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10 Best Movies Like Setup

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

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#1
Sylvie's Love

Sylvie's Love

2020★ 6.2

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

When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and p...

#2
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 5.9

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

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

#3
Lucky Star

Lucky Star

1929★ 7.6

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

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the u...

#4
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

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

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

#5
The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

1960★ 6.8

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

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued ...

#6
The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl

2000★ 5.9

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

Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live a refined life in Europe, surrounded by art. Maggie marries impoverished Italian Prince Amerigo, while Adam marrie...

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