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10 Best Movies Like Street Scene

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

#1
Harakiri

Harakiri

1962★ 8.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Scene for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a wort...

#2
Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas

1937★ 6.9

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

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future....

#3
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

1989★ 7.8

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

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits onl...

#4
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

1964★ 3.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Scene for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Martians fear their children have become lazy and joyless due to their newfound obsession with Earth TV shows. After ancient Martian leader Chochem suggests that the children of Ma...

#5
Merrily We Go to Hell

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Scene for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses b...

#6
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972★ 7.9

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

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....