20 movies like Sweet Bean, ordered by similarity : Conversations With My Gardener(2007), My Art(2016), My Bakery in Brooklyn(2016), Calendar Girls(2003), In the Courtyard(2014), Mattress Men(2016), Pork Pie(2017), Changeland(2019), I Got Life!(2017), Non-Fiction(2018), Begin Again(2013), Unlovable(2018) ...
Comedy, Drama
Japan|France|Germany
2015
113 Minutes
Kirin Kiki Masatoshi Nagase Kyara Uchida Miyoko Asada Etsuko Ichihara Miki Mizuno Taiga Miu Takeuchi Wakato Kanematsu
business owner old woman friend customer dreamy calm engaging charming heartwarming uplifting japan kitchen business cooking success friendship rise underdog 2010s
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Comedy, Drama
2007
109 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Jean-Pierre Darroussin Fanny Cottençon Alexia Barlier
painter gardener artist former classmate man friend amusing heartwarming charming uplifting lighthearted melodramatic france paris rural community countryside garden lake friendship relationships
Comedy, Drama
2016
86 Minutes
Parker Posey Lena Dunham John Rothman Joshua Safdie Robert Clohessy Barbara Sukowa Al Thompson Grace Dunham Laurie Simmons Benjamin Eakeley Garland Hunter
artist friend dog man amusing charming emotional endearing cheeky creative new york city gallery office garden restaurant artistic struggle creative process creative block friendship small town
Frustrated by her lack of recognition, a middle-aged artist leaves the city for upstate New York to regain her creative spark.
Comedy, Drama
2016
100 Minutes
Aimee Teegarden Krysta Rodriguez Griffin Newman Ernie Sabella Blanca Suárez Ward Horton Aitor Luna Enrique Arce
cousin best friend young woman baker customer business partner charming hilarious witty lighthearted playful heartwarming bakery brooklyn new york comedy best friends friendship family business happiness
After inheriting their aunt's bakery, a woman (Aimee Teegarden) and her cousin (Krysta Rodriguez) must find a way to save the business from foreclosure.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
2003
108 Minutes
Helen Mirren Julie Walters John Alderton Linda Bassett Annette Crosbie Philip Glenister Ciarán Hinds Celia Imrie Geraldine James Penelope Wilton George Costigan
wife friend husband photographer director cheeky heartwarming amusing uplifting yorkshire hospital household england hollywood, calif. friendship romance business activism fame quest
A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.
Comedy, Drama
2014
97 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Gustave Kervern Féodor Atkine Pio Marmaï Michela Moretti Nicolas Bouchaud Garance Clavel Oleg Kupchik
musician retiree woman manager janitor friend amusing heartwarming lighthearted emotional charming playful france paris concert stage aging new life success happiness relationships
Antoine quits his rock band, takes a job caring for an old building in Paris, and develops a close friendship with a recently retired woman.
Comedy, Drama, Documentary
Ireland
2016
81 Minutes
Michael Flynn Paul Kelly
sales manager business owner father friend colleague eccentric amusing cheeky endearing heartwarming lighthearted offbeat house ireland shop club computer world desperation failing business debt
Trying to save his struggling mattress business, Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online persona 'Mattress Mick', under the guidance of his friend Paul Kelly. As business begins to grow, their friendship starts to implode.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
2017
105 Minutes
Dean O'Gorman James Rolleston Ashleigh Cummings Antonia Prebble Matt Whelan Ben Mitchell Milo Cawthorne Siobhan Marshall
outlaw cop friend boyfriend girlfriend driver amusing engaging endearing thrilling heartwarming new zealand vehicle barn road on the run big city on the run road trip protest
Accidental outlaws travel New Zealand in a yellow mini, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with the cops and the media hot on their tail.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2019
Minutes
Seth Green Breckin Meyer Brenda Song Clare Grant Macaulay Culkin Rose Williams Kedar Williams-Stirling Randy Orton
man troublemaker friend adventurer traveler engaging hilarious amusing charming lighthearted heartwarming thailand friendship trouble traveling new life comedy adventure discovery escape
While visiting Thailand, two estranged friends realize there's no rule book for finding purpose and meaning in life.
