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Favourite food movies?

Really hankering for a great movie revolving around food, restaurants, cooking, etc. Hoping all y'all can share some faves.

Leaning away from anything dramatic and serious ... light and fun preferred. Documentaries also good.

Let's share some of my favourites that I like to watch over and over:

Chinese Feast
God of Cookery
Ratatouille

A couple en queue: Kings of Pastry, Tampopo.

Thanks!

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    Our Daily Bread is by far the most amazing thing I have seen related to food.

    No intro, no story, no dialog, no voiceover, no music -- just a stationary camera capturing the sights and sounds of everyday food production.

    Some absolutely amazing shots. For some reason the sequence with the gigantic field sprinkler system that unfolds itself like some sort of extra-terrestrial being always makes me giddy.

    Or the lady whose job it is to cut the feet off of dead pigs. She sits on a stool with some powered shears and just lops pigfeet off all day.

    If that makes you squeamish, skip the last set of scenes where they follow a cow from the field to the meatpacking line.

    Which reminds me of another great food related doc: Temple Grandin -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/

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    Babette's Feast
    Chocolat

    I think you're really going to like Tampopo. It's adorable.

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    What, no love for "American Pie"??

    Seriously though, no Pulp Fiction?? Easily top of my list.

    Chocolat can't get enough praise; you should also see:
    "Eat Drink Man Woman" (or I guess "Tortilla Soup" or "Soul Food" which are second rate knockoffs)
    I second "Big Night" Tony Shaloub and Stanley Tucci though it's short on fun it's charming
    "Waitress" = pies!

    fun and documentary: "Super Size Me"

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    Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

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    Chocolat

    with Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss

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    Delicatessen.
    Big Night.

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    The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

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