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10 Best Movies Like My Mother's Smile

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

#1
Good Morning, Night

Good Morning, Night

2003★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Mother's Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his ...

#2
Magical Nights

Magical Nights

2018★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Mother's Smile for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. Th...

#3
Radiofreccia

Radiofreccia

1998★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Mother's Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

April 24, 1993: it's the last broadcast of Radiofreccia, an independent radio station closing after 18 years, barely one minute before coming of age. Bruno, one of its founders, be...

#4
Kansas City

Kansas City

1996★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Mother's Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City....

#5
Rust

Rust

2011★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Mother's Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a hot summer, the lives of the children are about to be changed forever when two girls are found raped and murdered. The children know who the suspect is but knowing that the ad...

#6
Martha

Martha

1974★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Mother's Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspec...