Smell movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant smell movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, crying, weird, serious, suspenseful and intense films and TV shows about / with smell, murder, nude, violence, female nudity, catastrophe, death, dialogue, nudity and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as smell: Perfume (2018), The Five Devils (2022), In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Box of Moon Light (1996), Scent of a Woman (1992), Dae Jang-Geum Is Watching (2018), Parasite (2019), The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Together (2025), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001).
Best films
New films
| Send Help (2026) | 7.2 | |
| Beyond the Woods (2016) | 4.3 | |
| Sweet Bean (2015) | 7.4 | |
| The Five Devils (2022) | 6.7 | |
| Outlander (2008) | 6.2 |
List of smell movies
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
While in boarding school, a group of six become friends through their intense passion for scent. When one is brutally murdered years later, disturbing secrets about the group are revealed when the police investigates each as a suspect.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bloody, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, boarding school, murder, odor, investigation, police, smell, homicide detective, friendship, murder investigation, crime solving, fighting crime ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, suspense, clever, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, psychopath, perfume, macabre, insanity, genius, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, master apprentice relationship, psycho killer, secret formula ...
Time:
18th century, year 2006, 19th century, georgian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe, barcelona, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
8-year-old Vicky possesses a special gift: she has a hyperacute sense of smell. She spends her days exploring this gift, and lives happily with her mother Joanne, a swimming teacher whom she adores exclusively – to the despair of her fire-fighter ...
Plot:
mountain, fire, dysfunctional marriage, dysfunctional couple, mother daughter relationship, lesbian, time travel, lesbian relationship, arson, interracial relations, gift, mother ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
alps
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
Style:
sexy, controversial, erotic, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, passion, jealousy, sex, lust, bdsm, sexual relations, sexual perversion, sensuality, sexuality, asian sex ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two, year 1976, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo, paris france ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering ...
Style:
road movie, scenic, thought provoking, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, male pubic hair, vandalism, free spirit, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity, bus, life, stranger, friends ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
chicago, tennessee, new jersey, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, dramatic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, blindness, mentor, blind character, tango, human spirit, human nature, life philosophy, coming of age, thanksgiving, loneliness, preparatory school ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new england, new hampshire, usa, seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
A consultant who has a superhuman sense of smell and assists in solving cases by smelling the scents left behind at crime scenes. He usually lives with a nasal plug, but once he removes it, and takes one sniff with his keen sense of smell, he will ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, detective, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, crime scene, sleuth, smell, homicide detective, forensics, private investigator, crime solving, crime investigation, unsolved crime, detective inspector, police investigation ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The show follows the hectic lives, romantic relationships, and love for food of three siblings, Han San Hae, Han Jin Mi, and Han Jung Shik, supposed modern-day decedents of the legendary Dae Jang Geum.
Style:
culinary, entertaining, thrilling, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
food, relationships, cookery, cooking and food, cooking, large family, family life, brother brother relationship, workplace situations, satire, lifestyle, brother sister relationship ...
Place:
korea, seoul
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1.1M
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
Style:
black comedy, parody, independent film, dark comedy, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, nudity, cannibalism, punk, monster, female nudity, crematorium, undead, living dead, zombie apocalypse, paramedic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
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66K
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple's relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh.
Style:
psychological horror, gloomy, compassionate, horror comedy, surprise ending ...
Plot:
body horror, hybrid, male nudity, bare chested male, male star appears nude, teacher, musician, sex scene, transformation, female teacher, new identity, dead father ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a film based on the life of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi occupied Holland. When war breaks out Anne & her family, Otto her father, Edith her mother & Margot her sister move from Germany ...
Style:
uplifting, sincere, emotional, bleak, sad ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, against humanity, world war two, starvation, ss, hopes, concentration camp, survival, oppression, childhood, typhus ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
amsterdam, europe, holland, netherlands, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
School student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sincere, crying ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, holocaust, storytelling, school, love, young lovers, forbidden love, identity, friendship, camp, world war two, angel of death ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, poland, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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16K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style:
sincere, political, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, politics, pope, christian, ss, conscience, nazi, nazism, priest ...
