The Best Movies About Food on Netflix

Getting hungry…

While there ’s a binge - worthy amplitude ofdocumentariesabout food on Da ' Flix that you in all likelihood see in your suggestion box every night , buried beneath your queue lies an undercurrent of deep - slash , fictional films that rotate around food – that somehow do n’t all imbibe . They deserve your attention . And anyone who allege that truth is stranger than fiction evidently has n’t watched / read / hear aboutNaked Lunch . Here are the dependable food - related non - documentaries on Netflix decently now .

( Note : Naked Lunchis not one of them . It is n’t really about lunch . There is nudity , though . )

The Trip

If you delight ungainly British temper and relentless Michael Caine impressions … we ’d credibly be friends , and you ’ll also definitely be into Michael Winterbottom’sThe Trip . Steve Coogan – playing himself – rent on an assignment forThe Observer , touring the UK ’s best restaurants in a vain effort to imprint his food - snob girl . For fellowship , he enlists his best admirer who he ca n’t really fend , comedian Rob Brydon ( also playing himself ) . Hilarity and sardonic jinks ensue . But underneath the quirky clowning lies a meditation on what it intend to be felicitous as an grownup , and how friends do n’t always postulate to assent to be close .

Still , the just part is the Michael Caine - off .

Chef

Jon Favreau ’s return to his down in the mouth - budgetSwingersroots features the star / theater director as a pissed - off chef who becomes less pissed off when he ditches high - end dining for a nutrient motortruck and start banging Gloria fromModern Family . Oh , and he learns about life and himself and other moving-picture show poppycock along the way . Chefbuoys itself beyond a middling formulaic script with heavy binge of logical food for thought pornography crafted by SoCal food truck legendRoy Choi , and a cast peppered with A - list cameos ( Dustin Hoffman , Robert Downey Jr. , Scarlett Johansson , Sofia Vergara ) who plainly had nothing better to do in 2014 . It might not beThe Godfather . But it at least has John Leguizamo . Who is fundamentally this contemporaries ’s Marlon Brando .

The God of Cookery

The God of Cookerymight seem like a sentimental , foreign B complex - movie made for tardy - night stoner viewing . And it is . But it ’s helmed by Hong Kong caption Stephen Chow , whose commixture of high-pitched - octane action andLooney Tunes - fashion clowning has made him a rage icon after flick likeKung Fu HustleandShaolin Soccer . In this flick , he ’s a celebrity chef on anIron Chef - alike show that … well , count , you were either sold by the prospect of a Bugs Bunny - meets - Jackie Chan take onIron Chefor you were n’t .

Today’s Special

You may recognize Aasif Mandvi as that Indian guy who plays a bit role as an Indian guy in every motion-picture show / show for white people ever . InToday ’s Specialhe asterisk as a sous chef at an upscale Manhattan eatery , who rediscovers his roots ( and his love of intellectual nourishment ! And his dearest of crime syndicate ! How convenient ! ) when his founding father come down with an illness , leading our grinder to take over a kinsfolk - own Amerindic restaurant he all but abandon when he venture on his own lofty culinary life history . It face cheesy , but it register : I felt as if I ’d just watched Stella get her groove back all over again , if Stella were a consistently sweaty Amerind chef , that is .

Le Chef

EssentiallyGood Will Hunting– with less Matt Damon and quantum maths –Le Cheffollows an obscure chef who gets a big break , then struggles in the culinary limelight . The function of grizzly mentor / French Robin Williams is played by Jean Reno , who Americans will most in all probability remember as a psuedo - pedophiliac assassin inLéon : The Professional . He ’s just as scary inLe Chef , but since this is a touching dramedy , he does n’t systematically off a bunch of mass .

Consumed

Yes , as a self - profess " GMO thriller , " this pay back a niggling preachy : It is , after all , a conspiracy theory - fueledErin Brockovich - ish thread about a mom ’s seeking to work the mystery of her tike ’s persistent , diet - relate rash . However , the substance is very much aline with many masses ’s suspicious views on GMOs , so it ’s topical ( like the cream used to care for non - GMO - bear on rashes ) . That ’ll make it essential screening for GMO haters who do n’t mind plot fix and know Danny Glover . Which is a very clear-cut – but immensely underserved – population .

Waffle Street

After the Wall Street crash of 2008 , James Adams was unceremoniously discharge from his cushy Book of Job hedging various funds on Wall Street , and – in a lightbulb consequence – decide his life of excess and fucking mass out of their hard - earned cash demand a sexually transmitted disease of buyback . So he decided to work the graveyard displacement at a local 24/7 dinner party ( oh damn , nowI get the title ) to get a dose of blue - collar animation . Hilarity , life lessons , and Danny Glover ( think back him ? America ’s treasure ? ) result in this true(ish ) tale , based on Adams ' memoir .

The Adventures of Food Boy

Food Boyis like any other coming - of - age adolescent comedy , if every bildungsroman teenager comedy involved the sudden power to make copious amounts of food appear at any sentence . Food Boy , the fictional character , is basically likeSpider - Man , if Peter Parker were more into baking and kind of stinking . When faced with the realities of his newfound power to make food appear out of thin air , he must decide if great power does occur with great responsibleness , or if he should just spend his life making bread come out of his hands . Is it a respectable movie ? No . It ’s so absurdly risky that it ’s kind of safe . Which I ’d suppose describes the tang of food for thought that pops out of some nerd ’s manpower .