Chinese restaurant movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant chinese restaurant movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, melancholic, suspense, interesting, captivating and stylized films and TV shows about / with chinese restaurant, restaurant, storytelling, coming of age, female nudity, betrayal, friendship, runaway, dialogue and pornography plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Canada, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as chinese restaurant: Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Happy Home (2016), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Where the Truth Lies (2005), Soundless Wind Chime (2009), Freaky Friday (2003), Start-Up (2019), A Christmas Story (1983), Sotto il ristorante cinese (1987), Christmas at the Golden Dragon (2022).
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List of chinese restaurant movies
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. They encounter a variety of people while looking for it, including their angry girlfriends, an angry street gang, ...
Style:
not serious, funny, teen sex comedy, humorous, parody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
stoner, stupidity, idiot, obsessive quest, teenager, cannabis, car, amnesia, dumb, friendship, ostrich, alien ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, y2k
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
A new building complex is built in Chinatown and Bong Sam Bong opens his Chinese restaurant called “Gahwamansasung” there with a big splash. But Bong’s luck does not last long after he had worked so hard from the bottom to finally open his own ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, emotional, tear jerker, soap opera
Plot:
chinese restaurant, restaurant, family business, parent child relationship, family drama, workplace, family relations, lifestyle, husband wife relationship, restaurant owner, family life, loyalty ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. The story finds him at work when a star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming.
Style:
black comedy, humorous, period piece, witty, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, movie star, satire, ransom, filmmaking, gay subtext, showbiz, kidnapping, actor, dark humor, film industry, chinese restaurant ...
Time:
50s, year 2016, 1950s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, greece, usa, california, malibu california
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Style:
sexy, period piece, erotic, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
murder, sexualized violence, investigation, hotel, journalist, sex, sex party, sexual obsession, lesbian, threesome, lesbian cunnilingus, cover up ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1957, year 2005, 50s ...
Place:
new jersey, los angeles, miami
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ricky leaves Hong Kong for Switzerland to look for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Ricky struggles with the confusion of memories, reality and illusion.
Style:
queer cinema
Plot:
gay asian, masturbation, gay bar, gay couple, gay relationship, chinese restaurant, lgbt, gay, male nudity, gay sex, gay love, drunk ...
Place:
hong kong, switzerland, beijing china
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek ...
Style:
teen, funny, cute, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, date night, family outing ...
Plot:
body swapping, high school, mother daughter relationship, wedding, body swap, teenager, switching bodies, teenage girl, child as adult, switching places, soul transference, generation gap ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 80s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Taek-il recklessly leaves home, defying his mother who asks him to go to college. In the unfamiliar neighborhood, he happens to get a job as a delivery man for a Chinese restaurant. And he mingles with new people such as Geo-seok, a chef, and ...
Style:
suspense, rough, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, chinese restaurant, loan shark, teenage protagonist, brutality, rebellious teenager, teenager, teenage boy, male protagonist, coming of age, youth, adolescence ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
Style:
cult classic, christmas special, funny, period piece, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
christmas, bullying, childhood, holiday, boy, school, coming of age, children, christmas season, childhood memory, bully, little boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
indiana, columbus ohio, usa, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man captures the fancy of an inventor's daughter when he passes through a basement door into another dimension.
Style:
surreal, art house, romantic, absurd, experimental ...
Plot:
chinese restaurant, parallel world, alternate dimension, portal, beach, magic realism, inventor, father daughter relationship, underground, exotic island, escapism, mad scientist ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Romy and Rick’s parents surprise them with the news that they will be closing the Chinese restaurant they have owned and operated for decades, the siblings each find themselves reevaluating their futures. Also impacted by the news are the ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, captivating, humorous, light
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, holiday, chinese restaurant, relationships, restaurant, visitor, female protagonist, customer, love and romance, interracial love relationship, cooking ...
Place:
vermont
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Cryptic fortune cookie messages become death omens for a group of friends.
Director: Rob Pallatina
Style:
bleak, scary, suspense, psychotronic, horror comedy
Plot:
murder, spell, curse, no survivors, fortune cookie, car accident, chinese restaurant, evil wins, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, escapades, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Chilli Chicken follows the lives of five Northeastern boys working at a Chinese restaurant. Based on true events, this film is written and directed by Prateek Prajosh. The cast includes BV Shrunga (known for "19.20.21"), Manipur actor ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, tension, suspense, dark comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
chinese restaurant, restaurant, social commentary, tragedy, friendship, slice of life, class struggle, discrimination, ambition, moral ambiguity, small town, coming of age ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
After Gaku Kitada, a talented mathematics scholar, suffers setbacks on his dream of becoming a mathematician, he meets Kai Asakura, a young but similarly talented chef, as he is running his own food business, and joins Kai in an attempt at something ...
