Films with theme "Cooking films", sorted by name

, 1h40
Directed by Mel Stuart
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Cooking films, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Denise Nickerson

In an unnamed European town, children go to a candy shop after school. Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum), whose family is poor, can only stare through the window as the shop owner sings "Candy Man". The newsagent for whom Charlie works after school gives him his weekly pay, which Charlie uses to buy a loaf of bread. On his way home, he passes Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. A mysterious tinker (Peter Capell) recites the first lines of William Allingham's poem "The Fairies", and tells Charlie, "Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out." Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother (Diana Sowle) and his four bedridden grandparents. After he tells Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson) about the tinker, Joe tells him that Wonka locked the factory because his arch-rival, Mr. Slugworth, and other candy makers sent in spies disguised as employees to steal Wonka's recipes. Wonka disappeared, but three years later began selling more candy; the origin of Wonka's labour force is a mystery.

, 1h55
Directed by Tim Burton
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Cooking films, Films about children, Films about families, Children's films
Actors Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Geoffrey Holder, Julia Winter, Helena Bonham Carter

Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) is a kind and loving boy living in poverty with his parents (Noah Taylor and Helena Bonham Carter) and four bedridden grandparents. They all rely on his father for income, employed at a toothpaste factory, responsible for putting the caps on the tubes. Down the street is Willy Wonka's (Johnny Depp) chocolate factory, which reopened after industrial espionage forced him into seclusion and to sack his employees. Charlie's Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) worked for Wonka before the termination.

, 16minutes
Directed by Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Mabel Normand, Slim Summerville, Billie Bennett, Harry McCoy

Mabel (Mabel Normand) tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie (Charles Chaplin) finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.

, 33minutes
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films, Films about the labor movement
Actors Chester Conklin, Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Schade, Phyllis Allen, John Francis Dillon, Edgar Kennedy

The story involves Chaplin and Chester Conklin working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.

, 52minutes
Origin Quebec
Genres Documentary
Themes Cooking films, Documentaire sur une personnalité

Chef Thémis, the founder of the Cooks Without Borders organization, returns to his country of origin, Madagascar, to teach classes and show the underprivileged how to cook. With very few means, he manages to put together his first class, comprising eighteen people. From his enthusiasm as he starts out to his doubts when faced with the gigantic task that lies ahead of him, the film accompanies him over the three years the project lasts. Beyond their adventure, the film asks a question that any emigrant may face. Querying exile and the need to repay a moral debt to the country they left behind.

, 1h49
Directed by Sandra Nettelbeck
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellitto, Ulrich Thomsen, Sibylle Canonica

Martha Klein (Martina Gedeck) is a chef at Lido, a gourmet restaurant in Hamburg, Germany. A perfectionist who lives only for her work, Martha has difficulty relating to the world other than through food. Her single-minded obsession with her culinary craft occasionally leads to unpleasant confrontations with customers. Consequently, the restaurant owner, Frida (Sibylle Canonica), requires her to see a therapist (August Zirner) to work out her poor interpersonal skills. Martha's therapy sessions, however, turn into monologues on food, and her approach to stress management usually involves briefly retreating to the restaurant's walk-in refrigerator.

, 24minutes
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Cooking films
Actors Philip Baker Hall, Kirk Baltz, Miguel Ferrer, Scott Coffey

An older man (Hall) is sitting at a table with a younger man (Kirk Baltz) at a diner discussing a matter over cigarettes and coffee. A newlywed couple sits at the table next to them discussing how the wife lost all their money gambling on craps. Another man, Bill (Miguel Ferrer), is outside of the diner making a phone call but the matter being discussed is unclear.

, 1h25
Directed by Daniel Cohen
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films
Actors Michaël Youn, Jean Reno, Raphaëlle Agogué, Julien Boisselier, Salomé Stévenin, Serge Larivière

Jacky Bonnot (Michaël Youn) is a young Frenchman living with his pregnant girlfriend (Raphaëlle Agogué). After being fired from a restaurant he becomes worried about the birth of his child, so he decides to get whatever job despite his passion for haute cuisine. Accepting a job as a painter, he find three internal cooks and helps improve their menu. These improvements eventually reach the ears of Alexandre Lagarde (Jean Reno), who is also in a precarious situation: as the renowned chef of the Cargo Lagarde restaurant, he has to improve or create innovations for the entire menu. If he cannot achieve this, the place will lose a star from its rating and Stanislas Matter (Julien Boisselier) will convert it into a molecular kitchen, with Alexandre and all the cooks losing their jobs. Jacky initially rejects the offer to work with Alexandre, because the position is an unpaid internship, but after hesitation, he accepts. Next day both Jacky and Alexandre start to cook but as soon as they begin, Jacky's finickiness and Alexandre's stubbornness leads to a discussion that concludes with Jacky being fired.

, 1h44
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Shriya Saran

When a Canadian diplomat and her chef husband move into the Canadian embassy in Delhi they threaten to derail the schemes of the longtime cook Stella (Seema Biswas) who has been skimming off the top for years.

, 4minutes
Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché, Louis Feuillade
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Cooking films, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère

Un caniche plein d’entrain s’empare d’une saucisse à la devanture d’une épicerie. Il est aussitôt poursuivi. Sur sa route, il rencontre :

, 1h32
Directed by Jean-Yves Pitoun
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films
Actors Jason Lee, Eddy Mitchell, Irène Jacob, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Sylvie Loeillet, Thibault de Montalembert

After a conflict with an officer, Loren Collins got fired from the US Navy, where he was learning to be a Chef. Too poor to pay for cooking studies he went to Dijon and got hired by Louis Boyer, the bad tempered owner of a prestigious restaurant.

, 1h36
Directed by Philippe Muyl
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Cooking films, L'action se déroule en une journée, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Zabou Breitman, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Sam Karmann, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui

Jacques et Martine, un couple de bourgeois ordinaires, invitent à dîner deux amis perdus de vue depuis dix ans : un écrivain et journaliste à succès et sa femme, entièrement dévouée à sa carrière. Parmi les invités figurent aussi Georges, le copain hébergé, et Fred, le frère de Martine, avec sa copine Marylin.

, 1h32
Origin Hong kong
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Cooking films, Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Timmy Hung, Wayne Lai, Gloria Yip, Sammo Hung, Carlo Chin, Tats Lau Yee-Tat

, 1h39
Directed by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Black comedy
Themes Cooking films, Films about music and musicians, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Political films, Comedy horror films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Alternate history films, Disaster films
Actors Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Rufus

In a dilapidated apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, food is in short supply and grain is used as currency. On the ground floor is a butcher's shop, run by the landlord, Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), who posts job opportunities in the Hard Times paper as means to lure victims to the building, whom he murders and butchers as a cheap source of meat to sell to his tenants.

, 1h41
Directed by Dominik Moll
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Cooking films, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Buddy films
Actors François Damiens, Vincent Macaigne, Veerle Baetens, Tom Rivoire, Olivia Côte, Michel Aumont

Philippe Mars est un quadragénaire rempli de gentillesse dont la rencontre avec Jérôme, un collègue de travail psychotique à la recherche du grand amour, va modifier profondément sa vie. Cette dernière est déjà quelque peu compliquée, entre son ex-femme qui se décharge sur lui de la garde de leurs enfants, une fille de 17 ans qui ne jure que par le travail et la réussite et un fils de 13 ans qui connaît ses premiers émois et ses premières révoltes. À cela s’ajoutent une sœur artiste déjantée, un boulot dans l'informatique si peu épanouissant et les apparitions hallucinatoires, mais bienveillantes de ses parents décédés... et de débats en famille autour du végétarisme.