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40 Best Superhero Movies on Netflix you should watch in 2023| List Updated in September

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40 Best Superhero Movies on Netflix

Want to watch the best superhero movies on Netflix immediately but can’t go through the endless scrolling and disappointments? We got you. For your convenience and complete happiness, we have collected the best movies on Netflix that will quench your thirst for some kick-ass superhero fun!

Below are the 40 best-ever superhero movies that are available on Netflix. Note that not all movies will be available unless you have a reliable VPN that works with Netflix. Which is to say, you would have to change regions to access different libraries. But it’s super easy and super fun. So, let’s get started!

The Best Superhero Movies on Netflix

Here are the 40 best superhero movies you will find on Netflix. You know the drill, grab some popcorn and get lazy!

1. Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022)

  • Director: Andy Suriano – Ant Ward
  • Cast: Ben Schwartz(voice) – Omar Benson Miller(voice) – Brandon Mychal Smith(voice)
  • Genre: Animation – Action – Adventure – Comedy – Drama – Family – Fantasy – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 22m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 77%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.8/10

After he gets a message from a stranger offering a critical warning, Leo has to lead his brothers on a mission to save the world from an alien invasion. Will the awesome team of four mutant ninja turtles, including Mikey, Donnie, and Raph, succeed?

2. Minnal Murali (2021)

  • Director: Basil Joseph
  • Cast: Tovino Thomas – Guru Somasundaram – Aju Varghese
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Comedy
  • Runtime: 2h 38m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
  • IMDb Rating: 7.9/10

An enterprising tailor gets superhuman abilities when lightning strikes in his home village, thereby rendering him the area’s official guardian. He must now protect his homeland from an antagonist who’s out to ruin it.

3. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

  • Director: Jon Watts
  • Cast: Tom Holland – Zendaya – Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Fantasy
  • Runtime: 2h 28m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
  • IMDb Rating: 8.3/10

This is the aftermath of Spiderman’s identity being revealed. Peter seeks assistance from Doctor Strange but what occurs is not what either of them expected. Scary monsters behind the shadows manifest from other worlds, and Peter is forced to know the meaning of what it actually is to be the Spiderman.

4. Major Grom: Plague Doctor (2021)

  • Director: Oleg Trofim
  • Cast: Tikhon Zhiznevskiy – Lyubov Aksyonova – Sergei Goroshko
  • Genre: Action – Crime
  • Runtime: 2h 16m
  • Common Sense Media: 3/5
  • IMDb Rating: 6.3/10

Fending off crime in St Petersburg is hard work- one that Supercop Grom deals with competently. But, when a ‘punisher’ starts to punish people with power who escaped the law through the wrong means, all hell breaks loose. Will the supercop be able to best this one? Well, it seems like the odds might not be in his favor- even more than usual.

5. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

  • Director: Andy Serkis
  • Cast: Tom Hardy – Woody Harrelson – Michelle Williams
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Sci-Fi – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 37m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 57%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.9/10

Being the host of a symbiote Venom, Eddie Brock finds it difficult to get used to his new life when he gets acquainted with the superhuman abilities that enable him to be a deadly vigilante. For career revival, Brock interviews Cletus Kasady, the serial killer who, too, later becomes the Carnage symbiote’s host and flees from jail following an execution gone wrong.

6. Thunder Force (2021)

  • Director: Ben Falcone
  • Cast: Melissa McCarthy – Octavia Spencer – Jason Bateman
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Comedy – Fantasy – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 47m
  • Film Affinity: 21%
  • IMDb Rating: 4.4/10

Two former childhood best friends reunite when one develops the antidote to defend their hometown in a world where supervillains are running rampant.

7. How I Became a Superhero (2021)

  • Director: Douglas Attal
  • Cast: Pio Marmaï – Vimala Pons – Benoît Poelvoorde
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Comedy – Drama – Fantasy – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 41m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.8/10

While Parisian society has accepted superheroes, a new medicine grants ordinary people superpowers, and it seems like everyone’s in a rush to be celebrity famous.

