Every person at least once in his life has dreamed of acquiring superpowers – a superpower would make him not only unique, but also solve many problems. However, any singularity has its price. Everything supernatural not only attracted, but also always frightened people. That is why, despite their apparent power, superhumans do not live an easy life.
In our selection you will find only the best movies about superpowers. They will tell you what problems guys and girls with superpowers actually have to face in the movie world.
Limitless
- Rating IMDB – 7.4
- Genre: Thriller, drama, sci-fi
- USA, Mexico production / 2011
- Budget: $26,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $161,849,455
- Directed by Neal Burger
- Cast: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Andrew Howard, Anna Friel, Johnny Worth, Thomas Arana, Robert John BurkeDarren Goldstein, Ned Eisenberg
Eddie Morra is a typical loser. The hero makes a living writing books, but even this creative profession is difficult for him to conquer. It’s all about the man’s pathological laziness. Because of it, Eddie has long been overgrown in the mud, and the inspiration for writing works hovers somewhere on the sidelines.
Hero’s life changes dramatically when he gets his hands on an unusual drug called NZT. It has the incredible ability to bring the human brain to a new level of its work. Just one dose can turn any member of society into a real genius for a whole day. However, the creators of the drug are silent about the fact that the miraculous NZT is a deadly drug.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Alan Glynn.
Project Power
- Rating IMDB – 6.0
- Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
- USA production / 2020
- Directed by Henry Joost, Eriel Schulman
- Cast: Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominic Fishback, Rodrigo Santoro, Courtney B. Vance, Amy Landecker, Machin Gun Kelly, Tate Fletcher, Allen Maldonado, Andrin Ward-Hammond
One day an unusual drug called “Power” falls into the hands of dealers. This drug gives not euphoria, but superpowers for 5 minutes. In each person “Power” allocates its power, but what kind of power, it is possible to learn only after the first use. Despite the short duration of action, “Power” becomes incredibly popular with the bandits, and the crime rates skyrocket.
To deal with people using the drug, the cops have to use the pills themselves. Only cop Frank looks at the root of the problem. With the help of Robin, a girl who secretly sells “Power”, the hero decides to find and destroy the main source of the capsules.
Information about the film appeared in the media long before its premiere. Journalists presented this film under the title “Bulletproof”. Although the creators themselves did not consider such a name for the film work.
Lucy
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Action, sci-fi
- France, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, USA, UK production / 2014
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $458,863,600
- Directed by Luc Besson
- Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilu Asbeck, Analie Tipton, Nicholas Fongfet, Jan Oliver Schroeder, Luca Angeletti
Quite by accident, a young girl named Lucy becomes a container for a substance that reveals superpowers in people. At the end of her mission the heroine is eliminated. However, the bag with “CPH4” sewn into the heroine’s body accidentally breaks. Once in her body, the substance begins to reveal in Lucy the inactive abilities of the human brain, as a result of which the girl acquires superpowers.
To understand what the full activation of the brain will lead to, Lucy goes to Professor Norman. However, the criminal master of “CPH4” does not want to let the newly minted superhuman out of his clutches.
It took director Luc Besson ten years to realize this film.
Hancock
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Fantasy, action, drama, comedy
- USA production / 2008
- Budget: $150,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $624,386,771
- Directed by Peter Berg
- Cast: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Jay Head, Eddie Marsan, David Matthey, Metrix Fitten, Thomas Lennon, Johnny Galecki, Hayley Norman
Hancock has superpowers, he is always kind to people and is willing to do anything to save humanity. But the image of this superhero is spoiled by the destruction his good deeds lead to. People begin to dislike Hancock for the devastation that the man leaves behind after his work, and always with a shudder of the heart perceive his help.
However, everything changes after the hero saves a man named Ray, who is a PR man. Wanting to repay his savior, Ray begins to promote Hancock in society, trying, along with other superheroes, to make him everyone’s favorite.
Initially, the creators planned to call this film “Tonight He Comes”, after it was coined the name “John Hancock”, which was then shortened to a version of “Hancock”.
Jumper
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Fantasy, action, comedy, adventure
- USA, Canada production / 2008
- Budget: $85,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $222,231,186
- Directed by Doug Lyman
- Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rooker, Anna-Sophia Robb, Max Theriot, Jesse James, Tom Hulse
A guy named David Rice has always thought of himself as an ordinary man. However, his life abruptly changes when he discovers he has superpowers. It turns out that David can teleport. The ability to move in seconds to anywhere in the world, turns the guy’s life into solid entertainment.
