5 Best Movies About Chefs and Cooking to Watch While Waiting for the Bear Season 4
After these movies, you may be overcome with an irresistible desire to eat something tasty, so we recommend not watching them on an empty stomach.
The fourth season of The Bear, the best series about cooking of recent years, will return on June 25. In the meantime, brighten up the wait by watching the best movies about chefs, kitchens, and the ways food can change people's lives.
1. Mostly Martha, 2001
Martha is a professional chef and an incurable workaholic. She is an excellent cook, but struggles with everything else.
Cooking is her only way of communicating with the outside world. Her desire to succeed in the culinary field at any cost has left her without a family, friends, or a personal life.
However, her niece, eight-year-old Lina, and Mario, the carefree Italian who becomes the second chef at the restaurant where Martha works, will help her learn to enjoy life.
2. First Cow, 2019
In the 1820s, Cookie, a cook wandering around America, meets a Chinese immigrant named Lu. They decide to start a business producing sweet doughnuts, but the only person in the area with a dairy cow is a rich Englishman.
Cookie and Lu begin stealing milk at night, and their business takes off almost immediately. The villagers, accustomed to bland food, fall in love with the delicate doughnuts, and even the Englishman hears about their amazing taste.
3. The Taste of Things, 2023
Gourmet Dodin and his talented cook, Eugénie, are bound by an unspoken twenty-year connection expressed through their harmonious work in the kitchen, where cooking becomes a form of art.
The movie, which won the Best Director Award at Cannes, strikes a balance between sensuality and melancholy. It explores love, freedom, and the fragility of existence through food and shared creativity.
4. Bread of Happiness, 2012
This is the story of a married couple who moved away from noisy Tokyo to a quiet village where they opened a small inn and bakery.
Nao is the baker, and his wife, Rie, brews aromatic coffee and prepares food that perfectly complements his baking. Their story consists of four short novellas, each shot at a different time of year. In each story, the couple helps someone while leading their measured life.
5. Julie & Julia, 2009
Julia is the wife of a diplomat who was transferred to Paris in the late 1940s. She accompanies him and enrolls in a culinary academy, marking the beginning of her journey to becoming a renowned chef and host of culinary shows.
Julie is our contemporary who buried her dreams of becoming a writer. To make it more convenient for her husband to commute to work, Julie and her husband move from Brooklyn to Queens.
Julie sets a goal to cook every dish in Julia Child's French cookbook in one year and starts a blog.