Pan's Labyrinth

2006 118 min ★ 7.8 Fantasy, Drama, War

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

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Cast

Ivana Baquero

Ofelia

Sergi López

Capitán Vidal

Maribel Verdú

Mercedes

Doug Jones

Fauno / Pale Man

Ariadna Gil

Carmen

Álex Angulo

Dr. Ferreiro

Roger Casamajor

Pedro

Manolo Solo

Garcés

César Vea

Serrano

Ivan Massagué

El Tarta

Details

Director

Guillermo del Toro

Tagline

"Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine."

Status

Released

Original Language

ES

Budget

$19,000,000

Revenue

$83,258,226

Production

Estudios Picasso, Esperanto Filmoj, Tequila Gang, Telecinco

Reviews

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JPV852

October 1, 2019

★ 8/10

Beautiful movie from Guillermo del Toro and while I did like the movie and its World War II-era plot, I can't say I was totally in love, feeling this was more style over substance, though the acting from the young Ivana Baquero was really good. **4.0/5**

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CinemaSerf

February 13, 2023

★ 7/10

I think this is my favourite film, as yet, from Guillermo del Toro - and it gets better the more you watch it. Set against at backdrop of a Spain still trying to recover from it's civil war, the young "Ofelia" and her pregnant mother "Carmen" are sent to live with the rather brutish "Capt. Vidal". Now he is a singularly nasty piece of work and the girl longs to meet her own real father. It's in th...

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Mister BLAQK

May 19, 2025

★ 9/10

Pan's Labyrinth is a movie that really gets you thinking. You can see it two ways: either it's a dark fairy tale about a princess escaping to a magical world, or it's about a little girl using her imagination to deal with some really tough stuff. What's cool is that the movie gives you reasons to believe both things. Like, Ofelia draws a door with chalk and actually walks through it? And the ro...