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Movies that feel likeAquaman (2018)

Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is worth of being a king.

If you loved Aquaman, the closest films we have are Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). All three share Aquaman's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Kong: Skull Island (2017).

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James Wankineticepicdreamlike
11 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Disney Plus · TNT

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness poster
🍅 73%★ 6.9fantasy · action · adventureDisney+

Wall-to-wall visual invention that dares you to keep up with it

The difference: Horror-tinged and scary — no sunny crowd-pleasing swagger

Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 92%★ 7.3action · adventure · fantasyDisney+

A hero forced to face the family legacy he ran away from

The difference: Grounded martial arts over ocean-sized CGI spectacle

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

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Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · dir. Zack Snyder
🍅 71%★ 7.9action · adventure · fantasyMax

Mythic scale and gods-among-us grandeur held at full volume

The difference: Solemn and grey — hours of gravity without the fun

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

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Thor: The Dark World
2013 · dir. Alan Taylor
🍅 67%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasyDisney+

Reluctant royal heir dragged between two worlds by a throne he never wanted

The difference: Darker palette and grimmer stakes — less color-drunk spectacle

Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

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Wonder Woman
2017 · dir. Patty Jenkins
🍅 93%★ 7.3action · adventure · fantasyMax

An outsider raised apart, stepping into a world that needs them

The difference: Sombre wartime setting instead of neon undersea fantasy

An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.

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Mulan
2020 · dir. Niki Caro
🍅 71%★ 5.8adventure · fantasy · actionDisney+

Both are built on the same subject: hero

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.

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Kong: Skull Island
2017 · dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts
🍅 75%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasy

Awe at an enormous hidden world humans were never meant to see

The difference: Monster-movie dread and body count, no royal-destiny arc

Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

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Warcraft
2016 · dir. Duncan Jones
🍅 29%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasyStarz

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.

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🍅 30%★ 6.5adventure · action · fantasyDisney+

Salt-spray adventure driven by sea legend, curses and treasure

The difference: Comic swashbuckling — no earnest hero coming into his own

Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.

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Tomb Raider
2018 · dir. Roar Uthaug
🍅 52%★ 6.3action · adventure · fantasyMax

Both lean on dream logic more than on action

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.

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The Legend of Tarzan
2016 · dir. David Yates
🍅 36%★ 6.2fantasy · action · adventureRent or buy

Kinetic adventure in both cases

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

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Mortal Kombat
2021 · dir. Simon McQuoid
🍅 55%★ 6.1action · fantasy · adventureMax

Fantasy with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.

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