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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
Style: bleak, stylized, atmospheric, talky, rough, suspenseful, exciting, anime, realistic, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens, toddlers
Plot: batman, superhero, vigilantism, comic book, revenge, good versus evil, gang, heroic mission, mortal combat, undercover, rivalry, comeback, middle aged, fighting crime, master villain, distopia, violent, villain, psychiatrist, fight, violence, murder, brutality, chase, blood ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2012, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
Keyword: challenge

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Most similar movies to Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, 2d animation, exciting and serious films with plots about superhero, good versus evil, violence, villain, martial arts, superpower and fistfight mostly in Animation, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1: Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman: The Killing Joke (2016), Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Batman: Year One (2011), Batman: Death in the Family (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical ...
Style: atmospheric, unusual plot structure, intense, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, mysterious character, double life, batman, vigilante, vigilantism, organized crime, danger, fighting crime, mind game, comic book, revenge ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s
Place: usa, bosnia
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
Style: suspense, epic, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, batman, comic book, villain, distopia, fighting crime, heroes, imaginary, good versus evil, rivalry, master villain, protector ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., soviet union
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Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness. Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.
Style: anime, stylized, intense, harsh, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: superhero, batman, vigilantism, murder, psychopath, cruelty, torture, violent, comic book, obsession, organized crime, justice ...
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Gotham's newest Dark Knight needs answers as he stands alone to face Gotham's most infamous Clown Prince of Crime.
Style: anime, stylized, intense, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, insanity, justice, save the day, heroic mission, master villain, fighting crime, secret identity, righting the wronged, danger, undercover ...
Time: future, 2040s, 21st century
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Mars. Days before Halloween 2071. Villains blow up a tanker truck on Highway One, releasing a deadly virus that kills hundreds. Fearing a bigger, even more devastating biochemical attack, an astronomical reward is offered for the arrest and capture ...
Style: anime, adult anime, witty, atmospheric, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mars, terrorism, space opera, chase, outer space, bounty hunter, revenge, martial arts, danger, terrorist, partner, heroic mission ...
Time: future, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, space western, asia
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100%
Batman: Year One (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Two men come to Gotham City: Bruce Wayne after years abroad feeding his lifelong obsession for justice and Jim Gordon after being too honest a cop with the wrong people elsewhere. After learning painful lessons about the city's corruption on ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, tense, light, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: batman, superhero, vigilante, vigilantism, police corruption, corruption, partners against crime, organized crime, brutality, comic book, partner, fighting crime ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 80s
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl, but does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
Style: dark, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: batman, dark hero, superpower, double life, justice, heroes, gotham city, vigilante, good versus evil, psychopath, corruption, secret identity ...
Time: 2010s
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Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tragedy strikes the Batman's life again when Robin Jason Todd tracks down his birth mother only to run afoul of the Joker. An adaptation of the 1988 comic book storyline of the same name.
Style: psychotronic, dark, exciting, gothic, suspense ...
Plot: superhero, batman, superpower, heroes, death, secret identity, crime fighter, double life, good versus evil, gotham city, villain, violence ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Conan Edogawa sets out to apprehend Lupin the Third, the suspect of stealing a jewel called Cherry Sapphire. A sequel to the TV special “Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan” (2009).
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: detective conan, lupin iii, friend, police, inspector, espionage, heist, friendship, police detective, partner, secret identity, escapades ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Explore Bruce Wayne's transition from his beginning as a tormented vigilantee to The Dark Knight of a crumbling metropolis with six distinct chapters but intended to be viewed as a whole.
Style: anthology, anime, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, batman, comic book, fighting crime, good versus evil, rivalry, danger, crime fighter, organized crime, multiverse, villain, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: An old flame of Bruce Wayne's strolls into town, re-heating up the romance between the two. At the same time, a mass murderer with an axe for one hand begins systematically eliminating Gotham's crime bosses. Due to the person's dark ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, intense, talky, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, batman, organized crime, murder, good versus evil, vengeance, vigilante, brutality, betrayal, justice, fighting crime, old love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite meteor to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty on the heads of the Man of Steel and his ‘partner in crime’, Batman. Heroes and villains alike launch a ...
Style: stylized, anime, atmospheric, talky, exciting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, batman, good versus evil, justice, false accusation, frame up, superman, violence, transformation, comic book, heroes, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2016
Place: washington d.c., new york, tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Superman: Doomsday (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When LexCorps accidentally unleash a murderous creature, Doomsday, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s
Style: intense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, anime ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens
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Justice League: War (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The world is under attack by an alien armada led by the powerful Apokoliptian, Darkseid. A group of superheroes consisting of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Cyborg, and Shazam must set aside their differences and gather ...
Style: exciting, serious, anime, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: superhero, superhero team, justice league, batman, superman, comic book, violence, betrayal, good versus evil, save the world, vigilantism, chases and races ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When time travel allows a past wrong to be righted for The Flash and his family, the ripples of the event prove disastrous as a fractured, alternate reality now exists where a Justice League never formed, and even Superman is nowhere to be found. ...
