Gourmet movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant gourmet movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out semi serious, culinary, realistic, humorous, captivating and feel good films and TV shows about / with food, gourmet, cooking, restaurant, chef, cooking and food, gastronomy, cookery, wine and kitchen plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Animation genres shot in Japan, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as gourmet: Babette's Feast (1987), Mostly Martha (2001), Delicious in Dungeon (2024), Tampopo (1985), Soul Kitchen (2009), The Solitary Gourmet (2012), Julie & Julia (2009), Oishinbo (1988), The God of Cookery (1996), Sweet Reincarnation (2023).

List of gourmet movies

Babette's Feast (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The guest, a General at the Swedish court, is not related to the sister, but, as a callow young man, was in love with her, but chose his military career over happiness with her. His aunt is a member of the religious community. He is the one who, ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, touching, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot: cooking, food, religion, cooking and food, elderly, gourmet, aging, charity, catholic, wine, true love, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, 1870s, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place: denmark, paris france, europe, stockholm sweden, france
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Mostly Martha (2001)
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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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
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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Delicious in Dungeon (2024)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Dungeons, dragons... and delicious monster stew!? Adventurers foray into a cursed buried kingdom to save their friend, cooking up a storm along the way.
Style: anime, seinen, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot: cooking, magic, monster, gastronomy, medieval, gourmet, elf, dungeon, fantasy world, food, teamwork, adventure hero ...
Time: medieval times
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Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill (2023)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Tsuyoshi Mukohda, an ordinary salaryman, is suddenly transported to another world one day. The unique skill he gains upon arrival in this world is the seemingly useless "Online Grocery." Mukohda is discouraged at first, but the modern ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot: cooking, fantasy world, parallel world, kingdom, imaginary kingdom, dream world, magical creature, wolf, magic, isekai, slime, skill ...
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 7.9
 26K
Tampopo (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, pleads them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle soup making".
Style: sexy, funny, disturbing, surreal, witty ...
Plot: food, sex, cooking, nudity, waitress, satire, chef, restaurant, cooking and food, mentor, homeless, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast (2013)
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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 7.2
 42K
Soul Kitchen (2009)
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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The Solitary Gourmet (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
Style: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, contemplative, melancholic
Audience: family friendly
Plot: food, travel, businessman, gourmet, gastronomy, solitude, loner, loneliness, slice of life, introspection, realism, everyday life ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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 7.0
 135K
Julie & Julia (2009)
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: inspirational, feel good, light, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, cooking and food, chef, women, food, self fulfillment, couple relations, love, blogger, blog, relationships, cookbook ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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 7.9
 47
Oishinbo (1988)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The newspaper office, Tozai Shinbun, plans to publish the Ultimate Menu to commemorate their 100th anniversary. It would not only describe foods but also pass on dietary cultures for many generations to come. Despite its importance, Shirou Yamaoka, ...
Style: anime, culinary, reflective, educational, seinen
Audience: adult
Plot: cooking, food, gourmet, male protagonist, father son relationship, newspaper, mature, journalism, reporter, personal growth, recipe, partnership ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, tokyo
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The God of Cookery (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 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, witty, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: food, martial arts, wuxia, chef, satire, cooking and food, restaurant, kung fu, eternal love, gourmet, redemption, asian ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
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'Tis Time for "Torture, " Princess (2024)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: As the war between the Imperial Army and Hellhorde rages on, the Princess, despite being armed with her mythical sword Excalibur, is captured and imprisoned. What kind of torture does she face at the hands of the chief demon interrogator? Fluffy ...
Style: anime, captivating, semi serious, dark fantasy, surreal ...
Plot: princess, captivity, torture, food, fictional kingdom, fantasy world, fictional war, gourmet, save the princess, demon, supernatural, female protagonist ...
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Sweet Reincarnation (2023)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Pastry Mille Morteln, age 9, is both his father's heir and the reincarnation of an unfulfilled pastry chef. While he dreams of a land filled with sweet treats, there's a lot to be done first! From learning how to fight, to controlling his ...
