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10 Best Movies Like Starred Up

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

#1
Tower Block

Tower Block

2012★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Starred Up for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival....

#2
Guilty by Suspicion

Guilty by Suspicion

1991★ 6.5

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

Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous c...

#3
Zero Effect

Zero Effect

1998★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Starred Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what ...

#4
Killers

Killers

2014★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Starred Up for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet....

#5
I Am Happiness on Earth

I Am Happiness on Earth

2014★ 4.6

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

Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his da...

#6
The Day He Arrives

The Day He Arrives

2011★ 6.9

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

A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks an...