Unlikely hero movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant unlikely hero movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good and suspense films and TV shows about / with unlikely hero, violence, heroes, friendship, anti hero, chase, rescue, redemption, murder and blood plots mostly in Action, Comedy and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as unlikely hero: Zapped (2016), Black Clover (2017), My Hero Academia (2016), Convoy (1978), F/X (1986), Klay World: Off the Table (2005), Hero (1992), Gremlins (1984), Before Snowfall (2013), Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010).
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List of unlikely hero movies
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is), finds himself abruptly transported to a parallel world, a place of bizarre creatures, magical forces and psychopathic fairies.
Style:
feel good, witty, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot:
alternate reality, mermaid, magic, unlikely hero, interdimensional travel, parallel world, wizard, misfit, obsessive quest, time travel, alternate world, alternate universe ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church, and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus. However, as they grew up, some ...
Style:
anime, exciting, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
direction and purpose, battles, friendship, magical, jousting, orphan, fantasy world, wizard, magic, magician, sword, chosen one ...
Time:
18th century, 16th century
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
People are not born equal, a realization that 4-year-old Midoriya Izuku faced when bullied by his classmates who had unique special powers. Izuku was one of the rare cases where he was born with absolutely no unique powers. This did not stop Izuku ...
Style:
anime, exciting, entertaining, sincere, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
superhero, heroes, training, school, heroism, friendship, teamwork, rivalry, fight, high school life, tournament, supernatural power ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
asia, japan
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21K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
Style:
road movie, dark comedy, surprise ending, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
truck, car chase, on the road, chase, rebellion, on the run, desert, police brutality, highway, car, corrupt sheriff, state trooper ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, arizona, new mexico, austin texas, albuquerque new mexico ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, epic, saga ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
magic, magical, witch, sorcerer, friendship, imaginary, supernatural, good versus evil, chosen one, artifact, wizards and magicians, magic wand ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 1997, year 1998, near future ...
Place:
london, europe, england
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25K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
Style:
detective, exciting, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disguise, corruption, gangster, manhunt, murder, faked death, car chase, witness protection, on the run, assassin, betrayal, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, geneva switzerland, usa, california
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bunch of blue clay men who live on a table are contacted by another species of clay people through radio. Now 4 brave blue clay men will leave the table for the first time ever in order to find these mysterious clay men.
Style:
captivating, humorous, epic, surprise ending, black comedy ...
Plot:
time travel, unlikely hero, travel, on the road, surrealism, mission, heroes, scientist, stupidity, stop motion, piercing, medical malpractice ...
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25K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who ...
Style:
satirical, harsh, clever, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
air disaster, mistaken identity, happy ending, chase, satire, corruption, rescue, dishonesty, escapades, petty criminal, custody battle, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, illinois, chicago
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272K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Style:
black comedy, frightening, funny, horror comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, monster, small town, supernatural, transformation, creature, holiday, gremlin, father son relationship, winter, swimming pool, bank ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 90s, future
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
wedding, chase, young heroes, survival, on the run, family relations, family life, on the road, reluctant hero, winter, boy, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan, iraq, turkey, germany, greece ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
invasion, wartime life, military, life is a bitch, young heroes, danger, youth, resistance, hopes, survival, teenager, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand, new jersey
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31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, funny, parody ...
Plot:
zombie, small town, satire, monster, back from the dead, infected, master and servant, apocalypse, virus, undead, canuxploitation, child's point of view ...
Time:
1950s, year 2006, 20th century, 50s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
La vida ha llevado a Julián Pérez por caminos equivocados, pero el destino le presentará a este hombre la oportunidad de encontrar su redención cuando es enviado a la misión más peligrosa y noble de toda su vida, una misión ordenada por la ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
missing person, rescue, danger, obsessive quest, dark humor, escapades, heroism, mission, unlikely hero, friendship, mexican cartel, mafia ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
iraq, latin america, middle east, mexico, turkey ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
"Ben 10: Race Against Time" has Ben back in his hometown of Bellwood. Even though he's back in school and leaving his hero adventures behind him, it seems that Ben will be facing his greatest challenge yet.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
ben 10, race against time, heroic mission, young heroes, superhuman powers, save the world, androids and robots, rivalry, master villain, good versus evil, danger, escapades ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, social differences, human nature, society, working class, unemployment, culture clash, deportation, interracial friendship, unlikely hero, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.
