Top ten movies that predict the future

Looking into a crystal ball, reading tea leaves or astrology, all point in the same direction – the future. And in new thriller Knowing, its numbers that have it as Nicolas Cage’s MIT professor John Koestler finds a long-buried list of numbers that correlate with the dates, death tolls and locations of major world disasters. Terrifyingly, the list is still in progress with more horrors to come. Can they be avoided and how did a school child 50 years ago manage to accurately predict such events?

Knowing stormed to the top spot of the US box office and is testament not only to the continuing star power of Cage but the cinema-going public’s fascination with the future. Predictions of what happens next have long littered the archives of film, a staple of the sci-fi genre and in many different forms.

Often tangling with time travel, future predictions are actually quite separate entities. Time travel involves witnessing the future first-hand, while a prediction is simply a vision of it that is yet to come to fruition. Sometimes these can seem eerily on the money, yet at other times are shockingly incorrect, some are based on scientific study and others thanks to a paranormal gift and so to celebrate the release of Knowing we rundown ten of the best movies that predict the future. We predict you’ll love them.