Man siger, at konkurrence er sundt, men for de to tryllekunstnere Robert Angie og Alfred Borden har det taget overhånd. Fra de mødtes som helt unge, har de konkurreret om at være den bedste, og det har udviklet sig til en intens og altomsluttende besættelse, som bryder ud i lys lue, da Alfred præsenterer det mest mystiske og fascinerende trick nogensinde.

U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer (Shia LaBeouf) har afsluttet sin militærtjeneste og kommer hjem til USA, men det han engang kaldte hjem er ikke bedre end den krigzone, som han forlod. Sammen med hans bedste ven, Devin (Jai Courtney), leder han desperat efter sin familie, og det skal vise sig, at de skal ud på en lang og farefuld rejse.

Tryllekunstnerkvartetten Apokalypsens ryttere gør comeback med en spektakulær forestilling, der skal afsløre en korrupt techmagnat. Men planen giver bagslag, og snart er kvartetten på flugt. For at genvinde deres frihed må de fire magikere hjælpe den rige eneboer Walter Mabry med at gennemføre et nærmest umuligt kup. Men hvem narrer egentlig hvem?

Den cool og charmerende storsvindler Nicky tager den uerfarne tricktyv Jess under sine vinger. Han oplærer sin smukke, unge elev i svindlerfaget og afledningsmanøvrens kunst. Men da Nicky forelsker sig i Jess, begynder han at miste fokus og må efterlade hende. Tre år senere er Nicky i Buenos Aires, hvor han har gang i en millionfidus inden for motorvæddeløb. Men så dukker Jess uventet op igen.

Før Dorothy fra Kansas bliver samlet op af en skypumpe og hvirvlet ind i det magiske land Oz, får den lurvede magiker Oscar Diggs samme tur. Ved ankomsten til Oz møder Oscar de tre feer Theodora, Evanora og Glinda. Spådommen siger, at en mægtig troldmand vil redde landet ud af dets problemer - men hverken feerne eller Oscar selv er overbevist om, at hans småfesne cirkustricks rækker til formålet.

Han er ung, rig, ser godt ud og kan stort set få, hvad han peger på. Alligevel synes der at mangle noget i hans tilsyneladende perfekte liv. En aften møder han drømmekvinden og hans lykke er gjort, men noget er ikke som det skal være.

Thomas er en ung, succesrig modefotograf i 60´ernes "swinging London". Han har sit eget studio, hvor han herser rundt med sine modeller, men af og til prøver han også at indfange "virkeligheden" med sit kamera. En dag fotograferer han et par i en park, og da han forstørrer billederne, opdager han, at han måske har filmet et mord.

New York City. Sara er en deprimeret kvinde er sygeligt fokuseret på sin vægt og ser tv dagen lang. Hun får mulighed for at deltage i sit foretrukne quizshow, og begynder at tage amfetamin for at tabe sig. Inden længe eskalerer hendes forbrug ukontrollabelt. Hendes søn Harry og hans Marion og vennen Tyrone er heroinjunkier og drømmer om at lave en stor handel, så de kan blive rige og starte modeforretning. For at få lidt startkapital bliver de nød til at pantsætte Saras tv.

The world renowned “Invincible Hand” Ken could identify not only mahjong tiles, but also cards with his fingers which had made him a legend. Upon his retirement as the Chief Security Consultant in Las Vegas, Ken returned to his hometown Macau, where he met his old friend Benz, and Benz’s son Cool and nephew Karl. Both Cool and Karl wanted to follow Ken. Ken claimed that if Cool could successfully cheat him once or win over him, he would then accept Cool as his protégé. Cool’s step brother Lionel, an undercover agent, had disguised his identity in an international gambling mafia which had planned to form an alliance with mafias in illegal gambling from all over the world to control the result of soccer matches. Lionel had recorded the entire conference, with the criminal evidence kept in an imitated eye. The eye was coincidentally given to Rainbow, Ken’s only daughter, which put her in danger. The retired Ken was forced to use his “Magic Hand” once again to uncover the evil plan…

In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.

In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.

A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.

A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child.

Bill Bixby stars in this NBC pilot movie as a famous stage magician and escape artist who solves crimes.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.

Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.