Movies like Superman II

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Superman II (1980)
 6.8
 110K
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 make himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet.
Style: exciting, epic, psychotronic, light, breathtaking, humorous, entertaining, feel good, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, superhuman powers, space and aliens, alien, revenge, superman character, alien invasion, prison escape, super speed, villain, good versus evil, heroes, solitude, super powers, niagara falls, secret identity, comic hero, save the world, prison, fight, camp, white house, astronaut, transformation, space ...
Time: 80s
Place: washington d.c., new york, usa, paris france, france, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...

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Most similar movies to Superman II

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, epic, psychotronic and cult film films with plots about villain, good versus evil, escapades, heroes, superhero, destiny and rivalry mostly in Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Superman II: Smallville (2001), The Avengers (2012), I Am Number Four (2011), Superman (1978), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, feel good, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot: superhero, superman character, superhuman powers, space and aliens, save the world, evil alien, criminal, comic hero, super strength, multiverse, mission, nuclear ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 131K
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, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: superhero, superman character, super powers, friendship, double life, super strength, secret identity, good versus evil, superhuman powers, heroes, superhuman speed, teenage love ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 1.4M
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, heroic, epic, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, alien invasion, good versus evil, monster, superhuman powers, teamwork, team, partners, heroic mission, female assassin, save the world ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Am Number Four (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him in this sci-fi action thriller. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly ...
Style: exciting, romantic, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: alien, supernatural, youth, supernatural romance, good versus evil, supernatural ability, friendship, super strength, young heroes, high school, teenage love, heroes ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, florida, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.4
 178K
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 ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, superhuman powers, alien, double life, space and aliens, save the world, heroes, superman character, megalomaniac, alien superhero, time travel, journalist ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 80s, year 1948, 60s ...
Place: new york, kansas, california, midwest, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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, intense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, kids, girls' night ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, superhuman powers, double life, spider man character, good versus evil, save the day, protector, fight, death of girlfriend, secret identity, fighting crime ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ 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: campy, epic, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, super powers, superman character, astronaut, nuclear, heroes, alien, superhuman powers, villain, journalism, clones, space ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, future
Place: new york, san francisco, italy, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.0
 72K
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: campy, psychotronic, breathtaking, epic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, superman character, bowling, internet, alien, villain, heroes, superhuman powers, artificial intelligence, weather, camp, redemption ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: kansas, new york, arizona, colombia, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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, melancholic, intense, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: superhero, double life, superhuman powers, secret identity, transformation, superman character, save the world, adaptation, reporter, self sacrifice, good versus evil, heroes ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 384K
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: dark, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: superhero, batman, heroes, villain, good versus evil, masked villain, psychopath, vigilante, double life, organized crime, corruption, insanity ...
Time: 80s, 1920s, 20th century, future
Place: usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 780K
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, epic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: superhero, superman character, good versus evil, superhuman powers, alien, alien invasion, double life, secret identity, heroes, villain, space travel, space and aliens ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, kansas, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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, humorous, suspenseful, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, heroic mission, save the world, alien invasion, superhuman powers, heroes, alien, apocalypse, scientist, wedding, humanity in peril, supernatural ability ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: egypt, usa, los angeles, london, shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.4
 829K
Spider-Man (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After being bitten by a genetically altered spider, nerdy high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers.
Style: exciting, serious, entertaining, intense, psychotronic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, spider man character, courage, superhuman powers, vigilante, villain, peter parker character, secret identity, transformation, selflessness, thanksgiving ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, plymouth, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
 288K
Green Lantern (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, stylized, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: superhero, alien, super strength, superhuman powers, super powers, chosen one, alien invasion, space, good versus evil, heroes, humanoid, green lantern character ...
Time: year 1991, year 2011, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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, serious, stylized, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: mutant, supernatural ability, superhero, superhuman powers, final battle, fantasy world, supernatural power, betrayal, x men, beast, superhuman, death ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, california, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.4
