The NeverEnding Story

1984 [GERMAN]

Action / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 84% · 49 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 168893 168.9K

scary 1980s based on novel or book wolf magic fairy tale

Director

Wolfgang Petersen Photo
Wolfgang Petersen

Top cast

Tami Stronach Photo
Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress
Patricia Hayes Photo
Patricia Hayes as Urgl
Silvia Seidel Photo
Silvia Seidel as Fairy
Barret Oliver Photo
Barret Oliver as Bastian
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 2160p.BLU.x265
864.95 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 58
1.62 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 100+
4.54 GB
3840*1632
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 57

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by allmoviesfan 7 / 10

A children's classic

Core childhood memory unlocked!If you were born anywhere from like 1985 to 1995, were you even properly brought up if your parents didn't let you watch "The Neverending Story"? I'm going to say no.This is a children's classic. Can't tell you how many times I sat down during school holidays and watched this.Atreyu, Bastian, Falkor and all the rest in the realm of Fantasia. The Nothing scared me. So did the Swamps of Sadness. It's amazing how much I remember.This makes me sound old - and approaching my fortieth birthday in early 2025, I guess that I am - but they don't make them like this, anymore.
Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 7 / 10

Life without Fantasia

The boy Bastian (Barret Oliver) misses his mother, who has died, and is bullied at school by three bullies. One day, he is running away from the three boys and hides in a bookstore, where the owner shows him a book that he has never read called "The Neverending Story". Bastian does not resist and shoplifts the book, leaving a note telling that he will return the book after he reads it. He goes to the school attic and anxiously reads the book that tells the story of the magic kingdom of Fantasia that is doomed to destruction, unless the boy Atreyu (Noah Hathaway) can save it. But he needs the help of an Earthling boy to avoid that The Nothing destroys his world. The first times that I saw "Die Unendliche Geschichte", a.k.a. "The Neverending Story", I was younger and younger and I simply loved it. Twenty-eight years later, I have just bought the Blu-Ray and after watching it again, I liked but less that I remember.The state of art especial effects in 1984 is now dated and the acting is only reasonable. But the story of the coming of age by force of a boy that sees his innocence lost due to the death of his mother and bullying at school has a beautiful message in the end and is still worthwhile watching it. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A História Sem Fim" ("The Neverending Story")
Reviewed by elisa-grant 7 / 10

Magical and sweet

Just rewatched with my 9yr and she loved it! Saw it accepted by her with the same enthusiasm I had as a kid!Yes, it's dated. Yes, the acting isn't the best. But... it is so magical and super sweet. Also very telling... in 1984 they told us that hope was disappearing and despair was setting in. A prediction of things to come - at least from 2020 to now in 2022!
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