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10 Best Movies Like Once Upon a Star

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

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#1
The Big Picture

The Big Picture

1989★ 5.8

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

Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel sedu...

#2
Better Start Running

Better Start Running

2018★ 5.9

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

An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo who want them dead or alive - pr...

#3
Black Beauty

Black Beauty

1994★ 6.7

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

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life....

#4
Kodachrome

Kodachrome

2017★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once Upon a 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...

#5
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

2013★ 7.2

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

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing....

#6
Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves

2002★ 6.1

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

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee...

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