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10 Best Movies Like The Kitchen

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

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#1
Summer Villa

Summer Villa

2016★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Kitchen for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Although a successful romance novelist, Terry Russell hasn't had luck in her own love life. After a disastrous first date with cocky, hot-shot New York chef Matthew Everston, she r...

#2
Author! Author!

Author! Author!

1982★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Kitchen for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belon...

#3
Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park

1967★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Kitchen for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their m...

#4
Toast

Toast

2010★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Kitchen 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, ...

#5
Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen

2022★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Kitchen for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This remake of the beloved classic follows the raucous exploits of a blended family of 12, the Bakers, as they navigate a hectic home life while simultaneously managing their famil...

#6
Hello, Dolly!

Hello, Dolly!

1969★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Kitchen for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, sh...

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