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10 Best Movies Like The Stand Up

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Stand Up 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...

#2
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

1964★ 6.7

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

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatib...

#3
Inside I'm Dancing

Inside I'm Dancing

2004★ 7.4

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

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed wh...

#4
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#5
Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love

2015★ 7.0

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

West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition....

#6
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Stand Up 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....

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