Films: Comic Book Movies / Non-Superhero
Annotation:Imagine living in a small community so far north that you sometimes don't see the sun for a month. Bad enough, you'd think. Even worse, it turns out, when a band of marauding vampires decides to take advantage of the situation.
Annotation:This ramped-up, intentionally fantastic version of the real-life stand of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae was adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by comics icon Frank Miller.
Annotation:This acclaimed art film is based on the wryly funny biographical comics of the late Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti).
Annotation:Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson play two mischievous misfit girls seeking a place in the world. Adapted from the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes.
Annotation:An average suburban man learns he may not be who he thought he was after revenge-seeking mobsters accuse him of being their former associate. Directed by David Cronenberg.
Annotation:A covert black-ops team is betrayed and must learn who and is trying to kill them and why.
Annotation:Street cop Will Smith is recruited by Tommy Lee Jones to be one of the Men in Black, the agents who deal with the world's secret extraterrestrial population, in this wildly popular action comedy.
Annotation:Bruce Willis is a retired superspy who has to reassemble his old team (including Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich) when his former agency tries to kill him.
Annotation:Tom Hanks is a mob hitman who must defy his boss (Paul Newman) after Hanks' young son sees more than he should.
Annotation:A young slacker must defeat his new-found love's seven evil exes in this joyfully frenetic and wildly over the top film. Based on the popular Japanese manga.
Annotation:Natalie Portman is kidnapped by a mysterious masked vigilante who is waging a war against a distopian, fascist British government.
Annotation:This critically acclaimed, if grisly, cable TV program takes a long-form look at life and unlife after the zombie apocalypse. The series can be found in our TV section.
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Comic books and graphic novels have become an increasingly popular source of stories and characters for Hollywood. Not all comic books feature superheroes, however; and neither do all comic book-inspired films.
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