
10 Best Movies Like Café Lumière
If you loved Café Lumière, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Café Lumière for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board....

Tokyo Family
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Café Lumière for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved....

April Story
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Café Lumière for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place....

A Story of Yonosuke
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Café Lumière for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, h...

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Café Lumière for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years....

Tamako in Moratorium
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Café Lumière for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating a...