erhard, Laura Mooney | ||||
| Mr. Destiny | James Orr | James Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton | ||||
| Nouvelle Vague | Jean-Luc Godard | Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Roland Amstutz | ||||
| The Nutcracker Prince | Paul Schibli | |||||
| Quest for the Mighty Sword | Joe D'Amato | Eric Allan Kramer, Margaret Lenzey, Donald O'Brien | ||||
| The Rescuers Down Under | Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel | Animated film | ||||
| Saga of the Phoenix | Ngai Kai Lam, Sze Yu Lau | Gloria Yip, Yuen Biao, Hiroshi Abe | ||||
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Steven Barron | Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Ray Serra | ||||
| Wings of Fame | Otakar Votocek | Peter O'Toole, Colin Firth | ||||
| The Witches | Nicolas Roeg | Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher | ||||
| 1991 | ||||||
| Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time | Sylvio Tabet | Marc Singer, Kari Wührer, Wings Hauser | ||||
| Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Animated film | ||||
| Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Peter Hewitt | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Bill Sadler | ||||
| Defending Your Life | Albert Brooks | Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn | ||||
| Delicatessen | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus | ||||
| Delirious | Tom Mankiewicz | John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms | ||||
| The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieslowski | Irène Jacob | ||||
| The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl | ||||
| Highlander II: The Quickening | Russell Mulcahy | Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen | ||||
| Hook | Steven Spielberg | Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts | ||||
| The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter | George T. Miller | Jonathan Brandis, Clarissa Burt | ||||
| The Polar Bear King | Ola Solum | Jack Fjeldstad, Maria Bonnevie, Tobias Hoesl, | also called Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon | |||
| Prospero's Books | Peter Greenaway | John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc | ||||
| Truly, Madly, Deeply | Anthony Minghella | Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Bill Paterson | ||||
| 1992 | ||||||
| Aladdin | Ron Clements, John Musker | Animated film | ||||
| Army of Darkness | Sam Raimi | Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert | ||||
| Batman Returns | Tim Burton | Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer | ||||
| Death Becomes Her | Robert Zemeckis | Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis | ||||
| Freddie as F.R.O.7 | Jon Acevski | Animated film | ||||
| Into the West | Mike Newell | Gabriel Byrne, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Ruaidhri Conroy | ||||
| Orlando | Sally Potter | Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau | ||||
| Porco Rosso | Hayao Miyazaki | Anime film | ||||
| A Prelude to a Kiss | Norman Rene | Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates | ||||
| 1993 | ||||||
| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm | Animated film | ||||
| The Bride With White Hair | Philip Kwok, Ronny Yu | Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Nam Kit-Ying | ||||
| The Bride with White Hair 2 | Ronny Yu, David Wu | Sunny Chan, Christy Chung, Joey Maan Yee-man | ||||
| Double, Double, Toil and Trouble | Stuart Margolin | Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen | ||||
| Green Snake | Tsui Hark | Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong, Zhao Wenzhuo | ||||
| Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott | ||||
| Heart and Souls | Ron Underwood | Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard | ||||
| Hocus Pocus | Kenny Ortega | Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy | ||||
| Last Action Hero | John McTiernan | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, F. Murray Abraham | ||||
| Legend of the Liquid Sword | ||||||
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | Henry Selick | Stop-Motion film | ||||
| Ninja Scroll | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Anime film | ||||
| Super Mario Bros. | Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper | ||||
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | Stuart Gillard | Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson | ||||
| Les Visiteurs | Jean-Marie Poire | Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Valérie Lemercier | ||||
| Wishman | Mike Marvin | Paul Le Mat, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul Gleason, Quin Kessler | ||||
| Zero Patience | John Greyson | John Robinson, Dianne Heatherington, Bernard Behrens | ||||
| 1994 | ||||||
| Thumbelina | Don Bluth, Gary Goldma | Jodi Benson, Gino Conforti, Barbara Cook | Animated Film | |||
| The Crow | Alex Proyas | Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott | ||||
| Faust | Jan Švankmajer | Stop-Motion film | ||||
| Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet | ||||
| North | Rob Reiner | Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz | ||||
| Pom Poko | Isao Takahata | Anime film | ||||
| The Lion King | Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff | Animated film | ||||
| The Mask | Chuck Russell | Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert | ||||
| The Neverending Story 3 | Peter MacDonald | Jason James Richter, Melody Kay, Freddie Jones | ||||
| The Pagemaster | Joe Johnston | Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Begley, Jr. | Animated film | |||
| The Santa Clause | John Pasquin, Bill Elvin | Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson | ||||
| The Swan Princess | Richard Rich | Animated film | ||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| Babe | Chris Noonan | James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski | ||||
| Batman Forever | Joel Schumacher | Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Chris O'Donnell | ||||
| The City of Lost Children | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet | ||||
| Casper | Brad Silberling | Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty | ||||
| Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going | Eliseo Subiela | Darío Grandinetti, Mariana Arias | ||||
| The Indian in the Cupboard | Frank Oz | Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Lindsay Crouse | ||||
| Jumanji | Joe Johnston | Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst | ||||
| A Kid in King Arthur's Court | Michael Gottlieb | Debora Weston, Barry Stanton, Shane Rimmer | ||||
| Memories | Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura | Anime film | ||||
| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie | Bryan Spicer | Karen Ashley, Johnny Yong Bosch, Steve Cardenas | ||||
| Mortal Kombat | Paul W.S. Anderson | Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson | ||||
| Rough Magic | Clare Peploe | Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent | ||||
| Slayers The Motion Picture | Kazuo Yamazaki | Anime film | ||||
| Toy Story | John Lasseter | Animated film | ||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Steven Barron | Martin Landau | ||||
| The Crow: City of Angels | Tim Pope | Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Richard Brooks | ||||
| Dragonheart | Rob Cohen | Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite | ||||
| James and the Giant Peach | Henry Selick | Paul Terry, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss | Stop-Motion film | |||
| Kazaam | Paul Michael Glaser | Shaquille O'Neal, Francis Capra, Ally Walker | ||||
| Matilda | Danny DeVito | Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman | ||||
| Phenomenon | Jon Turteltaub | John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker | ||||
| The Preacher's Wife | Penny Marshall | Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney Vance | ||||
| Slayers Return | Kunihiko Yuyama | Anime film | ||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| Batman & Robin | Joel Schumacher | Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman | ||||
| The Borrowers | Peter Hewitt | John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams | Film remake | |||
| Flubber | Les Mayfield | Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald | ||||
| Hercules | Ron Clements, John Musker | Animated film | ||||
| A Life Less Ordinary | Danny Boyle | Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter | ||||
| Princess Mononoke | Hayao Miyazaki | Anime film | ||||
| Kull the Conqueror | John Nicolella | Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere, Thomas Ian Griffith | ||||
| Mortal Kombat: Annihilation | John R. Leonetti | Robin Shou, Talisa Soto, James Remar | ||||
| Photographing Fairies | Nick Willing | Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley | ||||
| A Simple Wish | Michael Ritchie | Martin Short, Mara Wilson, Francis Capra, Kathleen Turner | ||||
| Slayers Great | Kunihiko Yuyama | Anime film | ||||
| Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Michael Cohn | Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neil, Monica Keena | ||||
| Spawn | Mark A.Z. Dippé | John Leguizamo, Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen | ||||
| Twilight of the Ice Nymphs | Guy Maddin | Pascale Bussières, Nigel Whitmey, Shelley Duvall | ||||
| Warriors of Virtue | Ronny Yu | Angus MacFadyen, Mario Yedidia, Marley Shelton | ||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| A Bug's Life | John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton | Animated film | ||||
| A Very Unlucky Leprechaun | Brian Kelly | Warwick Davis, Danielle Lombardi, Stephanie Lombardi | ||||
| After Life | Hirokazu Koreeda | Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima | ||||
| Antz | Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson | Animated film | ||||
| Babe: Pig in the City | George Miller | Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell, Mary Stein | ||||
| Blade | Stephen Norrington | Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson | ||||
| City of Angels | Brad Silberling | Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher | ||||
| Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | George Bloomfield | Gary Busey, Miranda Richardson, Ice-T | ||||
| Kirikou and the Sorceress | Michel Ocelot | Doudou Gueye Thiaw, Maimouna N'Diaye, Awa Sene Sarr | Animated film | |||
| Meet Joe Black | Martin Brest | Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani | ||||
| Practical Magic | Griffin Dunne | Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman | ||||
| Quest for Camelot | Frederik Du Chau | Animated film | ||||
| Sliding Doors | Peter Howitt | Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch | ||||
| Slayers Gorgeous | Hiroshi Watanabe | Anime film | ||||
| Small Soldiers | Joe Dante | Frank Langella, Tommy Lee Jones, Ernest Borgnine | ||||
| The Storm Riders | Andrew Lau | Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Sonny Chiba | ||||
| What Dreams May Come | Vincent Ward | Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Annabella Sciorra | ||||
| The Wolves of Kromer | Will Gould | Lee Williams, James Layton, Rita Davies | ||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| The 13th Warrior | John McTiernan | Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhoi | ||||
| Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener | ||||
| Dogma | Kevin Smith | Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino | ||||
| Fantasia 2000 | Various directors | Animated film | ||||
| The Green Mile | Frank Darabont | Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt | ||||
| Pokémon: The First Movie | Kunihiko Yuyama | Anime film | ||||
| Mystery Men | Kinka Usher | Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy | ||||
| Tarzan | Chris Buck, Kevin Lima | Animated film | ||||
| Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon | Animated film | ||||
| Tuvalu | Veit Helmer | Denis Lavant, Chulpan Khamatova, Philippe Clay | ||||
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