20 movies like Tortilla Heaven, ordered by similarity : The Band's Visit(2007), Flakes(2007), Soul Kitchen(2009), The Game Plan(2007), A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt(2011), A Matter of Size(2009), Less Sugar(2007), Clerks II(2006), The Harvey Girls(1946), Fat Pizza(2003), Tales From the Golden Age(2009), Chef(2014) ...
Comedy
USA
2007
97 Minutes
Jose Zuniga Miguel Sandoval Olivia Hussey Elpidia Carrillo Alexis Cruz Jade Herrera Marcelo Tubert Irene Bedard Lupe Ontiveros
restaurant owner businessman priest cook quirky offbeat amusing new mexico small town restaurant religion restaurant business miracles food small-town life rise fall 2000s
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in the world, but has few customers and makes little money in a small town. During Mass one Sunday he is blessed with a miracle: the face of Jesus appears on one of his tortillas.
Comedy, Drama
Israel|USA|France
2007
86 Minutes
Sasson Gabay Ronit Elkabetz Saleh Bakri Khalifa Natour Rubi Moskovitz Uri Gavriel Imad Jabarin Hilla Sarjon
band member restaurant owner israeli amusing tender offbeat solemn israel desert town restaurant skating rink hospitality ethnic tension loneliness isolation separation transformation quest discovery
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Comedy
USA
2007
84 Minutes
Aaron Stanford Zooey Deschanel Izabella Miko Christopher Lloyd Keir O'Donnell Ryan Donowho John McConnell Frank Wood Marco St. John Mark Krasnoff
slacker musician girlfriend restaurant owner restaurant manager quirky offbeat new orleans restaurant apartment romance cereal competition restaurant ambition musicians love growing up 2000s
A cereal bar manager with dreams of making it big as a rock star, is admired by the locals in town until a greedy capitalist steals his entrepreneurial business.
Comedy, Drama
Germany|France|Italy
2009
99 Minutes
Adam Bousdoukos Moritz Bleibtreu Birol Ünel Lukas Gregorowicz Dorka Gryllus Wotan Wilke Möhring Demir Gokgol Monica Bleibtreu Marc Hosemann Cem Akin Anna Bederke
chef restaurant owner brother mobster customer amusing touching endearing restaurant hamburg, germany business friendship love struggle brotherhood fall underdog transformation quest 2000s
In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.
Kids & Family, Comedy
USA
2007
110 Minutes
Dwayne Johnson Madison Pettis Kyra Sedgwick Roselyn Sánchez Morris Chestnut Gordon Clapp Hayes MacArthur Brian J. White Jamal Duff Paige Turco Kate Nauta
quarterback daughter agent ballet director sister-in-law ex-wife heartwarming hilarious quirky amusing charming boston football field mall theater fast food restaurant restaurant football family relationships
An NFL quarterback living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has an 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
Documentary, Biography
USA
2011
68 Minutes
Heston Blumenthal Daniel Boulud Frank Bruni Paul Liebrandt Drew Nieporent Eric Ripert
chef artist restaurant employee food critic girlfriend restaurant owner creative passionate spirited new york city restaurant kitchen cooking food restaurant business artistic struggle unemployment paul liebrandt quest transformation
Paul Liebrandt is one of the most talented and controversial chefs in the food world and the youngest chef to have received 3 stars from the New York Times. He was 24. NY Times food critic,... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
2009
92 Minutes
Itzik Cohen Togo Igawa Dvir Benedek Alon Dahan Shmulik Cohen Irit Kaplan Levana Finkelstein
chef obese man best friend japanese man restaurant owner mother hilarious offbeat heartwarming ramle, israel restaurant woods family home gym arena obesity self-discovery new job cross-cultural relations sumo wrestling
Tired of losing the struggle to control their weight, four pudgy pals enlist the aid of a Japanese restaurateur to train them as sumo wrestlers.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India|UK
2007
140 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Tabu Paresh Rawal Zohra Segal Vinay Jain Krishna Bhatt Kanwal Toor Nikhil Ratnaparkhi Pradeep Shukla Jameel Khan
older man mother restaurant owner young woman fiancée restaurant employee offbeat emotional london family home restaurant kitchen india city courtship family dysfunction romance journey relationships disapproval
An egotistical 64-year-old chef and confirmed bachelor falls for a woman 30 years his junior.
Comedy
USA
2006
92 Minutes
Rosario Dawson Brian O'Halloran Jeff Anderson Kevin Smith Jason Mewes Ben Affleck Jason Lee Wanda Sykes Kevin Weisman Trevor Fehrman Jennifer Schwalbach Smith
slacker fiancée friend woman nerd drug dealer amusing quirky offbeat convenience store fast food stand rehabilitation clinic roof party video store employment drugs friendship change of career fast food
A calamity at Dante and Randal's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at the fast food empire Mooby's.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1946
101 Minutes
Judy Garland John Hodiak Ray Bolger Preston Foster Virginia O'Brien Angela Lansbury Marjorie Main Chill Wills Kenny Baker Selena Royle Cyd Charisse
waitress restaurant manager saloon girl saloon owner cowboy uplifting charming playful new mexico saloon restaurant wild west love letters deception romance restaurant business train travel rivalry love 1880s
On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
Comedy
Australia
2003
96 Minutes
Paul Fenech Paul Nakad Johnny Boxer Jabba Tahir Bilgic Rob Shehadie Annalise Braakensiek Maria Venuti Michael Craig Merv Hughes Tim Ferguson
chef mail-order bride pizza delivery man virgin rapper elderly woman hilarious offbeat shocking restaurant apartment sydney inner city kitchen australia restaurant friendship financial crisis modern life boredom
The life at a suburban Sydney pizzeria.
