Introduction: We should cherish every meal. Enjoy it and feel it. Below I will recommend a few movies about food for you. Let’s go and watch them together!

Recommendations for movies about food

1. "Eating and Drinking Men and Women" (1994)

A father's love is three layers of love, which is home. In the opening scene, Lao Zhu is busy alone, washing, cutting, steaming, and frying chicken, duck, and fish. His skillful hands make various movements in an orderly manner. Finally, he serves the meat in a jar of rock sugar, pork with pickles, crab meat dumplings, steamed crabs, and pumpkin cups one by one. The three daughters prepared a reunion dinner, but they didn't expect that they all had their own minds and were planning to move out of the old house and start their own separate families.

People have great desires when it comes to eating and drinking. Food is a necessity for survival, and men and women contain emotions and desires, all of which are primitive instincts that nature has betrayed to humans. Family, friendship and love entangle men and women in this world, making people happy and worrying. Just like Lao Zhu's three daughters, and of course himself. As he said, "Life cannot be like cooking, prepare all the ingredients before cooking."

　2. "Gourmet" (France)

　L'aile ou la cuisse (1976)

Good comedy is always inseparable from irony. Movies from the 1970s opposed the fast food production method, exposing artificial chicken, plastic vegetables, and assembly-line-assembled meals. The classic comedy by the famous French actor Louis de Funès seems to be a fable, which makes people laugh and have to reflect. Forty years later, in China, are these dark scenes that were once exaggerated still being performed?

3. "Rhapsody in a Black Shop"

Outside the building is a broken world where everyone is in danger. Inside the building is a world of cannibals and many weird groups living there: looking for The butcher who targets human flesh, the woman who wants to commit suicide, the brother who is always cutting cans, the old man who raises snails and frogs, the clown from outside who is about to become the butcher's prey, and the butcher's daughter who falls in love with the clown. Mr. Lu Xun said: "Their teeth are all lined up sharply. They are cannibals."

　4. "Love Before Midnight"

Vienna , Paris, Peloponnese holidays, 18 years passed in a blink of an eye. After seeing off his son from his ex-wife at the airport, the writer took his twin daughters and his wife back to a friend's house. The men took their children to swim in the sea and discussed the author's books in the dazzling sunshine. The women picked tomatoes from the garden and talked and laughed in the kitchen preparing a wonderful dinner. On an ordinary holiday afternoon, the director gave this meal a full 17 minutes. The main course was love between 20, 30, 40 and 70 years old, and the youth of every moviegoer was staged in it. Although there is nothing new under the sun, every sparse and ordinary fragment is moving, especially the white-haired old lady who misses her deceased husband, as "Love Before Dawn" and "Love at Sunset"

He appears, he disappears, like…sunrise, or sunset, or anything so ephemeral.

He arrives, He passes, like the sun rising and setting, like anything fleeting.

Just like our life, hmm? We appear, and we disappear, and we are so important to some, but we are just… passing through.

Just like our life, hmm? …We come and then disappear, we break into other people’s hearts, but we are just passers-by.

5. "Blind Detective"

Andy Lau plays the police master Johnston. Although he is blind, he is not bad at eating. This Mr. Zhuang not only loves high-end products such as abalone, king crab, and shark fins, but also covets street food delicacies such as stinky intestines, dried meat, and chicken feet. Once Sammi Cheng and Sammi Cheng went out to investigate a case and had to go to five different places. Sammi Cheng asked which one to go to first. Andy Lau said firmly: "Yuen Long! Yuen Long has a lot of food!"

6. " "Gourmet" (China) 1985

"After so many years of transformation, the sharp taste has not changed." Revolution cannot get rid of the desire of the masses that is rooted in the taste buds and lingers in the lips and teeth. A foodie with “no special skills” truly inherited Suzhou cuisine.

7. "Grain and Mullet"

La graine et le mulet (2007)

At first glance, the title of the film is confusing, but in fact It has deep meaning: millet is an ingredient used in cous-cous, a famous North African dish, and represents the hometown of the old man in the film; mullet represents Port Sète in the south of France where the old man now lives after immigrating.

The signature dish in the old man’s restaurant is couscous with mullet, which hints at a beautiful expectation of fusion. But the delicious couscous with mullet couldn't reconcile the cold reality.

An old man who had worked for 35 years suddenly lost his job. He wanted to open a restaurant but faced repeated setbacks in getting a loan. In addition, the family was immigrants and had been away from home for a long time. The lack of a sense of belonging also caused family problems of all sizes.

Has the old man’s restaurant opened? We don’t know. But in the end, the only person who ate couscous was a homeless man on the street, and all the diners sitting in the restaurant, no matter how noble they were, were all hungry. Is this a statement of justice or a satire of reality?

8. "Antarctic Cooker" by Masato Sakai

The Antarctic Dome Fuji base in the ice and snow, let alone a living thing , not even bacteria can survive. Several observation team members live there, and Nishimura Jun's job is to cook for the team members every day. Occasionally using some luxurious ingredients and putting in a little effort to make delicious meals, and seeing everyone's happy expressions eating, really makes Nishimura happy more than anything else.

The observation team members worked hard in the Antarctic and established an irreplaceable bond with each other. On days when there is laughter, sadness, joy and vitality, delicious food can always bring energy. In an extremely cold place, cooking brings warmth to the soul.

9. "The Lonely Gourmet" (2012 Japanese TV series)

Adapted from the manga of the same name, it is now in its third season. It is a late-night drama like "Midnight Diner" (I really don’t know what the Japanese people’s mentality is like when they air food dramas late at night...) Compared to "Midnight Diner", this drama is more about describing the food itself rather than about life. Every episode The food and shops introduced are real, and at the end of the episode, the original comic author will personally go to the store to try and recommend them.

10. "Bread, Soup and Good Weather with Cats"

After her mother died unexpectedly and faced with the company's personnel changes, Akiko simply quit her editing job and began to enjoy It is different from the previous leisure life. Her mother left behind a highly praised canteen, a group of friendly neighbors gathered in the shopping street around the house, and Akiko met a stray cat on the roadside. These little things came together and made Akiko decide to inherit her mother's In the canteen left behind, start with what you are good at.

So she renovated the old store and turned it into a canteen serving bread and soup, and started a new journey with the tall female clerk Shima. And this journey includes bread, soup, cats, good neighbors in the shopping street, various customers, and warm weather.