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10 Best Movies Like Give Me a Smile

If you loved Give Me a Smile, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

2015★ 7.1

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

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own....

#2
Tumbledown

Tumbledown

2016★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Give Me a Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambi...

#3
Starman

Starman

1984★ 6.9

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

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them....

#4
Home Run

Home Run

2013★ 6.2

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

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties f...

#5
Eternity

Eternity

2025★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Give Me a Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, wh...

#6
Dangerous

Dangerous

1935★ 6.6

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

Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to spons...

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