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La Cocina (2024)
5K
Original name: La cocina
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. Money has gone missing from the till and all the workers are being questioned.
Style:
slang, crying, tension, dark comedy, black and white, interesting
Plot:
restaurant, unwanted pregnancy, waitress, immigrant, abortion, immigration, sex, money, food, violence, pregnancy, female nudity, sex scene, subway, racism, ant, crisis, destruction, smoking, blood, male female relationship, flooding, child, desperation, chicken ...
Place:
new york
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Most similar movies to La Cocina
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about restaurant, sex, female nudity, couples, love, kiss and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like La Cocina: Bella (2006), Manhattan Merengue (1995), Heavy (1995), Big Night (1996), Broken English (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, independent film, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
catholic, abortion, pregnancy, destiny, life philosophy, parenthood, stereotypes, honest, existentialism, love affair, lifestyle, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A realistic look at the life of a young immigrant man who comes to America with the hope of dancing on Broadway.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
dancing, immigrant, soccer, shark, nightclub, jealousy, drug dealer, passport, dance studio, unwed mother, visa, dream ...
Place:
puerto rico, manhattan new york city, new york, bronx new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a ...
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independent film, realistic, touching, slang, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, food, loneliness, restaurant, workplace, self discovery, bittersweet, hospital, drinking, unfaithfulness, rain, hallucination ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york state, new jersey
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85%
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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:
74%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at a restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sex, interracial romance, culture clash, forbidden love, interracial relations, dysfunctional family, hospital, violence, wine, chase, young couple, erotica ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new zealand, former yugoslavia, europe, oceania, bosnia herzegovina ...
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73%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, harsh, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, brothel, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
poland, israel, america, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by ...
Style:
black and white, independent film, romantic, historically accurate, aesthetic ...
Plot:
culture clash, rabbi, infidelity, immigrant, immigration, woman, marriage, u.s. constitution, street life, women's rights, machismo, jewish history ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, year 1975, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, new york, usa, egypt ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
Style:
inspirational, social, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex scene, african american, racism, prison, love story, love, dating, pregnant woman, injustice, black american, wrongful conviction, pregnancy ...
Time:
2010s, 70s
Place:
puerto rico, new york, harlem, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their lives forever.
Style:
thrilling, romantic drama, romantic, crying, lighthearted
Plot:
male female relationship, teenage girl, teenage boy, young adult, fall in love, love interest, teen romance, love story, relationships, love, adolescence, love and romance ...
Place:
harvard university
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, independent film, gloomy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, island, dysfunctional family, homecoming, uncover truth, self discovery, family life, parents and children, couples, family problems, introspection ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
maine, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
64%
153K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, emotional, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, forbidden love, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, women, sapphic, gays and lesbians, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, age difference, older woman younger woman relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1952, 2010s, year 2015 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, columbus ohio, idaho, indiana ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style:
talky, intense, stylized, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
starting over, abusive husband, hand job, adolescence, couples, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, india, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A taxi driver (Naveen Andrews) picks up a fare (Barbara Hershey) in Manhattan. She offers the driver a large sum to drive her to the desert. While the pair drive across the country, the woman tries various strategies to lure the driver into ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, psychological, serious, talky ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man, taxi, desert, interracial relations, love and romance, opposites attract, couples, on the road, airport, sex, clerk ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Film from Steve Dunning
Style:
melancholic, realistic, contemplative, romantic drama, independent film
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, immigrant, sacrifice, waitress, migration, homesickness, working class, slice of life, bittersweet, entrapment, empathy ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Lauren simultaneously starts an affair with her boss, rents a bachelor apartment, and asks her boyfriend Tom to marry her.
Style:
dark comedy
Plot:
infidelity, engagement, extramarital affair, relationships, male female relationship, cheating fiance, older man younger woman relationship, unfaithfulness, sex with coworker, cell phone, female nudity, sex in office ...
Similarity:
58%
188
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A cook from Sri Lanke in Switzerland gets involved in international arms trading.
Style:
melancholic, erotic, experimental
Plot:
food, culinary arts, immigrant, ethical dilemma, intimate, ambition, moral ambiguity, sexual awakening, immigration, bittersweet, diaspora, arranged marriage ...
Place:
switzerland, zurich switzerland
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
sincere, independent film, psychological, meditative, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, obsession, suicide attempt, philosophy, family relations, love affair, life turned upside down, marriage, crumbling marriage, couple relations, hopes, breakup ...
Time:
year 1951, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new haven connecticut ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sexy, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
cooking, magic realism, food, forbidden love, wedding, cooking and food, nudity, mexican revolution, sex, sisters, love story, family drama ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 1910s, 1930s, 1890s ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, texas, usa, san antonio texas
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. ...
Style:
controversial, harsh, sexual, stylized, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
abortion, celibacy, forbidden love, religion, clergy, lust, priest in love, catholicism, temptation, sin, hypocrisy, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, tokyo, spain
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
sexual identity, lgbt, immigrant, friendship, couples, friends, love and romance, society, unfulfillment, gender, breakup, militant ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.
Style:
sexy, emotional, romantic, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, love story, loneliness, multiple storylines, character study, complex characters, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, dishonesty, singleness, love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, seattle, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, independent film, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, teenage girl, friendship, girls' boarding school, nymphet, female friendship, youth, friends, social relations, power relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
courtroom drama, divorce, sex, children, women, love, friendship, lawyer, father daughter relationship, passion, mother daughter relationship, piano ...
Time:
80s
Place:
connecticut, maine, boston
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes. In "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," salesman Gerry seduces train traveler Viki. Then, in "Dusk Before Fireworks," ...
Style:
anthology, realistic, serious, gloomy, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
unlikely couple, love and romance, couple relations, battle of the sexes, pregnancy, unfulfilled love, couples, sex, extramarital affair, cafe, female nudity, adultery ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.
Style:
contemplative, talky, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
voyeur, dysfunctional family, illicit affair, infidelity, pregnancy, adultery, extramarital affair, bare breasts, family secret, nudity, unfaithfulness, voyeurism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
virginia, florida, los angeles, pittsburgh
Similarity:
49%
2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, France, Poland, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
sex scene, male female relationship, love interest, relationships, changing lives, couple relations, romantic relationship, one night stand, love affair, female nudity, female pubic hair, female orgasm ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.
Style:
erotic, realistic, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
asian man white woman relationship, infidelity, adultery, sensuality, trying to get pregnant, horny wife, extramarital affair, illegal immigrant, sex for money, fertility, infertility, marital problem ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
new york, usa, korea
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, light, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, love, dating, loneliness, happiness, love story, ex convict, food ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style:
bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, sad, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, abortion, adultery, depression, passion, death of wife, destiny, under the surface, dysfunctional family, deadend life, mental illness, existentialism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, connecticut, california
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Kate, a depressed thirty-something who unsuccessfuuly attempts suicide by slitting her wrists. Reflecting briefly upon her circumstance in the hospital, she realizes that nothing has been solved, whereupon she vacates the premises, wearing nothing ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, realistic, independent film, erotic ...
Plot:
couple relations, couples, sex, porn, hopes, sexual relations, love, dancing, nude women, isolation, haunted by the past, massage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
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