8. Freaks – You’re One of Us (2020)

  • Director: Felix Binder
  • Cast: Cornelia Gröschel – Tim Oliver Schultz – Wotan Wilke Möhring
  • Genre: Action – Drama – Fantasy – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 32m
  • Film Affinity: 4.3/10
  • IMDb Rating: 5.4/10

A weird tramp discloses that Wendy, an introverted fry cook, has superpowers- and she’s not the only one. Turns out, there are a lot of other weird people like her, and whatever happens, normal people should never know about them.

9. Project Power (2020)

  • Director: Henry Joost – Ariel Schulman
  • Cast: Jamie Foxx – Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Dominique Fishback
  • Genre: Action – Crime – Sci-Fi – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 53m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 61%
  • IMDb Rating: 6.0/10

Regardless of how much you would like to gulp down the pill that gives you an unpredictable superpower, you shouldn’t. Or that’s what the trio of a teenage dealer, local cop, and ex-soldier thinks. And so, they come together as a team to take down the one group that is responsible for its invention.

10. Unknown Origins (2020)

  • Director: David Galán Galindo
  • Cast: Javier Rey – Verónica Echegui – Brays Efe
  • Genre: Action – Crime – Drama – Mystery – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 36m
  • Film Affinity: 5.5/10
  • IMDb Rating: 6.1/10

A seemingly comic-loving serial killer is out wreaking havoc. When the timelines and killing patterns don’t match, a young police officer is forced to solve the case with Jorge Elías, the owner of a comic book shop who is also a superhero addict.

11. The Old Guard (2020)

  • Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
  • Cast: Charlize Theron – KiKi Layne – Matthias Schoenaerts
  • Genre: Action – Thriller
  • Runtime: 2h 5m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • IMDb Rating: 6.6/10

The mortal world has for centuries been protected by a covert group of superheroes, and today, it’s led by Andy. But what happens when the hidden warriors get exposed? Will Andy and the new recruit, Nile, end their nemesis who are ready to exploit powers?

12. Bloodshot (2020)

  • Director: David S F Wilson
  • Cast: Vin Diesel – Eiza González – Sam Heughan
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 49m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 31%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.1/10

Advanced technology allows Ray Garrison, an elite soldier killed in action, a new chance at life. Put upon some superhuman power and quick regeneration abilities, he is ready to take revenge on the murderer of his wife- or who he believes it to be, at least. But, when he comes to doubt everything, even himself, would he be able to complete what he started?

13. We Can Be Heroes (2020)

  • Director: Robert Rodriguez
  • Cast: YaYa Gosselin – Pedro Pascal – Priyanka Chopra Jonas
  • Genre: Action – Comedy – Drama – Family – Fantasy
  • Runtime: 1h 40m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 74%
  • IMDb Rating: 4.7/10

Earth’s superheroes are captured by alien invaders. Now, it’s in the hands of their kids to save not just their parents but the whole world.

14. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

  • Director: Patty Jenkins
  • Cast: Gal Gadot – Chris Pine – Kristen Wiig
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Fantasy
  • Runtime: 2h 31m
  • Film Affinity: 58%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.4/10

When a business and work colleague sends the world down a spiral at the expense of his gluttonous desires for wealth, Diana has to bring back order- especially since the antique artifact that allows people to get what they want just upon a simple wish has gone missing.

15. Fearless (2020)

  • Director: Cory Edwards
  • Cast: Yara Shahidi -Miles Robbins -Miguel J. Pimentel
  • Genre: Animation – Comedy – Family – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 31m
  • Film Affinity: 4.2/10
  • IMDb Rating: 4.9/10

When superpowered infants drop in his backyard, seemingly up from space, a teen gamer has no choice but to become a full-time babysitter. Can the boy best the hardest level on the video game?

16. Code 8 (2019)

  • Director: Jeff Chan
  • Cast: Kari Matchett – Robbie Amell – Penny Eizenga
  • Genre: Action – Crime – Drama – Sci-Fi – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 38m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • IMDb Rating: 6.1/10

To help his ailing mother, Conner Reed, a super-powered young man, joins a bunch of criminals working for a drug lord. Will he break the cycle of poverty or go down along with it?

