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10 Best Movies Like On the Starting Line

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

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#1
I Love You, I Don't

I Love You, I Don't

1976★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Starting Line for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy bos...

#2
Talking About Trees

Talking About Trees

2019★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Starting Line for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film ...

#3
Julieta

Julieta

2016★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Starting Line for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madnes...

#4
Django Unchained

Django Unchained

2012★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Starting Line for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner....

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Starting Line for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
G.I. Joe: Retaliation

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

2013★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to On the Starting Line for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are fo...