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10 Best Movies Like Stateside

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

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#1
Purple Rain

Purple Rain

1984★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stateside for fans of Drama & Music & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making ...

#2
Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues

1990★ 6.5

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

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid o...

#3
Lilith

Lilith

1964★ 6.4

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

Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charmin...

#4
On the Edge

On the Edge

2001★ 6.6

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

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life....

#5
An Officer and a Gentleman

An Officer and a Gentleman

1982★ 7.0

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

Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense dril...

#6
Snow Angels

Snow Angels

2007★ 6.5

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

Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have ...

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