Style: anime, uplifting, feel good, lighthearted
Audience: family friendly
Plot: reincarnation, magic, food, second chance, isekai, cooking, gourmet, baking, aspiration, ambition, candy store, magical ...
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Fermat's Cuisine (2023)
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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The Taste of Things (2023)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do ...
Style: period piece, captivating, exciting, dramatic, period drama
Plot: cooking, food, love, death, female nudity, young girl, funeral, gastronomy, life, castle, gourmet, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: france
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 7.7
 574
Gourmet Club (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 65 min.
Story: "Gourmet Club" follows a doctor who belongs to a small but exclusive gourmet club, in which the five upper-class members take turns providing the main course, wagering as to who can identify a mystery exotic ingredient. Things get ...
Style: culinary, psychological, tension, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot: food, dinner party, gourmet, high society, bet, gambling, gastronomy, elitism, restaurant, addiction, manipulation, obsession ...
Time: 2000s
Is relevant?
 8.8
 586
Posh Nosh (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: Posh Nosh is a 2003 BBC television programme parodying television chefs; the title and basic outline a reference to a cooking show pilot pitched by Neil Hamilton and Christine Hamilton. Written by Jon Canter and Arabella Weir from an idea by Weir, ...
Style: culinary, satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: food, satire, chef, cooking, couples, gourmet, snobbism, cooking and food, cookery, elitism, high society, social class ...
Time: 2000s
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Crayon Shin-chan: Very Tasty! B-class Gourmet Survival!! (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Shin-chan and his friends must overcome hunger and other obstacles when they're tasked with delivering a barrel of legendary sauce to a food festival.
Style: anime, feel good, satirical, lighthearted, entertaining ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: carnival, satire, child protagonist, children, food, gourmet, cookery, mysterious character, investigation, child, cooking, festival ...
Place: japan
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, friendship, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, feminist, small town life, lgbtq, cannibalism, midlife crisis, female bonding, female protagonist ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana ...
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The Secret of the Grain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 151 min.
Story: At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, culinary ...
Plot: working class, immigrant, food, cooking, fish, fishing boat, shipyard, ex husband ex wife relationship, restaurant, business venture, family problems, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, africa, middle east, europe
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Today's Special (2009)
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, culinary, light, captivating ...
Plot: cooking and food, chef, food, cooking, family relations, workplace, self discovery, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, restaurant, cookery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, indiana
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The Trip to Italy (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, talky, witty ...
Plot: food, satire, character study, restaurant, on the road, friendship, odd couple, buddies, verbal byplay, art, wine, dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, tuscany, europe, pompeii, rome italy ...
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 7.5
 216K
Sideways (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Style: road movie, sentimental, dark comedy, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: road trip, wine, couples, vineyard, on the road, vacation, divorce, infidelity, food, affair, midlife crisis, wedding ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, bay area, usa ...
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 6.5
 11K
Toast (2010)
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: period piece, tragicomedy, sentimental, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: cooking, coming of age, gay interest, food, chef, cooking and food, homosexuality, lgbt, first kiss, youth, high school, cleaning lady ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london
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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: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, 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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 7.3
 248K
Chef (2014)
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, inspirational, touching, culinary ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: cooking, food, chef, cooking and food, road trip, happy ending, parent child relationship, restaurant owner, father son relationship, divorce, starting over, workplace problem ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, y2k, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, florida, usa, new orleans ...
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The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
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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 8.1
 2K
Chef! (1993)
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, not serious, realistic, cynical, witty ...
Plot: food, chef, workplace, serial killer, restaurant, staff, patronizing, power relations, cooking and food, couples, sidekick, temperamental ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
Is relevant?
 6.1
 168
Food Luck (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left behind. Yoshito enjoyed eating his mother's cooking and their restaurant was loved by many people. ...
Style: captivating, psychological, culinary, emotional, melancholic
Plot: food, restaurant, mother son relationship, slice of life, food critic, restaurant owner, family problems, gourmet, journalist, workplace, social problems, family relations ...
Place: japan
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