🏷 Discover The Best Telepathy Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Unlock the Secrets of the Mind: Exploring the Best Movies and TV Shows about Telepathy

Telepathy, the ability to read and control minds, has long been a staple of science fiction and fantasy. From mind-reading superheroes to telepathic villains, the concept of telepathy has captivated audiences for decades. In this article, we'll delve into the best movies and TV shows that explore the fascinating world of telepathy, where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur.

Cast

Gong Yoo

Kim Go-eun

Lee Dong-wook

Yoo In-na

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016) TV Show

8.6 3.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.

Plot: suicide, poison, child abuse, regret, soulmates, depression, jealousy, general, ...

Cast

Hiroshi Kamiya

Ai Kayano

Maaya Uchida

Yoshimasa Hosoya

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (2016) TV Show

8.3 379 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 48

Audience: TV-14

Story: High school sophomore Kusuo Saiki swore as a child that he would keep his psychic talents hidden, but his abilities still make his life difficult.

Plot: telepathy, satire, parody, based on manga, psychic, super power, shounen, anime, ...

Cast

Jack Nicholson

Shelley Duvall

Danny Lloyd

Scatman Crothers

The Shining (1980)

8.2 19.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Plot: hotel, new year's eve, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, telepathy, delusion, halloween, ...

Cast

Miguel u00c1ngel Silvestre

Max Riemelt

Jamie Clayton

Bae Doona

Sense8 (2015) TV Show

7.7 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."

Style: romantic

Plot: sexuality, identity, telepathy, secret agent, supernatural, conspiracy, superhuman, super power, ...

Serenity (2005)

7.4 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.

Plot: spacecraft, martial arts, telepathy, dystopia, fugitive, space western, planet, cannibal, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rachel Ticotin

Sharon Stone

Ronny Cox

Total Recall (1990)

7.3

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Duration: 113 min.

Story: Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

The Listener (2009) TV Show

6.9 118 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Canada

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 65

Audience: TV-14

Story: Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.

Plot: detective, office, telepathy, toronto, canada, supernatural, psychic power, paramedic, ...

Place: canada

Cast

Dakota Johnson

Tilda Swinton

Mia Goth

Angela Winkler

Suspiria (2018)

6.9 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: Italy, United States of America

Duration: 152 min.

Audience: R

Story: A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Style: tense

Plot: berlin, germany, dance performance, berlin wall, telepathy, fascism, paranormal phenomena, telekinesis, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Stephen Lack

Jennifer O'Neill

Michael Ironside

Patrick McGoohan

Scanners (1981)

6.7 1.4K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Canada

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: mind control, telepathy, paranormal phenomena, telekinesis, murder, psychic power, mind reading, scientist, ...

Cast

Scarlett Johansson

Morgan Freeman

Choi Min-sik

Amr Waked

Lucy (2014)

6.5 17.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: France

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

Style: absurd, suspenseful

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), telepathy, intelligence, drug mule, time travel, telekinesis, futuristic, drugs, ...

Cast

Mel Gibson

Helen Hunt

Marisa Tomei

Alan Alda

What Women Want (2000)

6.5 4.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.

Style: romantic

Plot: telepathy, romcom, womanizer, single father, super power, teenage daughter, misogyny, advertising executive, ...

Cast

Patrick Stewart

Jonathan Frakes

Brent Spiner

LeVar Burton

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

6.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.

Plot: android, spacecraft, assassination, self sacrifice, teleportation, ambush, senate, starship, ...

Cast

Kyle MacLachlan

Francesca Annis

Patrick Stewart

Linda Hunt

Dune (1984)

6.2 3.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: witch, empire, galaxy, rebellion, space marine, army, monster, based on novel or book, ...

Time: future

Species (1995)

6.0 1.9K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.

Plot: genetics, telepathy, paranoia, dna, transformation, instinct, alien, femme fatale, ...

Species II (1998)

5.2 828 votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.

Plot: quarantine, washington dc, usa, telepathy, pregnancy, dna, transformation, mercenary, ...

Cast

Ed Speleers

Jeremy Irons

Sienna Guillory

Robert Carlyle

Eragon (2006)

5.1 3.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Family

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

Plot: princess, based on novel or book, elves, magic, kingdom, telepathy, bravery, mythology, ...