The hero stops working, because he can always get money by robbing another bank, and enjoys traveling the world. Only one day the guy realizes that teleportation is not a gift, but a curse. After all, such as he pursues and ruthlessly exterminates the secret society of paladins.
The film is based on the novel by Stephen Gould. The work is called Jumper and was first published in 1992.
Next
- Rating IMDB – 6.2
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller
- USA production / 2007
- Budget: $70,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $77,421,190
- Directed by Lee Tamahori
- Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, Tori Kittles, Jose Zúñiga, Jim Beaver, Jason Butler Harner, Michael Trucco, Enzo Cilenti
Chris Johnson has the unique ability to see the future, but this ability only brings the hero trouble. The government is so interested in Chris’s superpower that the FBI keeps chasing him, trying to make him work for themselves.
However, thanks to his gift, Johnson manages to easily evade his pursuers. Everything changes when terrorists decide to stage a disaster on an unprecedented scale in Los Angeles. To prevent this crime, the hero decides to change his principles and cooperate with the FBI.
The film was based on the short story “The Golden Man”, which was created by writer Philip K. Dick. Dick.
Drive
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, comedy, adventure
- US production production / 1997
- Budget: $3,500,000
- Directed by Steve Wang
- Cast: Mark Dacascos, Kadeem Hardison, John Piper-Ferguson, Brittany Murphy, Tracy Walter, James Shiguet, Masaya Kato, Dom Maguili, Ron Yuan, Clive Rosengren
Toby Wong is a participant in an innovative project run by the Hong Kong corporation Leunga. Thanks to a unique development, the hero’s physical abilities have been greatly improved. However, the price of new abilities for Toby was unquestioning obedience to the owners of the company, who made him a universal killer.
One day the man gets tired of being a killer, and he decides to run away from their masters in the United States. There, the company “Con Tech” offers protection in exchange for an implanted implant. But it will not be easy to implement this plan, even for such a first-rate fighter as Wong.
The Russian-language version of the movie “Drive” is exactly 100 minutes long. However, the director’s version of this film lasts 13 minutes longer.
X-Men
- Rating IMDB – 7.4
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, adventure
- USA production / 2000
- Budget: $75,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $296,339,528
- Directed by Bryan Singer
- Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Sean Ashmore, Rebecca Romain, Tyler Mayne
The film tells the story of all kinds of superhumans. Each of the characters was born as a result of a genetic mutation, and at first suffered greatly due to their dissimilarity to ordinary members of society. However, thanks to a professor named Charles Xavier, the mutants were able to curb their abilities and learned to use them for the benefit of humanity.
Very quickly, each of the characters begins to see the benefits of their peculiarities. So, to feel truly useful, united as a team, the heroes begin to save people from imminent death. They prevent disasters and selflessly fight supervillains.
For the Wolverine character, the film’s costumers created three kinds of claws: wooden, steel and plastic.
X-Men (2000) is the first film in a series of X-Men films. Each subsequent film continues the story of already known mutants. However, new characters also appear in subsequent films.
Doctor Sleep
- Rating IMDB – 7.3
- Genre: Thriller, drama, fantasy, horror
- UK, USA production / 2019
- Budget: $45,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $72,381,712
- Directed by Mike Flanagan
- Cast: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kylie Curran, Bruce Greenwood, Zan McClarnon, Cliff Curtis, Carl Lambly, Jacob Tremblay, Zachary Momo, Emily Elin Lind
Danny Torrance has had paranormal powers and has seen ghosts since childhood. This gift brought the hero a lot of problems, so, growing up, the man slipped into alcoholism. However, one day Danny decides to change his life. Quit drinking, the hero gets a job in a nursing home and begins to lead a quiet life.
Very soon Torrance is contacted by a girl named Abra, who is a representative of the “shining” children. The little heroine asks the man for help, because her friend has been kidnapped by the energy vampire community “True Knot”. Its representatives have long been feeding off the energy of the “shining” children, and only Danny Torrance can stop them.
Surprisingly, actor Ewan McGregor, who played the main character (a recovering alcoholic named Danny Torrance), is a former alcoholic in real life.
