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Sweet Bean (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands…
Style: culinary, sincere, melancholic, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot: cooking, restaurant, small business, street vendor, chef, old woman, meaning of life, disability, old age, elderly woman, food, employer employee relationship ...
Time: year 2015
Place: japan, indiana
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Haute Cuisine (2012)
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, culinary ...
Plot: cooking and food, chef, workplace, food, workplace situations, cooking, head of state, state affairs, unsupportive coworkers, power struggle, tradition versus modernity, tradition ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 2010s
Place: france, paris france, antarctic
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A Dash of Love (2017)
Genre: Comedy, 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, sweet, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: restaurant, cooking, chef, happy ending, love, food, intrigue, promise, rivalry, society, love and romance, male female relationship ...
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Mediterranean Food (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sofia's story, the best chef the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.
Style: sexy, semi serious, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, chef, food, love affair, workplace, rise to the top, menage a trois, female nudity, cooking and food, ambition, polyamory, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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Recipe for Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" test kitchen while she dreams of being able to finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, cute ...
Plot: fall in love, food, relationship vs career, ambition, workplace situations, couples, school, starting over, celebrity culture, happy ending, cooking and food, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, paris france
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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
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: visual, romantic, feel good, humorous, aesthetic ...
Plot: chef, cooking, food, father daughter relationship, daughter, teacher, love, restaurant, sisters, dysfunctional family, women, art ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: taiwan, taipei, asia, hong kong
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Midnight Diner (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Every night, Master (Kaoru Kobayashi) is busy with customers at the restaurant he runs. He has a worried face, looking at the funerary urn which someone left at his restaurant. His customers also talk about the funerary urn.
Style: independent film
Plot: food, chef, restaurant, diner, unrequited love, cookery, backpacking, humanity, inspiration, cooking, wench, life lesson ...
Place: tokyo
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This Is Not What I Expected (2017)
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: captivating, inspirational, feel good, entertaining, light
Plot: chef, happy ending, food, couple relations, justice, cooking, love story, life philosophy, coworker relationship, love, art, asian ...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but ...
Style: art house, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, black comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: food, cannibalism, restaurant, female nudity, surrealism, unfaithful wife, gangster, erotica, adultery, sexuality, public humiliation, revenge ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, future, 80s
Place: britain
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John Apple Jack (2013)
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, psychological, humorous, captivating, tense ...
Plot: lgbt, chef, gay interest, gay, lovers, gay lead character, waiter, interrupted wedding, homosexual, cooking, father son relationship, groom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The French Dispatch (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France, UK
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: anthology, funny, visual, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: journalist, magazine, artist, chef, bicycle, voice over narration, police, journalism, unrequited love, chase, hostage, absurdism ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, post world war two, year 1975, 60s ...
Place: kansas, france
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Final Recipe (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Thailand, Singapore
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hao's Singaporean restaurant is in danger of going out of business. Hao's grandson, Mark, secretly travels to Shanghai to attend a cooking competition despite his grandfather's wishes for him to become an engineer. Mark takes the ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: food, chef, restaurant, cooking competition, competitor, restaurateur, cooking and food, restaurant owner, ambition, aspiration, rivalry, cookery ...
Place: shanghai
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Chefs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Every year Le Chef (English: The Chef), owner of the restaurant Le Paris, and a figure in French cuisine incorporates a young offender on probation into his team. Romain, just released from prison, arrives in this new world where gastronomy and ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, thought provoking, sentimental ...
Plot: chef, ex convict, restaurant, food, friendship, coworker relationship, love and romance, life philosophy, workplace situations, lifestyle, best friend, rivalry ...
Place: france
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 5.8
 1K
Off the Menu (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An unlikely heir to a Mexican fast-food franchise goes 'cuisine' hunting for the next culinary big thing, and finds himself in a small, dusty New Mexican town where foodies come from all over to salivate over the culinary treats of a ...
Style: captivating, romantic, entertaining, semi serious
Plot: chef, cooking, male female relationship, family business, unlikely couple, romantic relationship, unlikely friendships, love story, couple relations, satire, love interest, fast food ...
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Simply Irresistible (1999)
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: romantic, teen, cute, entertaining, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: food, cooking, love, magic, chef, cooking and food, fall in love, restaurant, witch, female protagonist, magical, in love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.1
 15K
The Big Feast (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
Style: erotic, disturbing, art house, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: decadence, suicide, cooking, sex, food, lust, sexual promiscuity, wealth, group of friends, gluttony, society, sexuality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: france, europe, paris france, turkey
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 7.6
 2K
Chocolate (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Brought together by meaningful meals in the past and present, a doctor and a chef are reacquainted when they begin working at a hospice ward.
