They are the films that make you believe in true love and happily ever afters. Take a look our top 10 original fairytale movies!

THE DARK CRYSTAL
“Another World, Another Time… In the Age of Wonder.”

Released: December 17th, 1982

Cast:
Jim Henson … Jen, A Gelfling (performer) / High Priest (Ritual Master) (performer) / Podling (performer)
Kathryn Mullen … Kira, A Gelfling (performer) / Jen, A Gelfling (assistant)
Frank Oz … Aughra, A Keeper Of Secrets (performer) / Chamberlain (performer) / Podling (performer)

Synopsis: Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began. Now the time of the great conjunction of the three suns is near. If the crystal is not healed now the control of the evil Skekses will last forever. Jen the last of the Gelflings nearly exterminated by monsters controlled by the Skekses starts his dangerous journey to find the missing shard of the crystal. Will he be able to heal the crystal and restore order on the planet?

Movie Goofs:
* When the evil Ritual Master calls for the crystal bats to fly away to watch Jen and Kira you can see thin white strings as the bats fly from the castle ceiling.
* The Gelfling puppets have three fingers and one thumb on each hand. When Kira and Jen make their way into the castle via a mouth-like entrance, Kira’s right hand has five fingers in the long shot (actors, not puppets, were used for long shots of the Gelflings).
* When Jen and Kira are climbing into the Castle via the water duct, Kira bumps her head on the tooth of the water-spouting gargoyle.

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EVER AFTER
“Desire. Defy. Escape.”

Released: Jul 31st, 1998

Cast:
Drew Barrymore … Danielle De Barbarac
Anjelica Huston … Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent
Dougray Scott … Prince Henry

Synopsis: If Cinderella was a true story, it would be very much like Ever After. Danielle D’Barbarac, is the strong, fiery daughter of a dead nobleman. She works as a servant to her step mother, the Baroness D Gent. One day Danielle pretends to be a courtier to help a servant escape from being taken to the Americas. She captures the eye of the most unlikely person, the crowned prince of France! The two fall in love, but they are up against the ruthless Baroness D Gent, and her spoiled daughter, Marguerite who are determined to see that Margurite becomes Henry’s bride. However with the servants, Danielle’s kind step sister, Jacqueline, and Leonardo Da Vinci on Danielle’s side, Danielle and Prince Henry’s love can survive even though he is a prince and she is a servant girl.

Movie Goofs:
* When Danielle is returning Maurice to his wife, you can see a watch tan line on the arm of a female peasant.
* At the end the Grand Dame refers to her “great-great-grandmother’s portrait”. Given the approximately 250-year gap between Danielle and the Grande Dame, that comes out to about 62 years between generations. It’s barely possible, and highly unlikely, that there would be that few generations between them.
* During the tennis match, Prince Henry’s hair is inches shorter than it was previously, but in the next scene and subsequently the rest of the movie, it’s back to its original length.

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LEGEND
“This is such stuff as dreams are made of. This is Legend. ”

Released: April 18th, 1986

Cast:
Tom Cruise … Jack
Mia Sara … Princess Lily
Tim Curry … The Lord of Darkness

Synopsis: A magical adventure which features elves, demons and other mythical creatures. Darkness, the personification of evil, plans to disperse eternal night in the land where this story takes place, by killing every unicorn in the world. Although he looks unbeatable, Jack and his friends are disposed to do everything to save the world and princess Lili (who Darkness intends to make his wife) from the hands of this evil monster.

Movie Goofs:
* When Princess Lily releases her bird at the beginning of the movie, it just falls over on the grass.
* When Oona flies away from Gump towards the end, a black rod (part of the fx equipment) swishes above Gump’s head briefly in the top right hand side of the frame.
* When Jack is wearing a cloak you can see a safety pin several times when the wind blows it.

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MOULIN ROUGE
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”

Released: June 1st, 2001

Cast:
Nicole Kidman … Satine
Ewan McGregor … Christian
John Leguizamo … Toulouse-Lautrec

Synopsis: Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris’ now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club’s highest paid star and the city’s most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.

