Movies like Hocus Pocus 2

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Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
 6.0
 52K
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Zambia, UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.
Style: enigmatic, captivating, dramatic, fairy tale, satirical, saga, dark comedy, spooky, dark
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, magic, spell, sister, witchcraft, magical, power, curse, halloween, village, wizard, female protagonist, zombie, love, supernatural, happy ending, woman, child, high school, terror, forest, birthday, father daughter relationship, ritual, evil witch ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, year 1953, year 1993, 17th century, 1600s
Place: salem massachusetts
Keyword: wizards, challenge

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Most similar movies to Hocus Pocus 2

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and fairy tale films with plots about magic, witchcraft, witch, supernatural, imaginary, youth and halloween mostly in Fantasy, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hocus Pocus 2: Halloweentown (1998), Matilda (1996), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), Halloweentown High (2004), The Little Witch (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Halloweentown (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: halloween, witch, teenage girl, magic, youth, witchcraft, good versus evil, disorder, supernatural ability, save the day, rescue, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise. When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town's sleepy facade magically springs to life with a secret world of witches and ...
Style: spooky, entertaining, humorous, fairy tale, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, horror for children, adult
Plot: haunted house, halloween, magician, spell, child, medieval, paranormal, book of magic, magic, wizard, youth, sword and sorcery ...
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: michigan, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
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Hocus Pocus (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it us up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Style: fairy tale, sweet, scary, mystical, gothic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, date night ...
Plot: witch, halloween, magic, supernatural, teenage life, childhood, witchcraft, spell, children, sisters, halloween party, cat ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 18th century, 17th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, new england, salem massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.0
 173K
Matilda (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A girl, sent by her parents to live with her two eccentric aunts, finds out on her sixteenth birthday that she is a witch
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, touching, teen ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot: witch, teenage girl, high school, wizards and magicians, magic, eccentric family, witchcraft, supernatural ability, aunt niece relationship, teenager, teenage life, social relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Halloweentown High (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, feel good, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: halloween, witch, magic, supernatural, witchcraft, holiday, friends, hereditary gift of witchcraft, monster, friendship, vengeance, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Little Witch (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The little witch really wants to dance with the other witches in the Walpurgis night, but she is only 127 years old and thus far too young for it. She tries to secretly sneak into the party but is caught doing so, and as a punishment, she has to ...
Style: fairy tale, light, captivating, exciting, colorful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, raven, child in peril, obsessive quest, fire, prank, punishment, evil witch, magical power, magic spell, spell, female protagonist ...
Place: germany, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.7
 10K
Twitches (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Twins separated at birth, Camryn and Alex meet by chance for the first time on their 21st birthday and discover they're witches with the power to save their homeland of Coventry from the evil that threatens it. But when Camryn leaves Alex to ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, teen ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly, kids
Plot: witch, magic, halloween, supernatural ability, twins, sister, sibling relationship, teenager, parent child relationship, sisters, supernatural, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Nanny McPhee (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: witch, magic, childhood, nanny, family values, children, single father, mischievous children, parents and children, widower, prank, family relations ...
Time: edwardian era, year 2005, year 2006, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Farmer family is in big debts; they might lose their house soon. The seven year old Farmer twins, Kelly and Lynn, decide not to let this happen. They discover that somebody really mean and shrewd is responsible for all the problems of their ...
Style: spooky, humorous, feel good, offbeat, semi serious
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: twins, halloween, witch, magic, youth, mischievous children, supernatural, witchcraft, child, impostor, haunted, wizard ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 146K
Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Worst Witch (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of the school, Miss Cackle, has an evil twin sister (Agatha) who plans to ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, spooky
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: halloween, boarding school, supernatural, good versus evil, wizards and magicians, teachers and students, rivalry, misfit, save the day, ambition, social misfits, underdog ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Simple Wish (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, funny, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: magic, good versus evil, fairy godmother, magic wand, witch, imaginary, rivalry, supernatural ability, down on your luck, mischievous children, supernatural, parents and children ...
Time: year 1997