Upgrade
- Rating IMDB – 7.5
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, detective, crime
- Australia, USA production / 2018
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $16,593,554
- Directed by Lee Wonnell
- Cast: Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Steve Danielsen, Abby Kraden, Harrison Gilbertson, Benedict Hardy, Richard Cawthorne, Christopher Kirby, Richard Anastasios, Kenny Lowe
In the future, new technologies have greatly simplified people’s livelihoods. However, there remain those who do not want to recognize technological advances. One such person is a car mechanic named Grey Trace. The hero’s life is measured and quiet, but everything changes when he meets a gang of thugs. During the skirmish the bandits kill the hero’s wife and make Grey himself an invalid, turning his life into a miserable existence.
However, very soon one of his rich clients comes to Trace’s aid, offering to return control over his body with an innovative implant “Stem”. The hero accepts the offer and, having returned the ability to move, begins to take revenge on the killers of his beloved.
Initially, the creators wanted to call this film “Stem”, in honor of the implant placed by the main character in the film, but they changed their minds.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, drama, adventure, family
- USA, UK, Belgium, Canada production / 2016
- Budget: $110,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $296,482,446
- Directed by Tim Burton
- Cast: Eva Green, Ace Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Allison Janney, Chris O’Dowd, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Finlay McMillan
A man named Abe Portman is quite old and likes to tell his grandson Jake amazing stories from his past. One day Abe is attacked, and before he dies the man asks Jake to go to the house where he spent his entire childhood. The hero decides to do the will of a relative and soon leaves for England.
There the guy finds the right building, but, unfortunately, it was destroyed by a Luftwaffe bomb and the guy goes to explore the ruins. During this walk, the hero meets children who lead him to a portal leading to 1943. Having found himself in the past, Jake meets a whole team of children who have superpowers and realizes that everything his grandfather told him is true.
The film was based on the novel of the same name by American writer Ransom Riggs.
The Covenant
- Rating IMDB – 5.3
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Detective, Adventure
- USA, Canada production / 2006
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $37,597,471
- Directed by Renny Harlin
- Cast: Stephen Straight, Laura Ramsey, Sebastian Stan, Taylor Kitsch, Chace Crawford, Toby Hemingway, Jessica Lucas, Kyle Schmidt, Wendy Crewson, Stephen McHattie
Once upon a time, five magical families decided to take refuge in a colony called Ipswich. They all wanted a quiet life. Only soon the fifth family of mages begins to fight for power and they are expelled. For 300 years, the mages of the four families hid their abilities from humans. After that, this mission fell on the shoulders of their young descendants – the guys Caleb, Pogue, Reed and Tyler.
The boys live an ordinary life as teenagers and use magic in secret. However, everything changes when a descendant of an exiled family appears on the path of the heroes. Like his ancestors, Chase is ready for any evil for the sake of power and might, so it will not be easy for the heroes to defeat him.
The spiders, which are sent by a character named Chase in this film, were added to the film with the help of computer graphics.
Chronicle
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, drama
- USA production / 2012
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $126,636,097
- Directed by Josh Trank
- Cast: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw, Bo Petersen, Anna Wood, Rudy Malcolm, Luke Tyler, Crystal-Donna Roberts
Friends Andrew, Matt and Steve are high school losers. The boys’ lives go their way, but everything changes when the heroes accidentally acquire superpowers. They acquired their unusual abilities for some unknown reason in one of the caves.
However, instead of doing good, the guys begin to feel all-powerful and use the received abilities for other purposes. Every day the trio’s actions become more and more terrible, and one day Matt decides to stop his friends.
The actors playing the main characters of the film (Andrew, Matt and Steve), at the insistence of the film’s director 15 days lived in one house to play the role of friends as realistically as possible.
Push
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller
- USA, Canada production / 2009
- Budget: $38,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $48,858,618
- Directed by Paul McGuigan
- Cast: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Djimon Hounsou, Corey Stoll, Maggie Siff, Min-Na Wen, Nat Mooney, Scott Michael Campbell
There is a special organization in America that controls superhumans. Its representatives study the abilities of unusual people, trying to subjugate their power to themselves. To fall into their hands is to condemn oneself to suffering, so people with superpowers hide all over the world, trying not to give away their abilities.
