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Coming to America
1988 film by John Landis
Way of the Dragon
1972 film by Bruce Lee
Five Nights at Freddy's (film)
Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2023 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series of the same name created by Scott Cawthon. It was directed by Emma Tammi and written by Cawthon, Tammi and Seth Cuddeback. The film stars Josh Hutcherson as a troubled security guard who starts a job at a condemned pizzeria where he discovers that its animatronic mascots are possessed by the spirits of murdered children who were abducted by a serial killer decades prior. It additionally features Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard in supporting roles.
The Founder
2016 US film by John Lee Hancock
Cocktail
1988 film by Roger Donaldson
Chef
2014 film directed by Jon Favreau
Burnt
2015 film by John Wells
The Menu
2022 film directed by Mark Mylod
Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 film directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky
Playtime
Playtime (stylized as PlayTime and also written as Play Time) is a 1967 satirical comedy film directed and co-written by Jacques Tati. Tati also stars in the film, reprising the role of Monsieur Hulot from his earlier films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958). However, Tati grew ambivalent towards playing Hulot as a recurring central role during production, and he appears intermittently in Playtime, alternating between central and supporting roles.
Mystic Pizza
1988 film by Donald Petrie
The Petrified Forest
1936 film by Archie Mayo
Tick, Tick... Boom!
2021 film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda
No Reservations
2007 film directed by Scott Hicks
Legion
2010 film by Scott Stewart
Gertie the Dinosaur
1914 film directed by Winsor McCay
Soul Kitchen
2009 film by Fatih Akın
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
1989 film by Peter Greenaway
Diner
1982 film directed by Barry Levinson
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
2014 film directed by Miguel Arteta
I Love You to Death
1990 film by Lawrence Kasdan
The Other Side of Hope
2017 film directed by Aki Kaurismäki
The Big Restaurant
1966 film by Jacques Besnard
Drop
2025 film directed by Christopher Landon
Waitress
2007 film directed by Adrienne Shelly
Simply Irresistible
1999 American film by Mark Tarlov
My Dinner with Andre
1981 film directed by Louis Malle
The Secret of the Grain
2007 film by Abdellatif Kechiche
Extreme Job
2019 film by Lee Byeong-heon
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a 2025 science fiction comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Matthew Robinson. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor, and Juno Temple. It follows a man from the future who travels to the past to recruit patrons of a Los Angeles diner to help combat a rogue artificial intelligence.
Perfect Sense
2011 film by David Mackenzie
Alice's Restaurant
1969 film directed by Arthur Penn
Little Nemo
1911 silent film
The Dinner
2017 film by Oren Moverman
Give me a complaints book
1965 film by Eldar Ryazanov
Tampopo
is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first "ramen Western", a play on the term spaghetti Western.
Choke
2008 film by Clark Gregg
Boiling Point
2021 film directed by Philip Barantini
Good Burger
1997 film directed by Brian Robbins
Big Night
1996 film by Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
Lights in the Dusk
2006 film by Aki Kaurismäki
Compliance
2012 Craig Zobel film
The Kitchen in Paris
2014 film by Dmitriy Dyachenko
Mostly Martha
2001 film directed by Sandra Nettelbeck
Waiting...
2005 film by Rob McKittrick
Nonnas
Nonnas is a 2025 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky, written by Liz Maccie, and starring Vince Vaughn, Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire, Brenda Vaccaro with Linda Cardellini and Susan Sarandon. The film is based on the life of Joe Scaravella, who created the Staten Island (New York City) restaurant Enoteca Maria. He risks everything to honor his recently deceased, beloved mother by opening an Italian restaurant with actual grandmothers as chefs.
La colmena
1982 film by Mario Camus
Little Italy
2018 film directed by Donald Petrie
The Last Stop in Yuma County
2023 film by Francis Galluppi
La cocina
2024 film directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Waiter!
Waiter! () is a 1983 French film directed by Claude Sautet and starring Yves Montand, Nicole Garcia, Jacques Villeret, Marie Dubois, Dominique Laffin, and Bernard Fresson. It received 4 César nominations, for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor (twice) and Best Sound.
The Untold Story
1993 film by Herman Yau
Solino
Solino is a 2002 Italian-German movie directed by Fatih Akın and starring Moritz Bleibtreu, Barnaby Metschurat, Gigi Savoia and Antonella Attili.
Love's Kitchen
2011 film
Heavy
1995 film by James Mangold
Hunger
2023 film directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
2006 film by Lloyd Kaufman
Kamome Shokudo
2006 film by Naoko Ogigami
Daawat-e-Ishq
Daawat-e-Ishq () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Habib Faisal, and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. It stars Parineeti Chopra, Aditya Roy Kapur and Anupam Kher in the lead roles. The soundtrack was composed by Sajid–Wajid.
All the Old Knives
2022 film directed by Janus Metz Pedersen