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10 Best Movies Like Sailors Without Stars

If you loved Sailors Without Stars, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Annapolis

Annapolis

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sailors Without Stars for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'ld make it to Anapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman, he's selected despite dubiou...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sailors Without Stars for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
Five Seconds

Five Seconds

2025★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sailors Without Stars for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards....

#4
40 Seconds

40 Seconds

2025★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sailors Without Stars for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

It explores the tragic events leading up to the murder of 21-year-old Willy Monteiro Duarte, highlighting the intertwining of chance encounters, rivalries, and latent tensions....

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sailors Without Stars for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#6
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sailors Without Stars for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

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