Movies Like Sitara: Let Girls Dream (2019)

Sitara: Let Girls Dream is a 2019 animation, drama film from Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Riley's First Date? and Things I Like, Things I Don't Like.

Animation Drama

Riley's First Date?

2015

Riley, now 12, who is hanging out with her parents at home when potential trouble comes knocking. Mom's and Dad's Emotions find themselves forced to deal with Riley going on her first "date."

7.2

MagicScore

Things I Like, Things I Don't Like

1990

Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."

7.1

MagicScore

Involuntary

2008

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.

6.5

MagicScore

The Siege at Thorn High

2025

Edwin promised to his sister on her death bed to find her son she gave up long time ago. Edwin's quest brought him to become a substitute teacher in Duri High School, Jakarta, a school for juvenile delinquents. There he must face the most violent students to find his nephew. When he eventually finds the boy, a city-wide riot erupts and Edwin is trapped im the school with the cruel kids out for his blood.

7.6

MagicScore

Inside Out

2015

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

7.9

MagicScore

Inside Out 2

2024

Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.

7.5

MagicScore

The Woodsman

2004

After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.

6.9

MagicScore

Love in the Time of Cholera

2007

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

6.6

MagicScore

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

1999

Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his latest opponent, that his eldest son, Nig, has died in a gang fight. The uncomfortable family reunion at Nig's funeral sparks a confrontation with second son, Sonny, and sets Jake and Sonny on a downward spiral.

6.6

MagicScore

#10

Equals

2015

A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.

6.1

MagicScore

#11

Kelly + Victor

2012

When Kelly meets Victor on the dance floor of a Liverpool nightclub, the attraction is instant. After wandering through the night they find themselves at her flat, making love with a passion and urgency that neither had experienced before. Both Kelly and Victor are struggling to get by as best they can, while the people around them are choosing illegal lifestyles; she is escaping a brutish former lover, while he is being dragged into a world of drugs. It's when they make love that their darker instincts take over.

5.4

MagicScore

#12

Trouble in Paradise

1932

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

7.4

MagicScore

#13

After Earth

2013

One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

5.2

MagicScore

#14

The Old Man and the Sea

1999

An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.

7.6

MagicScore

#15

Everything Will Be OK

2006

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life… or lack thereof.

7.6

MagicScore

#16

Balance

1989

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.

7.5

MagicScore

#17

The Employment

2008

A man prepares and goes to work in a bizarre world, where the meaning of human workforce is taken to another level.

7.5

MagicScore

#18

The Little Matchgirl

2006

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.

7.5

MagicScore

#19

Fallen Art

2004

Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-proclaimed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant Al from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi

1943

A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Sitara: Let Girls Dream?

The top films similar to Sitara: Let Girls Dream by MovieMagicScore are Riley's First Date? (7.2), Things I Like, Things I Don't Like (7.1), Involuntary (6.5). Each shares animation/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Sitara: Let Girls Dream worth watching?

Sitara: Let Girls Dream holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 45 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Sitara: Let Girls Dream?

Sitara: Let Girls Dream (2019) is a animation, drama film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Where can I find more recommendations like Sitara: Let Girls Dream?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more animation recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Sitara: Let Girls Dream

This ranked list pairs Sitara: Let Girls Dream (2019), a animation and drama film from Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap. Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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