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10 Best Movies Like What's for Dinner, Mom?

If you loved What's for Dinner, Mom?, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Toast

Toast

2010★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's for Dinner, Mom? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, ...

#2
The Little House

The Little House

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's for Dinner, Mom? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her ...

#3
Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia

2009★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's for Dinner, Mom? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover th...

#4
Radiance

Radiance

2017★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's for Dinner, Mom? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world....

#5
An Autumn Romance

An Autumn Romance

2021★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's for Dinner, Mom? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's h...

#6
I Believe in Unicorns

I Believe in Unicorns

2015★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's for Dinner, Mom? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter....

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