10 Best Movies To Watch If You Like Practical Magic 2

Published Sep 12, 2026, 8:03 AM EDT

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Summary

• Practical Magic 2 reunites Bullock and Kidman, reopening the Owens family curse for a new generation.
• The sequel leans on more than spells: family, romance, sisterhood and cozy New England.
• Ten companion films mix witchcraft, generational drama and messy family romance for Practical Magic fans.

Nearly 30 years after Sally and Gillian Owens first cast their spell on audiences, Practical Magic 2 has finally brought Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman back together. The sequel returns to the Owens family's complicated magical history while introducing another generation to the curse that has shaped the women in this family for centuries.

The enduring appeal of Practical Magic has always gone well beyond witchcraft. There are plenty of excellent witch movies worth watching, but the Owens sisters also made the original memorable through their relationship, complicated romances, family baggage, and the cozy New England world surrounding them.

That makes finding movies like Practical Magic 2 more interesting than simply assembling another collection of witches. Some of these recommendations feature spells and supernatural forces, while others capture the same feeling through family relationships, romantic second chances, female friendships, or homes filled with people who know far too much about one another.

The original Practical Magic is excluded because watching it is fairly obvious, especially at a time when so many movies are worth revisiting before their sequels. Instead, these 10 movies offer something familiar for viewers who leave Practical Magic 2 wanting another dose of its distinctive appeal.

The Witches Of Eastwick

Three women living in a small Rhode Island town discover that their lives become considerably more exciting after the mysterious Daryl Van Horne arrives. Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon play the women, while Jack Nicholson brings exactly the right amount of menace and absurdity to the man who turns their world upside down.

The Witches of Eastwick is considerably more sexually charged and cynical than Practical Magic 2, but the connection is easy to see. Both center women discovering how powerful they can be while dealing with a man whose presence becomes increasingly dangerous. Its combination of supernatural fantasy and dark comedy has also aged remarkably well.

Hope Floats

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  Harry Connick Jr.

  Justin Matisse

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  Sandra Bullock

  Birdee Pruitt

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  Gena Rowlands

  Ramona Calvert

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  Bernice Pruitt

There is not a spell in sight in Hope Floats, yet it may be one of the most natural recommendations for viewers drawn to Sally Owens. Sandra Bullock plays Birdee Pruitt, whose marriage collapses publicly, forcing her to return to her Texas hometown with her young daughter and move back in with her mother.

Birdee's husband revealing his infidelity on television gives the movie one of the more brutal setups among movies about cheating and adultery. What follows is much warmer. Bullock once again plays a woman rebuilding her life around family, home, and the possibility that romance might not be finished with her after all.

The Craft

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  Robin Tunney

  Sarah

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  Fairuza Balk

  Nancy

If the witchcraft is what brought someone to Practical Magic 2, The Craft remains essential viewing. Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True play four teenage outsiders who form a coven and discover that their collective power can change far more than their high school social lives.

The tone becomes considerably darker than anything involving the Owens family, particularly as Nancy becomes consumed by her newfound abilities. However, The Craft shares Practical Magic's fascination with women finding community through magic while asking what happens when those relationships fracture. Both movies also remain defining examples of 1990s witchy cinema.

Death Becomes Her

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  Madeline Ashton Menville

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  Goldie Hawn

  Helen Sharp

Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp do not have much interest in sisterhood. Played by Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, the lifelong rivals instead spend Death Becomes Her battling over beauty, men, and eventually immortality after discovering a mysterious potion that can keep them young forever.

Robert Zemeckis turns their feud into a wildly macabre comedy, with Bruce Willis caught between two women who become increasingly difficult to kill. The romantic betrayal underneath all the supernatural insanity also connects it to some of cinema's more extreme stories about infidelity, although very few involve this much undead slapstick.

Ghost

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  Demi Moore

  Molly Jensen

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  Sam Wheat

Ghost approaches supernatural romance from a completely different direction. Patrick Swayze plays Sam Wheat, who is murdered and remains on Earth as a ghost while trying to protect his girlfriend Molly, played by Demi Moore. Whoopi Goldberg won an Academy Award for playing the reluctant psychic who becomes Sam's only way to communicate with the living.

Like Practical Magic, the movie treats love and death as forces that can coexist rather than opposites. Its combination of sincere romance and the paranormal helped make Ghost a phenomenon, while the grief underneath the love story gives it an emotional weight that still works decades later.

Eve's Bayou

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  Jurnee Smollett

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  Meagan Good

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  Lynn Whitfield

For viewers most interested in Practical Magic 2's generational female relationships, Eve's Bayou offers a much darker but fascinating companion. Kasi Lemmons' Southern Gothic drama centers on 10-year-old Eve Batiste, played by Jurnee Smollett, whose seemingly privileged Louisiana family is filled with secrets that begin surfacing after she witnesses something involving her father.

The supernatural elements remain deliberately uncertain, with visions, folk spirituality, and memory blurring together as Eve attempts to understand the adults around her. At its core, the movie is about the stories families pass between generations and the damage hidden inside beautiful homes, making it an unexpectedly strong match for the Owens family's world.

Beautiful Creatures

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  Alden Ehrenreich

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  Alice Englert

Beautiful Creatures comes particularly close to Practical Magic territory with its combination of supernatural romance and an inherited family curse. Alden Ehrenreich plays Ethan, a teenager who becomes fascinated by Lena Duchannes, an outsider whose powerful family has a long history in their small Southern town.

Lena belongs to a family of Casters and faces a supernatural fate she fears she cannot control. The movie skews younger than Practical Magic 2, but viewers who enjoy romances complicated by magical bloodlines should feel immediately at home. It also has an impressive supporting cast including Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, and Jeremy Irons.

The Family Stone

Nobody in The Family Stone can levitate objects or cast a spell, but the Stone household has something the Owens house also understands: entering this family means becoming involved in everybody's business. Sarah Jessica Parker plays Meredith, an uptight woman spending Christmas with her boyfriend Everett's sprawling family for the first time.

What begins as an uncomfortable holiday comedy gradually becomes something much more emotional, particularly once the family's deeper circumstances are revealed. Like many family movies that contain surprisingly adult material, The Family Stone balances humor with grief and romantic upheaval. Its greatest strength is ultimately the messy family at its center.

The Love Witch

• Elle Evans

• Jeffrey Vincent Parise

• Samantha Robinson

• Katy Morris

Anna Biller's The Love Witch looks like a movie unearthed from another era, despite being released in 2016. Samantha Robinson plays Elaine, a modern-day witch whose obsession with finding the perfect man leads her to create spells and potions designed to make men fall hopelessly in love with her.

The gorgeous retro production design makes the movie immediately appealing to anyone who enjoys the aesthetic side of witchcraft onscreen. Beneath that surface, however, The Love Witch is a much sharper examination of romantic fantasy, female desire, and the expectations placed on women. It is stranger and more adult than Practical Magic, but the pairing works.

Bewitched

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  Isabel Bigelow

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  Jack Wyatt

Nicole Kidman traded Gillian Owens for another witch entirely in Bewitched. Nora Ephron's romantic comedy casts Kidman as Isabel Bigelow, an actual witch attempting to live without magic. Will Ferrell plays Jack Wyatt, a struggling actor who unknowingly casts Isabel as Samantha in a television remake of the classic sitcom Bewitched.

The movie is considerably lighter than Practical Magic 2, but Kidman's presence makes it an especially fun companion watch. Isabel wants an ordinary romantic life despite possessing extraordinary abilities, a conflict that feels very familiar to anyone who has followed the Owens women. Kidman's effortlessly playful performance is also reason enough to revisit it.