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Plot Summary:
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. Due to Meiko's allergic reaction to pesticides, Akinori Kimura has to grow his apples without the aid of chemicals. Because of this challenge, his family endures hardships and suffers severe financial difficulties. Akinori Kimura even contemplates suicide. A miracle then happens.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
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Rice Rhapsody (2004)
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Fearing her son could be gay, a conservative mother takes in a French foreign exchange student, who ends up teaching the family a lot about life, acceptance, and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia
Duration: 106 min
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Delicacies Destiny (2022)
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A talented and kind chef, Ling Xiaoxiao, is accepted into the delicacy role of chef in an Imperial palace thanks to the appreciative appetite of the Crown Prince, Zhu Shoukui. Set on becoming the best Imperial Chef, with the Prince's help, Ling tries to navigate the pitfalls of palace life while remaining true to her goals in the face of forbidden love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
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Welcome to Norway (2016)
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A couple decide to open a home for refuges in the remote cold mountains of Norway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
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Kamogawa Shokudo (2016)
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Customers relying on a single line advertisement “Search for food with memories”, finally arrive at Kamogawa Shokudo, which has no signboard or fabric curtain. Those who come to this inconspicuous eatery near Higashi Honganji in Kyoto are people of today who have troubles. Work, family, life, love, interpersonal relationships… Although their troubles are wide-ranging, the eatery’s poster girl Kamogawa Koishi accepts customers’ troubles with sincerity while her father, Nagare uses the instincts and powers of observation honed as a detective, to identify what meals customers truly desire and demonstrates his skills by recreating them. Customers who eat the “food with memories”, which are the fruits of the efforts of Koishi and Nagare, will leave Kamogawa Shokudo, finding the courage to live and pleasures of life.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
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National Mechanics (1972)
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A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Ikemen Domoyo Meshi wo Kue (2022)
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Ikeda Yoshimi, a 28-year-old editor of a literary magazine who loves otome games and loves good-looking guys, will be in charge of a gourmet magazine even though she is not good at eating with ultra-small meals. However, she notices that when she eats with good-looking men, her appetite increases, and she pursues "good-looking rice" to improve her small meals.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Together Forever Tea (2021)
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Marketing whiz Lara Thompson is living a fast-paced life in the big city when she's summoned to the sleepy town of Kissing Falls to settle the affairs of her late Aunt Vivienne who owned a tea shop. Lara originally plans to sell the shop quickly, but switches course to fulfill her aunt's last wish - to have one of her teas awarded by the prestigious International Council of Tea Sommeliers. With the help of handsome local flower expert Matt, Lara sets out to recreate a long lost "love potion" tea. One problem - the tea's secret ingredient is the extinct Kissing Falls rose. As Lara and Matt work together, she finds herself not only falling for Matt but for the town itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
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Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
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The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies. Notwithstanding her healthy distrust of all strangers, which her upbringing instilled in her, it is not long before a cunning racketeer finds her weak point, that temptation which she cannot resist, that weakness, different as it may be, that each of us has, and brings her into his power. What follows is a depiction of her cruel descent into the depths of moral decay, as she becomes a collaborator in a system of exploitation, unbridled lust, vanity, and greed, in which she and other victims are always the losers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Eastfrisian for Beginners (2016)
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A heart warming comedy about a grumpy old man, who is confronted with a group of migrant workers and has to challenge his prejudices.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
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Sukiyaki (2011)
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Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the "newcomer." Meanwhile, Kenta is bummed out with simple meal offerred in prison. The four other prisoners in his jail cell have no problems eating his food. On lunar new year's day the prison offers the traditional Osechi-Ryori dish. The inmates in the cell gather to play a game that has become an annual ritual. They compete for items from each other's dishes by boating about the most delicious things they have ever eaten. Shunsuke Aida (Motoki Ochiai) begins their game by talking about a dish which his mother made.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Dad's Lunch Box (2017)
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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 effort into equipping his daughter with sustenance for school.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Open Tables (2015)
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Within the walls of the trendiest restaurants, behind the closed doors of private dinner parties, and on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Open Tables, uses the the exploding foodie scene as the backdrop for intertwining stories of true love, love lost, and the importance of a good main course. Sam and Kate host a group of friends for dinner in hopes that sparks will fly between Kate's younger sister Cassie and their friend Ryan. Joining them at the table is Jon (Desmin Borges from FX's You're the Worst) and Dana, a couple with a seemingly perfect relationship. The first act of OPEN TABLES embraces a world where true love prevails and where even the most complicated of people can find their soul mate, even when - and sometimes because - their circumstances are unique. As the group dines, stories emerge. To impress Cassie, Ryan boasts about his sexual conquests; Jon and Dana tell the tale of betrayal that led to their connection, and Sam and Kate share the story of their friend Hannah,.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 76 min
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Waiter! (1983)
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After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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Two Many Chefs (2022)
