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Kitchen Stories
Kitchen Stories (2004)
, 1h35
Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Cooking films
Actors Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Leif Andrée, Lennart Jähkel, Trond Brænne

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
Just Desserts
Just Desserts (2004)
, 1h32
Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly, Andrew Lauer, Brenda Vaccaro, Bertrand Maria, Rodger Bumpass

Marco Poloni (Costas Mandylor) enters a baking competition entitled "The Golden Whisk" to attract publicity and win prize money to support his struggling family-owned bakery. He asks for the help of uptight pastry-maker Grace Carpenter (Lauren Holly), and to show up an old rival who has also entered. Along the way Marco and Grace seem to find a mutual attraction for each other.
Dumplings
Dumplings (2004)
, 1h31
Directed by Fruit Chan (陳果)
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Cooking films, Pregnancy films
Actors Miriam Yeung (杨千嬅), Tony Leung Ka-fai, Bai Ling, Miki Yeung

A rich woman and former actress named Mrs. Li is losing her good looks and longs for passion with her husband, who is revealed to be having a love affair with his younger and more attractive masseuse. In order to boost her image, she seeks the help of Aunt Mei, a local chef. Mei cooks her some special dumplings which she claims to be effective for rejuvenation. From the very beginning, Mrs. Li was aware that Mei used unborn fetuses imported from the abortion clinic in Shenzhen, where Mei used to work. She keeps seeking more potent remedies, until one day she is in luck: Mei had just performed a black market abortion on a girl five months pregnant (Kate) who has been impregnated by her father. After Mrs. Li sneaks a look in the kitchen and sees the fetus, she is initially disgusted and runs away, but later comes back. Mei makes the fetus into dumplings, which Mrs. Li devours. This has a wondrous effect on her libido as she goes into the hospital and has sex with her husband.
Mondovino
Mondovino (2004)
, 2h15
Directed by Jonathan Nossiter
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Cooking films, La mondialisation, Documentaire sur la cuisine

Sur trois continents, Mondovino présente les sagas de succession de tout-puissants milliardaires de la Napa Valley en Californie (voir Robert Mondavi), les rivalités de deux dynasties aristocrates florentines, et les conflits de trois générations d'une famille bourguignonne se battant pour conserver ses quelques hectares de vigne. Mais toutes ces luttes ne sont-elles pas secondaires à ce corsaire espiègle de Bordeaux portant allègrement la bonne parole de la modernité de l'Italie à l’Argentine en passant par New York ? Le vin a été un symbole de la civilisation occidentale pendant des millénaires. Jamais le combat pour son âme n'a été aussi féroce. Il n'y a jamais eu tant d'argent et de gloire en jeu. Mais l'ordre de bataille n'est pas celui auquel on s'attend : locaux contre multinationale, simples paysans contre capitaines d'industrie. Dans le monde du vin, les suspects habituels ne sont jamais où on les attend.
Rice Rhapsody
Rice Rhapsody (2004)
, 1h46
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sylvia Chang, Mélanie Laurent, Ivy Ling Po, Maggie Q, Steph Song

The film is set in Singapore's Chinatown. It is narrated by Jen Fan, owner of a successful restaurant. Her signature dish is "Chicken Rice"-in fact she is rather well known for it. Jen has three sons. Daniel and Harry are gay, and Jen is determined the youngest, Leo, does not go the same way. She enlists the help of her friend Kim-Chui, who owns a nearby restaurant. He is less successful than Jen, but is in love with her. Leo has become her life, she is pinning all her hopes of grandchildren on him. She and Kim-Chui hatch a plan that involves bringing Sabine, a female French exchange student, to stay at Jen's house.
Tortilla Soup
Tortilla Soup (2003)
, 1h43
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Jacqueline Obradors, Héctor Elizondo, Tamara Mello, Elizabeth Peña, Nikolai Kinski, Raquel Welch

Semi-retired Mexican-American chef Martin Naranjo (Héctor Elizondo) shares a suburban Los Angeles home with his three adult daughters. Although he has lost the senses of smell and taste since his wife's death, he still cooks elaborate, multi-course meals for his family and friends. The women humor their father's old-fashioned ways, but each is searching for fulfillment outside the family circle.
A Touch of Spice
A Touch of Spice (2003)
, 1h48
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Cooking films
Actors Georges Corraface, Başak Köklükaya, Tamer Karadağlı, Athinodoros Prousalis, Themis Panou, Michael Giannatos

