Movies and TV shows like The French Chef

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The French Chef (1962)
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The French Chef (1962)
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The French Chef is a television cooking show created and hosted by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on American television. The show grew out of some special presentations that Child did based on the book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which she had co-authored. The French Chef was produced from 1963 to 1973 by WGBH for National Educational Television. Reruns continued on PBS until 1989, and currently air on Cooking Channel as of 2010.
Style: retro
Audience: kids
Plot: cooking, food, chubby, chef, cooking and food, cookery, recipe, fat man, kitchen, cook
Time: 60s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, entertaining, feel good and light films and TV series with plots about cooking, food, cooking and food, chef, cookery, cooking show and restaurant mostly in Family, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The French Chef: Waffles + Mochi (2021), Giada at Home (2008), Guy's Ranch Kitchen (2017), The Bobby and Damaris Show (2017), Worst Bakers in America (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Waffles + Mochi (2021)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Curious puppet pals Waffles and Mochi travel the world exploring the wonders of food and culture while learning how to cook with fresh ingredients.
Style: educational, entertaining, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: cooking, food, puppetry, chef, puppet, supermarket, cooking and food, cookery, friends, education, travel, culture ...
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Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee (2003)
Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In an atmosphere as inviting as her recipes, Sandra Lee, author of the best-selling cookbook Semi-Homemade Cooking, shares her techniques for combining fresh ingredients with specially selected store-bought items. The results: mouthwatering meals ...
Style: realistic, captivating, feel good, entertaining, light ...
Plot: cooking, cookery, cooking and food, food, cooking show, advice, meal, baking, strong female presence, recipe, pastry, dessert ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Giada at Home (2008)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Giada De Laurentiis lets her hair down as she demonstrates her love for cooking and entertaining California-style in this disarmingly laid-back show that allows De Laurentiis to venture far afield from her usual Italian culinary fare.
Style: culinary, talky, realistic, serious, feel good ...
Plot: cooking show, lifestyle, food, cooking and food, cookery, event planner, chef, party, talk show, strong female presence, recipe, cooking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Guy's Ranch Kitchen (2017)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Guy Fieri invites some of his heavy-hitter chef friends over for a spontaneous cook-off, where everyone comes up with big flavors and tasty dishes that can be made in anyone's kitchen.
Style: culinary, entertaining, feel good, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: food, cooking, chef, cooking and food, contests and competitions, rivalry, meal, contest, cooking show, friends, ranch, house
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Bobby and Damaris Show (2017)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bobby Flay and Damaris Philips pair up to cook, test their culinary ideas and chat. Each episode has a different theme and some of their friends stop by for a visit.
Style: entertaining, captivating, talky, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: food, cooking, cooking and food, cookery, friends, cooking show, nutrition, dialogue, meal, hobby, chat
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Worst Bakers in America (2016)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Twelve hopeless bakers are recruited for an intense boot camp, during which hosts Duff Goldman and Lorraine Pascale will attempt to transform them into pastry experts over the course of six weeks of intensive sweet and savory challenges.
Style: realistic, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good
Plot: cooking show, cooking competition, team, cookery, cooking and food, contests and competitions, baker, rivalry, ambitious, contest, cooking, chef
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67%
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Chopped Junior (2015)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Just like the grown-up version Chopped Junior is hosted by Ted Allen and features a high energy, fast paced cooking competition. Instead of chefs however kids will be competing to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary ...
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, realistic, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: cooking show, child, contests and competitions, cookery, cooking competition, cooking and food, culinary arts, race against time, chef, tasks, ambitious, children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Giada in Italy (2015)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Giada De Laurentiis returns to the land of her birth for an extended stay, spending time with friends and family and revisiting flavors that have inspired her life's work.
Style: feel good, funny, captivating, culinary, entertaining ...
Plot: cooking, food, holiday, cooking and food, cooking show, dialogue, vacation, meal, friends
Place: italy
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Iron Chef (1993)
Genre:
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Iron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed ...
Style: exciting, culinary, tense, game show, serious ...
Plot: cooking, food, fanaticism, competition, cooking competition, multiple contestants, rules and policies, chef, cooking and food, cookery, race against time, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Giada Entertains (2016)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Giada De Laurentiis shares her how-to tips for casual get-togethers and home parties.
