Films about witchcraft

2006 film directed by Gore Verbinski

Harry Potter is a film series based on the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The series was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and consists of eight fantasy films, beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). A spin-off prequel series started with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), marking the beginning of the Wizarding World shared media franchise.

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.

2016 film directed by David Ayer

1957 film by Ingmar Bergman

2017 film directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning

2022 film directed by Sam Raimi

2017 film directed by Bill Condon

2005 film directed by Andrew Adamson

1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. It is the inaugural film in The Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Their purportedly real-life reports inspired The Amityville Horror story and the associated film franchise. The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family, who experienced increasingly disturbing events in their newly occupied farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971.

2008 film directed by Rob Cohen

1999 film by Tim Burton

2010 film by Louis Leterrier

1968 film directed by Roman Polanski

2008 film directed by Andrew Adamson

2003 film by Tim Burton

1982 film directed by John Milius

2007 film directed by Matthew Vaughn

2007 American live-action/animated musical film

1991 film by Barry Sonnenfeld

1991 film directed by Kevin Reynolds

2020 film directed by Niki Caro

2013 film directed by Sam Raimi

2007 film directed by Chris Weitz

2012 film by Rupert Sanders

2014 film directed by Rob Marshall

1999 film directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

2005 film by Terry Gilliam

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.

2025 film directed by Marc Webb

2012 film by Tim Burton

2023 film directed by Rob Marshall

2010 film directed by Michael Apted

2020 film directed by Josh Boone

1984 film by Richard Fleischer

2015 film directed by Kenny Ortega

1971 film directed by Robert Stevenson

2010 film directed by Jon Turteltaub

2013 film by Tommy Wirkola

2009 film directed by Sam Raimi

2012 comedy fantasy film by Tarsem Singh

1988 film directed by Ron Howard

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, with a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick from a story by Johnson-McGoldrick and James Wan. The film is a sequel to The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring 2 (2016), and the seventh installment in The Conjuring Universe. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren, with Ruairi O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook in her feature film debut, and Julian Hilliard also starring. Wan and Peter Safran return to produce the film, which is based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, a murder trial that took place in 1981 Connecticut, in addition to The Devil in Connecticut, a book about the trial written by Gerald Brittle.

2024 film directed by Tim Burton

1981 film by John Boorman

1993 film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

2017 film directed by Guy Ritchie

The Odyssey is an upcoming epic fantasy action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. An adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic the Odyssey, the film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, and chronicles his long and perilous journey home after the Trojan War as he attempts to reunite with his wife, Penelope, portrayed by Anne Hathaway. The ensemble cast also features Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron, among others. Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas are producing the film through their production company, Syncopy.

Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Kenny Ortega from a screenplay by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert, and a story by David Kirschner and Garris. It follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night.

Weapons is a 2025 American supernatural mystery horror film directed, written, co-produced, and co-scored by Zach Cregger. It stars an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Its plot follows the case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously run away on the same night at the same time.

2013 film directed by Carl Rinsch

2013 film by Richard LaGravenese

2016 film by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan

1995 film by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Alexandre Rockwell, Allison Anders

2013 film by Thor Freudenthal

1987 film by George Miller

1993 film by Jean-Marie Poiré

1987 film directed by Gary Goddard

2011 film directed by Marcus Nispel