17. Shazam! (2019)

  • Director:  David F. Sandberg
  • Cast: Zachary Levi – Mark Strong – Asher Angel
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Comedy – Fantasy
  • Runtime: 2h 11m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
  • IMDb Rating: 7/10

What if a call could transform you into a superhero? Well, this seems to be the case with a young boy searching for his mother. All the fourteen-year-old has to hear is “SHAZAM!” and he turns into an adult life-saving hero.

18. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

  • Director: Jon Watts
  • Cast: Tom Holland – Samuel L. Jackson – Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 2h 9m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
  • IMDb Rating: 7.4/10

Peter decides to take a vacation with his best friends. Poor Peter, to think he actually could do that! These plans are quickly disregarded when the continent is left on him to be protected. Following the Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man now has to make graded-up efforts to solve the mystery of different elemental creature attacks with Nick Fury by his side.

19. Psychokinesis (2018)

  • Director: Yeon Sang-ho
  • Cast: Seung-ryong Ryu – Shim Eun-kyung – Jeong Min Park
  • Genre: Action – Comedy – Fantasy
  • Runtime: 1h 41m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.9/10

Seok-heon learns he got some telekinetic superpowers by drinking water from a mountain spring- and that might be just the thing he needed to save his daughter from a corrupt construction company!

20. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

  • Director: Peter Ramsey – Bob Persichetti – Rodney Rothman
  • Cast: Shameik Moore(voice) – Jake Johnson(voice) – Hailee Steinfeld(voice)
  • Genre: Animation – Action – Adventure – Comedy – Family – Fantasy – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 56m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
  • IMDb Rating: 8.4/10

This fresh version of the Spiderman series presents Miles Morales, a teen boy in Brooklyn, who too wears the spidey mask in another Spider-Verse. It is revealed that there are not one but five spider-powered people out there in the five other dimensions.

21. Batman Ninja (2018)

  • Director:  Junpei Mizusaki
  • Cast: Kôichi Yamadera(voice) – Wataru Takagi(voice) – Ai Kakuma(voice)
  • Genre: Animation – Action – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 25m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 82%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.6/10

Batman in feudal Japan- who could’ve imagined? Batman Ninja situates not in the modern Gothan City but in an absurdly outdated city, and there too, he continues doing what he does best; that is fight crimes, of course!

22. Superlopez (2018)

  • Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera
  • Cast: Dani Rovira – Alexandra Jiménez – Julián López
  • Genre: Action – Comedy – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 47m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.4/10

This comedy-action movie is apart from all others. Where superheroes hide behind their masks, this one wants to be a publicly-adored Spanish superhero. Tired of being a nobody amongst people, Juan López sets out to become the Superlópez.

23. Fast Color (2018)

  • Director: Julia Hart
  • Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw – David Strathairn – Lorraine Toussaint
  • Genre: Drama – Sci-Fi – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 41m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
  • IMDb Rating: 6/10

When the threat of execution, after her superhuman abilities being discovered, gets too much and there’s nowhere left to hide, Ruth’s only option is to do it at home, a plain sight she knows the map of. Will she face the ill-fated results of death, or would the threat abandon her just like her family did?

24. iBOY (2017)

  • Director: Adam Randall
  • Cast: Bill Milner – Maisie Williams – Miranda Richardson
  • Genre: Action – Crime – Sci-Fi – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 30m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 69%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.9/10

Tom realizes that he has fragments of his smartphone embedded in his brain. Even worse, he now has some supernatural abilities that can never let him live a normal life again.

25. Blade Runner 2043 (2017)

  • Director: Blade Runner 2043 (2017)
  • Cast: Harrison Ford – Ryan Gosling – Ana de Armas
  • Genre: Action – Drama – Mystery – Sci-Fi – Thriller
  • Runtime: 2h 41m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
  • IMDb Rating: 8.0/10

Young Blade Runner K tracks down Rick Deckard, an ex-Blade Runner who went missing three decades ago, by following the secret long-buried leads. The only problem is, the secret the young bladder is unfolding could mean the end of the world.

