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10 Best Movies Like Smart People

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

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#1
The Best You Can

The Best You Can

2025★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Smart People for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, ...

#2
Greenberg

Greenberg

2010★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Smart People for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother. He's stranded there—since he doesn't drive—u...

#3
Cyrus

Cyrus

2010★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Smart People for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another ...

#4
Mumford

Mumford

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Smart People for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quir...

#5
Love Don't Co$t a Thing

Love Don't Co$t a Thing

2003★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Smart People for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool....

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Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

1960★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Smart People for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban ...

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