10 Best Movies Like The Vertical Smile
If you loved The Vertical Smile, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Rays and Shadows
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Vertical Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Jean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film ...

Mindwalk
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Vertical Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

Paris 36
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Vertical Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

Salomé
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Vertical Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

The Minister
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Vertical Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene ...

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Vertical Smile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....