Query: 2000's dark fantasy films that aren't horror
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani
Jo Jo in the Stars
Hatya (2004 film)
Corpse Bride
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior
Fish Heads Fugue and Other Tales for Twilight
9 (2009 animated film)
Mysterious Skin
The Spiderwick Chronicles (film)
Paprika (2006 film)
Monkeybone
A Christmas Carol (2009 film)
Evidence from documents: Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani: '''''Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahaani''''' () is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language supernatural action thriller film
Jo Jo in the Stars: '''Jo Jo in the Stars''''' is a twelve-minute film that won the 2004 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Short Film. Created and directed by Marc Craste, it was indirectly inspired by "The Carny", a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Madame Pica is the cold-hearted mistress of a circus of "monsters and misfits", attended each night by thousands of curious spectators. Hero is among them every night, but he is there only to see Jo Jo, the winged trapeze artist. One night after the show, he steals the keys of the cell where Jo Jo is imprisoned, freeing her. The two escape and start to dance a romantic waltz in the stars. But soon the two lovers are discovered and as a last desperate act, hand-in-hand, they jump from the highest window in the tower. Jo Jo attempts to fly the two of them to safety, but Hero loses his grip and falls to the ground. Jo Jo is blown onto a window sill and re-captured by Madame Pica. A single feather from JoJo's wing floats to the ground, landing on Hero's apparently lifeless body.
Hatya (2004 film): '''Hatya''' () is a 2004 Bollywood supernatural fantasy film directed by Kader Kashmiri. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Navin Nischol, Reema Lagoo and Varsha Usgaonkar in lead roles with Rajendra Gupta, Raza Murad and Rajesh Vivek in supporting roles.
Ravi Lal (Akshay Kumar) lives a wealthy lifestyle with his father Ratanlal (Navin Nischol), his mother Seema (Reema Lagoo) and with his sister. Meanwhile, Ravi has fallen in love with Kavita (Varsha Usgaonkar), and they get married. Ratan Lal is killed by businessman Murugan (Rajendra Gupta) after turning down the offer of various land and royalties. Ravi witnesses his father's brutal end and is injured badly by Murugan's men and is hospitalized. Soon Kavita notices that Ravi has changed... He is more quiet and brooding. Kavita eventually suspects that Ravi is having an affair. But what she doesn't know is that.. he was already killed, and his body transformed into a shape-changing venomous snake. Now out for revenge, he sets out to kill Murugan.
Corpse Bride: '''''Corpse Bride''''' (also known as '''''Tim Burton's Corpse Bride''''') is a 2005 stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel. The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in England. Johnny Depp leads the cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily, the titular bride. An international co-production between the United States and United Kingdom, ''Corpse Bride'' is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' and ''James and the Giant Peach'', were directed by Henry Selick). This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was dedicated to executive producer Joe Ranft, who died in a car crash during production.
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior: '''''The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior''''' is a 2008 American direct-to-DVD action adventure film prequel to the 2002 film ''The Scorpion King'', itself a prequel to the 1999 reimagining of ''The Mummy''.
Fish Heads Fugue and Other Tales for Twilight: 2000's: is a 2005 mixed-media animated short film
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9 (2009 animated film): '''''9''''' is a 2009 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Shane Acker, written by Pamela Pettler and produced by Jim Lemley, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Dana Ginsburg. In the film, Elijah Wood voices a small ragdoll-like robot who awakens shortly after the end of mankind, and must find eight other robots to figure out the mystery behind humanity's destruction while tangling with the vicious creations of a massive soul-stealing machine. The film also features the voices of John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover, with Martin Landau and Fred Tatasciore.
Mysterious Skin: '''''Mysterious Skin''''' is a 2004 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Gregg Araki, adapted from Scott Heim's 1995 novel of the same name. The film is Araki's eighth, premiering at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in 2004, although it was not more widely distributed until 2005.


''Mysterious Skin'' tells the story of two pre-adolescent boys who both experienced a strange event as children, and how it affects their lives in different ways into their young adulthood. One boy becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
Two eight-year-old Little League teammates, Neil McCormick and Brian Lackey, both experience life-altering events during the summer of 1981 in Hutchinson, Kansas. Neil, the son of an irresponsible single mother and already discovering his own homosexuality, is sexually abused by the Little League coach, who leaves town after that summer. Brian, whose parents are often neglectful or busy working, only remembers that it started to rain during a game. The next thing he remembers is being in the crawl space of his house with a bloody nose, having no memory of the intervening five hours.
The Spiderwick Chronicles (film): '''''The Spiderwick Chronicles''''' is a 2008 American fantasy film based on the book series of the same name by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.
Paprika (2006 film): a 2006 Japanese animated science fiction psychological thriller film
Monkeybone: 2000's dark fantasy films that aren't horror: '''''Monkeybone''''' is a 2001 American black comedy fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, written by Sam Hamm, produced by Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe, and executive produced by Chris Columbus, Selick, and Hamm.
that aren't horror: Stuart "Stu" Miley is a disillusioned cartoonist whose comic character, a rascal monkey named Monkeybone, is getting an animated series and numerous merchandise, at the constant pestering of his agent and friend, Herb.
A Christmas Carol (2009 film): '''''A Christmas Carol''''', is a 2009 American computer-animated dark fantasy Christmas film written and directed by Robert Zemeckis.