Movies Like The Silent Diner

If you liked The Silent Diner (2025), a movie directed by Byron Booth, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
★ 7.5/10
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…
2
The Freshman (1990)
★ 6.3/10
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine…
3
Dinner Rush (2000)
★ 7/10
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…
4
Carry On Dick (1974)
★ 5.8/10
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the…
5
The Petrified Forest (1936)
★ 7.1/10
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee…
6
The Dead (1987)
★ 6.9/10
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
7
Fallen Angel (1945)
★ 6.6/10
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…
8
Mystery Men (1999)
★ 5.9/10
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a…
9
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)
★ 7.2/10
Batman, Batgirl, and Robin forge an alliance with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to fight against the Turtles' sworn enemy, The Shredder, who has apparently teamed up with Ra's Al Ghul and The League of Assassins.
10
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
★ 7.2/10
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
11
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
★ 7.1/10
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
12
A Christmas Wish (2011)
★ 5.9/10
A broke single mother lands a job at a small town diner where the kindly patrons and staff help her family to have a happy holiday.
13
It Happened to Jane (1959)
★ 6.2/10
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest…
14
Eloise at the Plaza (2003)
★ 6.2/10
Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. Her caretaker "Nanny" watches over her while her mom is away. Then one day, while trying to figure out how to get invited to a…
15
Small Fry (2011)
★ 6.9/10
A fast food restaurant mini variant of Buzz forcibly switches places with the real Buzz and his friends have to deal with the obnoxious impostor.
16
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
★ 6.1/10
Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to the "Middle Future" in order to grant the wishes of children in New…
17
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man (2003)
★ 7.5/10
Spider-Man is transported to an alien world by the Beyonder. He must lead a force of Earth's greatest heroes against their greatest foes.
18
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
★ 8.4/10
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only…
19
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011)
★ 7.7/10
A relaxing spa getaway evolves into a prehistoric panic when Scooby-Doo and the gang uncover the horrible Phantosaur, an ancient legend come to life to protect hidden treasures buried in secret desert caves. But this…
20
The Arrival (1996)
★ 6/10
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the…