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Hello people,

My passion is mentalism as well as magic and I like to see movies that have a magic trick in them or mentalism maybe.

Also Tv series.

I am also interested in movies and tv series that have con artists in them.

I already know Hustle, The Real Hustle, Leverage, The Mentalist, Psych, Lie to me.

Please make a list of movies and tv series that you can remember having a magic or mentalism effects in them.

Thank You very much.

Regards, Marian

The Grifter?

Jonathan Creek has lots of magical references.

Anthony Hopkins performs the best card trick you'll ever see in a film called Magic.

Is that the only one you know?

You're welcome!

Sorry Lenoir I have not seen you post yet. I was answering to Ste Porterfield. Thank You for your recommandations.

Regards, Marian

ok...

t.v shows.....

diagnosis murder.( Dick Van Dykes character is a magician)
One Foot In the Grave.( victor meldrew is a member of a magic club)
csi las vegas
Colombo.. ( one episode set in a magic castle type of club, another investigating apparent real psychics, who used tricks)
The Ghost Whisperer..
The magician
saved by the bell..
there are thousands of others.. almost every show references magic at one time or another.

movies....

desperately seeking Susan
new York stories
a private function
haunted honeymoon
the sting
doctor parnassus
time bandits
willow
Sindbad & the eye of the tiger
7 faces of dr lo
men in black,( in the closing credits will smith performs a back palm)
fairytale, a true story. ( Houdini is one of the main characters, and performs some glorious magic)
smoking aces
pretty woman

the spider.. an obscure movie from the 1930s, which is all about a mentalist. I only know about this one, because i have recently obtained a lovely item from it for my collection.

leap of faith
parenthood
bogus.
National Lampoons Vegas vacation. ( Siegfried & Roy's show features)
Alice's resteraunt
casino royale. ( original version)
F for Fake
everyone says i love you
a haunting we will go... ( one of the few on screen aperences of Dante, and tiny segments of his show)
is anybody there?......


ect.

daleshrimpton Thank you so much. That is a big list.

Regards, Marian

In a similar vein to Dale's Columbo (which did at least two magic-themed shows, once with Jack Cassidy, once with Jeremy Irons), there were magic episodes of Hart to Hart and Charlie's Angels (many long-running detective shows seem to have featured magicians at least once).

A TV show no one ever seems to mention is Blacke's Magic from the 1980s, probably because it didn't last long!

The TV series Mission: Impossible often featured sleight of hand magic and sometimes items that had origins in stage illusions. There's a bit of magic in the first film too. The series was based on the idea of long cons.

The Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng Chiang features a Chinese magician (actually a white actor made up to look Chinese) who does a music hall magic act. The tricks are not "real" (as in they are not tricks that could be done in real life), at least not as far as I am aware!

The same applies to much of the magic in the old show "Ace of Wands", where camera edits were often used instead of sleights, but Ali Bongo was a consultant, so there might have been some real tricks in some episodes.

An episode of the kids' show Shadows featured a kids' magician who obtains some genuinely magic eggs that let him do truly impossible tricks. Again, the magic is largely of the TV show variety (done with camera tricks).

Films about cons that haven't been mentioned: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (itself basically a remake of Bedtime Story) and House of Games.

There was a TV show in Britain about 20 years ago called Perfect Scoundrels about a pair of con artists, but it's never had a DVD release (or even proper video release).

The Prestige and The Illusionist...OBVIOUSLY.

daleshrimpton wrote:Colombo.. ( one episode set in a magic castle type of club, another investigating apparent real psychics, who used tricks)

One of the Columbo ones was called Death by Illusion. Was the psychic one with the remote viewing experiment, or is that another one ? I have A Haunting We Will Go on DVD (i have most of the Laurel and Hardys). I remember the first time id seen it and was amazed it was the REAL Dante.

Theres also the X Files, with Ricky Jay and another fellow (i cant remember his name).

Terror Train, or something like that - a horror from the 70s with Jamie Lee Curtis - has David Copperfield playing the part of a magician. From memory he does some card manipulation, a levitation, cig through quarter, and the Floating Rose.

jim

Lenoir wrote:The Prestige and The Illusionist...OBVIOUSLY.

Those are really good...The Illusionist was really amazing.

LoveKey1988 wrote:

Lenoir wrote:The Prestige and The Illusionist...OBVIOUSLY.

Those are really good...The Prestige was really amazing.

FYP

And don't forget



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penn & teller were regulars on Sabrina.
they also featured in the simpsons, as did siegfried & roy.
King of the hill, had a superb episode based around a magic show
One episode of Quincy, which i have only seen once, was set in the Magic Castle.
night court, had Harry Anderson
Quantum leap, had a magic story

bedknobs and broomsticks.
death defying acts
me & orson welles

Guys...thanks so much for the recommandation. Keep it coming.

Regards, Marian