Movies like This Smells Bad (2007)
The best movies like This Smells Bad (2007) are Litus (2019), Official Competition (2021) and Fat Kid Rules The World (2012). If This Smells Bad hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest rated¡Que viva México! (2023)7.4/10 from 213 votes
- NewestTherapy Done Right (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishLitus (2019)Also in Spanish
Litus (2019)
A group of friends reunited after the suicide of one of them must face all the secret and lies between them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOfficial Competition (2021)
When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFat Kid Rules The World (2012)
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDown the Rabbit Hole (2024)
Raised in opulence and culture, a boy's life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities in this dark comedy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatricia, A Hidden Passion (2020)
Patricia is a successful couples therapist. Your marriage is going through a bad time. But when she meets a student, Pablo will transform her own beliefs about sex.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTherapy Done Right (2026)
A psychoanalyst who's lost faith in traditional therapy crosses every boundary to help a blocked novelist in this cutting Argentine dark comedy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGloria (2013)
Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTreasure (2024)
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tit and the Moon (1994)
A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like this¡Que viva México! (2023)
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe House of Tomorrow (2019)
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFamily Weekend (2013)
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbout Alex (2014)
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa negra Tomasa (1992)
Based on the infamous song by the same name "La Negra Tomasa". This is a comical adventure based in a barrio in Mexico. César Bono plays a police office, Alfonso Zayas a ladies' man and Roberto Ballesteros a dangerous loan shark who abducts Tomasa out of passion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPuro Mula (2011)
Joel is a 28 year old slacker who gets up every morning to drink beer and play his guitar. His older sister interrupts his daily routine by asking him to take care of her 6 year old kid. Joel thinks he can handle it, but things get complicated when the kid disappears from the house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSomewhere in Queens (2023)
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCQ (2001)
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Other Way Around (2024)
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex choose an unconventional way to part ways: by hosting a party to celebrate their separation. Their unexpected decision leaves friends and family confused, forcing everyone to confront their own views on love, relationships, and new beginnings in this bittersweet, heartfelt story.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady Windermere's Fan (1925)
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this53 Sundays (2026)
When three siblings agree to meet and discuss their aging father's future, their reunion spirals into bickering, bantering and reliving old grudges.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWandering Shadows (2004)
Two men meet in downtown Bogotá: one is missing a leg, the other is a "silletero", a man who carries people around for money. Each character bears the burden of a bitter past life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama
El Colombian Dream (2005)
A story as told by an aborted child who's now 14 years old, involving his mother, three teenagers (two twin brothers and their cousin) that make a love triangle, the twins' father and his new lover, a drug lord and his sidekicks, the drug lord's wife who doesn't know who's the father of her baby, a prostitute with bladder problems, a hit man (really a frustrated poet), and a huge missunderstanding
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama
Los Actores del Conflicto (2008)
Three street mimes pretend to be guerrilla fighters who want to rejoin society thus obtaining permission from the government to go into exile in Spain in exchange for demobilizing...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama
The Wind Journeys (2009)
After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDry River (2019)
By the side of a dusty, deserted highway in the desert of Tatacoa, Colombia, Alirio and Raúl work under the blazing sun at a ranch that has been converted into a tire shop. The shop is also their home and their only company is Capitan, their dog, and a radio that never hushes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
De amores y delitos: Bituima 1780 (1995)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
De amores y delitos: El alma del maíz (1995)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
World-weary author Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs, and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun. Together, they forge an unlikely relationship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSatanás - Profile of a Killer (2007)
Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like This Smells Bad?
The closest matches to This Smells Bad are Litus (2019), Official Competition (2021) and Fat Kid Rules The World (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after This Smells Bad?
Start with Litus (2019), the closest match to This Smells Bad.
What is the highest-rated movie like This Smells Bad?
¡Que viva México! (2023), rated 7.4/10 by 213 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like This Smells Bad?
Therapy Done Right (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like This Smells Bad?
Yes: Litus (2019), Official Competition (2021) and Down the Rabbit Hole (2024).
How are movies similar to This Smells Bad chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside This Smells Bad, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.