Style: funny, entertaining, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: food, cooking, cooking and food, cooking show, advice, entertainment, party, house party, game, meal, house
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Grand Maison Tokyo (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Natsuki Obana (Takuya Kimura) is a chef, specializing in French cuisine. He runs a restaurant in Paris that has earned 2 stars from Michelin Guide. Natsuki Obana is confident, but he suffers from pressure trying to attain 3 stars. An unexpected case ...
Style: disturbing, entertaining, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: restaurant, cooking, teamwork, ambitious man, cooking competition, workplace, cooking and food, ambition, chef, escapades, cookery, food ...
Place: tokyo, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Chef & My Fridge (2014)
Genre: Family
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: The best chefs of Korea compete to create impromptu dishes that feature ingredients found inside the guest stars' personal refrigerators.
Style: funny, entertaining, culinary, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: chef, cooking competition, cooking and food, cookery
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
TV show
Style: thrilling, captivating
Plot: school, cooking, food, chef, ambition, cooking and food, cookery, ambitious, chief, culinary arts
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Martha Stewart, the Bob Vila of Home Economics, gives tips on everything from cooking and flower arranging to gardening and making homemade Christmas decorations.
Style: realistic, semi serious, explanatory, sentimental, non fiction ...
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: cookery, lifestyle, strong female presence, advice, home improvement, baking, cooking, gardening, megalomaniac, painting, crafts and hobbies, studio ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby. It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his son, ...
Style: sitcom, retro
Audience: kids
Plot: magazine editor, widower, father son relationship, housekeeper, single parent, parent child relationship, family relations, publisher, single father
Time: 70s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Sunday Brunch (2012)
Genre:
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
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Talia in the Kitchen (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: When 14-year-old Talia visits her grandmother for the summer and starts spending time in her family's restaurant, she discovers she's got a gift. With the help of her special "salt and pepper sense" and her late father's ...
Style: captivating, humorous, entertaining, exciting, funny
Plot: food, teenager, cooking, magic, restaurant, family business, family relations, girl, cooking and food, teenage girl, live action
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sky's Restaurant (2019)
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps. A visiting chef cooks an unforgettable meal with his ingredients, which prompts the family to ...
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Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Family
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Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 6 min.
TV show
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Style: educational, semi serious, explanatory, funny, captivating ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
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Place: canada
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37%
Halloween Baking Championship (2015)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The country's top bakers battle it out to create Halloween's spookiest and most-irresistible treats. From spider cupcakes, cheesecake coffins and witch finger cookies to towering confections of terror, these bakers must prove their skills ...
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, captivating
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36%
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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 ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
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Style: sincere, captivating, culinary
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Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Julia (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity ...
Style: historical drama, culinary, captivating, saga, period drama ...
Plot: food, gastronomy, cooking, cooking and food, cooking show, female chef, lifestyle, female protagonist, chef, woman, post war, women ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Ti Amo Chocolate (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
TV show
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Style: entertaining, dramatic, captivating, exciting
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Restaurant Stakeout (2012)
Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Restaurant Stakeout is an American reality television series on the Food Network. The series debuted on March 12, 2012, with the second season premiering on August 29, 2012. The series follows New York City restaurant owner William Jack ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: cooking and food, restaurant, restaurant owner, diner, advice, waiter, employee, hidden camera, problem solving, staff, surveillance, workplace situations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Moon and Me (2019)
Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Pepi Nana is a doll who comes to life whenever the moon comes out (and her owner is asleep). Moon Baby visits them from the moon and, in what some people might deem a rude guest, proceeds to wake the rest of the toy house with an African thumb ...
Audience: kids
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A food-blogging insurance agent encounters a friend from elementary school with a vendetta against him -- but soon becomes her sidekick.
Style: funny, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Chef Is a Great Detective (2021)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Mifune Shinobu is a chef for a French restaurant. He learned French cooking at restaurants in the countryside of France more than 10 years ago. Shinobu doesn’t talk much and he is calm, but he has a warm heart and he is considerate of other ...
Style: detective, captivating, psychological
Plot: chef, cooking, restaurant, food, secret, private detective, sleuth, crime investigation, uncover truth, forensics, crime solving, investigation ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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