Movies Like The Prince of Magicians

If you liked The Prince of Magicians (1901), a fantasy and comedy movie directed by Georges Méliès, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Under the Sea: A Descendants Story (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy
Mal emerges from the shadows of a mystical forest onto a dark coastline where she crosses paths with Dizzy.
2
The Academy of Magic (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy
Aura is gifted with magical abilities; she and her friends have many exciting adventures at the academy, but soon Aura learns that the school hatches many dark secrets that she must uncover. Will she be able to unveil…
3
Magician Mickey (1937)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Donald continually heckles Mickey's magic act, but Mickey bests him at every turn. Donald shoots off a magic pistol that causes all the stage props to fall down on them at the finish of the act.
4
The Severed Heads (1957)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and comedy
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
5
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and fantasy
The Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse twosome--Tom and Jerry--returns with another adventure. When Tom and Jerry's irrepressible curiosity gets the best of them, the mysterious magic ring that Tom guards with his life ends…
6
Sketch (2025)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and comedy
When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to…
7
The House of Magic (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Not everyone welcomes the…
8
The Bank (1915)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.
9
Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy
Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…
10
Princess Nicotine (1909)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and fantasy
A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he…
11
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and fantasy
A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
12
Bogus (1996)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and comedy
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
13
Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy
Set in the storybook world of Enchancia, the music-filled movie follows Sofia, an average girl whose life suddenly changes when her mother marries the king and she is whisked off to live in a castle with her mom, new…
14
Beau Hunks (1931)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
15
The Tramp (1915)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life…
16
Caprice (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and comedy
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
17
Dough and Dynamite (1914)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
18
Princess (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy
A reclusive princess and a directionless young man embark on a quest to save the world's mythical creatures from becoming extinct.
19
Invisible Sister (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and comedy
Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.
20
Minions & Monsters (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and fantasy
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the…