The 23 Best Epic Fantasy Movies on Hulu (July 2026)

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The Princess Bride (1987)

IMDb 8.0 🍅 96% 1h 39m

Directed by Rob Reiner

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-narrative framing elevates fairy-tale romance; the grandfather's storytelling transforms adventure into intimate mythmaking.

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.

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Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly (2019)

IMDb 8.0 Letterboxd 3.9 1h 57m

Directed by Tomonori Sudo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubverts the chosen-one archetype by having its protagonist voluntarily abandon power to protect others—the true measure of heroism.

Shirou has lost his Servant, Saber, and is no longer a Master in the Holy Grail War. Despite this, he refuses to leave the battle, determined to protect Sakura. Meanwhile, a mysterious shadow engulfs the city, killing Masters and Servants one by one. As Shirou faces new dangers, Sakura is drawn deeper into her own destiny as a mage.

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Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020)

IMDb 8.0 Letterboxd 4.0 2h 0m

Directed by Tomonori Sudo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEscalates emotional stakes beyond typical fantasy combat, making internal corruption as threatening as external warfare.

The battle rages on as Shirou continues to protect Sakura, now consumed by the darkness. He joins forces with Rin to end the Holy Grail War, while Illyasviel, who knows the truth behind it, confronts her fate. Amidst the chaos, Zouken plots to manipulate Sakura for his own desires. The final fight begins.

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Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower (2017)

IMDb 7.4 Letterboxd 3.6 2h 0m

Directed by Tomonori Sudo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEstablishes the Holy Grail War as a cyclical mythic structure that grounds supernatural conflict in philosophical consequence.

Ten years after the Fourth Holy Grail War, a devastating clash between Masters and Servants, another war erupts. Shirou Emiya, whose father fought in the first battle, was leading a peaceful life with the warmhearted Sakura Matou. But when hidden forces begin to stir, Shirou resolves to fulfill his father’s dying wish, protect Sakura, and fight for the Holy Grail.

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Labyrinth (1986)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 78% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 41m

Directed by Jim Henson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLabyrinthine castle demands protagonist navigate impossible odds against a goblin king—spatial complexity mirrors psychological triumph.

Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King. Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers.

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.3 2h 25m

Directed by Wes Ball

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; post-apocalyptic sci-fi examining power hierarchies.

Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

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Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 72% 2h 3m

Directed by Jake Kasdan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—modern adventure game adaptation lacks the mythological scope and world-building scale the genre demands.

As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.

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Mavka: The Forest Song (2023)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 77% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 39m

Directed by Oleg Malamuzh

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; indie forest-spirit romance lacks the scale, worldbuilding, or mythic resonance of the genre.

Mavka, a Soul of the Forest, faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as Guardian of the Heart of the Forest when she falls for a human, a talented young musician named Lukas.

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Out (2020)

0h 14m

Directed by Steven Clay Hunter

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; contemporary magical-realism dramedy about identity.

On an average day, Greg's life is filled with family, love and a rambunctious little dog - but despite all of this, Greg has a secret. Today is different, though. With some help from his precocious pup, and a little bit of magic, Greg might learn that he has nothing to hide.

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Descendants 3 (2019)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 78% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 46m

Directed by Kenny Ortega

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; contemporary teen musical with fantasy-lite world-building.

The teenagers of Disney's most infamous villains return to the Isle of the Lost to recruit a new batch of villainous offspring to join them at Auradon Prep.

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Descendants (2015)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 90% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 52m

Directed by Kenny Ortega

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; contemporary magical comedy about redemption.

A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos), Maleficent (Mal), the Evil Queen (Evie) and Jafar (Jay).

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Descendants 2 (2017)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 51m

Directed by Kenny Ortega

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; contemporary teen musical drama.

When the pressure to be royal becomes too much for Mal, she returns to the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, Ursula's daughter, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen.

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Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009)

IMDb 6.3 Letterboxd 3.2 1h 35m

Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-travel mythology blends Poké-universe stakes with actual Sinnoh creation legend—simultaneously goofy and genuinely consequential.

When the creator of the world, Arceus, comes to pass judgement on humanity for the theft of the legendary Jewel of Life, Ash and his friends are sent back in time to possibly reverse the events that led to Arceus' vendetta.

