Restaurant movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant restaurant movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good, light, touching and semi serious films and TV shows about / with restaurant, food, chef, cooking, kitchen, wine, love and romance, cooking and food, gourmet and love plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as restaurant: Mostly Martha (2001), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Burnt (2015), The Trip to Spain (2017), The Menu (2022), Delicious (2021), Boiling Point (2021), Kitchen Confidential (2005), Simply Irresistible (1999), A Taste of Romance (2011).
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List of restaurant movies
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:
sentimental, emotional, realistic, touching, humorous ...
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, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
germany, italy, france
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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 ...
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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:
culinary, inspirational, exciting, talky, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chef, cooking, food, restaurant, abuse of power, violent behavior, gastronomy, violent man, male chauvinist, psychopath as protagonist, love, bullying ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, y2k
Place:
london, new orleans, paris france
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
Style:
road movie, humorous, feel good, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
food, restaurant, friendship, travel, friendship between men, friends, critic, actor, escapades, society, satire, gourmet ...
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, atmospheric, splatter, art house ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
food, restaurant, murder, social satire, food critic, mass murder, perfectionist, chef, grudge, cooking, obsession, actor ...
Time:
2020s
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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
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.
Style:
suspense, powerful, tension, dark comedy, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
restaurant, self harm, chef, food, stress, bartender, food critic, gastronomy, drug, comedy of errors, christmas, art ...
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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, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, comeback, coworker, one more chance, lifestyle, workplace situations, lifestyle change, success, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Netherlands
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:
sexy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
food, cannibalism, brutality, restaurant, taboo sex, violence, sex, gangster, adultery, public humiliation, surrealism, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s, future
Place:
britain
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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
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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
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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
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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
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave ...
Style:
satirical, surreal, humorous, witty, funny ...
Plot:
tourist, nothing goes right, culture clash, skyscraper, airport, chaos, farce, goofy hero, misfit, city life, human existence, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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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, 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 ...
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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
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, parody, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
restaurant, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace romance, college, waiter, staff, buddies, prank, wooing, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming ...
Style:
funny, anthology, not serious, realistic, cynical ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
restaurant, food industry, social satire, circus, food, gastronomy, father son conflict, undercover, restaurant owner, father son relationship, cooking and food, cooking ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Style:
psychological, touching, semi serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
food, restaurant, hobby, marriage, love, family relations, revelation, cooking, life philosophy, hospitality, bittersweet, family problems ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
For two friends on the brink of losing everything, a dusty pipe dream of opening up an upscale restaurant in their hometown of the Bronx is all they have left to turn their lives around. Together, they take on the insanity of the New York restaurant ...
Style:
tense, serious, sincere, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
restaurant, corruption, food, restaurant owner, mobster, father son relationship, love interest, single father, bandit, self destructing, urban, struggle ...
Place:
bronx new york city, new york
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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:
feel good, funny, entertaining, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
restaurant, cooking, valentine's day, chef, happy ending, food, love, male female relationship, love and romance, promise, intrigue, society ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, psychological, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, diner, unrequited love, chef, storytelling, customer, employer, boss, cooking, beer, money ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
Style:
lyrical, indie film, art house, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
death of lover, lgbt, transgender, restaurant, transgender woman, transsexual, male nudity, transphobia, transvestite, waitress, bare breasts, love ...
Time:
year 2017, near future, 2010s
Place:
south america, chile, indiana, latin america, santiago chile ...
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217
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Trattoria tells the story of Sal Sartini (played by Tony Denison from “The Closer”), a “conventional” chef in that he has an upscale, brick and mortar restaurant, who anxiously scans every diner wondering if he or she is the famed Michelin ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Plot:
restaurant, chef, food, cooking and food, father son relationship, parents and children, family relations, workplace, estrangement, cooking, rivalry, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The employees of the famous Russian "Claude Monet" restaurant are forced to move their business to Paris.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
restaurant, escapades, workplace, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, friendship, couples, chef, cooking, romantic rivalry, love triangle, wedding ...
Place:
paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Western Restaurant Nekoya is a popular eatery located on a street corner in a Tokyo shopping district. Serving both traditional Japanese fare as well as Western dishes, this eating establishment is popular among Tokyo's residents. But this ...
Style:
anime, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
food, parallel world, alternate reality, cooking and food, parallel universe, restaurant, cooking, supernatural, supernatural being, isekai, fantasy world, magic ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.
Style:
supernatural thriller, captivating, suspenseful, scary, dread ...
Plot:
robot, security guard, terror, restaurant, supernatural horror, killer robot, abandoned building, night, dinner, job, missing child, ghost ...
Time:
year 1980, year 2000, 2000s, 80s
Place:
north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, 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, inspirational, sentimental, rom com, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
holiday, terminal illness, vacation, female protagonist, food, cooking, quitting a job, human nature, black woman, hotel, love and romance, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
central europe, indiana, czech republic, austria, europe ...
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