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10 Best Movies Like The Game Is Set

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

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#1
Shame

Shame

2011★ 6.9

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

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily...

#2
Trafficked

Trafficked

2017★ 6.6

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

In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must ...

#3
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#4
Some Velvet Morning

Some Velvet Morning

2013★ 5.8

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

Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle th...

#5
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

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

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#6
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

2013★ 6.8

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

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexua...

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