Movie Goofs:
* During “Roxanne”, a camera, and a crew member wearing modern shorts, are clearly in shot on the right-hand side of the screen.
* When one of the Bohos is swinging on the chandelier during “the pitch” in the elephant, he is being pushed by a crewmember wearing a wristwatch and a baseball cap.
* During the performance of Spectacular Spectacular! when the Argentinian enters he can be seen walking down the stairs and joining the rest of the dancers. A moment later when the shot cuts to a different angle, he can be seen walking down the stairs again.

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PENELOPE
” It’s not the curse, it’s the power you give the curse”

Released: February 29th, 2006

Cast:
Christina Ricci … Penelope
James McAvoy … Max
Catherine O’Hara … Jessica Wilhern

Synopsis: In this modern day romantic tale, Penelope is about a young girl’s inspiring journey, a mysterious family secret and the power of love. With all odds against her, in order for Penelope to break the family curse, she must find true love with “one of her own kind” and realize the most important life lesson, “I like myself the way I am.” Penelope Wilhern, born to wealthy socialites, is afflicted by the Wilhern spell that can only be broken when she finds love. Hidden away in her family’s estate, the lonely girl meets a string of suitors in her parent’s futile attempt to break the curse. Each eligible bachelor is enamored with Penelope and her sizable dowry; until her curse is revealed. Lemon, a mischievous and eager tabloid reporter wants a photograph of the mysterious Penelope and hires Max to pose as a prospective suitor to get the shot. The handsome down-on-his luck gambler finds himself falling for Penelope, but not wanting to disappoint her or to expose his surreptitious ways, he decides to disappear. Fed up by his latest betrayal and determined to live life on her own terms, Penelope breaks free from her family and ventures into the world alone. She finds adventure and Annie, her first friend and becomes the person she was meant to be.

Movie Goofs:
* When Max/John first plays the piano, his fingernails are chewed to the quick. The hands later playing the piano expertly have well-manicured nails.
* When they are playing chess, Max is supposed to move his black queen into a vunerable position. The footage shows him moving her white queen and knocking his over into check mate
* Penelope’s lipstick changes in between where she walks into Max/John’s apartment and when she comes out of his bathroom.

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ENCHANTED
“And they all lived … happily ever after”

Released: November 21st, 2007

Cast:
Amy Adams … Giselle
Patrick Dempsey … Robert Philip
James Marsden … Prince Edward

Synopsis: Once upon a time in the kingdom of Andalasia, a beautiful young maiden named Giselle lives in a cottage in the forest. But before she can marry the dashing Prince Edward, Giselle is sent tumbling down a magical well - and finds herself in the non-animated, extremely disenchanted world of modern-day New York City. There, she befriends a cynical divorce lawyer, Robert, who isn’t so sure that her prince is coming to rescue her. Giselle’s spontaneous singing and fairy-tale demeanor enchant everyone around her as she waits for Prince Edward. But she’s about to discover that love in the real world isn’t always as easy as sharing a single True Love’s Kiss - and that she’ll need courage, spunk and maybe just a little enchantment if she’s ever going to find her own happily-ever-after.

Movie Goofs:
* When Nancy arrives at Robert’s apartment to find Giselle there, Robert is in need of a shave. When he chases after Nancy as she leaves the building and gets into a taxi, he is clean-shaven. When he returns to the apartment, he has considerable beard growth again.
* In the scene where Edward comes to Robert and Morgan’s apartment to get Giselle, as Giselle is explaining what a date is to Edward, if you look to the bottom left where Giselle was just standing next to Robert, you can see the pink tape on the floor that marks where she was supposed to stand.
* When Prince Edward is on top of the bus, he stabs the bus through the roof, and hits the old lady’s bag, tearing it open. There’s no way his sword was long enough to go through the roof of the bus and reach all the way to the woman sitting down. He’d have to be hanging upside down inside.

