Movies Like Playing Cards (1896)

Playing Cards is a 1896 comedy, documentary film from Georges Méliès with a MovieMagicScore of 4.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Molly's Game and A Terrible Night.

Comedy Documentary

Molly's Game

2017

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

7.2

MagicScore

A Terrible Night

1896

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

5.1

MagicScore

Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992

Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina Murray—the fiancée of his solicitor, Jonathan Harker—believing her to be the reincarnation of his long-lost love.

7.4

MagicScore

Topsy-Turvy

1999

After their latest production, "Princess Ida", meets with less-than-stunning reception, Gilbert and Sullivan's relationship is strained to the breaking point. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which bares the path to "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.

6.6

MagicScore

L'Âge d'or

1930

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

6.7

MagicScore

The Secret Garden

1987

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.

7.6

MagicScore

Alice in Wonderland

1903

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.

6.0

MagicScore

Doña Diabla

1950

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.

7.2

MagicScore

The Cigarette

1919

A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

6.8

MagicScore

#10

Battling Butler

1926

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.

6.8

MagicScore

#11

Bel Ami

2012

Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

5.3

MagicScore

#12

The Strawberry Blonde

1941

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

6.9

MagicScore

#13

Passage of Venus

1874

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.

6.4

MagicScore

#14

The Kiss in the Tunnel

1899

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the Tunnel is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. It is in fact, two films in one, hence the 2 min length. Firstly, the G.A. Smith film here for the central cheeky scene in the carriage. The train view footage however is Cecil Hepworth's work, entitled 'View From An Engine Front - Shilla Mill Tunnel', edited into two halves in order to provide a visual narrative of the train entering the tunnel before the kiss and then leaving afterwards. More information about the filming of the phantom train ride can be found searching for the Hepworth film separately.

5.8

MagicScore

#15

POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

2011

A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.

6.4

MagicScore

#16

The Haunted Hotel

1907

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

5.7

MagicScore

#17

Excursion to the Moon

1908

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

5.4

MagicScore

#18

The Blacksmiths

1895

While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water, causing a cloud of vapor in the process.

5.0

MagicScore

#19

Little Women

2019

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

7.9

MagicScore

#20

The Revenant

2015

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

7.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Playing Cards?

The top films similar to Playing Cards by MovieMagicScore are Molly's Game (7.2), A Terrible Night (5.1), Bram Stoker's Dracula (7.4). Each shares comedy/documentary themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Playing Cards worth watching?

Playing Cards holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.9/10 from 63 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Playing Cards?

Playing Cards (1896) is a comedy, documentary film directed by Georges Méliès, starring Gaston Méliès, Georges Méliès, Georgette Méliès.

Where can I find more recommendations like Playing Cards?

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About movies like Playing Cards

This ranked list pairs Playing Cards (1896), a comedy and documentary film from Georges Méliès, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Gaston Méliès take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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