Movies Similar to The Smile Wins

What Doesn't Kill You(2015)

After a rare diagnosis, Lily's attempts to flee from war torn Israel are thwarted when the airport shuts down and her zany cousin forces her to party.

The Penalty(1986)

After a drunkard crashes his tractor for the upteenth time, the chairman of his collective farm decides to scare some sense into him and announces that he has been sentenced to die.

N or NW(1938)

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends well, but with the moral that correspondents should get the address right.

The Miss They Missed(1938)

Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect ability in the search by posing as a Chinaman, an Englishman, a sailor and a Scotchman, but is unable to find her. He meets his sweetheart at a restaurant and, there, discovers she is the heiress he has been searching for. She breaks off their romance when she finds out she is rich.

Modell Lu, der Lebensweg eines Hutes(1939)

Earmark(2024)

Meet Mark. A daydreamer who has lived with hearing loss for his whole life. As his condition deteriorates, Mark must listen to his past and face the present, in order to move forward with his life. Sometimes loss doesn't mean lost. At a routine checkup with his lifelong audiologist, Mark is presented with a hearing aid and with a choice. Between the torment from his childhood - and his stigma around wearing the hearing aid - he lashes out. But he remembers his young self, loving and loved; along with the care his late mother showed him. Through courage, he is able to connect with her; as she guides him through this tumultuous time in his life. He realises he can either continue to shut himself off from the world, or open up and begin to accept himself for who he really is.

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King(2014)

A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.

The Swim Team(2009)

A young woman forms a bond with three elderly shopkeepers when she teaches them how to swim - even though there are no bodies of water to be found.

Brentwood Strangler(2015)

It's the Christmas season and a lonely woman goes on a blind date unbeknownst to her that her date is an active and notorious serial killer, The Brentwood Strangler. Is this love at first sight? Or the worst (and last) date of her life?

The Dummy Owner(1938)

Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.

Better Days(2005)

Life in the 50's with the Hopper family !

Once Upon a Zipper(2014)

Rachel can't stop herself from falling in love with Paulie, the woman who helps her try on wedding gowns.

Garlic Boy(2007)

Frank Capra, with a twist. Garlic Boy is a boy - who's also a stalk of garlic - who goes out into the world to "do good for others." His mother gave him a case of her special "garlic tonic" and Garlic Boy uses this tonic to cure "folk of what ails them."

Caring for the Recently Deceased(2014)

A recent widow's life changing experience when her useless husband returns from the grave.

Breakdowns of 1938(1938)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

His Pest Friend(1938)

Leon's wife wants to surprise him by buying the cabin where they had spent their honeymoon. But when she secretly meets with the man who owns the cabin, Leon misunderstands what she is doing, and gets suspicious. When his friend at work convinces Leon that his wife is going to run away with another man, Leon decides to take immediate action.

Alan Smithee(2012)

'Alan Smithee' is a film about a boy growing up. It delves into the darker side of what 'growing up' sometimes means: growing into your flaws, inevitably being met with the errors of your parents, and the necessity to make room for the pain. While Alan is surrounded by what is thought to be the American ideal, all the material comforts that should equate happiness, he learns that sometimes all we are is lost in the woods.

The Bee(2019)

Fed up with the violence and bullying in her city, Sydney dresses up like a bee to fight crime, but to reach her full potential she must first overcome a tragic event from her past.

No Coke(2007)

A stubborn English tourist visits a Norwegian hotel with a vending machine and a sign with the text "No Coke". Based on true events.

Visions of Europe(2004)

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.