20 best movies like Practical Magic (1998)

List of the best movies like Practical Magic (1998): Ruby Sparks, Dark Shadows, The Love Witch, Rough Magic, The Healer, About Time, The Craft, Beautiful Creatures, Heart and Souls, Welcome to Marwen.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

    Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom
    Duration01:53

    Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration01:44

    A sleazy politician sends an agent after his ex-fiancee, who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountrySpain, Canada, USA
    Duration02:56

    The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:03

      The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryJapan, USA
      Duration01:55

      When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:42

      Michael Firch is very skilled in computers and he goes to Paris to meet very important persons to discuss a contract. Michael was born on a special astral date. On arriving in Paris, he meets Morgane and her son. Morgane is a witch, she is beautiful, she is good and she needs Michael to save her son from evil powers. Molok is a sorcerer and he opposes Morgana's plan.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA

      Louise is not very popular at her highschool. Then she learns that she's descended from the witches of Salem and has inherited their powers. At first she uses them to get back at the girls and teachers who teased her and to win the heart of the handsome footballer's captain. But soon she has doubts if it's right to 'cheat' her way to popularity.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) chokes to death and is resurrected by her loopy sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) on the one year anniversary of her death. Lucy, of course, does not believe she has actually been dead and thinks it is an elaborate hoax until she goes to her apartment and discovers her husband (Corbin Bernsen) married to her gold digging best friend, Kim (Sela Ward).

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:39

        Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:28

        Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop livin'!

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Czech Republic
        Duration01:50

        With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryItaly, France
        Duration01:44

        A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
        CountryJapan, France

        Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel. While travelling together, Misuki sees, touches and feels what Yusuke did for those 3 years.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        Dentist, Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryGermany, USA
        Duration01:36

        After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:53

        Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. But when the narration reveals he is going to die, Harold must find the author and convince them to change the ending.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

          In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, musical
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:09

          Under hypnosis while trying to quit smoking, Daisy Gamble revisits past lives and different personalities.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:33

          Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

          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: 7.6
          Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
          CountrySweden, Denmark
          Duration01:44

          Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

          Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Her last date with disaster? That of having accepted to work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          In this rock opera hybrid of Phantom of the Opera and Faust, fledgling singer-songwriter Winslow Leach finds himself double-crossed by the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both his music and the girl Leach wants to sing it, Phoenix, for the grand opening of his rock palace, The Paradise. After Swan sends Leach to prison for trespassing, Leach endures a freak accident which leaves him disfigured and plans his revenge on both Swan and The Paradise, becoming the Phantom of the Paradise.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
          Duration01:56

          A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy about lovers whose romantic affections are manipulated by fairy magic. The setting is updated to a Tuscan hill town in the late 19th century.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, family
          CountryGermany

          The life of 14-year-old Lilith is similar to that of a normal teenager, but there is a peculiarity: she is the daughter of the devil and lives with him in hell. Because she is totally bored there and also wants to have fun and explore the world, she makes a pact with her father: she is allowed to go to earth for a week - but she has to convert a good person to evil there. If she succeeds in this challenge, she may stay on earth forever, otherwise she'll be waving a hell of a boring job in the bookkeeping of the underworld.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          It's New York City in 1981, and various twentysomethings are converging on a New Year's Eve party.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, Italy
          Duration02:01

          Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA

          As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for evil.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:31

          A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
          Duration01:34

          While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
          Duration02:27

          Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

          No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:22

          Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:30

          A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA

          Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

          A powerful and emotional coming of age story, this remarkable tale is told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love. Directed by Gus Van Sant, one of the most astute observers of people living life on the edge, comes a take on friendship and young love as engaging and true as it is provocative and stirring.




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