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10 Best Movies Like The North Star

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

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#1
36th Precinct

36th Precinct

2004★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The North Star for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a forme...

#2
Wedding in Blood

Wedding in Blood

1973★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The North Star for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a small French town, the mayor discovers his wife is cheating on him, a betrayal that eventually leads to murder....

#3
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The North Star for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm....

#4
Blindfire

Blindfire

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The North Star for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repe...

#5
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The North Star for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now empl...

#6
Speaking of Murder

Speaking of Murder

1957★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The North Star for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activ...

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