If you like to binge watch, movies about food give you something nourishing to binge on with worrying about calories. Here is a list, in alphabetical order, of 20 movies about food and wine as well as movies that have some great food scenes. I have seen some, but not all, of these films. A ♥ indicates the ones I recommended. If I mentioned the movie in a blog, that post is indicated.

Pick your cuisine of choice and dig in.

(I don’t count the chicken-salad sandwich scene in Five Easy Pieces because, while it’s about food, you never actually get to see the chicken salad.  And Soylent Green, well, the less said about that as food the better.)

• Babette’s Feast (1987) ♥
  Cuisine: Classical French
  Country: Denmark
  Timeframe: Nineteenth Century

• Big Night (1966) ♥
  Cuisine: Italian
  Country: United States — New Jersey
  Timeframe: Twentieth Century

• Bottle Shock (2008) ♥
  Cuisine: Wine
  Country: United States — California
  Timeframe: 1976

• Burnt (2015) ♥
  Cuisine: Haute cuisine
  Country: England — London
  Timeframe: Twenty First Century

• Chef (2014) ♥
  Cuisine: American food
  Country: United States — Florida to California
  Timeframe: Twenty First Century
  Blog Post: Chef: A Movie That Celebrates LIfe, Love, Family, and Food

• Chocolat (2000) ♥
  Cuisine:  Candy and pastry
  Country: France
  Timeframe: Twentieth Century

• Eat Drink Man Woman: (1994) ♥
  Cuisine: Chinese
  Country: China
  Timeframe: Twentieth Century

• Haute Cuisine (2013)
  Cuisine: Classical French
  Country: France
  Timeframe: 1988

• The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) ♥
  Cuisine: Classical French and Indian
  Country: France — Provence
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century
  Blog Post: The Hundred Foot Journey: A Passion for Food

• I Am Love (2009)
  Cuisine: Italian
  Country: Italy — Milan
  Timeframe: Turn of the Millennium

• Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
  Cuisine: Japanese — sushi
  Country: Japan — Tokyo
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• Julie & Julia (2009) ♥
  Cuisine: Classical French
  Country: United States — New York City
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• Kings of Pastry
  Cuisine: French — pastry
  Country: France
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• Like Water for Chocolate (1992) ♥
  Cuisine: Mexican
  Country: Mexico
  Timeframe: Twentieth Century

• The Menu (2023)
  Cuisine: Fine Dining
  Country: USA – Savannah, Georgia
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) (2001)
  Cuisine: German
  Country: Germany
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century
• The Ramen Girl (2008) ♥
  Cuisine: Japanese — ramen
  Country: Japan — Tokyo
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century
• Ratatouille (2007)
  Cuisine: Classical French
  Country: France — Paris
  Timeframe: Twentieth Century
  Note: This is an animated film

• The Raw and the Cooked (2013)
  Cuisine: Chinese
  Country: Taiwan — Taipei
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• Sideways (2004) ♥
  Cuisine: American — Wine
  Country: America — California
  Timeframe: Twentieth Century

• Tampopo (1985)
  Cuisine: Japanese — noodles
  Country: Japan
  Timeframe: Twentieth Century

• The Trip (2010) ♥
  Cuisine: English
  Country: England
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• The Trip to Italy (2014)
  Cuisine: Italian
  Country: Italy — Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• Today’s Special (2009)
  Cuisine: Indian food
  Country: America — Manhattan
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• Tortilla Soup (2001)
  Cuisine: Mexican
  Country: America — Los Angeles
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century
  Note: This is an American remake of Eat Drink Man Woman

• Tuscano
  Cuisine: Italian
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century

• Waitress (2007) ♥
  Cuisine: American — Pie
  Country: America — the Deep South
  Timeframe: Twenty-first Century