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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
25 films tagged food
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Little-known
2025 · Romance
Two young people meet, drop everything and move to a new city together, where she chases a career as a chef and he cannot get himself going. The strain shows in the relationship.
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2025 · Comedy
An architect and a chef move to California, and then her restaurant takes off in the same week his building falls down. The marriage sours from there, in very sharp dialogue.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
After his mother dies, a New York transit mechanic spends her life insurance on a Staten Island restaurant with a kitchen staffed entirely by grandmothers. Warm, slow and based on a real place.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An American widower flies to Italy to stop his grown daughter spending her inheritance on a one-euro village villa, and gets drawn into the rebuild and the village himself. It is light, and it takes its time over the scenery.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A chef on the way up goes back to the roadside town she grew up in after her father's heart attack, and runs into the boy she loved at school. It is a musical, so what people feel comes out as songs.
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2026 · Comedy
After her sister dies, a young baker in San Francisco keeps leaving voicemails on her number, which has been reassigned to a man in Austin who starts listening. It is a romantic comedy with a lot of grief in it.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
In 1975 a nineteen-year-old Anthony Bourdain follows a girl to Provincetown, runs out of money, and talks his way into a dishwashing job at a seafood restaurant. It is one summer in a loud, drug-soaked kitchen.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
An aspiring chef who house-sits for a living flies to Tuscany on a whim and lets herself into the empty villa of a man she spent one evening with, and then his mother walks in. It is a romantic comedy in the sun.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
Two college roommates take an experimental drug, learn the hallucinations only stop if they eat, and set out across the dorm for the pizza they ordered. One night, one building, and a run of very silly trials.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
Every time a young man eats his mother's cooking he sees a number in front of him, and it drops by one with every meal. Once he works out what happens at zero, he starts inventing reasons not to eat at home.
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2017 · Romance
A young man running his family's sheep farm in Yorkshire drinks himself stupid every night until a Romanian worker arrives for lambing season. Quiet, muddy, and very short on dialogue.
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2008 · Animation
A noodle shop panda who knows every kung fu legend by heart is picked, by accident, to train with masters who did not ask for him. Bright and quick, with fights built like slapstick.
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2020 · Drama
A Korean family move to a patch of Arkansas farmland in the 1980s so the father can grow vegetables to sell, and the grandmother comes over to help. Gentle and slow, seen largely through the youngest boy.
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2017 · Adventure
A girl in the Korean mountains has raised a hippo-sized pig for ten years, and the company that made the animal wants it back in New York. It swings between sweet and rough, sometimes in the same scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2007 · Animation
A rat with an exceptional nose and a taste for cooking ends up steering a hopeless kitchen boy around a famous Paris restaurant. Nobody can be allowed to know.
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2022 · Horror
In 1918 a young woman stuck on her family's Texas farm while her husband is away at war dreams of dancing in pictures. Bright, slow, and mostly her on the same few acres.
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Little-known
2021 · Drama
A man who lives alone in the Oregon woods with his truffle pig goes back into Portland when somebody takes her. Quiet and slow, and much of it is people talking about food.
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2004 · Comedy
Two old friends spend a week driving round California wine country before one of them gets married, one talking about wine and the other chasing women. Mostly conversation, and it wanders.
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2021 · Comedy
The staff of an American magazine based in a French town put together one last issue, and three of its articles play out as separate stories. Dozens of actors, packed frames, and it never sits still.
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2013 · Romance
Mumbai's lunchbox service delivers a wife's cooking to the wrong desk, and the man who eats it writes back. Most of the film is two people passing notes, in a city that never stops moving.
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2022 · Horror
A couple pay a great deal of money for dinner at an island restaurant, where a famous chef serves a tasting menu he has planned very carefully. One building, one evening, course by course.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
A cook and a Chinese immigrant in 1820s Oregon start selling fried cakes made with milk taken at night from the only cow in the territory. Very slow and very gentle.
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2007 · Musical
A barber comes back to London after fifteen years transported and reopens his shop above a failing pie shop. Sung throughout, and very bloody.
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Little-known
2023 · Drama
A cook and the gourmet she has worked for over twenty years prepare meals together in a French country kitchen. The first half hour is one lunch being made.
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1971 · Family
A poor boy wins one of five tickets to tour a secretive chocolate factory with four other children. Songs, and the host is not entirely reassuring.
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