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Movies that feel likeThe Brothers Grimm (2005)

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

If you loved The Brothers Grimm, the closest films we have are Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) and Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days (2018). All three share The Brothers Grimm's epic and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Big Trouble in Little China (1986).

🍅 38% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Terry Gilliamepicdreamlikekineticwittyplayfultense
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Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons poster
🍅 94%★ 6.7action · fantasy · adventurePrime Video

Epic and dreamlike in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Tang Sanzang must fight against monstrous demons, as well as contend with a beautiful demon hunting woman on his path to enlightenment.

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 63%★ 6.7adventure · fantasy · mystery

Both are Terry Gilliam's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Easier on the momentum than The Brothers Grimm

After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.

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Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
2018 · dir. Kim Yong-hwa
🍅 44%★ 7.1action · adventure · fantasyPrime Video

Both land momentum and tension at once

The difference: Trades the wit of The Brothers Grimm for an angle of its own

As the deceased soul Ja-hong and his three afterlife guardians prepare for their remaining trials for reincarnation, the guardians soon come face to face with the truth of their tragic time on Earth 1,000 years earlier.

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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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Big Trouble in Little China
1986 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 65%★ 7.2action · adventure · comedy

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 50%★ 7.4adventure · drama · comedy

The same hand behind both of them: Terry Gilliam

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Brothers Grimm does

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

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The Myth
2005 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 20%★ 6.1action · adventure · comedy

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

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Red One
2024 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 29%★ 6.2action · adventure · comedyPrime Video

Kinetic action in both cases

After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security must team up with the world's most infamous tracker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

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Reign of Fire
2002 · dir. Rob Bowman
🍅 42%★ 6.2adventure · action · fantasyPrime Video

Comedy built on scale, twice over

In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit—leading a clan of survivors to hunt down the King of the Dragons—has much at stake: his mother was killed by a dragon, but his love is still alive.

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Night Watch
2004 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 59%★ 6.4fantasy · action · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage

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Elektra
2005 · dir. Rob Bowman
🍅 11%★ 4.7action · fantasy · adventureDisney+

Dreamlike adventure in both cases

Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.

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The Scorpion King
2002 · dir. Chuck Russell
🍅 40%★ 5.5action · adventure · fantasyPeacockStarz

Kinetic fantasy, and it commits to that

In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.

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