Chef movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant chef movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good, light, touching and semi serious films and TV shows about / with chef, food, cooking, restaurant, cooking and food, love, kitchen, family relations, love and romance and love story plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as chef: Burnt (2015), Chef (2014), No Reservations (2007), Kitchen Confidential (2005), Le Chef (2012), Mostly Martha (2001), Ratatouille (2007), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Love's Kitchen (2011), Julie & Julia (2009).
Best films
List of chef movies
123K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, exciting, talky, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chef, cooking, restaurant, food, abuse of power, violent behavior, male chauvinist, violent man, redemption, psychopath as protagonist, physical abuse, vengeance ...
Place:
london, new orleans, paris france
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220K
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, touching, inspirational, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
food, cooking, chef, cooking and food, road trip, father son relationship, parent child relationship, happy ending, restaurant owner, starting over, business, divorce ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, florida, new orleans, usa ...
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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, sweet, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
restaurant, cooking, love story, chef, love, cooking and food, opposites attract, fall in love, initially antagonists, guardian, love and romance, food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, san francisco, italy, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Kitchen Confidential is an American television sitcom that debuted on September 19, 2005, on the Fox network, based on Anthony Bourdain's New York Times bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bradley ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, comeback, coworker, workplace situations, one more chance, lifestyle change, lifestyle, character change, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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18K
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, feel good, humorous, funny, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cooking, chef, restaurant, food, wine, creativity, mentor, love, culture clash, french, fight scenes, underdog ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, california
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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 ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, feel good, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, food, chef, cooking and food, love, love and romance, italian food, self discovery, family relations, family problems, opposites attract ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, italy, france
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753K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, inspirational, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
food, chef, friendship, animals, rat, cooking, disney, follow your dream, cooking and food, unlikely friendships, restaurant, rise to the top ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
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, touching, sentimental, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
restaurant, cooking and food, cooking, food, chef, culture clash, interracial relations, prejudice, beautiful scenery, interracial romance, small town, workplace ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
france, india, south of france, paris france, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 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:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, chef, restaurant, food, lifestyle, starting over, love affair, fall in love, english countryside, helicopter, food critic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
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123K
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:
feel good, inspirational, sweet, light, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, food, chef, self fulfillment, women, love, lifestyle, cookbook, couple relations, blogger, mentor ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 60s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place:
paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
In the present day, Jang Bong Hwan works as a chef at the President's Blue House. She has a free spirit, but her spirit somehow finds its way into the body of Queen Kim So Yong in the Joseon period.
King Cheol Jong has secrets. He seems like a ...
Style:
touching, captivating, romantic, sweet, entertaining ...
Plot:
joseon dynasty, time travel, sent to the past, gender bending, body swapping, romantic relationship, historical figure, chef, queen, love, political unrest, rivalry ...
Time:
17th century
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Optimistic and cheerful TV producer, Kelly, doesn’t have time for love. Bad boy celebrity chef, Stephen, doesn’t have time for anything besides cooking. Fun with a side of love ensues as Kelly and Stephen are paired on a children's cooking ...
Style:
light, sincere, entertaining, captivating, humorous
Plot:
chef, competition, love and romance, cooking show, family relations, producer, friendship, rivalry, society, cooking, ritual, gift ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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10K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor cook, but her chronic asthma and ...
Style:
tragicomedy, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, chef, food, coming of age, youth, lgbt, teenage life, family problems, maid, self discovery, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
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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, humorous, feel good, sexy, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
food, cooking, chef, father daughter relationship, daughter, teacher, love, restaurant, dysfunctional family, women, art, sisters ...
Time:
90s
Place:
taiwan, taipei, china, tokyo, asia ...
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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, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
cooking and food, chef, food, family relations, restaurant, workplace, self discovery, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, cooking, cookery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The staff of a European publication decides to publish a memorial edition highlighting the three best stories from the last decade: an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Style:
funny, sentimental, touching, light, anamorphic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
journalist, painter, magazine, chef, artist, bicycle, police, journalism, pimp, mental illness, hostage, chase ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 60s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
kansas, france
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former ...
