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10 Best Movies Like Fried Green Tomatoes

If you loved Fried Green Tomatoes, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Broken Embraces

Broken Embraces

2009★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fried Green Tomatoes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing hi...

#2
East Is East

East Is East

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fried Green Tomatoes for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born an...

#3
Powaqqatsi

Powaqqatsi

1988★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fried Green Tomatoes for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them....

#4
Emma

Emma

2017★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fried Green Tomatoes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions....

#5
Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart

1984★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fried Green Tomatoes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornad...

#6
Tiger Boy

Tiger Boy

2012★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fried Green Tomatoes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Matteo, a nine years old kid, builds a mask identical to the one of his hero: a wrestler of a roman suburb called The Tiger. Once the mask is on, Matteo never wants to take it off....