Headline : The Best Movies About Cooking

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There is no greater comfort than consuming a meal made with love. But the next best thing, perhaps, is watching a meal be made—especially if the food is shot by a master filmmaker under beautiful lighting with a food stylist hovering just offscreen.

Food movies are great, but cooking movies are divine, and this list focuses on the latter category. That may sound oddly specific, but this list would be endless if we included all movies about food. Entire pieces can—and have—been written on the suggestive use of food in Luca Guadagnino's films alone. Montages have been cut of Brad Pitt snacking in nearly every movie he's ever made. The steak scene in The Matrix, the chocolate cake scene in Matilda, the orange peel scene in The Godfather—all iconic, but more focused on the indulgent act of consumption rather than the gift of nourishing another person.

The act of cooking, specifically, holds a special place in cinema. Preparing a meal for a loved one is an act of service, for some the ultimate expression of love. The process involves care, precision, and creativity. A complex relationship between the feeder and the fed can be deftly communicated by the camera without a whisper of dialogue.

Some of the movies on this list center on restaurants: Ratatouille, Big Night, and Chef feature professional cooks as their heroes. Others have one cooking scene so memorable that the film simply had to make the list: Annie baking a single cupcake in Bridesmaids, Paulie slicing garlic with a razor blade in Goodfellas, that final sequence in Phantom Thread.

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