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10 Best Movies Like The Lower Depths

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

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#1
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

2021★ 7.2

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

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories b...

#2
Ugetsu

Ugetsu

1953★ 8.0

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

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to p...

#3
No Longer Heroine

No Longer Heroine

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Lower Depths for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Hatori Matsuzaki is a female high school student. She has a crush on her childhood friend Rita Terasaka and believes he will eventually choose her as her heroine, but Rita Terasaka...

#4
It Ends with Us

It Ends with Us

2024★ 6.9

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

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own stre...

#5
Dodes'ka-den

Dodes'ka-den

1970★ 7.1

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

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a ...

#6
Hana

Hana

2006★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Lower Depths for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefe...

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