The Way to the Heart

2022

English

♡ 6

99%

father daughter relationship

Wendy Ord Director

Meghan Heffern as Ava

Bob Blumer as Bill

Ethan Ready as Doug Jon Cor

Jon Cor as Logan

Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to inspire her, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Logan, Ava has to get her head out of the clouds and her foot out of her mouth to rediscover her passion for food.

The Ramen Girl

2008

English

6.3

♡ 30

51%

Robert Allan Ackerman Director

Brittany Murphy as Abby

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Grand Master

Masayoshi Nogami as Merchant 1

Kimiko Yo as Reiko

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Abe

2019

English

6.2

♡ 10

70%

Fernando Grostein Andrade Director

Noah Schnapp as Abe

Teddy Coluca as Donny The Thief

Gero Camilo as Mandioca

Steve Routman as Mike Gold

A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through cooking.

Italianamerican

1974

English

7.6

♡ 7

82%

Martin Scorsese Director

Martin Scorsese as Self

Charles Scorsese as Self

Catherine Scorsese as Self

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.

Midnight Diner 2

2016

Japanese

7.4

♡ 8

80%

Joji Matsuoka Director

Kimiko Yo as Chieko

Takashi Yamanaka as Gen

Mitsuki Tanimura as Kasumi

Yutaka Matsushige as Ryu

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

Words on Bathroom Walls

2020

English

7.2

♡ 69

89%

Thor Freudenthal Director

Molly Parker as Beth

Andy Garcia as Father Patrick

Devon Bostick as Joaquin

Walton Goggins as Paul

Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.

From Prada to Nada

2011

English

5.5

♡ 12

24%

Angel Gracia Director

Adriana Barraza as Aurelia Jimenez

Wilmer Valderrama as Bruno

Karla Souza as Lucy

Camilla Belle as Nora Dominguez

Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.

Like Water for Chocolate

1992

Spanish

7.1

♡ 17

88%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

Alfonso Arau Director

Arcelia Ramírez as Bisnieta

Marco Leonardi as Pedro Muzquiz

Yareli Arizmendi as Rosaura

Lorena Villarreal as Soldier

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

A Dash of Love

2017

English

6.6

♡ 17

parent child relationship

restaurant owner

Romance

valentine's day

Christie Will Director

Kelly-Ruth Mercier as Beth

Peri Gilpin as Holly Hanson

Brendan Penny as Paul Dellucci

Frances Flanagan as Trish Dellucci

A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former glory by presenting her new assistant's recipes as her own.

Hint of Love

2020

English

6.2

♡ 7

Kevin Fair Director

Matteo Bolognese as David Fryer

Aadila Dosani as Madeline Johnson

Matthew James Dowden as Robert Flannigan

Dennis Andres as Will Fryer

A cookbook literary agent with culinary training is tasked with helping elevate the brand of a food channel personality known for his convenience-oriented recipes. However, as the agent works with her client on a new cookbook, playfully clashing over everything from ingredients to tastes, she must choose between following the directions or her heart.

Love on the Road

2021

English

6.4

♡ 10

Robert Lieberman Director

Erin Cahill as Abby Brooks

Scott Bellis as Bill

Francesca Bianchi as Kenna

Jesse Hutch as Tom Billings

When restaurant makeover show host Abby gets a new assignment to turn a rustic small-town diner into a place on the culinary map, she knows she’s way out of her element. But as Abby and diner owner Tom spend time together in and out of the kitchen, Abby discovers the joy of good comfort food, a place she just might call home, and a thing she just might call love.

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

2014

Japanese

7.6

♡ 17

88%

Jun'ichi Mori Director

Yôichi Nukumizu as

Takahiro Miura as

Ai Hashimoto as Ichiko

Mayu Matsuoka as Kikko

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

Chef Donald

1941

English

7.1

♡ 12

Action

Animation

anthropomorphic animal

Jack King Director

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck

Florence Gill as Nearby Chicken

Sarah Selby as Old Mother Mallard

Donald decides to try cooking along with a radio show.