Nick Gant is one of them. He’s hiding in Hong Kong and genuinely hates the organization, because its workers killed his father. However, everything changes when the guy meets a girl just as unusual as himself. Cassie convinces Nick to assemble a team of psychics and fight the organization to free the superhumans from persecution.
In some cinemas this film came under the name Kinetic.
Rubinrot
- Rating IMDB – 6.2
- Genre: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Adventure
- Germany production / 2013
- Worldwide gross: $1,931,896
- Directed by Felix Fuchssteiner
- Cast: Maria Erich, Jannis Nieuwöner, Veronika Ferres, Uwe Kokkisch, Katharina Talbach, Gottfried Jöhn, Gerlinde Lockyer, Rüdiger Vogler, Florian Bartolomai, Jennifer Lotsi
Quite by chance, a girl named Gwendolyn Shepherd discovers that she is not an ordinary teenager at all, but a superhuman. It turns out that the heroine possesses the gene of a time traveler. The abilities were inherited by Gwendolyn from her relative. However, this new power brings her only trouble instead of joy – involuntary movements in time, which she can not control, greatly complicate her life.
However, very soon Gwendolyn meets people who can help her figure out the intricacies of her abilities. Only on the way of the girl will meet not only good personalities, but also real villains. Their pursuit will not make Shepherd and her friends bored.
“Rubinrot” (2013) was the first of three films. The second and third were “Saphirblau” (2014) and “Smaragdgrün” (2016). All of these films are based on the novels of the same name from the trilogy by author Kerstin Geer.
The Sixth Sense
- Rating IMDB – 8.1
- Genre: Detective, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama
- USA production / 1999
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $672,806,292
- Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
- Cast: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Trevor Morgan, Donnie Wahlberg, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Jeffrey Zubernis, Bruce Norris, Glenn Fitzgerald
Malcolm Crowe is a child psychologist. The hero tries in every way to help his young patients adapt to the world, but he does not always succeed. The fact is that some of his charges have the ability to see ghosts, in which the doctor does not believe. Because of this, Crowe treats a boy named Vincent Gray incorrectly. As a result, the child becomes insane and, growing up, commits suicide.
Feeling guilty, Crowe takes on another patient. At first history repeats itself, but soon the doctor realizes that ghosts exist and his 9-year-old patient sees them. Malcolm begins to teach the child not to be afraid of his peculiarity and to communicate with the dead without fear.
This film premiered on the birthday of director M. Night Shyamalan. He was the one who made the film.
Venom
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, horror
- USA, China production / 2018
- Budget: $100,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $856,085,151
- Directed by Ruben Fleischer
- Cast: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Hayes, Reid Scott, Jenny Slate, Melora Walters, Woody Harrelson, Peggy Lou, Malcolm S. Murray
The story begins after a spaceship crashes in Malaysia. After opening it, people find four unusual aliens inside, who can possess a human body. Representatives of a bioengineering organization manage to capture three of the guests, but the fourth escapes. This symbiote travels around the planet in human bodies and lives off the internal organs of its hosts.
However, the fugitive’s quiet life doesn’t tempt him at all. The creature seeks to send a signal into space for their congeners to destroy humanity. However, in defense of the planet becomes a journalist named Brock, who shelters another symbiote called Venom.
Usually the characters are played by one actor and voiced by another. However, Tom Hardy, who got the main role in this movie, not only played, but also voiced Venom.
Glass
- Rating IMDB – 6.6
- Genre: Sci-fi, thriller, drama
- US, China production / 2019
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $246,999,039
- Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
- Cast: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Trith Clark, Charlaine Woodard, Luke Kirby, Adam David Thompson, M. Night Shyamalan
The world is full of people with superpowers. However, a secret organization keeps information about their existence a closely guarded secret from society – both supervillains and superheroes are forced to hide their abilities.
One day a man nicknamed “Mr. Glass” tired of being in the shadows and he decides to tell the whole world about the superhumans. Except that his operation fails and the hero ends up in a mental hospital. The only way Glass gets another chance to fulfill his dream is when new people with superpowers are accidentally admitted to the mental asylum.
Many scenes of this film were filmed in the former mental hospital, which is located in Allentown.
