Movies like Eat Your Heart Out

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Eat Your Heart Out (1997)
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Eat Your Heart Out (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.
Style: independent film
Plot: food, restaurant, cooking, cooking and food, unrequited love, female nudity, seduction, womanizer, bare breasts, valentine's day, female artist, male full rear nudity, marriage proposal, death of father, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, butcher, roommate, birthday party, nude painting, father son estrangement, cafe owner, bare chested male, ghost writer, kiss, book signing ...
Place: los angeles, san francisco
Keyword: art show

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Most similar movies to Eat Your Heart Out

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and culinary films with plots about food, restaurant, cooking, cooking and food, chef, lifestyle and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Eat Your Heart Out: Umami (2022), 18 Meals (2010), Entry Level (2007), Eating (1990), Le Chef (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Umami (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
Style: semi serious, psychological, culinary, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: chef, restaurant, cooking, food, japanese culture, cookery, culinary arts, satire, cooking and food, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, old friends reunited ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.4
 539
18 Meals (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, culinary ...
Plot: cooking and food, food, couples, love and romance, couple relations, bittersweet, uninvited guest, restaurant, cookery, cooking, wine, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 5.8
 391
Entry Level (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, love and romance, hopes, society, workplace situations, workplace romance, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.2
 320
Eating (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: food, eating disorder, restaurant, wine, friendship, nightlife, thirtysomething life, couples, friends, gender, feminism, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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 6.6
 18K
Le Chef (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Style: light, sentimental, funny, sweet, touching ...
Plot: cooking, chef, wine, restaurant, food, mentor, creativity, love, culture clash, underdog, fight scenes, partner ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Love's Kitchen (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, lifestyle, fall in love, starting over, love affair, english countryside, wine, gourmet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.6
 132K
Burnt (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Style: culinary, inspirational, talky, exciting, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chef, cooking, restaurant, food, abuse of power, violent behavior, violent man, male chauvinist, psychopath as protagonist, redemption, bullying, physical abuse ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, y2k
Place: london, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 6.5
 695
Le Grand Chef (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young, incredibly talented chef quits the profession after a contest to head a world-class restaurant ends in tragedy. Retiring to a small rural town with his grandfather, he finds a new and more peaceful existence, working as a farmer and selling ...
Style: humorous, serious, sincere, suspenseful
Plot: chef, food, cooking competition, childhood, ambition, competition, culinary arts, father son relationship, love, family secret, orphan, descendant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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The View From Here (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Bay Area Chef, Mark Matheson has everything he ever wanted: A Restaurant of his own, the love of his girlfriend, Gillian and the respect of the culinary community. But in the wake of bad press and personal demons returning to haunt him, Mark ...
Style: culinary
Audience: date night
Plot: restaurant, chef, food, relationships, cooking, beach, love, sunset, interracial, ethnic, hipster, breakup ...
Place: bay area, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: restaurant, cooking, cooking and food, food, chef, culture clash, interracial relations, prejudice, beautiful scenery, interracial romance, small town, immigrant ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, india, mumbai india, south of france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Sushi in Suhl (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf AnschĂĽtz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a ...
Style: exotic
Plot: food, restaurant, culture shock, totalitarian state, german history, foreigner in japan, husband wife relationship, male pubic hair, barter, friendship, male nudity, improv ...
Place: east germany, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Cook Up a Storm (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Cantonese street cook and his chief rival, a French-trained Michelin-starred chef, discover they have a lot in common as they prepare for a world-famous culinary competition. An international culinary competition becomes a battleground between ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, exciting, humorous, smart
Plot: food, cooking competition, chef, cooking and food, contests and competitions, rivalry, cookery, cook-off, father son relationship, against the odds, rise to the top, culinary arts ...
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Perfect Dinner (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on a story by Stefano Sardo, The Perfect Dinner follows Carmine (Salvatore Esposito, Gomorrah series), a Neapolitan mafioso who isn’t cut out for the criminal life. Under the protection of his boss Pasquale (Gianfranco Gallo), Carmine is ...
