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Genre: Fantasy and Sci-Fi Director: Ava DuVernay Writers: Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell Cinematographer: Tobias A. Schliessler Editor: Spencer Averick Production Design: Naomi Shohan Music: Ramin Djawadi Rated: PG          With her dad’s disappearance for 5 years, Meg still hurts living everyday without him. One day, a mysterious woman enters into Meg’s life with the knowledge of the tesseract. A concept known by Meg’s father, Meg travels to a new world with her little brother, Charles Wallace, and a classmate in order to save her father from the Darkness. --------------------------------------------------------SOME SPOILERS---------------------------------------------------------------

Genre: Fantasy and Adventure Director: Miyazaki Hayao Writer: Miyazaki Hayao & Diana Wynne Jones (Novel) Cinematographer: Okui Atsushi Editor: Seyama Takeshi Music by: Joe Hisaishi Rated: PG                After meeting the wizard Howl, Sophie receives a curse from the jealous Witch of the Waste which causes her to change into an old woman. Sophie works to break her curse as she becomes the cleaning lady of Howl's Moving Castle.

Genre: Fantasy and Adventure Director: Miyazaki Hayao Writer: Miyazaki Hayao Editor: Seyama Takeshi Music by: Joe Hisaishi Rated: PG While Chihiro and her family drive to their new town, they take a short which leads them to a tunnel in the middle of the forest. Against Chihiro’s wishes, her family walks through the eerie tunnel to an abandoned town. Soon a new world emerges and Chihiro is thrown into a situation where she needs to work in a bathhouse in order to save her parents and go back to her own world.

Genre: Adventure and Fantasy Director: Miyazaki Hayao Writer: Miyazaki Hayao Music by: Joe Hisaishi Rated:PG Princess Nausicaä struggles to keep peace between two nations before they destroy themselves and their dying planet.