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Hollywood Movies with Telekinesis, Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Telepathic Powers, Psychic Powers, Mind Powers, Brain Powers

by KyaBakwaasHai • Created 9 years ago • Modified 7 years ago
Hollywood Movies with Telekinesis, Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Telepathic Powers, Psychic Powers, Mind Powers, Brain Powers.

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  • Akira (1988)

    1. Akira

    19882h 4mR68Metascore
    8.0 (216K)
    A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a teenage biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by his best friend.
    DirectorKatsuhiro ÔtomoStarsMitsuo IwataNozomu SasakiMami Koyama
    was a Japanese anime film based on the manga of the same name. In the movie version the character Tetsuo and Akira (although he has died by the time of the events of the film) develop telekinetic powers. Tetsuo's grow out of his control and result in the destruction of Neo-Tokyo.
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    2. The Green Mile

    19993h 9mR61Metascore
    8.6 (1.5M)
    A death row guard learns that a gentle giant in his charge possesses a mysterious gift.
    DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTom HanksMichael Clarke DuncanDavid Morse
    starred Tom Hanks as a prison guard and Michael Clarke Duncan an an imate sentenced to death who has the power to heal. Set in 1999 with the majority of the story as a flashback to 1935 Louisiana. Based on the 1996 Stephen King novel. The film was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and a supporting actor nomination for Duncan.
  • Nikolay Grinko, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, and Anatoliy Solonitsyn in Stalker (1979)

    3. Stalker

    19792h 42mNot Rated85Metascore
    8.0 (152K)
    A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
    DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy Solonitsyn
    a Russian sc-fi film, at the end of which, the Stalker's young daughter is shown moving drinking glasses one by one across a table by telekinesis, with the third one crashing to the floor.
  • Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, and Hugh Jackman in X-Men (2000)

    4. X-Men

    20001h 44mPG-1364Metascore
    7.3 (674K)
    In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.
    DirectorBryan SingerStarsPatrick StewartHugh JackmanIan McKellen
    and all its sequels
  • Rufus Sewell in Dark City (1998)

    5. Dark City

    19981h 40mR66Metascore
    7.6 (220K)
    A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
    DirectorAlex ProyasStarsRufus SewellKiefer SutherlandJennifer Connelly
    a human with PK is being chased by mysterious aliens, who also have PK.
  • Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)

    6. Carrie

    19761h 38mR86Metascore
    7.4 (218K)
    Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy Irving
    and its sequel and remakes
  • Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, and Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)

    7. The Omen

    19761h 51mR62Metascore
    7.5 (141K)
    Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
    DirectorRichard DonnerStarsGregory PeckLee RemickHarvey Stephens
    and its sequels.

    featured stories about the Antichrist of Bible origin in contemporary times. The films made effective use of Oscar-winning music by composer Jerry Goldsmith during scenes in which the Antichrist Damien Thorn used psychic powers sourced from Satan, the devil.
  • Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, and John Rhys-Davies in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

    8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    20012h 58mPG-1392Metascore
    8.9 (2.1M)
    A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
    DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodIan McKellenOrlando Bloom
    and its sequels and hobbit movies, have gandalf and saruman doing interesting stuff.
  • Forbidden Planet (1956)

    9. Forbidden Planet

    19561h 38mG80Metascore
    7.5 (56K)
    A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
    DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsWalter PidgeonAnne FrancisLeslie Nielsen
    this classic sci-fi movie featured a human scientist on an alien planet using an advanced machine to turn his subconscious thoughts into reality. The machine earlier destroyed the Krell, the alien race that constructed it. Technology-assisted PK.
  • Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Christopher Plummer, Cory 'Bumper' Yothers, Larry Cedar, Redmond Gleeson, Peter Jason, David Patrick Kelly, and Chris Mulkey in Dreamscape (1984)

    10. Dreamscape

    19841h 39mR63Metascore
    6.3 (19K)
    A man who can enter and manipulate people's dreams is recruited by a government agency to help cure the President of the United States of his nightmares about nuclear war but stumbles upon an assassination plot.
    DirectorJoseph RubenStarsDennis QuaidMax von SydowChristopher Plummer
    it starred Dennis Quaid as one of two medical research center operatives who could enter a patient's fantasy-filled dream and affect the person physically for good or ill in the real world.
  • The Shining (1980)

