Movies Like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1

If you liked Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012), a science fiction and action movie directed by Jay Oliva, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl, but does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
2
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
★ 7.9/10Also science fiction and action
Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
3
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and action
Amanda Waller's top-secret "Task Force X" — consisting of Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, and Copperhead — is on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so powerful that they're…
4
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and action
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 Titans, Suicide…
5
Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall (2026)
★ 9.1/10Also animation and action
Arkham Asylum has been destroyed, and all its inmates have been unleashed upon Gotham City. As Batman races to round up some of his greatest enemies, he is pushed to his physical and mental limits and into a final…
6
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and science fiction
An endless army of shadow demons bent on the destruction of all reality swarms over our world and all parallel Earths! The only thing opposing them is the mightiest team of metahumans ever assembled. But not even the…
7
Injustice (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and science fiction
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
8
Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and action
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
9
Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…
10
Code 8 (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and action
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…
11
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fiction
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When SETH, the supercomputer-controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can…
12
Justice League: Warworld (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and action
Until now, the Justice League has been a loose association of superpowered individuals. But when they are swept away to Warworld, a place of unending brutal gladiatorial combat, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the…
13
Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also action and science fiction
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…
14
Superman: Unbound (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and action
Superman and Supergirl take on the cybernetic being known as Brainiac, who boasts that he possesses "the knowledge and strength of 10,000 worlds."
15
Son of Batman (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and action
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group known as The League of Assassins.
16
Foxtrot Six (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction
Escalating climate change is turning the world economy upside down. With crops dying and food price spiking, FOOD has replaced oil as the world's most valuable commodity. Among the very few lands still left fertile…
17
Logan (2017)
★ 7.8/10Also action and science fiction
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark…
18
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also action and science fiction
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who…
19
Zardoz (1974)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fiction
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
20
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also action and science fiction
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic…