Witch movies and television series have imagined the witch in countless forms: healer, enchantress, outcast, sister, villain, scholar, seductress, and keeper of inherited power.
Across folk horror, fantasy, comedy, historical drama, and documentary, films about witchcraft reveal as much about the cultures that created them as they do about magick itself.
This curated collection brings together 30 of the best witch movies, TV series, and documentaries about witchcraft. Some explore covens, spells, family legacies, and supernatural power, while others examine witch trials, modern witchcraft, occult history, and the lives of real witches.
The list moves from beloved witch films such as Practical Magic, Bell, Book and Candle, and The Craft to darker stories including The Witch and Coven of Sisters. It also includes documentaries about Doreen Valiente, Rosaleen Norton, European witch trials, and the continuing consequences of accusations of witchcraft.
Whether you are searching for comforting witch movies, dark tales of the occult, stories of sisterhood and revenge, or documentaries grounded in witch history, this guide offers something for every witchcraft watchlist.
Witch Movies: 1–15
Witch TV Series: 16–23
Documentaries About Witchcraft: 24–30
Best Witch Movies
1. Practical Magic (1998)
Witchcraft is woven through the lives of sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who return to their family home and call upon inherited magick to break a deadly curse.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman
2. The Craft (1996)
Four teenage girls form a coven and use witchcraft to pursue confidence, love, revenge, and power, with increasingly dangerous consequences.
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell, Rachel True
3. The Witch (2015)
A Puritan family living beside an isolated forest encounters religious terror, suspicion, and an unseen presence in one of the most haunting films about witchcraft and folk horror.
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie
4. Hocus Pocus (1993)
Three witches executed in seventeenth-century Salem are accidentally resurrected on Halloween night and attempt to secure their return before sunrise.
Starring: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy
5. The Love Witch (2016)
A modern witch creates love spells and potions in pursuit of perfect romantic devotion, revealing the darker relationship between glamour, desire, obsession, and control.
Starring: Samantha Robinson
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6. Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
A sophisticated Greenwich Village witch casts a love spell upon her neighbor, only to discover that genuine emotion may demand more than enchantment.
Starring: Kim Novak, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon
7. Coven of Sisters (2020)
Set in the Basque Country in 1609, a group of women accused of witchcraft attempt to delay their execution by performing the ritual their interrogator is desperate to witness.
Starring: Amaia Aberasturi, Alex Brendemühl
8. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
An apprentice witch uses her developing magickal abilities to protect three children and help defend Britain during the Second World War.
Starring: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson
9. The Craft: Legacy (2020)
A new group of teenage witches forms a coven and discovers that their combined powers are greater and more dangerous than expected.
Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Lovie Simone, Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon
10. Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017)
A rare magickal flower carries Mary into an enchanted world of witches, experiments, strange creatures, and hidden danger.
Japanese title: メアリと魔女の花
Romanized title: Meari to Majo no Hana
11. Beautiful Creatures (2013)
A teenager falls in love with a girl born into a powerful family of witches whose magickal inheritance may determine her future.
Starring: Alice Englert, Alden Ehrenreich, Emma Thompson
12. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
Years after escaping the witch who imprisoned them as children, Hansel and Gretel have become professional witch hunters.
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton
13. The Covenant (2006)
Four young men descended from colonial families carry supernatural abilities passed through their bloodlines, but the arrival of another descendant threatens the balance of their power.
Starring: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Taylor Kitsch
14. Harry Potter Film Series (2001–2011)
Across eight films, a young wizard enters a hidden world of spellcraft, enchanted objects, magickal education, supernatural creatures, and dark power.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
15. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010)
An apparently ordinary young man discovers that he possesses extraordinary magickal potential and must learn to control his abilities before an ancient enemy is released.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel
Best Witch TV Series
16. American Horror Story: Coven (2013)
Set in modern-day New Orleans, this season follows a secret school for young witches as inherited powers, rivalries, old grudges, and struggles for leadership threaten the coven.
Starring: Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett
17. Charmed (1998–2006)
Three sisters discover that they are the Charmed Ones, a prophesied trio of witches whose combined magick is known as the Power of Three.
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano
18. Bewitched (1964–1972)
A powerful witch attempts to live an ordinary suburban life with her mortal husband, although domestic routines are continually disrupted by spellcraft and supernatural relatives.
Starring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Dick Sargent
19. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Although the series begins with vampires and demon hunting, Willow Rosenberg’s development as a witch becomes central to its exploration of power, grief, friendship, and responsibility.
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan
20. Witches of East End (2013–2014)
Two sisters discover that they belong to a family of witches and have lived previous lives they cannot remember.
Starring: Julia Ormond, Jenna Dewan, Rachel Boston, Mädchen Amick
21. The Secret Circle (2011–2012)
After moving to her mother’s hometown, a teenager discovers that she belongs to a hereditary coven whose collective power is awakened by her arrival.
Starring: Britt Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Phoebe Tonkin
22. The Originals (2013–2018)
Set in New Orleans, this supernatural drama follows the long conflict between vampires, werewolves, and powerful communities of witches.
Starring: Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Claire Holt
23. Once Upon a Time (2011–2018)
The residents of a quiet town are revealed to be fairy-tale characters trapped beneath a powerful curse shaped by witches, enchantments, family secrets, and magickal bargains.
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla
Best Documentaries About Witchcraft
24. Doreen Valiente: The Mother of Modern Witchcraft (2019)
This documentary explores the life and legacy of Doreen Valiente, whose poetry, ritual writing, and scholarship helped shape modern Wicca and contemporary witchcraft.
25. Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Part documentary and part dramatized nightmare, Häxan examines medieval ideas about witchcraft, superstition, demonic possession, persecution, and the treatment of women accused of supernatural wrongdoing.
Director: Benjamin Christensen
26. The Witch of Kings Cross (2020)
This documentary tells the story of Rosaleen Norton, the New Zealand-born Australian artist, occultist, and witch who challenged the conservatism of 1950s Sydney.
Director: Sonia Bible
27. Witches: A Century of Murder (2015)
Historian Suzannah Lipscomb investigates Britain’s seventeenth-century witch trials and the fear, religious conflict, social tension, and accusation that fueled them.
Presenter: Suzannah Lipscomb
28. The Burning Times (1990)
This documentary examines the European witch hunts through the history of women, Paganism, healing traditions, religious authority, and persecution.
Director: Donna Read
29. Season of the Witch (2015)
A short documentary exploring modern witchcraft practices, their historical roots, and changing cultural perceptions of the witch.
Director: Tim Coleman
30. Witch Hunt (2008)
This documentary examines wrongful accusations and institutional injustice, drawing deliberate parallels between contemporary persecution and the dynamics of historical witch hunts.
Directors: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy Jr.
