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 realistic, feel good, humorous, culinary, light and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with food, restaurant, cooking, chef, love, cooking and food, gourmet, wine, gastronomy and kitchen plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Japan, France and other countries.
food movies
3483
TOP 10 movies tagged as food: Chef (2014), Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015), Midnight Diner (2014), Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014), Little Forest (2018), Chocolat (2000), Burnt (2015), The Menu (2022), The Lunchbox (2013), Little Italy (2018).

List of food movies

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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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Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015)
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, captivating, sincere, realistic, epic ...
Plot: food, japanese girl, japanese culture, solitude, nature, agriculture, abandoned by mother, isolation, society, rural setting, backpacking, cookery ...
Place: japan
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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, wench, cooking, backpacking, cookery, humanity, inspiration, small business ...
Place: tokyo
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Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014)
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: captivating, visually appealing, thought provoking, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot: food, japanese girl, farmer, village life, solitude, mother issues, female protagonist, provincial life, nature, slice of life, countryside, agriculture ...
Place: japan
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Little Forest (2018)
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, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: countryside, food, cooking, female protagonist, farming, young woman, friendship, childhood friend, winter, summer, love, pet dog ...
Place: south korea
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 7.2
 210K
Chocolat (2000)
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, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time: 50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place: france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
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 6.6
 142K
Burnt (2015)
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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 7.2
 489K
The Menu (2022)
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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 7.8
 67K
The Lunchbox (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India, France, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. ...
Style: realistic, touching, sweet, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: food, cooking, happy ending, housewife, relationships, unlikely relationship, destiny, chef, unconventional romance, retirement, cooking and food, honest ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india, asia
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 5.7
 20K
Little Italy (2018)
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, sincere, light, atmospheric, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, food, father daughter relationship, friendship, contests and competitions, enemies to lovers, love, rivalry, pizza, fall in love ...
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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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 7.0
 16K
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, satirical, controversial, disturbing, black comedy ...
Plot: decadence, food, suicide, sex, lust, cooking, sexual promiscuity, wealth, group of friends, dark humor, gluttony, satire ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: france, europe, paris france, turkey
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 8.1
 930K
Ratatouille (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, France
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, inspirational, sweet, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot: cooking, chef, food, friendship, rat, restaurant, cooking and food, follow your dream, mouse, young man, rise to the top, friends ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, 2000s ...
Place: paris france, europe, france
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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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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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Estomago: A Gastronomic Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, 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: food, prostitute, prison, fall in love, chef, lifestyle, society, survival, love and romance, misfit, criminal heroes, jail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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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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Fast Food Nation (2006)
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: food, fast food restaurant, junk food, satire, cooking and food, butcher, hamburger, public health, illegal immigration, greed, health, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, colorado, mexico, california
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Just Add Romance (2019)
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, sweet, light, funny, emotional ...
Plot: cooking, food, happy ending, rivalry, chef, male female relationship, adaptation, escapades, promise, society, youth, love and romance ...
Place: chicago
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he ...
Style: feel good, humorous, 3d animation, visually stunning, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: food, inventor, nerd, natural disaster, father son relationship, small town, mad scientist, greed, fall in love, parents and children, hot dog, save the world ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, new york, paris france, china, egypt ...
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 6.6
 42K
Last Holiday (2006)
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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 5.7
 2K
Dead Sushi (2012)
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, horror comedy, splatter ...
Plot: food, martial arts, monster, magic, escapades, supernatural, chef, strict father, objects come to life, showdown, body horror, creature ...
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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about different a different customer, as they find simple yet profound connections with one another ...
Style: anthology, captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: food, diner, restaurant, chef, cooking, unrequited love, loneliness, slice of life, social problems, relationships, multiple storylines, male female relationship ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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The Adventures of Food Boy (2008)
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: feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: high school, high school student, food, supernatural ability, escapades, teenage love, high school life, disorder, friendship, cooking and food, best friend, chaos ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah
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 7.3
 25K
Big Night (1996)
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: sentimental, witty, sincere, melancholic, culinary ...
Plot: food, cooking, chef, immigrant, italian restaurant, wine, restaurant, character study, self discovery, human nature, great ending, jazz ...
Time: 50s, year 1996, 20th century, 1950s
Place: new jersey, usa, italy
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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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 6.6
 19K
Le Chef (2012)
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
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Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A stoic book salesman leads a double life as he plays hooky from work to write his sweets blog. In his journey to attain a glimpse of sweets heaven Kantaro samples various Japanese and Western sweets.
Style: captivating, humorous, light, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: food, double life, office worker, life, travel, silly humor, humour, slice of life, japanese culture, gourmet, temptation, bakery ...
Place: tokyo
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Restaurant to Another World (2017)
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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