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10 Best Movies Like The Star Next Door

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

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#1
A Little Thing Called Love

A Little Thing Called Love

2010★ 7.7

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

An introverted young girl falls in love with a popular senior. However, as she begins to come out of her shell, she faces several new problems....

#2
Yourself and Yours

Yourself and Yours

2016★ 6.2

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

While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before....

#3
My Love Story!!

My Love Story!!

2015★ 7.4

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

Takeo Goda is a high school student 2 m tall and weighting more than 100 kg. He has a righteous character. The male students adore him, but female students do not like him. All of ...

#4
Kiss Him, Not Me

Kiss Him, Not Me

2020★ 6.3

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

Kae is a fat high school girl who is a 'fujoshi', which is girls who enjoy reading homosexual romance novels. She is dismayed when her favourite character is killed off. She is unw...

#5
Malena

Malena

2000★ 7.4

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

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town....

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...