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10 Best Movies Like The Set Up

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

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#1
Free Fall

Free Fall

2013★ 7.7

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

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a...

#2
Angelique and the Sultan

Angelique and the Sultan

1968★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Set Up for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides ...

#3
Paper Towns

Paper Towns

2015★ 6.2

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

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed l...

#4
The Real Life of Teachers

The Real Life of Teachers

2013★ 4.8

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

A comedy about a band of voyeuristic students who take their jobs at the school paper to extremes, deciding to uncover the real lives of their teachers....

#5
Pitch Perfect 2

Pitch Perfect 2

2015★ 6.8

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

The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of th...

#6
Mr. Church

Mr. Church

2016★ 7.4

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

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fift...