Movies like Superman

If you want Superman's core tension between personal identity and cosmic duty, Superman & Lois and Smallville probably hit closest—the former through intimate domestic stakes, the latter through formative origin—while Heroes and The Flash offer that same struggle through ensemble perspectives where ordinary people grapple with extraordinary power. For the tonal variety, My Adventures with Superman leans lighter on friendship and journalism grounding heroism, whereas DC's Legends of Tomorrow scales up to world-ending stakes with fractured teamwork, each trading some intimacy for scope. If you're after Superman's specific battle with public trust and skepticism as a core theme, Supergirl, The Invisible Man, and The Giant of Metropolis probably resonate most directly, though they approach it through different lenses—generational, literal invisibility, and tyranny respectively.