Movies like The Dinner 1998

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The Dinner (1998)
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The Dinner (1998)
Original name: La cena
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
Style: sincere, clever, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, biting, suspense
Plot: restaurant, food, dinner, gourmet, amor, sexual humiliation, couples, social differences, society, satire, lifestyle, workplace, human nature, bittersweet, chief of staff, workplace situations, cooking and food, chef, philosophy, waiter, card playing, older man younger woman relationship, breakup, cooking, italian restaurant ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, contemporary, 1990s
Place: rome italy, italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and touching films with plots about restaurant, food, society, couples, love and romance, lifestyle and cooking and food mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Dinner: Mid-August Lunch (2008), Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976), The Terrace (1980), 18 Meals (2010), Entry Level (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mid-August Lunch (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental ...
Style: semi serious, talky, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: elderly, food, aging, family relations, disorder, nothing goes right, human nature, parents and children, summer, cooking, dinner, restaurant ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, mediterranean sea, europe
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Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, dark, realistic ...
Plot: sexual promiscuity, family relations, poverty, greed, insanity, satire, social problems, incest, social injustice, lgbt, old age, badass ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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The Terrace (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the ...
Style: satirical, captivating, non-linear, contemplative, cynical ...
Plot: television, food, restaurant, politics, screenwriter, communist, husband wife relationship, member of parliament, state affairs, unfulfillment, society, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy
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41%
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18 Meals (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, culinary ...
Plot: cooking and food, food, couples, love and romance, couple relations, bittersweet, uninvited guest, restaurant, cookery, cooking, wine, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Entry Level (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, love and romance, hopes, society, workplace situations, workplace romance, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time: 21st century
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The Trip to Italy (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, talky, witty ...
Plot: character study, restaurant, on the road, food, friendship, odd couple, buddies, verbal byplay, wine, art, dialogue, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, tuscany, europe, pompeii
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Estomago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot: prostitute, prison, fall in love, lifestyle, misfit, survival, criminal heroes, love and romance, society, food, chef, jail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Soul Kitchen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: SOUL KITCHEN film centers on a likable but hopelessly disorganized restauranteur, Zinos, whose cafe is second home to a motley crew of lovable eccentrics. When his girlfriend Nadine up and moves to Shanghai, a love-sick Zinos decides to fly after ...
Style: talky, feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot: restaurant, chef, cooking, workplace, lifestyle, food, brother brother relationship, loneliness, family relations, life is a bitch, workplace problem, family business ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Cooking with Stella (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman cooks for clients and tries to keep her thefts of food and money from being discovered.
Style: realistic, clever, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: cooking, food, dishonesty, power relations, cons and scams, couple relations, unlikely criminals, master and servant, society, cooking and food, family relations, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, new delhi, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Love's Kitchen (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, lifestyle, fall in love, starting over, love affair, english countryside, wine, gourmet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Last New Year's Eve (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: lifestyle, suburbs, society, betrayal, best friend, aging, femme fatale, friends, prostitute, violence, new year's eve, female nudity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Bread and Chocolate (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker. He then becomes involved with shady wealthy character and tries to hide his Italian identity. He refuses to give up no matter how awful ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: immigrant, food, restaurant, culture clash, bittersweet, racism, female nudity, anti capitalism, migration, erotica, social injustice, gourmet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Kamome Diner (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay ...
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: food, cooking and food, diner, starting over, friendship, restaurant, hopes, small business, cafe, lifestyle, workplace situations, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, japan, europe, helsinki finland
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Eating (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: food, eating disorder, restaurant, wine, friendship, nightlife, thirtysomething life, couples, friends, gender, feminism, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 80s
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Family Resemblances (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style: talky, witty, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, family history, husband wife relationship, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france
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All Against All (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Style: realistic, sincere, semi serious, humorous, biting
Plot: life turned upside down, satire, eviction, hopes, working class, society, family relations, righting the wronged, forced into action, family problems, family life, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Either Way (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Icelandic drama about two remote road-workers.
Style: humorous, contemplative, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, workplace, friends, workplace situations, buddies, couples, bittersweet, painting
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couples, friends, unfulfillment, cellist, suicide, car accident ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Le Chef (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Style: light, sentimental, funny, sweet, touching ...
Plot: cooking, chef, wine, restaurant, food, mentor, creativity, love, culture clash, underdog, fight scenes, partner ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Umami (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
Style: semi serious, psychological, culinary, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: chef, restaurant, cooking, food, japanese culture, cookery, culinary arts, satire, cooking and food, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, old friends reunited ...
Place: japan
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Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, best friend, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, actor's life, singleness, down on your luck, friends, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Cost of Living (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, rich and poor, satire, restaurant owner, workplace situations, generosity, workplace, society, love and romance, human nature, bankruptcy, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Tickets (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, anthology ...
Plot: train, self discovery, couple relations, on the road, society, couples, social differences, railway, soccer, migration, multiple storylines, football ...
Time: 90s, year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable ...
Style: sad, realistic, semi serious, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, resistance, midlife crisis, fascism, italian neorealism, partisan, corruption, european, amor, circus, friendship, unrequited love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1974, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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26%
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Next Door (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
Style: slapstick, cynical, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: feud, neighbor, prank, professor, terror, disorder, family relations, dark humor, couples, contests and competitions, human nature, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Let It Rain (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through their recently deceased mother's belongings. While ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, talky, sincere ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, family relations, haunted by the past, small town, infidelity, filmmaking, siblings relations, love, politics, mother son relationship, slice of life, siblings ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Career Girls (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style: cult classic, realistic, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot: life & death, college, friendship, graduation, bittersweet, women, meaning of life, angry, female bonding, loser, female friendship, mother ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Drifting Clouds (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tram driver Lauri looses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system, they hardly try to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and ...
Style: dark comedy, realistic, touching, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: unemployment, labor, working class, waitress, gourmet, employment, loser, social injustice, food, psychology, entertainment, minimalism ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: finland, europe
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