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more series like this please


could anyone give me recommendation about more series like this? series that involves someone with power, magic, etc.
I love Heroes (even it's not the same kind of power with carnivale, but there're power involved), altough the last season was kinda boring, but i still disappointed when they cancelled it.
anything with power, magic, mantra, spell, super power, anything will do. thanks

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Sweeping magical shows?


Game of Thrones
Preacher (watching it now so we'll see)
Pillars of the Earth
Mists of Avalon
The Odyssey ( a bunch of Hallmark Greek myth mini too like Merlin and Jason and the Argonauts)
Penny Dreadful


Episodic Magical shows:

The X Files
Supernatural


Magical Films:

Excalibur
Legend
LOTR extended cut
The Hobbit trilogy
Peter Pan
Hook
Stardust
The Princess Bride





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The Twilight Zone
Millennium
The X-Files
Hannibal (O.K. it's not paranormal but the police investigation in it is so ridiculous it might as well be. In the shows defense, it is very creepy and atmospheric).

The two Cartoon Network shows: Gravity Falls and Over the Garden Wall. GF is more of a pastiche of Twin Peaks, light and kid- friendly but the show has an interesting mystery and the paranormal stuff can be really cool.

OTGW is very strange and mysterious. It also has some of the most beautiful animation not to come out of Japan.

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This series has more in common with e magical realism of eastern European and Latin American cinema than other TV shows.

For Europe, start with Time of the Gypsies - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097223/?ref_=nv_sr_1 and go from there.

Unfortunately, the best of Latin America, like Sur http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094076/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 is probably not available on DVD.

Santa Sangre should be though - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098253/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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Check out:
Simon Drake's The Secret Cabaret (1990)

And for a similar atmosphere (often with magic) you might also want to check out these movies:
Agnosia (2010)
Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
Kontroll (2003)
Morvern Callar (2002)
Brewster McCloud (1970)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Naked Lunch (1991)
La Antena (2007)
Highway to Hell (1991)
Maléfique (2002)
Blueberry (2004)
Momo (1986)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Perfume (2006)
eXistenZ (1999)

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