
10 Best Movies Like The Starfish
If you loved The Starfish, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Emak-Bakia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Starfish for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Emak-Bakia (Basque for Leave me alone) is a 1926 film directed by Man Ray. Subtitled as a cinépoéme, it features many techniques Man Ray used in his still photography (for which he...

The Spirit of the Beehive
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Starfish for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenst...

Storm Over Asia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Starfish for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the...

Anemic Cinema
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Starfish for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as ...

Ghosts Before Breakfast
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Starfish for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine....

Manhatta
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Starfish for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously t...