Movies like American Hero (2015)
The best movies like American Hero (2015) are Super (2010), Defendor (2009) and Minnal Murali (2021). If American Hero hooked you with its action and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThey Call Me Jeeg (2016)7.4/10 from 2,617 votes
- NewestThe Toxic Avenger Unrated (2025)Released 2025
Super (2010)
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDefendor (2009)
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMinnal Murali (2021)
A tailor gains special powers after being struck by lightning but must take down an unexpected foe if he is to become the superhero his hometown in Kerala needs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThunder Force (2021)
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisProject Power (2020)
An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHancock (2008)
Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Ultra (2015)
Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2020)
CIA agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the perilous mission of destroying “The Soviet Union!" As they enter the system using a VR simulation, their mission quickly turns into a delirious trap, far more complex than expected, as the fabric of reality starts unraveling around them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & comedy
Code 8 (2016)
In Lincoln City, 4% of people have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Taylor, a construction worker with powers, is forced to fight after committing a misdemeanor…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpecial (2006)
A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuperBob (2015)
After six years without a date, Robert, the world's only superhero, is looking for love. The only barrier to his plan is that he regularly has to save the world, so he needs to get some time off if he is to meet his superwoman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Green Hornet (2011)
Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. After his father dies, Britt meets Kato, a resourceful company employee. Realizing that they have the talent and resources to make something of their lives, Britt and Kato join forces as costumed crime-fighters to bring down the city's most-powerful criminal, Chudnofsky.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLazarus (2021)
A man is killed, but his death is a brief affair. Upon regaining consciousness, he discovers he has been gifted with extraordinary powers that allow him to super-heroically fight the organization responsible for plunging his city into darkness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Hi-Five (2025)
After receiving organs from a mysterious donor, five ordinary people gain incredible powers and team up as "HI-FIVE" to stop a power-hungry cult leader from absorbing their abilities for godlike domination.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHow I Became a Superhero (2020)
Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Toxic Avenger Unrated (2025)
When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze, is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPsychokinesis (2018)
An ordinary guy suddenly finds he has superpowers he can use to help his spirited daughter and the people around them, but he also runs into trouble in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Call Me Jeeg (2016)
Exposed to radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo gains super-strength. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his powers for personal gain until he meets Alessia, a mentally ill girl who believes Enzo is the hero from her favorite anime, Steel Jeeg.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKrrish 3 (2013)
Krrish and his father must team up to save the world from a psychokinetic evil man named Kaal and his army of mutants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBig Man Japan (2007)
Daisato, a second-rate, third-generation superhero, annoys his neighbors with the noise and destruction he causes on the job. But a heroic public image is the least of his concerns. Besides defending Japan from bizarre monsters, he must deal with an agent seeking to brand him with ads, a superhero grandfather with Alzheimer's and a family embarrassed by his incompetence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCode 8 (2019)
In Lincoln City, some inhabitants have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Connor, a construction worker with powers, involves with a criminal gang to help his ailing mother. (Based on the short film “Code 8,” 2016.)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Flying Man (2013)
A new superhero is coming, only this time it's on his terms. Will he still be considered a hero?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
iBoy (2017)
After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of super powers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Specials (2000)
America's seventh best superhero team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. Lifelong fan Nightbird joins the group just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisPush (2009)
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGlass (2019)
In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hyperions (2022)
In 1960, Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum invented the Titan badge - a device that enables humans to have a particular super power. He took in three down-on-their-luck youths, creating an unusual family of superheroes and they quickly rose to fame and prestige. Over time, however, the commercial family fractured and the Professor replaced the team with a new set of super hero teens. Cut to 1979, when two of the original superheroes are all grown up and wanting their Titan badges back, even if it means robbing the Professor's museum and taking a few hostages accidentally.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Bhavesh Joshi Superhero (2018)
A young man who stands for the right discovers that he's destined to do bigger things, which will transform him from a common man into a Superhero.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisArchenemy (2020)
Max Fist claims he’s a hero from another dimension who has somehow landed on Earth and been stripped of his powers. Instead of treating him like a powerful champion, no one believes Max’s claims — except for a teenager named Hamster and his sister Indigo. The siblings convince Max to help them take out a local drug gang, where Max’s abilities are put to a violent and harrowing test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisGriff the Invisible (2011)
Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like American Hero?
The closest matches to American Hero are Super (2010), Defendor (2009) and Minnal Murali (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after American Hero?
People who watched American Hero most often go on to Super (2010), Defendor (2009) and Minnal Murali (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like American Hero?
They Call Me Jeeg (2016), rated 7.4/10 by 2,617 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like American Hero?
The Toxic Avenger Unrated (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like American Hero?
Yes: Super (2010), Defendor (2009) and Thunder Force (2021).
How are movies similar to American Hero chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside American Hero, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.