Best Movies like The Prestige (2006)

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Citizen Kane

Synopsis: Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Starring: Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Orson Welles

Plot: newspaper publisher, rosebud, new york, narcissism, materialism, suicide attempt, adultery, new york city, marriage, journalist ...

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Psycho

Synopsis: When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Starring: John McIntire, Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland

Plot: motel, shower, money, maniac, stabbed with a knife, surprise ending, suspense, serial killer, theft, homicidal maniac ...

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Synopsis: Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees…

Starring: Zoë Kravitz, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston

Plot: wizard, magical creature, paris france, sequel, witch, murder, magic, france, 1920s, new york city ...

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Synopsis: In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.

Starring: Zoë Kravitz, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston

Plot: magic, wizard, suitcase, based on novel, magical creature, urban fantasy, sorcery, orphanage, portal, spin off ...

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Bird Box

Synopsis: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Starring: Trevante Rhodes, Tom Hollander, Rosa Salazar

Plot: suicide, survival, dystopia, supermarket, interracial romance, violence, blindfold, bald man, gun, river ...

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The Lost City of Z

Synopsis: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Starring: Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Angus Macfadyen

Plot: jungle, based on true story, based on book, explorer, journey, raft, archaeology, husband wife relationship, travel, tribe ...

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About Time

Synopsis: 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.

Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy

Plot: time travel, father son relationship, family relationships, wedding, marriage, time loop, pregnant wife, expectant mother, redhead, blonde ...

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Thor: The Dark World

Synopsis: Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Christopher Eccleston, Ray Stevenson

Plot: superhero action, elf, open ended, end of the world, adopted brother, funeral, shapeshifting, based on comic, norse mythology, strong female character ...

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The Dark Knight

Synopsis: Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

Starring: Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Christian Bale

Plot: dc comics, moral dilemma, psychopath, clown, superhero, criminal mastermind, scarred face, clown mask, dual identity, based on comic book ...

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The Revenant

Synopsis: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Forrest Goodluck

Plot: survival, bear attack, fur, based on true story, native american, killing an animal, wilderness, father son relationship, death of son, winter ...

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Joker

Synopsis: During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Starring: Robert De Niro, Shea Whigham, Joaquin Phoenix

Plot: mental illness, laughing, evil clown, stand up comedian, nihilism, clown, comedian, loneliness, watching tv, green hair ...

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Shutter Island

Synopsis: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jackie Earle Haley, Ben Kingsley

Plot: surprise ending, neo noir, mental asylum, cave, memory, filicide, plot twist, psycho thriller, delusion, containment ...

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Synopsis: When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword Excalibur from the stone, his life is turned upside down and he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy... whether he likes it or not.

Starring: Aidan Gillen, Djimon Hounsou, Jude Law

Plot: folklore, excalibur, tyrant, historical fiction, prophecy, fictional war, sword and sorcery, based on book, medieval times, origin of hero ...

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Synopsis: Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone …

Starring: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer

Plot: mysterious man, masked killer, ends with freeze frame, musician as protagonist, drummer as protagonist, male star appears shirtless, camera shot from inside a guitar, starring long haired male, taking a photograph, doll mask ...

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Braveheart

Synopsis: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack

Plot: scotland, revolt, legend, based on true story, tyranny, england, death of wife, idealism, battle, epic ...

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Robin Hood

Synopsis: When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.

Starring: Mark Strong, Danny Huston, Oscar Isaac

Plot: archer, england, medieval times, reference to robin hood, based on legend, archery, character name as title, period drama, movie flop, final battle ...

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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Synopsis: Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

Starring: David Koechner, Halston Sage, Logan Miller

Plot: zombie, hardware store, friendship between boys, blonde, nudity, female nudity, male nudity, oral sex, zombie attack, sitting on a toilet ...

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Power Rangers

Synopsis: Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it’s too la…

Starring: David Denman, Naomi Scott, Ludi Lin

Plot: based on tv series, alien, autism, training montage, villainess, interracial friendship, good versus evil, superhero, reboot, school bully ...

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King Arthur

Synopsis: The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.

Starring: Ray Stevenson, Clive Owen, Til Schweiger

Plot: ancient rome, queen guinevere character, king arthur, snow adventure, knight, freedom, britain, knights of the round table, saxon, sarmatia ...

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Suspiria

Synopsis: A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.

Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth

Plot: 1970s, telepathy, good versus evil, mysterious disappearance, female frontal nudity, intestines, academy, spiritualism, bloodbath, witch ...

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