List of sword and sorcery films

The following is a list of sword and sorcery films. These tend to focus on single heroes, romance, and magic.^[1]

List

1920s

• Die Nibelungen (1924)

1940s

• The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
• The Iron Crown (1941)
• Kashchey the Deathless (1944)
• Macbeth (1948)

1950s

• Prince Valiant (1954)
• Ilya Muromets (1956)
• Sleeping Beauty (1959, animated)
• Hercules Unchained (1959)

1960s

• Hercules in the Haunted World (1962)
• The Magic Sword (1 (1961)
• Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
• The Magic Sword (1962)
• The Sword in the Stone (1963, animated)
• Hercules the Avenger (1965)
• Treasure of the Petrified Forest (1965)
• The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (1969, anime)

1970s

• Macbeth (1971)
• Ruslan and Ludmila (1972)
• Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)

1980s

• Black Angel (1980)
• Hawk the Slayer (1980)
• Clash of the Titans (1981)
• Dragonslayer (1981)
• Excalibur (1981)
• Ator l'invincibile (1982) (Ator 1)
• The Beastmaster (1982)
• Conan the Barbarian (1982)
• The Flight of Dragons (1982, animated)
• Sorceress (1982)
• The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
• Conquest (1983)
• Deathstalker (1983)
• Fire and Ice (1983, animated)
• Hearts and Armour (1983)
• Hercules (1983)
• Krull (1983)
• The Sword of the Barbarians (1983)
• Ator 2 - L'invincibile Orion (1984) (Ator 2)
• Conan the Destroyer (1984)
• The Devil's Sword (1984)
• Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
• The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)
• Barbarian Queen (1985)
• The Black Cauldron (1985, animated)
• Ladyhawke (1985)
• Legend (1985)
• Red Sonja (1985)
• Amazons (1986)
• Highlander (1986)
• The Barbarians (1987)
• Deathstalker II (1987)
• Iron Warrior (1987) (Ator 3)
• Masters of the Universe (1987)
• Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988) (Deathstalker 3)
• Willow (1988)

1990s

• The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
• Quest for the Mighty Sword (1990) (Ator 4)
• Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991)
• Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans (1991)
• Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
• Quest of the Delta Knights (1993)
• Guinevere (1994)
• Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994)
• Yamato Takeru (1994)
• First Knight (1995)
• Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996)
• Dragonheart (1996)
• The Amazing Feats of Young Hercules (1997, animated)
• Kull the Conqueror (1997)
• Prince Valiant (1997)
• Merlin (1998)
• The Secret of Mulan (1998, animated)
• The 13th Warrior (1999)^[2]

2000s

• Highlander: Endgame (2000)
• Dungeons and Dragons (2000)
• Demonicus (2001)
• The Hexer (2001)
• The Monkey King (2001)
• The Scorpion King (2002)
• Barbarian (2003)
• The Red Knight (2003)
• Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004)
• George and the Dragon (2004)
• BloodRayne (2005)
• In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2006)
• Deltora Quest (2007-2008, anime)
• Highlander: The Source (2007)
• Wolfhound (2007)
• The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008)
• Solomon Kane (2009)

2010s

• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
• Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010)^[3]
• Conan the Barbarian (2011)^[4]
• In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds (2011)
• Ronal the Barbarian (2011, animated)
• Sinbad and the Minotaur (2011)^[5]
• The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012)
• Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
• Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (2014)
• The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)
• Warcraft (2016)

See also

• List of high fantasy films and TV series

References

1. McCullough V, Joseph A. "The Demarcation of Sword and Sorcery".
2. The 13th Warrior http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/
3. Sequel to The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982).
4. New interpretation of the Conan mythology (not a remake of the 1982-movie of the same name).
5. Non-official sequel to Richard Wallace's Sinbad the Sailor (1947) and Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)).