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10 Best Movies Like Magic

If you loved Magic, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Life, and Nothing More…

Life, and Nothing More…

1992★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In...

#2
Not Without My Daughter

Not Without My Daughter

1991★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well....

#3
Septembers of Shiraz

Septembers of Shiraz

2015★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolut...

#4
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

2012★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love....

#5
The Stoning of Soraya M.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

2009★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marria...

#6
Life of Pi

Life of Pi

2012★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Magic for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the P...

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