Foodie, a list by amything

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4.0

age 16+

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

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6.1

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62

/21880/

57

/7579/

2.2

/541399/

82

/237/

50

/3867/

66

/39/

2.0

age 18+

Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.

73

7.2

/201156/

74

/16534/

71

/5258/

3.4

/379446/

80

/245/

82

/1040/

66

/47/

3.0

age 13+

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

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6.7

/565314/

69

/21921/

70

/15837/

3.3

/1600281/

83

/227/

51

/1479913/

72

/40/

3.0

age 8+

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

69

6.9

/280965/

71

/14328/

66

/6307/

3.4

/691843/

85

/142/

72

/10169/

66

/24/

2.5

age 6+

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?

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6.1

/225398/

64

/10140/

60

/6977/

2.6

/117255/

17

/144/

53

/4624/

23

/25/

age 17+

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

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7.3

/247761/

75

/10326/

71

/3512/

3.7

/411016/

87

/188/

85

/3435/

68

/36/

3.0

age 15+

When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love.

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7.8

/242659/

78

/10849/

74

/3835/

3.8

/560899/

90

/61/

87

/35009/

67

/10/

4.0

age 8+

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.

53

6.6

/141234/

69

/7985/

65

/3503/

3.1

/150972/

29

/159/

45

/759/

42

/28/

2.0

age 16+

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

71

7.0

/214683/

72

/6547/

65

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3.4

/156480/

75

/146/

80

/16113/

64

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3.0

age 17+

Nerdy accountant Harold and his irrepressible friend, Kumar, get stoned watching television and find themselves utterly bewitched by a commercial for White Castle. Convinced there must be one nearby, the two set out on a late-night odyssey that takes them deep into New Jersey. Somehow, the boys manage to run afoul of rednecks, cops and even a car-stealing Neil Patrick Harris before getting anywhere near their beloved sliders.

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7.6

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80

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74

/500/

3.4

/9080/

25

/32/

81

/443/

37

/12/

1.0

age 13+

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.

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6.2

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76

/2614/

60

/383/

3.0

/10398/

49

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64

/250/

55

/27/

3.0

age 13+

A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.

77

6.9

/95616/

70

/5033/

70

/3353/

3.7

/423733/

93

/201/

76

/363/

81

/34/

3.5

age 18+

In Justine's family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she's a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.

69

6.6

/150360/

69

/5047/

64

/2231/

3.4

/227489/

76

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73

/16482/

62

/29/

3.0

age 10+

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

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7.2

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68

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67

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3.1

/111568/

92

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72

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73

/37/

3.0

age 13+

Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.

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5.9

/115478/

61

/3694/

57

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2.7

/101087/

42

/185/

42

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56

/37/

3.0

age 14+

Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.

69

7.0

/134854/

71

/3567/

67

/2177/

3.5

/178671/

76

/220/

70

/11087/

66

/34/

2.5

age 13+

Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

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7.5

/215597/

72

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71

/1814/

3.8

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97

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79

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4.0

age 17+

Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.

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6.7

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68

/3027/

62

/960/

2.8

/78502/

29

/92/

75

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30

/26/

1.5

age 18+

Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.

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7.8

/53108/

76

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73

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3.6

/20234/

95

/113/

86

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80

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3.5

age 13+

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.

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6.9

/106190/

70

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66

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3.1

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26

/137/

66

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47

/33/

age 13+

Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.

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6.4

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64

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60

/1353/

2.9

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54

/166/

60

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48

/36/

3.0

age 13+

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.

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7.0

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70

/2422/

69

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3.5

/59280/

70

/40/

70

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66

/13/

3.0

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

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7.0

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71

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68

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3.6

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57

/65/

60

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55

/18/

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

57

6.3

/83017/

67

/2252/

66

/1443/

3.1

/60728/

42

/158/

62

/14394/

50

/33/

2.0

age 12+

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.

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7.1

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71

/1994/

68

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3.3

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63

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68

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2.5

age 16+

The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

72

7.7

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78

/950/

73

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3.5

/4712/

80

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84

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71

/20/

2.0

age 10+

Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.

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7.8

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77

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73

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4.1

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97

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87

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76

/28/

age 12+

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

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6.6

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72

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72

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3.6

/89483/

56

/121/

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52

/27/

3.0

age 13+

The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews.

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5.8

/35749/

64

/1482/

61

/556/

3.2

/90948/

33

/45/

63

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41

/17/

2.0

age 10+

Two L.A. teens with summer jobs at Good Burger try to save their small restaurant when a corporate giant burger franchise moves in across the street.

73

7.0

/50951/

68

/997/

67

/554/

3.7

/48901/

89

/171/

74

/13770/

75

/34/

age 15+

A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.

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6.6

/58392/

66

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64

/822/

3.2

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45

/130/

61

/4442/

51

/28/

2.5

age 15+

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

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6.6

/18787/

70

/747/

61

/620/

3.0

/9863/

47

/34/

57

/111/

43

/13/

A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.

80

7.5

/44506/

73

/1051/

73

/682/

4.2

/72119/

87

/52/

88

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62

/23/

4.0

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

64

6.0

/11260/

63

/558/

57

/185/

3.1

/11262/

75

/134/

53

/330/

68

/36/

3.0

age 15+

Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.

75

7.2

/13447/

74

/756/

72

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3.8

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Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!

75

7.4

/13942/

76

/650/

74

/588/

3.9

/27718/

84

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85

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60

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3.0

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.

59

5.7

/9419/

59

/558/

56

/203/

3.1

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57

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58

/13/

2.5

Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night.

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5.9

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65

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61

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2.9

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10

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44

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34

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1.5

age 13+

A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.

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7.0

/24071/

67

/634/

66

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3.7

/25610/

89

/106/

70

/647/

82

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3.0

age 15+

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

56

5.9

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62

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60

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3.0

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68

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50

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1.5

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!

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7.6

/18650/

77

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75

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4.1

/47952/

93

/121/

83

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75

/31/

3.0

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

52

6.4

/16451/

65

/537/

58

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3.0

/8844/

35

/26/

48

/615/

40

/11/

age 17+

The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, while the loser will endure a beating at the hands of the champ.

71

6.6

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65

/527/

63

/251/

3.6

/14728/

88

/130/

57

/275/

75

/36/

3.5

age 15+

Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.

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7.9

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80

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78

/407/

4.3

/140198/

100

/58/

93

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87

/18/

4.0

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

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7.7

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74

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4.1

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85

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83

/15/

4.0

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

81

7.5

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73

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71

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3.8

/12167/

98

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86

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82

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3.5

During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.

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7.2

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72

/536/

70

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3.6

/18204/

63

/27/

83

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