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10 Best Movies Like Way Down West

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

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#1
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Way Down West for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

#2
Fire with Fire

Fire with Fire

1986★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Way Down West for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, ...

#3
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Way Down West for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

#4
Under the Hawthorn Tree

Under the Hawthorn Tree

2010★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Way Down West for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a...

#5
The Lost Husband

The Lost Husband

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Way Down West for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas....

#6
On the Edge

On the Edge

2001★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Way Down West for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life....

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