Movies and TV shows like The Greatest American Hero

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The Greatest American Hero (1981)
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The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.
Style: epic, humorous, semi serious
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: super powers, fbi, pop culture, federal bureau of investigation, secret identity, heroes, desert, escapades, rivalry, high school, imaginary, good versus evil, superhuman powers, heroic mission, special agent, superhero, alien, teacher, alien contact, school teacher, flying, alien encounter, space and aliens, fbi agent, shrinking ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles

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Most similar movies to The Greatest American Hero

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, humorous, semi serious and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about heroes, escapades, imaginary, danger, superhero, good versus evil and rivalry mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Greatest American Hero: My Secret Identity (1988), Red Dwarf (1988), Superboy (1988), The Flash (1990), Masked Rider (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Secret Identity (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: superhero, missing person, high school, disorder, family relations, radiation, danger, youth, young heroes, save the day, imaginary, heroes ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1991 ...
Place: north dakota, usa, canada
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Red Dwarf (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Style: sitcom, stylized, witty, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: space travel, spaceship, space, friendship, slacker, isolation, adventurer, space and aliens, robot, androids and robots, escapades, captain ...
Time: future, distant future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s ...
⇓ 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 ⇓
33%
 6.0
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Superboy (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictional DC Comics comic book character Kal-El's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication. It was renamed The Adventures of Superboy at the start ...
Style: saga, epic, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: superman, superhero, time travel, comic hero, multiverse, comic book, college, super powers, missing person, monster, secret identity, good versus evil ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation is an American live-action television series produced by Saban Entertainment, which ran on the Fox Kids network from 1997 to 1998. The short-lived series was based loosely from Mirage Studios' Teenage Mutant ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, light
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: superhero, martial arts, ninja, ninja turtle, mutant, friendship, rescue, good versus evil, master warrior, heroes, heroic mission, undercover ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.1
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The Flash (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The Flash is a 1990 American television series that starred John Wesley Shipp as the superhero, the Flash, and co-starred Amanda Pays. The series was developed from the DC Comics characters by the writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, and ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, captivating, tense, epic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: super powers, superhero, secret identity, fighting crime, chases and races, danger, save the day, multiverse, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, superhuman powers ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
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Masked Rider (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Masked Rider is an American adaptation of the Japanese television series Kamen Rider Black RX, the ninth in a line of series in the popular Kamen Rider Series franchise. It was produced by Saban and aired on FOX part of the Fox Kids program block ...
Style: family comedy, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: deep space, kamen rider, rivalry, benign alien, youth, heroes, imaginary, space and aliens, good versus evil, alien encounter, power rangers, morphing ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan
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27%
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Level Up (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Level Up was a live-action television series that is broadcast on Cartoon Network. A film with the same title, which served as a pilot for the series, premiered on November 23, 2011. The series premiered on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 8 p.m. ...
Style: humorous, exciting, tense, captivating, semi serious
Audience: kids
Plot: good versus evil, parallel world, imaginary, best friend, danger, youth, rivalry, high school, escapades, video game, chase, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Misfits of Science (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A superhero fantasy television series featuring super-powered humans and their madcap adventures.
Style: cult classic
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, superpower, misfit, missing person, super powers, conspiracy, pop culture, superhuman, shrinking, telekinesis, supernatural power, live action ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The forces of evil are attempting to recapture a human-inhabited Earth-like planet that has been liberated by rebels. The son of one of the rebel leaders, an electronic genius, searches the galaxy for a hero and finds Captain Zoom, star of a 1950s ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, offbeat, humorous, spoof
Plot: space opera, superhero, star wars, escapades, good versus evil, save the day, space and aliens, master villain, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, heroes ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Night Man (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Night Man is an American action/adventure/sci-fi series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and was created by Steve Englehart and developed for ...
Style: epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: superhero, super powers, telepathy, comic book, martial arts, comic hero, jazz singer, superpower, rivalry, imaginary, fighting crime, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Birds of Prey (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Huntress, Dinah, Oracle are determined to carry on Batman's fight for justice against the ruthless criminals of New Gotham City.
Style: semi serious, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, neo noir ...
Audience: family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: villain, heroes, female protagonist, superhero, interracial relations, batman, good versus evil, secret identity, vengeance, master villain, escapades, superhuman powers ...
Time: future
Place: washington d.c., usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Power Rangers R.P.M (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: In the near future, the mysterious and sinister Venjix Computer Network is attempting to conquer and lay ruin to the entire planet. Mankind has retreated into environmentally-shielded domed cities to protect against the pollution and machines ...
Style: humorous, stylized, serious, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: power rangers, superhero, rivalry, secret identity, good versus evil, partner, escapades, chaos, battles, computer virus, supernatural, danger ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
V: The Final Battle (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 272 min.
TV show
