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.
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as The Menu. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
What ties these together is figuring out who you are. The world both films live in revolves around class and money, corrupt institutions, and old ways vs. new world. Both move the same way too, dark comedy, tense, escalating, and slow build to explosion.
What ties these together is loss of innocence. The world both films live in revolves around class and money, corrupt institutions, and old ways vs. new world. Same energy: bleak, dark comedy, escalating, and slow burn.
Like The Menu, this one is rooted in guilt and shame. They share the same lens on class and money. Same energy: dark comedy, escalating, and slow build to explosion.
