Scanners (1981) is a sci-fi movie directed by David Cronenberg. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

★ 6.5 · 17,469 votes · Action, Sci-Fi
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Movies like Lucy →
★ 6.9 · 2,859 votes · Horror, Mystery, Drama
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.
Movies like Suspiria →
★ 8.2 · 19,520 votes · Horror, Thriller
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.
Movies like The Shining →
★ 6.7 · 1,349 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.
Movies like Freaks →
★ 6.3 · 424 votes · Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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.
Movies like The Fury →
★ 6.4 · 1,123 votes · Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi
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.
Movies like Possessor →
★ 6.5 · 9,707 votes · Sci-Fi, Horror
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Movies like Annihilation →
★ 7.4 · 4,030 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
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.
Movies like Serenity →
★ 7.5 · 5,314 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
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.
Movies like Upgrade →
★ 7.3 · 3,396 votes · Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Movies like Dark City →
★ 6.7 · 7,248 votes · Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
Movies like Resident Evil →
★ 6.6 · 1,135 votes · Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
With his wife out sick, a struggling father brings home a lifelike AI, only to have his self-aware new help want everything her new family has to offer... Like the affection of her owner and she'll kill to get it.
Movies like Subservience →
★ 6.9 · 522 votes · Action, Sci-Fi, Horror
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
Movies like The Hidden →
★ 6.7 · 848 votes · Horror, Sci-Fi
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Movies like The Brood →