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Mikel, a young cook, meets with his father Juan, who had been missing for 30 years. While trying to keep his restaurant afloat, Mikel has to take care of crazed Juan, a former cook who suffers from a mental condition that prevents him from recognizing neither the aforementioned time gap nor his son Mikel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
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Cinnamon (2012)
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Maria is a girl who loves to cook and lives with his grandmother, Doña Tere, in Mexico City's downtown. Doña Tere has a traditional Mexican restaurant called "El Molcajete". After the death of her daughter, Doña Tere abandoned his passion for cooking and stopped working in "El Molcajete", now operating under the direction of chef Rosi. Maria does everything possible to bring her grandmother back to the restaurant, while chef Rosi cooks dishes according to new trends in fusion cuisine which highlights the light food, but Maria and Doña Tere won't accept the traditional flavors and cooking secrets to be forgotten. The cuisine battle between Tere and chef Rosi is an epic fight not only between long-stablished mexican food and light food, but also a struggle of family bonds, friendship, cooking secrets, flavour’s passion and more than two hundred ingredients that are needed in order to prepare Mole, a traditional mexican sauce.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Final Recipe (2013)
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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 place of a contestant who did not show up and must now impress the host, Julia Lee, and her chef husband, David Chen. Chen, who is originally from Singapore and misses his family, eventually learns he is Mark's father.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea, Thailand, Singapore
Duration: 97 min
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Kitchen with Apartment (1993)
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Jacques et Martine, couple de bourgeois ordinaires, ont invité à dîner un ami perdu de vue depuis dix ans et devenu depuis une vedette des médias.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: philosophical, cult film
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Sushi in Suhl (2012)
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One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise for some of his best customers and it became a great success. Even the local paper wrote about it - and this should change the life of Rolf Anschütz forever. A couple of days after the "event" a real Japanese turned up at the restaurant and demanded the same meal again. From this moment there was no way back. The Japanese loved Rolf Anschütz cooking and his restaurant "Der Waffenschmied" (Gunsmith) soon was honored as the place which offered the best and most authentic Japanese cuisine outside Japan. In the shortest time the Japanese have accepted Rolf Anschütz as one theirs. They celebrate the Authenzität of his kitchen and the "original" Japanese washing rituals before the meals would be served. First diplomats, later Japanese.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exotic
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Glasses (2007)
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Harried and overworked, Taeko leaves the city for a much-needed island vacation. Stepping off a propeller plane onto golden sands, she drags her giant suitcase across the beach to Hamada Inn. Owner Yuji is impressed; it's the first time in three years a guest has made it to the inn without getting lost. The next morning Taeko wakes up to the greetings of peculiar fellow vacationer Sakura who leads the townspeople in funny morning calisthenics on the beach. Thus begins Taeko's strange vacation on this strange island full of strange people. At first Taeko finds the laidback attitude and mass idleness hard to bear, but soon she too begins to see the joy in "twilighting".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Eating (1990)
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At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent turning 50. So, all of Helene's, Kate's, and Sadie's friends arrive for the party where Martine films the events with her movie camera and the shocking secrets revealed by Helene's mother Whitney, and her younger sister Nancy whom confide in their interviews about their obsession with food, and their roles in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious
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Haute Cuisine (2012)
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The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, culinary, non-linear, documentary filmmaking
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Le Grand Chef (2007)
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A young, incredibly talented chef quits the profession after a contest to head a world-class restaurant ends in tragedy. Retiring to a small rural town with his grandfather, he finds a new and more peaceful existence, working as a farmer and selling vegetables at the local market. Even though content in his new life, when a nationwide cooking competition offers him the chance to take on his long-time rival, Seong-Chan embarks on a journey that will forever change his view of the world and lead him to the most startling revelations.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, serious, suspenseful
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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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Eat Your Heart Out (1997)
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A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bread of Happiness (2012)
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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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Midnight Diner (2014)
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Every night, Master (Kaoru Kobayashi) is busy with customers at the restaurant he runs. He has a worried face, looking at the funerary urn which someone left at his restaurant. His customers also talk about the funerary urn.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Umami (2022)
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Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min
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Kamome Diner (2006)
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Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her, and meets Masako, a formal and ethereal middle-aged woman whose luggage has gone missing. The three women work in the diner, interact, and serve customers. A somewhat brusque man teaches Sachie to make delicious coffee, then he returns under other circumstances. Three neighborhood women inspect the empty diner every day; will anything bring them inside? The number of customers gradually increases, but the diner seems to attract only those with problems. Conversation with Sachie and the tasty food seem to resolve people's woes. We learn why Sachie serves rice balls; but why Finland?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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The Chef of South Polar (2009)
Plot Summary:
When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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Soul Food (1997)
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Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond) to pull the family together and put the soul back into the family's weekly gatherings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, sentimental, touching, hood, sincere, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious