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Movies that feel likeThe Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man.

If you loved The Amazing Spider-Man, the closest films we have are Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) and Spider-Man (2002). All three share The Amazing Spider-Man's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Thunderbolts* (2025).

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Marc Webbkineticepiccerebralmelancholy
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

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Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · dir. Jon Watts
🍅 93%★ 8.1action · adventure · science fictionDisney+Starz

Peter's double life, with loss driving the biggest choices

The difference: Leans on decades of franchise memory — heavy homework for full effect

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 84%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

Legacy and loss driving a young hero forward

The difference: National epic mourning, ensemble weight

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.

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Spider-Man
2002 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 90%★ 7.4action · science fictionHuluDisney+

The same origin beats — spider bite, first swing, first great loss

The difference: Older effects and campier villainy — 2002 shows its age

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

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Superman
2025 · dir. James Gunn
🍅 83%★ 7science fiction · adventure · actionPrime VideoMax

A hero rediscovering why the world needs his kind of hope

The difference: Established icon, workplace-era reinvention

Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

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Superman Returns
2006 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 72%★ 6.1science fiction · action · adventureMax

A melancholy superhero more haunted by lost love than by villains

The difference: Stately to a fault — long stretches where little actually happens

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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X2
2003 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 85%★ 7.4adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

Outsider heroes hunted by the institutions around them

The difference: Team-scale conflict, allegory forward

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 Magneto and Mystique to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

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Armageddon
1998 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 42%★ 6.7action · science fiction · adventure

Heart-on-sleeve blockbuster heroics

The difference: Disaster-crew bombast, no web-slinging

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

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Jumper
2008 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 15%★ 6.1action · adventure · science fiction

A young man testing astonishing powers in secret

The difference: Teleport thriller, responsibility optional

David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into a dangerous and bloodthirsty war while being hunted by a sinister and determined group of zealots who have sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David’s extraordinary gift may be his only hope for survival!

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Justice League
2017 · dir. Zack Snyder
🍅 39%★ 6action · adventure · science fictionMax

Common ground in both: superhero and superpowers

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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.

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Captain Marvel
2019 · dir. Ryan Fleck
🍅 79%★ 6.7action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: superhero

The difference: Trades the melancholy of The Amazing Spider-Man for an angle of its own

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.

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Green Lantern
2011 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 26%★ 5.5adventure · action · science fictionMax

Both are built on the same subject: superpowers

For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited.

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Thunderbolts*
2025 · dir. Jake Schreier
🍅 88%★ 7.1action · science fiction · adventureDisney+

New York City shapes both of them

After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.

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