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- Boiling Point (2021) Directed by Philip Barantini. Starring Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham. Drama, Thriller (1h 32m) 7.5 on IMDb — 99% on RT.
- Ratatouille (2007) Directed by Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava. Starring Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano. Animation, Adventure, Comedy (1h 51m) 8.1 on IMDb — 96% on RT.
- Soul Food (1997) Directed by George Tillman Jr. Starring Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long. Comedy, Drama (1h 55m) 7.0 on IMDb — 82% on RT. "Soul" is synonymous with African-American culture: the music, the religion, and the food.
- Chef (2014) Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Jon Favreau, Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo. Adventure, Comedy, Drama (1h 54m) 7.3 on IMDb — 87% on RT. A lot of the movies on this list expose the nervy atmosphere behind the kitchen doors of fine dining establishments.
May 26, 2014 · A film with a strong and edifying message, Chef came from left-field, in a good way, and is the best food film I’ve seen (closely followed by Julie and Julia)! Well worth your time and money, I’d suggest you to watch it, and be amazed at Jon’s ability to act, write, produce and direct in the same film, and do it all flawlessly!
- Big Night by Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott (1996) Available here. Italian food, bickering siblings, floundering family restaurant, and the one celebrity meal.
- Haute Cuisine (Les Saveurs du Palais) by Christian Vincent (2012) Available here. Based on the true story of a chef from a small French town who joined the Presidential kitchen.
- Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? by Ted Kotcheff (1978) Available here. Unlike family, romance or fun themed movies in the list, this is a mystery-thriller.
- Like Water for Chocolate by Alfonso Arau (1992) Available here. A magical realism movie that showcases the power of food over anyone one who eats it. A parallel track revolves around the young girl who cooks these intense meals and her forbidden love.
- Ratatouille (2007) The idea of “anyone can cook” has been the core of this marvellous venture, which revolves around a rat named Remy who has the aspiration to become a world-class chef like Auguste Gusteau.
- Chef (2014) Perhaps Jon Favreau’s most popular work facing the camera, with surprise entre’s like Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Russell Peters, etc. ‘
- The Lunchbox (2013) More than the “cooking” part of it, the movie has to be watched for two reasons – the eerie silence, and Irrfan Khan. A movie made on the one mistake in a million of the “Dabbawalas” of Mumbai, a widower and a loner Saajan mistakenly gets his lunchbox delivered every day from Ila, a housewife who purportedly cooks delicious, sumptuous food for her husband instead.
- Eat Man Drink Woman (1994) It is not every day that we watch an Ang Lee’s movie on cooking, and are awed, intrigued and tickled beyond compare. ‘ Eat Man Drink Woman’ is one such exemplary effort by the Taiwanese filmmaker which more or less implicates and stresses upon the fact that the pleasures derived from food and sex are comparable and one can make drastic transitions from traditional values to modern customs during talks at the dinner table.
- 10 Love's Kitchen
- 9 The Ramen Girl
- 8 Simply Irresistible
- 7 Today's Special
- 6 Chocolat
- 5 Chef
- 4 No Reservations
- 3 Burnt
- 2 Julie & Julia
- 1 The Hundred-Foot Journey
Starting off at Number 10 on our list we have Love's Kitchen. A London chef and restauranteur decides to retire to the countryside after losing his wife. There he decides to buy a run-down pub and transform it into a gourmet restaurant. His food soon catches the eye of a food critic (Claire Forlani) and the two soon hit it off with their love of fo...
This 2008 RomCom stars Britney Murphy as a young American woman stranded in Tokyo after her boyfriend breaks up with her. She finds a sense of belonging at a Japanese restaurant where she asks the head chef, a Japanese master, to train her to become a ramen chef. It highlights the culture of Japanese cuisine and the welcoming spirit of Japanese peo...
Simply Irresistible follows the story of a young chef (Sarah Michelle Gellar) passionate about pouring her heart and soul into her cooking. Unfortunately for her, she isn't too good at it, until she meets a man and their connection magically causes the people eating her food to start feeling the same emotions she had while cooking it - ultimately m...
This movie is the perfect example of how food can bring people together. It is witty, sweet, and extremely heartwarming, covering everything from family bonding to romance in the mundane. A young Manhatten sous chef is forced to become the head chef of his family restaurant after his dad has a heart attack. After at first dreading it, he soon redis...
Johnny Depp, Judy Dench, and Juliette Binoche star in the movie about a woman and her daughter who move to a conservative French town and start a chocolatorie. The traditional townspeople find joy and happiness through her chocolate creations and strained relationships soon to start to heal. The film won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2001 a...
Chef has an exceptionally all-star cast with famous actors including Scarlett Johanssen, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, Dustin Hoffman, and Oliver Platt. A chef feels creatively stunted by the menu at the restaurant he works at, leading him to quit his job and buy a food truck. It is a great movie about the power of friendship, fami...
If you haven't watched No Reservations you're really missing out! It's a heartwarming movie about a self-involved chef (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who is left to care for her niece after her sister dies in a car crash. She is forced to juggle her late nights in the kitchen and caring for a grief-stricken child while coming to terms with her own loss and...
When it comes to culinary movies Burnt is about as intensely exciting as it gets! One of France's most famous chefs, Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper), gets into trouble after destroying his career with drugs and bad behavior, in the process creating lots of enemies for himself. When he decides to reappear in the culinary world he realizes it is going to...
This movie won Meryl Streep yet another Golden Globe for best across in a motion picture and it's based on 2 real-life stories. It contrasts the lives of a young New Yorker, Julie, who feels like her life is bland and boring, with celebrity chef Julia Child in the early years of her culinary career. Julie attempts to cook all 524 recipes in Julia's...
This movie will leave you feeling all the emotions at the end of it! It is a story exceptionally well-told with food at the very center, produced by the one and only Steven Spielberg. In fact, it may make you fall in love with cooking enough to want to go to culinary school. After an Indian family's restaurant burns down they find themselves in a s...
Mar 24, 2022 · Chef. Chef features Jon Favreau as chef Carl Casper, who’s in “a creative rut,” working at a restaurant in L.A. that forces him to serve boring chocolate lava cake over and over to guests ...
Sep 7, 2023 · 7 Movies to Stream Right Now If You’re a Chef at Heart. If the cliché “the eyes are windows to the soul” holds true, surely watching movies about delicious food can nourish your soul ...
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