Best Fantasy Movies of 1948

A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.

Bugs Bunny finds and rubs Aladdin's lamp and decides to follow the genie to Baghdad, where they battle Mad Man Hassan.

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

The feathered residents of Chirpendale are terrorized by an evil black crow by the name of "The Black Menace". But to the citizen's rescue comes a brave young taxi puller named Bill! In other words, every single role in this film is played by birds. Actual birds.

Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a timeless family holiday classic.

The god Colima tries to win the love of a beautiful young native, who won't betray the man she loves.

A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.

Animal puppets seek out Santa to find out why he doesn't deliver presents to them.

The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.

The twenty-minute Santa's Workshop was turned into a two-minute trailer, with which Suomi-Filmi Oy also presented its Christmas greetings.