Movies Like The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story (2023)

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story is a 2023 animation, drama film from Jarelle Dampier with a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Alice, Darling and How to Be Alone.

Animation Drama

Alice, Darling

2022

Pushed to the breaking point by Simon, her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Alice becomes an unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends while on vacation. As she rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective, she slowly starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. However, Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering, and once unleashed, it tests her strength, her courage, and the bonds of deep-rooted friendships.

5.6

MagicScore

How to Be Alone

2019

When her husband leaves for a night shift, a woman battles physical manifestations of her repressed fears and desires.

6.3

MagicScore

Blade II

2002

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

6.6

MagicScore

Piper

2016

A mother bird tries to teach her little one how to find food by herself. In the process, she encounters a traumatic experience that she must overcome in order to survive.

8.1

MagicScore

Possibly in Michigan

1983

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

7.6

MagicScore

The Caine Mutiny

1954

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

7.2

MagicScore

Empire Waist

2024

Lenore Miller’s size has always earned her teases and jeers in her school’s hallways, but this clothes-loving teenager is about to set the world on fire with her own line of inclusive fashion designs.

7.0

MagicScore

Bitter Christmas

2026

Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realizing, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence. After a crisis, Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote accompanied by her friend Patricia, who also needs to get away from the city. The story of these characters runs parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.

6.2

MagicScore

Steel

2015

Daniel, a successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane, has fallen into a deep depression. His seemingly perfect life suddenly collapses under him when panic attacks force him to deal with himself and his past.

5.5

MagicScore

#10

DC Showcase: Death

2019

Vincent, an artist with unresolved inner demons, meets a mysterious girl who helps him come to terms with his creative legacy… and eventual death.

8.5

MagicScore

#11

The Last Days

2013

A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest to find Julia, his missing girlfriend, without ever going outside.

6.0

MagicScore

#12

Sweethearts

2019

It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time.

6.0

MagicScore

#13

Christmas Is Canceled

2021

A father begins dating his 29-year-old daughter Emma's high school frenemy soon after his wife passes away. His daughter embarks on a mission to break up the happy couple.

5.4

MagicScore

#14

Primal

2010

Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

5.2

MagicScore

#15

Jack-Jack Attack

2005

The Parrs' baby Jack-Jack is thought to be normal, not having any super-powers like his parents or siblings. But when an outsider is hired to watch him, Jack-Jack shows his true potential.

7.3

MagicScore

#16

Auntie Edna

2018

Taking place during the events of Incredibles 2, Edna Mode babysits Jack-Jack.

7.2

MagicScore

#17

Batman: Death in the Family

2020

Tragedy strikes the Batman's life again when Robin Jason Todd tracks down his birth mother only to run afoul of the Joker. An adaptation of the 1988 comic book storyline of the same name.

7.1

MagicScore

#18

Chase Me

2003

While escaping a dull party, Bruce Wayne finds Catwoman robbing a vault and gives her the chase of her life as Batman. Really great coupled with the Mystery of the Batwoman movie.

7.0

MagicScore

#19

Batman Beyond

2014

This short celebrating 75 years of Batman from artist Darwyn Cooke returns fans to the world of Batman Beyond as Terry McGinnis' futuristic Dark Knight faces his most formidable foe of all - himself.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

Batman: Strange Days

2014

A lost tale from Batman's past, the Dark Knight tracks a strange giant to the mysterious lair of Hugo Strange.

7.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story?

The top films similar to The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story by MovieMagicScore are Alice, Darling (5.6), How to Be Alone (6.3), Blade II (6.6). Each shares animation/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story worth watching?

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10 from 93 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story?

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story (2023) is a animation, drama film directed by Jarelle Dampier, starring Shameik Moore, Brian Tyree Henry.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story?

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