| The Menu (2022) | 7.2 | |
| The Ramen Girl (2008) | 6.3 | |
| Mostly Martha (2001) | 7.2 | |
| Big Night (1996) | 7.3 | |
| Julie & Julia (2009) | 7.0 |
Cooking movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant cooking movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out feel good, culinary, touching, realistic, humorous and light films and TV shows about / with cooking, food, chef, restaurant, cooking and food, kitchen, love, mentor, gourmet and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as cooking: The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Burnt (2015), Chef (2014), Mostly Martha (2001), Babette's Feast (1987), Ratatouille (2007), Little Forest (2018), Julie & Julia (2009), A Dash of Love (2017), Le Chef (2012).
Best films
New films
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 ...
Is relevant?
142K
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
Is relevant?
248K
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 ...
Is relevant?
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: 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
Is relevant?
930K
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
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
135K
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 ...
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
19K
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: 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
Is relevant?
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
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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:
teen, feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cooking, food, restaurant, culture clash, american abroad, mentor, interracial romance, language barrier, chef, cooking and food, foreigner in japan, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, new jersey
Is relevant?
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, sexy, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
cooking, magic realism, food, forbidden love, wedding, cooking and food, nudity, mexican revolution, sex, sisters, love story, family drama ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 1910s, 1930s, 1890s ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, texas, usa, san antonio texas
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore, Japan, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Masato is a young ramen chef in the city of Takasaki in Japan. After the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he chances upon a suitcase of memorabilia and a red notebook – filled with musings and old photos – left behind by his ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, emotional, captivating
Plot:
chef, food, cooking, journey, family relations, memory, self discovery, parents and children, past, society, cooking and food, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, singapore
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11K
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
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style:
sentimental, sad, emotional, compassionate, reflective ...
Plot:
african american, life philosophy, food, relationships, family bonds, friendship, interracial friendship, love story, childhood, life, cooking, cancer ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 80s, year 1977, year 1980 ...
Place:
usa, boston, los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands…
Style:
culinary, sincere, thought provoking, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
cooking, chef, restaurant, old age, small business, street vendor, food, elderly woman, old woman, meaning of life, disability, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
japan, indiana
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
3K
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, touching, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
food, cooking and food, jewish mother, boy, boyhood, cookery, family dinner, teenage boy, mentor, religious differences, hobby, family problems ...
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After marriage, a woman struggles to be the submissive wife that her husband and his family expect her to be.
Style:
captivating, humorous, sincere
Plot:
character change, cooking, couples, family relations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, marriage, family life, relationships, lifestyle change, changing lives, family problems ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Cantonese street cook and his chief rival, a French-trained Michelin-starred chef, discover they have a lot in common as they prepare for a world-famous culinary competition. An international culinary competition becomes a battleground between ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, exciting, smart
Plot:
food, cooking competition, chef, cooking and food, cooking, contests and competitions, father son relationship, cookery, rivalry, cook-off, against the odds, unlikely friendships ...
Place:
hong kong, china, macau
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Set within the Kaga Domain in the Edo Period. Oharu is an excellent cook and recognized for her skills. Due to her cooking talents, she marries Yasunobu, who is an heir in the Funaki family. The Funaki family serves as the cook for the Kaga Domain. ...
Style:
touching, humorous, sentimental, culinary, historical romance ...
Plot:
samurai, food, cooking, chef, couples, couple relations, unsupportive spouse, society, unfulfilled love, husband wife relationship, father in law daughter in law relationship, restaurant ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
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:
romantic, visual, humorous, feel good, twisted ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
chef, cooking, food, daughter, love, teacher, restaurant, sisters, women, dialogue, art, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
taiwan, asia, hong kong, taipei, tokyo ...
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