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10 Best Movies Like The State I Am In

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

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#1
Byzantium

Byzantium

2013★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The State I Am In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium....

#2
Effi Briest

Effi Briest

1974★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The State I Am In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, E...

#3
20th Century Women

20th Century Women

2016★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The State I Am In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change ...

#4
Lore

Lore

2012★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The State I Am In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year...

#5
Bird

Bird

2024★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The State I Am In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks...

#6
The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden

1993★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The State I Am In for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a b...

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