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Best Fantasy Movies of the 1900s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
75 fantasy films from the 1900s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Impossible Voyage (1904), at 7.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.5.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Impossible Voyage '1904 | Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | - | - | 7.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 2 | The Astronomer's Dream '1900 | Fantasy / Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 3 | The Diabolic Tenant '1909 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 4 | The Man with the Rubber Head '1901 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 5 | The Kingdom of the Fairies '1903 | Fantasy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 6 | The One-Man Band '1900 | Comedy / Fantasy / Musical | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Georges Méliès |
| 7 | The Bewitched House '1907 | Comedy / Fantasy / Animation / Horror | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 8 | The Black Imp '1905 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 9 | Bluebeard '1901 | Drama / Horror / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 10 | The Enchanted Drawing '1900 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | J. Stuart Blackton |
| 11 | The Merry Frolics of Satan '1906 | Comedy / Fantasy / Horror | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 12 | The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match '1900 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Georges Méliès |
| 13 | Dream of a Rarebit Fiend '1906 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 14 | The '?' Motorist '1906 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Comedy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.5 | Walter R. Booth |
| 15 | The Living Playing Cards '1905 | Fantasy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.4 | Georges Méliès |
| 16 | The Infernal Cauldron '1903 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.6 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 17 | Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants '1902 | Fantasy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 18 | Kiri-Kis '1907 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.8 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 19 | Princess Nicotine '1909 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.5 | - | - | 5.8 | J. Stuart Blackton |
| 20 | The Witch '1906 | Fantasy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 21 | The Red Spectre '1907 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.5 | - | - | 6.1 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 22 | The Golden Beetle '1907 | Fantasy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.0 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 23 | The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon '1907 | Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 6.4 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 24 | The Electric Hotel '1908 | Fantasy / Animation | 6.6 | - | - | 6.2 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 25 | The Hilarious Posters '1906 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 26 | A Trip to Jupiter '1909 | Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 6.4 | - | - | 6.3 | Segundo de Chomón |
| 27 | Whimsical Illusions '1909 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.3 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 28 | The Prince of Magicians '1901 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.4 | Georges Méliès |
| 29 | The Monster '1903 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.3 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 30 | The Night Before Christmas '1905 | Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.1 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 31 | The Mermaid '1904 | Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 32 | The Untamable Whiskers '1904 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 33 | Alice in Wonderland '1903 | Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Cecil M. Hepworth |
| 34 | An Extraordinary Dislocation '1901 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.1 | Georges Méliès |
| 35 | The Spider and the Butterfly '1909 | Horror / Fantasy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.7 | Georges Méliès |
| 36 | The Palace of the Arabian Nights '1905 | Fantasy | 6.1 | - | - | 5.7 | Georges Méliès |
| 37 | The Mysterious Retort '1906 | Fantasy / Horror | 5.8 | - | - | 5.7 | Georges Méliès |
| 38 | Jack and the Beanstalk '1902 | Fantasy | 6.1 | - | - | 6.0 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 39 | The 'Teddy' Bears '1907 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.6 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 40 | Faust in the Underworld '1903 | Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 41 | The Cook in Trouble '1904 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 42 | The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship '1905 | Sci-Fi / Comedy / Fantasy | 5.9 | - | - | 5.8 | Georges Méliès |
| 43 | The Inn Where No Man Rests '1903 | Fantasy / Comedy / Horror | 6.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 44 | The Human Fly '1902 | Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.9 | Georges Méliès |
| 45 | The Magic Book '1900 | Fantasy | 6.1 | - | - | 6.2 | Georges Méliès |
| 46 | The Infernal Cake-Walk '1903 | Fantasy / Comedy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.6 | Georges Méliès |
| 47 | The Enchanted Well '1903 | Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 5.5 | Georges Méliès |
| 48 | The Doctor's Secret '1909 | Fantasy | 5.6 | - | - | 5.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 49 | The Magician's Cavern '1901 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.2 | Georges Méliès |
| 50 | A Fantastical Meal '1900 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.0 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Georges Méliès Segundo de Chomón J. Stuart Blackton Edwin S. Porter Walter R. Booth