Place: nebraska, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Fuchsia the Mini-Witch (2010)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Great adventures can hatch from the smallest eggs. Fucsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and so is pleased as punch when she is allowed to go to witches' school. There, Fucsia learns to make wind and conjures with the clouds. ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: witch, children, friendship, magic, supernatural power, magician, witchcraft, school, flying, magical, magical girl, wizards and magicians ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween.
Style: entertaining, unusual plot structure, enigmatic, exciting, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: halloween, child, magic, protection, babysitter, kids in trouble, salvation, kidnapping, teenage girl, fight, secret society, supernatural ability ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Last Keepers (2013)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When their teenage daughter Rhea falls in love with a poetically inclined boy , she begins to develop ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, entertaining, light, serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot: witch, supernatural, imaginary, teenage life, teenage love, curses spells and rituals, wizards and magicians, painting, secret, pagan, wizard, child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Practical Magic (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With ...
Style: sweet, feel good, sincere, romantic, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: witch, magic, supernatural, sisters, curses spells and rituals, love, witchcraft, supernatural ability, curse, small town, halloween, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.8
 54K
The Witches (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, dark fantasy, stylized, scary ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: witch, magic, good versus evil, hotel, coven, supernatural, mouse, boy, chocolate, halloween, childhood, young heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: In October of 1981, Curtis Danko, the creepy kid from the small town of Walker Falls, was killed in a mysterious accident. He left behind a warning to the town: "If you ever have another Halloween again, I will return and destroy you all!" ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, spooky ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, horror for children
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: Andy, at the urging of his former mentor and Magic Camp owner Roy Preston, returns to the camp of his youth hoping to reignite his career. Instead, he finds inspiration in his ragtag bunch of rookie magicians.
Style: fairy tale, captivating, enigmatic, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
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Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The Cromwell clan live in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the grandmother's book to ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, stylized, humorous, teen ...
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Return to Halloweentown (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 88 min.
Story: As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for ...
Style: feel good, exciting, semi serious, humorous, spooky ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
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Time: 2000s
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21%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos), Maleficent (Mal), the Evil Queen ...
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21%
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20%
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Ella Enchanted (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called gift, however, is obedience. This birthright proves itself to be quite the curse once ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, kids, teens, date night ...
Plot: fall in love, magic, fairy, fairy godmother, love and romance, cinderella story, cinderella, imaginary kingdom, ogre, true love, wizards and magicians, prince ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie comic book series of the same name. The show premiered on September 27, 1996 on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its "T.G.I.F." line-up. The show stars Melissa Joan ...
Style: feel good, not serious, sitcom, humorous, supernatural thriller ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: witch, high school, supernatural, magic, female protagonist, witchcraft, teenage girl, cat, hereditary gift of witchcraft, supernatural ability, wizards and magicians, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Bibi Blocksberg (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In order to save some kids who are about to die in a fire, Bibi, the daughter of a prestigious witch, manages to trigger a heavy rain with her powers. The head of all witches gives her an award called "Crystal Ball", reserved for older ...
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, semi serious, tense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: witch, teenage life, curses spells and rituals, magic, youth, parents and children, children, eternal youth, imaginary, coming of age, small town, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Well-intentioned, eternally bumbling Ernest P. Worrell accidentally releases an evil demon from its sacred tomb. As the demon flexes its power and goes on a ruinous rampage, good-guy Ernest tries to step in to save the town from mass destruction. ...
Style: humorous, horror comedy, retro, creepy, independent film ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, horror for children
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Halloween Puppy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A boy accidentally turns his mom's boyfriend into a dog.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: human becomes animal, halloween, dog, magic, best friend, youth, curses spells and rituals, family relations, friendship, stupid kid, danger, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Into the Woods (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, stylized, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: witch, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, broadway, wizards and magicians, cinderella, imaginary, singing, woods, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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