french cuisine
26 movies and shows
Ratatouille
Thu, 28 Jun 2007
Remy, a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he can create and enjoy culinary masterpieces to his heart's delight. The only problem is, Remy is a rat. When he winds up in the sewer beneath one of Paris' finest restaurants, the rodent gourmet finds himself ideally placed to realize his dream.
The Menu
Thu, 17 Nov 2022
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Julie & Julia
Thu, 06 Aug 2009
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Burnt
Fri, 02 Oct 2015
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Wed, 06 Aug 2014
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Fri, 13 Oct 1989
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
The Taste of Things
Wed, 08 Nov 2023
Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
Babette's Feast
Tue, 11 Aug 1987
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
Delicious
Wed, 08 Sep 2021
France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very first restaurant in France.
Grand Maison Paris
Mon, 30 Dec 2024
Famous Japanese chef Obana opens a new restaurant in Paris in the quest for his elusive third Michelin star. But Obana finds life as an outsider in Paris difficult, and even has trouble sourcing ingredients. His ambition causes tension with his team, including pâtissier Yuan, and sous chef Rinko. When his menu for a gala proves a disaster, Obana promises his former mentor that if he doesn't get three stars, he will leave Paris. Can he pull it off?
Le Chef
Wed, 07 Mar 2012
A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Umami
Thu, 09 Feb 2023
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
Mostly Martha
Sun, 09 Sep 2001
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.
The Naked Kitchen
Thu, 05 Feb 2009
Mo-rae struggles to remain loyal to her husband while living with a handsome and exciting stranger. Her husband is her childhood best friend, but the seductive stranger is imaginative and adventurous. Whom will she choose?
Haute Cuisine
Mon, 17 Sep 2012
The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
Grand Maison Tokyo Special
Sun, 29 Dec 2024
Just one year after opening, Hayami Rinko became the first Asian woman to be the chef of a three-star restaurant, but shortly after, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the food and beverage industry hard. "Grand Maison Tokyo" was no exception, and in order to survive, the restaurant entered into a capital alliance with a food consulting company under a major corporation and found a way forward with frozen foods for mail order and recipe sites...
Auguste Escoffier: The Birth of Haute Cuisine
Sat, 06 Jun 2020
A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the modern concept of haute cuisine, and who also became the main reference point for many generations of future chefs.
Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros
Wed, 22 Nov 2023
Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel's sons are continuing the family business: César runs the Michelin-starred restaurant, "Le Bois sans feuilles" ("The Leafless Wood"), and Léo is in charge of one of the other two Troisgros restaurants, "La Colline du colombier" ("The Dovecote Hill"). From the daily market to the cheese maturing cellars, via the vineyard, the cattle farm and the vegetable garden adjacent to the restaurant, Menus-Plaisirs is an intimate, sensory journey through the kitchens of one of the world's most prestigious restaurants.
King Georges
Sat, 11 Apr 2015
French chef Georges Perrier tries to keep his internationally renowned restaurant relevant in the new culinary world.
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Thu, 15 Sep 2011
For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli -- repeatedly voted the world's best -- and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a rare inside look at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adria himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"