Many excellent movies have been made in honor of the preparation, celebration and eating of food. As a follow-up to our 10 Best Food Documentaries list, here are the 15 best feature films about food:
15. Moonstruck (1987) [MGM]
This film, in which Cher and Nicolas Cage pursue an unlikely love affair, sets its pivotal conversations in Italian restaurants, or over breakfasts of red peppers, eggs and toast. Cher discovers the passionate, reckless Cage working the ovens in a bakery and eventually feeds him steak.
14. Soul Food (1997) [Twentieth-Century Fox]
A story of an African-American family in Chicago who is held together, against all odds, by the tradition of eating weekly Sunday dinners together, Soul Food’s family togetherness is aided by the food cooked by matriarch Mother Joe.
13. Mostly Martha (2001) [Paramount]
This delightful German film depicts a rigid chef whose life—and cooking—is affected by an unconventional newcomer in her kitchen. Charmingly, if unsurprisingly, the tale equates the characters’ attitudes about food with their philosophies about life.
12. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) [Universal]
Four talented actresses tell a multi-generational story about friendship among women, centered around delicious Southern-cuisine concoctions and the unappetizing and satisfyingly vengeful fate for one Very Bad Husband.
11. Fast Food Nation (2006) [Fox Searchlight]
Richard Linklater’s fictionalization of Eric Schlosser’s non-fiction book will never let you look at your value meal the same way again. After all, “There is shit in the meat.”
10. Delicatessen (1991) [Miramax]
A bizarre, darkly funny dystopic film about a post-World War II French apartment building under severe food rations from the government. To accommodate for the shortages, the butcher/landlord kills off his tenants one by one, selling the meat to the rest of the building via the currency of bags of dried corn.
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