Story: A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerrilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: alien, resistance, apocalypse, save the world, heroic mission, alien encounter, good versus evil, chaos, heroes, evil alien, murder, ufo ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Supergirl (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, saga, sad ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, super powers, female protagonist, heroes, danger, journalist, superheroine, supernatural power, secret identity, superhuman powers, strong female character, alien race ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.1
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Redboy 13 (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A minor masterpiece of the surreal--Austin Chronicle__Redboy 13 is a cold war movie spoof with a Jame Bondian atmosphere. Roy Brown plays Redboy 13, an adolescent agent called from retirement for one last assignment. Evil is up to its old tricks in ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: secret agent, boot camp, satire, teenage life, heroic mission, righting the wronged, disorder, young heroes, good versus evil, prodigy, escapades, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Cutie Honey (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation (fueled by love) to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, anime, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: female fighter, superhuman powers, good versus evil, heroic mission, transformation, vengeance, danger, girl heroine, gang, chases and races, kickass women, superhero ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
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23%
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The Flash (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning and falls into a coma. Months later he awakens with the power of super speed, granting him the ability to move through Central City like an unseen ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, action adventure, thought provoking, humorous ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: superhero, heroes, time travel, speed, multiverse, supernatural power, superhuman powers, good versus evil, super powers, secret identity, masked superhero, fighting crime ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 266 min.
TV show
Story: Under Paul ‘Muad'Dib’ Atreides' rule as Emperor, the planet Arrakis has enjoyed a renaissance. However, the revolution that Muad'dib inspired has transformed into a brutal jihad that has plunged all of humanity into a bitter, ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, epic, intense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, space travel, space opera, desert, heroic mission, space, imaginary, leadership, escapades, political unrest, space and aliens ...
Time: future
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23%
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My Hero (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, feel good
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: save the world, heroic mission, superhuman powers, secret identity, deja vu, super powers, comedy of errors, imaginary, love and romance, space and aliens, escapades, heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Galactica 1980 is a science fiction television series, and a spin-off from the original Battlestar Galactica television series. It was first broadcast on the ABC network in the United States from January 27 to May 4, 1980. It was later shown in ...
Style: saga, epic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: battlestar galactica, space opera, time travel, intergalactic, time dilation, alien invasion, star wars, androids and robots, space and aliens, space, military, world war two ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Mork & Mindy (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, game show ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: odd couple, benign alien, intergalactic, team, alien disguised as human, magic, super powers, deja vu, friendly alien, weirdo, farce, fish out of water ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: On the other side of every mirror on Earth lies the parallel dimension of Ventara - a world destroyed by the evil alien, General Xaviax. The Kamen Riders were warriors from Ventara who fought Xaviax with armor and abilities powered by their Advent ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating, futuristic, suspense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, kamen rider, save the world, good versus evil, parallel world, rivalry, escapades, danger, heroes, superpower, master villain, battles ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
TV show
Story: An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive. Based on the book by Douglas Adams, the dialog follows the book closely. This was originally a 6-part series ...
Style: humorous, offbeat, light, talky, futuristic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: benign alien, space travel, ufo, imaginary, mysterious planet, alien, space, satire, time travel, fantasy world, spacecraft, outer space ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
They Came from Outer Space (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction comedy series that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991. The series was created by Tom McLoughlin.
Style: offbeat, humorous, slapstick, slapstick comedy, sitcom
Plot: fish out of water, disorder, chase, chases and races, space and aliens, misfit, alien encounter, teaching the ways of the world, teenage life, special agent, dating, teenager ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Power Rangers Samurai (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A new generation of Power Rangers must master the mystical and ancient Samurai Symbols of Power which give them control over the elements of Fire, Water, Sky, Forest, and Earth. Under the guidance of their all-knowing mentor and the aid of their ...
Style: serious, exciting, super sentai, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot: power rangers, good versus evil, heroes, superhero, samurai, heroic mission, save the world, partner, teenage life, battles, supernatural ability, youth ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.0
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Henry Danger (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When 13-year-old Henry Hart lands a job as Danger, the sidekick-in-training to superhero Captain Man, he must learn to navigate a double life balancing the challenges of 8th grade with the crazy adventures of a real-life crime fighter!
Style: sitcom, funny, not serious, semi serious, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, young heroes, heroes, teenage life, teenager, friends, teen superhero, imaginary, best friend, youth, partner, assistant ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.1
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The Troop (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Troop is an American-Canadian live-action, single camera comedy-adventure television series about a trio of teenagers who fight and capture monsters and other supernatural phenomena that invade the fictional town of Lakewood. Created and ...
Style: humorous, exciting, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: supernatural, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, young heroes, youth, danger, friendship, teachers and students, parallel world, high school, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 8.0
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Voyagers! (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Voyagers! is an American science fiction time travel-based television series that aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season. The series stars Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce.
Style: exciting, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: time machine, time travel, paradox, anarchist, super powers, youth, time, alternate history, righting the wronged, adventurer, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, touching, saga ...
Audience: family outing, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, space and aliens, space travel, artificial intelligence, good versus evil, astronaut, time travel, alien invasion, survival, adventurer, save the world, fighting crime ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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