10 Best Movies Like State
If you loved State, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Operative
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to State for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject....

Rose Plays Julie
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to State for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that...

Closet Land
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to State for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, w...

The Deadly Affair
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to State for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi G...

The Quiller Memorandum
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to State for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigat...

Cloak and Dagger
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to State for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis....