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10 Best Movies Like Smile at Last

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

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#1
Mothers' Instinct

Mothers' Instinct

2024★ 6.9

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

Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paran...

#2
The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

2000★ 7.1

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

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents....

#3
Laggies

Laggies

2014★ 6.1

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

Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think abou...

#4
The Souvenir

The Souvenir

2019★ 6.1

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

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man....

#5
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Smile at Last for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be ...

#6
Infinitely Polar Bear

Infinitely Polar Bear

2014★ 6.6

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

A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming tas...

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