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10 Best Movies Like A 5 Star

If you loved A 5 Star, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Mirror

The Mirror

1997★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A 5 Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a young girl's mother doesn't meet her after school, she tries to navigate the streets of Tehran by herself....

#2
3 Faces

3 Faces

2018★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A 5 Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing enc...

#3
Sun Children

Sun Children

2021★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A 5 Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make ...

#4
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A 5 Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#5
Òlòtūré

Òlòtūré

2019★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A 5 Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ru...

#6
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A 5 Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

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