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Haute Cuisine (2012)
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Original name: Les Saveurs du Palais
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, culinary, non-linear, documentary filmmaking
Plot:
cooking and food, chef, workplace, food, workplace situations, cooking, head of state, state affairs, unsupportive coworkers, power struggle, tradition versus modernity, tradition, cookery, wine, gourmet, biopic, fast food, gluttony, hot dog, french president, female chef, restaurant, feminist, culture, nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 2010s
Place:
france, paris france, antarctic
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about cooking and food, food, chef, cooking, restaurant, workplace and workplace situations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Haute Cuisine: Whites (2010), Today's Special (2009), Love's Kitchen (2011), Bottle Shock (2008), Tasting Menu (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Whites was a BBC sitcom, written by Oliver Lansley and Matt King, directed by David Kerr, and starring Alan Davies as the executive chef at a country house hotel. BBC Two gave the go ahead for the show to go into production in August 2009 with the ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, captivating, light ...
Plot:
cooking and food, chef, workplace, workplace situations, lifestyle, society, friendship, rivalry, hotel, food, waiter, waitress ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Young Manhattan chef Samir rediscovers his heritage and passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food.
Style:
feel good, humorous, culinary, light, captivating ...
Plot:
cooking and food, chef, food, cooking, family relations, workplace, self discovery, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, restaurant, cookery ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, indiana
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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
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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:
factual, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wine, vineyard, winery, intern, food, beautiful scenery, friendship, family business, escapades, workplace, contests and competitions, love affair ...
Time:
year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, california, europe, usa, paris france ...
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48%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Ireland, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before separating) reunite for a once-in-lifetime meal.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, feel good
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
food, hopes, lovers reunited, renewed love, starting over, cooking and food, love and romance, restaurant, wine, professional, chef, profanity ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, barcelona
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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:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The holiday season is turned upside down for a neophyte food critic JJ (Pope) when her uninhibited mother (Baranski) shows up unannounced. In an attempt to occupy her mom's time, JJ works out a deal with a young chef (Cannavale) that stirs up ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, light, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, cooking, restaurant, love and romance, parents and children, lifestyle, workplace situations, cooking and food, uninvited guest, christmas romance, food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Marco Poloni's family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sex comedy
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cooking, marriage proposal, food, contest, cooking and food, bakery, lifestyle, relationship vs career, rivalry, workplace, workplace situations, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Trattoria tells the story of Sal Sartini (played by Tony Denison from “The Closer”), a “conventional” chef in that he has an upscale, brick and mortar restaurant, who anxiously scans every diner wondering if he or she is the famed Michelin ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Plot:
restaurant, chef, food, cooking and food, father son relationship, parents and children, family relations, workplace, estrangement, cooking, rivalry, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming ...
Style:
funny, anthology, not serious, realistic, cynical ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
restaurant, food industry, social satire, circus, food, gastronomy, father son conflict, undercover, restaurant owner, father son relationship, cooking and food, cooking ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
restaurant, brother brother relationship, chef, cooking, food, workplace, lifestyle, family relations, gourmet, workplace problem, family business, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, hamburg germany
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Georgia, Ukraine, Belgium, Russia, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution ...
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, feel good, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
food, cooking and food, cooking, wine, chef, restaurant, love, gastronomy, jazz, rebellion, unlikely couple, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1996, 1920s
Place:
caucasus, georgia, europe, france, eastern europe ...
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, funny, talky, not serious, feel good ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
miami, usa
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39%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany, italy, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, light, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
food, cooking and food, restaurant, guts, cooking, factory, disorder, dark humor, workplace, moral dilemma, dishonesty, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
europe
Similarity:
37%
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Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
sitcom, realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, comeback, coworker, one more chance, lifestyle, workplace situations, lifestyle change, success, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
37%
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Country: Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dai Hung is the head chef of Ah Yong Cafe who is unable to get along with the owner's daughter, Rosemary. When trouble starts brewing at their workplace, Dai Hung and Rosemary have to set their differences aside to save the cafe.
Style:
feel good, exciting, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
food, restaurant, cooking, chef, cafe owner, workplace, cooking and food, cafe, co worker co worker relationship, workplace situations, job, love hate relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Agnes has most things in life: a family who are always there for her, a good job in the restaurant industry, a boyfriend who loves her, and a best friend whom she knows inside out. Or does she? All of a sudden things begin to crumble, one by one, ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
cooking, fall in love, food, best friend, workplace, love and romance, workplace situations, hopes, food critic, woman power, funeral, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Amateur 'chefs' from around the country compete for a million dollar prize in the ultimate food fight.
Style:
captivating, culinary, entertaining, exciting, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, food, cooking, competition, cook-off, contests and competitions, cooking and food, ambition, confrontation, youth, lifestyle, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
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:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, feel good, entertaining
Plot:
food, cooking and food, restaurant, cooking competition, cooking, brother sister relationship, satire, family business, ambition, contest, rivalry, family relations ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Thailand
Story:
A popular cooking show organizes a contest to find the best "My Father's Menu". Three chefs enter the competition, and their search for the recipes is intertwined with their personal dramas.
Style:
light, feel good, culinary, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
food, cooking, chef, contest, cooking competition, rivalry, cookery, contests and competitions, cooking and food, cook-off, humour, culinary arts ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, offbeat, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
hotel, dysfunctional family, food, family business, lifestyle, introspection, siblings relations, social differences, resort, family problems, workplace, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Is it possible to live aside of the system, thinking only about the present and oneself? A feature film about Manuel Vázquez, the best comic book author in Barcelona during the sixties, but, mainly, a man with a very particular way of living his ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Plot:
biopic, against the rules, rivalry, artists and showbiz, womanizer, workplace, rebellion, workplace intrigue, apache, performer's life, comic book, con man ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, spain, barcelona
Similarity:
34%
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:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
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:
32%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, inspirational, touching, culinary ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
cooking, food, chef, cooking and food, road trip, happy ending, parent child relationship, restaurant owner, father son relationship, divorce, starting over, workplace problem ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, y2k, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, florida, usa, new orleans ...
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32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever
Audience:
date night
Plot:
restaurant owner, rich and poor, looking for love, satire, human nature, society, love and romance, workplace, workplace situations, generosity, bankruptcy, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
More than 20 years ago, there were three "Ban Dou" master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan's economic boom. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, satirical, captivating, sentimental
Plot:
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Place:
taipei
Similarity:
31%
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