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51. Le plus grand cabaret du monde (1998– )
Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
The greatest cabaret in the world.
Stars: Patrick Sébastien, Dani Lary, Bernard Bilis, Corinne Benizio
Votes: 76
52. Houdini (1996)
G | 61 min | Documentary, Biography
The film takes a look back at the life of the great Houdini, escape-artist and magician extraordinaire. It also looks into his trying to debunk spiritualists and his silent movie career. It... See full summary »
Director: Gene M. Gamache | Stars: Hal Douglas, Harry Houdini
Votes: 21
53. Illusion (1929)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A vaudeville magician and his lady assistant break up their team, when he becomes infatuated with a socialite, only to get back together when she is almost killed in her new act gone wrong.
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Kay Francis
Votes: 41
54. Mixed Magic (1936)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
A professional magician, "The Great Spumoni", fires his male assistant and his female assistant insists that he hire another one. The young man he hires turns out to have no aptitude whatsoever for a magic act. Complications ensue.
Director: Raymond Kane | Stars: Buster Keaton, Eddie Lambert, Marlyn Stuart, Eddie Hall
Votes: 145
55. The Vanishing Lady (1897)
1 min | Short
A magician makes a woman sitting on a covered chair disappear and appear again.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 338
56. La magia de Los Parchís (1982)
90 min | Comedy, Musical, Family
A magician who has lost his confidence raises his orphan granddaughter in the theater he operates. the arrival of the Spanish teen singing group, Los Parchis, helps grandfather get his mojo back.
Director: Mario Sábato | Stars: Francisco Díaz 'Frank', Tino Fernández, Gemma Termes Prat, David Muñoz
Votes: 68
57. Radio tekee murron (1951)
91 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real... See full summary »
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Hannes Häyrinen, Ritva Arvelo, Kullervo Kalske, Kunto Karapää
Votes: 348
58. Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Chester Morris, Trudy Marshall, Constance Dowling, Richard Lane
Votes: 360
59. Mysto-Fox (1946)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Fox hosts a magic show at a carnival looking for rabbit auditions, but the Crow disguises as a rabbit in order to wreck the show.
Director: Bob Wickersham | Stars: Frank Graham, Harry Lang
Votes: 24
60. The Living Playing Cards (1905)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
With a brand-new deck of playing cards in his hand, an elegantly-attired thaumaturge, by fire and the pure power of illusion, transforms a plain nine of spades card into a full-size Queen of Hearts.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,581
61. Pekka ja Pätkä Suez'illa (1958)
74 min | Comedy
Director: Armand Lohikoski | Stars: Esa Pakarinen, Masa Niemi, Siiri Angerkoski, Assi Nortia
Votes: 360
62. The Magician (1898)
1 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
In a traditional "magician" attire, the wizard of illusion and jump cuts, Georges Méliès, says the magic words and conjures up wonders from a plain wooden box.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 991
63. The World's Most Dangerous Magic (1998 TV Special)
60 min | Fantasy
Leading magicians perform tricks and escape feats that threaten death or horrific injury should they fail. Robert Gallup escapes from a strait jacket while suspended from burning ropes and ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Carter | Stars: Robert Gallup, Dean Gunnarson, Mark Kalin, Gary Kurtz
64. Yaku san-jû no uso (2004)
100 min | Comedy, Mystery
"Yaku san-ju no uso", otherwise known as "Thirty Lies Or So", is about four men and two women who plot to defraud a mystery company. Each character tries to deceive the other out of the 70 ... See full summary »
Director: Kentarô Ohtani | Stars: Kippei Shîna, Miki Nakatani, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Seiichi Tanabe
Votes: 167
65. The Enchanted Sedan Chair (1905)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy
A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate palanquin is summoned. Now, what does the illusionist have in mind?
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 536
66. Iloinen Linnanmäki (1960)
81 min | Comedy
THE SHAMPOO WARS. Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Director: Jack Witikka | Stars: Niilo Tarvajärvi, Tea Ista, Ismo Kallio, Matti Aulos
Votes: 83
67. Dread of Night Radio Theatre (2020– )
29 min | Horror
Stars: Kirk R. Thatcher, Liesel Hanson, Jennifer Lynn Warren, Frank Dietz
68. Transformation Magic (2011 Video)
6 min | Short, Drama, Family
After a bad show, a down on his luck magician meets a mysterious little girl who attempts to cheer him up with a few magic tricks of her own.
Director: Nina Bernardakis | Stars: Blake Bjornstad, Abby Rodriguez, Abby Rodriguez
69. A Lad and His Lamp (1929)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Another Van Beuren Aesop's Fables cartoon with a soundtrack added in the late 1940s.
