Illusionist movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
List of illusionist movies
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gambling, casino, dysfunctional family, obsession, desert, family relations, farce, road trip, nothing goes right, teenage life, parents and children, vacation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, chicago, usa, nevada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services ...
Style:
gothic, lovecraft, serious, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, ghost, missing woman, investigation, missing person, private detective, uncover truth, woman in danger, danger, supernatural, cosmic horror, demon ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, harsh, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, brothel, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
poland, israel, america, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
healer, hypnotist, prodigy, social relations, fish out of water, saving a life, visceral, estrangement, downfall, changing lives, road not taken, sexual attraction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by ...
Style:
anthology, surprise ending, slasher, spooky, classic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vampire, painting, cemetery, nightmare, uxoricide, buried alive, greed, strangled to death, painter, revenge, punishment, elevator ...
Time:
70s
Place:
india, haiti, london
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423K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The story of a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
Style:
cerebral, saga, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
superhero, alien race, alien attack, space and aliens, death, alien encounter, artifact, lgbt, multiverse, desert, archaeologist, valet ...
Time:
1940s, 16th century, 2020s, year 1945, 21st century
Place:
london, usa, south dakota, mumbai india, india ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems.
Style:
romantic, semi serious, stylized, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
supernatural ability, ghost, supernatural, performer's life, odd couple, seeing dead people, life & death, love story, mascot, friendship, socially awkward, magician ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
east asia, asia, korea
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13K
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Set in 1958, Populaire focuses on Rose Pamphyle, who lives with her widowed father and is destined to marry a son of the local mechanic. Rose travels out of town and applies for a secretarial job with an insurance agency run by Louis Échard. Louis ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
boss and employee, fall in love, love and romance, receptionist, employer employee relationship, mentor, love story, workplace, workplace romance, competition, happy ending, ambition ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place:
france, paris france, new york, normandy
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268K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
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139K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Fearful of a prophecy stating that a girl child will be born to bring about her downfall, the evil Queen Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women within the formidable stronghold of Nockmaar. A child, Elora Danan, is born in the Nockmaar dungeons and ...
Style:
fairy tale, epic, scenic, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, kids ...
Plot:
sword and sorcery, prophecy, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, magic, baby, black magic, wizard, destiny, mother daughter relationship, castle, heroic mission ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 20th century, future, 1900s ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story involves a series of murders in Charron's performing company, murders caused by various members getting doused with vitriolic acid. Turns out all the people killed have a common denominator in their past, one which has recently ...
Style:
detective, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, black and white ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, murder, serial killer, whodunit, monkey, macabre, maniac, dream, unrequited love, police investigator, confronting the past, killer ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1971, 19th century, turn of the century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Catherine Bomarzini returns to the family castle in Italy after her father's death and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle: a man who is at times repulsive, at others enchanting; and a creature of the night whose gentle eyes ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, fairy tale ...
Plot:
curse, werewolf, transformation, rape, true love, female nudity, castle, dangerous attraction, raped by monster, afterlife, ghost, beauty and the beast ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination ...
Style:
crying, freeze frame
Plot:
children, renaissance, photography, bare chested male, anton chekhov, trauma, neighbor, funeral, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, restaurant, wedding ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A Princess in the Joseon Dynasty travels to the Qing Dynasty to marry. On the way to there, she meets a young magician and falls in love with him.
Style:
romantic, serious, sincere, captivating
Plot:
magician, forbidden love, class differences, magic, secret identity, secret love, poverty, convoy, young lovers, ancient korea, wizard, witchcraft ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, sexual ...
Plot:
friendship, couple relations, love, love and romance, couples, marijuana, mother daughter relationship, stalking, bartender, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, unfaithful boyfriend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
prague, europe, central europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
Style:
slasher, bloody, christmas horror, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revenge, train, masked killer, holiday horror, killer, prank, serial killer, murder, new year's eve, stalking, magician, blood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 2016, 70s ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, crying ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
journalism, ex husband ex wife relationship, workplace, scoop, reporter, satire, interview, volcanic eruption, television, news, outlaw, women ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Eccentric consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.
Style:
clever, entertaining, detective, intellectual, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly, adult
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, steampunk, investigation, intelligence, riddles and clues, genius, master criminal, deduction, twists and turns, prodigy, clue ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2009, 19th century, 1800s, 1890s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, tower bridge london ...
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152K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story:
A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again, they would ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspense, demonic, spooky ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children
Plot:
stephen king, friendship, fear, killer clown, clown, children, childhood, supernatural, villain, monster, asthma, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1960, 80s
Place:
maine, usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fat Pizza the Film is yet another slice of life at a dodgy suburban Sydney take away. Bobo Gigliotti the psychotic pizzeria owner/pizza chef is awaiting the arrival of his mail-order refugee bride Lin Chow Bang, and a new pizza deliverer is on the ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, independent film, absurd
Plot:
buddies, pizza, disorder, friends, pizzeria, boss and employee, misfit, workplace, workplace situations, rivalry, stoner, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Monica Rivers, is the owner and ringmaster of a traveling circus and who'll stop at nothing to draw bigger audiences. When a series of mysterious murders begins to occur and some of her performers die gruesomely, her profits soar. She hires ...
Style:
detective, psychotronic, slasher, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
circus, hagsploitation, murder, investigation, tightrope walker, circus performer, acrobat, serial murder, camp, female boss, whodunit, eavesdropping ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A thief (George Chakiris) falls in love with a maid (Marina Vlady) and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
Style:
slapstick comedy
Plot:
sexual attraction, art theft, forgery, heist, art, shakespeare's othello, cycling, hairy chested man, bare chested male, inn, mona lisa, escape ...
Place:
paris france, dunkirk, rome italy
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of ...
Style:
entertaining, witty, stylized, suspense, semi serious ...
Plot:
college dropout, twists and turns, happy ending, career, life philosophy, character study, job seeking, unlikely friendships, magic show, showbiz, power relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles, las vegas, boston ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
humility, drunk, contest, photograph, telephone call, skinny dipping, customs, butcher, stage magician, magic show, muslim, solidarity ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
algeria, france, marseille, paris france
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10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. While a serum that can ...
Style:
art house, psychedelic, atmospheric, neo noir, deep ...
Plot:
unrequited love, crazy love, older man younger woman relationship, aids, mafia, robbery, love, sexual attraction, ex convict, doom, relationships, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, visually stunning, breathtaking, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
stripper, writer's life, party, high society, passion, female nudity, friendship, artist, aging, surrealism, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Human Giant is a sketch comedy show on MTV, starring writer/performers Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer and directed primarily by Jason Woliner.
The show ran for two seasons. In interviews, the group has mentioned that they were offered a third ...
Style:
sketch comedy, surreal, not serious, humorous, parody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
comedian, sketch, stupidity, friends, disorder, buddies, mishap, dark humor, agent, chaos and mayhem, silly humor, joke ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, america
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Our MC finds out that his school requires him to join a club and during his reluctant search he stumbles upon Tejina-senpai attempting magic tricks in her clubroom. Tejina-senpai has massive stage fright however and so now that she has an audience ...
Style:
anime, ecchi, hentai, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
magic, high school life, high school, friendship, stage magician, high school student, teenage life, youth, sisterhood, teenage boy, slice of life, school club ...
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