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10 Best Movies Like The Cloud-Capped Star

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

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#1
Kandahar

Kandahar

2001★ 6.3

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

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her....

#2
The Beaver

The Beaver

2011★ 6.4

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

Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane...

#3
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#4
Awake

Awake

2021★ 5.9

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

After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubl...

#5
The Zero Theorem

The Zero Theorem

2013★ 6.1

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

A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love ...

#6
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

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

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

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