Style: intense, anime, stylized, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, justice league, alternate timeline, time travel, superman, batman, save the world, comic book, hopes, professor, captain, changing the past or future ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, paris france, washington d.c., big ben london, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Based on the hit video game series, Batman must find a bomb planted by the Joker while dealing with a mysterious team of villains called, The Suicide Squad.
Style: anime, stylized, entertaining, witty, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: batman, superhero, brutality, vengeance, murder, comic book, justice, life philosophy, transformation, good versus evil, master villain, heroes ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: When a desperate Mr. Freeze, to save his dying wife, kidnaps Barbara (Batgirl) Gordon as an involuntary organ donor, Batman and Robin must find her before the operation can begin.
Style: anime, stylized, exciting, epic, serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: batman, superhero, chase, kidnapping, villain, multiverse, vigilantism, vigilante, dark hero, violence, justice, exodus ...
Time: 90s
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40%
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A new vigilante, Batwoman, is wreaking havoc in Gotham City. The dynamic duo must discover her true identity.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, anime, suspense ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: superhero, batman, revenge, good versus evil, justice, fighting crime, heroic mission, righting the wronged, supernatural, escapades, supernatural ability, save the day ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Batman Beyond (1999)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: 20 years after Bruce Wayne hung up his cowl, his secret is discovered by troubled teen Terry McGinnis. After McGinnis' father is murdered by the man who now controls Wayne Enterprises, McGinnis is fitted into a high-tech Bat suit by Bruce ...
Style: anime, adult animation, epic, cyber, fast ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: batman, cyberpunk, villain, multiverse, superhero, high school, dark humor, interracial romance, moving, dystopian future, superman, badass ...
Time: future, 90s, 2030s, year 2019, 2010s ...
Place: new jersey
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Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 ...
Style: anime, exciting, rough, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, anti heroine, female spy, hacker, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, female warrior, ghost in the shell, terrorism, woman fights a man, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo, asia
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38%
The Death of Superman (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When a hulking monster emerges from an underground resting place and begins a mindless rampage, the Justice League is quickly called in to stop the colossal force of nature. But it soon becomes apparent that only Superman can stand against the ...
Style: anime, psychotronic, serious, intense, captivating ...
Audience: kids
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Time: 2010s
Place: india, paris france
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37%
Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. The series was widely praised for its thematic complexity, dark tone, artistic quality, and faithfulness to its title character's ...
Style: neo noir, anime, stylized, adult animation, epic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, double life, good versus evil, guilt, disguise, vigilantism, superpower, undercover, imaginary, mysterious character, danger, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Damian Wayne is having a hard time coping with his father's "no killing" rule. Meanwhile, Gotham is going through hell with threats such as the insane Dollmaker, and the secretive Court of Owls.
Style: exciting, anime, suspense, harsh, tense ...
Audience: kids
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Time: 2010s
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37%
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Superman vs. The Elite (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The Man of Steel finds himself outshone by a new team of ruthless superheroes who hold his idealism in contempt.
Style: entertaining, light, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, superman, justice, superhero team, comic book, superpower, lone hero, good versus evil, anti hero, heroes, imaginary, escapades ...
Time: 2010s
Place: england, paris france, london, kansas, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Injustice (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
Style: anime, disturbing, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot: superhero, villain, female warrior, alternate reality, batman, battles, superman, fight, superpower, showdown, justice, superheroine ...
Time: 2020s
Place: washington d.c., pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Superman: Red Son (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.
Style: anime, suspense, heroic, adult animation, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, monster, villain, violence, revenge, superman, symbolism, destruction, fictional city, artificial intelligence, human alien, escalation ...
Time: 2020s, year 1955, year 1946, year 1967, 80s ...
Place: russia, berlin germany, nevada, washington d.c., moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins ...
Style: anime, futuristic, mind bending, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, hacker, cyborgs, distopia, female protagonist, policewoman, chase, dystopian future, female spy, dystopia ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1995, near future, 2020s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
Story: Fueled by remorse and vengeance, a high schooler named Terry McGinnis revives the role of Batman. Under supervision of an elderly Bruce Wayne, he fights crime in a harsh futuristic Gotham.
Style: exciting, stylized, futuristic, light, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vigilantism, murder, fighting crime, heroic mission, secret identity, undercover, danger, good versus evil, teenage life, dystopian future, cartoon violence, revenge ...
Time: future, 2030s, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Batman: Bad Blood (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Bruce Wayne is missing. Alfred covers for him while Nightwing and Robin patrol Gotham City in his stead. And a new player, Batwoman, investigates Batman's disappearance.
Style: anime, stylized, disturbing, suspense, tense ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: batman, superhero, gunfight, vigilante, justice, fantasy world, comic book, superpower, transformation, murder, chase, multiverse ...
Time: year 2016
Place: himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: After the events of Justice League: War, Ocean Master and Black Manta have declared a war against the surface in retaliation of the aftermath of Apokoliptian-tyrant Darkseid's planetary invasion. Queen Atlanna seeks out her other son, Ocean ...
Style: light, anime, exciting, entertaining, disturbing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, justice league, superhero team, atlantis, superman, comic book, good versus evil, revenge, green lantern, aquaman, destiny, transformation ...
Place: athens greece, atlantic ocean, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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