Director: Paul Terry
Votes: 40
71. Valkoisen neilikan velho (1945)
84 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A crime comedy, where an upper class gentleman, also an amateur magician, discovers a criminal gang and reveals "the consul's" ugly manners.
Director: Ilmari Unho | Stars: Hilkka Helinä, Joel Rinne, Ritva Arvelo, Eine Laine
Votes: 55
72. Television Magic (1932– )
15 min
This series, which aired on experimental mechanical television in New York City, consisted of magic tricks.
Star: Edwin Howard
73. Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät (1992)
104 min | Comedy
Finland is given the global nuclear launch codes and the enemy agents are trying to steal them. It's up to Sergeant First Class Körmy and his soldiers to protect the operation and the president.
Director: Ere Kokkonen | Stars: Heikki Kinnunen, Kalevi Kahra, Pentti Siimes, Vesa Vierikko
Votes: 540
74. Postal Union (1937)
21 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A telegraph worker has to learn magic in order to get a pretty co-worker to agree to marry him.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Georgie Price, Vera Dunn, Toni Lane, Marilyn Marlowe
Votes: 45
75. Something Strange (2016 TV Short)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Mentalist and oddity collector Chris Mysterion and his showbiz partner Steffi Kay organize a circus sideshow revival in Toronto.
Director: Kelli Kieley | Stars: Mysterion, Steffi Kay, Nicholas Cvjetkovich, Dan Malette
76.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Now You See Him
(1976)
TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A stage illusionist kills his employer and makes it look like a contract killing; it's up to Lt. Columbo to trick the master trickster.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Peter Falk, Jack Cassidy, Bob Dishy, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 2,926
77.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
(1996)
TV-PG | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.
Directors: Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon | Stars: Richard Ben Cramer, William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich
Votes: 1,458
78.
The Aunty Jack Show (1972–1973)
Episode:
Unaired Pilot: Aunty Jack's Travelling Show
(1972)
30 min | Comedy
Meet Aunty Jack with Thin Arthur, Narrator Neville, Little Audrey and Airy Fairy.
Director: Maurice Murphy | Stars: Grahame Bond, John Derum, Kate Fitzpatrick, Sharman Mellick
79.
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode:
Give Me Your Walls
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The Petries hire a painter for their living room who ends up doing a lot, other than what they hired him to do.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews
Votes: 241
80.
Father of the Pride (2004–2005)
Episode:
Larry's Debut, and Sweet Darryl Hannah Too
(2004)
TV-14 | 21 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Settling into the fame of his new position as lead lion, Larry looks forward to his debut in the show until Siegfried and Roy proclaim to Matt Lauer during their appearance on Today (1952) ... See full summary »
Directors: John Holmquist, Klay Hall | Stars: John Goodman, Cheryl Hines, Orlando Jones, Carl Reiner
Votes: 25
81.
The Flintstones (1960–1966)
Episode:
Hot Lips Hannigan
(1960)
Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
It's Fred's responsibility this time around to assemble an act for Amateur Night at his and Barney's club.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 378
82.
The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode:
The Swords
(1997)
TV-MA | 28 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man becomes involved with a woman who can be penetrated by swords.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Terence Stamp, Balthazar Getty, Amanda Ryan, Jamie Foreman
Votes: 219
83.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Foxes and Hounds Affair
(1965)
TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A magician has developed a mind-reading device and offers it to UNCLE. The problem is Thrush, led by rivals Victor Marton and Miss Belmont, also is seeking the machine.
Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Medina
Votes: 135
84.
Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode:
Wheel of Death
(1994)
TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The arrival of a traveling carnival in Cabot Cove coincides with a rash of burglaries and the murder of the troupe's owner.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Thom Bierdz, Maria Canals-Barrera, Jimi Defilippis
Votes: 282
85.
One Foot in the Grave (1990–2001)
Episode:
Alive and Buried
(1990)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy, Drama
At the age of 60, Victor Meldrew is retired from his job as a security guard to be replaced by a box and a recorded message.
Director: Susan Belbin | Stars: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Susie Blake, Valerie Minifie
Votes: 206
86.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
A Vanishing Art
(2000)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Accompanying Max the magician, Sydney and Nigel journey to Atlantic City, New Jersey, searching for Hungary's lost, allegedly cursed Royal Sceptre.
Director: Ian Toynton | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Julie McCullough
Votes: 106
87.
Snobs (2003–2004)
Episode:
Episode #1.18
(2003)
Drama
The Feral's campsite is transformed into a sea of colour as it prepares to host their annual Winter Festival.