I Am Number Four
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, adventure
- USA, India production / 2011
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $149,878,437
- Directed by D.J. Caruso
- Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Deanna Agron, Callan McAuliffe, Kevin Duran, Jake Abell, Jeff Hochendoner, Patrick Seabees, Greg Townley
At first glance, a 15-year-old teenager named John Smith is the most ordinary person. However, in fact, the hero is a resident of the distant planet Lorian, which has been overrun by the Mogadorians. These aliens pursue and ruthlessly kill all refugees of the occupied planet throughout the cosmos.
The Mogadorians have also infiltrated Earth, where a group of Lorians are trying to survive by masquerading as humans. The invaders kill the team members one by one, and soon it’s John’s turn. Except the guy doesn’t want to give up without a fight. He desperately learns to wield the superpowers that show up in him in order to give a decent response to his enemies.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by James Frey and Joby Hughes. They published their work under the pseudonym “Pittacus Lore”.
Freaks
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Sci-fi, Drama
- USA, Canada production / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $335,050
- Directed by Zach Lipowski, Adam B. Stein
- Cast: Lexie Caulker, Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Pak, Amanda Crew, Ava Telek, Michelle Harrison, Matty Finocchio, Alex Paunovich, RJ Featherstonho
A girl named Chloe is 9 years old, she lives with her father Henry, who loves her very much. But the life of the little heroine is very boring, because Henry does not allow his daughter to leave the house. While other children live and enjoy life, Chloe spends all the time by the window, admiring the ice cream van.
The fact is that the girl has superpowers, and on such people the government has long declared a hunt. In order not to lose his daughter, the father protects the little girl from the outside world in every way. But one day Chloe, contrary to the bans, still decides to go out.
The film was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018.
Code 8
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, crime
- Canada production / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $157,209
- Directed by Jeff Chan
- Cast: Kari Matchett, Robbie Amell, Penny Eisenga, Lawrence Bain, J.J. Jones, Alex Mallari Jr.
Superhumans were discovered by the world in the 1950s. The government quickly found a use for them, entrusting them with the dirtiest jobs in society. As the years passed, the situation did not change. People with superpowers were feared, despised and forced to live in utter poverty, while the government closely watched their every move.
Because of this, many superhumans began to fall into the path of crime. For a long time, a boy named Connor did not want to use his unusual gift for evil. However, because of poverty and a desire to help his sick mother, he, like many, decided to open for himself the doors of the underworld.
This film was based on the short film of the same name directed by Jeff Chan. His film was released in 2016. Among other things, cousins Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell, who played major roles in the short film, got a place in the film.
Bloodshot
- Rating IMDB – 5.7
- Genre: Sci-fi, action
- USA, China production / 2020
- Budget: $45,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $33,542,457
- Directed by Dave Wilson
- Cast: Vin Diesel, Guy Pearce, Lamorne Morris, Isa Gonzalez, Sam Huynh, Siddharth Dhananjay, Talula Riley, Toby Kebbell, Johanness Hoekyur Johannesson, Alex Hernandez
After successfully completing his mission, American Marine Ray Harrison returns home and goes on vacation to Italy with his wife. However, the family vacation ends in tragedy. The spouses are captured by terrorists who have their own score with Harrison. Trying to get the hero’s secret information, the gunmen kill his wife, and then he himself.
However, this is not the end of the hero’s journey. Very soon, with the help of new developments, Harrison is resurrected by the company “RST”. Its representatives want to use their inventions to make an invincible soldier out of the hero, as well as other soldiers. Only the sudden return of his memory forces the man to flee from his masters in order to take revenge on his killers.
Bloodshot 2020 was the first feature-length film from director Dave Wilson.
The New Mutants
- Rating IMDB – 5.3
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, detective, horror
- USA production / 2020
- Budget: $67,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $49,169,594
- Directed by Josh Boone
- Cast: Blue Hunt, Alicie Braga, Macy Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Henry Zaga, Adam Beach, Thomas Key, Colby Gannett, Happy Anderson
The events of the film are set in the X-Men universe. A terrible tornado hits the reservation. The only survivor of nature’s rampage is a girl named Daniel Munstar. The heroine regains consciousness in a strange hospital, where she and four other boys learn that they have superpowers.
After agreeing to the entreaties of Dr. Reyes, who urges the teenagers to stay within the walls of the clinic until they learn how to control their powers, the boys find themselves locked in the hospital. So the heroes are left alone with their unbridled powers and frightening nightmares, which become more realistic by the day.
