Movies Like Mandao Returns (2020)

Mandao Returns is a 2020 adventure, comedy, fantasy, horror, science fiction film from Scott Dunn with a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Ghosts Can't Do It and Our 30-Minute Sessions.

Adventure Comedy Fantasy Horror Science Fiction

Ghosts Can't Do It

1989

Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.

2.7

MagicScore

Our 30-Minute Sessions

2020

College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. When the tape is played back, Aki takes over Sota's body for just 30 minutes. They share the same body and rush to reunite a band that split up and bring a smile to Aki's girlfriend Kana's face.

7.6

MagicScore

Marry My Dead Body

2023

After finding an odd envelope, Policeman Ming-han's life takes a spooky turn: He's now wed to a ghost husband, and they must solve a crime together.

7.0

MagicScore

Kill List

2011

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

6.2

MagicScore

The Believers

1987

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

6.0

MagicScore

The Nightmare Before Christmas

1993

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

7.8

MagicScore

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

2026

Two gangsters and the woman they love try to survive the most dangerous night of their lives. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s one wild ingredient added to the mix: a time machine.

6.8

MagicScore

Spirited

2022

Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.

6.9

MagicScore

Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans

1987

Deathstalker helps Reena the Seer out of a few jams, and she solicits his help for a bigger task. She reveals that she is actually Princess Evie, but the evil sorcerer had her abducted and cloned in order to seize control of the kingdom. Together they travel to the evil sorcerer's stronghold to restore the princess to her rightful position, encountering challenges along the way both from the sorcerer's goons and the fierce Amazon women.

5.7

MagicScore

#10

Lunopolis

2010

When two documentary filmmakers find evidence of a hidden base on the moon, they quickly become entangled in uncovering a secret history of earth that was meant to be long forgotten.

5.6

MagicScore

#11

Satan's Slaves 2: Communion

2022

After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.

7.0

MagicScore

#12

Waxwork II: Lost in Time

1992

The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.

5.0

MagicScore

#13

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2004

Harry Potter's life is in danger once more as dangerous wizard Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is heading to Hogwarts.

8.0

MagicScore

#14

Black Phone 2

2025

Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

6.8

MagicScore

#15

Demonte Colony 2

2024

Debbie attempts to contact the spirit of her deceased husband Sam, she inadvertently contacts Srinivasan, who had just died. This contact saves his life but leaves him in a coma for years. Later, Debbie unravels mystery about Lord Demonte sacrificing people and enslaves their spirits. Can Debbie break this cycle and help Srinivasan to wake up from his coma?

6.7

MagicScore

#16

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

1972

Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?

6.3

MagicScore

#17

Demonic Toys: Personal Demons

2010

A group of people on a world wide search for oddities find themselves trapped in a nine hundred year old Italian castle when they accident unleash the Demonic Toys.

3.5

MagicScore

#18

Dark Nuns

2025

Desperation drives two nuns to perform an exorcism no nun should attempt. With a possessed child at the mercy of evil and the opposition of the Catholic Church, they take on the dangerous forbidden rituals themselves, putting their immortal souls in grave danger. They must confront the terrifying cost of their sacrilegious actions, but one goal remains: the boy must be saved at all costs.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

The 8th Night

2021

With prayer beads in one hand and an ax in the other, a monk hunts down a millennia-old spirit that's possessing humans and unleashing hell on Earth.

6.1

MagicScore

#20

Kongo

1932

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.

6.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Mandao Returns?

The top films similar to Mandao Returns by MovieMagicScore are Ghosts Can't Do It (2.7), Our 30-Minute Sessions (7.6), Marry My Dead Body (7.0). Each shares adventure/comedy/fantasy/horror/science fiction themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Mandao Returns worth watching?

Mandao Returns holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10 from 17 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Mandao Returns?

Mandao Returns (2020) is a adventure, comedy, fantasy, horror, science fiction film directed by Scott Dunn, starring Scott Dunn, Jenny Lorenzo, Sean Liang.

Where can I find more recommendations like Mandao Returns?

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About movies like Mandao Returns

This ranked list pairs Mandao Returns (2020), a adventure and comedy and fantasy and horror and science fiction film from Scott Dunn, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Scott Dunn 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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