Movies like Firestarter (1984)
The best movies like Firestarter (1984) are The Fury (1978), The Dead Zone (1983) and The Sender (1982). If Firestarter hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Fly (1986)7.4/10 from 5,250 votes
- NewestFirestarter (2022)Released 2022
The Fury (1978)
When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Taken because of his psychic abilities, Robin is being held by Ben Childress, who is studying people with supernatural powers in hopes of developing their talents as weapons. Soon Peter pairs up with Gillian, a teen who has telekinesis, to find and rescue Robin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dead Zone (1983)
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Sender (1982)
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPhenomena (1985)
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCarrie (1976)
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisScanners (1981)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMurder by Phone (1982)
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeadly Friend (1986)
When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Power (1968)
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 on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Altered States (1980)
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonkey Shines (1988)
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Brood (1979)
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Manitou (1978)
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisGolden Years (1991)
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fly (1986)
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPatrick (2013)
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDreamscape (1984)
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatrick (1978)
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Terminal Man (1974)
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Medusa Touch (1978)
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristine (1983)
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemon Seed (1977)
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Omen (1976)
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Puppet Masters (1994)
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisWatchers (1988)
A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that it's an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unbeknownst to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature that's not quite so friendly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisGhost in the Machine (1993)
After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFirestarter (2022)
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisImpulse (1984)
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Firestarter?
The closest matches to Firestarter are The Fury (1978), The Dead Zone (1983) and The Sender (1982). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Firestarter?
People who watched Firestarter most often go on to The Fury (1978), The Dead Zone (1983) and The Sender (1982).
What is the highest-rated movie like Firestarter?
The Fly (1986), rated 7.4/10 by 5,250 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Firestarter?
Firestarter (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Firestarter?
Yes: The Fury (1978), The Dead Zone (1983) and The Sender (1982).
How are movies similar to Firestarter chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Firestarter, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.