 664K
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: entertaining, exciting, sincere, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, kids, family outing ...
Plot: superhero, double life, superhuman powers, mad scientist, heroes, peter parker character, fight, teenage hero, comic hero, friendship, fantasy world, disguise ...
Time: 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, plymouth, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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, sentimental, suspenseful, heroic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: superhero, teenager, super powers, good versus evil, revenge, spider man character, mad scientist, villain, superhuman powers, heroes, spider, scientist ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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, entertaining, intense, gloomy, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: superhero, transformation, superhuman powers, mutant, scientist, chase, unstoppable, creature, split personality, hulk, monster, giant ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, rio de janeiro, virginia, british columbia, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
 7.3
 623K
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, humorous, exciting, psychotronic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, boys' night
Plot: superhero, mutant, heroes, supernatural, good versus evil, supernatural ability, genetically altered, heroic mission, superhuman powers, rescue, supernatural power, psychic power ...
Time: near future, 1940s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, poland, mississippi, canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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, superhero team, artificial intelligence, heroes, superhuman powers, tony stark character, master villain, supernatural ability, iron man character, good versus evil, androids and robots ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, usa, africa, eastern europe, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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: exciting, entertaining, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: superhero, time travel, mutant, heroes, good versus evil, transformation, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, changing the past or future, time loop, superhuman, teamwork ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1973, 80s, 2010s ...
Place: usa, paris france, china, new york, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the ...
Style: exciting, light, entertaining, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: alien, space, alien contact, battles, space travel, teenager, space opera, space and aliens, heroic mission, childhood, geek, human in outer space ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, future
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.1
 861K
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Style: exciting, entertaining, witty, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: superhero, heroes, hotshot hero, superhuman powers, billionaire, rescue, terrorism, kidnapping, revenge, flying superhero, androids and robots, betrayal ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, year 1999, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place: malibu california, california, tennessee, north america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 6.5
 58K
Flash Gordon (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
Style: campy, psychotronic, humorous, exciting, sexy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, superhero, alien, space, mad scientist, emperor, american football, robot, apocalypse, end of the world, megalomaniac, mind control ...
Time: 80s, 1930s, future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 601K
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, sentimental, suspenseful, serious, bad ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, family outing, boys' night
Plot: superhero, spider man character, superhuman powers, heroes, double life, villain, fantasy world, fight, amnesia, good versus evil, super powers, life philosophy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, plymouth, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.3
 170K
Fantastic Four (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former ...
Style: serious, exciting, psychotronic, captivating, epic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot: superhero, transformation, superhero team, teleportation, superheroine, alternate dimension, telekinesis, heroes, invisibility, technology, supernatural power, shapeshifting ...
Time: future, year 2007, year 2015, year 2014, 2000s ...
Place: usa, pentagon, panama, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.7
 334K
Fantastic Four (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible; Johnny Storm controls fire; and Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong … thing. Together, ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, intellectual, campy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot: superhero, supernatural ability, flying, dna, superhuman powers, interracial romance, good versus evil, space adventure, vigilante, fantasy world, fight, space ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 59K
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: entertaining, exciting, stylized, dieselpunk, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, treasure hunt, betrayal, adaptation, aviation, world war two, disney, villain, gangsters, airplane, heroes ...
Time: 1930s, future, 90s, 20th century, year 1938 ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.4
 257K
Batman Forever (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The Dark Knight of Gotham City confronts a dastardly duo: Two-Face and the Riddler. Formerly District Attorney Harvey Dent, Two-Face believes Batman caused the courtroom accident which left him disfigured on one side. And Edward Nygma, ...
Style: light, stylized, entertaining, campy, sexy ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, family outing, date night
Plot: superhero, batman, psychologist, good versus evil, partner, millionaire, secret identity, halloween, villain, justice, heroes, district attorney ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The world of Eternia in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Grayskull, which he has won after seizing Grayskull and the surrounding city using a cosmic key developed by the locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner ...
Style: serious, surprise ending, suspenseful, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, sword fight, time travel, villain, sword, violence, evil man, skeleton, magical sword, beast, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%