Stage magician movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant stage magician movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, entertaining, psychological, semi serious, realistic and captivating films and TV shows about / with stage magician, magician, magic, magic trick, wizards and magicians, illusion, friendship, misdirection, redemption and magician's assistant plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as stage magician: Now You See Me (2013), Magicians (2007), The Prestige (2006), The Illusionist (2006), The Magician (2006), The Wizard of Gore (2007), Desperate Acts of Magic (2013), Father of the Pride (2004), Complete Unknown (2016), The House of Magic (2013).
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Style:
surprise ending, clever, entertaining, twist ending, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, teamwork, fbi, outsmarting, scheme, perfect crime, twists and turns, con artists, stage magic, bank robbery, cons and scams, magician ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, new orleans, new york, paris france, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.
Style:
parody, humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
guillotine, contests and competitions, buddies, odd couple, artists and showbiz, ambition, friendship, nothing goes right, magician, stage magician, male nudity, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, secret, magic, magician, rivalry, illusionist, stage magic, uninhibited rivalry, deception, secrets ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, edwardian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
london, peru, colorado, los angeles, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged ...
Style:
surprise ending, atmospheric, period piece, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
twists and turns, magic, forbidden love, wizards and magicians, magician, murder mystery, murder, love triangle, magic trick, investigation, nobility, love story ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2006, 2000s, edwardian era ...
Place:
vienna, london, austria, america, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
İskender (Cem Yılmaz) hokkabazdır. Yani aslında sihirbazdır. Ama onun ve çocukluk arkadaşı Maradona'nın (Tuna Orhan) dışında herkes onun hokkabaz olduğunu düşünmektedir. İstanbul'dan hızla kaçmak zorunda kalan ikili, ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, road movie
Plot:
performer's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, buddies, life is a bitch, introspection, down on your luck, on the road, stage magician, turk, wizard, found footage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey, gallipoli, turkey
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Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed is a series of television shows in which the methods behind magic tricks and illusions are explained. In its original incarnation there were four shows broadcast in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, explanatory, controversial, educational ...
Plot:
magic, magic show, magician, wizards and magicians, uncover truth, delusion, backstage, stage magician, secrets, illusion, stage magic, entertainment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, illusion, hypnosis, magic, mysterious character, police investigation, supernatural, mind game, psychopath, rivalry, obsession ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Style:
surreal, dark fantasy, fairy tale, cerebral, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night
Plot:
surrealism, imaginary kingdom, deal with the devil, mysterious character, imagination, steampunk, bet, transformation, devil, imaginary world, sex with teenager, circus ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, year 2010
Place:
britain, london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A magician competes in an international magic competition where he goes head to head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with. This film shows great magic performed by a cast of professional magicians. Like a great musical where the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, independent film
Plot:
unlikely couple, ambition, follow your dream, love and romance, hopes, couples, fall in love, contests and competitions, foe turned friend, magic, street performer, stage magician ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
Father of the Pride is an American animated television series that began broadcasting on NBC on August 31, 2004 and was part of a short-lived trend of CGI series in prime-time network TV.
The show, which was produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg and his ...
Style:
adult animation, not serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
lion, partner, workplace, workplace situations, large family, children, parallel world, family relations, stage magician, humour, parents and children, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
Style:
humorous, hilarious, funny, entertaining, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
magic, friendship, creativity, showbiz, comeback, artists and showbiz, partner, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, ambition, performer's life ...
Time:
year 2013, year 1982, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
Style:
ambiguous ending, suspense, psychological, mysterious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
eternal youth, new identity, addiction, supernatural ability, psychosis, love, new life, lie, hidden identity, doctor, stage magician, identity ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Not everyone welcomes the new addition to the troupe as ...
Style:
feel good, 3d animation, semi serious, humorous, computer animated ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
magic, pets, friendship, estate, escapades, nephew, stage magician, fight, anthropomorphic animal, cartoon cat, magician, furry ...
Time:
year 2013
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
An enigmatic magician living in an abandoned amusement park introduces magic into the life of a high schooler struggling with harsh realities.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, entertaining, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
magician's assistant, grownups, sister, amusement park, teenage life, dream, following a dream, stage magician, follow your dream, dreaming, magic trick, teenage protagonist ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Colombia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
An inept magician pulls off the trick of his life: accidentally disappearing a wanted criminal during a police raid. Now he's going to pay for that.
Style:
humorous, light, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, magician's assistant, stage magician, illusionist, criminal, humour, magic trick, trick, illusion, magician, mistaken identity, stage magic ...
Time:
2020s
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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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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Sakhti moves to Chennai in search of a job but lands himself in trouble when a CBI officer chases him for a series of murder committed by his lookalike, Kannan.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
changing lives, relationships, problem, fight, stage magician, secret, deception, ambition, satire, mistaken identity, doppelganger, unemployment ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 1947, a magician, Seok-jin plans the most elaborate trick to find out hidden conspiracy in his fiance's death.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, twisted ...
Plot:
conspiracy, investigation, deception, crime investigation, murder, secrets, mystery woman, problem, male female relationship, relationships, magic trick, secret ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Na-Ra is a university student and he has never had a girlfriend in his life. He wants to become a public servant. Jay is a popular magician mired in deep sadness. Joon is an intern at a hospital. He is poor, but he a has warm heart. These people ...
Style:
exciting, witty, entertaining, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot:
youth, personal growth, male doctor, trick, stage magician, young man, clown, magic trick, doctor, card trick, friendship, young adult ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
In addition to the romance between Cha Cha-woong, a magician and employer who handles and manages ghosts, and a passionate female police officer with occult powers, the characters will have to solve a case they coincidentally get swept up in by ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
ghost, paranormal activity, able to see the dead, homicide detective, supernatural power, illusionist, uncover truth, satire, friendship, teamwork, friends, stage magician ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40 years in time to Asakusa, Tokyo. There, he meets his parents when they were young and he learns ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, heartfelt ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
magician, father son relationship, family secret, time travel, travel, time paradox, parents and children, time warp, stage magician, time jump, magic trick, time traveler ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tokyo
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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, taboo sex, sex with a minor, sex, age difference, transgression, older woman younger man sex, ship, male female relationship, sexual tension, older woman teenage boy sex, infidelity ...
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Jonathan Creek follows the story of Madeline Magellan, an investigative journalist. Like most journalists, she sticks her nose in where it isn't wanted, but this is what makes her such a great journalist! While writing a piece about the death ...
Style:
clever, sitcom, anthology, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot:
murder, amateur detective, riddles and clues, prodigy, partners against crime, unlikely partners, investigation, illusion, british police, journalist, magician's assistant, stage magician ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, future
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
Style:
grindhouse, slasher, bloody, detective, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, magician, blood, exploitation, hypnosis, gory, supernatural, magic, murderer, killer, cemetery, fire ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France, UK, South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Scotland, late 1950s. A struggling illusionist visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician.
Style:
breathtaking, stylized, touching, sad, visual ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
magician, art, magic, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, theater, very little dialogue, imagination, mentor, transformation, character study ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1959, year 2010 ...
Place:
england, scotland, france, edinburgh scotland, scottish highlands ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
The annual specials of magic featuring the world's leading illusionist. David Copperfield weaves a narrative with exceptional music in each of his stage illusions, often recorded before a live audience.
Plot:
dancer, manipulation, magician, magic trick, trumpet player, dancing, illusionist, painting, room, live performance, disappearance, book ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Michael Angelis stars in a comedy about double booking a Catholic and Protestant night in a Liverpool nightclub.
Style:
independent film, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
protestant, christmas, anglo irish relations, catholic, satire, partner, violent content, elderly, buddies, terrorism, artists and showbiz, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 1985, 20th century, 80s
Place:
ireland, northern england, england, britain
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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. ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
carnival, magician, magician's assistant, magic, circus, mind reading, chimpanzee, monkey, magic show, magic trick, hick, buddhism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, north carolina, india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, ...
Style:
romantic comedy, humorous, art house, anthology, detective ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
private detective, adultery, existentialism, relationships, prostitution, hotel room, coming of age, amateur detective, swing, couples, young lovers, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, montmartre paris, europe, tokyo
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