Fanis Iakovides, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, recalls his childhood memories from growing up in Istanbul. When Fanis was 7 years old, his grandfather Vassilis was an owner of a general store with a specialty in spices. He was also a culinary philosopher and his mentor. Fanis grew very attached to his grandfather who would assist with his homework using imaginative techniques. For instance, Vassilis would teach his grandson the planets of the Solar System by showing an illustration of it and replacing the planets with spices. Cinnamon took the place of Venus since according to Vassilis, "like all women, cinnamon is both bitter and sweet". Fanis also fell in love for the first time in his grandfather store's upper floor with a young Turkish girl, Saime.
Visitor Q
Visitor Q (2001)
, 1h24
Directed by Takashi Miike
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror
Themes Cooking films, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Shungiku Uchida, Kenichi Endō, Fujiko

The film's plot is often compared to Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema, in which a strange visitor to a wealthy family seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter, and finally the father, before leaving a few days after, subsequently changing their lives.
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous (2001)
, 1h45
Directed by Gabriel Aghion
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films
Actors Josiane Balasko, Nathalie Baye, Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Claude Gensac, Yves Rénier

Patsy, who has a strong penchant for alcohol, especially for a famous brand of champagne, and Eddie, obsessed with her curves and perpetually electrified by cocaine it soothes by countless different sleeping pills, have once been set May 68 but already on the barricades they were at a place that was not really theirs. Today, both reached fifty, rabid feminists continue to say no to anything, they say, degrades the weaker sex: cooking, living alongside a man raising a child. But feminism May 68 and the "seventies" is no longer for them a vague nostalgia that is lost in their nebulous mind. Eddie ended up getting married and became the mother of a beautiful girl Bachelor ... then divorced but still lives off her ex-husband under the same roof, the only client of his last living "public relations," being a perpetually Chantal Goya tour ass. Patsy, she preferred to remain single and independent but spent his life living muse to countless men hook succeeding one after the other over the years, and both, real "fashion victims", today totally dissolute life completely "crazy" resolutely eccentric, to the discouragement of the family of Eddie. The life of Eddie and Patsy is only champagne at any time of day or night, invaded atmosphere of tobacco smoke joints, cocaine, luxury toilets ... and parasitism by attending fashion stars and the show. Eddie would lead Safrane, his daughter, in the tornado of his "values" in light years of work and family life. But this is still a virgin at 17 and prepares the Polytechnic entrance exam. The husband, played by Yves Renier, no longer supports permanent pranks, alcoholism, grotesque and pathological irresponsibility of his ex-wife who also literally invades the house.
Mostly Martha
Mostly Martha (2001)
, 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.
Vatel
Vatel (2000)
, 1h43
Directed by Roland Joffé
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Cooking films, Politique, Political films, Histoire de France, Films about royalty
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall, Julian Glover, Tom Stoppard

The film takes place in 1671. In the prelude to the Franco-Dutch War, a financially struggling Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé is visited by King Louis XIV for three days of festivities at the Château de Chantilly.. The prince wants a commission as a general, and spares no expense in order to impress the king. In charge of organizing the event is François Vatel, Master of Festivities and Pleasures in the prince's household. Vatel is a man of great honor and talent, but of low birth. As the great Condé is prepared to do anything in his quest for stature, the tasks assigned to Vatel are often menial and dishonourable. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity amidst the extravaganza he is meant to orchestrate, he finds himself in love with Anne de Montausier, the king's latest lover, who returns his affections. However, due to their incompatible social standing and the rigid hierarchy of the court, continuing the liaison is clearly impossible. The movie ends with Vatel realizing that he is nothing more than a puppet in the hands of his superiors, bought and sold like a piece of property: he consequently commits suicide. Vatel throws himself on his sword because the roast was not sufficient to feed several unexpected guests, the clouds dulled the fireworks display and he lacked confidence that there would be enough fish for the morning meal. Anne de Montausier is grief-stricken upon hearing the news but she must not speak of it. In doing so, she flees the court quietly and no one ever knew about her and Vatel.
The Gleaners and I
The Gleaners and I (2000)
, 1h22
Directed by Agnès Varda
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Cooking films, La mondialisation, Documentaire sur la cuisine, Documentaire sur l'altermondialisme, Documentaire sur la société humaine
Actors Agnès Varda

Un peu partout en France, Agnès a rencontré des glaneurs et glaneuses, récupereurs, ramasseurs et trouvailleurs. Par nécessite, hasard ou choix, ils sont en contact avec les restes des autres. Leur univers est surprenant. On est loin des glaneuses d'autrefois qui ramassaient les épis de blé après la moisson. Patates, pommes et autres nourritures jetées, objets sans maître et pendule sans aiguilles, c'est la glanure de notre temps. Mais Agnès est aussi la glaneuse du titre et son documentaire est subjectif.