Top 20 Telekinesis Movies That Will Blow Your Mind!
Ever tried to summon the TV remote with your mind because you were too comfortable to move? We’ve all been there. While we’re stuck using our hands like mere mortals, the silver screen gives us a taste of the impossible. Telekinesis, the ability to move objects with mental power, is the ultimate power fantasy. It’s messy, it’s chaotic, and let’s be real, it usually ends with someone exploding.
From silent, nose-bleeding intensity to full-blown city-leveling destruction, we’ve ranked the Top 20 Telekinesis Movies you need to watch right now. We’re keeping this list fresh with major 2024 and 2025 releases that have redefined the genre, alongside the heavy hitters that started it all.
Grab your popcorn (no hands allowed!) and let’s dive in.
1. Thunderbolts* (2025)
- Director: Jake Schreier
- Rotten Tomatoes: 78% (Certified Fresh)
- The Vibe: Marvel’s “Suicide Squad” meets unstable god-tier power.
Thunderbolts* cemented itself as a chaotic masterpiece. While the team is full of super-soldiers and assassins, the real showstopper is Bob Reynolds (aka Sentry). Played with nervous, jittery energy by Lewis Pullman, Bob is a walking nuke with telekinetic abilities that make Thor look like he’s playing with sparklers. The movie explores the terrifying downside of limitless power, what happens when the mind controlling the matter is barely holding it together?
Fun Fact: Lewis Pullman is the son of actor Bill Pullman (Independence Day). In the comics, Sentry’s power is described as “one million exploding suns,” which is just a fancy way of saying “run.”
2. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
- Director: Shawn Levy
- Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
- The Vibe: Buddy cop chaos with a villain who can skin you with a thought.
You came for the merc with a mouth, but you stayed for Cassandra Nova. Emma Corrin’s portrayal of Charles Xavier’s evil twin sister is chillingly casual. She doesn’t just throw cars; she reaches inside people. Her telekinesis is tactile and gross, she fingers through minds like she’s browsing a record store. It’s a masterclass in how to make “moving stuff with your mind” feel fresh and genuinely threatening in a superhero fatigued world.
Trivia: Cassandra Nova is technically a “Mummudrai” a parasitic spiritual anti-self that Xavier tried to kill in the womb. Talk about sibling rivalry!
3. Oddity (2024)
- Director: Damian McCarthy
- Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
- The Vibe: A terrifying Irish horror gem that will make you side-eye every mannequin.
If you missed this indie sleeper hit, correct that mistake immediately. A blind psychic medium uncovers the truth behind her twin sister’s murder using cursed objects. While it starts as a ghost story, the climax features a unique, grim form of telekinesis where the protagonist psychically animates a terrifying wooden golem to exact revenge. It’s stripped-back, raw, and proves you don’t need CGI explosions to make telekinesis scary, just a creepy wooden man and a dead silence.
4. No One Will Save You (2023)
- Director: Brian Duffield
- Rotten Tomatoes: 82%
- The Vibe: Home Alone meets Signs, but with zero dialogue and way more telekinetic slamming.
Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) is an outcast fighting off an alien home invasion. These aren’t your typical laser-gun aliens; they use advanced telekinesis to manipulate gravity, toss Brynn around like a ragdoll, and control the environment. The sound design is incredible, every telekinetic “thrum” feels heavy. It’s a masterclass in visual storytelling that makes the alien powers feel insurmountable.
5. Chronicle (2012)
- Director: Josh Trank
- Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
- The Vibe: “Found footage” done right. Jackass with superpowers that goes horribly wrong.
Three high school friends stumble upon a mysterious hole in the ground and gain telekinesis. It starts fun, pranking shoppers, flying with cameras, but quickly turns dark as Andrew (Dane DeHaan) succumbs to his abusive home life and lets the power consume him. The final battle in Seattle is still one of the best “realistic” depictions of telekinetic combat ever put to film.
Why it hits: It treats superpowers like a muscle. They have to train to lift a baseball before they can crush a car.
6. The Witch: Part 2. The Other One (2022)
- Director: Park Hoon-jung
- Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
- The Vibe: X-Men on steroids with Korean cinema’s trademark ultra-violence.
If you thought Part 1: The Subversion was crazy, Part 2 cranks the dial to 11. A new girl escapes a secret lab, and she makes the previous protagonist look like a novice. The telekinesis here is visceral, bodies explode, trees are uprooted, and shockwaves level buildings. It’s fast, brutal, and visually stunning.
7. Looper (2012)
- Director: Rian Johnson
- Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
- The Vibe: Time travel noir with a telekinetic ticking time bomb.
Telekinesis (called “TK” in the movie) is a common, boring mutation in the future, mostly a parlor trick to float coins. That is, until the “Rainmaker” shows up. The way Looper handles powerful TK is terrifying; it’s not a cool superhero move, it’s a chaotic force of nature that shreds everything in its radius. Emily Blunt’s scenes on the farm are masterfully tense.
8. The Innocents (2021)
- Director: Eskil Vogt
- Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
- The Vibe: Kids being kids… but with lethal powers. Nordic horror at its finest.
Forget the polished schools of X-Men. This Norwegian film follows four children in a housing complex who discover they have powers. It captures the cruelty of childhood innocence perfectly. When a kid gets telekinesis, they don’t instantly become a hero; they might just crush a bug, or a neighbor, because they can. It’s disturbing, quiet, and utterly gripping.
9. Psychokinesis (2018)
- Director: Yeon Sang-ho
- Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
- The Vibe: A bumbling dad tries to save his daughter’s business. Also, he can fly.
From the director of Train to Busan, this is South Korea’s first major superhero film. It grounds the fantastical elements in real-world issues like gentrification and police brutality. The protagonist isn’t a sculpted hero; he’s a middle-aged security guard who drinks tap water from a mountain spring and suddenly can’t control his own strength. It’s got heart, humor, and some killer action sequences.