Comedy, Drama
2017
89 Minutes
Agnès Jaoui Thibault de Montalembert Pascale Arbillot Sarah Suco Lou Roy-Lecollinet Nicolas Chupin Rachel Farmane Laurie Bordesoules Armand Paul Jean Samir Guesmi
woman ex-boyfriend husband daughter pregnant woman love interest friend best friend frenchwoman heartwarming amusing hilarious uplifting touching france restaurant bar street life menopause
A woman, separated from her husband, loses her job and discovers she's going to be a grandmother. Refusing to be pushed to the outskirts of society, she puts her foot down and decides to start over.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
2018
108 Minutes
Guillaume Canet Juliette Binoche Vincent Macaigne Christa Théret Nora Hamzawi Nicolas Bouchaud Pascal Greggory Violaine Gillibert Laurent Poitrenaux Sigrid Bouaziz
publisher bohemian writer television star assistant friend lighthearted charming emotional quirky apartment office kitchen bookstore street coast friendship book publishing couples business ethics
A controversial Parisian writer blurs the line between fact and fiction when he starts to use real-life love affairs as fodder for his explosive new novel.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2013
104 Minutes
Keira Knightley Mark Ruffalo Hailee Steinfeld Adam Levine Catherine Keener James Corden CeeLo Green Yasiin Bey Maddie Corman
woman boyfriend executive singer-songwriter friend groupie charming cool creative new york city apartment recording studio concert stage club central park fame friendship music passion travel
A chance encounter between a down-and-out music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter, new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
80 Minutes
Charlene deGuzman John Hawkes Melissa Leo Paul James Ellen Geer Jake McDorman Josh Fadem Josh Ruben
ex-boyfriend sex addict musician recluse friend sponsor heartwarming hilarious emotional tense house garage party car group therapy sex addiction love friendship lifestyle changes music
A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2019
102 Minutes
Emma Thompson Mindy Kaling John Lithgow Hugh Dancy Reid Scott Denis O'Hare Max Casella Paul Walter Hauser John Early Luke Slattery Ike Barinholtz
talk show host writer co-worker friend amusing hilarious cheeky inspiring uplifting new york city television studio office stage women comedy unlikely allies unlikely friendship friendship working woman transformation
A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.
Comedy
USA
2013
88 Minutes
Glenn Howerton Steve Little Ben Schwartz Adrianne Palicki Josh Groban Josh Perry Jett Dunlap Matt Riedy
business owner friend business partner coffee shop owner love interest barista amusing hilarious cheeky coffee shop united states parking lot business coffee friendship rescue rescue adventure underdog 2010s
A website manager enlists the help of his two friends in order to convince the owners of his favorite coffee shop -- which doubles as his office -- not to turn their business into a bar.
Comedy, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
Ireland|UK
2018
98 Minutes
Matt Bomer Alejandro Patino Elena Campbell-Martinez Wendi McLendon-Covey Michael Shepperd Tommie Earl Jenkins Shaughn Buchholz Tom Beyer Irene White Caitlin Kimball D'Arcy Carden
weatherman television executive day laborer friend ex-boyfriend family member amusing hilarious heartwarming endearing charming los angeles television studio mansion beverly hills office unlikely friendship loss starting over language barrier
A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.
Drama
2008
92 Minutes
Michael Caine Bill Milner Anne-Marie Duff David Morrissey Rosemary Harris Elizabeth Spriggs Leslie Phillips Peter Vaughan Linzey Cocker Sylvia Syms Ralph Ineson
young boy magician magician's assistant best friend friend teenager charming playful engaging suspenseful witty friendship best friends relationships unlikely friendship magic adventure discovery growing up mystery
A death-obsessed youth (Bill Milner) befriends an aging magician (Michael Caine) who longs to join his wife in the afterlife.
Comedy, Drama
2016
93 Minutes
Tristan Göbel Anand Batbileg Alexander Scheer Friederike Kempter Nicole Mercedes Müller Xenia Assenza Udo Samel Uwe Bohm
teen boy teenager bully friend immigrant grandfather charming emotional heartwarming lighthearted engaging hilarious germany berlin car romania coming of age friendship relationships happiness
Fourteen-year-old Maik, an outsider at school, is facing a long and boring summer. When his classmate Tschick turns up with a stolen car, Maik decides to accompany him on a trip to Wallachia.
Comedy, Drama
France
1995
91 Minutes
Stéphane Audran Michel Aumont Alain Begel Marie Bunel Thomas Chabrol Vincent Colombe Laurence Côte Antoine Cousin Marie-Laure Dougnac Mimi Felixine Alain Fromager
chef son hostess dinner guest friend customer charming moving profound amusing restaurant kitchen dining room restaurant business end of an era relationships nostalgia friendship food love
After twenty-five years of practice in a popular district of Paris, Hippolyte and Josephine decided to close their restaurant. Not for economic or urbanistic reasons but, more serious, ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
2015
110 Minutes
Matthew McConaughey Ken Watanabe Naomi Watts Katie Aselton Jordan Gavaris James Saito Anna Friedman Charles Van Eman
mathematician man suicidal person japanese man businessman friend engaging emotional melodramatic heartwarming intense charming japan tokyo forest attempted suicide suicide attempt fear happiness friendship
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
Comedy, Drama
2017
97 Minutes
Laetitia Dosch Souleymane Seye Ndiaye Grégoire Monsaingeon Jean-Christophe Folly Nathalie Richard Marie Rémond
young woman frenchwoman city girl friend love interest colleague uplifting playful quirky paris france apartment swimming pool mall city life breakup fresh start friendship discovery growing up
Left by Joachim, an artist with whom she shared her life for 10 years, Paula finds herself wandering the streets of Paris, lonely and fixated.