A kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin vies for the love of the beautiful princess Jasmine, the princess of Agrabah. When he finds a magic lamp, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself a prince in order to marry her. He is also on a mission to stop the powerful Jafar who plots to steal the magic lamp that could make his deepest wishes come true.

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Azur is the blue-eyed fair-haired child, Asmar his olive-skinned soulmate, one wet-nursed by and the other the natural child of an Arab slave in the Christian West. After years of seperation, and as young adults, the two meet again, this time in an Arab world of souks, vivid textiles, beautiful gardens, technology, elaborate palaces and smiling people. Now they both seek the same goal, to rescue and marry the legendary Djinn fairy. find out more...

Disney come up trumps again, doing what they do best. The fairy tale story adapts beautifully, with some great scenes and excellent (Oscar winning) music. The story is basically monster captures girl, girl falls in love with monster, who turns out to be prince charming. Recommended for all ages! find out more...

Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch Maleficent, who declares that before Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by a poisoned spinning-wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of three goodnatured not too bright fairies, but this is a curse that only a prince can break. Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. The last film which Walt personally supervised, not one of the best, but not that bad find out more...

Anders Ronnow-Klarlund has pulled off something of a coup here. Billed as the first 'fully integrated' puppet feature, though the seminal Team America must have come a close second. Strings treads a very different terrain to the Parker/Stone collaboration though. The tone is more evocative of classical myth from one of the ancient civilisations. It deals with suicide, piety, long burning grudges, hidden identity, political corruption, greed, sexual desire and destiny. The style is reminscent of find out more...

Disney's superb cartoon version of Hans Christian Andersen's famous tale of a beautiful mermaid, who longs to become human after falling in love with a prince whom she saves from drowning. Great animation, especially the underwater scenes, some fun singalong songs, at long last Disney began to recognize the importance of pop in children's movies. All in all a lot better than some of Disney's immediately preceding kids' films. find out more...

On the eve of her wedding the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by the malevolent Dr Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa so that he can service the doctor's strange musical automatons and little by little he learns of Droz's plan to stage a "diabolical opera". The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes is the breathtakingly beautiful second film from the brothers Quay, a strikingly original fairytale. find out more...