Movies like The Avengers (2012)
The best movies like The Avengers (2012) are Iron Man 3 (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Thor (2011). If The Avengers hooked you with its science fiction and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAvengers: Endgame (2019)8.2/10 from 29,264 votes
- NewestThe Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)Released 2025
- Same seriesAvengers: Endgame (2019)The Avengers
Iron Man 3 (2013)
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaptain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThor (2011)
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaptain America: Civil War (2016)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlack Panther (2018)
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThor: The Dark World (2013)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIron Man 2 (2010)
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIron Man (2008)
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAvengers: Endgame (2019)
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
Why it matches: Same series: The Avengers · both adventure & science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCaptain America: The First Avenger (2011)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAvengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
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.
Why it matches: Same series: The Avengers · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJustice League (2017)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaptain Marvel (2019)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAvengers: Infinity War (2018)
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
Why it matches: Same series: The Avengers · both adventure & action
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThor: Ragnarok (2017)
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMarvel One-Shot: The Consultant (2011)
Agent Coulson informs Agent Sitwell that the World Security Council wishes Emil Blonsky to be released from prison to join the Avengers Initiative. As Nick Fury doesn't want to release Blonsky, the two agents decide to send a patsy to sabotage the meeting...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGuardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMarvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013)
Agent Peggy Carter is relegated to a desk job and frustrated at her male boss and comrades' sexist dismissal of her place in the SSR. Ordered to work late one night, Carter gets an alert that the villain Zodiac has been spotted and decides to take care of it herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMarvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012)
Benny and Claire, a down-on-their-luck couple, find a discarded Chitauri weapon referred to as 'Item 47'.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAnt-Man (2015)
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDark Phoenix (2019)
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMan of Steel (2013)
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThor: Love and Thunder (2022)
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who now wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor. Together they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer (2011)
Agent Coulson stops at a convenience store and deals with a coincidental robbery during his visit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)
Against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel's First Family is forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, while defending Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Strange (2016)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlack Adam (2022)
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMen in Black: International (2019)
The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Avengers?
The closest matches to The Avengers are Iron Man 3 (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Thor (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Avengers?
People who watched The Avengers most often go on to Iron Man 3 (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Thor (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Avengers?
Avengers: Endgame (2019), rated 8.2/10 by 29,264 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Avengers?
The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is The Avengers part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to The Avengers, which includes Avengers: Endgame (2019), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
Are there English movies like The Avengers?
Yes: Iron Man 3 (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Thor (2011).
How are movies similar to The Avengers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Avengers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.