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10 Best Movies Like The Book Smuggler

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

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#1
Dummy

Dummy

2020★ 6.0

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

Using a faceless doll criminal reenacts a brutal crime. But surprisingly he is not the one being judged. There seems to be an odd one out in the investigative group. The film premi...

#2
The Cigarette

The Cigarette

2010★ 4.8

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

Waste youth - but not with the wrong cigarette brand. Even on the Faroes, being young is an issue of style and distiction. And the difference between "Kings" and "Prince" is the ...

#3
Buddies

Buddies

1985★ 8.2

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

David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and fa...

#4
Boy

Boy

2004★ 5.7

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

Boy is the unsettling story of a young male prostitute, or Rent Boy, in a small rural town who learns the truth behind a hit and run accident which has killed a local girl. When th...

#5
Hannibal Before the Gates

Hannibal Before the Gates

2011★ 6.3

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

The scrappy 18-year-old daughter of a small-town prostitute storms the bastion of the rich and powerful in this drama set in the elite world of horse trials and show jumping. Sheer...

#6
Indovina chi viene a Natale?

Indovina chi viene a Natale?

2013★ 5.6

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

A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a pan...