20 movies like Bella, ordered by similarity : Less Sugar(2007), A Matter of Size(2009), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood(2002), Loveling(2018), Incendies(2010), Between Strangers(2002), Mother and Child(2009), Deadlier Than the Male(1956), Wildlife(2018), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants(2005), This Is My Father(1998), Full Grown Men(2006) ...
Drama
2006
91 Minutes
Eduardo Verastegui Tammy Blanchard Manny Perez Angélica Aragón Jaime Tirelli Ali Landry Ramon Rodriguez Lukas Behnken
waitress pregnant woman chef restaurant owner mother father emotional profound tender restaurant house beach abortion clinic new york city kitchen unplanned pregnancy abortion secrets self-discovery friendship
A chef (Eduardo Verastegui) leaves his post at a busy Manhattan restaurant to show a fired waitress (Tammy Blanchard) around town.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India|UK
2007
140 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Tabu Paresh Rawal Zohra Segal Vinay Jain Krishna Bhatt Kanwal Toor Nikhil Ratnaparkhi Pradeep Shukla Jameel Khan
older man mother restaurant owner young woman fiancée restaurant employee offbeat emotional london family home restaurant kitchen india city courtship family dysfunction romance journey relationships disapproval
An egotistical 64-year-old chef and confirmed bachelor falls for a woman 30 years his junior.
Comedy, Drama
2009
92 Minutes
Itzik Cohen Togo Igawa Dvir Benedek Alon Dahan Shmulik Cohen Irit Kaplan Levana Finkelstein
chef obese man best friend japanese man restaurant owner mother hilarious offbeat heartwarming ramle, israel restaurant woods family home gym arena obesity self-discovery new job cross-cultural relations sumo wrestling
Tired of losing the struggle to control their weight, four pudgy pals enlist the aid of a Japanese restaurateur to train them as sumo wrestlers.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2002
116 Minutes
Sandra Bullock Ellen Burstyn Fionnula Flanagan James Garner Cherry Jones Ashley Judd Shirley Knight Angus Macfadyen Maggie Smith Jacqueline McKenzie Katy Selverstone
friend daughter playwright mother fiancé husband emotional touching heartwarming amusing new york city louisiana wedding kitchen small town beach memory parent/child relationship motherhood marriage
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
Drama
2018
95 Minutes
Karine Teles Otávio Muller Adriana Esteves Konstantinos Sarris César Troncoso Mateus Solano Camilo Pellegrini Ariclenes Barroso Pablo Riera Lucas Gouvêa
mother father child brother sister teen boy touching emotional amusing charming cheeky moving rio de janeiro house school beach car auditorium leaving home mother/son relationship
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety about sending her eldest son out into the world on his own.
Drama
Canada|France
2010
130 Minutes
Lubna Azabal Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin Maxim Gaudette Rémy Girard Allen Altman Mohamed Majd Baya Belal Abdelghafour Elaaziz Nabil Sawalha
mother sister father brother employer lawyer profound tense powerful gripping montreal notary office family home small town middle east family secrets self-discovery journey estrangement twins
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Drama
Canada|Italy
2002
95 Minutes
Sophia Loren Mira Sorvino Deborah Kara Unger Pete Postlethwaite Klaus Maria Brandauer Gérard Depardieu Malcolm McDowell Wendy Crewson
wife mother cellist photographer artist estranged father ex-convict family friend stranger inspiring uplifting touching tender toronto canada secret discovery art journey
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Drama
USA|Spain
2009
126 Minutes
Naomi Watts Annette Bening Kerry Washington Jimmy Smits Samuel L. Jackson S. Epatha Merkerson Cherry Jones Elpidia Carrillo Shareeka Epps David Morse Eileen Ryan
mother daughter physical therapist lawyer husband emotional powerful profound law office hospital restaurant household orphanage adoption parenthood marriage pregnancy family regret discovery
A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
Drama
France
1956
113 Minutes
Jean Gabin Danièle Delorme Lucienne Bogaert Robert Arnoux Liliane Bert Gérard Blain Aimé Clariond Gabrielle Fontan Germaine Kerjean Robert Manuel Jean-Paul Roussillon
restaurant owner young woman ex-wife housekeeper mother-in-law employee dark chilling suspenseful emotional paris restaurant apartment bar france street murder plot deception betrayal estrangement
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André... See full summary »
Drama
USA
2018
104 Minutes
Carey Mulligan Jake Gyllenhaal Ed Oxenbould Bill Camp Zoe Colletti Travis W. Bruyer Darryl Cox Mollie Milligan
teen boy golfer housewife firefighter mother friend bleak emotional tense intricate raw montana forest school house car small town mother/child relationship father/child relationship marriage
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2005
120 Minutes
Amber Tamblyn Alexis Bledel America Ferrera Blake Lively Jenna Boyd Bradley Whitford Nancy Travis Rachel Ticotin Mike Vogel Michael Rady Leonardo Nam
teen girl friend love interest father grandfather grandmother amusing emotional maryland south carolina mexico greece friendship family romance traveling coming of age teen angst transformation discovery
Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly.
