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Plot Summary:
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspenseful, visually stunning, dieselpunk, stylized, tense, retro, noir, epic
Best tv shows and movies like The Shadow (1994):
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Dick Tracy (1990)
Plot Summary:
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: stylized, light, visual, visually stunning, humorous, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, surreal
Similar in 81%
Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995)
Plot Summary:
Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, perverse, cult horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, dark
Similar in 79%
Black Mask (1996)
Plot Summary:
Chui Chik tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project and the instructor of a special commando unit dubbed "701." The 701 squad is used for many government missions, but after one of the agents kills a team of policemen in an uncontrollable rage, the government decides to abort the project and eliminate all the subjects. Chui Chik helped the surviving 701 agents flee the extermination attempt. Having escaped, Chui Chik went separate ways from his team. Later, he discovers that the rest of the team were responsible for a violent crime spree that was beyond the capability of the local police. He sets out to stop them, donning a disguise and using the superhero alias of "Black Mask". Having lost the ability to feel pain due to the surgery performed on the super-soldiers by the military, Black Mask is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bloody, stylized, crime drama, cult classic, colorful, rough, fast
Similar in 85%
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)
Plot Summary:
Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult horror, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, dark
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Plot Summary:
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captain and Polly decide to work together. They fly to the Himalayas in pursuit of the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf, the mastermind behind the robots.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: stylized, futuristic, dieselpunk, surreal, exciting, atmospheric, offbeat, visual, surprise ending, serious
Similar in 75%
Ghost Rider (2007)
Plot Summary:
In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a go-getting reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery 'Ghost Rider'.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 249000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, epic, semi serious, retro, emotional, suspense, slasher, saga, surreal
Similar in 78%
The Rocketeer (1991)
Plot Summary:
Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930s Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation. Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles on a top secret rocket-pack and with the help of his mechanic/mentor, Peevy, he attempts to save his girl and stop the Nazis as The Rocketeer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: dieselpunk, entertaining, exciting, stylized, light, romantic, melancholic, intense, semi serious, fairy tale
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Steel (1997)
Plot Summary:
Justice. Safe streets. Payback. Metallurgist John Henry Irons (O'Neal) vows to claim them all when a renegade military reject (Judd Nelson) puts new superweapons in dangerous hands. Helped by an electronics wiz (Annabeth Gish) and an imaginative scrap metal worker (Richard Roundtree), Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war...if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear. "You all be cool now," the good-guy hero tells two crime victims he rescues. There'll be a lot of thrillin' before Steel himself can start chillin.'.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, epic, suspense, mockbuster, disgusting, feel good, semi serious, fast
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The Crow: Salvation (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of killing. Alex follows the crow into the police department's evidence room, where he discovers that Lauren was killed by a group of corrupt cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, stylized, harsh, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, gothic, entertaining, scary
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Batman Returns (1992)
Plot Summary:
Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Selina Kyle, Max's secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 322000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: gothic, stylized, disturbing, intense, psychological, light, atmospheric, serious, neo noir, saga
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X2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses – Magneto and Mystique – to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 569000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, humorous, intense, serious, stylized, entertaining, saga, action adventure, epic
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the devil resurfaces with aims to take over the world in human form, Johnny Blaze reluctantly comes out of hiding to transform into the flame-spewing supernatural hero Ghost Rider -- and rescue a 10-year-old boy from an unsavory end.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, entertaining, retro, epic, slasher, saga, cult classic
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Batman (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 398000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, visual, neo noir, saga, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, cult classic, stylized
Similar in 84%
Spawn (1997)
Plot Summary:
After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons (Michael Jai White) makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected to see his beloved wife Wanda (Theresa Randle). In exchange for his return to Earth, Simmons agrees to lead Hell's Army in the destruction of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, dark fantasy, dark, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, epic, bloody, suspense
Similar in 82%
The Punisher (1989)
Plot Summary:
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. Only his ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast to become THE PUNISHER ... a shadowy, invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, exciting, stylized, serious, epic, slasher, hood, perverse, independent film
Similar in 79%
Daredevil (2003)
Plot Summary:
He dwells in a world of eternal night, but the blackness is filled with sounds and scents, tastes and textures that most cannot perceive. Although attorney Matt Murdock is blind, his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day, Murdock represents the downtrodden. At night he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets of the city, a relentless avenger of justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 227000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: stylized, action packed, exciting, epic, semi serious, psychological, romantic, slasher, saga, cult classic
Similar in 82%
The Phantom (2009)
Plot Summary:
Before Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman, there was The Phantom, the greatest legend in the annals of 20th century comic-book crime fighting. Now, the immortal superhero returns to strike terror in the hearts of villains around the world - and to inspire a new generation to believe in the Ghost Who Walks.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, entertaining, saga, serious, suspenseful
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 528000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, emotional, entertaining, intense, suspenseful, stylized, epic, saga, teen
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Elektra (2005)
Plot Summary:
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, action packed, action adventure, stylized, epic, heroic
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Catwoman (2004)
Plot Summary:
Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat -- and she's eager to use her new skills ... as a vigilante. Before you can say "cat and mouse," handsome gumshoe Tom Lone is on her tail.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, tense, captivating, saga, suspense, serious, epic, heroic, fantasy adventure
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 690000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, teen, sentimental, touching, heroic, suspenseful, saga, action packed, epic
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Plot Summary:
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 182000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, atmospheric, offbeat, action packed, dark fantasy, predictable, action adventure, anamorphic, serious
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Plot Summary:
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 736000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, epic, intense, visually stunning, serious, suspenseful, action packed, action adventure, suspense
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Hellboy (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 345000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, action packed, mystical, suspenseful, semi serious, entertaining, futuristic, visual, cult classic
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 275000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, action packed, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, action adventure, epic, saga, humorous, intellectual
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The Phantom (1996)
Plot Summary:
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, exciting, humorous, entertaining, epic, saga, anamorphic, dieselpunk, cult classic, serious
Similar in 82%
Van Helsing (2004)
Plot Summary:
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 281000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, scary, suspenseful, fairy tale, gothic horror, entertaining, serious, stylized
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Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Plot Summary:
Based on a character created by Robert E. Howard, this fast-paced, occasionally humorous sequel to Conan the Barbarian features the hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as he is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas) to safely escort a teen princess (Olivia D'Abo) and her powerful bodyguard (Wilt Chamberlain) to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagon. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro (Mako), the wild woman Zula (Grace Jones), and the inept Malak (Tracey Walter). Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, cult classic, dark fantasy, epic, epic fantasy, fantasy adventure, action packed
Similar in 78%
Daredevil (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 466000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, neo noir, spectacular, epic, saga, serious, inspirational, thought provoking, brutal
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The Mummy Returns (2001)
Plot Summary:
Rick and Evelyn O'Connell, along with their 8 year old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King's might, the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn't above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis' otherworldly army.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 341000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, scary, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, action adventure, psychotronic, dark fantasy, feel good