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10 Best Movies Like Smile Pretty

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

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#1
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977★ 5.9

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

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality....

#2
Manic

Manic

2001★ 6.9

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

Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motle...

#3
Welcome to the Rileys

Welcome to the Rileys

2010★ 6.6

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

Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compe...

#4
Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter

2013★ 6.6

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

After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant....

#5
Joe the King

Joe the King

1999★ 6.0

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

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly old...

#6
The Crush

The Crush

1993★ 6.6

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

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences....

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