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10 Best Movies Like The Star

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

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#1
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009★ 7.5

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

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the ma...

#2
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

2008★ 7.5

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

Seth Green and Matthew Senreich serve up more hilarious Star Wars-inspired satire in this second compilation of sketches featuring the zany stop-motion animation of Adult Swim's "R...

#3
Vacation at Your Own Expense

Vacation at Your Own Expense

1982★ 5.0

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

A young girl from the Siberian province arrives in Moscow for her beloved, whom she met during his business trip. He is a test designer for buses and will be on a business trip to ...

#4
Blood Money: Inside the Soviet Economy

Blood Money: Inside the Soviet Economy

2024★ 7.5

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

How did the USSR - a country considered a second-rate industrial power, economically inferior to Germany, the USA and the UK - shape its victory over the armies of Hitler's regime,...

#5
Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes

1990★ 6.1

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

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat....

#6
Infernal Affairs II

Infernal Affairs II

2003★ 7.3

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

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film....