Movies like Carnival Magic
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Carnival Magic (1983)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A magician in a carnival--who actually can read minds and levitate people and objects--works with a superintelligent chimp named Alex, who can also talk. The magician and the chimp soon become the stars of the carnival, drawing in big crowds. However, the wild-animal trainer, who has been displaced by the team as the carnival's top act, decides to kidnap Alex and sell him to a medical laboratory for experimentation, thereby getting rid of his competition.
Style:
independent film, exciting, humorous, semi serious, cult film
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
magician, carnival, magician's assistant, magic, circus, chimpanzee, mind reading, monkey, magic trick, buddhism, hick, magic show, underground, kidnapping, wizards and magicians, rivalry, manipulation, animal life, imaginary, confined, disorder, workplace, artists and showbiz, save the day, tiger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south carolina, india, southern usa, north carolina
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Most similar movies to Carnival Magic
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, independent film and feel good films with plots about magic, imaginary, family relations, rivalry, family, youth and supernatural mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Family genres. Some movies like Carnival Magic: Mirrormask (2005), Babine (2008), Heaven Sent (1994), The Good Witch's Wonder (2014), Now You See It... (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
Style:
visually stunning, offbeat, surreal, cerebral, stylized ...
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teens, date night, pre-teens, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot:
circus, coming of age, fantasy world, magic, imaginary kingdom, alternate reality, alternate dimension, good versus evil, trippy, parallel universe, imaginary, drawing ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
brighton, england
Similarity:
95%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
As scripted by Quebecois raconteur Fred Pellerin and directed by Luc Picard, this offbeat fantasy comedy details the adventures of Babine (Vincent Guillaume Otis), the son of a witch and a village pariah, as he ventures forth into the world and ...
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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quebec
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and ...
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Audience:
family outing
Plot:
heaven, teen rebel, juvenile delinquent, youth, guardian angel, divorced mother, bad influence, divine intervention, death, theft, fire, handgun ...
Place:
usa
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71%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Cassie Nightingale (Bell) finds herself with only days to plan her stepson Brandon's (Knight) wedding to Tara (Leggat) when the happy couple unexpectedly pushes up the date for their big day. Meanwhile, Martha (Disher), the newly elected mayor ...
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Plot:
good witch, uncover truth, friendship, family relations, small town, supernatural, theft, ritual, party, father son relationship, dancing, wedding day ...
Time:
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canada
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
While producing a reality TV show, a teenager meets a magician whose powers are real but put him in danger.
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, captivating, teen
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
magic, teenager, wizards and magicians, friendship, youth, contests and competitions, love and romance, teenage life, secret, television, magician, wizard ...
Place:
usa, california, new orleans
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Medieval Europe: Father Christmas is a fading memory, after Christmas hasn't come for several years. A young orphan girl, Ayden, receives a magic crystal from a dying elf, with a warning that the North has lost its magic, and that she alone ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, entertaining
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, dragon, medieval, sword and sorcery, saving christmas, wizards and magicians, teamwork, magician, rescue mission, orphan, magical power, save the day ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions ...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
surrealism, good versus evil, supernatural, imaginary, danger, punk, rivalry, artists and showbiz, apprentice, curses spells and rituals, zombie, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.
Style:
arthurian, classic horror, mythical, grindhouse, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sorcery, sword and sorcery, wizard, witch, dungeon, sword, chess, curse, throne, pagan, dinosaur, ancient ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A sleazy politician sends an agent (Russell Crowe) after his ex-fiancee (Bridget Fonda), who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.
Style:
surreal, touching, humorous, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
magic, supernatural, rivalry, love and romance, magician's assistant, on the run, justice, chases and races, good versus evil, realism, disorder, destiny ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 1900s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An aspiring trapeze artist discovers a cryptic letter, written once by her recently deceased father, that leads her to a gold mine in a remote California desert.
Style:
art house, disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lifestyle change, changing lives, father daughter relationship, acrobat, vaudeville, elderly man, male female relationship, couple relations, family relations, letter, elderly couple ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Adapted from the Robert Cormier novel. This film follows the life of a young boy whose happy, if somewhat unusual life with his friends and family gradually starts to unravel, until the truth of the boy's situation is finally revealed.
Style:
independent film, non-linear, tense, mind bending, serious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, youth, life is a bitch, mind game, doctors and patients, investigation, assassination, uncover truth, rivalry, secret identity, dishonesty, family relations ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, vermont
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, stylized, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
projectionist, loner, superhero, heroes, secret identity, fascism, media satire, time travel, lobbyist, daydreamer, nightclub, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 1971, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A drifter helps a rancher's granddaughter find her true calling.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, independent film, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
self discovery, small town, magic realism, rivalry, hopes, farm, modern west, environmentalism, soul searching, coming of age, bittersweet, blue collar ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 5th Century Britian, a young Merlin struggles for his place in his known land under the tutelage of The Mage, a local wizard whom sees the young man's potential for magic, as well as face off against his evil former friend, Vendiger, whom ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspense, mockbuster ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dragon, magic, battles, legends and myths, danger, escapades, imaginary, rivalry, supernatural, heroes, medieval, sword and sorcery ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
49%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, touching, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
pig, on the road, talking animal, farm, kids and family, rescue, danger, heroic mission, youth, animal, death, inheritance ...
Place:
boston, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, psychotronic, art house ...
Plot:
surrealism, desert, oedipus complex, torture, coming of age, unsettling, magic realism, peeping, overprotective mother, human relationship, incest, epilepsy ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world ...
Style:
sentimental, entertaining, feel good, stylized, surreal ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
body swapping, shoemaker, lone hero, supernatural ability, family business, justice, lifestyle change, workplace, disorder, self discovery, down on your luck, fashion ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, touching, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, desire, santa claus, magic, against the odds, obsessive quest, north pole, reindeer, optimism, legends and myths, christmas eve, holiday ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland's volcanoes.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
wizards and magicians, young heroes, good versus evil, save the world, heroes, teenage life, siblings relations, alien invasion, alien disguised as human, natural disaster, disguise, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has ...
Style:
semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot:
clown, firefighter, passion, fire, husband wife relationship, pyrokinesis, circus, brother brother relationship, small town, fire brigade, love triangle, arson ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the ...
Style:
touching, entertaining, inspirational, melancholic, light ...
Plot:
magic, small town, ethnic conflict, magic realism, justice, greed, small town life, village life, politics, culture clash, racial tension, farm ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new mexico, usa, texas, mexico, england
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"Superbrother" tells the story of Anton, a 10 year old boy desperate for, he says, an older and true brother as Buller, his brother, is autistic. Always distracted looking at the sky, Anton receives an unexpected visit from some stranger ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, touching, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
hopes, superhuman powers, wish come true, young heroes, mischievous children, miraculous event, heroes, family relations, disorder, social misfits, mentally challenged, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in ...
Style:
touching, christmas classics, crying, entertaining, sad ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, reindeer, single father, small town, holiday, farm, father daughter relationship, widower, girl, little girl, animal ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
A family of witches -- sisters Sally and Gillian, their aunts Jet and Frances, and Sally's daughters Antonia and Kylie -- struggle with the blessing and the curse of magical abilities.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
good witch, potion, female protagonist, witch, magical girl, wizards and magicians, magic, wizard, witchery, life, supernatural ability, family relations ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home. He enlists the aid of a woman and her ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, xmas, north pole, santa claus, oil, arctic, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, saving christmas, elf, new year ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
A small town, a flower of Amancay, a topaz of the most beautiful color and a broken family.
Style:
dark, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
magic, teen angst, small town, teenage boy, wizard, rescue, rivalry, peril, friendship, youth, heroes, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, basque country
Similarity:
39%
554
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN. In this version, Peter (Rick Sparks) is a juvenile delinquent, Tinkerbell (Kari... Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, ...
Style:
serious, offbeat, bleak
Plot:
amusement park, life is a bitch, danger, escapades, youth, peter pan, gay, glbt, fantasy world, lgbt, gay subtext, pirate ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, heartbreaking, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
boarding school, imagination, childhood, princess, orphan, servant, little girl, fantasy life, child, girls' boarding school, coming of age, children ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, future, victorian era, 90s ...
Place:
india, new york, england, britain, africa ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sarah Bishop and her estranged sister Beth are reunited after their father Buddy suffers a mild stroke. Buddy, who's never accepted the loss of his wife Lorraine, wants only one thing-to return home for Christmas. With sweet memories of a life ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, sweet, uplifting ...
Plot:
christmas, love, miraculous event, widower, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, afterlife, christmas eve, small town, heartwarming, snow, loss of loved one ...
Similarity:
38%
15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help in this film loosely based on the Edgar Allen Poe poem.
Style:
gothic, humorous, gothic horror, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
castle, magic, magician, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, monster, duel, transformation, revenge, dark humor, edgar allan poe, sorcerer ...
Time:
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Similarity:
37%
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