Movies like Hocus Pocus
If Hocus Pocus's mix of witch, virgin and sibling relationship stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Hocus Pocus's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Hocus Pocus 2
2022 · Directed by Anne Fletcher · 104 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker · Shares: witch, sibling relationship, halloween · Also fantasy and comedy
29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge.
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Halloweentown
1998 · Directed by Duwayne Dunham · 84 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, halloween · Also family and fantasy · From the same decade (1990s)
On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world.
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Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
2001 · Directed by Mary Lambert · 81 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, halloween · Also family and fantasy
The Cromwell clan lives in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality.
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch
1996 · Directed by Tibor Takács · 91 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, talking cat · Also fantasy and family · From the same decade (1990s)
A girl, sent by her parents to live with her two eccentric aunts, finds out on her sixteenth birthday that she is a witch.
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Return to Halloweentown
2006 · Directed by David Jackson · 88 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, halloween · Also family and fantasy
As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to…
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Halloweentown High
2004 · Directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé · 82 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, halloween · Also family and fantasy
Marnie puts her magic on the line to get several Halloweentown teenagers transferred to her high school in the mortal world. But soon, Marnie and her new friends are in trouble and out of luck when the evil Knight Of…
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The Black Cauldron
1985 · Directed by Ted Berman · 80 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, halloween · Also family and fantasy
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the…
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Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost
1999 · Directed by Jim Stenstrum · 70 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: witch, halloween · Also comedy and family · From the same decade (1990s)
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Directed by Alfonso Cuarón · 141 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, teen fantasy
Harry Potter's life is in danger once more as dangerous wizard Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is heading to Hogwarts.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Directed by Chris Columbus · 152 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, teen fantasy
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and…
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Directed by Mike Newell · 157 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: witch, magic, teen fantasy
When his name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · Directed by Mark Waters · 95 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, halloween · Also family and fantasy
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.