Drama
Years of working in the food industry have made Juana, a working-class Latina, a chef of speed and skill. Searching for financial stability, she stumbles into a high-energy, male-dominated Japanese cuisine kitchen. The new atmosphere re-ignites her passions for food and life and makes her hungry to get mixed up in the flavors of this new world.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
In Name Only
Year Zero
Madea's Family Reunion
Like Water for Chocolate
Big Night
From Embers
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The Goodbye Girl
The Perfect Man
North Country
Bound by Honor
What a Girl Wants
East Is East
Center Stage
Michel Vaillant
Birth/Rebirth
The Babadook
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Fearless
SIMILAR MOVIES
In Name Only
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1939
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.Year Zero
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 2004
Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic situation in Israel. Mother forced into prostitution to support her son; Blind man must survive after losing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld...Madea's Family Reunion
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 2006
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her 2 young children and Lisa is engaged to a controlling man that her mother set her up with. In addition, Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of Nikki, a rebellious runaway teenager. Madea must keep the peace and her family together while simultaneously planning her clan's reunion.Like Water for Chocolate
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 1992
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.Big Night
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 1996
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.From Embers
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
A widowed mother, raising her nine year old autistic son, develops a bond with her new alcoholic neighbor, a painter who loves music and works hard to provide for his teenage daughter.Are You Lonesome Tonight?
IMDB 3.3 | Jan , 1992
A desperate socialite seeks her missing husband, troubled by bad investments and debts, with help from a private eye and the high-priced call girl hubby had been seeing.The Goodbye Girl
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 1977
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.The Perfect Man
IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 2005
Holly is tired of moving every time her mom Jean breaks up with yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man, an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her self-esteem.North Country
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 2005
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.Bound by Honor
IMDB 8.1 | Feb , 1993
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.What a Girl Wants
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2003
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.East Is East
IMDB 6.5 | May , 1999
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.Center Stage
IMDB 6.9 | May , 2000
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.Michel Vaillant
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 2003
Michel Vaillant is # 1 of pilots, undisputed champion in rallying in all circuits in the world. His success arouses admiration and envy. Ruth Wong, director of Team Leader, is determined to break his streak and avenge the memory of his father, founder of Leader. She is capable of anything to achieve her goal.Birth/Rebirth
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 2023
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.The Babadook
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2014
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
IMDB 5.7 | Nov , 1976
Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 1989
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.Fearless
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 2006
Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his nation. The son of a great fighter who didn't wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, Huo resolves to teach himself how to fight - and win.