No matter what happens, there's no one meal that can't be solved, and if there is, then two. This time, we will take stock of 10 multinational high-rated classic food movies. No short film episodes involved. The rankings are in no particular order, 10 books cannot cover all of them, and space is limited, so you may wish to revisit them.
1. "Diet Men and Women"
Douban score: 9.1
Reason for inventory: Chinese platter with rich flavor.
Synopsis: After retiring, Lao Zhu (Lang Xiong), the only surviving master of Chinese cuisine in Taiwan, gradually tasted many embarrassments of old age: a table of hearty dishes painstakingly made every Sunday did not have the attraction of pulling three daughters (Yang Guimei, Wu Qianlian, Wang Yuwen) to the dinner table, and they had grown up to hide many more important things in their hearts than eating with their fathers; the sudden death of an old friend for many years made him have a gap in friendship; and the loss of the most important sense of taste for the chef completely pushed him to the trough of life. Although the three daughters are busy with their own affairs, they are also worried about Lao Zhu's later life and plan to find an old wife for him, but they did not expect that Lao Zhu had already quietly talked about "dusk love". After the surprise, the second daughter Jiaqian, who inherited his talent for cooking, which Lao Zhu valued the most, had a new understanding of her father and her relationship with her father because of her own life experience, and the greater surprise for Lao Zhu was still to come.
2. "Mediterranean Kitchen Lady"
Douban score: 7.0
Reason for taking stock: Spanish cuisine, in the name of love.
Synopsis: The brash Sophia (Olivia Molina) grew up in her parents' restaurant, showing her extreme passion and talent for cooking from an early age, and resolutely gave up her studies to devote herself to catering despite her mother's obstruction. Frank (Alfonso Basavi), a handsome young man who is the manager of the restaurant, is surprised by Sophia's culinary potential and is determined to make her a world-class female chef, and the two spark love sparks under the catalyst of delicious food. At the same time, however, Tony (Paco Leon), her first love, who has been in a stable relationship with Sophia, is also relentlessly proposing to her. Five years later, Sophia and her husband Tony gave birth to three children and lived a happy and rich life that outsiders looked happy and rich, until one day Frank reappeared, reawakening Sophia's deep passion for the pursuit of cooking and love. After several arguments, Tony finally decided to support his wife's ideals and bought her a luxurious restaurant. With the concerted efforts of the three, Sophia's culinary career has risen steadily, and the relationship between the three has also perfectly matched in appetite and lust, and there has been an unexpected development...
3. "The God of Sushi"
Douban score: 8.7
Reasons for inventory: Japanese sushi, stick to achievements.
Synopsis: Jiro Ono, 86, is the world's oldest three-star chef and is known as the "God of Sushi." With a high status in Japan, the reputation of "the first person to be sushi" spreads far and wide around the world. Throughout his life, he has been in the hands of sushi, always demanding himself and apprentices to the highest standards, observing the dining conditions of his guests and fine-tuning sushi to ensure that guests enjoy the ultimate delicacy, and even in order to protect the hands that create sushi, he always wears gloves when he is not working, and even sleeps. His sushi restaurant, Jiro Sushinayashi, is well known for its meticulous calculations, from ingredients and preparation to the moment of entrance. This small storefront, hidden in the basement of a Tokyo office building, has been awarded the highest three stars of the Michelin Guide, the food bible, for two consecutive years. It's known as a delicacy worth spending a lifetime waiting in line.
4. "Toast"
Douban score: 7.5
Reasons for taking stock: British cuisine, "failed" cuisine.
Synopsis: The mother of the teenager Nigel Slater (Oscar Kennedy) has never been a good cook, not even a simple soup, and the most common food for a family of three is toast. When the mother died of an asthma attack, the father had to replace it with canned food. Later, the cook-savvy cleaner (Helena Bonham Carter) grabs his father's stomach and becomes his stepmother. Growing hostility led Nigel to take part in a housekeeping class and learn to make a variety of sweets to challenge the skilled stepmother. Every day, my father had to endure the constant quarrel between the two of them and was forced to eat two endless desserts made one after another. The war between the two finally stopped after their father's sudden death. Nigel, 17, packed his bags, found a job in the kitchen, and entered the hall of extraordinary culinary excellence.
5. "Soul Kitchen"
Douban score: 7.4
Reasons for taking stock: German cuisine, music and food.