Comedy
USA
2009
155 Minutes
Hanno Höfer Constantin Popescu Diana Cavallioti Radu Iacoban Vlad Ivanov Tania Popa Liliana Mocanu Alexandru Potocean Teo Corban Emanuel Parvu
truck driver restaurant owner communist inspector activist amusing cheeky dark romania restaurant house small town van communism conformity uncertainty dilemma urban legends discovery transformation
War stories and life lessons from the industry's top writers.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2014
115 Minutes
Jon Favreau Sofía Vergara John Alberto Leguizamo Scarlett Johansson Dustin Hoffman Emjay Anthony Robert Downey Jr. Oliver Platt Bobby Cannavale Amy Sedaris
owner chef ex-wife best friend son customer charming confident creative amusing heartwarming los angeles restaurant miami truck apartment food truck change new life challenge
A head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
Comedy
USA
2000
91 Minutes
Woody Allen Maria Grazia Cucinotta Cheech Marin David Schwimmer Kiefer Sutherland Fran Drescher Lou Diamond Phillips Elliott Gould Tony Plana Richard Edson Joseph Gordon-Levitt
butcher wife priest mayor blind woman cop quirky hilarious madcap new mexico desert town church butcher shop infidelity murder religion strange happenings investigation small-town life
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
Comedy, Drama
2004
99 Minutes
Carmine Famiglietti Michael Aronov Miriam Shor Sharon Angela Susan Varon Fil Formicola Lou Martini Jr. Patrick Michael Buckley Sophia Antonini Gino Cafarelli
obese person drug addict childhood friend mother sister brother-in-law amusing offbeat brooklyn, n.y. upstate new york trailer restaurant wilderness family home obesity discipline friendship family addiction compulsive eating
An obese man (Carmine Famiglietti) moves away from home and into the woods in a bid to lose weight and beat his addiction to food.
Comedy
1972
100 Minutes
Alan Arkin Sally Kellerman Paula Prentiss Renee Taylor Bella Bruck Frank Loverde Burt Conroy Charles Woolf Ben Freedman John Batiste Sandy Balson
restaurant owner wife sexpot actress depressed person best friend amusing hedonistic apartment new york city restaurant bar park sexual advances infidelity midlife crisis restaurant business mother/son relationship marriage forbidden love
The balding, middle-aged owner of a seafood restaurant makes three awkward attempts at extramarital romance.
Comedy, Drama
Spain|Argentina|Mexico
2005
84 Minutes
Ángel de Andrés López María Galiana Elvira Mínguez Rubén Ochandiano Alberto de Mendoza Darío Paso Alberto Jo Lee Amparo Moreno
chef restaurant owner old woman teen boy clerk lonely woman heartwarming offbeat engaging profound barcelona, spain neighborhood supermarket restaurant kitchen tapas bar community modern life alienation sex
The small, everyday stories of a group of neighbours who live in a suburb of Barcelona, and the little secrets that they hide.
Comedy
USA
1970
97 Minutes
Godfrey Cambridge Estelle Parsons Howard Caine D'Urville Martin Mantan Moreland Kim Kimberly Kay E. Kuter Scott Garrett Erin Moran Irving Selbst Emil Sitka
insurance salesman bigot housewife police officer doctor secretary amusing confident shocking suburbia household town restaurant office doctor's office race relations hypocrisy cultural differences medical mystery persecution
An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand!
Comedy, Drama
India
1998
149 Minutes
restaurant owner restaurant employee young man young woman hotel owner daughter amusing hilarious hysterical madcap outlandish india city house bungalow hotel restaurant love triangle fighting greed
Poor Raja opens a fast food restaurant right opposite a five star hotel run by it's owner Singhania, earning his wrath. The wealthy hotel owner uses all his influence to remove Raja, but in... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
France
1995
91 Minutes
Stéphane Audran Michel Aumont Alain Begel Marie Bunel Thomas Chabrol Vincent Colombe Laurence Côte Antoine Cousin Marie-Laure Dougnac Mimi Felixine Alain Fromager
chef son hostess dinner guest friend customer charming moving profound amusing restaurant kitchen dining room restaurant business end of an era relationships nostalgia friendship food love
After twenty-five years of practice in a popular district of Paris, Hippolyte and Josephine decided to close their restaurant. Not for economic or urbanistic reasons but, more serious, ... See full summary »
Horror, Comedy
Canada
2016
82 Minutes
Leo Fafard Amy Matysio Jonathan Cherry Yannick Bisson Devery Jacobs Serena Miller Jessica Hinkson
police officer werewolf businessman policewoman airy amusing quirky eerie town police station alcoholism werewolves corruption adventure fall transformation quest mystery 2010s
As a series of strange and violent events begin to occur, an alcoholic policeman realizes that he has been turned into a werewolf as part of a larger plan.