Movies Like Smooth Talk (1985)

Smooth Talk is a 1985 drama, thriller film from Joyce Chopra with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The To Do List and The Diary of a Teenage Girl.

Drama Thriller

The To Do List

2013

Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.

5.8

MagicScore

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

6.6

MagicScore

Yes, God, Yes

2020

Alice, a young innocent Catholic girl, is tempted into masturbating after an AOL chat suddenly turns sexual, however is conflicted as the act would be considered a sin.

6.3

MagicScore

Puppylove

2013

When a free-spirited girl befriends a young teenager, they leave childhood behind to embrace a dangerous world of clubbing and sex with strange men.

5.7

MagicScore

My Year of Dicks

2023

An imaginative 15-year-old is stubbornly determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early '90s.

6.4

MagicScore

How to Have Sex

2023

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

6.2

MagicScore

Porcupine Lake

2017

During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.

5.2

MagicScore

Stealing Beauty

1996

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

6.7

MagicScore

The Summer I Turned 15

1976

The story Peter is telling the about a special summer, when he is invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He's been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.

5.5

MagicScore

#10

Reckless Summer

2021

15-year-old Solange lives in a little town in the French Alps. When her parents get divorced, she discovers her femininity and has her first sexual experiences.

6.1

MagicScore

#11

Hard Feelings

2023

Teenagers Charly and Paula worry that sex could ruin their friendship, while their suddenly and surprisingly bossy private parts urge them to go for it.

5.9

MagicScore

#12

Coming Soon

1999

Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.

5.7

MagicScore

#13

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

2005

Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them, despite their differing sizes, and makes whoever wears them feel fabulous. When faced with the prospect of spending their first summer apart, the pals decide they'll swap the pants so that each girl in turn can enjoy the magic.

6.5

MagicScore

#14

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

2018

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

Make Up

2020

After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.

5.8

MagicScore

#16

Poor Things

2023

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

7.7

MagicScore

#17

Ava

2017

Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...

6.2

MagicScore

#18

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

2006

From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way, he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus Himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.

6.6

MagicScore

#19

Mysterious Skin

2005

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

7.7

MagicScore

#20

We're All Going to the World's Fair

2022

Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.

5.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Smooth Talk?

The top films similar to Smooth Talk by MovieMagicScore are The To Do List (5.8), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (6.6), Yes, God, Yes (6.3). Each shares drama/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Smooth Talk worth watching?

Smooth Talk holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 62 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Smooth Talk?

Smooth Talk (1985) is a drama, thriller film directed by Joyce Chopra, starring Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place.

Where can I find more recommendations like Smooth Talk?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Smooth Talk

This ranked list pairs Smooth Talk (1985), a drama and thriller film from Joyce Chopra, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Laura Dern take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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