Love on Fire

2022

English

5.9

♡ 3

Christie Will Director

Beverley Elliott as Betty Anne

Christopher Russell as 'Big' Mo Wagner

Garry Chalk as Don Hamilton

Tegan Moss as Gianna Summers

Gia Summers is ready to start again with a promising new job, a new lakeside neighborhood, and a brand new home! After moving in, Gia soon forms an unexpected friendship with her next door neighbor, firefighter and single dad Jim Dunlap, whose love for barbecuing is equalled only by Gia's passion for cooking.

Julia

2021

English

7.6

♡ 4

96%

Julie Cohen Director

Dan Aykroyd as Self

John F. Kennedy as Self

Jay Leno as Self

Rachael Ray as Self

Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.

The Recipe

2010

Korean

6.5

♡ 4

58%

Suh-Goon Lee Director

Seung-mok Yoo as Deuk-goo Kim

Ji-hoon Kim as Firefighter

Dong-Wook Lee as Hyeon-soo Kim

Kwon Hyuk-soo as Mountain road keeper

A man on death-row wants to taste "doenjang jjigae" (a spicy Korean bean paste stew) before he dies. Television producer Choi Yu-Jin hears of the inmate and researches his story for an upcoming news report. Choi Yu-Jin then comes across a mysterious woman named Jang Hye-Jin who makes doenjang jjigae that brings tears of joy to those who tastes her recipe. As Choi Yu-Jin delves further, he learns of Jang Hye-Jin's heart breaking relationship with Kim Hyun-Soo.

Hindsight

2011

Korean

6.3

♡ 9

30%

Hyun-seung Lee Director

Kang-ho Song as Doo-hyeon Esom

Esom as Eun-jeong

Yuh-Jung Youn as Lady Yoon

Se-Kyung Shin as Se-bin

A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.

Chef Antonio's Recipes for Revolution

2021

English

7.6

♡ 2

Trevor Graham Director

A feature documentary following Antonio de Benedetto, an Italian chef on a quest to change the world with food. His apprentices are aspiring chefs with Down syndrome, who travel from across Italy to train and work in hospitality and take their place at the table of life and find their pathway to freedom and independence.

A Taste of Sky

2019

English

7.2

♡ 1

Michael Lei Director

Michelangelo Cestari as Self

Claus Meyer as Self

Kamilla Seidler as Self

Danish culinary entrepreneur and Noma co-founder Claus Meyer has kickstarted a gastronomic revolution in Bolivia’s capital of La Paz with the opening of Gustu, a fine-dining restaurant and cooking school for the country’s impoverished youth. Kenzo, a hunter raised in the Bolivian Amazon, and Maria Claudia, a native of the Andean altiplano, have resettled in La Paz in order to pursue a career in the culinary arts. Under the tutelage of Meyer, these young Bolivians are working towards a better future as they attempt to establish their country as the world’s next great culinary destination.

Merry Textmas

2022

English

5.7

♡ 1

Alba Gil Director

Eugenio Montessoro as

Rodrigo Massa as Alex

Lorena Enríquez as Gabriela

Mar Carrera as Gabys's Mom

Gaby Diaz, an app developer from Austin, Texas, and the last unmarried sibling in her family, heads to her abuela’s house in Oaxaca, Mexico, for the holidays. When she accidentally adds Alex Alvarada, a graphic designer who’s lost touch with his own Mexican roots, to the family group chat, her family invites him to come along for the holidays.

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The Ramen Girl

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Words on Bathroom Walls

From Prada to Nada

Like Water for Chocolate

A Dash of Love

Hint of Love

Love on the Road

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

Chef Donald

Love on Fire

Julia

The Recipe

Hindsight

Chef Antonio's Recipes for Revolution

A Taste of Sky

Merry Textmas