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10 Best Movies Like Star 80

If you loved Star 80, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1954★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Star 80 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral....

#2
Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity

1969★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Star 80 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to rom...

#3
Paranoiac

Paranoiac

1963★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Star 80 for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Eleven years ago, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide. All who remains is cruel Sim...

#4
Star Kid

Star Kid

1997★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Star 80 for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from another galaxy. Spencer puts ...

#5
The Story of Star Wars

The Story of Star Wars

2004★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Star 80 for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed it all: the famous droid duo C-...

#6
Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies

1973★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Star 80 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge....