Both are movies that I caught a little bit of on TV years ago, and have been idly wondering about for a while
A pretty cruddy movie about 4 or 5 high school students who gain various superpowers, and use them in petty, silly ways (the one who gets the power of command forces the school bully to … stand in a garbage can). Probably a movie from the 1990s or very early 2000s. Two word title, I think, “The <something>”
A movie from the 1940’s or 50’s that I’d actually like to see more of - the star has amnesia, and appears to be being pursued by a group of spies or criminals. In the one scene I remember best, the man sees a psychiatrist, who flatly refuses to believe that he could have amnesia, and accuses him of being a fraud or criminal.
I think this is actually Mirage, from the 1960s. An excellent film (that I finally found a copy of on DVD) starring Gregory Peck and written by Peter Stone, who gave us the excellent Charade. This is kinda like Charade’s darker cousin, and in addition to Stone, we have George Kennedy and Walter Matthau returning from Charade, and Kevin McCarthy from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It was made in black and white, which makes it look older than the color film Charade, but it was actually made two years later.
I haven’t seen it, but I’ll throw out The Craft…? They’re witches though, not superheros.
I have seen this movie about kids with superpowers, but not since it was first released in 2005, so I don’t remember much about it except that it was pretty entertaining, not cruddy: Sky High.
Good guesses, but it definitely wasn’t “The Craft” - that was all female students who had gone to some effort to get their powers, whereas in the movie I saw a bit of, it was a mixed group, who had gotten their powers by accident (a magic rock?).