← Back to Review

10 Best Movies Like Smithereens

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

#1
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

2013★ 6.6

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

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like ...

#2
Vysotsky: Thank You For Being Alive

Vysotsky: Thank You For Being Alive

2011★ 6.1

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

Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and ’80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of ...

#3
American Beauty

American Beauty

1999★ 8.0

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

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#5
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

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

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#6
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Smithereens for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellows...