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10 Best Movies Like Sterling

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

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#1
Bravetown

Bravetown

2015★ 6.7

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

After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy...

#2
Dad

Dad

1989★ 6.4

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

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever befor...

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#4
Shadows

Shadows

1960★ 6.9

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

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discover...

#5
I Never Sang for My Father

I Never Sang for My Father

1970★ 6.7

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

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California....

#6
Magnolia

Magnolia

1999★ 7.7

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

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game sh...

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