50 Movies Like Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) You Need to Watch Next
Earth is decimated after intergalactic tyrant Darkseid has devastated the Justice League in a poorly executed war by the DC Super Heroes. Now the remaining bastions of good – the Justice League, Teen
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This 2020 animated film caps the DC animated universe with a grim, all-out war against the tyrant Darkseid after the heroes' first assault ends in catastrophe. Brutal, emotional and unafraid to break its characters, it's a bold, bloody finale to a long saga. If its dark stakes and scale gripped you, seek out mature animated comic-book films that treat their heroes' losses as seriously as their victories.
If you loved Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) by Matt Peters, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Miraculous World: Paris, Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir
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My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
2019 · Kenji Nagasaki
Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation... until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk
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My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
2018 · Kenji Nagasaki
All Might and Deku accept an invitation to go abroad to a floating and mobile manmade city, called 'I-Island', where they research quirks as well as hero supplemental items at the special 'I-Expo' con
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016 · Zack Snyder
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Sam Raimi
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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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
2023 · James Wan
Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Arthur (Aquaman) forges an alliance with his imprisone
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · Zack Snyder
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 thre
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Thor
2011 · Kenneth Branagh
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. O
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Doctor Strange
2016 · Scott Derrickson
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.
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Thor: The Dark World
2013 · Alan Taylor
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
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Incredibles 2
2018 · Brad Bird
Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three children.
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Suicide Squad
2016 · David Ayer
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange
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Aquaman
2018 · James Wan
Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is worth of being a king.
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Wonder Woman 1984
2020 · Patty Jenkins
A botched store robbery places Wonder Woman in a global battle against a powerful and mysterious ancient force that puts her powers in jeopardy.
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2003 · Tim Johnson
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Pri
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2004 · Brad Bird
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, i
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Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years
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When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children a
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When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters — and make history to boot.
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Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie
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After a guardian of magical jewels turns an awkward girl and a popular boy into superheroes, they can never reveal their identities — even to each other.
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Elektra
2005 · Rob Bowman
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural as
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Supergirl
1984 · Jeannot Szwarc
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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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Wonder Woman
2017 · Patty Jenkins
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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The Lego Movie
2014 · Phil Lord
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged wit
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 · Bob Persichetti
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like th
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
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Daredevil
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A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.
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Batman Returns
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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Hancock
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