Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Set

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

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#1
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
My Brother the Devil

My Brother the Devil

2012★ 6.4

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

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older broth...

#4
Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

1987★ 6.7

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

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes...

#5
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#6
The Boys in the Band

The Boys in the Band

2020★ 6.8

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

At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths....

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