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10 Best Movies Like The 51st State

If you loved The 51st State, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Kung Fu Wing Chun

Kung Fu Wing Chun

2010★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The 51st State for fans of Action & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Losing her mother at a tender age, Yim Wing Chun (Bai Jing) grew up under the wing of Master Ng Mui (Kara Hui), a fugitive in the end of the Qing dynasty. Inspired by Ng Mui's Shao...

#2
Continental Split

Continental Split

2024★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The 51st State for fans of Thriller & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

As the New Madrid Fault threatens to tear the U.S. in half, a desperate team of seismologists and government agents race to prevent disaster while the clock ticks down....

#3
Amos & Andrew

Amos & Andrew

1993★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The 51st State for fans of Action & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with arme...

#4
The Thaw

The Thaw

2009★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The 51st State for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is...

#5
Man of the House

Man of the House

2005★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The 51st State for fans of Action & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleader...

#6
Ferry

Ferry

2021★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The 51st State for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life....