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Plot Summary:
Gathered together by Professor Charles Xavier to protect a world that fears and hates them, the X-Men had fought many battles, been on adventures that spanned galaxies, grappled enemies of limitless might, but none of this could prepare them for the most shocking struggle they would ever face. One of their own members, Jean Grey, has gained power beyond all comprehension, and that power has corrupted her absolutely! Now, they must decide if the life of the woman they cherish is worth the existence of the entire universe!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 201000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action adventure, suspense, saga, surprise ending, psychotronic, intense, comic
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X-Men: First Class (2011)
Plot Summary:
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 715000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, intense, serious, stylized, action adventure, epic, saga, sexy
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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men and The Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 535000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, serious, action adventure, suspenseful, stylized, saga, epic, sexy, breathtaking
Similar in 85%
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
Similar in 83%
The Wolverine (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 486000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, epic, intense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, action packed, action adventure
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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Plot Summary:
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 166000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, action adventure, anamorphic, epic, saga, scenic, mecha, smart, cyber
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Spider-Man (2002)
Plot Summary:
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider, nerdy high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 862000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, entertaining, suspense, intense, action packed, saga, visual, epic, action adventure
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Captain Marvel (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 599000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, humorous, action adventure, psychotronic, saga, inspirational, epic, slasher, smart
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Plot Summary:
Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 351000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand, France, Canada
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending, touching, psychotronic, black comedy, motion capture
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to Black Panther (2018).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 292000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: futuristic, captivating, tear jerker, anime, surprise ending, psychotronic, visual, visually appealing, disturbing, exciting
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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 455000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, intense, entertaining, suspense, saga, action adventure, surprise ending, thought provoking, humorous
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Suicide Squad (2016)
Plot Summary:
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 713000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: entertaining, absurd, intense, psychotronic, humorous, saga, cult classic, psychological thriller, exciting, funny
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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Plot Summary:
Predominantly set during World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 883000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: heroic, exciting, psychotronic, entertaining, stylized, epic, saga, action packed, action adventure, intense
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Fantastic Four (2005)
Plot Summary:
During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible; Johnny Storm controls fire; and Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong … thing. Together, these "Fantastic Four" must now thwart the evil plans of Dr. Doom and save the world from certain destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 341000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, action adventure, epic, semi serious, cult classic, intellectual, heroic, slasher, saga
Similar in 87%
Fantastic Four (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 174000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, action adventure, psychotronic, captivating, epic, slasher, saga, controversial, cult classic
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Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 540000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: entertaining, psychotronic, saga, action adventure, funny, atmospheric, epic, slasher, metafiction, fantasy adventure
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The Avengers (2012)
Plot Summary:
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: exciting, heroic, epic, entertaining, humorous, action packed, captivating, saga, visual, visually stunning
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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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The Gifted (2017)
Plot Summary:
A suburban couple's ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, stylized, spiritual, anime
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Plot Summary:
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 704000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, funny, suspense, humorous, witty, saga, psychotronic, epic, action adventure
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Bumblebee (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 184000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: China, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, futuristic, psychotronic, action adventure, inspirational, saga, anime, mystic
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Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Plot Summary:
Thor is on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the prophecy of destruction to his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 801000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: entertaining, action comedy, funny, saga, action adventure, epic, stylized, exciting, dark fantasy, atmospheric
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 887000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, witty, saga, suspenseful, visually stunning, action adventure, intellectual, epic, intense
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Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 835000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, epic, saga, action adventure, anamorphic, captivating, sentimental, thought provoking, slasher
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 744000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, epic, serious, suspenseful, visually stunning, psychotronic, philosophical, cult classic, action adventure
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 907000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, witty, captivating, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending, semi serious, epic
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Doctor Strange (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 789000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: entertaining, breathtaking, witty, mystical, suspense, humorous, visually stunning, epic, saga, action adventure
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 744000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, funny, futuristic, visually stunning, sad, saga, light, psychotronic
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Aquaman (2018)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 507000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, epic, action adventure, psychotronic, colorful, slasher, saga, stylized, anime
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Justice League (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 473000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, psychotronic, captivating, epic, saga, action adventure, slasher, anime, cult classic
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The Darkest Minds (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, romantic, suspenseful, suspense, semi serious, saga, apocalyptic, mystic, smart