Best movies like Magicians
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Plot Summary:
In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, sentimental, entertaining, suspense
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Come Look at Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
The movie is about an old disabled lady who lives with her spinster daughter. The lady desperately wants her daughter to marry, and the daughter, driven by the supposed imminent death of her mother, invites a total stranger home and introduces him as her boyfriend. The man and the prospective mother-in-law eventually start to like each other, and he makes every effort to be liked by the daughter. With the intervention of a fantasy granddaughter, quasi-miraculous healing, and a lot of hilarious repartee in between, the movie has a happy ending.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, semi serious, captivating
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Monday Begins on Saturday (1965)
Plot Summary:
Set in a fictional town in northern Russia, where highly classified research in magic occurs, the novel is a satire of Soviet scientific research institutes, complete with an inept administration, a dishonest, show-horse professor, and numerous equipment failures. It offers an idealistic view of the scientific work ethic, as reflected in the title which suggests that the scientists' weekends are nonexistent. (Wikipedia).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 63 min
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My Seawoman (1991)
Plot Summary:
At a popular vacation destination in Crimea every evening the entertainer Lyudmila Pashkova hosts "Where are you, talents?" - a friendly competition designed to amuse vacationers. Michael Gudkov, a vacationer from the northern Russian city of Murmansk, takes up the challenge performing his favorite song "My Female Sailor". In spite of a well-received performance the host did not award a victory to him. Feeling slighted Michael decides to compete every evening with his song until he gets his well-deserved prize becoming a favorite fixture of the local competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: entertaining
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Ballad of a Hussar (1962)
Plot Summary:
A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: uplifting, captivating, entertaining, tense
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Once Upon a Time... Happily Never After (2022)
Plot Summary:
A tragically separated couple must find each other in another life to break a spell on their town, but the arrival of two tourists threaten their chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Spain
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, modern fairy tale
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Wicked (2024)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and it involves love, loss, hatred, envy and an unwillingness to accept anything that is different.
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Genere: Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Khottabych (2006)
Plot Summary:
Young programmer and hacker Gena meets Khottabych - a genie who can't quite understand today life realities after spending thousands of years in a lamp.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, captivating, entertaining, fairy tale
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A Night Before Christmas (1961)
Plot Summary:
Funny story about how on Christmas Eve in the Ukrainian village of beguiled the devil and how mighty Vakula managed to overcome evil spirits, and to take his bride to the king's slippers. A screen adaptation of Nikolai Gogol "The Night Before Christmas.".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, romantic, touching
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An Ordinary Miracle (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, touching, entertaining, fairy tale, unusual plot structure, surprise ending
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Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (1970)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds of intrigue and treachery.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, folk tale, feel good
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Hollywood Stargirl (2022)
Plot Summary:
When Stargirl's mother is hired as the costume designer on a movie, they relocate to L.A., where Stargirl quickly becomes involved with an eclectic assortment of characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, teen comedy
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Oh How It Hurts 66 (1967)
Plot Summary:
A fantasy story based on Kornei Chukovsky classics about a brave doctor Aybolit and his adventures on the land and on the sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The New Year's Rate Plan (2008)
Plot Summary:
Performing the traditional New Year's call on the unknown phone number Andrey didn't even suspected, that just after his return to Moscow, he had bought a magic starting pack of cellular communications operator. Getting through to the deserted in New Year's eve Alyona, Andrey almost falls in love with her, but there exists a temporal problem. Alyona is celebrating coming 2008 year and Andrey is going to meet 2009. Trying "to set a contact" with Alyona's «future variant» he comes to know the terrible truth about the events, that appended in the end of 2008. Now the main goal of Andrey and all his friends - to prevent the awful tragedy and to turn into reality the meeting of Alyona and Andrey.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, emotional, entertaining, disturbing, surprise ending
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Viva High School Musical: Mexico (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cristobal sees Mariana with new eyes after the summer vacation since both love singing. The mexican version of the Disney musical.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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All I Want for Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
After being told by her boss that the company needs to attract more clients, Elizabeth, a skilled executive, meets one of Santa’s helpers, who blesses her with an extraordinary gift allowing Elizabeth to hear everyone’s unspoken thoughts. While first using her new-found power to get ahead at work, she soon learns to become a better person, turning an office rivalry into romance while learning the true meaning of Christmas along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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The Blonde Around the Corner (1984)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating
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A Christmas Number One (2021)
Plot Summary:
Meg, a music manager, travels from New York to London to manage a boy band, Five Together, and find them a Christmas number one to bolster their flagging career. She finds a song on the internet posted by an ailing thirteen-year-old girl, Nina, and tries to obtain permission to have the song re-recorded by Five Together, but she discovers she has competition from the songwriter, Nina’s uncle Blake. What follows is a romantic comedy about two worlds colliding – with a young woman at the centre who desperately wants her uncle to find love and for his song to hit the number one spot by Christmas Day.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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After the Rain, on Thursday (1986)
Plot Summary:
A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, humorous, captivating
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The Last Warrior (2017)
Plot Summary:
ivan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. in this parallel universe where characters of russian fairy tales live, magic is an integral part of the daily life, and arguments are settled with the help of sword ght. Unexpectedly, ivan nds himself in the middle of the battle between the good and evil. He has to nd out why everyone thinks that he should play the main role in the occurring events.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, captivating, stylized, folk tale, colorful, colourful
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Formula of Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Princess Raccoon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, humorous, emotional, stylized, semi serious, fairy tale
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Frosty (1965)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, atmospheric, touching, humorous, semi serious, folk tale, mysterious, grindhouse, campy
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A Fairy Tale After All (2022)
Plot Summary:
A stubborn teenage girl finds herself confronted by whimsical characters when she is transported into a world of fantasy and fairy tales while attending a school marionette show.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The Santa Con (2014)
Plot Summary:
Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic
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A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kat is an aspiring singer-songwriter who dreams of making it big. However, her dreams are stalled by her reality: a conniving and cruel stepfamily and a demoralizing job working as a singing elf at billionaire Terrence Wintergarden’s Santa Land.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, sweet, sincere, captivating, entertaining, teen, christmas comedy, inspirational, sentimental
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Love Is Eternal While It Lasts (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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A Chaster Marriage (2016)
Plot Summary:
In love with Duygu, as well as with his favorite football team, Zafer is one of those grown-up men who never really grow up. One day, he finds himself forced into a marriage by his father, and despite his many funny attempts to get out of the marriage, Zafer’s plans yield no result. Can Zafer understand the meaning of true love before the final whistle blows?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Town That Came A-Courtin' (2014)
Plot Summary:
Abby, obituary writer turned author, is used to making up quirky, charming characters in her books, but here in Bliss it almost seems like those characters have sprung to life, and Abby is fantasizing about moving right in. The townspeople have set their matchmaking minds in motion and they aren't about to let Abby leave without a little love in her heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Fixing Up Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
Known as a “fixer” for difficult clients, a talented party planner must help a young CEO plan the Christmas party of the year to dazzle the mayor and save his company. Wil the “fixer” fix something more than just the company?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Cinderella (2021)
Plot Summary:
A modern reimagining of the traditional tale of the orphaned girl with an evil stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, inspirational, captivating, psychological, sincere, touching, feel good, costume drama, anamorphic, visual