    11. The Shining

    19802h 26mR68Metascore
    8.4 (1.2M)
    A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny Lloyd
    Danny Torrance and Dick Hallorann has tk powers
  • Sean Patrick Flanery in Powder (1995)

    12. Powder

    19951h 51mPG-13
    6.6 (34K)
    An off-the-charts genius who is home schooled and shunned after his last relative dies shows the unconscious residents of his town about connection awareness and the generosity of the spirit.
    DirectorVictor SalvaStarsMary SteenburgenSean Patrick FlaneryLance Henriksen
    profoundly white-skinned Sean Patrick Flanery played the role of Jeremy "Powder' Reed, a bald albino youth who had various psychic powers, including control over electromagnetic forces. Also starred Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, and Lance Henriksen.
  • Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Joe Pantoliano, and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix (1999)

    13. The Matrix

    19992h 16mR73Metascore
    8.7 (2.2M)
    When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
    DirectorsLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne Moss
    and its sequels.

    the film's hero Neo can perform acts of psychokinesis when wired into the computer Matrix. It starred Keanu Reeves (Neo), Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.
  • Ghostbusters (1984)

    14. Ghostbusters

    19841h 45mPG71Metascore
    7.8 (471K)
    Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
    DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsBill MurrayDan AykroydSigourney Weaver
    and its sequel.

    in it, ghosts and other supernatural creatures are composed of negatively charged psychokinetic energy. This energy, called PKE, was featured and mentioned extensively in the first two movies and animated series. Also, the Ghostbusters developed a device called a PKE meter for the purpose of measuring the amount of psychokinetic energy in an area. The ghostbusters were played by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson. The subsequent movies and TV series closed the space in the title and were named Ghostbusters.
  • Bruce Willis, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt in Looper (2012)

    15. Looper

    20121h 59mR84Metascore
    7.4 (618K)
    In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
    DirectorRian JohnsonStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittBruce WillisEmily Blunt
    a time travel actioner about hit men whose targets are sent from the future. Two of the characters, Emily Blunt as Sara and Pierce Gagnon as Cid, have telekinetic powers. Starring as the primary characters: Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Young Joe and Bruce Willis as Old Joe.
  • George Hamilton, Richard Carlson, Arthur O'Connell, and Suzanne Pleshette in The Power (1968)

    16. The Power

    19681h 48mApproved
    5.9 (1.9K)
    One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and how to stop them.
    DirectorByron HaskinStarsGeorge HamiltonSuzanne PleshetteRichard Carlson
    a man with PK powers is murdering fellow scientists at a research laboratory. It was based on the novel of the same title by Frank M. Robinson and starred George Hamilton, Michael Rennie, Suzanne Pleshette, and various familar character actors of the period. The film includes a scene showing an early example, perhaps the first, of moving a "psi wheel" using telekinesis. In the scene, the psi wheel is on a tabletop and as it spins, witnesses seated around the table watch with amazed looks on their faces as a character uses telekinesis to cause it to spin. (French title: The War of the Brains).
  • Project X (1968)

    17. Project X

    19681h 37mUnrated
    5.5 (685)
    A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to try to uncover the secret.
    DirectorWilliam CastleStarsChristopher GeorgeGreta BaldwinHenry Jones
    starred Christopher George as a U.S. government agent whose mind possesses a secret that could destroy the U.S. in a secret plot by China. In an attempt to get the secret, he unleashes a major mental power and creates a "psychic tornado." Also starred Monte Markham. The film was directed by William Castle.
  • Susan Myers in The Spell (1977)

    18. The Spell

    19771h 26mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.6 (1.3K)
    A teenaged girl, taunted by her schoolmates because she's overweight, uses her supernatural powers to take revenge.
    DirectorLee PhilipsStarsLee GrantSusan MyersLelia Goldoni
    a high school girl played by Susan Myers who is bullied because of her being overweight (but not obese) gets revenge against her classmates by using her supernatural telekinetic powers, which her mother, played by Lelia Goldoni, also has, but not, it turns out, as powerful. Once the daughter learns from her mother that she has powers, she enjoys being special and does not want to obey her mother and join others like her. First shown on TV in the U.S. as a made-for-TV movie and was another entry in the inspired-by-Carrie (1976) movies. The cast included Lee Grant (of Damien: Omen II fame), James Olsen, and a young Helen Hunt.
  • The Initiation of Sarah (1978)

