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10 Best Movies Like Les gens d'en-bas

If you loved Les gens d'en-bas, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Sower

The Sower

2017★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les gens d'en-bas for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend mont...

#2
Sign of the Lion

Sign of the Lion

1962★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les gens d'en-bas for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope....

#3
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les gens d'en-bas for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les gens d'en-bas for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#5
In the Beginning

In the Beginning

2009★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les gens d'en-bas for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and...

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Les gens d'en-bas for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

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