[Mage: The Awakening 2nd Ed] Mage Watchlist

Mage: The Awakening 2nd Ed

Video & Television Watchlist

Original submissions by our great team of Storytellers: 

Mathew Hagen, Korri Smith, Jerad Sayler, Alex Van Belkum, Ethen Reed and Hannah Nyland

Our great team of Storytellers put our heads together to try to make a solid list of all the movies and shows that inspire our Mage game within the Chronicles of Darkness (nWoD 2.0). Remember... you are a mage, and all things are true. There are many more shows, but many of them too closely aligned with other CofD venues and games.

In no particular order:

Mage Themes & Moods Movies:

1. Dark City – questioned reality/control/nature of the soul
2. Inception – Symbolism, Astral travel and layers of understanding/consciousness, Cabals
3. After.Life – Obsession, Moros themes, also resonates with Geist
4. What Dreams May Come – Astral, soul,
5. National Treasure (1 & 2) – conspiracies, ancient secret societies, Labyrinths
6. The Matrix – just the first one, Gnostic themes, proto-mythology/metaphor
7. Donnie Darko – mutability of reality, Time magic
8. Atlantis (Animated) – Cabal building, delving into mysteries, lost technologies,
9. El Dorado (Animated) – chasing a mystery, obsession,
10. Cashback – Time magic, temporal paradox, tedium of reality
11. Indiana Jones Trilogy – the fourth one doesn’t exist
12. The Watchmen - Hubris and corruption
13. Odd Thomas
14. John Dies at the End
15. The Void  - Abyssal
16. The Craft
17. Lord of Illusions
18. Mirrormask
19. The Ninth Gate
20. The Cell
21. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
22. The Covenant
23. Slight
24. IT (2017/2019)
25. Pi
26. The Net
27. Long Kiss Goodnight
28. Wizards (Animated)
29. Amalie- very Acanthus
30. Chappie – very Promethean, but it’s about the nature of consciousness
31. A Wrinkle in Time
32. Rise of the Guardians - no seriously... look at how magic works, cabal themes
33. The Dark Tower
34. In the Mouth of Madness
35. Existenz



Chronicles of Darkness Themes & Moods Movies/Shows:

1. Se7en (Movie) – questioned reality/control/nature of the soul
2. The Mothman Prophecies (Movie)
3. Silence of the Lambs (Movie)
4. Mindhunter (Show)
5. American Horror Story (Show)
6. Hellraiser I & II (Movies)
7. Alphas (Show)
8. I am not a Serial Killer (Movie)
9. Devil's Advocate (Movie)
10. Myths & Monsters (Show)
11. House on Haunted Hill (Movie)
12. Twin Peaks (Show)
13. Persons of Interest (Show)
14. Criminal Minds (Show)
15. Grimm (Show)
16. Lost Girl (Show)
17. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Show)
18. Black Mirror (Show)
19. Gravedancers (Movie)
20. 13 Ghosts (Movie)
21. Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas (Movie)
22. The Boys (Show)
23. Brightburn (Movie)
24. Fright Night (Movie Remake)
25. Carrie (Movie Remake)
26. Mimic (Movie)
27. Red State
28. Hellboy I & II
29. 

Mage Look & Feel Movies

1. Doctor Strange
2. Wanted
3. Practical Magic
4. Beetlejuice
5. Push
6. Next
7. Jumper
8. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
9. Constantine – Mastigos themes
10. Star Gate – the Time Before
11. Witches of Eastwick – Chimera you need to read this
12. Visionaries (Animated)
13. Vision Quest – Thyrsus
14. Willow
15. Chronicle

Mage Television Shows
1. The Dresden Files
2. Conan The Adventurer
3. Supernatural
4. The X-Files
5. Constantine
6. Lore
7. Fringe
8. American Gods
9. Legion
10. The Magicians
11. Stranger Things

Mage Anime Movie/Shows

1. Bleach
2. Darker than Black
3. Full Metal Alchemist
4. Magi
5. Seven Deadly Sins
6. Saga of Tanya the Evil
7. The Ancient Magus' Bride
8. Kino's Journey
9. Parasyte: the maxim
10. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
11. Spirited Away
12. Kubo and the Two Strings
13. Perfect Blue
14. Paprika
15. Undone
16. A Scanned Darkly


More Inspirations here.

Did you like our list, was there any that we missed?  Let us know in the comments below.