The fourth installment of the much-loved comedy-drama series The Bear dropped just just a few days ago. Overall, The Bear holds a powerful 92% critics’ rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. If Season 4 left you craving more stories centred around food, chefs, or cooking, these food-themed movies deserve your watchlist. And the very best part: they’re all streaming on popular Indian OTT platforms.
1. Ratatouille
- Release Yr – 2007
- Director – Brad Bird
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 96%
- Streaming On – Jio Hotstar
Plot: The animated comedy-drama follows the story of Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rat living in Paris who dreams of becoming a chef. After a accident lands him in a restaurant kitchen, he forms an unlikely bond with a struggling young cook named Linguini (voiced by Lou Romano). The duo finds a option to communicate and team as much as create extraordinary dishes, while keeping their unusual partnership a secret.
2. Chef
- Release Yr – 2014
- Director – Jon Favreau
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 87%
- Streaming On – Amazon Prime Video (Rent)
Plot: The texture-good road comedy-drama follows Carl Casper, a passionate chef (played by Jon Favreau), who loses his high-profile restaurant job after a public clash with a food critic. In search of a fresh start, he launches a food truck business with the assistance of his young son and his best friend. The film also features Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale, Amy Sedaris, Emjay Anthony, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Downey Jr.
3. Nonnas
- Release Yr – 2025
- Director – Stephen Chbosky
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 82%
- Streaming On – Netflix
Plot: Based on a real story, the heartfelt comedy-drama follows the story of Joe Scaravella (played by Vince Vaughn), a person grieving the lack of his mother. He takes a giant risk and decides to honour his mother by opening an Italian restaurant with a gaggle of actual grandmothers because the chefs.
4. Julie & Julia
- Release Yr – 2009
- Director – Nora Ephron
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 77%
- Streaming On – Amazon Prime Video (Rent)
Plot: The biographical comedy drama revolves around how the lives of two women, Julie and Julia, whose lives are separated by many years but connected through a shared love of cooking. A Latest York-based author, Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams), takes on the challenge to cook all 524 recipes from Julia Child’s (played by Meryl Streep) iconic cookbook inside a yr and documents her journey.
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