Top Food and Wine Movies for the Holidays
Sick of the classic Christmas movies?. Can’t handle “A Christmas Carol” or “It’s a Wonderful life” one more year? Love food and wine? Here is our list of the best ever foodie movies:
1. Chocolat, delicious flick in romanticized French hamlet, with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.
2. Like Water for Chocolate- simply FABULOUS movie based on Mexican author Laura Esquivel’s book. ¡ Fantástico! Watch it subtitled (Como agua para chocolate), not dubbed.
3. Eat Drink Man Woman- superb Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee
4. Tampopo- silly, sweet movie coined as the first Japanese noodle western
5. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and her Lover- Goofy, sexy, opulent, film by the always eccentric Peter Greenaway, with an all star cast
6. Babette’s Feast- stunning Academy award winning Danish film by the same screenplay writer as Out of Africa, Gabriel Axel
7. Jamón Jamón- ” A lusty tale of ham and passion”, kooky Spanish film classic with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem
8. L’Aile ou la Cuisse- “The wing or the thigh”. Fun, French romp from the 70’s including a restaurant critic, circus and the salvation of high cuisine.
9. Tortilla Soup- a kind of Latino version of Eat Drink Man Woman, very sweet
10. Ratatouille- and of course, this one complete´s the best foodie movies list. The little gourmet rat is just adorable and this cartoon is quite possibly enjoyed more by the parents than by the kids 
Merry Xmas, happy cooking and happy viewing!
Big Night is at the top of my list. Who could argue with that?
Then Julie & Julia and A good year.
And Fried Green Tomatoes (in a twisted sort of way)
Tampopo is my absolute favorite. Never looked at raw eggs and live shrimp the same way again
It is not a real foodie movie, but I loved the dinner in Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” – anyone for a mint?