Movies like The Dinner 1998
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The Dinner (1998)
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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, talky, semi serious, biting, contemplative
Plot:
restaurant, food, sexual humiliation, suspense, 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, tax evasion, sister sister relationship ...
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 realistic, humorous, semi serious and clever films with plots about restaurant, couples, food, satire, love and romance, society and cooking and food mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Dinner: Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976), The Terrace (1980), Entry Level (2007), 18 Meals (2010), Mid-August Lunch (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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disturbing, dark, realistic, humorous, ironic ...
Plot:
sexual promiscuity, family relations, greed, poverty, insanity, satire, suspense, social problems, incest, melancholy, hitman, dark hero ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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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:
captivating, satirical, non-linear, talky, cynical ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, television, politics, member of parliament, screenwriter, communist, satire, suspense, love affair, infidelity, political intrigue ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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68%
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, society, hopes, love and romance, workplace romance, workplace situations, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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
Plot:
cooking and food, food, couples, couple relations, love and romance, bittersweet, uninvited guest, restaurant, cookery, unfulfillment, dinner, homosexual ...
Time:
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Place:
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40%
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, clever ...
Plot:
elderly, food, aging, disorder, family relations, human nature, nothing goes right, parents and children, summer, restaurant, golden years, cooking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, mediterranean sea, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, biting
Plot:
life turned upside down, satire, righting the wronged, family problems, forced into action, hopes, eviction, family relations, society, family life, working class, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, realistic
Plot:
restaurant, prostitute, prison, lifestyle, fall in love, society, survival, love and romance, criminal heroes, misfit, food, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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35%
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:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot:
suburbs, lifestyle, society, betrayal, femme fatale, friends, best friends, aging, prostitute, violence, new year's eve, female nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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:
family relations, haunted by the past, small town, infidelity, filmmaking, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, love, politics, mother son relationship, bittersweet, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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:
cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
neighbor, feud, prank, professor, terror, dark humor, couples, disorder, family relations, society, human nature, youth ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 298 min.
Story:
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point ...
Style:
clever, biting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
time travel, multiple storylines, relationships, satire, suspense, couples, couple relations, road not taken, village, destiny, infidelity, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Icelandic drama about two remote road-workers.
Style:
humorous, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, workplace, friends, workplace situations, buddies, couples, bittersweet, painting
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
iceland
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32%
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, lifestyle, human nature, family relations, couples, golden years, city life, introspection, single parent, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ...
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humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment, friends, couples, psychiatrist, cellist, suicide ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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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 ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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girls' night
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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 ...
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
rich and poor, looking for love, satire, restaurant owner, love and romance, workplace, society, human nature, workplace situations, generosity, bankruptcy, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain ...
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jewish, suspense, satire, dark humor, family relations, dull life, unfulfillment, dealing with death, race against time, introspection, life is a bitch, terminal illness ...
Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
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Plot:
restaurant, workplace, lifestyle, food, chef, brother brother relationship, loneliness, twists and turns, plot twist, family relations, cooking, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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.
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realistic, clever, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the ...
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Place:
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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:
sentimental, humorous, atmospheric, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
love and romance, food, cooking and food, diner, friendship, starting over, restaurant, hopes, small business, cafe, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
This kaleidoscopic film weaves together approximately 20 fragmented scenarios that offer a view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships. Starring Raul ...
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surreal, witty, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge ...
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Plot:
food, cooking and food, restaurant, factory, workplace situations, disorder, dark humor, moral dilemma, human nature, workplace, dishonesty, suspense ...
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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.
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Story:
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