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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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The Blue Diner (2001)
Plot Summary:
A film about food, memory, language and caskets, BLUE DINER tells the story of a Puerto Rican mother and her daughter who struggle to explain how the daughter mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, her first language.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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What's Cooking? (2000)
Plot Summary:
In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, Isabel's son has invited her estranged husband to their family dinner. Audrey and Ron Williams want to keep their own family's ruptures secret from Ron's visiting mother. In the Seelig household, Herb and Ruth are unwilling to discuss openly their grown daughter's living with her lover, Carla. Around each table, things come to a head. A gun, an affair, a boyfriend, and a pregnancy precipitate crises forcing each family to find its center.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, talky, independent film, romantic, feel good
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Jump Tomorrow (2001)
Plot Summary:
When shy, straitlaced George (Tunde Adebimpe) meets vivacious, adorable Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard (Hippolyte Girardot), a lovesick, voluble Frenchman who overcomes George's sense of propriety and takes him on a meandering road trip to amour.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sweet, touching, feel good, cult classic, clever, offbeat, road movie, realistic
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Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, are suffering relationship trouble, and through it all, she has to organize her family reunion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, uplifting, realistic, touching, semi serious, romantic, christian film, funny, black comedy
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Seasons Of Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: uplifting, humorous, semi serious, sincere, romantic, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Shades of Ray (2008)
Plot Summary:
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer. While trying to get his parents back together, Ray meets a South Asian girl of mixed descent, just like him, and must decide where his identity truly lies.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, informative, romantic comedy, independent film
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In Good Company (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, romantic comedy, sentimental, emotional, humorous, semi serious, romantic, clever
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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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Once Around (1991)
Plot Summary:
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his excessively flamboyant style and irrepressible nature. The very traits she finds romantic, however, lead to repeated conflict with her family, especially her beloved father Joe, leaving Renata trapped in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, bad ending, sad, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Plot Summary:
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 film progresses, each of the daughters encounters new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, the stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.. The film features several scenes displaying the techniques and artistry of gourmet Chinese cooking. Since the family members have difficulty expressing their love for each other, the intricate preparation of banquet quality dishes for their Sunday dinners is the surrogate for their familial feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: romantic, visual, feel good, humorous, retro, spiritual, culinary, art house, aesthetic, twisted
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Meet My Valentine (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Tom learns that he has terminal brain cancer, he decides to find a replacement husband for his wife and a father to his daughter, before it is too late. Unbeknownst to his wife Valentine, Tom sets up an on-line dating profile for her, and realizes that he doesn't know much about her anymore. Tom endeavors to get to know Valentine, and learns why he fell in love with her all those years ago... just in time to say goodbye.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, disturbing, serious, emotional, realistic
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Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Plot Summary:
It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic, independent film
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Jersey Girl (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, touching, sexy, sincere, humorous, entertaining, anamorphic
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The Evening Star (1996)
Plot Summary:
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: touching, cult classic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, romantic, road movie
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Our Family Wedding (2010)
Plot Summary:
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, black comedy, hispanic, independent film
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Father of the Bride (1991)
Plot Summary:
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. He becomes slightly insane, but his wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental, funny, romantic, sweet, entertaining, romantic comedy, family comedy
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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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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Enough Said (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert — a sweet, funny and like-minded man. But things get complicated when Eva discovers that Albert is in fact the dreaded ex–husband of Marianne.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, clever, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, light, realistic
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Big Night (1996)
Plot Summary:
Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, witty, melancholic, sincere, culinary, sweet, independent film, clever, touching, humorous
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Soul Food (1997)
Plot Summary:
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
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No Reservations (2007)
Plot Summary:
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 her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, uplifting, touching, cute, culinary, light, romantic comedy
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Le Chef (2012)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, sentimental, funny, touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, culinary, social, happy
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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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Chef (2014)
Plot Summary:
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 his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 227000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: inspirational, feel good, touching, road movie, culinary, suspense, entertaining, scenic, semi serious, motivational
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Must Love Dogs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, stylized, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, light, entertaining, humorous
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The Holiday (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man (Jude Law, Jack Black) but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 311000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, sentimental, light, touching, humorous, romantic comedy, cute, funny
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The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Plot Summary:
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, sentimental, touching, sweet, culinary, humorous, serious, realistic, semi serious