Director Josh Boone admitted that making this film was very difficult for him. The general mood of the film was very gloomy and he had to soften it in every possible way.
iBoy
- Rating IMDB – 6.0
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, crime
- UK production / 2016
- Budget: $1,500,000
- Directed by Adam Randall
- Cast: Bill Milner, Macy Williams, Miranda Richardson, Rory Keener, Jordan Bolger, Charlie Palmer Rotwell, Armin Karima, McKell David, Shaquille Ali-Yebua, Ayman Hamdushi
For a long time, teenager Tom Harvey was an ordinary man. However, the hero’s life changes dramatically when one night he goes to visit his friend named Lucy. The fact is that that day the guy becomes the victim of a brutal attack. Because of the beating by a gang of thugs, a piece of his own phone gets into Harvey’s brain.
The guy manages to survive, but very soon the hero discovers his superpowers. It turns out that now Tom can control electronics. Thus, thanks to his superpower, the guy begins to calculate his abusers and Lucy’s abusers in order to avenge their humiliation.
The plot of this movie is somewhat reminiscent of the video game “WatchDogs”.
The Darkest Minds
- Rating IMDB – 5.7
- Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, drama, melodrama, adventure
- USA production / 2018
- Budget: $34,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $41,142,379
- Directed by Jennifer Yu Nelson
- Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore, Bradley Whitford, Harris Dickinson, Patrick Gibson, Skylan Brooks, Mia Cheh, Gwendoline Christie, Wade Williams, Mark O’Brien
The events of the film are set in the future. Life for mankind goes on, but everything changes when a terrible disease “IAAN” strikes the world. It affects only children and is fatal in 98% of cases. The remaining 2% of children survive only because of their newly discovered superpowers.
However, the government is not at all happy about the emergence of superhumans. The authorities take the teenagers away from their parents and place them in special camps, trying to curb their abilities. But not everyone wants to put up with the cruel framework. Some children escape from close supervision to form a resistance unit. A dark-skinned girl named Ruby Daly is one of these teenagers.
The film was based on the novel of the same name by the American writer Alexandra Bracken.
Carrie
- Rating IMDB – 5.9
- Genre: Thriller, horror, drama
- USA, Canada production / 2013
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $84,790,678
- Directed by Kimberly Pierce
- Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Judy Greer, Portia Doubleday, Gabriella Wilde, Ansel Elgort, Alex Russell, Barry Shebaka Henley, Zoe Belkin, Samantha Weinstein
From childhood Carrie White was an outcast to all her peers and even to her own mother. Anger and resentment from constant humiliation and injustice toward her eventually reveal in the girl unusual superpowers. Seeing the upside of telekinesis, Carrie begins to develop her gift, but doesn’t use it for evil.
Everything changes when her classmates decide for the umpteenth time to make a cruel joke on the girl. Because of another humiliation, which surpassed all the mockery that has happened before, the heroine goes out of her mind. The girl’s strength comes out and Carrie begins to take revenge on her abusers.
The film is based on the novel by the famous American writer Stephen King. The work was published in the 74th year of the twentieth century and is called “Carrie”.
Fast Color
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Sci-fi, thriller, drama
- USA production / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $76,916
- Directed by Julia Hart
- Cast: David Strathairn, Gugu Embata-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint, Christopher Denham, Sanyia Sidney, Germaine Washington, Matthew Van Wettering, Ryan Begay, Tassos Hernandez, Monica Straw
A young girl named Ruth has had incredible superpowers since childhood. Because of her superpowers, the heroine is constantly being pursued by different personalities, trying, thanks to her gifts, to gain personal gain.
For a long time, Ruth travels around the country, trying not to stay anywhere long, so as not to get into trouble. Only one day the heroine realizes that a quiet life and salvation from persecutors awaits her only in her native home, which she left years ago.
The world in which the events of this film unfold is somewhat reminiscent of the “X-Men” universe and the film “The Darkest Minds” (2018).
The Gift
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Detective, Thriller
- USA production / 2000
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $44,567,606
- Directed by Sam Raimi
- Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank, Michael Jeter, Kim Dickens, Gary Cole, Rosemary Harris
A woman named Annabelle Wilson is a widow. She possesses a rare superpower – the heroine can see the future. Thanks to her gift, the woman earns a living and raises her three sons alone.
When a girl from a wealthy family is killed, the seer, without hesitation, decides to take part in the investigation of a complicated case. Except that it will be very difficult to find the real culprit, even with such an incredible gift as Annabelle – the killer perfectly muddled the tracks.
To prepare for the filming of this movie, actress Cate Blanchett, who plays the lead role here, visited several psychics in real life and listened to their predictions about the future.
Phenomenon
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Fantastic, Fantasy, Drama, Melodrama
- USA production / 1996
- Budget: $32,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $152,036,382
- Directed by John Turtletub
- Cast: John Travolta, Keira Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Kiley, David Gallagher, Ashley Buccill, Tony Genaro, Sean O’Brien
George Malley is an average American who is not particularly intelligent and earns his living fixing cars. The man has long had a crush on a woman, but he doesn’t know how to approach the unapproachable beauty.
Everything changes when, on his 37th birthday, Malley, for some unknown reason, gets superpowers. Thanks to them, the mediocre hero becomes an overnight genius. George can perceive and process information, read minds and even move objects with great speed. Thus, with the help of his unusual abilities, the auto mechanic begins to improve the world and, of course, tries to seduce the lady of his heart.
Actors Sean Penn, Jason Patrick and Ed Harris were considered for the lead role in this film. However, in the end the role went to John Travolta.
Firestarter
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, action, thriller
- USA production / 1984
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $17,080,167
- Directed by Mark Lester
- Cast: Drew Barrymore, David Keith, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Moses Gunn, Art Carney, Louise Fletcher, Heather Locklear, Freddie Jones, Antonio Fargas
At first glance, an 8-year-old girl named Charlie McGee is a very ordinary child. However, the little heroine has one very destructive superpower. As soon as Charlie notices even the slightest danger to herself or her family, the girl immediately begins to ignite everything around her with a single glance.
Because of this peculiarity, the security services of the country pursue the little girl. The agents want to investigate the girl’s gift and, if possible, subdue it to their will. However, the parents carefully protect Charlie from the secret services. However, one day the agents still manage to kidnap the child. But they soon realize that it’s impossible to control the girl, and it’s not easy to kill her.
The film is based on the novel by Stephen King. The work on which the film is based is called “Flaming Eye” and was first published in 1980.
Hanna
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Action, thriller, drama, adventure
- USA, UK, Germany production / 2010
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $63,782,078
- Directed by Joe Wright
- Cast: Sirsha Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Fleming, Jessica Barden, Martin Wuttke, Aldo Maland, Vicky Crips
Hannah grew up in the woods and never saw the outside world. She spent her entire childhood training. The heroine studied martial arts, foreign languages, learned to handle firearms and edged weapons, as well as to survive in any conditions.
One day the heroine still has to go out into the world to come face to face with what she had been prepared for 16 years. Trying to unravel the mystery of her birth and destiny, the girl embarks on a dangerous journey. And in the meantime, top CIA agents will be on her heels to eliminate her. After all, Hannah is not a child, but a living and very dangerous weapon.
The script for this film was written in 2006, but the project did not come to fruition until 2009.
Powder
- Rating IMDB – 6.6
- Genre: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Drama
- USA production / 1995
- Budget: $9,500,000
- Worldwide gross: $30,862,156
- Directed by Victor Salva
- Cast: Sean Patrick Flannery, Mary Steenbergen, Jeff Goldblum, Lance Henriksen, Brandon Smith, Bradford Tatum, Susan Tyrrell, Missy Kreider, Ray Wise, Esteban Powell
A boy named Jeremy was supposed to be born an ordinary child, but the hero’s fate changed dramatically when he was still in his mother’s womb. The fact is that in the last stages of pregnancy a woman was struck by lightning. The heroine could not survive, but her son was born healthy. Only because of the tragedy, Jeremy became albino, for which he was nicknamed Powder.
On top of that, the guy acquired superpowers – thanks to them his body can generate an electric current. However, this unusualness did not bring the hero anything good. Jeremy was abandoned by his own father from the very beginning, and then he was constantly bullied by his peers.
A few years before the filming of this film, its director, Victor Salva, was convicted of child molestation. This news greatly shocked and frightened the actors starring in this film, as many of them liked to bring their children to the set.