    19. The Initiation of Sarah

    19781h 36mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.7 (1.3K)
    A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
    DirectorRobert DayStarsKay LenzTony BillKathryn Grant
    starred Kay Lenz as a beautiful, shy college girl who uses her telekinetic talents to get revenge against a rival sorority. A TV movie inspired by the success of 1976's Carrie. Trivia: One of the co-writers of the teleplay, Don Ingalls, also wrote the script for the classic Star Trek episodes "The Alternative Factor" (1967) and "A Private Little War" (1968) and wrote for many other 1960s and 1970s TV series.
  • The Fury (1978)

    20. The Fury

    19781h 58mR64Metascore
    6.3 (18K)
    A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from a shadowy secret government agency.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKirk DouglasJohn CassavetesCarrie Snodgress
    a major studio film about young people with deadly PK powers. It starred Kirk Douglas, Andrew Stevens, and Amy Irving, the latter two the psychics and Douglas the father searching for his son played by Stevens. Features a human explosion scene by psychic powers near the end that predates the exploding head scene in Scanners (1981). Music by John Williams.
  • Jennifer (1978)

    21. Jennifer

    19781h 30mPG
    5.5 (804)
    Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her impoverished rural Virginia background, scholarship student Jennifer Baylor is tormented to the point of exacting revenge by using her psychic control over snakes.
    DirectorBrice MackStarsLisa PelikanBert ConvyNina Foch
    As a child, Jennifer could control snakes. Later as a teenager attending a private all-girls school, rich girls bully her, not knowing she has telekinetic powers. The cast included Lisa Pelikan as Jennifer, Bert Convy, Nina Foch as the school's head mistress, Amy Johnston, John Gavin, and Jeff Corey as Jennifer's father. Another movie inspired by Carrie.
  • Richard Burton in The Medusa Touch (1978)

    22. The Medusa Touch

    19781h 49mPG49Metascore
    6.9 (8K)
    A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
    DirectorJack GoldStarsRichard BurtonLee RemickLino Ventura
    Richard Burton played John Morlar, a man with telekinetic powers in this British film based on the novel of the same title by Peter Van Greenaway. Among his crimimal uses of TK, he caused an automobile to push his parents off a cliff as a child, an airliner to crash into a London skycraper, and a cathedral's roof to collapse on the inhabitants below. Also starred Lee Remick and Lino Ventura. Includes archival footage of Nina Kulagina shown on a TV set while a French detective (Ventura, his character on exchange in London) watches a research VHS videotape about telekinesis. That tape also shows a fictional school teacher breaking a large pane of glass outdoors in a TK demonstration for scientists. As he watches in quiet amazement, his character utters the single word "telekinesis," pronouncing it in his French accent as "tel-e-keh-neh-sis . . ."
  • Robert Thompson in Patrick (1978)

    23. Patrick

    19781h 36mPG
    6.2 (4.3K)
    A young nurse who's just started working at a public clinic begins to suspect that a comatose young man may possess the powers of psychokinesis.
    DirectorRichard FranklinStarsSusan PenhaligonRobert HelpmannRod Mullinar
    and its sequel and remake

    starred Robert Thompson as an patient in a coma at a hospital who communicates with a nurse by activating an electric typewriter and who uses his PK to control others, including a nurse who wants him dead.
  • Harlequin (1980)

    24. Harlequin

    19801h 35mPG
    6.1 (1.9K)
    An enigmatic faith healer - who appears to possess genuine magical powers - and a political fixer vie for influence over a senator and his family.
    DirectorSimon WincerStarsRobert PowellDavid HemmingsCarmen Duncan
    an Australian produced film about a mysterious stranger (Robert Powell, who previously starred in Jesus of Nazareth) who possesses a variety of miraculous powers, including telekinesis, self levitation, pyrokinesis, healing, and who works his way into the family life of a U.S. Senator. Included in the cast were David Hemming, Carmen Duncan, and Broderick Crawford.
  • Michael Ironside in Scanners (1981)

    25. Scanners

    19811h 43mR60Metascore
    6.7 (65K)
    A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
    DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJennifer O'NeillStephen LackPatrick McGoohan
    and all its sequels

    about people with deadly telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Sometimes it was hard to tell which they were using when attacking someone's brain or mind. Other incidents were clearly telekinetic based as bad guys were tossed in the air. It starred Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. Directed by David Cronenberg. There were numerous movie sequels and spin-offs:

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