Movies like To Die For (2025)
The best movies like To Die For (2025) are The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) and The Menu (2022). If To Die For hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMy Dinner with Andre (1981)7.5/10 from 497 votes
- NewestTony (2026)Released 2026
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRoadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)
An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Menu (2022)
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWho Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoiling Point (2021)
A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChef (2014)
When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTony (2026)
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Dinner with Andre (1981)
Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNo Reservations (2007)
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFalling Down (1993)
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat You Wish For (2024)
A talented chef with gambling woes flees to a Latin American villa to visit an old friend who appears to be living an extraordinary life as a private chef. Envy soon turns to greed and then to something deeply unsettling for the chef when he assumes his friend's life and discovers the motives of his mysterious clients.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHannibal (2001)
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWaffle Street (2015)
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove by Chance (2016)
Claire, an ambitious pastry chef, is busy running her new restaurant, but her meddling mom is preoccupied with her lack of love life. Without her knowledge, Claire’s mother finds her the perfect man, but when Claire finds out it wasn’t fate that brought them together, it could ruin the relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisDinner Rush (2000)
One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fend off a hostile takeover from a pair of gangsters, to whom his sous-chef is in debt. Further, Louis has an argument with his son, the star chef, whose culinary creativity has brought success to the business.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoal! (2005)
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFarm to Fork to Love (2021)
Alice, a young and talented sous chef at NY's top restaurant, receives an invitation to judge a food competition for a prestigious annual fundraiser.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPig (2021)
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trip to Spain (2017)
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like To Die For?
The closest matches to To Die For are The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) and The Menu (2022). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after To Die For?
Start with The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), the closest match to To Die For.
What is the highest-rated movie like To Die For?
My Dinner with Andre (1981), rated 7.5/10 by 497 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like To Die For?
Tony (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like To Die For?
Yes: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) and The Menu (2022).
How are movies similar to To Die For chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside To Die For, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.