20 best movies like Superman (1978)


List of the best movies like Superman (1978): Dragonball Evolution, The Dark Knight Rises, Fantastic Four, Supergirl, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Spider-Man 3, Iron Man 3, Green Lantern, Robot Overlords, Batman & Robin.

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Markimdb: 2.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
Duration01:25

    The young warrior Son Goku sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo, to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:45

    Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration02:40

    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 friend turned enemy.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:00

    After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

      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 and also gets caught up in a love triangle.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:11

      When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

        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 balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
        Duration01:30

        Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:05

        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 the dynamic duo.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:28

        David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into a dangerous and bloodthirsty war while being hunted by a sinister and determined group of zealots who have sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David’s extraordinary gift may be his only hope for survival!

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, France
        Duration02:15

        Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA, Israel
        Duration01:46

        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 and he begins to drain her life-force as he waits for the moon of Eternia to align with the Great Eye of the Universe that will bestow god-like power upon him.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, USA
        Duration01:51

        A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant—Ming the Merciless—to save Earth.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:22

        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 father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama
        CountryJapan
        Duration01:53

        By the year 2050 AD, a mysterious organization called Galactor has occupied half of the Earth and threatens to exterminate the human race. Around the same time, the International Science Organization had uncovered mysterious stones that bear unusual powers. It is said that one person out of approximately eight million is able to harness the power of the stones; they are known as a "Receptor". Dr. Kozaburo Nambu gathers a team of these five lucky Receptors together. Known as the "Gatchaman" team, it is their mission to defeat Galactor.

        Markimdb: 3.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA, Bulgaria
        Duration01:28

        It is 2020 and the impending apocalypse is inevitable. Due to a rapidly growing Black Hole headed straight for the sun, Earth begins to fall into darkness, waves rise above Los Angeles, Paris is rocked by extreme earthquakes and Japan is crumbling. Governments around the world race to build massive space arks for the lucky few who will escape Earth's tragic fate, though billions of people will be left behind. At the same time in the ruins of a Mayan temple a solution is discovered: 12 ancient skulls, that when brought together can stop the destruction. A team of scientists set out to find the hidden skulls and rescue mankind from imminent destruction.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryIndia, USA
        Duration02:35

        A father trying hard to ‘fit-in’ in his son’s badass world. A son trying hard to ‘dude-up’ his dad from ‘aiiiyyyo’ to ‘Yo!’ And a mother lost in translation between her husband’s ‘ingeva’ and her son’s ‘inn’it!’ While Shekhar was trying every trick in the book to woo his son, get ‘dude-ified’ and ‘up his coolness quotient’ his son had given up on him. Just when the father-son duo hit a deadlock, Shekhar strikes gold when he designs one hell of a game. Finally it all starts falling into place, as the family comes together, only to find themselves in the middle of a crash…not just a hard drive crash but a crash that would drive them to a disaster and make their lives go – KABOOM! All hell breaks loose when – the game that was meant to be played with starts playing them. Ra.one – The next level.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA

        During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalyptic warriors.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:38

        Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

        Markimdb: 3.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        A team of climbers is assembled by a rich and eccentric man to rescue a missing expedition he sent up to a forbidden mountain who disappeared after sending out one last disturbing radio message.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA

        During the critical experiment that would rid David Banner of the Hulk,a spy sabotages the laboratory. Banner falls in love with the spy, Jasmin, who performs missions only because her sister is being held hostage by Jasmin's superiors. Banner and Jasmin try to escape from the enemy agents to rebuild their lives together, but the Hulk is never far from them.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, Italy
        Duration01:34

        A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:30

        16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA

        A young twenty-something diver living in the Florida Keys discovers he has the power to breathe underwater.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Canada, Germany
        Duration01:33

        A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien Facehuggers and a hybrid Alien/Predator are released and begin to terrorize the town.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, adventure, family
        CountryUSA, Spain, France, Canada, United Kingdom
        Duration02:22

        Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."

        Markimdb: 1.6
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA

        A mother and a father search for their only child as a giant asteroid headed for Earth, triggering a series of apocalyptic events.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryGermany, Canada
        Duration01:35

        Jack Carver, a former member of the Special Forces takes the journalist Valerie Cardinal to an Island to visit her uncle Max who is working in a Military complex on the Island. As they arrive Valerie gets captured by the minions of Doctor Krüger. After the destruction of his boat Jack finds out about the true purpose of the Facilities on the Island, which is the creation of genetic soldiers.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, Hungary
        Duration01:59

          A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:53

            Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrefantastic, action, melodrama, drama, adventure
            CountryIndia
            Duration02:30

            Krrish and his father Rohit must team up to save the world from a psychokinetic evil man named Kaal and his army of mutants.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:30

            Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women.

            Markimdb: 3.6
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
            CountryCanada, USA
            Duration01:26

            Just in time for the joyous holiday season, this film connects the ancient Mayan prophecy of worldwide destruction at the end of 2012, and the iconic holiday song, The 12 Days of Christmas. But there is hope: a father learns that his daughter is really the "Chosen One" who, alone, can stop further catastrophe - if he can stave off the lunatic townspeople blaming her for the community's destruction.

            Markimdb: 5.1
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
            CountryUSA, Bulgaria
            Duration01:32

            Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.

            Markimdb: 4.3
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, Luxembourg
            Duration01:40

            The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall as they arrive at the Tiger Claw and are soon forced to stop a Kilrathi fleet heading towards Earth.

            Markimdb: 3
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:28

            A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
            CountryJapan
            Duration02:18

            In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy
            CountrySpain

            Juan López must balance an office job with heroic feats to save the love of his life and native planet Chitón.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:54

            Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

            Markimdb: 2.1
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
            CountryUSA

            Aliens invade, this time delivering a clear ultimatum. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance as the U.S. President and citizens decide if these aliens are to be trusted… or feared.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family, cartoon
            CountryUSA, Singapore, India

            Based on the original animated series Ben 10. Ben becomes targeted by an evil Mechamorph Warrior, named "Retaliator," who mistakenly blames Ben for something he did not do and attempts to destroy all aliens.

            Markimdb: 3.5
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:29

            Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) must team up with their hated stepmother. Carmen and Juni have since also grown up and will provide gadgets to them.

            Markimdb: 3.8
            Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure
            CountryUSA, France, Denmark
            Duration01:36

            Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers' half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom
            Duration01:45

            In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, Australia
            Duration01:43

              In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…

              Markimdb: 5.9
              Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, crime
              CountryUSA, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
              Duration02:29

              After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

              Markimdb: 3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA, Canada
              Duration01:35

              As a rogue planet roars through our solar system, it acts as an intergalactic magnet that pulls Earth in its wake. Meteors destroy major cities. Fire and ice storms engulf the land. Casualties are in the millions. And as the situation grows even worse, Steve Lannon is determined to reunite with his wife and teenage daughter. But when they stumble into a secret government installation, they'll uncover a nuclear mission that will either blast our planet back into orbit or guarantee front row seats to the end of the world.

              Markimdb: 1.9
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

              In February 1942 Us forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.

              Markimdb: 3.7
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
              CountryCanada

              The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. Among those on board: First Lady Simone Mathany, space-exploration entrepreneur Steve Roebling, Dr. Denise Balaban, pilot Fiona Henslaw, and a very lucky lottery winner. But while en route, a massive solar flare sparks a cosmic-ray burst that accelerates Aurora’s engine and blows the ship away from Earth’s orbit. Now out of control, it’s hurtling straight for the sun.




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