Director: Ralph Strasser | Stars: Indiana Evans, Ross Perrelli, Ella Roberts, Mathew Waters
Votes: 6
88.
Stage 7 (1955–1956)
Episode:
Where You Loved Me
(1955)
Drama
A famous clown recalls earlier in his career when he was starting out as a newlywed, dreaming of becoming a stage and television star and his wife's desire of a home and family. At first in... See full summary »
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Frances Rafferty, Dick Wessel, Joseph Crehan
Votes: 6
89.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
Night of the Casual Killer
(1965)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
John Maxwell Avery advised the President and led powerful men in Washington. Then he was discovered to be a political opportunist and a scoundrel. He fled Washington and rumor has it the ... See full summary »
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, John Dehner, Ruta Lee
Votes: 259
90.
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode:
The Night of the Lord of Limbo
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Western
When a magician makes Arte disappear, Jim must travel to another dimension to find him. What his journey back in time reveals is a plot to change the outcome of the Civil War.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Ricardo Montalban, Dianne Foster
Votes: 225
91.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999)
Episode:
Tormented
(1992)
TV-PG | 92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In Tormented (1960), a pianist thinks he has finally escaped his demanding mistress when she dies after a fall but her ghost comes back to haunt him and his fiancée. Joel gets stuck in a ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Murphy | Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy
Votes: 508
92.
Unfabulous (2004–2007)
Episode:
The Talent Show
(2007)
TV-G | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Addie, with Jake's help, is determined to win first place in the school talent show. But when Jake bows out to take part in an old friend's magic act, a jealous Addie decides to crash the show.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown | Stars: Emma Roberts, Melise, Jordan Calloway, Brandon Kelly
Votes: 23
93.
Timon & Pumbaa (1995–1999)
Episode:
Africa-Dabra!/I Don't Bolivia
(1996)
TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Timon and Pumbaa's friendship is destroyed by a magic rabbit. Timon and the magic rabbit enroll in a talent show together and try to win with a successful magic act./ The notorious Toucan ... See full summary »
Directors: Tony Craig, Bobs Gannaway | Stars: Charlie Adler, Jeff Bennett, Townsend Coleman, Brian Cummings
Votes: 48
94.
Monk (2002–2009)
Episode:
Mr. Monk and the Magician
(2009)
TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Monk's neighbor Kevin is found dead backstage at a magic show, Monk begins to suspect Kevin's old mentor, The Great Torini. The problem is, he has a perfect alibi.
Director: Randy Zisk | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine
Votes: 1,216
95.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
Episode:
Is This Not Real Magic?
(2022)
TV-14 | 36 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
She-Hulk's new client Wong is suing a magician for unauthorized use of the Mystic Arts.
Director: Kat Coiro | Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Ginger Gonzaga, Jameela Jamil, Mark Linn-Baker
Votes: 13,716
96.
Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode:
The Magician's Nephew
(2008)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The traditions of a local cult in Midsomer, the Temple of Thoth, appear to be related to a series of murders using poison of the poison dart frog.
Director: Richard Holthouse | Stars: John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard
Votes: 755
97.
Angela Anaconda (1999–2002)
Episode:
Abra-Abatti/Stupid Cupid
(2001)
TV-Y | Animation, Family, Comedy
Star: Victor Knight
98.
Archie's Funhouse (1970–1971)
Episode:
Magic Reggie/Surf's Up
21 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The Archies perform "Monkey See, Monkey Do," "Lucky Me" and "Love Vibrations." Reggie's magic act goes bad. His attempt to show off his surfing skills goes worse.
Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Dal McKennon, Howard Morris, John Erwin, Jane Webb
99.
Archie's Funhouse (1970–1971)
Episode:
All Tied Up/Tennis Court
21 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The Archies perform "The Big Boat," "Don't Let It Get You Down" and "We're One Big Family." Reggie is an inept escape artist. Betty and Veronica play the boys on the tennis court.
Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Dal McKennon, Howard Morris, John Erwin, Jane Webb
100.
Max & Ruby (2002–2021)
Episode:
Ruby's Lemonade Stand/Ruby's Rummage Sale/Ruby's Magic Act
(2002)
TV-Y | 24 min | Animation, Family
Business is booming for Ruby and Louise who open a lemonade stand to raise money for Bunny Scouts. It's a nickel a glass and going fast. Max loves lemonade but doesn't have a nickel to his name.
Director: Jamie Whitney | Stars: Anna Jordan, Lynn Cleckner, Katie Griffin, Kay Hawtrey
Votes: 14