Passport to Pimlico: The movie was released in the year 1949 directed by Henry Cornelius including fantastic performances by Margaret Rutherford and Stanley Holloway. This comedy movie includes a sequence on the tube train where The Great Mason, a magician, drops his case letting his doves to get away adding to the dreamlike nature of the comic moment.

Dead of Night: The movie was directed by Alberto Cavancanti in 1945, it is a fantastic horror movie that involved a series of stories based on a dream mentioned by a guest arriving at a distant farmhouse. The movie is believed to have impressed cosmologists Gold, Bondi and Hoyle to establish the theory of steady state. They were encouraged by the circular character of the films narrative. The movie has a story about amateur and a charming dummy. Performance is associated to magical arts, and so the movie is completely about magic, Anthony Hopkins is in the lead role of this movie.

Thirty Nine Steps: The movie was released in the year 1939 directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The real and the greatest version of this movie the climax takes place in a theatre where the performance by memory man is going on. The memory act is considered as a subset of Mentalism’s magical art. Harry Lorraine is a well known not only for his magic performance but also for his contribution towards development and training of the memory of the human.

The Raven: this movie was directed by Roger Corman and released in 1963. This movie observes the great Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Vincent Prince as gothic magicians involved in magical fight. This colorful, camp and fun movie is based on the poem of Edgar Allen Poe.

Night of the Demon: directed by Jaques Tourneur in 1957. This is a conversion of the story of ‘Casting the Runes’ by MR James. The movie features Dana Andrews as a doubtful psychologist accursed by the magician and cult leader Julian Karswell.