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10 Best Movies Like Carnival Magic

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

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#1
Oz the Great and Powerful

Oz the Great and Powerful

2013★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival Magic for fans of Fantasy & Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save ...

#2
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival Magic for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil....

#3
The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

1982★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival Magic for fans of Fantasy & Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets ou...

#4
Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival Magic for fans of Drama & Fantasy & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play ru...

#5
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

1972★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival Magic for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt agains...

#6
Big Fish

Big Fish

2003★ 7.8

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

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, t...

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