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Plot Summary:
Set on a tropical island in Thailand, the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking. Following a near death escape, he returns to Montreal and falls hard for the woman of his life who unfortunately craves only his cooking but not his loving. Worse still, strange things surfacing around him indicate that his journey to the Far East has deep, divine implications. The stage is set for him to take the 1st bite of true love and end the cycle of suffering for all involved.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sexy, captivating, humorous
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Everybody Says I'm Fine! (2001)
Plot Summary:
Everybody Says I'm Fine! is an Indian English language film, released on 12 September 2001 at the Toronto Film Festival. It marks the directorial debut of Indian actor Rahul Bose. For his work on Everybody Says I'm Fine! Bose won the runner-up John Schlesinger Award for best directorial debut at the 2003 Palm Springs International Film Festival.The film revolves around a small group of elite Mumbaikars whose lives converge at a hairdresser's salon. The protagonist Xen owns the salon and has a unique gift of connecting with the minds of his clients and reading their thoughts while at work. Most of his customers maintain a facade of normality in order to gain semblance and hide their tumultuous lives to some extent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, sincere, erotic, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Butterfly Man (2002)
Plot Summary:
Adventure/romance about an English backpacker whose world falls apart when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl on an exotic Thai island.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Romance
Country: UK, Thailand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious
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Rio, I Love You (2014)
Plot Summary:
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil, USA, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, semi serious, uplifting, feel good, humorous, captivating, witty, anthology, atmospheric
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Love Island (2014)
Plot Summary:
Love Island tells the story of a pregnant French woman who lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter. They go for a vacation at a Croatian island, where things get complicated when they all become attracted to a beautiful woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, sexy, realistic, sexual
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Delicious (2013)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from prison, French chef Jacques pursues an obsession -- to leave his past behind and work for the great British chef Victor Ellwood. He knows Victor had an affair with his mother and may even be his dad. Working for iron-fisted Victor is back-breaking, but his existence is softened by the presence of a curious girl living in the downstairs flat. As he falls in love with her, he realises she not only has an aversion to restaurants, but food of all kinds. Is her eating disorder a force too resilient for anything, even love to cure?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, humorous, emotional
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Fetching Cody (2005)
Plot Summary:
Art, a drug-addicted dealer and hustler, arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, offbeat, humorous, independent film, dark comedy
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Seasoned With Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Winona Applegate is on the fast track to becoming a celebrity chef, already running a very successful bistro in Pittsburgh. With nerves building, she leaves for New York to audition for her own show in front of television executives. Unfortunately, her car breaks down near New Holland, a small, quirky town where Winona rents a room at a local inn run by Adam, a widower. With the local Spring Festival coming up and the resident cook unavailable to manage the menu, Winona agrees to get her car fixed in time for her audition in exchange for her much needed help in the Inn's kitchen. As she prepares for the festival with Adam, Winona begins to fall in love with New Holland and one of its residents as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional
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Every Other Week (2006)
Plot Summary:
Pontus is divorced and has custody of his children every other week while living life as a bachelor the rest of the time. His older brother, Jens, is married since 20 years and has three children. When Jens' marriage collapses, he moves in with his younger brother - a move which will change both of their lives radically.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, psychological, emotional, captivating, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Seducing Maarya (2000)
Plot Summary:
Vijay Chatterjee is a lonely widower and a successful restaurateur in Montreal. His thoroughly Westernized son Ashish works at his father's eatery but is more interested in the rock band that he started with his friend Michael. One day, Vijay meets the elegant, strikingly beautiful Maarya, who recently emigrated from Calcutta. He immediately hires her for his restaurant and introduces her to Ashish, thinking that she would make the perfect wife. Though Maarya soon realizes that the young Chatterjee has a closer relationship to Michael than she originally thought, she plays along, keeping the secret from Ashish's dad so that she can remain in the country. When the elder Chatterjee starts to pursue Maarya and her jealous knife-wielding brother arrives on the scene, this volatile situation turns downright explosive.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, erotic
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Mediterranean Food (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sofia's story, the best chef the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, clever, realistic, witty
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The Food Guide to Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional love story about an Irish food writer and a politically committed Spanish woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Ireland, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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A Chef in Love (1996)
Plot Summary:
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 that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Georgia, Ukraine, Belgium, Russia, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, feel good, serious, captivating, realistic, erotic, fairy tale, romantic, sexy
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Magic Kitchen (2004)
Plot Summary:
