Movies Like Nightman
If you liked Nightman (1997), a movie directed by Nick Daniel, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Fury (1978)
★ 6.3/10When 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…
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Next (2007)
★ 6.2/10Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical…
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Don't Kill It (2016)
★ 6.1/10Demon hunter Jebediah Huntley teams up with an FBI agent to battle a supernatural force in the southern state of Mississippi.
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The Golden Child (1986)
★ 5.9/10After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One…
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Phenomenon (1996)
★ 6.5/10An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
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57 Seconds (2023)
★ 6.2/10When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
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Scanners (1981)
★ 6.7/10A 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.
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Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
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The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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The Dead Zone (1983)
★ 7/10Johnny 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…
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Paycheck (2003)
★ 6.2/10Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the…
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F.I.S.T. (1978)
★ 6.5/10Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts…
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Heaven Is for Real (2014)
★ 6.8/10After their young son, Colton, undergoes emergency surgery, small-town parents Todd and Sonja Burpo are overjoyed at the child's miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next... Colton…
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War of the Worlds (2005)
★ 6.6/10Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm…
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Firestarter (1984)
★ 6.3/10Charlene "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?
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Patrick (1978)
★ 6.1/10A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
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Infinite (2021)
★ 6.5/10Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue…
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Push (2009)
★ 6.1/10After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick…
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Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
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Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he…