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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
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.3

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

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#2
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

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

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#3
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

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

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#4
Return to Zero

Return to Zero

2014★ 6.6

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

Based on the true story of a successful couple, Maggie and Aaron who are preparing for the arrival of their first child....

#5
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#6
Burton and Taylor

Burton and Taylor

2013★ 6.2

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

Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."...

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