Food movies and TV shows – page 2

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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)
Genre: 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: disturbing, psychological, captivating, sitcom, anthology
Plot: food, restaurant, chef, diner, social issues, multiple storylines, restaurant owner, male female relationship, relationships, social problems, couple relations, unrequited love ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, compassionate, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: cooking, magic realism, food, wedding, chocolate, cooking and food, mexican revolution, sisters, forbidden love, marriage, family drama, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century, 1930s, 1910s, year 1934 ...
Place: mexico, latin america, texas, usa, san antonio texas
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What's Cooking? (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, food, culture clash, cooking, divorce, family bonds, pregnancy, family problems, family life, family gatherings, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.6
 36K
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, touching, sentimental, inspirational, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: holiday, terminal illness, vacation, hotel, female protagonist, cooking, human nature, food, love and romance, black woman, restaurant, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, europe, indiana, czech republic, central europe ...
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 7.8
 61K
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, light, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cooking, food, housewife, unlikely relationship, relationships, character study, honest, happy ending, unlikely friendships, depression, cooking and food, love and romance ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india, asia
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Samurai Gourmet (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Recent retiree Takeshi rediscovers his passion for food and life by getting in touch with his inner warrior and eating what he truly desires.
Style: feel good, entertaining, semi serious, funny, satirical ...
Plot: food, cooking and food, samurai, slice of life, elderly man, senior citizen, lifestyle, satire, self discovery, old man, cookery, restaurant ...
Place: indiana, tokyo, japan
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 5.6
 205
Senya Fedya (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Famous chefs Senya and Fedya from the series Kukhnya, continue their independent business story
Style: feel good, humorous, ironic, non-linear, captivating ...
Plot: food, dispute, misfit, new life, van, family relations, cookery, partnership, coworker relationship, best friend, business, kitchen
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Tortilla Soup (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: food, cooking, eccentricity, secrets, family life, eccentric family, looking for love, parents and children, relationship vs career, women, love, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.0
 128K
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: feel good, inspirational, sweet, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: cooking, cooking and food, chef, women, food, self fulfillment, love, blogger, lifestyle, cookbook, couple relations, blog ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 60s, 1900s ...
Place: paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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 8.5
 6K
The Kitchen (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Maksim "Max" Lavrov wants to become a great chef. But he finds out that the kitchen isn't the place for an easy career. And in restaurant "Claude Monet" this job looks even harder and much more complicated than just ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: food, cooking, coworker relationship, restaurant, couple relations, job, chef, friendship, justice, happy ending, love, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
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Dad's Lunch Box (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: This film was inspired by a real-life story of a Japanese father who for the three years his daughter spent at high school prepared daily bento lunch boxes for her leading to delicious, interesting or offbeat creations. In all cases, he put an ...
Style: captivating, sincere, light, entertaining
Plot: food, father daughter relationship, school, friend, father and daughter, parents and children, care, lifestyle, life, family relations, fatherhood, kids and family ...
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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, disturbing, entertaining
Plot: food, businessman, gourmet, loneliness, travel, loner, restaurant, chef, gastronomy, business, life, merchant ...
Place: japan
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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: light, funny, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: food, office worker, life, travel, humour, silly humor, double life, restaurant, book
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Simply Irresistible (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
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: romantic, teen, cute, entertaining, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: food, cooking, love, magic, chef, cooking and food, fall in love, restaurant, witch, female protagonist, magical, in love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.7
 811
A Chef in Love (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Georgia, Ukraine, Belgium, Russia, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, feel good, realistic, serious ...
Plot: food, cooking and food, cooking, wine, chef, restaurant, love, gastronomy, jazz, love and romance, unlikely couple, fall in love ...
Time: year 1996, 1920s
Place: caucasus, georgia, europe, france, eastern europe ...
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 7.6
 660
Let's Eat (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: What do a group of foodies and a murder have in common? Lee Soo Kyung is a 33-year-old divorcee who is a composed, confident woman who is happy to be living alone after marrying way too early in life. But the only thing that can make her lose her ...
