Magic show movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant magic show movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious, suspense, entertaining and realistic films and TV shows about / with magic show, magician, magic, magic trick, illusion, destiny, death, runaway, redemption and brutality plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as magic show: Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), One Man and His Cow (2016), The Great Buck Howard (2008), Dark Realm (2013), The Magic Show (1983), Houdini (2014), The Wizard of Gore (2007), The New Magic Roundabout (2007), World of Winx (2016).
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List of magic show movies
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.
Style:
suspense, bleak, surprise ending, neo noir, intellectual ...
Plot:
magic show, motel, female protagonist, investigation, amateur detective, puzzle, disappearance, complex characters, child abduction, niagara falls, mental illness, manipulation ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style:
feel good, light, clever, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
mistaken identity, amnesia, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, magician's assistant, adultery, locker, intrigue, feminist, magic show ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
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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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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: 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: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Dark Realm is the story of a Master Illusionist inspired by the Occult who may actually be in league with evil forces to assure his success. It may also bring destruction for him, and everyone else in his macabre show.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, disturbing, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
magic, pact with the devil, magic trick, magic show, ghost, killing, characters in danger, supernatural ability, escapades, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, chase ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
Story:
Filmed entirely at the homes of Penn & Teller and their friends around the world, "Penn & Teller: Try This At Home Too" is the second show from the magical duo and showcases new magic Penn & Teller and their magician friends ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, funny, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
illusion, magic show, magician, magic, illusionist, wizards and magicians, public speaking, satire, variety show, intimate, performance art, behind the scenes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Magic Show is a one-act musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Bob Randall. It starred magician Doug Henning. Produced by Edgar Lansbury, it opened on May 28, 1974 at the Cort Theatre in Manhattan, and ran for 1,920 ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, retro, period piece, whimsical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
broadway, magic show, illusionist, stage musical, rivalry, spectacle, showbiz, jealousy, nightclub, confidence, identity, coming of age ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 76 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
rise to the top, undercover, performer's life, artists and showbiz, espionage, couple relations, husband wife relationship, magic show, mother son relationship, biopic, swindle, magician ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place:
america, budapest, san francisco, brooklyn new york city, washington d.c. ...
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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: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Four 1st-level heroes. One epic monster. Certain death!
Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! serves up comedic mayhem as four special guests pit their low-level Dungeons & Dragons characters against the game’s mightiest monsters. Each one-hour ...
Style:
funny, sincere, exciting, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot:
dungeons and dragons, stage magic, wizards and magicians, adventure hero, adventurer, game, magic, magical power, magic show, magical, sword and sorcery, dark humor ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story:
In 2006/2007, a new TV version of The Magic Roundabout was created, with 52 11-minute episodes, by French animation house Action Synthese with scripts and voices produced in the UK. Directed by Graham Ralph of Silver Fox Films and produced by ...
Style:
light hearted, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
friendship, magic, children, friends, magical, magic show, satire, rebirth, talking animal, adaptation, british
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Winx travel all over the world searching for talent for WOW. and preventing the mysterious talent thief from kidnapping them.
Style:
light, feel good, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
talent show, kidnapping, showbiz, superhero, magical girl, friendship, artists and showbiz, talented, magic show, dancing, talent, girl power ...
Place:
europe, asia
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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: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
Style:
fairy tale, costume drama, touching, mysterious, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
fairy, childhood, children, writers, world war one, friendship, child, beautiful scenery, family relations, miraculous event, heroes, hopes ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s, year 1997, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A surreal comedy depicting a diverse cast of characters and the changes they undergo as the German tourist Jasmin interacts with each of them at a remote truck stop in the middle of the Mojave desert.
Style:
touching, surreal, meditative, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
desert, friendship, restaurant, character study, motel, food, transformation, magic realism, life philosophy, female friendship, starting over, wilderness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
utah, california, las vegas, nevada, germany
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes he has someone threatening his life so that he "wouldn't sweat the small stuff," each of them begins a series of pranks on the ...
Style:
humorous, surreal, absurd, dark comedy, disgusting ...
Plot:
magic, murder, creativity, prankster, psychopath, danger, dark humor, stalking, faked death, prank, chase, magician ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city, egypt
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Michael Carbonaro is a magician by trade, but a prankster by heart. In "The Carbonaro Effect", Michael performs baffling tricks on unsuspecting people in everyday situations, all caught on hidden camera. Everyone is left stunned and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light hearted
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
hidden camera, illusion, prankster, prank, disorder, magic trick, deception, entertainment, surprise, improv, social experiment, gay ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
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: Horror
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
cursed object, curse, zodiac sign, tarot card, evil being, zodiac, horoscope, supernatural power, college student, curses spells and rituals, supernatural being, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1969, year 1988, year 1951
Place:
former yugoslavia, london, mexico city, hungary
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Genre: Documentary, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Emanuelle hosts this peculiar sexploitation Mondo film that looks at several examples of bizarre sexual behavior.
Style:
mondo, erotic, controversial, perverse, transgressive ...
Plot:
exploitation, lesbian sex, emmanuelle, sexploitation, taboo, lesbianism, voyeurism, voyeur, obscenity, sexual exploration, underground, bestiality ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Operating under the adage that wetter is better, Penn and Teller: Off the Deep End goes where no magic show has ever gone before--deep underwater on the floor of the Caribbean Sea! The original bad boys of magic, Penn & Teller, take their ...
Style:
lighthearted, experimental, mockumentary
Plot:
magic, illusion, underwater, marine, trick, variety show, stage magic, deadpan, water, sketch, exploration, adult humor ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
caribbean
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually ...
Style:
touching, sweet, anime, exciting, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot:
good versus evil, unicorn, horse, friendship, magic, rescue, heroic mission, wizard, unrequited love, quest, female protagonist, dragon ...
Time:
year 1982, 90s, 80s
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dramatic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
magic, escape artist, biopic, occult, illusion, spiritualism, skepticism, magician, death, afterlife, seance, marriage ...
Time:
turn of the century
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, suspense, talky, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
journalist, journalism, investigation, serial killer, plot twist, murder investigation, police investigation, student, uncover truth, suspicion of murder, dangerous attraction, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his ...
Style:
clever, funny, feel good, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot:
baby, teenage girl, shrinking, inventor, businessman, nothing goes right, fish out of water, inventions and discoveries, childhood, giant, stuffed toy rabbit, electrocution ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The famous illusionists, the Romanov brothers, present to the public their grandiose show, after which they are going to end their joint performances because of the accumulated mutual claims. In the first issue, with the disappearance of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, intellectual
Plot:
illusionist, female partner, magic trick, brother brother relationship, perfect crime, reluctant partners, teamwork, twists and turns, manipulation, deception, creativity, stage magic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, disturbing ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, coming of age, boy, exodus, little boy, best friend, working class, dysfunctional family, family relations, rejection, human nature ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style:
disturbing, dark fantasy, twist ending, psychological, enigmatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, stephen king, psychic power, psychic, supernatural, disappearance, haunted house, supernatural power, nightmare, doctor, death, haunted hotel ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, year 1980, 80s, 2010s ...
Place:
ohio, new jersey, colorado, iowa, florida ...
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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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