Style:
culinary, thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
chef, food, cooking, restaurant, workplace, gourmet, personal growth, passion, restaurant owner, cookery, coworker, workplace situations ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
More than 20 years ago, there were three "Ban Dou" master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan's economic boom. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, satirical, captivating, sentimental
Plot:
family business, gourmet, restaurant, food, culinary arts, cooking and food, assistant, cookery, job, chinese restaurant, coping, chef ...
Place:
taipei
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Teppan is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto, in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and ...
Style:
asadora, thrilling, captivating, psychological, inspirational ...
Plot:
female protagonist, cooking, family drama, restaurant owner, family business, businesswoman, mother daughter relationship, family problems, chinese restaurant, changing lives, family relations, relationships ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jersey is a popular gambler in Mongkok. One day, he takes a trip to Japan with her girlfriend, Nancy, they come to Chinese resaurant. Suddenly, a gang of Japanese triads comes in and starts a fight. Just at the moment when he is in danger, the ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gambling, revenge, betrayal, martial arts, fight, satire, competitor, gambler, infidelity, relationship problems, escapades, couple relations ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, psychological thriller, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
police corruption, small town, drug overdose, police, basement, chinese restaurant, fight, chinese immigrant, payback, injustice, punched in the face, destroying evidence ...
Place:
louisiana, north america
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When a hot, openly gay new neighbour moves in across the street, high school senior Jake is forced to think about what - and who - he really wants.
Style:
lgbt cinema, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
coming of age, high school, gay youth, gay romance, gay interest, closeted gay, gay love, gay couple, gay athlete, gay son, gay, high school basketball ...
Place:
canada, vancouver
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Forty-something Leon is an alcoholic, ex-special forces barely scraping by when he's hired by a mobster to protect his 16 year old daughter. Not only does Leon have to clean up his act, but also handle the romantic advances of his ward and the ...
Style:
suspenseful, stylized, sincere, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
age difference, forbidden love, love affair, girl man relationship, older man younger woman relationship, sex with a minor, love and romance, danger, cheerleader, love, gangster, shooting ...
Time:
90s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Style:
humorous, exciting, freeze frame, perverse, psychotronic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, superhero, anti heroine, female warrior, tough girl, one woman army, revenge, female assassin, superhero team, superheroine, chase, woman fights a man ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, sicily, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed doubles table tennis tournament.
Plot:
chinese restaurant, table tennis, ping pong, wedding ring, mother daughter relationship, housewife, father daughter relationship, competition, construction site
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows ...
Style:
detective, neo noir, controversial, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
chinese mafia, gangster, triad, organized crime, culture clash, vigilante, racism, murder, pig, chinawoman, gang war, tough cop ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
new york, china, southeast asia, thailand, bangkok thailand ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, martial arts, prison, good versus evil, prisoner, frame up, chinese mafia, organized crime, gangster, murder, vengeance, one against many ...
Place:
hong kong, china, paris france, asia, new york ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bleak, neo noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, incest, violence, psychopath, captivity, older man younger woman relationship, hypnosis, mind game, plot twist, psychological torture, torture ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, distant future, near future, y2k ...
Place:
south korea, korea, stockholm sweden, oceania, east asia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, (watch for the facial expressions) and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life ('your parents, nyaa, I don't think ...
Style:
talky, clever, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
redhead, male nudity, coming of age, college, nudity, marriage, male pubic hair, chinese restaurant, homosexual, best friend, 007, stoner ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, santa fe new mexico, boston, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, black and white, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
sex scene, cafe, love triangle, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, year 1972, 70s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france, new york, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style:
political, art house, visual, breathtaking, sexual ...
Plot:
fascism, assassination, childhood trauma, italian fascism, fascist, professor, murder, betrayal, politics, homosexuality, chauffeur, honeymoon ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place:
italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style in this hilarious mockumentary from the people who brought ...
Style:
mockumentary, funny, parody, independent film, hilarious ...
Plot:
satire, small town, backstage, repressed homosexual, wagon train, coming of age, theater, city council, improv, chinese restaurant, alien contact, travel agent ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place:
missouri, usa, north america, florida, california ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After losing her husband to a heroin overdose, Emily Wang fights to overcome her own addictions and to be reconciled with her estranged son.
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
addiction, drug overdose, prison, redemption, road trip, loneliness, life is a bitch, going straight, rock star, musician's life, custody, estranged son ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s
Place:
paris france, vancouver, ontario canada, france, canada ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make it a double -- bringing along her brash friend Lysterine, whom Rushon sets up with his lewd buddy, ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, black comedy, sexual, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
womanizer, looking for sex, sex, hip hop, best friend, urban, women, dating, lifestyle, black, sexuality, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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