Synopsis: Zinos (Adam Busdocos), a German of Greek descent who runs a restaurant in Hamburg called "Soul Kitchen", has recently suffered a severe financial crisis and is unable to make ends meet. Zinos also had a lumbar disc herniation due to an accident. His girlfriend Nadine (Filmen Logan), a journalist, decides to work in Shanghai. His younger brother, Illias (Moritz Bredo), has just been released from prison on parole and has come to work at Zino's restaurant. Because of his health problems, Zino had to hire another chef, Shayn (Bogère Yunel), but Shayn's new dishes were not popular with regular customers, and the restaurant's income deteriorated. Zinos's girlfriend also decided to abandon him and be with a man who met in Pingshui, Shanghai. How to turn a salted fish from Zinos, who has many questions? Can Soul Kitchen remain open?
6. "Julie and Julia"
Douban score: 8.1
Reasons for taking stock: French cuisine, exquisite mood.
Synopsis: Julie Powell (Amy Adams), a frustrated employee at lower Manhattan Development, decides to spend a year practicing all 524 dishes from America's most popular TV celebrity chef, Julia Chelder (Meryl Streep), her first cookbook, The Art of Mastering French Cooking, and writes a blog to record daily progress. Meanwhile, the film parallels Julia Childe with her U.S. Information Agency husband Paul Childe (Stanley Tage) who came to Paris, France, in 1948 to learn to cook, and after a decade of painstaking publication of the more than seven hundred pages of Mastery of the Art of French Cooking. Julie Powell finally found herself in the process of imitating Julia Childe, and as the number of blog views increased, even Julia herself learned of Julie's existence, but the result was unexpected by Julie.
7. "Food, Prayer and Love"
Douban score: 7.3
Reasons for taking stock: Italian food, romantic encounters.
Synopsis: Elizabeth Gilbert (Julia Roberts), a popular writer at The New York Times, travels the world and writes about travels. Her life is equally enviable, with her husband, Stephen (Billy Crudup), handsome and temperamental; eating carefree and happy. However, Elizabeth gradually felt empty and panicked, as if everything around her was not what she really sought. Elizabeth decided to step out of the spoiled marriage and find herself. After the long tug-of-war of divorce, she embarked on a journey around the world, seriously thinking about life in food, prayer and love...
8. "Diners"
Douban score: 6.4
Reasons for taking stock: Korean cuisine, complex emotions.
Synopsis: Unamjeong is a culinary institution that represents the highest level in the Republic of Korea, and at each time, one of the strongest disciples is chosen as the heir, and this year there are two high-caliber culinary students, the extremely talented Sung-Chan (Kim Kang-woo) and the ambitious Bong-so (Lim Won-hee). In the final competition, Bong-so uses despicable means to set up a situation, and while he is selected, he also drives Cheng Can out of Yunyan Pavilion. Five years later, the competition for the "cooking competition with a skilled knife" handed down from the Joseon Dynasty is about to kick off, and all kinds of masters have arrived, and the spirited Bong-so is also eyeing it. Cheng Can, with the encouragement of food journalist Ji Soo (Lee Ho Na), finally walked out of the shadow of the failure of that year and was ready to compete with Bong Soo again and regain everything that should have belonged to him.
9. "Antarctic Chef"
Douban score: 8.3
Reason for inventory: A good cook in the snow.
Synopsis: Jun Nishimura (Masato Sakai), a seafarer chef, is sent to the icy Antarctic Dome Fuji Base to work as a cook for seven expedition members, and his wife (Naomi Nishida) has to raise her 8-year-old daughter and newborn son alone. In the icy and snowy cold antarctica, it is the seven members of the expedition team— glaciologist Tatsushi Kawamura (Kengo Takara), meteorologist Masahiko Hirabayashi (Masahiro Kohama), correspondent Ryo Nishida (Daisuke Kuroda), doctor Masashi Fukuda (Koshi Toyohara), meteorologist and captain Hiroshi Kaneda (Yasuhiro Furuki), mechanic MikoShiki (Koji Koji Kodate), and iceologist Hideyuki Motoyama (Katsuhisa Iwase) – the greatest pleasures of boring life. Jun Nishimura tries his best to cook a variety of delicious dishes, and around eating, eight lonely men also perform countless interesting things about life.
10. "Michelin Love Affair"
Douban score: 7.1
Reason for the inventory: The collision of Indian cuisine and French cuisine.
Synopsis: Hassan (Manish Dayar) is a native of India, the family has run a food stall for generations, growing up in such an atmosphere, Hassan is full of feelings for food. Growing up, the Hassan family moved to the romantic French town of Lumière, where they returned to their old business and opened an exotic Indian restaurant. Celebrity chef Mrs. Mallory (Helen Mirren) has a great reputation in the industry, but despite her dedication and continuous improvement of her skills, she still cannot get the recognition and affirmation of two Michelin stars, which makes her feel very distressed. Hassan's restaurant happened to be across from Mrs. Mallory's, and the two had many conflicts before they came and went. However, in Hassan's body, Madame Mallory sensed an amazing talent, so she turned into a jade and became his master.