If you loved Gladiator, try The Set-Up

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Gladiator

1992 · dir. Rowdy Herrington

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The Set-Up

1949 · dir. Robert Wise

What they share

Theysit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Gladiator, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Set-Up is

You train a washed-up boxer for one last purse and skim his bets for a fixer who pays in double-shifts and dead-end alleyways. Then the gangster eyes the main event with a different kind of leverage. Robert Wise stages 1949 neon and back-alley grime until the ring ropes tighten around every loose end.

If you loved Gladiator, try The Set-Up

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