Style: satirical, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: chef, italian restaurant, cooking, direction and purpose, coping, relationships, male female relationship, problem, romantic relationship, cooking and food, couple relations, restaurant owner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Chef of South Polar (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic
Plot: food, friendship, isolation, lifestyle, workplace situations, buddies, workplace, forces of nature, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, cookery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Kitchen with Apartment (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jacques et Martine, couple de bourgeois ordinaires, ont invité à dîner un ami perdu de vue depuis dix ans et devenu depuis une vedette des médias.
Style: philosophical
Plot: food, cooking, restaurant, bored housewife, zodiac, guest, old friends reunited, dysfunctional couple, old friend, small talk, poker, gambling ...
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Bread of Happiness (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Style: atmospheric, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: restaurant, food, hobby, marriage, love, family relations, cooking, revelation, bittersweet, family problems, hospitality, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an ...
Style: talky, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, bad ending ...
Plot: fast food restaurant, food, junk food, cooking and food, butcher, hamburger, satire, public health, illegal immigration, greed, health, workplace ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, colorado, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.7
 3K
Tapas Bar (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, emotional
Plot: food, couples, working class, looking for love, boss and employee, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, restaurant, age difference, death, european ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Midnight Diner (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Every night, Master (Kaoru Kobayashi) is busy with customers at the restaurant he runs. He has a worried face, looking at the funerary urn which someone left at his restaurant. His customers also talk about the funerary urn.
Style: independent film
Plot: food, chef, restaurant, diner, unrequited love, cookery, backpacking, humanity, inspiration, cooking, wench, life lesson ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 5K
Mainstream (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
Style: disturbing, semi serious, satirical, captivating, freeze frame ...
Plot: satire, love triangle, romantic relationship, love affair, internet, romantic friendship, love interest, romantic triangle, social satire, eccentric man, suicide, unrequited love ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.2
 3K
Kamome Diner (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay ...
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: food, cooking and food, diner, starting over, friendship, restaurant, hopes, small business, cafe, lifestyle, workplace situations, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, japan, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.1
 1K
Sexual Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, looking for sex, friendship, sex, sexual relations, singleness, love affair, dishonesty, womanizer, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Tortilla Soup (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: food, cooking, eccentricity, secrets, family life, eccentric family, looking for love, parents and children, relationship vs career, women, love, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 5.6
 2K
Free Samples (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending ...
Style: cynical, talky, semi serious, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: dull life, introspection, lifestyle, sarcasm, society, life, hipster, loneliness, food, graduation, direction and purpose, cheating boyfriend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, best friend, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, actor's life, singleness, down on your luck, friends, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.2
 375
Autumn Moon (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emmigrates to Canada.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: food, age-gap relationship, sex, autumn, restaurant, immigration, family relations, friendship, culture clash, immigrant, first time, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 90s, future
Place: hong kong, canada, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
East Side Sushi (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Years of working in the food industry have made Juana, a working-class Latina, a chef of speed and skill. Searching for financial stability, she stumbles into a high-energy, male-dominated Japanese cuisine kitchen. The new atmosphere re-ignites her ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, culinary, intercultural
Audience: family outing
Plot: chef, restaurant, food, mother daughter relationship, single mother, latina, wine, direction and purpose, follow your dream, workplace, ambition, single parent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.2
 2K
Abe (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. But the 12-year-old kid from Brooklyn who loves food and cooking, prefers, well, Abe. ...
Style: entertaining, culinary, feel good, light, realistic ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: cooking and food, food, jewish mother, boy, boyhood, family dinner, cookery, mentor, hobby, teenager, family problems, brawl ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Estomago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot: prostitute, prison, fall in love, lifestyle, misfit, survival, criminal heroes, love and romance, society, food, chef, jail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.9
 1K
The Dinner (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make ...
Style: contemplative, biting, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: restaurant, food, amor, gourmet, dinner, sexual humiliation, satire, bittersweet, human nature, lifestyle, workplace, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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