20 movies like El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, ordered by similarity : A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt(2011), Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars(1973), Love Sarah(2020), Louisiana Story(1948), Mostly Martha(2001), The Hundred-Foot Journey(2014), Everyday People(2004), Au Petite Marguery(1995), Jiro Dreams of Sushi(2011), Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles(2019), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years(2016), How to Cook Your Life(2007) ...
Documentary
Germany
2010
108 Minutes
Ferran Adrià Christian Rioux
chef star charming restaurant kitchen cooking water oil transformation
Chef Ferran Adrià spends half the year making new culinary creations for his restaurant.
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 »
Documentary
1973
91 Minutes
rock star ringo starr musician wife fan mime offbeat outlandish hedonistic striking london theater backstage david bowie glam rock performance alter ego starting over ziggy stardust adventure
Cinema-verite footage of the rock singer, as his androgynous alter ego, in concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1973.
Romance
UK
2020
97 Minutes
Celia Imrie Shannon Tarbet Shelley Conn Rupert Penry-Jones Bill Paterson Candice Brown Max Parker Andrew David
young woman mother grandmother old friend pastry chef chef dead person airy charming emotional heartwarming spirited amusing london café kitchen bakery big city apartment cooking
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
Documentary
USA
1948
77 Minutes
Joseph Boudreaux Lionel Le Blanc Mrs. E. Bienvenu Frank Hardy C.P. Guedry
young boy father mother oil driller calm louisiana bayou oil drilling platform family home oil family childhood business growing up transformation 1940s
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
Comedy, Drama
Germany|Italy|Austria|Switzerland
2001
105 Minutes
Martina Gedeck Sergio Castellitto Maxime Foerste August Zirner Ulrich Thomsen Sibylle Canonica Katja Studt Idil Uner Oliver Broumis Antonio Wannek Diego Ribon
chef sister niece father sous chef therapist uplifting amusing charming hamburg, germany restaurant office cooking control death family love parenthood transformation pursuit
When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.
Comedy, Drama
USA|India|United Arab Emirates
2014
122 Minutes
Helen Mirren Om Puri Manish Dayal Charlotte Le Bon Amit Shah Farzana Dua Elahe Dillon Mitra Aria Pandya Michel Blanc Clément Sibony Vincent Elbaz
ingénue chef indian proprieter frenchwoman family member charming creative cool emotional heartwarming kitchen restaurant house india france yard talent cooking indian life
The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.
Drama
2004
91 Minutes
Jordan Gelber Bridget Barkan Stephen McKinley Henderson Sydnee Stewart Billoah Greene Reg E. Cathey Stephen Axelrod Iris Little-Thomas Ron Butler Erik LaRay Harvey
restaurant owner restaurant employee patron young man corporate stooge spirited charming brooklyn, n.y. restaurant street social change gentrification restaurant business inner-city life friendship underdog transformation 2000s
Customers and staff (Bridget Barkan, Stephen McKinley Henderson) react to the news of a Jewish restaurateur's (Jordan Gelber) decision to sell his neighborhood eatery to developers.
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 »
Documentary
USA
2011
81 Minutes
chef son family member customer employee manager confident intense inspiring restaurant tokyo house kitchen office street food determination obsession legacy family
A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.
Documentary, Music
USA
2019
92 Minutes
songwriter broadway producer actor choreographer broadway star author charming cheery creative inspiring new york city broadway theater stage office tradition religion anti-semitism gender roles female sexuality race
The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition" was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.
Documentary, Music
USA|UK
2016
106 Minutes
paul mccartney john lennon ringo starr george harrison filmmaker whoopi goldberg charming emotional incredible moving studio liverpool, england club san francisco concert stage the beatles touring music business interview concert
A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles' 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.
Documentary
Germany
2007
100 Minutes
chef documentarian student inspiring fascinating california australia kitchen temple cooking zen meditation spirituality teaching discovery 2000s
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.
Romance
USA
2000
85 Minutes
Penélope Cruz Murilo Benício Harold Perrineau Mark Feuerstein John deLancie Anne Ramsay Ana Gasteyer Analu De Castro Thais De Sa Curvelo Eliana Guttman Eduardo Mattedi
sexy woman chef restaurant owner transsexual television producer charming positive brazil san francisco cooking restaurant television god sacrifice rise sacrifice quest transformation 2000s
Brazilian chef Isabella Oliveira moves to San Francisco when her husband, frustrated by her motion sickness, cheats on her.
Documentary
UK
1996
119 Minutes
movie star director producer narrator mogul steven spielberg engaging confident movie set hollywood film industry rise to stardom universal studios history filmmaking adventure transformation 1990s
Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's classic story, the Ugly Duckling teams up with friend Scruffy, and the lovable misfits embark on a journey that helps them realize that their differences are what make them special.
Drama
USA
1996
107 Minutes
Stanley Tucci Minnie Driver Ian Holm Isabella Rossellini Tony Shalhoub Stanley Tucci Marc Anthony Allison Janney Caroline Aaron Campbell Scott Larry Block
chef restaurant manager restaurant owner girlfriend wife brother winsome engaging spirited new jersey seaside restaurant american dream restaurant competition family small business rivalry quest 1950s
New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food.
Romance
UK
2011
90 Minutes
Claire Forlani Dougray Scott Michelle Ryan Lee Boardman Peter Bowles Joshua Bowman Simon Callow George Camiller Matthew Clancy
restaurateur daughter food critic celebrity chef widower waitress airy amusing charming lighthearted heartwarming mushy english countryside restaurant new love restaurant business grief protest romance celebrity chefs
Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef ... See full summary »
Other, Romance
USA
2018
84 Minutes
Jessy Schram Teryl Rothery Matreya Scarrwener Chad Michael Murray Jeff Gonek Cardi Wong Rebekah Asselstine Marlie Collins Alisson Amigo BJ Harrison Rebecca Staab
television producer producer son chef celebrity chef host engaging emotional charming cheeky heartwarming lighthearted tv station kitchen cooking entertainment entertainment industry christmas romance family
A feature-length film that explores the relationship between three women. Bobbi and Samantha are estranged sisters who seek to reconnect after hearing of the loss of their mother, and Ally,... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1994
113 Minutes
Bud Friedgen
performers singer actor movie star charming spectacular frenetic playful witty stage street hollywood, calif. entertainment celebration anniversary reunion adventure discovery 1940s
Third installment in the "That's Entertainment" series, featuring scenes from "The Hollywood Revue of 1929," "Brigadoon," "Singin' In The Rain," and many more MGM films.
Documentary
1952
116 Minutes
matador princess king captain lighthearted charming playful venice, italy niagara falls, n.y. queens, n.y. edinburgh, scotland florida opera amusement parks choral singer movies adventure 1950s
Executive producer Lowell Thomas narrates an introduction to the special widescreen process of filmmaking.
Documentary
France
1978
85 Minutes
Penny Patterson Karl H. Pribram
researcher gorilla scientist charming engaging house trailer california stanford university sign language human-animal friendship wild animals animal rights education emotion transformation discovery quest 1970s
A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.