Kitchen cinema

i looove movies about food and cooking and meal sharing. here are my favorites!

Pig

2021 / Drama, mystery

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the wilderness must visit the city to find the person who stole his beloved foraging pig.

Featured food

  • Truffles
  • Baguette
  • Pigeon with wild chanterelles and huckleberries

First Cow

2019 / Western, drama

In the 1820s, a reserved cook travels west to Oregon Territory where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. The two team up to steal milk from a wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.

Featured food

Adam

2019 / Drama

Abla runs a modest bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives with her daughter Warda. Their daily routine is interrupted one day by the arrival of Samia, a pregnant woman looking for a job and roof over her head.

Featured food

The Lunchbox

2013 / Drama, romance

A mix-up in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife and a lonely widower. Through the lunchboxes, they begin to exchange notes.

Featured food

Ratatouille

2007 / Family, comedy

Remy, a rat, possesses a refined palate and aspires to be a chef. When fate leads him to one of Paris’s finest restaurants, he forms an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker to pursue his culinary ambitions.

Featured food

Kamome Diner

2006 / Drama, comedy

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie opens a diner serving Japanese comfort food. Two tourists offer to help out in the kitchen and the restaurant slowly gains customers.

Featured food

  • Coffee
  • Onigiri
  • Cinnamon rolls

Big Night

1996 / Drama, comedy, romance

In 1950s New Jersey, two immigrant brothers plan an elaborate banquet to save their struggling Italian restaurant.

Featured food

Babette’s Feast

1987 / Drama, comedy

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past serves an exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

Featured food

Honorable mentions

i need to rewatch these to refresh my memory

  • tampopo
  • eat drink man woman
  • like water for chocolate

not "food movies" but still have memorable food scenes

  • the third act of moonlight where kevin calls chiron to say he'll cook for him and chiron drives like nine hours just to meet kevin at his restaurant and they share a meal together after not seeing each other for years...uwahhh
  • scenes at the dinner table in minari
  • all the casual food scenes in the godfather movies (the famed meatballs and cannoli, the oranges) and moonstruck (nic cage being a baker, the various meals, the chaotic breakfast scene at the end. thanks for reminding me of this em!). fascinated by how italian americans are nearly always portrayed with food on screen

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