Movies like Superman

If you like "Superman" you are looking for epic, exciting and tense movies about / with superhero, superhuman powers, space and aliens, double life, comic book, save the world and time travel themes of Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi genre shot in USA or UK.
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Superman (1978)
 7.4
 187K
Superman (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Style: epic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, saga, sentimental, cult classic, sexy, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: superhero, superhuman powers, space and aliens, double life, comic book, save the world, time travel, heroes, alien, megalomaniac, superman, super powers, alien superhero, superpower, comic hero, journalist, villain, father son relationship, journalism, save the day, crime fighter, self sacrifice, danger, super speed, airplane accident ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1948, 60s, 1940s, year 1966 ...
Place: new york, california, san francisco, kansas, midwest, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Keyword: visit, reboot, retrospective, challenge

Most similar movies to Superman

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out epic, saga, exciting and psychotronic films with plots about superhero, heroes, superpower, good versus evil, live action, super villain and comic book mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres. Some movies like Superman: Smallville (2001), Batman (1989), X-Men (2000), Generation X (1996), The Avengers (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Superman Returns (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the ...
Style: exciting, intense, serious, saga, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: superhero, superhuman powers, double life, secret identity, transformation, save the world, superman, super powers, vigilante, adaptation, superpower, self sacrifice ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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100%
 7.5
 137K
Smallville (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. It is based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series follows the adventures of Clark ...
Style: suspenseful, entertaining, exciting, captivating, saga ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: superhero, super powers, double life, secret identity, good versus evil, superhuman powers, superman, friendship, heroes, danger, teenage love, high school ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 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%
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Kryptonian villain General Zod (Terence Stamp) and his henchmen are accidentally freed from their outer-space imprisonment and threaten Earth with destruction, just as Superman (Christopher Reeve) decides to renounce his superpowers for his new ...
Style: epic, saga, anamorphic, suspenseful, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: superman, space and aliens, superhero, save the world, evil alien, comic book, superpower, multiverse, comic hero, criminal, self sacrifice, nuclear ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 643K
X-Men (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Style: serious, action packed, saga, action adventure, exciting ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, mutant, heroes, supernatural, good versus evil, mission, danger, psychic power, x men, supernatural ability, genetically altered, heroic mission ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, y2k, 1940s ...
Place: usa, poland, mississippi, manhattan new york city, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is a live-action American television series based on the characters in Superman and Action. Lois & Clark starred Dean Cain as Superman/Clark Kent and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, and aired on ABC ...
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: superhero, superman, alien, good versus evil, flying man, save the world, superhuman powers, danger, rivalry, imaginary, fall in love, superpower ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
 2K
Generation X (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of young mutants--humans with a genetic variation that gives them superpowers and makes them feared by the population at large--begin training at a school for heroes. Their studies are interrupted when they must rescue one of their number ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mutant, x men, superhero, american football, telepathy, comic book, superpower, comic hero, villain, super powers, rescue, heroes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. ...
Style: epic, saga, hilarious, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, superman, comic book, superpower, space, super powers, multiverse, heroes, alien, superhuman powers, astronaut, villain ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, new york, italy, russia
⇓ 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%
 8.0
 1.5M
The Avengers (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. ...
Style: exciting, epic, entertaining, heroic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, alien invasion, good versus evil, monster, superhuman powers, teamwork, imaginary, tony stark character, female assassin, super villain, heroic mission ...
Time: year 2012, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, madagascar, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 114K
Superman II (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by Gen. Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who attempts to ...
Style: exciting, saga, epic, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, superhuman powers, comic book, space and aliens, alien invasion, superman, super powers, revenge, superpower, alien, prison escape, female alien ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, year 2016
Place: washington d.c., new york, usa, idaho, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.0
 74K
Superman III (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. ...
Style: saga, cult classic, psychotronic, breathtaking, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: comic book, superhero, superman, superpower, bowling, internet, multiverse, alien, artificial intelligence, villain, heroes, comic hero ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: kansas, arizona, colombia, italy, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
 267K
Batman & Robin (1997)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Along with crime-fighting partner Robin and new recruit Batgirl, Batman battles the dual threat of frosty genius Mr. Freeze and homicidal horticulturalist Poison Ivy. Freeze plans to put Gotham City on ice, while Ivy tries to drive a wedge between ...
