Movies Like Carlisle’s Secret

If you liked Carlisle’s Secret, a movie directed by Steve Snediker, 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
Last Action Hero (1993)
★ 6.5/10
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a…
2
Black Widow (1987)
★ 6.2/10
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…
3
Defendor (2009)
★ 6.4/10
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to…
4
I Believe (2019)
★ 7.8/10
A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.
5
Vicious (2025)
★ 6/10
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
6
Hard Luck (1921)
★ 6.9/10
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his…
7
Eye of the Devil (1966)
★ 6.1/10
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
8
The Grandmother (1970)
★ 6.6/10
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
9
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
★ 5.9/10
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 Oz from the clutches of evil.
10
The Snowman (1982)
★ 7.6/10
A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.
11
Shadow Force (2025)
★ 6.3/10
Kyrah and Isaac were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in order to protect their son, they go underground. With a large bounty on…
12
Whisper (2007)
★ 6.3/10
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
13
The Unsaid (2001)
★ 6.6/10
A doctor dealing with the aftermath of his son's death tries to help a troubled young man.
14
The Ritual Killer (2023)
★ 5.8/10
Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an…
15
Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…
16
It's Magic, Charlie Brown (1981)
★ 6.7/10
When Snoopy turns Charlie Brown invisible in a magic act, he has trouble changing him back.
17
Twitches (2005)
★ 6.7/10
Twins separated at birth, Camryn and Alex meet by chance for the first time on their 21st birthday and discover they're witches with the power to save their homeland of Coventry from the evil that threatens it. But…
18
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
★ 6.5/10
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
19
Bogus (1996)
★ 5.8/10
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.
20
I Am David (2003)
★ 6.8/10
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a…