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10 Best Movies Like Hold-up

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

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#1
Santa Claus Is a Stinker

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1985★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hold-up for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit th...

#2
The Vultures

The Vultures

1984★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hold-up for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Tha...

#3
Happy Easter

Happy Easter

1984★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hold-up for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has j...

#4
The Night Caller

The Night Caller

1975★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hold-up for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and...

#5
The Keep

The Keep

1983★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hold-up for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. T...

#6
P.R.O.F.S.

P.R.O.F.S.

1985★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hold-up for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play l...