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The Lower depths

Japan, 1957
film

Maxim Gorky’s ‘The Lower depths’ attracted two of cinema’s greatest practitioners to its pages. Just as Jean Renoir’s ‘Les..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Donzoko = The Lower depths

Japan, 1957
Similarity: 89%

The Bad sleep well = Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemeru

Japan, 1960
Similarity: 75%

Stray dog = Nora Inu

Japan, 1949
Similarity: 75%

High and low = Tengoku to jigoku [Widescreen]

Japan, 1963
Similarity: 74%

Dersu Uzala

Japan, 1975
Similarity: 73%

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams = Dreams

Japan, 1989
Similarity: 72%

Kurosawa [DVD]

United Kingdom, 2000
Similarity: 72%

Akahige = Red beard (Cinemascope Print)

Japan, 1965
Similarity: 72%

Kakushi Toride No San Akunin = The Hidden Fortress (Cinemascope Print)

Japan, 1958
Similarity: 70%

Madadayo

Japan, 1992
Similarity: 70%

Tokyo drifter

Japan, 1966
Similarity: 70%

Drunken angel

Japan, 1948
Similarity: 70%

Moi universiteti = My universities

Soviet Union, 1940
Similarity: 69%

Ikiru = to live = living = doomed

Japan, 1952
Similarity: 69%

The Hidden Fortress = Kakushi toride no san akunin [DVD]

Japan, 1958
Similarity: 69%

Kikujiro

Japan, 1999
Similarity: 69%

Ugetsu Monogatari [Extract]

Japan, 1953
Similarity: 69%

Ugetsu Monogatari = Tales of the pale and silvery moon after the rain

Japan, 1953
Similarity: 69%
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