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Feast Your Eyes

Enjoy these food-focused films.

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  • "A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects Ila, a neglected housewife, to Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement."
    Blu-ray Disc, 2014Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2014] — DVD Foreign Hindi Lunchbo
  • "Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of…
    DVD, 1997Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©1997. — DVD Comedy Soul
  • "A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession."
    DVD, 2007Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 2007. — JUV DVD Family Ratatou
  • "The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station." A documentary.
    Downloadable Video, 2012Magnolia Pictures, 2012.
  • "Jon Favreau leads a hilarious all-star cast in this inspiring comedy about a gifted chef who teams up with his ex-wife, best friend and son to launch a food truck business."
    Downloadable Video, 2014Shout Studios, 2014.
  • "Martha is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. When her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece,…
    Downloadable Video, 2002Paramount Pictures, 2002.
  • 飮食男女

    Eat drink man woman

    "The story of a master chef and his three adult daughters, all of whom are seeking love and happiness in different ways."
    DVD, 2002Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [2002] — DVD Foreign Chinese Eat
  • "Jenna is unhappily married. She squirrels away money and is hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant and her plans are thrown awry."
    DVD, 2007Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2007. — DVD Comedy Waitres
  • "Sixteen chefs whip up the most gorgeous, delectable, gravity-defying concoctions at the competition for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, France's Nobel Prize for pastry, and there is edge-of-the-seat drama as they deliver their fantastical,…
    DVD, 2010[United States] : First Run Features, 2010. — DVD 641.865 Kings
  • "The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe."
    Downloadable Video, 1985Janus Films (The Criterion Collection), 1985.
  • "A hapless young restaurant owner hilariously juggles family, friends and food in this lively and delicious comedy."
    Downloadable Video, 2009IFC Films, 2009.
  • "Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it."
    DVD, 2009Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009] — DVD Comedy Julie
  • Ramen teh

    Ramen shop

    "The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore."
    DVD, 2019Culver City, CA : Strand Releasing Home Entertainment, [2019] — DVD Foreign Japanese Ramen
  • "Unable to marry, Tita expresses her passion for her beloved Pedro through food. Ordinary spices become a recipe for passion and her creations bring on tears of longing, heated desire or chronic pain in those who eat them."
    Downloadable Video, 1993[United States] : Miramax, 1993. — eVideo hoopla