Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Setting Sun

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

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#1
The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

1961★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Setting Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue...

#2
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Setting Sun for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatri...

#3
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.3

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

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

#4
Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

2007★ 6.1

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

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the wo...

#5
Cornered

Cornered

1945★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Setting Sun for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife....

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A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time

2003★ 6.3

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

Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them aroun...

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