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10 Best Movies Like Guiding Star

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

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#1
Radiance

Radiance

2017★ 6.5

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

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world....

#2
Heavenly Forest

Heavenly Forest

2006★ 7.5

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

Amateur photographer Makoto and the homely but endearing Shizuru meet during their university entrance ceremony and become instant friends. Shy by nature, Makoto finds himself open...

#3
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.4

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

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

#4
One Cut of the Dead

One Cut of the Dead

2017★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Guiding Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans....

#5
Kodachrome

Kodachrome

2017★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Guiding Star for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can deve...

#6
Electricity

Electricity

2014★ 5.8

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

A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip....

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