Best Magic Realism Movies & TV Series

Looking for the best magic realism movies and TV series? These 52 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

The Green Mile 1999 ★ 8.5

Cinema Paradiso 1988 ★ 8.4

It's a Wonderful Life 1946 ★ 8.3

Hilda 2018 ★ 8.4

Like Water for Chocolate 2024 ★ 8.2

Amélie 2001 ★ 7.9

Big Fish 2003 ★ 7.8

Pushing Daisies 2007 ★ 7.9

Pan's Labyrinth 2006 ★ 7.8

One Hundred Years of Solitude 2024 ★ 7.9

Dreams 1990 ★ 7.8

Groundhog Day 1993 ★ 7.6

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 ★ 7.6

A Little Princess 1995 ★ 7.6

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 2020 ★ 8.2

Midnight in Paris 2011 ★ 7.5

Synecdoche, New York 2008 ★ 7.5

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 ★ 7.4

Life of Pi 2012 ★ 7.4

Haibane Renmei 2002 ★ 7.7

Happy as Lazzaro 2018 ★ 7.4

Damnation 1988 ★ 7.6

All of Us Strangers 2023 ★ 7.4

Christopher Robin 2018 ★ 7.3