French films about magic

List of the best French films about magic according to the audience: Pan's Labyrinth, Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods, One Man and his Cow, Santa & Cie, The Fairy, Pinocchio, Love on the Ground, Pinocchio, The Zigzag Kid, Tale of Tales.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8.2
Genrefantasy, drama, military
CountrySpain, Mexico, USA, France
Duration01:58

    Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:22

    In order to wipe out the Gaulish village by any means necessary, Caesar plans to absorb the villagers into Roman culture by having an estate built next to the village to start a new Roman colony.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryFrance

    An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, family
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:31

    Christmas is on its way and with it disaster. The 92,000 responsible for manufacturing children's toys all become sick at the same time! It's a tough moment for Santa, better known as Father Christmas. He's left no choice: he must make an emergency trip to Earth with his reindeer to search for a remedy. When he arrives, he must find some allies to save the magic of Christmas.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:33

    A hotel clerk searches all over Le Havre for the fairy who made two of his three wishes come true before disappearing.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom

    In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:05

    Two actresses fall prey to the supernatural manipulations of a nightclub magician.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryItaly, Luxembourg, France, Belgium

    Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He will call him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves, as if by magic, and is gifted with a life on its own.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryNetherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain, France
    Duration01:35

    Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
    CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom
    Duration02:17

    From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genreaction, adventure, cartoon, detective, sport
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:29

    Paxtown, a corrupt capital, torn by crime and preyed by the mafia. In this rotten megalopolis, Richard Aldana, street smart, without ties or ambitions, is a boxer in his off time. But this was all before everything got flipped on its head. Overnight, Aldana finds himself with Siri, a girl targeted by "The Order of the Lion," a religious group that thinks the girl is the key to "the other world".

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:30

    It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Aurora's life suddenly gets complicated after her seven grandkids arrive to her house for vacation.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance

    Short videos showing typical funny moments in French life, depicting way of life, being, laughing, habits, and using slang vocabulary. Specially recommended for Parisians and / or people who lived there.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:38

    Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:59

    Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:37

    Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just been released from a clinic.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryFrance

    Seyolo Zantoko is a doctor from Congo who wants to get away from dictatorship and he is hired by the mayor of a small village in the north of France. The locals fear Seyolo and his family as they have never seen African people before, and Seyolo and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. But Seyolo is determined to succeed and to win the trust of the villagers.

    Markimdb: 2.4
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryFrance, Peru, USA
    Duration01:25

    There is a plot under way to change the course of history. Four kids are chosen to be the Freedom Force—a gang of unlikely heroes who travel through time to change the outcome of sacred stories.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, adventure
    CountryFrance, Czech Republic
    Duration01:42

    Philibert, a robust lad and eldest son of an artichoke farmer, stands out from the other boys in the village. Idealistic and ingenuous, he foresees for himself a glorious future in artichokes and is saving his virginity for an as-yet-unknown woman chosen for him by God. Before he dies, his father tells him that he isn't his real parent. Philibert's real father was a gentleman murdered in the most cowardly way by a man from Burgundy who is recognisable by a rose-shaped strawberry birthmark on his neck. With a pouch full of ideals and artichokes, Philibert leaves his village and gallops towards Burgundy, accompanied by Martin, his rather deceitful manservant. Philibert's courage, kindness, physical and moral purity will thus be severely tested when faced with the baseness and venality of villains and the temptation of women each more lustful than the last.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:08

    Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, music
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:58

    Under the pressure of his boss, a music producer decides to set up a group consisting of a rabbi, a priest and an imam to make them sing the living together. But the religious he recruits are far from being saints ...

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryFrance

    More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family and blames his mother for their long separation. When she discovers that Mickaël is crazy about wrestling, Rose thinks she's found a way to melt the ice: she'll put together a tag team with three girlfriends from the store where all four work as checkout girls...

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:28

    Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has remained a mystery. Two weeks before his release, an armed robber named Quentin Tasseau helps him escape and takes him to Manila so he can take part in a robbery whose mastermind requires the talents of the Marquis.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea, France
    Duration01:38

    On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest and fired. A teacher named Claire goes around taking photos with a Polaroid camera. She gets to know Manhee and sympathizes with her. Through taking photos, Claire has acquired the ability to look slowly at things and to transform objects.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:36

    Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Portugal
    Duration01:35

    Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems to be hiding something, especially to Doroteia, who is anxiously waiting to see her son again. Sofia is also waiting for her husband to come home, and yet she fears him. All of a sudden, João arrives and everything changes.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium

    Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades. From everybody’s point of view, including Madeleine’s family, they are simply two neighbors living on the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, sharing the tender delights of everyday life together. Until the day their relationship is turned upside down by an unexpected event leading Madeleine’s daughter to slowly unveil the truth about them.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Netherlands, France, USA
    Duration02:27

    The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Brussels, early '60s. Alice and Céline live in twin bourgeois houses. They are best friends as are their children, Theo and Maxime, who have grown up like brothers. Both families spend all their time together. This perfect harmony is broken when an accident creates strong divisions between the two families.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration01:39

    Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreadventure, family
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:40

    Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:42

    Dino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director is openly proposed and his companion for a year, Helen, has the firm intention to marry her. For Dino, life is great, except that this perfect life was built on a lie. Dino is actually called Mourad Ben Saoud. Neither his boss nor Helen and even less his parents are aware of this false identity. In ten days begins Ramadan and Mourad who passes every year will this time assume the promise made to his sick father. Taking part in Ramadan, For Dino - the Italian - it will not be easy.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration01:50

    Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:58

    Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration01:30

    Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his dionysiac cousin throws himself into their carnal delights with euphoria. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright simmer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub (‘destiny' in Arabic) can decide.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg
    Duration01:22

    Buddy is an abandoned young cocker spaniel waiting dejectedly in his cage for a kind, new owner to adopt him. Suddenly, Billy, a little boy whose hair is as red as Buddy's, appears. It's love at first sight and the beginning of a great friendship. But for Billy's parents, this is where the trouble begins.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:15

    A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:53

    Diane is a well-known lawyer, divorced for three years. She loses her mobile telephone and receives a call from the person who finds it. That person is Alexandre, a charming man and the perfect gentleman. They make a connection over the phone and agree to meet up the following day. But when Alexandre arrives, there's a surprise in store when Diane discovers he is only 4' 6" tall. From that moment on, Diane tries to overcome the prejudices of society and her own fears to experience the best time of her life...

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance

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    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance

    A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends at an apartment, ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills - only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:24

    Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:43

    Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance

    When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume his activity in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. After a severe casting, they engage Louise, who quickly conquers the affection of children and gradually occupies a central place in the home. Gradually the trap of mutual dependence will close, until the tragedy.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:11

    With nuclear war looming, a military expert in underwater acoustics strives to prove things aren't as they seem—or sound—using only his ears.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Lea and her husband Marc have known Francis and his wife Karine for a very long time. Over the years, each one of them has been assigned a specific role. The balance and dynamic of the group is blown up when Lea decides to write a novel, which turns into an immediate bestseller…

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:52

    French border cop José Fernandez has just one last extradition to do before his long-awaited promotion to the crime bureau. But his detainee Akim, victim of a judiciary glitch, is outraged to find himself saddled with the identity of a potential terrorist and put on a flight back to Kabul, where he has never even set foot before! What starts as a routine trip for Fernandez and his skirt-chasing partner Guy goes haywire when their plane is grounded in Malta, forcing them to bunk up with Akim, who will stop at nothing to avoid extradition!

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a palpable sense of placelessness and it doesn't take long before the hunter's dog disappears and he finds himself lost.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:28

    In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay sex film, together?

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:27

    Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.




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