Mouthwateringly Tasty - Films that Make You Go Hungry

By: Erik Gozal

We’ve all seen lots of attempts to build a list of food cinema, but I have yet to stumble upon a definitive list of films that offer pure gastronomical visuals. These films inspire the audience to go back to the kitchen and cooking up a storm, or perhaps taking that long overdue trip to Rome to taste what pizza really tastes like. Here’s the list of my favorite films about food.

Not on Mubi:

Udon / Motohiro Katsuyuki / 2006
Chicken Rice War (Jiyuan qiaohe) / Cheah Chee Kong / 2000
Le Grand Chef (Best Chef / Sik-gaek) / Jeon Yun-su / 2007

• 01
  Babette's Feast
  Gabriel Axel
• 02
  Vatel
  Roland Joffé
• 03
  Eat Drink Man Woman
  Ang Lee
• 04
  What's Cooking?
  Gurinder Chadha
• 05
  Julie & Julia
  Nora Ephron
• 06
  La grande bouffe
  Marco Ferreri
• 07
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 08
  Tampopo
  Jûzô Itami
• 09
  Tortilla Soup
  María Ripoll
• 10
  Like Water for Chocolate
  Alfonso Arau
• 11
  Big Night
  Campbell Scott
• 12
  Ratatouille
  Brad Bird
• 13
  Chocolat
  Lasse Hallström
• 14
  Soul Food
  George Tillman Jr.
• 15
  Fried Green Tomatoes
  Jon Avnet
• 16
  Fast Food Nation
  Richard Linklater
• 17
  Sideways
  Alexander Payne
• 18
  Waitress
  Adrienne Shelly
• 19
  Marie Antoinette
  Sofia Coppola
• 20
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Mel Stuart
• 21
  Woman on Top
  Fina Torres
• 22
  My Dinner with André
  Louis Malle
• 23
  The Chinese Feast
  Tsui Hark
• 24
  Mostly Martha
  Sandra Nettelbeck
• 25
  God of Cookery
  Stephen Chow
• 26
  Simply Irresistible
  Mark Tarlov
• 27
  Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
  Ted Kotcheff
• 28
  Fatso
  Anne Bancroft
• 29
  Nina's Heavenly Delights
  Pratibha Parmar
• 30
  A Question of Taste
  Bernard Rapp