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10 Best Movies Like Midnight Diner

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

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#1
Kamome Diner

Kamome Diner

2006★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Midnight Diner for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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 g...

#2
Sweet Bean

Sweet Bean

2015★ 7.4

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

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the lit...

#3
After the Rain

After the Rain

2018★ 7.5

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

Akira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student who used to be a part of the track and field club. Working part-time at a restaurant, she finds herself inexplicably falling in...

#4
Always - Sunset on Third Street

Always - Sunset on Third Street

2005★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Midnight Diner for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside the...

#5
Ramen Shop

Ramen Shop

2018★ 6.8

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

Masato is a young ramen chef in Japan. When he finds his late mother's journal after the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he takes it with him to her native country,...

#6
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

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

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

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