Movies like The Power (1968)
The best movies like The Power (1968) are Scanners (1981), The Terminal Man (1974) and Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) (1969). If The Power hooked you with its science fiction and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedUpgrade (2018)7.5/10 from 5,369 votes
- NewestThe Hyperions (2022)Released 2022
Scanners (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
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 science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisStereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) (1969)
A group of Canadian university students agree to partake in a grisly psychological experiment, which renders them incapable of speech but able to communicate telepathically.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisAltered 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 science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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 science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thriller & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thriller & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisFirestarter (1984)
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisX: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeconds (1966)
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrainstorm (1983)
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCharly (1968)
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
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 science fiction & thriller
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 science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisNineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLady Terminator (1988)
The spirit of an ancient evil queen possesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lathe of Heaven (1980)
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMax Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985)
While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Six Million Dollar Man (1973)
Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (OSI) is willing to pay for special prosthetics to replace the eye, arm and both legs he lost in the crash. Highly advanced technology (bionics) built into them will make him faster, stronger and more resilient than normal. In return they want him to become a covert agent for the OSI. It will cost $6,000,000 to rebuild Steve Austin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hyperions (2022)
In 1960, Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum invented the Titan badge - a device that enables humans to have a particular super power. He took in three down-on-their-luck youths, creating an unusual family of superheroes and they quickly rose to fame and prestige. Over time, however, the commercial family fractured and the Professor replaced the team with a new set of super hero teens. Cut to 1979, when two of the original superheroes are all grown up and wanting their Titan badges back, even if it means robbing the Professor's museum and taking a few hostages accidentally.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Hollow Man (2000)
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPossessor (2020)
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMultiverse (2021)
Four brilliant university students are forced to confront themselves in terrifying ways when their Quantum Physics experiment leads to an entangled parallel existence that leaves them questioning who they are and what is real.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrimes of the Future (2022)
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUpgrade (2018)
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnon (2018)
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 6th Day (2000)
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Signal (2007)
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSpectral (2016)
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Power?
The closest matches to The Power are Scanners (1981), The Terminal Man (1974) and Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) (1969). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Power?
People who watched The Power most often go on to Scanners (1981), The Terminal Man (1974) and Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) (1969).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Power?
Upgrade (2018), rated 7.5/10 by 5,369 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Power?
The Hyperions (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Power?
Yes: Scanners (1981), The Terminal Man (1974) and Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) (1969).
How are movies similar to The Power chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Power, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.