Style:
period piece, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
old west, american indian, revenge, friendship, husband wife relationship, u.s. marshal, justice, pursuit, unlikely hero, outlaw gang, murder, marriage ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, political thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, kidnapping, government, life turned upside down, danger, family in danger, twists and turns, female assassin, conspiracy, police chase, government agent, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
spain, madrid
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight ...
Style:
atmospheric, visually stunning, scenic, captivating, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, preschool
Plot:
owl, bird, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, heroic mission, escapades, imaginary, talking animal, danger, furry, heroes, animal life ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A detective specializing in missing children is on a madcap mission to save a youth with mystical powers who's been abducted by an evil cult. He battles a band of super-nasties, scrambles through a booby-trapped chamber of horrors and traverses ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, not serious, dark fantasy, action comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
good versus evil, kidnapping, children, culture clash, supernatural, chosen one, true love, prophecy, lone hero, rescue, social worker, self sacrifice ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, nepal, tibet, california
Is relevant?
100K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
mad scientist, inventor, experiment gone awry, robot, father son relationship, technology, university, goofy hero, inventions and discoveries, nothing goes right, fall in love, disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
Style:
funny, parody, humorous, spoof, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens
Plot:
farce, stupidity, satire, dumb, actor, justice, rescue, gang, friendship, fish out of water, dishonesty, buddies ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1916, 80s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Is relevant?
142K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, funny, dark comedy ...
Plot:
espionage, team, reconnaissance, secret agent, cia agent, crime investigation, british intelligence, misfit, prospector, spy thriller, agent, spy ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Place:
united kingdom, england, london, britain
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An out of work husband takes his wife's advice on exaggerating his work experience. When he does, he accidentally lands a job as a superhero. Now with no powers to speak of, he must become a hero as his city is threatened by a great evil.
Style:
not serious, humorous, exciting, independent film, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
superhero, fighting crime, fish out of water, good versus evil, hidden identity, goofy hero, save the day, rivalry, supernatural, disorder, supernatural ability, unlikely hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a former childhood friend crashes Sebastian's bachelor party and makes it all about himself, only an alien invasion can make them put aside their bad blood and reunite as the kick-ass laser-tag duo they once were.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, humorous, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
alien invasion, laser gun, unlikely hero, satire, alien encounter, alien contact, friends, friendship, space, phenomenon, childhood, joke ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A policeman, who is fearless to death, can do anything for just one truth, while a gangster, who fears death the most, has drew life threats from his risky action all for love. One policeman and one gangster can be great partners that you have never ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
police, gangster, police officer, unlikely hero, fighting crime, buddy cop, bandit, ambitious man, criminal gang, race against time, satire, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
taiwan
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
With his noble squire by his side, a retired country gentleman sets out on an adventure to right the wrongs of the world.
Style:
entertaining, semi serious, disturbing, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
adventurer, chivalry, literary, unlikely hero, fight, teamwork, friendship, battles, social commentary, companionship, misadventure, satire ...
Time:
16th century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
spy, fbi, cia, cia agent, female agent, fighting crime, terrorist, criminal, police investigation, partner, die hard, spy mission ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Crime, History, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Chang'an. The city of Eternal Peace. China's ancient imperial capital and the world's most magnificent metropolis. Its treasures and wealth are now under siege from a mysterious army. In 24 hours the enemies will launch a devastating ...
Style:
costume drama, captivating, tense
Plot:
chinese emperor, royal court, power struggle, conspiracy, royal palace, security, political conspiracy, unlikely hero, protector, battles, teamwork, showdown ...
Time:
8th century
Place:
ancient china, china
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24K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has ...
Style:
serious, exciting, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
security guard, tough guy, shopping mall, brutality, gunfight, tough law enforcer, female warrior, ex soldier, warrior, hand to hand combat, danger, escape attempt ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The continuing escapades of the Suicide Squad.
Style:
entertaining, funny, visually stunning, perverse, saga ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
superhero, supernatural ability, fight scenes, violence, super villain, female warrior, final battle, giant monster, graphic violence, alien parasite, villain turns good, evil genius ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., south america, america, louisiana
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