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10 Best Movies Like Superheroes

If you loved Superheroes, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Hope Springs

Hope Springs

2012★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Superheroes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship....

#2
Holding the Man

Holding the Man

2015★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Superheroes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Thei...

#3
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Superheroes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with wh...

#4
Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story

Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story

2014★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Superheroes for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A portrait of the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himself by cheating his fans, his sport and the truth. But the former friends whose li...

#5
Apocalypto

Apocalypto

2006★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Superheroes for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppre...

#6
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Superheroes for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...