Style: dorama, semi serious, sweet, humorous, light ...
Plot: food, love and romance, lifestyle, neighbor neighbor relationship, friendship, destiny, hopes, supportive friend, male objectification, singleness, honest, couples ...
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 6.7
 496
Final Recipe (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Thailand, Singapore
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hao's Singaporean restaurant is in danger of going out of business. Hao's grandson, Mark, secretly travels to Shanghai to attend a cooking competition despite his grandfather's wishes for him to become an engineer. Mark takes the ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: food, chef, restaurant, cooking competition, competitor, restaurateur, cooking and food, restaurant owner, ambition, aspiration, rivalry, cookery ...
Place: shanghai
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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: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, 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
 24K
I Am Love (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Style: sexy, stylized, meditative, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: male nudity, infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, adultery, food, bourgeoisie, high society, chef, obsession, family relations, love and romance, love triangle ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, nice france, london, milan italy
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 1.3
 12K
Foodfight! (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dex, a superdog sleuth, is the law of the land when the world's most recognized brands take on the forces of evil and the devilish Brand X.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, exciting, adult animation ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: food, supermarket, partner, disorder, escapades, misfit, rivalry, pun, femme fatale, fight, bomb squad, stupid kid ...
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 6.4
 1K
301/302 (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two obsessive-compulsives, a chef and an anorexic writer, are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef (301) tries to entice her neighbor to eat with fabulous meals. The writer (302) refuses to eat, and this refusal begins a turbulent ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, surreal, neurotic, tense ...
Plot: food, obsession, cooking, writers, eating disorder, cooking and food, investigation, cannibalism, divorce, neighbor, gays and lesbians, perversion ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, asia
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 6.6
 10K
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: tragicomedy, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, food, youth, coming of age, lgbt, teenage life, homosexual, family problems, maid, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london
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 6.7
 188K
Over the Hedge (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.
Style: humorous, computer animated, 3d animation, funny, satirical ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: raccoon, talking animal, squirrel, animal that acts human, human, friendship, stealing food, fish out of water, heroic mission, food, furry, forest ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
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Bakery in Brooklyn (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two young women do their best to try and save their dead aunt's bakery
Style: humorous, semi serious, psychological
Audience: chick flick
Plot: food, restaurant, workplace romance, youth, boss, love and romance, chef, new job, self discovery, hopes, coming of age, cousin ...
Place: brooklyn new york city
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best ...
Style: feel good, exciting, humorous, colorful, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family friendly, family outing
Plot: food, inventor, friendship, scientist, island, kids and family, animal, chaos and mayhem, danger, save the day, creator, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, fictional island
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 6.1
 209K
Sausage Party (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.
Style: adult animation, humorous, funny, parody, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: food, sex scene, supermarket, sex, adult humor, satire, eaten alive, foul language, dark humor, death, profanity, orgy ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
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Ramen Loving Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Koizumi is a mysterious and attractive high school student. But what most people don't know about her is that she's a ramen master who is always on the lookout for great ramen restaurants. Everyday, she goes hunting for real-life places ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical
Plot: food, friendship, schoolgirl, japanese schoolgirl, slice of life, relationship problems, satire, social problems, female protagonist, school, publicity, restaurant ...
Place: japan
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Late Night Restaurant (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: A restaurant opens at midnight until seven in the morning. Its mysterious owner and chef, simply called the "Master," has no fixed items on his menu, but will take orders from any customer and cook up whatever they ask for. As the Master ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, dramatic, seinen
Plot: food, restaurant, slice of life, chef, dark past, customer, street gangster, secrets, actor, night, mysterious past, secret ...
Place: korea
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 7.2
 175K
The Founder (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, realistic, factual, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: business, fast food, businessman, capitalism, rags to riches, greed, money, salesman, ambition, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, biopic ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1929 ...
Place: america, usa, california, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota ...
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 6.3
 11K
The Ramen Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: cooking, restaurant, food, culture clash, american abroad, mentor, interracial romance, chef, cooking and food, language barrier, writers, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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