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10 Best Movies Like The Man Upstairs

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

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#1
Barbarians at the Gate

Barbarians at the Gate

1993★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Upstairs for fans of Comedy & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumour...

#2
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Upstairs for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#3
Juniper

Juniper

2021★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Upstairs for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his lif...

#4
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Upstairs for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#5
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

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

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm....

#6
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Upstairs for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

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