Movies: Cooking

A chef decides to give his latest cooking show a blood-red ending with a unique dish....

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. Fo...

A boy is cooking, a girl is waiting. Breakfast is soon served. Then a stranger enters the bedroom where the girl is lying and the nightmare begins. A short film about love and dependence, about relationships and the urge to break out. Experimental, ...

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King Richard II from recipes created by the king's master chefs. How did this ancient manuscript influenc...

A hen's chicks hatch, but one of them is actually an ostrich. She treats it as her own, but the ostrich keeps getting into trouble....

Manuel, a young Dominican chef, has the opportunity to fulfill his dream when a businesswoman asks him for a dish that will impress her. But, he has to deal with his inner voice that torments him in order to make it....

In part 1, a married couple take care of their new baby. In part 2, Leif Juster on stage presents a series of cooking and housekeeping tips. The fourth in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife"....

A popular cooking show organizes a contest to find the best "My Father's Menu". Three chefs enter the competition, and their search for the recipes is intertwined with their personal dramas....

How to make porridge using a haybox....

Promotional film for Southern California Edison. We see a housewife in a tastefully colour-coordinated kitchen equipped with the latest electrical appliances as she prepares dinner for her husband and his business associates. While the dishwasher tak...

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What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspir...

A committed, passionate teacher tries to make all the difference in the lives of disadvantaged students....

Filmed in November 2020 at Human Resources Gallery in Los Angeles, Christina performs her jokes for an audience of no one but the small crew who is filming her, some of whom may or may not be figments of sound design. HTBCDA grinds the lens of Martin...

Strange revelations about a newly wed couple come to light when Kyle Foley cooks for the first time....

Andrew Weil, M.D., program director of integrated medicine at the University of Arizona, teaches doctors and the public about nutrition, In this video, he describes good eating habits, nutritional health, and cooking. He also shares some cross-cultur...

A young woman prepares breakfast for her lover, who has spent the night somewhere else after an argument....

Author and cook David Groß travels through five European countries and cooks exclusively what others throw in the garbage bin. With great thirst for knowledge, he tracks food waste and presents unexpected solutions. In an unusual and humorous self-at...

He's hungry, and chances are you're also hungry, so tag along. Who knows, you might learn a thing or two....

A tragi-comic suburban psycho-drama following a downtrodden housewife who dreams of having a better life. After swallowing too much vodka, speed and valium, she fantasizes about killing her adulterous husband and escaping her boring existence....