Yau (Sammi Cheng) is a successful chef and owner of a restaurant which is located in a flat called Magical Kitchen which is more like a home rather than like a restaurant. In a tale told by Yau's mother, that she would be haunted by a family curse overshadowing three generations, which destines her (Yau) to fail in every relationship. On a tour of the Iron Chef TV show in Japan, Yau is at the crossroads between her love life and career.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, clever, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Every Blessed Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when they decide to have a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Tbilisi, I Love You (2014)
Plot Summary:
Following "Paris, Je t'aime" "New York,I Love You" and "Rio, Eu Te Amo" “Tbilisi, I Love You” has become the next film in the “Cities of Love” franchise.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sexy, touching, captivating, uplifting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, anthology
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18 Meals (2010)
Plot Summary:
Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's debut feature, shot over nine days in Santiago de Compostela has enough tasty portions to please audiences. Amongst Coira's expansive ensemble are aging street musician Edu, a pair awaking from a one-night stand, a businessman visiting his closeted homosexual brother and a lonely housewife, Sol. Victor and Sol are two of 18 MEALS' most fascinating characters as they each hide something - his sexuality, her depression - from those around them. Best of all is Pedro Alsono as Vladimir, a local celebrity actor who makes a meal for a mystery woman who never arrives. Who hasn't gone to a lot of trouble to do something extra special for someone just to have it go unappreciated?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, humorous, semi serious, culinary, feel good
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Simply Irresistible (1999)
Plot Summary:
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, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, cute, teen, entertaining, culinary, sex comedy, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good
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Just Add Romance (2019)
Plot Summary:
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?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, sweet, emotional, romantic comedy, culinary
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Just Desserts (2004)
Plot Summary:
Marco Poloni's family owns a bakery in the Bronx and it seems that they have fallen on hard times and his family is considering selling the bakery. Marco then decides to enter a baking competition hoping that the money and publicity will help them. But he needs a partner, so her asks Grace Carpenter, the baker of restaurant, but unfortunately they started off on the wrong foot, but she agrees. So they go to the competition and things seem to be looking good except for a few complications. One of the other contestant Jacques du Jacques is Marco's former classmate at the Academy, whom he says betrayed him. Emil, one of the judges, is Marco's former instructor at the Academy whom he did not leave a good impression on. And Marco's temper. So will they be able to pull it off. And at the same time Marco finds himself attracted to her but she already has a boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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A Taste of Romance (2012)
Plot Summary:
Uptight French chef, Sara Westbrook, gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a new restaurant moving in next door run by a group of rowdy firemen. Led by handsome former fire fighter Gill Callahan and his friend Danny, The Five Alarm Grill is soon a big success while Sara and Patsy, her pastry chef, struggle to bring in customers. Sara suddenly softens when she meets Gill's ten-year-old daughter Hannah. Ignoring the obvious tension between her dad and Sara, Hannah is soon playing matchmaker. Can Gill and Sara's burgeoning romance survive the temptation to compete with each other, or will the heat of competition drive them apart?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sweet, funny, emotional, cute, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bread of Happiness (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, semi serious, culinary, independent film
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Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jack and Jill's Manifesto of Rules to Live By Rule 1 Be honest Rule 2 Believe in fairy tales Rule 3 Accept time as our friend Rule 4 Make sure the nooky is good Rule 5 Promote beauty. Wage a sustained campaign against ugliness Rule 6 Abandon the pursuit of happiness and its false promise Rule 7 Show compassion, except to pirates Rule 8 Less TV Rule 9 Always be willing to admit when you're wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, romantic, sad, realistic, semi serious, teen comedy
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Manual of Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, saga, realistic, anthology
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A Silent Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, romantic, romantic drama, realistic, crying
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Love's Kitchen (2011)
Plot Summary:
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 run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye - and taste buds - of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton (Claire Forlani) and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts - and their stomachs - in full.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, culinary, realistic
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The Ramen Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, touching, humorous, semi serious, romantic, teen, culinary, thought provoking, realistic
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Mademoiselle (2001)
Plot Summary:
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Tortilla Soup (2001)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, sweet, sincere, feel good, humorous, culinary, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, independent film
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Mostly Martha (2001)
Plot Summary:
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 eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, culinary, funny
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My Faraway Bride (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and obligations, Reena returns home without saying goodbye. Alex, distraught by the turn of events, decides to follow her to Mumbai and win her back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic