
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.

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
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...

Ugetsu
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...

No Longer Heroine
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...

It Ends with Us
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...

Dodes'ka-den
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 ...

Hana
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...