Grab your snacks and hot chocolate and get ready to snuggle up in front of your television because you're in for a movie night full of culinary kitchens, hot chefs, all-star casts, romantic storylines, and exceptional scriptwriting. These movies are going to draw you in with their tasty food and charming characters, and luckily for you, we have 10 movies lined up so you can binge-watch for hours on end.
This list consists of Award-winning movies that feature star cast members including Meryl Streep, Judy Dench Helen Mirren, Johnny Depp, Bradley Cooper, Catherine-Zeta Jones, Amy Adams, Scarlet Johanssen, and Robert Downey Junior. And what's even better is that they're all set in the culinary world - an absolute treat for foodies like us!
10 Love's Kitchen
Starting off at Number 10 on our list we have Love's Kitchen. A London chef and restauranteur decides to retire to the countryside after losing his wife. There he decides to buy a run-down pub and transform it into a gourmet restaurant. His food soon catches the eye of a food critic (Claire Forlani) and the two soon hit it off with their love of food and love for each other. Surprisingly enough, Gordan Ramsey himself stars as another chef in this film - thought he just did reality shows but this could get interesting!
9 The Ramen Girl
This 2008 RomCom stars Britney Murphy as a young American woman stranded in Tokyo after her boyfriend breaks up with her. She finds a sense of belonging at a Japanese restaurant where she asks the head chef, a Japanese master, to train her to become a ramen chef. It highlights the culture of Japanese cuisine and the welcoming spirit of Japanese people in a way that will make everyone watching feel incredibly connected to the characters and the plotline.
8 Simply Irresistible
Simply Irresistible follows the story of a young chef (Sarah Michelle Gellar) passionate about pouring her heart and soul into her cooking. Unfortunately for her, she isn't too good at it, until she meets a man and their connection magically causes the people eating her food to start feeling the same emotions she had while cooking it - ultimately making it irresistible. The perfect movie for a charming movie night filled with good food and good-looking characters.
7 Today's Special
This movie is the perfect example of how food can bring people together. It is witty, sweet, and extremely heartwarming, covering everything from family bonding to romance in the mundane. A young Manhatten sous chef is forced to become the head chef of his family restaurant after his dad has a heart attack. After at first dreading it, he soon rediscovers his heritage, passion for cooking, and love for life through the job at hand and the people he meets along the way.
6 Chocolat
Johnny Depp, Judy Dench, and Juliette Binoche star in the movie about a woman and her daughter who move to a conservative French town and start a chocolatorie. The traditional townspeople find joy and happiness through her chocolate creations and strained relationships soon to start to heal. The film won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2001 and continues to be a masterpiece in the culinary movie genre today.
5 Chef
Chef has an exceptionally all-star cast with famous actors including Scarlett Johanssen, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, Dustin Hoffman, and Oliver Platt. A chef feels creatively stunted by the menu at the restaurant he works at, leading him to quit his job and buy a food truck. It is a great movie about the power of friendship, family, and creative fulfillment with lots of comedy and great cooking montages.
4 No reservations
If you haven't watched No Reservations you're really missing out! It's a heartwarming movie about a self-involved chef (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who is left to care for her niece after her sister dies in a car crash. She is forced to juggle her late nights in the kitchen and caring for a grief-stricken child while coming to terms with her own loss and inhibitions. Together with her sous chef, Nick, and her niece, Zoe, she rediscovers that cooking is not all about maintaining chaos and managing her staff, but that it can actually be full of fun, laughter, and enjoyment.
3 Burnt
When it comes to culinary movies Burnt is about as intensely exciting as it gets! One of France's most famous chefs, Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper), gets into trouble after destroying his career with drugs and bad behavior, in the process creating lots of enemies for himself. When he decides to reappear in the culinary world he realizes it is going to be much more challenging than he first expected.
2 Julie & Julia
This movie won Meryl Streep yet another Golden Globe for best across in a motion picture and it's based on 2 real-life stories. It contrasts the lives of a young New Yorker, Julie, who feels like her life is bland and boring, with celebrity chef Julia Child in the early years of her culinary career. Julie attempts to cook all 524 recipes in Julia's cookbook in 1 year, and while doing so she writes a blog about it which ultimately turns her into a published author.
1 The Hundred-Foot Journey
This movie will leave you feeling all the emotions at the end of it! It is a story exceptionally well-told with food at the very center, produced by the one and only Steven Spielberg. In fact, it may make you fall in love with cooking enough to want to go to culinary school. After an Indian family's restaurant burns down they find themselves in a small French town and decide to buy a restaurant. Unknown to them however this restaurant sits a hundred feet across the road from one of the world's most famous gourmet restaurants - the owner of which is strict, uptight, and ruthlessly determined to put the family's new venture out of business. It tells the tale of two cuisines, French and Indian, and the passion that gets poured into each, as well as the individual and joint stories of characters that transform each other lives in more ways than one.
