Christopher Nolan, who we know for his extraordinary films, is in the director’s chair of the 2006 film The Prestige, or Prestige, as it was released in our country. The Prestige movie, in which we watched master actors such as Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine, offers a psychological thriller in the dark London of the 19th century, although it starts as a simple magic story.
The relationship between fellow magicians Robert and Alfred falls apart when Robert’s wife dies and accuses Alfred of it. The duo, who are notorious as enemies, often sabotage each other. Alfred’s successful cheating makes Robert obsessed. If you liked the movie Prestige, where we watched a lot of surprises, suspense and action, there are other movies that you will enjoy watching at least as much.
Movie recommendations that you can watch with as much excitement as Prestige:
- The Great Buck Howard
- Now You See Me
- The Illusionist
- The Game
- The Machinist
- The Sixth Sense
- Shutter Island
- memento
- The Departed
- inception
New show new man: The Great Buck Howard
- Year: 2008
- Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Director: Sean McGinly
- Cast: Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Tom Hanks
- IMDb: 6.4
In The Great Buck Howard, which tells the story of a magician like Prestige in a much more cheerful way, our character was once a famous magician, but now what he wants is different. Taking his publisher on one side and a former law school student on the other, our character returns to the stage in a completely different way.
Magic bank robbery: Now You See Me
- Year: 2013
- Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Director: Louis Leterrier
- Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson
- IMDb: 7.2
Now You See Me, in which we watched a much more enjoyable magic story than the movie Prestige, begins with the task of robbing a bank by four well-known magicians. When the team that carried out the heist distributes all this money to their audience, Interpol detectives along with an FBI agent go after our magicians and find themselves in a story that fluctuates as they go deeper.
Do women like magic: The Illusionist
- Year: 2006
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Director: Neil Burger
- Cast: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti
- IMDb: 7.5
We are watching the story of a magician in The Illusionist, which was released in the same year as Prestij. But in this movie, we see how social differences affect a magician’s love. Our character, who falls in love with a noble woman, uses his unique magic abilities to make the woman he loves fall in love with himself despite class differences, and a rather mysterious story emerges.
Game and reality intertwined: The Game
- Year: 1997
- Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Director: David Fincher
- Cast: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn
- IMDb: 7.7
The Game, like Prestige, manages to excite and confuse the audience about what will happen next. A very powerful, rich and successful banker is invited to a game organized by his brother one day. Our character, who accepts the invitation, will start to confuse what is a game and what is real life as the game progresses.
A disturbing story: The Machinist
- Year: 2004
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Director: Brad Anderson
- Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon
- IMDb: 7.7
In The Machinist, which has a disturbing story like Prestige from time to time and even more, we follow the story of a man who has not been able to sleep for a year due to his illness. Our character has already lost his physical health, but since insomnia continues, he has become suspicious of his mental health.
I see dead people: The Sixth Sense
- Year: 1999
- Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Director: M. Night Shyamalan
- Cast: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
- IMDb: 8.2
Although it doesn’t seem to have much in common with the Prestige movie, The Sixth Sense has an equally suspenseful story and shocking surprises one after another. An introverted little boy sees dead people around him. She gets help from a psychologist and begins to tell him what she’s going through. As the story deepens, the fear deepens and finally comes a bombshell finale.
You belong here too: Shutter Island
- Year: 2010
- Genre: Mystery, Thriller
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo
- IMDb: 8.2
By comparison, Shutter Island has a much, much more suspenseful story than the movie Prestige. The movie begins with two cops coming to an island that only contains a mental hospital to investigate a murderer. Things get complicated when Teddy Daniels, one of our characters, who falls into these mental patients, who are even more dangerous than normal, starts to question himself and his past.
A strange memory loss: Memento
- Year: 2000
- Genre: Mystery, Thriller
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
- IMDb: 8.4
Just like Prestige, Memento confuses and confuses the audience and finally leaves it out for guesses. Our character in the movie Memento is a man with amnesia, but this memory loss is a little different from what we know because it is erased every 15 minutes. Our character, who has experienced such a terrible situation, is also struggling to find the murderer of his wife.
The place was full of moles: The Departed
- Year: 2006
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
- IMDb: 8.5
Even though it may seem like it doesn’t have much in common with Prestige, the Departed tells the story of the parties that enter into a kind of competition with their unique choices. On one side, a mole cop who got into the mafia, on the other hand, a mole mafia inside the police. During all these events surrounding an Irish mob operating in South Boston, the moles try to find each other.
Dream within a dream: Inception
- Year: 2010
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page
- IMDb: 8.8
To summarize the movie Inception, which has a layered and surprising story just like Prestige and even more than that; We can call it a dream within a dream within a dream. Our characters enter a businessman’s dreams to implant ideas in his mind with a kind of dream-sharing technology. But the dream they enter becomes more and more layered, and in the end, what is real and what is a dream becomes a complete question mark.
We have listed some of the films that those who like Prestige, in which we watched the tension-filled rivalry of two magicians, can watch with at least the same excitement. Of course, this list could have been much longer. You can share the Prestige-like movies that you want to be on our list in the comments.