Time:
1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
germany, poland, rome italy, italy, austria ...
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108K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
brutal, suspense, bad ending, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, torture, camping, chase, forest, youth, fear, gory, revenge, teenager, maniac, danger ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, england, britain
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145K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, gory, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, blood, chase, disfigurement, brutality ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the ...
Style:
cerebral, epic, saga, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, date night, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
space opera, star wars, outer space, robot, spaceship, rebellion, intergalactic, space station, space, wilhelm scream, space travel, space wars ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, year 1977, year 2016 ...
Place:
space western
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536
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Once upon a time there was Louise and her friend, the magician. But his last trick left a bitter taste in her mouth. He disappeared in a curtain of smoke… never to appear again. This is too much for the young woman. Devastated by endless grief, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere, existential ...
Plot:
mysticism, invisibility, invisible, blindness, fall in love, mysterious man, love, love and romance, love affair, blind man, family secret, love interest ...
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
Poor but confident and resourceful tailor David trusts, after killing seven flies in one swat, he's a match for any challenge and sets out to prove himself in the wide world. After luck and cunning help him deal with giant Lothar, he arrives at ...
Style:
fairy tale
Plot:
adolescence, bare chested male, cell, forgetfulness, dream, princess, headache, smell, memory, flowers, juggling, unicorn ...
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113K
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
Style:
intense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night, teens
Plot:
vigilante, justice, home invasion, lone hero, small town, ex military, revenge, one against many, brutality, heroes, organized crime, vigilantism ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, north america
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, hospital, memory loss, unfulfillment, investigation, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, heroes, danger, crime investigation, twists and turns, parallel universe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, texas
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above - except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, Ready and his ragtag crew ...
Style:
humorous, stylized, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
salesman, dumb, workplace, stupidity, hotshot hero, business, blind ambition, disorder, love and romance, boss and employee, ambition, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An aspiring hair dresser (Kuriyama) becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that ...
Style:
surreal, scary, serious, psychological, christmas horror ...
Plot:
profanity, body horror, abuse, vengeance, supernatural, obsession, danger, ghost, woman in danger, objects come to life, grudge, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After a girl goes missing, two of her friends and a mysterious set of strangers find themselves drawn to the cabin in the woods where she disappeared. They will laugh, they will drink, they will kiss, they will make love, and THEY MUST ALL DIE.
Style:
slasher, teen horror, rough, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
spell, female nudity, murder, forest, demon, nude girl, worship, best friend, woods, bare butt, sexy girl, peeping ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ...
Style:
anthropological, harsh
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, racism, teenage girl, corporal punishment, indigenous people, teacher, runaway, identity, nordic, humiliation, school, book ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.
Style:
spiritual, serious, captivating, suspenseful, light ...
Plot:
research, homelessness, supernatural power, goggles, hallucination, psychoanalysis, faith, supernatural, science, laboratory, experiment, evidence ...
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70K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five ...
Style:
touching, 3d animation, stylized, exciting, computer animated ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
bull, friendship, kindness, pacifist, bullfighting, countryside, girl, animal, talking horse, matador, child, farm ...
Time:
20th century, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Director Hisayasu Sato helmed this peculiar tale about a woman known as Locker Baby because she was left in a bus station locker as an infant. Locker Baby is raped by a man clad in black leather, traumatizing her still further, and driving her to ...
Style:
touching, light
Plot:
sexual assault, voyeurism, motorcyclist, lesbian rape, sexuality, pregnancy, tank, biker, sexual intercourse, motorcycle, prostitution, exploitation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenage boy awakens a ghost from an antique pot. To be reincarnated the ghost must help his present day counterpart by helping him find romance.
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy
Plot:
sex maniac, genie, sexual fantasy, boy, female pubic hair, nudity, horniness, female nudity, desire, smell, adultery, parent child relationship ...
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342
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. In the story, a four year old boy (Mohammed Aladpoush) is left at home with his baby brother while his mother goes out shopping. She has told him to give the baby his ...
Style:
erotic, crying, freeze frame
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
boy, little boy, absent mother, child protagonist, catastrophe, mother, brother, shopping cart, strong female lead, cell, family relations, missing mother ...
Place:
iran
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