10. Thelma (2017)
- Director: Joachim Trier
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- The Vibe: Carrie meets arthouse cinema. Beautiful, lesbian gothic romance.
Thelma is a shy student leaving her religious parents to attend university in Oslo. As she falls in love, her repressed emotions manifest as terrifying telekinetic seizures. Birds crash into windows, lights shatter, it’s a stunning metaphor for coming of age and accepting who you are. The imagery is hauntingly beautiful.
Fun Fact: This was Norway’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.
11. Freaks (2018)
- Directors: Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- The Vibe: A paranoia-fueled thriller that keeps you guessing.
A father (Emile Hirsch) keeps his 7-year-old daughter locked inside, warning her that “bad men” will kill them if she leaves. You think he’s crazy. He might be. But when the girl discovers her own power to manipulate reality and time, the movie shifts gears into a high-stakes sci-fi thriller. It’s an underrated gem that deserves way more love.
12. Lucy (2014)
- Director: Luc Besson
- Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
- The Vibe: Scarlett Johansson unlocks 100% of her brain and becomes a USB drive.
Okay, the science is silly (we use all our brain, folks), but the spectacle is top-tier. As Lucy’s brain capacity expands, she moves from simple telekinesis to manipulating matter, radio waves, and time itself. The scene where she effortlessly disarms a hallway of bad guys without lifting a finger is iconic. It’s dumb fun, but it’s really fun.
13. Midnight Special (2016)
- Director: Jeff Nichols
- Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
- The Vibe: Spielberg-esque sci-fi chase movie.
A father goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton, who possesses mysterious powers. The government thinks he’s a weapon; a cult thinks he’s a savior. The telekinesis here is apocalyptic, satellites crashing from the sky, tremors shaking the earth. It’s more emotional drama than action flick, focusing on a parent’s love for a child who is destined for something beyond this world.
14. Carrie (1976)
- Director: Brian De Palma
- Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
- The Vibe: The prom queen of telekinesis movies.
You can’t write this list without the original. Sissy Spacek’s wide-eyed, blood-soaked stare is etched into cinema history. Carrie isn’t just a horror movie; it’s a tragedy about bullying and religious abuse. The final prom scene is a masterpiece of split-screen editing and mounting dread. (The 2013 remake is okay, but 1976 is the goat).
15. Akira (1988)
- Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
- Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
- The Vibe: Cyberpunk anime that changed pop culture forever.
Tetsuo’s transformation from a weak biker gang member to a telekinetic god of destruction is legendary. The animation is fluid and grotesque, capturing the sheer scale of his power as he crushes tanks and wipes out Neo-Tokyo. Akira heavily influenced Chronicle, Stranger Things, and basically every sci-fi movie since.
Warning: The “flesh mutation” scene at the end is still nightmare fuel 37 years later.
16. Scanners (1981)
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
- The Vibe: Corporate espionage with exploding heads.
If you’ve seen the GIF of the guy’s head blowing up, you know Scanners. But beyond the gore, it’s a tense thriller about a private security firm trying to weaponize people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities (“scanners”). The final psychic duel is a sweating, vein-popping battle of wills that feels incredibly physical.
17. The Fury (1978)
- Director: Brian De Palma
- Rotten Tomatoes: 77%
- The Vibe: De Palma doing Carrie again, but with spies and Kirk Douglas.
Released just two years after Carrie, this film leans harder into the action-thriller angle. A father tries to rescue his telekinetic son from a shadowy government agency. The ending features one of the most explosive deaths in cinema history (literally). It’s campy, stylish, and totally wild.
18. Phenomenon (1996)
- Director: Jon Turteltaub
- Rotten Tomatoes: 50%
- The Vibe: John Travolta as a small-town mechanic who gets touched by a light.
This is the “soft” entry on the list. It’s less about fighting bad guys and more about how sudden genius and telekinesis isolate a regular guy. It’s a tearjerker. George Malley uses his powers to learn Portuguese in minutes and make a pair of glasses dance, but the heart of the story is about human connection.
19. Matilda (1996)
- Director: Danny DeVito
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- The Vibe: The telekinesis movie we all secretly wanted to live in as kids.
Who didn’t try to pour their cereal with their mind after watching this? Matilda Wormwood is the ultimate underdog. She uses her powers for justice, pranking her awful parents and terrorizing the tyrannical Miss Trunchbull. It’s charming, funny, and surprisingly empowering.
20. Push (2009)
- Director: Paul McGuigan
- Rotten Tomatoes: 23% (Don’t let the score fool you, it’s a cult classic)
- The Vibe: Gritty, street-level X-Men in Hong Kong.
Chris Evans (pre-Captain America) plays a “Mover” (telekinetic) running from a shady division. The movie builds a fascinating world of different psychic classes: Watchers, Pushers, Bleeders, and Sniffs. The action is creative, using telekinesis to curve bullets (sorry, Wanted) and float guns for impossible angles. It’s rough around the edges but has a massive fan following for a reason.
Honorable Mentions
- Firestarter (1984 & 2022): Pyrokinesis is basically spicy telekinesis, right?
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019): Flawed, but Jean Grey’s power display is visually incredible.
- Stranger Things (TV Series): Not a movie, but Eleven is the reason telekinesis is cool again.
Why We Love These Movies
Telekinesis represents the ultimate freedom, action without physical effort, power without muscle. Whether it’s the horror of losing control in Carrie or the thrill of flight in Chronicle, these films tap into our deepest desires to change the world with a single thought.
Have you seen all of these? Which one would you want to have powers like? (Hopefully not Akira… that looked painful).
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