Style: dorama, sentimental, suspenseful, suspense, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, chef, doctor patient relationship, old friend, love, reunited friends, friends in love, lost love, relationships, male female friendship, love affair, friends ...
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East Side Sushi (2014)
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: psychological, captivating, disturbing, culinary, intercultural
Audience: family outing
Plot: chef, restaurant, food, mother daughter relationship, single mother, latina, wine, direction and purpose, follow your dream, workplace, ambition, single parent ...
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Soul Kitchen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 99 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, chef, cooking, workplace, lifestyle, food, brother brother relationship, loneliness, family relations, life is a bitch, workplace problem, family business ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany
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 7.0
 64K
Perfect Sense (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around ...
Style: artsy, romantic, thought provoking, sensual, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pandemic, love story, sex scene, end of the world, epidemic, love, chaos, female nudity, love affair, human existence, blindness, natural disaster ...
Time: year 2011, distant future, future
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, iran
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 3K
Summer Villa (2016)
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, inspirational, humorous, light, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: novelist, summer, villa, writers, chef, happy ending, love story, creative block, romantic relationship, teenage daughter, romantic triangle, mother and daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south of france, france
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 7.4
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The Halcyon (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
Style: costume drama, realistic, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: hotel, world war two, aristocracy, manager, wartime, society, bellhop, chef, maid, gay lead character, world war one, lgbt ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, london
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 5.4
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Love and Mary (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mary is a sophisticated pastry chef who's struggling to keep the doors of her bakery open. Facing eviction, she decides to return back home with her fiancé, Brent, to collect a sizable engagement gift from her eccentric Texan family. But, when ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, romantic ...
Plot: family relations, twins, couples, hidden identity, cons and scams, comedy of errors, chef, disorder, store, eviction, fiancee, allergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
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A Taste of Summer (2019)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Gabby Ferrar moves to the town of Bright Shore, Massachusetts to open a restaurant after a stint as a sous chef in New York. Upon arrival, she encounters Caleb Delaney, a single father who runs his own restaurant and coaches the girls’ softball ...
Style: romantic, light, touching, realistic
Plot: love, restaurant owner, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, competition, in laws, professional rivalry, male female relationship, chef, fall in love, family relations, contest ...
Place: new york, new england
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Burning Man (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: grief, pain, marriage, coping, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, food, family relations, cooking and food, parents and children, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sydney australia, australia
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 5.9
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Two Many Chefs (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mikel, a young cook, meets with his father Juan, who had been missing for 30 years. While trying to keep his restaurant afloat, Mikel has to take care of crazed Juan, a former cook who suffers from a mental condition that prevents him from ...
Style: semi serious, entertaining, satirical, captivating, funny
Plot: chef, food, cooking and food, father and son, father son relationship, amnesia, father, absent father, kids and family, family relations, satire, chief ...
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The God of Cookery (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The God of Cookery, a brilliant chef who sits in judgement of those who would challenge his title, loses his title when a jealous chef reveals him to be a con-man and humiliates him publicly. As this new chef takes on the God of Cookery's role, ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, witty, scenic ...
Plot: martial arts, food, chef, cooking and food, kung fu, wuxia, restaurant, redemption, satire, eternal love, asian, gourmet ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, hong kong, asia
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A Taste of Romance (2012)
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, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot: firefighter, restaurant, chef, food, love, rivalry, lifestyle, love and romance, cooking, cooking and food, love affair, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Tale of Samurai Cooking (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set within the Kaga Domain in the Edo Period. Oharu is an excellent cook and recognized for her skills. Due to her cooking talents, she marries Yasunobu, who is an heir in the Funaki family. The Funaki family serves as the cook for the Kaga Domain. ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, culinary, semi serious ...
Plot: samurai, cooking, food, chef, couples, unsupportive spouse, couple relations, society, unfulfilled love, husband wife relationship, edo period, rebellion ...
Time: 18th century
Place: japan
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1st Bite (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set on a tropical island in Thailand, the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking. Following a near death escape, he returns to Montreal and falls hard for the woman of ...
Style: touching, semi serious, sexy, captivating, humorous
Plot: mermaid, island, food, chef, cooking, love affair, opposites attract, mysterious character, couples, social differences, femme fatale, supernatural ability ...
Place: thailand, montreal, bangkok thailand, asia, canada
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