Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Stella

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

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#1
Despair

Despair

1978★ 6.5

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

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day w...

#2
Shining Through

Shining Through

1992★ 6.5

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

Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the...

#3
Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil

1998★ 6.5

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

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wante...

#4
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

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

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....

#5
End of the Spear

End of the Spear

2005★ 6.2

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

"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to de...

#6
Harvest

Harvest

2025★ 6.0

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

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears....

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