Style: sexy, exciting, stylized, serious, saga ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night, date night ...
Plot: superhero, double life, mad scientist, transformation, good versus evil, justice, vigilante, batman, chase, secret identity, superhuman powers, fighting crime ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: india, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 633K
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains – including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock ...
Style: exciting, action packed, sentimental, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, family outing
Plot: superhero, heroes, superhuman powers, good versus evil, double life, fantasy world, spider man, disguise, multiverse, fight, vigilante, super powers ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
 24K
Supergirl (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, tense, epic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, teenage girl, superheroine, megalomaniac, female protagonist, good versus evil, female superhero, witch, magic, comic book, tough girl, teenage superheroine ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: illinois, new york, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego ...
Style: entertaining, suspense, funny, witty, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: superhero, teenager, school, high school, technology, teenage life, supernatural power, tony stark character, mentor, coming of age, good versus evil, peter parker character ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, year 2012, 21st century
Place: new york, america, washington d.c., maryland, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 808K
Man of Steel (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation ...
Style: exciting, serious, visually stunning, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, superhuman powers, alien invasion, double life, secret identity, superman, vigilante, earth, villain, space travel, adoptive father ...
Time: year 2013, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, canada, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.4
 101K
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, time travel, space and aliens, parallel universe, alien planet, alien race, parallel world, save the world, ancient mystery, space opera, space, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, near future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
50%
 6.1
 477K
Justice League (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, psychotronic, captivating, action adventure ...
Audience: family friendly, kids, chick flick
Plot: superhero, justice league, superhero team, batman, super powers, superman, good versus evil, super speed, one against many, giant, superhuman, alien ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, future
Place: fictional island, tower bridge london, london, russia, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men and The Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
Style: exciting, action packed, serious, action adventure, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, chick flick, adult
Plot: mutant, supernatural ability, superhero, x men, superhuman powers, final battle, comic book, fantasy world, supernatural power, betrayal, beast, superhuman ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, future, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Superman: Requiem (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When the Man of Steel is rendered almost powerless by an evil mastermind, he must find a way to prove to the world that he is still a super man.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: superhero, superman, superpower, reporter, lex luthor character, alien, love, female reporter, secret identity, galaxy, adventure hero, invulnerability ...
Place: midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, witty, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, robot, artificial intelligence, superhero team, tony stark character, heroes, superhuman powers, supernatural ability, master villain, killer robot, good versus evil, androids and robots ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, future, year 2016, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, usa, new york, london, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 242 min.
Story: Zack Snyder's definitive director's cut of Justice League (2017).
Style: tense, exciting, cult classic, saga, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: superhero, batman, superheroine, female warrior, justice league, heroes, superhero team, team, kingdom, superman, villain, time travel ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: usa, london, tower bridge london, iceland, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and ...
Style: exciting, sad, action adventure, epic, saga ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: superhero, time travel, heroes, alternate timeline, invasion, superhero team, alien, outer space, tony stark character, revenge, fight scenes, epic battle ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019, year 2014, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, new jersey, japan, manhattan new york city, missouri ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 149 min.
Story: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six ...
Style: epic, exciting, saga, surprise ending, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: superhero, super powers, fight scenes, invasion, power, supernatural power, universe, tragedy, good versus evil, end of the world, alien, superhero team ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, africa, manhattan new york city, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Predominantly set during World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, ...
Style: exciting, heroic, psychotronic, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, boys' night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot: superhero, heroism, heroes, mad scientist, world war two, soldier, superhuman powers, heroic mission, courage, nazi, danger, bravery ...
Time: year 2011, future, year 1942, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
31%
 6.7
 204K
The Flash (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 144 min.
Story: The Flash travels back in time to prevent the murder of his mother, an act which disrupts time significantly.
Style: epic, saga, tense, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: multiverse, superhero, superpower, secret identity, batman, struck by lightning, justice league, villain, loss of mother, avenger, geek, superhuman ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, year 2004, year 2013
Place: russia, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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