
The first Dragon Ball film retells the Emperor Pilaf Saga with a twist, replacing Pilaf with the monstrous King Gurumes, whose Blood Ruby obsession has ravaged his kingdom. Goku, Bulma, and a village girl named Pansy race to gather the Dragon Balls before Gurumes can use them to feed his insatiable greed.

Set 100 years after the events of Dragon Ball GT, this TV special follows Goku Jr., the timid great-great-grandson of Goku, on a perilous journey to Mount Paozu to find the Four-Star Dragon Ball and save his ailing grandmother Pan.

The third Dragon Ball film reimagines multiple early sagas into a single adventure set in the kingdom of Mifan, where Emperor Chiaotzu searches for his lost companion Ran Ran while his treacherous minister Shen plots to seize power using the Dragon Balls.

A Tuffle scientist named Dr. Lychee enacts his revenge against the surviving Saiyans by flooding Earth with Destron Gas and unleashing Ghost Warriors of Frieza, Cooler, Turles, and Lord Slug. Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, and Piccolo must destroy the devices and track Lychee to the Dark Planet.

The highest-grossing Dragon Ball film ever made brings Broly into official canon with a completely reimagined origin story. Written by Akira Toriyama and featuring groundbreaking animation by Naohiro Shintani, the film spans from the destruction of Planet Vegeta to a cataclysmic three-way battle between Goku, Vegeta, and the legendary Saiyan berserker.

The second Dragon Ball Super film shifts the spotlight to Gohan and Piccolo as a revived Red Ribbon Army, led by Commander Red's son Magenta and the brilliant Dr. Hedo, unleashes android superheroes and the monstrous Cell Max. Gohan awakens a terrifying new form while Piccolo unlocks his own evolution.

A lavish retelling of Goku's earliest adventures, condensing his first meeting with Bulma, the Red Ribbon Army conflict, and the gathering of the Dragon Balls into a single cinematic narrative produced for the franchise's tenth anniversary in 1996.

The tragic origin story of Goku's father, a low-class Saiyan warrior who foresees the destruction of his entire race at Frieza's hands and mounts a doomed, solitary rebellion against the tyrant in a desperate attempt to change the future.

The film that launched the Dragon Ball Super era. The God of Destruction Beerus awakens from a decades-long slumber seeking the Super Saiyan God, leading to Bulma's birthday party, an unforgettable pudding incident, and Goku's first battle on a divine stage.

The final chapter of the original Broly trilogy. A wealthy industrialist clones the Legendary Super Saiyan, but the experiment goes horribly wrong when the clone mutates into a grotesque bio-organic monster that Goten, Trunks, Krillin, and Android 18 must stop before it consumes everything.

Set shortly after the Cell Games, this film follows Gohan and the Z Fighters as they enter an intergalactic martial arts tournament that is secretly hijacked by Bojack, an ancient space pirate freed from his stellar prison when Goku teleported Cell to King Kai's planet.

Seven years after his defeat, the Legendary Super Saiyan Broly awakens from an icy prison on Earth, driven to madness by the crying of Goten, who reminds him of the infant Goku. Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Videl must survive his rampage, culminating in the legendary Family Kamehameha.

A vengeful Saiyan named Paragus lures Vegeta to a doomed planet under the guise of building a new Saiyan homeworld, but his true weapon is his son Broly, a warrior of incomprehensible power whose hatred of Goku stretches back to the day they were born. The Z Fighters must pool every ounce of their strength into a single desperate punch to bring down the Legendary Super Saiyan.

Frieza's older brother Cooler arrives on Earth seeking to restore his family's honor after learning a Saiyan defeated his sibling. Goku is critically wounded protecting Gohan and must recover in time to face a tyrant who possesses a transformation beyond anything Frieza ever achieved.

The very first Dragon Ball Z film pits Goku and Piccolo against Garlic Jr., an immortal demon king who kidnaps Gohan to steal the Dragon Balls. Set in the brief window between Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, the film climaxes when Gohan's hidden power explodes to seal the villain in an inescapable void.

A catastrophic explosion at the Other World soul-cleansing facility births Janemba, a reality-warping demon who traps King Yemma and unleashes the dead back onto Earth. With Goku stranded in a twisted version of Hell and Vegeta refusing to cooperate, the only hope lies in the Fusion Dance and the debut of the ultimate warrior: Gogeta.

An ancient Super Namekian named Lord Slug arrives on Earth, uses the Dragon Balls to restore his youth, and begins terra-freezing the planet to turn it into his personal warship. Goku must push beyond his known limits, briefly touching a mysterious power beyond Super Saiyan, to stop a tyrant that even King Kai fears could rival Frieza.

The remnants of Frieza's army use the Dragon Balls to revive their fallen emperor, who trains for four months and unlocks a terrifying golden evolution. With Goku and Vegeta training under Whis on Beerus's planet, Earth's defenders must hold the line until the Saiyans arrive for a rematch that will push both sides to their absolute limits.

Dr. Gero's posthumous revenge unfolds as three new Androids, built by his hidden supercomputer, target Goku during a rare day off. The battle escalates from city streets to frozen wastelands, culminating in a monstrous fusion that only a Spirit Bomb can stop.

In a future where Goku died of heart disease and the Androids slaughtered Earth's greatest fighters, teenage Trunks trains under the last warrior alive: a one-armed Gohan fighting a war he cannot win. This is the story of how grief became power, and how a boy became a Super Saiyan.

Cooler survived the sun. Fused with a massive machine planet called the Big Gete Star, he returns as an army of metallic clones to enslave New Namek. Goku and Vegeta must combine their Super Saiyan power to face a villain who repairs himself after every wound.

A rogue Saiyan named Turles plants the Tree of Might on Earth, a cosmic parasite that devours a planet's energy to produce fruit that grants immense power. Goku must protect his son, his world, and face a dark mirror of himself before the planet dies.

A mad scientist frozen for decades is freed from an icy prison with the Dragon Balls, intent on transplanting his brain into the body of the world's strongest fighter. When he targets Master Roshi and then Goku, the Z Fighters must storm a fortress full of Bio-Warriors to stop him.

A mysterious warrior named Tapion is freed from an ancient music box, carrying half of a monstrous creature sealed within his body. As the beast Hirudegarn threatens to reassemble and destroy the Earth, young Trunks forms an unlikely bond with Tapion that will end with a sword, a farewell, and one of Dragon Ball's most devastating finishing moves.
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