Films about magic (illusion)

2006 film directed by Christopher Nolan

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, but includes contributions from other writers. The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.

2011 historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese

Now You See Me is a 2013 American heist film directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin, and Edward Ricourt and a story by Yakin and Ricourt. It is the first installment in the Now You See Me series. The film features an ensemble cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Common, Dave Franco, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman. The plot follows an FBI agent and an Interpol detective who track and attempt to bring to justice a team of magicians who pull off bank heists and robberies during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

2013 film directed by Sam Raimi

Wicked is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. It adapts the first act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star as Elphaba Thropp and Glinda Upland, respectively; while Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum appear in supporting roles. Set in the Land of Oz before the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film explores the early relationship between Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her schoolmate Galinda, who becomes Glinda the Good.

1938 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2006 film directed by Neil Burger

Now You See Me 2 is a 2016 American heist film directed by Jon M. Chu from a screenplay by Ed Solomon and a story by Solomon and Peter Chiarelli. It serves as a sequel to Now You See Me (2013) and the second installment in the Now You See Me series. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Ben Lamb, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan, Jay Chou, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman. The plot has the Four Horsemen and their leader Dylan Rhodes recruited by Walter Mabry, a criminal mastermind, to steal a data chip.

2014 film by Woody Allen

Wicked: For Good is a 2025 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The sequel to Wicked (2024), it adapts the second act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum reprise their roles from the first film. Set in the Land of Oz before and during the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film follows Elphaba and Glinda in their new identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

2013 Hindi film directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya

Now You See Me: Now You Don't is a 2025 American heist film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie, the writing duo of Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, and Seth Grahame-Smith, based on a story by Eric Warren Singer and Lesslie. The film is the sequel to Now You See Me 2 (2016) and the third installment in the Now You See Me film series. The cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, and Morgan Freeman returning from previous films, joined by new cast members Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, and Rosamund Pike.

2006 film directed by Woody Allen

1958 film by Ingmar Bergman

1978 film by Sidney Lumet

2016 Russian animated film

1896 film directed by Georges Méliès

2013 film by Lilly Keeley Watts

2010 animated film about a French magician directed by Sylvain Chomet

2007 film by Gillian Armstrong

2008 film by Sean McGinly

1947 film by Edmund Goulding

2008 animated short film directed by Doug Sweetland

2003 film directed by Damian Nieman

1980 Canadian film by Roger Spottiswoode

2008 television film

1988 film by István Szabó

1900 short silent film directed by Georges Méliès

2010 film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

1978 film directed by Richard Attenborough

2023 film by Wendy Rogers

1898 film directed by Georges Méliès

1978 film by Jerzy Skolimowski

2014 film by Aaron Scott Moorhead

Mersal () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Atlee and produced by Thenandal Studio Limited, in the studio's hundredth film production. The film stars Vijay in triple roles, alongside S. J. Suryah, Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nithya Menen, Vadivelu, Hareesh Peradi, Kovai Sarala, Sathyan and Sathyaraj. It is the second out of the three collaboration between Vijay and Atlee, before they began working with others. The film follows Maaran, a reputed doctor who charges meagre amounts from his patients, seemingly works in a double life as a vigilante magician

1942 film

2020 film directed by Mark Waters

1899 film by Georges Méliès

1898 film by Georges Méliès

1995 film directed by Clive Barker

1997 film by Charles Sturridge

2019 film

2011 film by Derek Yee

1980 film by Satyajit Ray

1939 film by Tay Garnett

1899 film by Georges Méliès

1953 film by George Marshall

1937 Mickey Mouse short directed by David Hand

1896 film by Georges Méliès

1928 film by Tod Browning

2021 film directed by Aanand L. Rai

1958 film by Frank Tashlin

1968 Soviet film by Pyotr Todorovsky

2005 film directed by Duwayne Dunham

1948 film by John Farrow

1901 film by Georges Méliès

2020 Russian film

1971 film by Henry Jaglom

1976 film by Claude Chabrol