5 films where the main character is a cook

Chocolate

Certainly the first on this list. Bichon, the film's protagonist, arrives in a small French town and opens a pastry shop on the site of a former diner. But she prepares not simple sweets, but according to an ancient Indian recipe. It is quite difficult for her to get involved in local life, there are rather conservative foundations and the population is wary of her, but sweets with magical properties help her in this. As a result, people's hearts melt, and Bichon meets a wandering guitarist, played by Johnny Depp, and the story is filled to the brim with romanticism.

Bichon in his pastry shop

Toast

A drama set in the 50s. Nigel Slater, the kid whose mom is dying. After his wife's death, his father hires a housekeeper who claims to be the boy's stepmother. The housekeeper is a great cook, unlike Nigel's late mother, who only knew how to make toast. This further engages the feelings of the bereaved boy.

The relationship with his father is strained and from all this arises a kind of culinary rivalry between the housekeeper and the boy. In a race of culinary skills, Nigel gets to work in a restaurant, and there is a turning point and advice from a wise chef. And the guy becomes a cook.

It is interesting that the film is based on real events, it is the autobiography of the author of the novel, based on which the film was filmed. By the way, he can be seen in a cameo role at the end of the film as a chef. His name is Nigel Slater.

The novel has won many awards, as does the film.

Slater with father and housekeeper

Woman on Top

Isabella, a beautiful Brazilian girl (Penelope Cruz in the title role), in whose life everything has succeeded, you cannot even dream of the best. She has a handsome, wealthy husband, a restaurant owner, and she has a talent for cooking. He works as a chef in her husband's restaurant, which, by the way, is a success, and hosts a culinary show on the Brazilian channel.

The film would not have come out if Isabella had not caught her beloved husband with his mistress. The chagrin for her is so great that she just throws her old life and goes far away, namely in San Francisco. There she manages to do what she loves, a culinary show, only on a more popular channel, coupled with her talent, this brings her to a completely different level of popularity. And my husband's restaurant is getting scarce. Toninho, that is her husband's name, notices that the restaurant is “not the same” without Isabella, and he himself began to yearn, and decides to go after her and return.

Isabella is doing what she loves

Chef

French comedy starring Jean Reno. Reno plays Alexander Lagarde, a top-class chef, master, master. The problem is that Alexander is an adherent of the old school of cooking, and the restaurant owner demands from him a new approach, lower prices, changes in the menu, which the great cook does not like, and it does not work to come up with new fornication, a field of decades of practice in the traditional key.

The second main character, Jacqui. A young, very talented guy, but with a absurd character. Fate makes them work as a team, and this gives rise to all the content of the film. The confrontation between two very different people forced to do the same thing. The film is filled with high-quality French humor, which is based on arguments between two chefs, each of whom is very good, but in its own way.

Alexander and Jacqui in professional discussion

Spices and Passions

An Indian family of refugees remains, by the will of an unpleasant incident, without their car, almost crashing at the same time. To raise money for their livelihood, they open an Indian restaurant and directly opposite a long-standing French restaurant with Michelin stars. So the struggle for customers begins, and during the struggle, a boy from an Indian family reveals an unmatched taste and ability to cook French dishes no worse than his native Indian ones. The film shows from a positive side the theme of emigrants in European countries, from the point of view of enriching culture. By the way, a film from Hallström, director of "Chocolate".

The team is shocked by the new neighbors, a shot from the movie "Spices and Passions"