Drama × Fantasy Genre

  • Drama — endurance, and the weight of an ordinary life
  • Fantasy — potential, and the journey to become it

Magic as a way into real life. The fantasy element is small or strange, and it is there to show the characters what they could become.

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Drama × Fantasy films

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  • The Green Mile

    1999

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    1946

  • Soul

    2020

  • The Seventh Seal

    1957

  • About Time

    2013

  • Wolf Children

    2012

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

    1997

  • Donnie Darko

    2001

  • Luca

    2021

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    2006

  • Edward Scissorhands

    1990

  • Big Fish

    2003

  • Weathering with You

    2019

  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

    2013

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    2008

  • Suzume

    2022

  • A Dog's Purpose

    2017

  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

    2006

  • Frankenstein

    2025

  • The Boy and the Beast

    2015

  • The Lighthouse

    2019

  • The Age of Adaline

    2015

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