Disorder: Telekinesis, Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Telepathic Powers, Psychic Powers, Mind Powers, Brain Powers
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- DirectorByron HaskinStarsGeorge HamiltonSuzanne PleshetteRichard CarlsonOne 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.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).
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsChristopher GeorgeGreta BaldwinHenry JonesA 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.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.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy IrvingCarrie 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.and its sequel and remakes
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsLee GrantSusan MyersLelia GoldoniA teenaged girl, taunted by her schoolmates because she's overweight, uses her supernatural powers to take revenge.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.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsKay LenzShelley WintersTony BillA 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.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.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKirk DouglasJohn CassavetesCarrie SnodgressA former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from a shadowy secret government agency.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.
- DirectorBrice MackStarsLisa PelikanBert ConvyNina FochOstracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!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.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsRichard BurtonLee RemickLino VenturaA telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.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 . . ."
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsSusan PenhaligonRobert HelpmannRod MullinarA 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.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. - DirectorSimon WincerStarsRobert PowellDavid HemmingsCarmen DuncanAn enigmatic faith healer - who appears to possess genuine magical powers - and a political fixer vie for influence over a senator and his family.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.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJennifer O'NeillStephen LackPatrick McGoohanA 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.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: - DirectorPatrick ReganStarsFabianMarilyn BurnsJon CedarTwo children who have psychic powers use them to avenge the death of their father, who was murdered by a biker gang.a young boy and girl with TK powers reanimate their murdered father, who was killed by a motorcycle gang. The children move objects around and have their zombie-looking dead dad drive them around by car.
- DirectorRoger ChristianStarsKathryn HarroldZeljko IvanekShirley KnightA disturbed telepathic man is unable to fully control his ability to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him, or even influence reality. A female therapist tries to help him, but his mother gets in the way.a horror film about a young anonymous male patient named "John Doe" in a mental institution who has the power to project, or "send," his nightmarish intentions, including acts of telekinesis and telepathy, into reality and the minds of others at the facility. Starred Zeljko Ivanek as the patient and Kathryn Harold as a doctor.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsDrew BarrymoreDavid KeithFreddie JonesA couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telepathic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.and its sequel
- DirectorBrett LeonardStarsJeff FaheyPierce BrosnanJenny WrightA simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.the title character Job eventually develops mental powers including telekinesis as a result of a scientist's (actor Pierce Brosnan's) experiment. In one scene, he mentally squeezes toothpaste out of a tube in his bathroom and in another levitates a chair high into the air as Brosnan's character watches in amazement. There was a 1996 sequel with different lead actors Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace. Video title: Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War. In that, however, Job was a virtual character.
- DirectorPierre DavidStarsDaniel QuinnDarlanne FluegelRichard GroveSam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.and its sequel
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsJohn TravoltaKyra SedgwickForest WhitakerAn ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.and its sequel
starred John Travolta as ordinary guy George Malley who develops telekinetic powers as a result of an eventually fatal brain tumor. In the movie, he made a pen and pair of sunglasses spin, a book cover open, and wooden boards move. The film also included the original hit song "Change The World" by Eric Clapton. Also in the cast were Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, and Richard Kiley. - DirectorRichard PepinStarsAntonio Sabato Jr.Emmanuelle VaugierClarence Williams IIIA psychic's investigation into the disappearance of a Senator's daughter leads her to a dangerous cult and the truth about her mysterious past.was about TK and starred Judge Reinhold and William Zabka. Also titled Mindstorm
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsPatrick StewartHugh JackmanIan McKellenIn 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.and all its sequels
- DirectorJames SealeStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Teri HatcherGrayson McCouchA man with telekinetic abilities meets a group of people with similar powers.was about good telekinetic government agents versus a groups of bad TKers and starred Louis Gossett Jr., Teri Hatcher, and Grayson McCouch, among others.
- DirectorBlake Van de GraafStarsDavid IngramPerry MucciMackenzie LushMild-mannered computer consultant Norman Neale has two great loves in this cruel world: Comic books and his office's effervescent main receptionist, Andrea Hicks. Norman spends his days dreaming of Andrea from the isolation of his cubicle and his nights dreaming of fighting crime from the solitude of his apartment. Then one fateful day Norman discovers that a fellow co-worker, Victor Ventura, a swaggering, pretty-boy salesman, has slight telekinetic abilities beyond his understanding. After discussing his mind-blowing discovery with his only friend Chuck, a know-it-all comic book store owner, Norman comes to the outlandish conclusion that he should train Victor to become a real-life superhero by helping him refine and expand his extraordinary ability. Norman envisions an exciting new future for himself battling the city's criminal elements as Victor's faithful sidekick. But as Victor grows in power Norman is faced with the heartbreaking realization that not all people with extraordinary abilities are meant to be heroes.a corporate computer tech guy named Norman (Perry Mucci), who is also a comic book fan, tries to train a co-worker, Victor (David Ingram), who has telekinesis, to become a superhero, which at first works, but then the TKer turns to the dark side.
- DirectorJosh TrankStarsDane DeHaanAlex RussellMichael B. JordanThree high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.Three teenage boys acquire telekinetic superpowers after touching a mysterious object underground in the woods. Told with found footage and security camera elements. A sequel is in development.
- DirectorBrian FeeneyStarsAlisha SeatonJeannie BoletMelissa LeeA young mother must protect her daughter from a rogue scientist on a murderous rampage to steal the girl's psychic powers for herself.A mother tries to protect her young daughter, who has psychic powers including TK, from an evil female scientist who wants to steal them. Unusual for the genre in that it includes a same-sex parent/lesbian plot element.
- DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsCamilla BelleDakota FanningChris EvansTwo young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.a film with a PK plot set in Hong Kong that starred Chris Evans as a "Mover, Dakota Fanning, and others with psychic powers on the run from a secret U.S. government agency called "the Division."
- DirectorRodrigo CortésStarsSigourney WeaverRobert De NiroCillian MurphyPsychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant debunk paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced after many years out of the limelight following the suspicious death of his toughest critic.A psychologist-skeptic portrayed by Sigourney Weaver and a physicist portrayed by Cillian Murphy debunk phony psychics and investigate a famous psychic making a comeback played by Robert De Niro. Includes numerous scenes of alleged telekinetic activity, including black-and-white "archival footage" of a Nina Kulagina-type telekinetic psychic. A notable movie for the genre with two Oscar-winning stars in the leads.