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Mostly Martha (2001)
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Original name: Bella Martha
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 eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, culinary, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, chef, food, cooking and food, love and romance, italian food, wine, happy ending, self discovery, family relations, fall in love, opposites attract, family problems, single parent, workplace situations, workplace romance, introspection, lifestyle, disorder, workplace, change of heart, life turned upside down, love story, love ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany, italy, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and semi serious films with plots about food, cooking, restaurant, chef, love and romance, cooking and food and love mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Mostly Martha: No Reservations (2007), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Spanglish (2004), Chef (2014), Waitress (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, chef, opposites attract, love story, love, cooking and food, fall in love, initially antagonists, love and romance, guardian, food ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sincere, touching, romantic ...
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chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
single parent, food, life, immigrant, housewife, relationships, infidelity, dysfunctional family, mother, parent child relationship, relationship problems, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa, malibu california, mexico ...
Similarity:
100%
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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 ...
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Place:
los angeles, california, florida, usa, new orleans ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, touching, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, toddlers ...
Plot:
pregnancy, domestic violence, small town, abusive husband, lovers, unwanted pregnancy, waitress, cooking and food, infidelity, marital problem, single mother, doctor ...
Time:
90s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
southern usa, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, bad ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, fall in love, age difference, marriage, love, male female relationship, pregnancy, in love, family relations, human nature, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 70s
Place:
massachusetts, boston, caribbean, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Uptight French chef, Sara Westbrook, gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a new restaurant moving in next door run by a group of rowdy firemen. Led by handsome former fire fighter Gill Callahan and his ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, light, funny, cute ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot:
restaurant, chef, love, food, rivalry, love and romance, lifestyle, cooking, cooking and food, love affair, firefighter, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.
Style:
touching, melancholic, romantic comedy, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, dogme 95, culture clash, fall in love, hotel, dogma, starting over, lifestyle, couples, food, love story, relationships ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
italy, venice, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, sensual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, cafe, unlikely couple, love triangle, loss of loved one, office romance, love affair, bereavement, grief, death of husband, employer employee relationship, elevator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, love and romance, love affair, lovers reunited, opposites attract, couples, disorder, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unfulfillment, husband wife relationship, one night stand ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
SOUL KITCHEN film centers on a likable but hopelessly disorganized restauranteur, Zinos, whose cafe is second home to a motley crew of lovable eccentrics. When his girlfriend Nadine up and moves to Shanghai, a love-sick Zinos decides to fly after ...
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:
67%
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:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
Style:
romantic, disturbing, thought provoking, romantic drama, uplifting
Plot:
grandmother granddaughter relationship, sisterhood, faithfulness, food, death of mother, death of daughter, follow your dream, ambition, friendship, escapades, professional, coworker relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
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, talky, clever, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
restaurant, food, chef, poison, gastronomy, plot twist, restaurant owner, male female relationship, sexual desire, nobility, murder disguised as suicide, drunkenness ...
Time:
1780s, 18th century, georgian era
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu (Si Hung Lung) and his family living in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. At the start of the film, he lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. As the ...
Style:
romantic, visual, humorous, feel good, twisted ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
chef, cooking, food, daughter, love, teacher, restaurant, sisters, women, dialogue, art, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
taiwan, asia, hong kong, taipei, tokyo ...
Similarity:
26%
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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:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant.
Style:
captivating, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, cooking and food, couples, lifestyle, love, chef, cooking, friendship, society, backpacking, wine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
Similarity:
24%
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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:
sweet, touching, sincere, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
food, cooking, eccentricity, secrets, eccentric family, looking for love, family life, parents and children, relationship vs career, love, women, cookery ...
Time:
year 2001, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
911
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, forbidden love, infidelity, lifestyle, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, rivalry, wooing, couples, swimming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, paris france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy, the film is about Siu Min, a Budweiser girl who takes pity on Michael (Daniel), an ethnic Chinese restaurateur from France drinking away his misfortune because his food is too sophisticated for (and thus unpopular with) the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
restaurant, couples, friendship, fall in love, workplace, opposites attract, hopes, love and romance, down on your luck, cooking and food, food, workplace romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, ...
Style:
cute, teen, romantic, rom com, crying ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
cooking, magic, restaurant, food, chef, passionate kiss, passion, female chef, department store, crab, love, mysterious man ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
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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:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, indiana
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Style:
sentimental, witty, sincere, melancholic, culinary ...
Plot:
food, cooking, chef, immigrant, italian restaurant, wine, restaurant, character study, self discovery, human nature, great ending, jazz ...
Time:
50s, year 1996, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new jersey, usa, italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
happy ending, divorce, marriage, relationships, writers, long term relationship, bittersweet, family drama, husband wife relationship, breakup, fall in love, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
italy, venice
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, touching, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
workplace romance, shyness, food, chocolate, group therapy, love and romance, cooking and food, odd couple, overcoming, restaurant, couples, awkwardness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
22%
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, sweet, light, funny, emotional ...
Plot:
cooking, food, happy ending, rivalry, chef, male female relationship, adaptation, escapades, promise, society, youth, love and romance ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
small town, writers, divorce, love, passion, life, tourist, starting over, male female relationship, middle aged woman, friendship, vineyard ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, san francisco, california ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
Similarity:
22%
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