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Pil's Adventures (2021)

IMDb 6.2 Letterboxd 2.8 1h 25m

Directed by Julien Fournet

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMedieval steampunk whimsy with weasel companions trades mythic grandeur for charming character-driven adventure; peripheral to epic fantasy canon.

Pil, a little vagabond girl, lives on the streets of the medieval city of Roc-en-Brume, along with her three tame weasels. She survives of food stolen from the castle of the sinister Regent Tristain. One day, to escape his guards, Pil disguises herself as a princess. Thus she embarks upon a mad, delirious adventure, together with Crobar, a big clumsy guard who thinks she's a noble, and Rigolin, a young crackpot jester. Pil is going to have to save Roland, rightful heir to the throne under the curse of a spell. This adventure will turn the entire kingdom upside down, and teach Pil that nobility can be found in all of us.

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The Amazing Maurice (2022)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 73% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 33m

Directed by Toby Genkel

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—comedic caper anchored in earthbound con schemes, minimal magical stakes.

Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down the drain.

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Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia (2022)

IMDb 6.0 Letterboxd 2.8 1h 22m

Directed by Matthias Temmermans

✦ MovieMuse AI takeProphecy-driven narrative and magical realm-hopping invoke epic fantasy conventions, though juvenile presentation undermines genre gravitas.

Mia discovers her magic stone is part of an ancient prophecy and embarks on a thrilling journey to the farthest islands of Centopia to face a great evil, and shape her own destiny.

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Dragonkeeper (2024)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 60% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 39m

Directed by Jian-Ping Li

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHan Dynasty setting grounds dragon-fantasy in historical realism, making magical elements feel earned rather than ornamental.

Set in Han Imperial China, the plot follows the adventures of enslaved girl Ping with ancient dragon Long Danzi. Dragons had been banished from the kingdom. Ping, an orphan, finds one of the last remaining dragon eggs. Palace guards force Ping to run away in order to return the dragon egg to the ocean and save all dragons from extinction. Ping discovers that she is a true Dragonkeeper.

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Epic Tails (2023)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 43% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 35m

Directed by David Alaux

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; children's animated adventure with light mythological references.

An adventurous mouse sets off to battle dangerous creatures in Ancient Greece, including Poseidon.

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Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva (2022)

2h 48m

Directed by Ayan Mukerji

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFuses Hindi mythology with contemporary romance, creating genuinely fresh epic-fantasy language divorced from Western templates.

The story of Shiva – a young man on the brink of an epic love, with a girl named Isha. But their world is turned upside down when Shiva learns that he has a mysterious connection to the Brahmāstra... and a great power within him that he doesn’t understand just yet - the power of Fire.

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The Magic Flute (2022)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 52% Letterboxd 2.6 2h 5m

Directed by Florian Sigl

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; magical-discovery boarding-school narrative lacking world-scale stakes.

A seventeen year old travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart's "The Magic Flute".

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Season of the Witch (2011)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 11% Letterboxd 2.2 1h 35m

Directed by Dominic Sena

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMedieval plague backdrop transforms witch-hunt narrative into theological horror—fantasy as moral reckoning, not spectacle.

A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.

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Scarygirl (2023)

IMDb 5.3 Letterboxd 2.9 1h 30m

Directed by Ricard Cussó

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; YA dark-fantasy journey film with modest narrative ambition.

As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysterious city of light, save her father from a dangerous scientist and prevent the destruction of her planet.

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Mack & Rita (2022)

IMDb 4.8 🍅 24% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 35m

Directed by Katie Aselton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy; magical-transformation comedy exploring aging and identity.

A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.

Best Epic Fantasy Movies on Hulu

The Princess Bride (1987)

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly (2019)

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020)

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower (2017)

Labyrinth (1986)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

Mavka: The Forest Song (2023)

Out (2020)

Descendants 3 (2019)

Descendants (2015)

Descendants 2 (2017)

Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009)

Pil's Adventures (2021)

The Amazing Maurice (2022)

Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia (2022)

Dragonkeeper (2024)

Epic Tails (2023)

Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva (2022)

The Magic Flute (2022)

Season of the Witch (2011)

Scarygirl (2023)

Mack & Rita (2022)

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