The 30 Best Epic Fantasy Movies on Now TV (July 2026)

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

IMDb 9.0 🍅 94% 3h 21m

Directed by Peter Jackson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTolkien's trilogy culminates with siege warfare that redefines how fantasy cinema orchestrates massive battles across multiple narrative threads.

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

IMDb 8.9 🍅 91% Letterboxd 4.4 2h 59m

Directed by Peter Jackson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackson transforms Tolkien's world-building into immersive geography, making Middle-earth's landscapes as essential to the quest as the Ring itself.

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

IMDb 8.8 🍅 95% 2h 59m

Directed by Peter Jackson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe film's parallel narrative structure mirrors epic poetry, interweaving two storylines that build toward apocalyptic convergence.

Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.

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The Wizard of Oz (1939)

IMDb 8.1 🍅 98% 1h 42m

Directed by Victor Fleming

✦ MovieMuse AI takePioneering Technicolor fantasy that uses visual spectacle—Emerald City, winged creatures, surreal landscapes—as character itself.

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

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The Lego Movie (2014)

IMDb 7.7 🍅 96% 1h 40m

Directed by Phil Lord

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLego's meta-constructed world allows fantasy worldbuilding to become visibly material, embracing brick-by-brick mythology.

An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.

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How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

IMDb 7.7 🍅 77% Letterboxd 3.8 2h 5m

Directed by Dean DeBlois

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDragon-rider alliance subverts generational warfare, replacing swords with understanding—modern epic fantasy redefining victory through peace, not conquest.

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.

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The Illusionist (2006)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 74% 1h 50m

Directed by Neil Burger

✦ MovieMuse AI takePeriod fantasy grounded in genuine historical Prague, merging stage illusion with narrative impossibility for intimate supernatural romance.

With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

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The NeverEnding Story (1984)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 84% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 37m

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-fantasy where reading itself becomes adventure; the Neverending Story's recursive structure embeds protagonist within narrative layers.

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

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A Dog's Purpose (2017)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 35% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 40m

Directed by Lasse Hallström

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—a sentimental dog drama recycling sentiment across reincarnations without mythic scope.

A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.

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Wicked (2024)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.8 2h 42m

Directed by Jon M. Chu

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubverts fantasy hierarchies through Elphaba's transformation, weaponizing social ostracism into revolutionary power.

In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

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Jumanji (1995)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 55% 1h 44m

Directed by Joe Johnston

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEnchanted board game as portal literalizes how play opens worlds; jungle's rules force heroes to accept otherworldly logic.

When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.

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Shazam! (2019)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 90% Letterboxd 3.0 2h 12m

Directed by David F. Sandberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—a superhero origin story confined to contemporary city settings without mythic resonance.

A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 83% 1h 55m

Directed by Tim Burton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—a whimsical children's adventure lacking the grand stakes and worldbuilding scope.

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

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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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Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 57% 1h 29m

Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—comedic family film without the sprawling world, heroic stakes, or fantastical mythology genre requires.

When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.

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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 35m

Directed by Tsui Hark

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisually audacious martial-arts fantasia where impossible physics and celestial warfare redefine dimensional fantasy cinema.

5th century western China: As constant civil wars scars the nation, to evade death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he becomes entangled in a great battle against the Blood Demon, a supernatural entity seeking to wreak havoc upon the world.

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Practical Magic (1998)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 27% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 44m

Directed by Griffin Dunne

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—intimate witchcraft drama prioritizing romantic trauma over world-spanning magical stakes.

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 52% 1h 54m

Directed by Bryan Singer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeResurrects ancient-conflict mythology through portal-breach spectacle, staging titans against humanity across dimensional warfare.

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

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The BFG (2016)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 74% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 57m

Directed by Steven Spielberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpielbergian world-wonder contrasted against existential darkness; giants embody fantasy's impossible-made-tangible grandeur.

An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

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Beowulf (2007)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 71% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 55m

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

✦ MovieMuse AI takePrimal monster-slaying myth rendered through motion-capture brutality, establishing archetypal heroic combat benchmarks.

A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.

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Charlotte's Web (2006)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 79% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 37m

Directed by Gary Winick

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—pastoral animal fable emphasizing mortality and friendship over fantastical worldbuilding.

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 49% Letterboxd 3.0 2h 14m

Directed by Kenji Kamiyama

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnimates Rohan's lost history through dynamic siege warfare and dynastic vengeance, expanding Middle-earth's mythic depths.

A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg.

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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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The Golden Compass (2007)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 42% 1h 53m

Directed by Chris Weitz

✦ MovieMuse AI takeParallel-universe cosmology with daemon familiars and authoritarian theocracy establishes richly realized dark-fantasy infrastructure.

In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.

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Stuart Little (1999)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 66% 1h 24m

Directed by Rob Minkoff

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—domestic family comedy about adoption; no magical world-building or heroic narrative structure present.

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.

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First Knight (1995)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 45% Letterboxd 2.8 2h 14m

Directed by Jerry Zucker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—medieval soap opera subordinating Arthurian legend to romantic melodrama and courtly intrigue.

The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancelot, and Guinevere is torn between her loyalty to her husband and her growing love for his rival. But Lancelot must balance his loyalty to the throne with the rewards of true love.

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Genie (2023)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 31% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 33m

Directed by Sam Boyd

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot epic fantasy—contemporary magical-realism dramedy confined to personal crisis rather than world-threatening stakes.

Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling around him.

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Clash of the Titans (2010)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 27% 1h 46m

Directed by Louis Leterrier

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMythological combat choreography renders Olympian wrath tangible; demigod versus underworld throne establishes divine-conflict scale.

Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny.

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Wrath of the Titans (2012)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 26% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 39m

Directed by Jonathan Liebesman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCyclopic destruction and weakening divinity escalate titanic stakes; humanity's faithlessness weaponizes cosmological collapse.

Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while – dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion – the gods are losing control of the long-imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos.

Best Epic Fantasy Movies on Now TV

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Lego Movie (2014)

How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

The Illusionist (2006)

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

A Dog's Purpose (2017)

Wicked (2024)

Jumanji (1995)

Shazam! (2019)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)

Practical Magic (1998)

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

The BFG (2016)

Beowulf (2007)

Charlotte's Web (2006)

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)

Pil's Adventures (2021)

The Amazing Maurice (2022)

The Golden Compass (2007)

Stuart Little (1999)

First Knight (1995)

Genie (2023)

Clash of the Titans (2010)

Wrath of the Titans (2012)

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