20 best movies like Kitchen Stories (2003)

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration02:00

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden

A couple trying to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryNorway, France, Sweden, Denmark, USA
Duration01:35

One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
CountryGermany, Austria, Sweden
Duration01:39

Pia's life, a girl from a small German town, changes when surprisingly, finds in her garden a huge black monster. She soon discovers that the mysterious creature, which called Yoko, is actually a kind yeti spiritually protecting animals and children worldwide. Yoko is constantly showing his friends Pia and their unique qualities, but children are not the only ones who want the Yeti. Its great value calls attention to two hunters who want to take advantage of the yeti.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySweden
Duration02:04

Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryNorway, France, Sweden, Denmark, USA

Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden
Duration01:59

Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Sweden
Duration01:55

    Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Sweden
    Duration02:00

    The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, France
    Duration02:21

    During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFinland, France, Sweden, Germany
    Duration01:40

    Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryNorway
    Duration01:34

    Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to play the leading role.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryNorway, Iceland
    Duration01:35

    Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySweden

    There is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom is just about to launch a new modern profile when they discover that there is something lurking in the outskirts of Backberga. An accident triggers a power failure, which leads to a chain of events,mishaps and love stories. Flicker is a warm comic story about people trying to find their place within the modern society.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySweden
    Duration01:41

    A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountrySweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France
    Duration01:41

    An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryDenmark, Sweden

    32-year-old Charlotte could have it all, but she doesn't want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbour of the transsexual Veronica. Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with one-night stands. An assault, a new bed and some white curtains bring the two of them together and they end up as the main characters of their own turbulent love story.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountrySweden

    A story about a young girl who leaves her hometown to pursue her dream of becoming a famous punk artist.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryNorway, Denmark, Sweden
    Duration01:52

    Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryNorway

    Kristoffer is a billboard hanger, 24 years old and carefree. When his girlfriend Elisabeth dumps him for the boss of her trend bureau, his life falls to pieces. He feels like a loser. By coincidence some of Kristoffer's video diaries end up with the producer of the popular talk show "Karsten Tonight" on TV2. A few weeks later Kristoffer's life has become TV entertainment. People love the sequences from his commune at Tøyen: Kristoffer's half-twisted view of his surroundings, his crazy best friend Geir, not to mention the weird web designer Stig Inge, who hasn't set foot outside the Tøyen shopping centre for two years. Kristoffer's future again looks bright, everyone likes him. But revealing your life on national television comes with a price tag. As Kristoffer's future in the TV business looks brighter and brighter, his friends start suffering. Geir's big secret is revealed, and Stig Inge's personal problems are much more serious than Kristoffer first thought...

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryNorway

    The story of Karl, Christian and Leo will forever change the way you view the relationship between men and women. In a world were women have the power and all the advantages, they've learned that there is only room for one kind of man - the kind that shaves his balls. In a competition to beat Casanova, they fall victim to their own most charming and destructive in a game all men and women are doomed to lose. Pornopung is a dark and entertaining journey through the forefront of modern seduction and sexuality. It will make the most ardent feminist admit that they've won the war of the sexes.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    After the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life and love again

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the questions turn personal and the true nature of the interview is called into question.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryNetherlands

    A group of friends reunite after 30 years to climb the Mont Ventoux again. Memories to a happy youth but also new discoveries from the past. One person is not present at the reunion. Why is that? What happened?

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Former prom king and college freshman Scott returns home for Thanksgiving break and gets dumped by his long-term girlfriend. With his world turned upside down, Scott strikes an unlikely friendship with former classmate Tori, an ugly duckling who blossomed in her first semester of college, and they embark on an outrageous adventure through their hometown. But when Scott and Tori start falling in love, they realize that a few months away may have changed them more than they realized.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryCanada, USA

    A repressed agoraphobic's daughter meets a hardened pastor's daughter, and while escaping their homes to attend the annual church youth group jamboree they discover their worlds aren't what they once thought they were.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryNorway

    Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:32

    Prabhas (Prabhas) has a childhood sweetheart named Nandini (Kajal Agarwal) and they are separated during their childhood. Nandini migrates to Swiss along with her father. Meanwhile Prabhas rejects love proposals from other girls as his heart belongs to Nandini. Prabhas gets a chance to meet Nandini for the first time after the separation during the reunion of their respective parents who have studied together. The rest of the story is all about how Prabhas wins the love of Nandini.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Family friends Sam and Kat spend every Christmas Eve at the Children's Table. They grow up together, sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood. And at thirty, Sam realizes that Kat is the one...but he's afraid that the past will get in the way.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration02:28

    The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A woman moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryJapan

    Arata Kaizaki (27) quit the job he landed after graduation in only three months. His life did not go well after that. Now his parents are threatening to stop sending money, and want him to come back to the country. He has no friend or girlfriend to share his troubles with...as he hits rock bottom a strange man named Ryou Yoake appears. He invites Arata to join a societal rehabilitation program for NEETs called ReLife. This program uses a mysterious drug to make him look younger, and sends him back to high school for a year...

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Germany

    Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Derek is a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Being bullied at school and suffering violence at home, Mi-rae, a middle school loner, lives on the border between reality and fantasy. The only places she feels restful are the computer game world, and the would in the novel she writes in her notebook. As her classmates Baek-hap and Tae-yang come close to Mi-rae, she gradually opens up her mind to them. In the meantime, the computer game service is terminated, and the world in her novel also disappears, leading Mi-rae to face a tough reality again.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryDenmark, Norway, Czech Republic, Sweden
    Duration02:07

    Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to search for a bride.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryIndia

    A road trip, undertaken by Rishi Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan, is later joined by their mother.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:33

    Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
    Duration02:02

    Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from Germany. After WWII Simon travels to explore his roots - a journey that leads to the basic mysteries of the human life. After the bestselling novel by Marianne Fredriksson.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Seven close friends reunite for the wedding of two of their friends. Problems arise because the bride and the maid of honor have had a long rivalry over the groom.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia

    Billy and Lucy have grown up together in a small, close-knit Australian country town, where they form one of the town's most formidable Ute driving teams. When Billy takes one risky car stunt too far, Lucy declares she is moving to the city - sending Billy into a spin. Amid the mayhem of the town's annual "Bachelors and Spinsters" party, Billy only has one night to wake up to his true feelings for his best friend - or lose her forever. Spin Out is a fresh, feel-good comedy romance for the young and the young at heart.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration01:39

    Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures.




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