26. Sleight (2016)

  • Director: J. D. Dillard
  • Cast: Jacob Latimore – Seychelle Gabriel – Storm Reid
  • Genre: Crime – Drama – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 29m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.9/10

After their parents pass, a young street magician, Bo, has to look after and afford his little sister’s upbringing. So, what does a man with no money do when life offers him more responsibility than he can take? He turns to illegal activities; that’s normal. But Bo is anything but. He knows magic and has a clever head which will ultimately play a major in either succeeding or failing in getting his sister out of danger.

27. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled! (2015)

  • Director: Rob Silvestri
  • Cast: Laura Bailey(voice) – Troy Baker(voice) – Eric Bauza(voice)
  • Genre: Animation – Short – Action – Adventure – Comedy- Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 22m
  • Letterboxd: 2.8/5
  • IMDb Rating: 6.1/10

Can you force superheroes to mingle with their antagonist? In Avengers Reassembled, it seems like you can. But what happens when Ultron, being Ultron, pulls out a shady scheme to dissemble the squad? Well, as he takes on Iron Man’s armor’s control, it seems to be really close to impossible.

28. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

  • Director: Marc Webb
  • Cast: Andrew Garfield – Emma Stone – Jamie Foxx
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 2h 21m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 51%
  • IMDb Rating: 6.6/10

It is, again, up to Spider-Man to save the city as Oscorp puts the New York City under siege. But, will he be able to keep his word and safeguard the people of the town he swore to protect?

29. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

  • Director: Christopher Nolan
  • Cast: Christian Bale – Tom Hardy – Anne Hathaway
  • Genre: Action – Drama
  • Runtime: 2h 44m
  • Film Affinity: 87%
  • IMDb Rating: 8.4/10

Batman and Catwoman end their exile to end Joker’s eight years of tyranny and Bane’s cruel terrorism attacks in Gotham City. In the end, will there be anything left of the city the antagonists are bent on destroying?

30. Tiger & Bunny – The Beginning (2012)

  • Director: Yoshitomo Yonetani
  • Cast: Hiroaki Hirata(voice) – Masakazu Morita(voice) – Minako Kotobuki(voice)
  • Genre: Animation – Action – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 31m
  • MyAnimeList: 7.4/10
  • IMDb Rating: 6.6/10

In this reality, superheroes have made it big in the entertainment industry, and a popular TV show keeps score of their escapades, awarding scores until a new King of Heroes is elected. An old-school hero, Wild Tiger, is paired with a newbie who has a totally different perspective on the role of heroes in society, but a vigilante criminal quickly becomes their biggest challenge.

31. The Losers (2010)

  • Director: Sylvain White
  • Cast: Idris Elba – Zoe Saldana – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Comedy – Crime – Mystery – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 36m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 48%
  • IMDb Rating: 6.3/10

A group of elite commandos (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans) are on a mission in the Bolivian jungle when they become the target of a deadly deception. Though she is missing and thought dead, the guys band together with a mystery operator named Aisha (Zoe Saldana) to seek revenge.

32. Ninja Assassin (2009)

  • Director: James McTeigue
  • Cast: Rain – Rick Yune – Naomie Harris
  • Genre: Action – Thriller
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 26%
  • IMDb Rating: 6.3/10

Raizo (Rain) is a member of the Ozunu, a tribe of assassins who have been disciplined in the art of murder from a young age. However, when the Ozunu slay his comrade, Raizo escapes and disappears. At the same time, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) follows the money and finds a connection between the organization and a series of killings. After saving Mika from his old allies, Raizo decides to join forces with her to finally destroy the Ozunu.

33. The Incredible Hulk (2008)

  • Director: Louis Leterrier
  • Cast: Edward Norton – Liv Tyler – Tim Roth
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 52m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
  • IMDb Rating: 6.6/10

Bruce Banner (Edward Norton), a scientist, is looking for a way to reverse the effects of gamma radiation on his cells, which transformed him into The Hulk. Banner, already estranged from his true love Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) and on the run from his archenemy General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), must now contend with a new enemy: the Abomination (Tim Roth).

34. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

  • Director: Guillermo del Toro
  • Cast: Ron Perlman – Selma Blair – Doug Jones
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Fantasy – Horror – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 1h 59m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
  • IMDb Rating: 7/10

When an underworld emperor (Luke Goss) plots to conquer Earth for his magical brethren, Hellboy, his telekinetic girlfriend Liz, and aquatic empath Abe Sapien face their toughest struggle yet. Prince Nuada, sick of living in the shadow of mankind, seeks to revive an ancient army of killing robots to provide space for fantastical beings to wander free.

35. The Dark Knight (2008)

  • Director: Christopher Nolan
  • Cast: Christian Bale – Heath Ledger – Aaron Eckhart
  • Genre: Action – Crime – Drama – Thriller
  • Runtime: 2h 32m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
  • IMDb Rating: 9/10

Batman (Christian Bale) has been able to bring crime in Gotham City under control with the assistance of DA Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart)and Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) . When a brilliant villain known only as the Joker (Heath Ledger) unexpectedly unleashes anarchy on the city, Batman must walk a narrow line between vigilantism and heroism.

36. Batman: The Killing Joke (2006)

  • Director: Sam Liu
  • Cast: Kevin Conroy(voice) – Mark Hamill(voice) – Tara Strong(voice)
  • Genre: Animation – Action – Crime – Drama – Thriller
  • Runtime: 1h 16m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 36%
  • IMDb Rating: 6.4/10

The Killing Joke, an animated film based on Batman, was released in 2016 as part of the franchise of DC Universe Animated Original Movies. It is an adaption of the graphic novel of the same name that was written by Alan Moore. While Batman searches for the fugitive Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime launches an assault on the Gordon family in order to demonstrate a devilish point that mirrors his own descent into insanity.

37. Batman Begins (2005)

  • Director: Christopher Nolan
  • Cast: Christian Bale – Michael Caine – Ken Watanabe
  • Genre: Action – Crime – Drama
  • Runtime: 2h 19m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 84%
  • IMDb Rating: 8.2/10

In this film, Christian Bale plays Bruce Wayne, a young man who goes to Asia to learn martial arts from Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson), a member of the shadowy League of Shadows. After learning that the League’s ultimate goal is the utter destruction of Gotham City from Ducard, Wayne returns to the city with the intention of cleaning it up without resorting to murder.

38. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

  • Director: Jan de Bont
  • Cast: Angelina Jolie – Gerard Butler – Chris Barrie
  • Genre: Action – Adventure – Fantasy
  • Runtime: 1h 57m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 24%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.5/10

Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) is a fearless adventurer who races against time to find Pandora’s box before villains open it and unleash evil upon the world. A widespread urban legend claims that the deadly microbes contained within the box have the potential to wipe out an entire population. Croft kills numerous men along the way as she scuba dives, rappels down cliffs, and uses her wits to outwit the enemies.

39. Underworld (2003)

  • Director: Len Wiseman
  • Cast: Kate Beckinsale – Scott Speedman – Shane Brolly
  • Genre: Action – Fantasy – Thriller
  • Runtime: 2h 1m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 31%
  • IMDb Rating: 7/10

Vampires, the Lycans, a pack of vicious werewolves, have been fighting one other for centuries under the cover of darkness. Vampire Selene, whose parents were killed by Lycans, now serves as a skilled assassin for her tribe. Selene fights to protect Michael Corvin, an excellent human doctor, from the Lycans and their vicious leader Lucian, who wants to wipe out the vampire race.

40. Hulk (2003)

  • Director: Ang Lee
  • Cast: Eric Bana – Jennifer Connelly – Sam Elliott
  • Genre: Action – Sci-Fi
  • Runtime: 2h 10m
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 62%
  • IMDb Rating: 5.6/10

Scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana, “Black Hawk Down”) undergoes a transformation after a disastrous experiment; Jennifer Connelly plays Betty Ross, whose scientific genius unwittingly helps unleash the Hulk, who is on a path of pure destruction.

Wrap Up

While we don’t understand every antagonist’s need to destroy the world they live in, we understand your preference for some pow-pow action! However, if you need a change, we also have other movies you can stream on Netflix with different genres. If you liked what you read- and saw!- don’t forget to leave a comment below.

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