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Cooking with Stella (2009)
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Original name: Cooking With Stella
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman cooks for clients and tries to keep her thefts of food and money from being discovered.
Style:
clever, realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, intercultural, uplifting, inter cultural
Plot:
cooking, food, dishonesty, cons and scams, power relations, family relations, couples, society, strong female presence, satire, master and servant, unlikely criminals, couple relations, cooking and food, scam, thief, theft, diplomat, chef, restaurant, gourmet, nanny, teachers and students, optimism, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
asia, new delhi, india
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Most similar movies to Cooking with Stella
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about society, couples, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, couple relations and restaurant mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Cooking with Stella: Let the Game Begin (2010), 18 Meals (2010), Bollywood/Hollywood (2002), Entry Level (2007), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Successful entrepreneur Max learns that the woman he married has always really been interested more in his money than in being his wife. After his cousin Ricky gets burned by a gold-digger himself, Ricky introduces Max to the world of the pickup ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sexual, light, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, couples, infidelity, wooing, looking for love, one night stand, escapades, dishonesty, society, sex, seduction, porn actress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, las vegas, new york
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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, wine, cooking, cookery, restaurant, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rahul Seth is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his mother and grandmother. They are not too keen about his Caucasian girlfriend Kimberly who, to make matters worse, is a pop star. Before you ...
Style:
stylized, touching, humorous, feel good, intercultural ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
culture clash, tradition, love affair, society, hidden identity, love and romance, parents and children, family life, wedding, bigotry, dancing, satire ...
Place:
india, toronto ontario canada, canada, london
Similarity:
41%
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, society, hopes, love and romance, workplace romance, workplace situations, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, India
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, sentimental, sweet, touching, cute ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, restaurant, food, culture clash, chef, interracial relations, prejudice, interracial romance, beautiful scenery, small town, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2014, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
france, india, mumbai india, paris france, switzerland ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Cleveland. 1973. Marv, the owner of an old neighborhood Jewish deli, must stay open 24 hours to cater to a new generation of clientèle, but straight-laced neighborhood do-gooders want to close him down. Meanwhile inside, hippies, bikers and crusty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working class, love and romance, workplace, couples, boss and employee, power relations, culture clash, save the day, fish out of water, family relations, immigrant, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
35%
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, talky, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
food, restaurant, sexual humiliation, older man younger woman relationship, amor, gourmet, dinner, bittersweet, satire, human nature, society, workplace ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 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:
culinary, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, lifestyle, fall in love, starting over, love affair, countryside, english countryside, wine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
hidden identity, disorder, society, workplace, dishonesty, couple relations, dealer, meet the parents, culture clash, parents and children, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who ...
Style:
contemplative, semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot:
siblings, couples, friends, optimism, heist, cons and scams, celebrity culture, voyeurism, breakup, bank, media satire, friendship ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
india, england, london
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is an unemployed graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from Satna college, who is forced to make a living writing letters for the uneducated people of his village. His real ambition is to become a novel writer. Through his ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
politics, dishonesty, ambition, love and romance, hopes, rebelliousness, couple relations, campaign, social relations, couples, small town, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
30%
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, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
food, lifestyle, isolation, friendship, workplace situations, workplace, buddies, forces of nature, cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Childstar is about an egotistical 12-year-old named Taylor Brandon Burns who has skyrocketed to fame at that young age. His relationship with his driver, Rick, takes a turn when Taylor confides in him about the problems of celebrity and the fears of ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
youth, teenage boy, fame, actor's life, coming of age, lifestyle, showbiz, filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, parents and children, celebrity culture ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Style:
teen, feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cooking, food, restaurant, culture clash, american abroad, mentor, interracial romance, language barrier, chef, cooking and food, foreigner in japan, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs.
Style:
semi serious, sincere, witty, humorous, light ...
Plot:
vandalism, couples, anarchist, rebellion, against the rules, unlikely partners, mysterious character, love triangle, dull life, disorder, lifestyle, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
28%
819
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Gerry and Sewell are broke. Gerry's still at school and Sewell is unemployed/ They botyh wish for better things in life. Owning two season tickets to their beloved football club is their biggest dream of all. The tickets cost £1000 - ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, social, realistic
Plot:
football, youth, society, teenage life, money raising, soccer, money, boy, dog, bank robbery, couples, sport team ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, dishonesty, best friend, life turned upside down, disorder, lie, society, friends, thirtysomething life, parents and children, pregnancy, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
hoax, teenage life, life turned upside down, self discovery, social relations, overnight success, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, miraculous event, cons and scams, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession with getting Barack Obama elected, John takes an overwhelming involvement in the Presidential ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Plot:
family relations, couples, society, unfulfillment, couple relations, parents and children, politics, satire, black, campaign, midlife crisis, barack obama ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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:
atmospheric, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
cooking and food, food, hopes, small business, diner, friendship, starting over, restaurant, cafe, social relations, lifestyle, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, helsinki finland, japan, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought ...
Style:
tense, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
food, murder, couple relations, crime gone awry, disorder, couples, boss and employee, vengeance, crimes of passion, love triangle, cons and scams, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, year 2009, 18th century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, boss and employee, couples, workplace romance, career woman, ambition, workplace, office work, business, gambling, extramarital affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Three handsome Sydney bachelors Aroush, Tanmay and Al – are having the time of their lives in Sydney. They flirt around, and have numerous conquests to their credit. They suddenly find their dating and mating rituals destroyed when a dimpled ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, baby, family relations, fall in love, couples, down on your luck, babies and infants, single parent, indians, hindu, friends, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
australia, asia, india, sydney australia
Similarity:
23%
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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, sweet, sentimental, funny, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cooking, chef, wine, restaurant, food, cooking and food, love, culture clash, creativity, mentor, ambition, fight scenes ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra decided to re-locate to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo, and after a period of 4 years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter she gave birth ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
couples, culture clash, wedding planning, family relations, parents and children, love triangle, looking for love, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, love story, diaspora ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
india, london, asia, england, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
lesbian, dysfunctional family, church, parents and children, physical appearance, couples, religions or cults, family problems, society, couple relations, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, rom com ...
Plot:
supportive parent, couples, on the road, parents and children, social relations, family relations, politician, landowner, gender roles, femininity, alcoholism, feminist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, seattle, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, exciting
Plot:
loss of husband, dishonesty, cons and scams, parents and children, dark humor, mother daughter relationship, money, funeral, female protagonist, death of husband, marijuana, working class ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
21%
475
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Panama, Colombia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of Toña and Paquita, the housekeepers for the aristocratic González-Dubois family. These domestic employees have been mistreated for quite some time and they are tired of their situation. So when the family plans a shopping trip to ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, semi serious, captivating, biting ...
Plot:
housekeeper, unlikely criminals, master and servant, satire, aristocracy, family relations, confined, workplace, society, injustice, family life, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, panama
Similarity:
21%
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