Movies like The Shadow

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The Shadow (1994)
 6.0
 27K
The Shadow (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.
Style: exciting, entertaining, suspenseful, visually stunning, dieselpunk, stylized, tense, retro, noir, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: vigilante, superhero, good versus evil, monk, radio, secret identity, transformation, mad scientist, undercover, danger, heroic mission, escapades, villain, heroes, revenge, comic book, treasure hunt, fall in love, superhuman powers, psychic, anti hero, dinosaur, monster, killer, devil ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, year 1994, 20th century, 30s
Place: new york, usa, asia, tibet
Keyword: reboot, retrospective, take over, gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Shadow

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and stylized films with plots about rivalry, heroes, superhero, villain, good versus evil, comic book and escapades mostly in Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Shadow: The Rocketeer (1991), Batman Returns (1992), Batman (1989), Ghost Rider (2007), The Phantom (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.6
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The Rocketeer (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930s Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation. Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles on a top secret rocket-pack and with the ...
Style: dieselpunk, entertaining, exciting, stylized, light ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, treasure hunt, good versus evil, aviation, comic book, betrayal, adaptation, steampunk, world war two, villain, gangster, heroes ...
Time: 1930s, future, year 1991, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 7.1
 326K
Batman Returns (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt ...
Style: gothic, stylized, intense, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, boys' night, date night
Plot: superhero, villain, revenge, femme fatale, cat, christmas, batman, corruption, double life, vigilante, transformation, circus ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 402K
Batman (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, visual, neo noir, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, date night
Plot: superhero, batman, vigilante, psychopath, good versus evil, double life, organized crime, corruption, secret identity, disfigurement, district attorney, crime fighter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 1920s
Place: usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 251K
Ghost Rider (2007)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a ...
Style: exciting, action packed, epic, semi serious, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: superhero, motorcycle, supernatural, deal with the devil, good versus evil, vigilante, demon, devil, biker, chases and races, dark hero, monster ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.1
 36K
The Phantom (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.
Style: light, entertaining, exciting, humorous, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, comic book, good versus evil, escapades, villain, heroes, island, vigilante, treasure hunt, one man army, silver, chase ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1938, year 1939
Place: fictional island, new york, usa, southeast asia, thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link ...
Style: futuristic, dieselpunk, stylized, surreal, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: steampunk, robot, heroic mission, alternate reality, mad scientist, airplane, transformation, alternate history, danger, save the world, aviation, kidnapping ...
Time: future, 1930s, year 2004, 2000s, year 1939 ...
Place: new york, himalaya, manhattan new york city, nepal, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 348K
Hellboy (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, ...
Style: stylized, exciting, action packed, mystical, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, superhero, monster, good versus evil, supernatural ability, demon, occult, undercover, danger, comic hero, goth, steampunk ...
Time: year 2004, 1940s, y2k, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: new york, new jersey, america, moscow russia, scotland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Rick and Evelyn O'Connell, along with their 8 year old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King's might, the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, scary, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, treasure, ancient egypt, supernatural, good versus evil, mythology, monster, chase, tomb, heroic mission ...
Time: year 2001, 1930s, jurassic, future, 20th century ...
Place: egypt, london, africa, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on a character created by Robert E. Howard, this fast-paced, occasionally humorous sequel to Conan the Barbarian features the hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as he is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas) to safely escort a teen ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: barbarian, sword and sorcery, wizard, medieval, master warrior, good versus evil, warrior, female warrior, sorcery, rescue, imaginary kingdom, human sacrifice ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, prehistoric times, 20th century, stone age
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 72K
Spawn (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons (Michael Jai White) makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected to see his beloved wife Wanda (Theresa Randle). In exchange for his return to Earth, Simmons ...
Style: scary, dark fantasy, dark, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, deal with the devil, superhero, devil, monster, clown, danger, comic book, good versus evil, transformation, vengeance, hell ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: north korea, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Crow: Salvation (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of killing. Alex follows the crow into the police department's evidence room, where he discovers that Lauren was killed by a group ...
Style: suspense, stylized, harsh, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: afterlife, revenge, supernatural, electric chair, tragic hero, murder, good versus evil, comic book, superhero, death row, brutality, violence ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 90s
Place: salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Black Scorpion (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Darcy is a cop who is also a supehero named Black Scorpion at night who kicks and beats evildoers to a pulp. She soon catches wind of an asthmatic mad scientist who plans on tainting the city's air supply with a toxin. Only Darcy in her ...
Style: action adventure, fast, exciting, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: superheroine, female martial artist, female protagonist, tough girl, hand to hand combat, female police officer, sex scene, secret identity, superhero, vigilante, female fight, anti hero ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.0
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Steel (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Justice. Safe streets. Payback. Metallurgist John Henry Irons (O'Neal) vows to claim them all when a renegade military reject (Judd Nelson) puts new superweapons in dangerous hands. Helped by an electronics wiz (Annabeth Gish) and an ...
Style: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, epic, disgusting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, vigilante, good versus evil, comic book, villain, crime fighter, paraplegic, one man army, african american protagonist, african american, military, soldier ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Style: entertaining, intense, epic, visually stunning, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, time travel, mutant, heroes, good versus evil, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, changing the past or future, time loop, superhuman, transformation, danger ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2010s, near future, 20th century ...
Place: usa, paris france, china, new york, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 26K
The Punisher (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. Only his ex-partner believes Castle ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, exciting, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, superhero, crime fighter, mafia, vigilante justice, vengeance, torture, comic book, gangster, one man army, revenge, vigilantism ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 2K
The Phantom (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 170 min.
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Story: Before Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman, there was The Phantom, the greatest legend in the annals of 20th century comic-book crime fighting. Now, the immortal superhero returns to strike terror in the hearts of villains around the world - and to ...
Style: captivating, exciting, entertaining, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fighting crime, good versus evil, danger, secret identity, escapades, rivalry, vigilante, superhero, heroic mission, undercover, organized crime, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, teen, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: superhero, mad scientist, good versus evil, super powers, revenge, teenage girl, superhuman powers, heroes, teenager, vigilante, spider, transformation ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.7
 98K
Elektra (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
Style: serious, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: superheroine, supernatural, vigilante, female assassin, martial arts, good versus evil, master warrior, heroes, female protagonist, uninhibited rivalry, danger, youth ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the ...
Style: serious, action packed, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, boys' night, family outing ...
Plot: superhero, alien invasion, heroic mission, save the world, superhuman powers, heroes, superheroine, apocalypse, alien, scientist, wedding, humanity in peril ...
Time: 20th century, future, 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, shanghai, greenland, london, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
Style: cult horror, suspense, slasher, perverse, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: vigilante, superhuman powers, superhero, anti hero, supernatural being, villain, revenge, comic book, mobster, devil, scientist, crime fighter ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 573K
X2 (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses – Magneto and Mystique – to unhinge ...
Style: exciting, action packed, humorous, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, super powers, mutant, supernatural ability, x men, teleportation, superhuman powers, school, mind control, villain, telepathy, comic book ...
Time: future, year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, near future ...
Place: washington d.c., canada, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s ...
Style: serious, exciting, emotional, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing, kids, chick flick ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, superhuman powers, double life, protector, good versus evil, save the day, death of girlfriend, comic book, fight scenes, fighting crime, scientist ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 65K
Dick Tracy (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Style: stylized, visually stunning, visual, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot: gangster, organized crime, good versus evil, superhero, police detective, comic book, storytelling, corruption, mafia, fighting crime, villain, femme fatale ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.0
 12K
Black Mask (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Chui Chik tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project and the instructor of a special commando unit dubbed "701." The 701 squad is used for many ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bloody, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, superhero, kung fu, good versus evil, heroes, police, vigilante, martial artist, one man army, danger, soldier, undercover ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After Ashe and his little son are murdered violently for no reason by Judah's men, he returns from the dead to take revenge. One after one, Judah's people face the power of the dark angel. The second film based on James O'Barr's ...
Style: gothic, stylized, atmospheric, cult classic, dark ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, tragic hero, revenge, superhero, back from the dead, comic book, crow, vigilantism, goth, murder, good versus evil ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 702K
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still ...
Style: exciting, action packed, intense, saga, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: superhero, mad scientist, double life, superhuman powers, disguise, friendship, vigilante, fantasy world, multiverse, super villain, fight, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jimmy Cuervo is a down-on-his-luck ex-con living in a polluted mining town on a reservation that would run him out of town if not for the remainder of his probation. With his time nearly finished, he plans to start a new life with his girlfriend ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: afterlife, revenge, goth, rivalry, master villain, human sacrifice, curses spells and rituals, heroic mission, escapades, imaginary, supernatural ability, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, family outing
Plot: martial arts, ninja, end of the world, fight scenes, transformation, fight, good versus evil, alternate dimension, save the world, kung fu, death, robot ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face ...
Style: exciting, gloomy, serious, action packed, action adventure ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, transformation, mutant, superhuman powers, hulk, scientist, chase, unstoppable, creature, experiment gone awry, split personality, giant ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, rio de janeiro, virginia, british columbia, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 69K
Darkman (1990)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, exciting, gothic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: revenge, scientist, disfigurement, vigilante, gangster, comic book, superhero, vengeance, experiment, danger, vigilantism, heroes ...
Time: 90s, future, 80s, year 1989, year 1990
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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