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10 Best Movies Like The Start

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

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#1
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.1

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

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now empl...

#2
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

2013★ 6.8

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

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The onl...

#3
Sisters

Sisters

2001★ 6.8

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

A movie about two sisters - thirteen year old Sveta, poor and abandoned by her father, who longs to go off and be a sniper in the army, and spoilt eight-year old Dina, doted on by ...

#4
Mob Town

Mob Town

2019★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the...

#5
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

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

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

#6
The Thief

The Thief

1997★ 7.1

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

Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who al...

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