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Le Grand Chef (2007)
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Le Grand Chef (2007)
Original name: 식객
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 vegetables at the local market. Even though content in his new life, when a nationwide cooking competition offers him the chance to take on his long-time rival, Seong-Chan embarks on a journey that will forever change his view of the world and lead him to the most startling revelations.
Style: sincere, humorous, serious, suspenseful
Plot: chef, food, cooking competition, childhood, ambition, competition, culinary arts, love, orphan, father son relationship, family secret, descendant, contest, revelation, father figure, cooking, cooking and food, restaurant, poison, drink, cook
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, captivating and realistic films with plots about food, restaurant, chef, cooking, cooking and food, cookery and love mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Le Grand Chef: Cook Up a Storm (2017), Umami (2022), Final Recipe (2013), 40 Years Young (2022), The Kitchen: World Chef Battle (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: "Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of kimchi. The Japanese Prime Minister makes the bold claim that kimchi is an original ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, satirical, captivating, semi serious
Plot: food, cooking and food, restaurant, cooking competition, cooking, brother sister relationship, contest, satire, family business, rivalry, ambition, competitor ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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
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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 ⇓
70%
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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 ⇓
69%
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Final Recipe (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Thailand, Singapore
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hao's Singaporean restaurant is in danger of going out of business. Hao's grandson, Mark, secretly travels to Shanghai to attend a cooking competition despite his grandfather's wishes for him to become an engineer. Mark takes the ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: food, chef, restaurant, cooking competition, competitor, restaurateur, cooking and food, restaurant owner, ambition, aspiration, rivalry, cookery ...
Place: shanghai
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40 Years Young (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After turning 40, César is invited to a culinary contest in Cancún, but a bitter discovery threatens to destroy his family as well as his chances to win the competition.
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, satirical, humorous ...
Plot: food, competition, cook-off, competitor, cookery, cooking competition, contests and competitions, contest, satire, ambition, cooking and food, culinary arts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Kitchen: World Chef Battle (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Victor Barinov at the personal request of the Russian President will go to Sochi at the world championship for professional chefs and to prove that he and his team are the best in the world! The hard struggle for the title of winner of Operations ...
Style: captivating, exciting, sincere, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: food, chef, competition, rivalry, friendship, couples, family relations, meal, restaurant, job, youth, coworker relationship ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 ⇓
58%
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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 ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
54%
 8.2
 16K
Ustad Hotel (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Ustad Hotel is a quaint place run by a foodie named Kareem, who is fondly called Ustad, on a beach in Kozhikode. He sells biriyani – not to make money but to ensure that his biriyani has his customers Faizie's stay in Kozhikode continues for ...
Style: humorous, captivating, touching, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot: chef, food, hotel, muslim, father son relationship, business, debt, land grab, hotel manager, eviction, loss of wife, widower ...
Place: dubai
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ⇓
51%
Just Add Romance (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When Kelly and Jason, exact opposites, compete on a famed cooking show for the chance at their own restaurant, what will matter more – their culinary careers or their potential love?
Style: feel good, funny, sweet, light, emotional ...
Plot: cooking, food, happy ending, rivalry, chef, male female relationship, promise, love and romance, love, friendship, escapades, couples ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 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 ⇓
50%
 8.1
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Gourmet (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Gourmet is a 2008 South Korean television series starring Kim Rae-won and Nam Sang-mi. It aired on SBS from June 18 to September 9, 2008 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes. It was adapted from the popular manhwa of the same title by ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, culinary, romantic drama
Plot: food, cooking, restaurant, family relations, chef, cooking and food, workplace situations, workplace, businessman, cookery, competition, love ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
48%
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Mostly Martha (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: cooking, chef, restaurant, cooking and food, food, love and romance, italian food, wine, self discovery, family relations, opposites attract, fall in love ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 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 ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
40%
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 1K
Pasta (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Pasta follows the dreams and successes of a young woman who aspires to become an elite chef at La Sfera Italian restaurant.
Style: captivating, humorous, light, suspenseful
Plot: food, unrequited love, restaurant, rivalry, cooking, love and romance, love, male female friendship, workplace situations, couple relations, friendship between men, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 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 ⇓
39%
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Bottle Shock (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out ...
Style: feel good, light, factual, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: wine, vineyard, beautiful scenery, friendship, family business, ambition, escapades, intern, contests and competitions, workplace, love affair, winery ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, california, usa, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
37%
 5.3
 165
Cinnamon (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maria is a girl who loves to cook and lives with his grandmother, Doña Tere, in Mexico City's downtown. Doña Tere has a traditional Mexican restaurant called "El Molcajete". After the death of her daughter, Doña Tere abandoned his ...
Style: psychological, satirical, captivating, entertaining, disturbing ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: food, restaurant, grandmother granddaughter relationship, chef, cooking and food, culture, family problems, satire, cookery, restaurant owner, family business, youth ...
Place: mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 6K
Delicious (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the ...
Style: scenic, dramatic
Audience: kids
Plot: restaurant, food, poison, gastronomy, chef, murder disguised as suicide, plot twist, revenge, rain, rainstorm, cooking, horse ...
Time: 18th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Trip to Italy (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, talky, witty ...
Plot: character study, restaurant, on the road, food, friendship, odd couple, buddies, verbal byplay, wine, art, dialogue, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, tuscany, europe, pompeii
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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
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Place: bay area, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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