Best Fantasy movies of 1970s

Actors : Kaoru Yachigusa, Masumi Harukawa, Keiko Niitaka, Kan Mikami,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

Actors : Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Popov, Saveliy Kramarov, Mikhail Boyarskiy,
Directors : Elisabeta Bostan,

The Big Bad Wolf and his friends are plotting to kidnap and ransom Mrs. Rada the Goat's children for a bag full of gold.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Kirk Douglas, Jean-Claude Drouot,
Directors : Kevin Billington,

A ruthless pirate captures the keeper of a lighthouse, somewhere in north Argentina. His goal is obvious and horrific. He plans to control the lighthouses signals in a way that the passing ships will be crushed on the rocks.

Actors : Hale Soygazi, Cüneyt Arkin, Meral Orhonsay, Melda Sözen,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

Sultan Khan of Ottoman Empire has fallen in love with Princess Iren of Byzantium. When he asks her father Niktol for her hand he refuses and tries to kill Khan. The Sultan's armies then ...

Actors : Benjamin Smith, Graham Crowden, Laurence Naismith, Dorothy Alison,
Directors : Lionel Jeffries,

A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the ...

Actors : Don Brooks, Bobby Kendall, Charles Ludlam,
Directors : James Bidgood,

An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Hermine Karagheuz, Jean Babilée, Juliet Berto,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

The Queen of the Night battles the Queen of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern day Paris.

Actors : Spike Milligan, Joan Bruce, June Salter, Barbara Frawley,
Directors : Yoram Gross,

A young girl gets lost in the Australian outback and befriends a kangaroo

Actors : Diana Polakov, Cameron Mitchell, José Luis Ayestarán, Antonio Cantafora,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

The superhero Kronos, from a distant galaxy, tangles with the mad scientist Dr. Gulik over the fate of mankind.

Actors : Spike Milligan, Jim Dale, John Bluthal, Angela Douglas,
Directors : Joseph McGrath,

Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Milo O'Shea, Christopher Lee, Emma Samms,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

An evil magician seeks to gain power by obtaining a magic rose. A peasant boy and a prince join forces to stop him.

Actors : Christian Brückner, Jaroslav Moucka, Friedrich Schütter, Ludek Munzar,
Directors : Karel Zeman,

Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every ...

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Corinne Cléry, Leonard Mann, Richard Kiel,

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary ...

Actors : Jean Martin, Michael Lonsdale, Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux, François Perrot,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek ...

Actors : Jana Brejchová, Zdena Studenková, Václav Voska, Vlastimil Harapes,
Directors : Juraj Herz,

In this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.

Actors : Fumie Kashiyama, Hideki Shibata, Tarô Shigaki, Mariko Miyagi,

A mermaid falls in love with a human prince, which leads to tragedy.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Joe Silver, Gene Wilder, Karen Black,
Directors : Tom O'Horgan,

A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kazuo Kitamura, Jun'ya Katô, Kirin Kiki,

A young boy has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Actors : Helga Liné, Josefina Jartin, Silvia Tortosa, Tony Kendall,
Directors : Amando de Ossorio,

The legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for ...