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10 Best Movies Like The Magic Lantern

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

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#1
Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past

1999★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Magic Lantern for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family...

#2
The Impossible Voyage

The Impossible Voyage

1904★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Magic Lantern for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea....

#3
The Big Swallow

The Big Swallow

1901★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Magic Lantern for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps bac...

#4
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2016★ 6.8

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

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them....

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...