Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 30, 2026

10 Best Movies Like East Palace, West Palace

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for East Palace, West Palace.

View Review →
#1
In the Realm of the Senses

In the Realm of the Senses

1976★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to East Palace, West Palace for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship....

#2
Simple Simon

Simple Simon

2010★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to East Palace, West Palace for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam's girlfriend Frida. When Frida can't stand having to adapt to Simon's ...

#3
Pola X

Pola X

1999★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to East Palace, West Palace for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends....

#4
Love, Simon

Love, Simon

2018★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to East Palace, West Palace for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the i...

#5
Oldboy

Oldboy

2003★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to East Palace, West Palace for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors....

#6
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to East Palace, West Palace for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....