
Movies that feel likeThe Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
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).
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If The Amazing Spider-Man hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Peter's double life, with loss driving the biggest choices
The difference: Leans on decades of franchise memory — heavy homework for full effect

Legacy and loss driving a young hero forward
The difference: National epic mourning, ensemble weight

The same origin beats — spider bite, first swing, first great loss
The difference: Older effects and campier villainy — 2002 shows its age

A hero rediscovering why the world needs his kind of hope
The difference: Established icon, workplace-era reinvention

A melancholy superhero more haunted by lost love than by villains
The difference: Stately to a fault — long stretches where little actually happens

Outsider heroes hunted by the institutions around them
The difference: Team-scale conflict, allegory forward

Heart-on-sleeve blockbuster heroics
The difference: Disaster-crew bombast, no web-slinging

A young man testing astonishing powers in secret
The difference: Teleport thriller, responsibility optional

Common ground in both: superhero and superpowers
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Both are built on the same subject: superpowers

New York City shapes both of them
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