Drama
Ireland|Canada
1998
120 Minutes
Aidan Quinn James Caan Stephen Rea John Cusack Moya Farrelly Jacob Tierney Colm Meaney Donal Donnelly Brendan Gleeson John Kavanagh Eamon Morrissey
college student son mother father schoolteacher farmer emotional touching ireland countryside family home village farm united states family secrets irish life class distinctions pregnancy search self-discovery
Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother's small old hometown ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
2006
78 Minutes
Matt McGrath Judah Friedlander Alan Cumming Amy Sedaris Jim Fyfe Jerry Grayson Deborah Harry Katie Kreisler Joie Lee
father husband young boy mother childhood friend bartender endearing playful spirited house car amusement park bar trailer florida road trip self-discovery friendship family responsibility
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Drama
1986
76 Minutes
Emma Coles Kris Bidenko Kris McQuade Stephen Leeder Debra May Peter Hehir Tony Barry Kerry Dwyer Arthur Faynes Kim Antonios Denise Roberts
teen girl friend mother boyfriend father sad profound sydney beach school house friendship mother/daughter relationship adolescence family coming of age divorce growing up transformation 1980s
Two Australian teenage girls (Emma Coles, Kris Bidenko) go from best friends to ex-friends in a year.
Drama
USA
1992
134 Minutes
Mary McDonnell Alfre Woodard David Strathairn Vondie Curtis-Hall Nora Dunn Sheila Kelley Angela Bassett Leo Burmester Mary Portser Shauntisa Willis John Henry Redwood
actress nurse daughter therapist friend emotional fiery profound louisiana family home new york city accident paralysis grief friendship alcoholism love-hate relationship discovery transformation rise
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
Comedy, Drama
Israel|USA|France
2007
86 Minutes
Sasson Gabay Ronit Elkabetz Saleh Bakri Khalifa Natour Rubi Moskovitz Uri Gavriel Imad Jabarin Hilla Sarjon
band member restaurant owner israeli amusing tender offbeat solemn israel desert town restaurant skating rink hospitality ethnic tension loneliness isolation separation transformation quest discovery
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Comedy, Drama
2017
126 Minutes
Kevin Hart Bryan Cranston Nicole Kidman Aja Naomi King Jahi Di'Allo Winston Genevieve Angelson Golshifteh Farahani Tate Donovan Julianna Margulies Suzanne Savoy
wealthy man disabled person parolee ex-wife son assistant amusing hilarious emotional tense inspiring incredible penthouse new york city hospital restaurant party unlikely friendship disability caregiving
A wealthy quadriplegic hires a struggling parolee to be his caretaker in his upscale New York penthouse. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom as both men rediscover the joy of living life to the fullest.
Comedy, Drama
USA|India|United Arab Emirates
2014
122 Minutes
Helen Mirren Om Puri Manish Dayal Charlotte Le Bon Amit Shah Farzana Dua Elahe Dillon Mitra Aria Pandya Michel Blanc Clément Sibony Vincent Elbaz
ingénue chef indian proprieter frenchwoman family member charming creative cool emotional heartwarming kitchen restaurant house india france yard talent cooking indian life
The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.
Drama
USA
1995
85 Minutes
Jerry Barone Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Al Pacino Joe Grifasi Joanna Merlin Andy Romano Ron McLarty Patrick Borriello Donna Mitchell Mary Lou Rosato Rosemary DeAngelis
boy child grandfather family family member charming emotional heartwarming melodramatic moving sad united states city suburb slum movie theater economic crisis family life family tragedy family secrets
Gennaro lives with his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. But grandpa's not ready to die, he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
Drama
Japan
2016
117 Minutes
Hiroshi Abe Yôko Maki Kirin Kiki Taiyô Yoshizawa
private detective family estranged father son mother mourner brooding charming emotional inspiring moving rousing japan town detective agency home family relationships second chance determination
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2008
75 Minutes
Thomas Turgoose Kate Dickie Piotr Jagiello Perry Benson Ireneusz Czop Elisa Lasowski Ben Porter Steven Hillman
teen boy best friend father love interest waitress photographer emotional bleak midlands london household coming of age friendship father/son relationship poverty family discovery escape 2000s
A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.