Style:
light, humorous, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
restaurant, cooking, happy ending, chef, love, food, male female relationship, society, love and romance, promise, intrigue, rivalry ...
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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:
feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, non-linear ...
Plot:
cooking and food, chef, workplace, food, workplace situations, head of state, state affairs, unsupportive coworkers, power struggle, tradition versus modernity, cooking, tradition ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 2010s
Place:
france, paris france, antarctic
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
greek, love and romance, food, self discovery, teenage life, grandparent grandchild relationship, youth, human nature, culture clash, friendship, family life, fall in love ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
greece, istanbul turkey, athens greece, turkey, constantinople
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
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:
fairy tale, romantic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
food, love, magic, chef, cooking, cooking and food, fall in love, restaurant, magic realism, witch, stereotypes, culture clash ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
chef, chinese immigrant, food, cooking, widower, father son relationship, culture clash, single father, society, village, small village, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china, finland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore, Japan, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Masato is a young ramen chef in the city of Takasaki in Japan. After the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he chances upon a suitcase of memorabilia and a red notebook – filled with musings and old photos – left behind by his ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, contemplative
Plot:
food, cooking, journey, family relations, chef, memories, memory, self discovery, parents and children, society, past, cooking and food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
singapore, japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A playboy learns to love, while a virgin learns to live -- a queer romantic comedy set inside the restaurant industry... 'John Apple Jack' brings East and West together to create one sumptuously heart-warming dish. When John discovers his ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, chef, gay interest, homosexual, waiter, gay lead character, coming out, interrupted wedding, cooking, father son relationship, gay culture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After she's diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation.
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
terminal illness, vacation, love and romance, female protagonist, holiday, human nature, hotel, cooking, african american, food, chef, spa ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, new orleans, czech republic, new jersey, austria ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite ...
Style:
clever, humorous, melancholic, romantic, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
obsession, love, love triangle, surveillance, chef, vengeance, love and romance, breakup, infidelity, women, love story, fall in love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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1K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Chef! is a British situation comedy starring Lenny Henry that aired as twenty episodes over three series from 1993 to 1996 on the BBC. The show was created and primarily written by Peter Tilbury based on an idea from Lenny Henry and produced for the ...
Style:
sitcom, cynical, not serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
food, chef, restaurant, workplace, serial killer, power relations, sidekick, staff, couples, patronizing, cooking and food, temperamental ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Years of working in the food industry have made Juana, a working-class Latina, a chef of speed and skill. Searching for financial stability, she stumbles into a high-energy, male-dominated Japanese cuisine kitchen. The new atmosphere re-ignites her ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, inter cultural
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
chef, restaurant, food, single mother, mother daughter relationship, latina, direction and purpose, follow your dream, workplace, female protagonist, single parent, coping ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lu Jin is a handsome, wealthy hotel executive whose drive for perfection is matched only by his taste for fine cuisine. When he checks into the Rosebud, he's dissatisfied with everything he sees and is ready to take action... until flamboyant ...
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, light, captivating, feel good
Plot:
chef, happy ending, food, couple relations, life philosophy, justice, cooking, coworker relationship, love, love story, art, adaptation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Although a successful romance novelist, Terry Russell hasn't had luck in her own love life. After a disastrous first date with cocky, hot-shot New York chef Matthew Everston, she retreats to her friend's French villa for the summer to ...
Style:
romantic, scenic, humorous, atmospheric, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
novelist, summer, writers, chef, happy ending, love story, creative block, romantic relationship, humour, love and romance, small town, romanticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south of france, france
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23K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Style:
sexy, erotic, stylized, meditative, intense ...
Plot:
male nudity, infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, food, adultery, high society, obsession, chef, family relations, bourgeoisie, love and romance, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, milan italy, europe, london, nice france ...
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