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STARDUST

“Always follow a shooting star“

Released: August 10th, 2007

Cast:
Michelle Pfeiffer … Lamia
Claire Danes … Yvaine
Charlie Cox … Tristan

Synopsis: The passage from this world to the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold is through a breech in a wall beside an English village. In the 1800s, a boy becomes a man when he ventures through the breech in pursuit of a fallen star, to prove his love for the village beauty. The star is no lump of rock, it’s a maiden, Yvaine. Tristan, the youth, is not the only one looking for her: three witches, led by Lamia, want her heart to make them young; and, the sons of the dead king of Stormhold want her because she holds a ruby that will give one of them title to the throne. Assisting Tristan are his mother, the victim of a spell, and a transvestite pirate of the skies. Will Tristan win his true love?

Movie Goofs:
* When Tristan and Yvaine are taken captive by the pirates, the Snowbud Tristan was wearing is missing. A few scenes later, we see Tristan’s clothes being thrown out of the flying boat. However, somehow this flower shows back up on Tristan’s new clothing later in the film.
* When Lamia was laughing and there was a close up shot of her mouth. All her teeth were dirty but the back few teeth on each side were stark white
* Near the beginning of the movie, there is a wide, rotating shot from above of Tristan and Yvaine walking on a road. Near the end of the shot, you can clearly see grass being blown by the wind from the helicopter that shot this shot.

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LABYRINTH
“Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems.”

Released: June 27th, 1986

Cast:
David Bowie … Jareth the Goblin King
Jennifer Connelly … Sarah
Brian Henson … Hoggle / Goblin (voice)

Synopsis: Young Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is left home alone by her parents and she has to babysit her little brother Toby. But the baby keeps crying and Sarah, while telling him a story to make him sleep, inadvertently conjures from a fantasy world the Goblin King (David Bowie) who steals the child and brings him to his castle in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah has to rescue him before midnight, or the baby will became a goblin…

Movie Goofs:
* When Jareth throws Toby in the air and the goblin catches Toby during the song “Magic Dance”, it is clearly obvious that Toby is replaced with a baby doll.
* At the gates of the goblin city, Didymus falls off his dog and as the dog runs away it brushes up against the spikes which wiggle back and forth.
* The end of a boom microphone is clearly visible when they almost fall into the bog of stench.

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THE PRINCESS BRIDE
“It’s as real as the feelings you feel”

Released: September 27th, 1987

Cast:
Cary Elwes … Westley
Fred Savage … The Grandson
Robin Wright Penn … Buttercup

Synopsis: Return to a time when men and swamps were swamps. Fire Swamps, that is. Full of quicksand and Rodents of Unusual Size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels. And the most beautiful woman in the world was named . . . Buttercup? Well, it’s a bent fairy tale. Complete with all the fencing, chasing, escapes, and silly accents you’d expect. Including such unique folk as Inigo Montoya, who has dreamed his whole life of finding the six-fingered man who killed his father. Fezzik is his enormous sidekick. And Max is the kvetching miracle man. Blonde Buttercup loves Westley, a poor stable boy. But when he’s captured by pirates, she’s chosen by evil Prince Humperdinck to be his princess bride. Along the way, she gets kidnapped, he gets killed. But it all ends up okay

Movie Goofs:
* When Fezzik is being suited up for the Cliffs of Insanity, a crewmember can be seen briefly standing behind the ship at the bow.
* When duelling, Inigo and the Man In Black sometimes have two shadows.
* When Fezzik leans Westley on the castle wall, the wall moves.

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Well, now we come to the #1 Fairytale movie of all time. This movie is full of action, adventure, love and betrayal. There are battles and heart wrenching decisions to make. There is good and evil, right and wrong and always a little bit of mystery. Regardless of the journey - as with all fairytales - there is sure to be a “Happy Ever After”.

Our #1 is YOUR story!

It is up to each one of us to take the lessons that are present in every fairytale and apply them to our own stories. Fight the monsters that plague us. Defeat our own insecurities. Find our one true love.

Life’s like a movie; write your own ending. I will let you borrow my pen …..

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