Movies like Set Your Chickens Free! (1974)
The best movies like Set Your Chickens Free! (1974) are The Egg and I (1947), The Wave (2019) and Altered States (1980). If Set Your Chickens Free! hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Set Your Chickens Free!
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- Highest ratedSunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)7.8/10 from 943 votes
- NewestI'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)Released 2020
The Egg and I (1947)
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wave (2019)
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAltered States (1980)
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Farmer's Daughter (1947)
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Doors (1991)
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBird on a Wire (1990)
An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSigns (2002)
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHigh Anxiety (1977)
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Visitor (1971)
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll That Money Can Buy (1941)
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSon in Law (1993)
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAirplane! (1980)
An ex-fighter pilot is forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn Cold Blood (1967)
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Birds (1963)
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)
Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of collecting unemployment, they find themselves thrown back on the streets, searching for a way to earn new income. But when Cheech's cousin, "Red" Mendoza, arrives, things get even crazier.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisMore (1969)
A German student, Stefan, now finished with his studies, hitchhikes to Paris. There he meets a free-spirited American girl, Estelle, who he follows to Ibiza. The two begin a sad and dark path into heroin addiction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Set Your Chickens Free!?
The closest matches to Set Your Chickens Free! are The Egg and I (1947), The Wave (2019) and Altered States (1980). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Set Your Chickens Free!?
Start with The Egg and I (1947), the closest match to Set Your Chickens Free!.
What is the highest-rated movie like Set Your Chickens Free!?
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), rated 7.8/10 by 943 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Set Your Chickens Free!?
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Set Your Chickens Free!?
Yes: The Egg and I (1947), The Wave (2019) and Altered States (1980).
How are movies similar to Set Your Chickens Free! chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Set Your Chickens Free!, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.