15 Movies Like Superheroes

Loved Superheroes? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Little Man
#1

Little Man

After leaving prison, dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins his moron brother Percy in stealing an expensive huge diamond from a jewelry store for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards' house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Bad Boys
#2

Bad Boys

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Colonel Kwiatkowski
#3

Colonel Kwiatkowski

Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Superheroes.

Blue Velvet
#4

Blue Velvet

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Shoot 'Em Up
#5

Shoot 'Em Up

A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

The Last Boy Scout
#6

The Last Boy Scout

Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Sexmission
#7

Sexmission

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Superheroes.

Copshop
#8

Copshop

On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Money Talks
#9

Money Talks

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Trapped
#10

Trapped

When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

The Thin Man
#11

The Thin Man

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Porno
#12

Porno

Michał, a mature man and father, is full of bitterness, regret, and longing for unfulfilled youthful dreams of true love. He reminisces about all his past lovers. With his first, Asia, he went on a seaside camping trip. He was 19 at the time, and she was two years younger. Despite his unambiguous advances, the girl resisted for a long time. Eventually, however, she gave in. For Michał, it was the proverbial pebble that caused an avalanche.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Superheroes.

The Frozen Ground
#13

The Frozen Ground

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Dragged Across Concrete
#14

Dragged Across Concrete

Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.

Analyze That
#15

Analyze That

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Superheroes.