Food movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant food movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good, culinary, semi serious and independent film films and TV shows about / with food, cooking, restaurant, chef, cooking and food, kitchen, gourmet, wine, love and family relations plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as food: Chef (2014), Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014), Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015), Burnt (2015), The Big Feast (1973), Little Forest (2018), Little Italy (2018), The Menu (2022), Just Add Romance (2019), Midnight Diner (2014).
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230K
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:
feel good, inspirational, road movie, touching, culinary ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
cooking, chef, food, cooking and food, road trip, happy ending, father son relationship, parent child relationship, starting over, restaurant owner, business, divorce ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, future, y2k, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, florida, usa, new orleans ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her mother, young Ichiko leaves her life in the city to live off the land in Komori, a small town nestled among the mountains in rural Japan. Despite the void left by her mother’s disappearance, Ichiko comes to enjoy her independence ...
Style:
psychological, visually appealing, thought provoking, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
food, japanese girl, farmer, solitude, mother issues, nature, village life, slice of life, countryside, provincial life, japanese culture, agriculture ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, sincere, captivating, epic ...
Plot:
food, japanese girl, japanese culture, nature, solitude, abandoned by mother, isolation, society, backpacking, cookery, agriculture, inspiration ...
Place:
japan
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132K
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, talky, exciting, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chef, cooking, restaurant, food, abuse of power, violent behavior, violent man, male chauvinist, psychopath as protagonist, redemption, bullying, physical abuse ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, y2k
Place:
london, new orleans
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young woman leaves the city to return to her hometown in the countryside. Seeking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, she becomes self-sufficient in a bid to reconnect with nature.
Style:
sincere, sad, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
countryside, cooking, farming, female protagonist, childhood friend, food, young woman, friendship, love, pet dog, winter, male female relationship ...
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
Style:
romantic, light, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, food, friendship, father daughter relationship, contests and competitions, rivalry, pizza, fall in love ...
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383K
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, atmospheric, dark comedy, humorous, art house ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
food, restaurant, revenge, obsession, food critic, chef, perfectionist, mass murder, social satire, grudge, murder, cooking ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When Kelly and Jason, exact opposites, compete on a famed cooking show for the chance at their own restaurant, what will matter more – their culinary careers or their potential love?
Style:
feel good, funny, sweet, light, emotional ...
Plot:
cooking, food, happy ending, rivalry, chef, male female relationship, promise, love and romance, love, friendship, escapades, couples ...
Place:
chicago
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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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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, inspirational, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
restaurant, cooking, cooking and food, food, chef, culture clash, interracial relations, prejudice, beautiful scenery, interracial romance, small town, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france, india, mumbai india, south of france, london ...
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815K
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, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
chef, cooking, food, friendship, rat, cooking and food, follow your dream, restaurant, mouse, rise to the top, young man, odd couple ...
Time:
year 2007, 60s, 20th century, 1950s, 2000s ...
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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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, touching, sentimental, emotional, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
cooking, chef, restaurant, cooking and food, food, love and romance, italian food, wine, self discovery, family relations, opposites attract, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
germany, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. ...
Style:
sincere, semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
prostitute, prison, fall in love, lifestyle, misfit, survival, criminal heroes, love and romance, society, food, chef, jail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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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, light, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, friendship, travel, friends, friendship between men, escapades, critic, society, actor, chef, wine ...
Place:
spain, europe
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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, sentimental, funny, sweet, touching ...
Plot:
cooking, chef, wine, restaurant, food, mentor, creativity, love, culture clash, underdog, fight scenes, partner ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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22K
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:
funny, disturbing, surreal, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
food, cooking, breast feeding, nudity, waitress, chef, restaurant, cooking and food, satire, sex, dark humor, homeless ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Style:
futuristic, mindfuck, twist ending, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
dystopia, food, cannibalism, distopia, cannibal, conspiracy, overpopulation, murder, environmental, post apocalyptic, death, police detective ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an ...
Style:
talky, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, bad ending ...
Plot:
fast food restaurant, food, junk food, cooking and food, butcher, hamburger, satire, public health, illegal immigration, greed, health, workplace ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa, colorado, mexico
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23K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Style:
witty, sentimental, melancholic, sincere, culinary ...
Plot:
food, cooking, chef, immigrant, business, restaurant, italian restaurant, wine, character study, self discovery, human nature, great ending ...
Time:
50s, year 1996, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ezra discovers he has a unique ability to make food appear in his hands. He quickly uses his new super powers to impress his friends and to become popular around school for the first time in his life.
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
high school, high school student, food, friendship, disorder, teenage love, escapades, supernatural ability, cooking and food, high school life, best friend, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, utah
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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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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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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Keiko, daughter of a famous sushi chef, leaves home to escape his overbearing training in both sushi-making and martial arts. Finding work at a rural inn, she is bullied by the staff and ridiculed by the guests, including the president of Komatsu ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, splatter, slasher ...
Plot:
food, martial arts, zombie, monster, supernatural, chef, escapades, magic, objects come to life, strict father, showdown, cooking ...
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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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, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
food, parallel world, alternate reality, parallel universe, cooking and food, isekai, cooking, restaurant, supernatural being, supernatural, magic, creature ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on ...
Style:
sentimental, independent film, compassionate, sweet, funny ...
Plot:
working class, food, secret lover, dysfunctional family, rebellious daughter, class differences, depression, family drama, restaurant, compassion, family relations, eating disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe
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201K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, women, cooking and food, single mother, love and romance, culture clash, food, mother daughter relationship, life philosophy ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, year 2001, y2k ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america
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2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His first-generation American agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. But the 12-year-old kid from Brooklyn who loves food and cooking, prefers, well, Abe. ...
Style:
entertaining, culinary, feel good, light, realistic ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
cooking and food, food, jewish mother, boy, boyhood, family dinner, cookery, mentor, hobby, teenager, family problems, brawl ...
Place:
new york
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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, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, talky ...
Plot:
cooking, religion, cooking and food, aging, elderly, gourmet, food, wine, charity, sister sister relationship, catholic, chef ...
Time:
19th century, year 1987, victorian era, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place:
denmark, paris france, europe, stockholm sweden
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it all. Almost. They are missing the coveted Michelin Star. It has been their dream, on which they ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, touching, romantic, art house ...
Plot:
food, adultery, restaurant, male female relationship, cheating wife, passion, restaurant owner, cooking and food, husband wife relationship, desire, marital crisis, couples ...
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