Best "food industry" Movies of All Time

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The Wing or the Thigh?(1976)

1h 44min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 370 votes)

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!

Directed by Claude Zidi - With Louis de Funès, Coluche, Claude Gensac, Jean Martin, Marcel Dalio, Vittorio Caprioli, ...

Super Size Me(2004)

PG-13

| 1h 40min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 727 votes)

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.

Directed by Morgan Spurlock - With Morgan Spurlock

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That Sugar Film(2014)

| 1h 37min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 91 votes)

One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.

Directed by Damon Gameau - With Damon Gameau, Hugh Jackman, Richard Davies, Stephen Fry, Isabel Lucas, Jessica Marais, ...

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Food, Inc.(2008)

| 1h 34min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 258 votes)

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.

Directed by Robert Kenner - With Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan

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Fed Up(2014)

| 1h 35min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 106 votes)

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.

Directed by Stephanie Soechtig

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Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga(2019)

2h 1min | Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 26 votes)

Sweety has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants her to get married but the ultimate truth is that her love might not find acceptance in her family and society.

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Velaikkaran(2017)

2h 30min | Action, Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on an ambitious capitalist, who only wants to dominate his field.

Directed by M. Raja - With Sivakartikeyan

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5(2015)

7min | Horror, Animation, Fantasy, Music

3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

The two remaining puppets learn about eating healthy, but things go awry when they receive a mysterious phone call.

The Automat(2021)

1h 19min | Documentary, History

3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers, we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.

Bananas!*(2009)

1h 27min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?

Directed by Fredrik Gertten - With Juan Dominguez

Aruvam(2019)

2h 13min | Thriller, Horror

2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

A food safety officer and a teacher who has no sense of smell come together to fight the practice of food adulteration and its devastating effect on people.

Sweet Jam(2001)

1h 32min | Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family, Music

The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All the people try to open the door of the jam.

Directed by Marzieh Boroumand - With Leila Hatami

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King Corn(2007)

| 1h 28min | Documentary

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.

Directed by Ian Cheney - With Michael Pollan, Earl Butz

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Cheap Food(2020)

1h 30min | Documentary, TV Movie

3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Industrial food production has provided the public with an abundance of food at very low prices. But with obesity and diabetes at record levels in Europe, there is clearly a problem with the food we eat. This documentary puts the spotlight on the agri-food industry and reveals how low-cost ultra-processed foods are really made.

James Beard: America's First Foodie(2017)

1h | Documentary

Food in the 21st century has become much more than “meat and potatoes” and canned soup casseroles.” Chefs have gained celebrity status; recipes and exotic ingredients, once impossible to find, are now just a mouse click away; and the country's major cities are better known for their gastronomy than their art galleries. This food movement can be traced back to one man: James Beard. His name graces the highest culinary honor in the American food world today—the James Beard Foundation Awards. And while chefs all around the country aspire to win a James Beard Award, often referred to as the “culinary Oscars,” many of those same chefs know very little about the man behind the medal. Respected restaurateur Drew Nieporent summed it up when he said, “Everybody knows the name James Beard. They may not know who he is, but they know the name.”.

Shady Chocolate(2012)

45min | Documentary

2.9/5 (with 1 vote)

Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does the industry live up to its own promises?In this investigative film, director Miki Mistrati tries to find out, if the chocolate industry – which is one of the largest corporations in the world – speak the truth, when they say that they provide education, medical care etc for the children of the Ivory Coast. But the project runs into trouble already from the get-go, because the embassy of the Ivory Coast won’t let Miki enter the country until he has an invitation – from the chocolate industry.

Killer at Large(2008)

1h 42min | Documentary

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Obesity rates in the United States have reached epidemic proportions in recent years. Killer at Large shows how little is being done and more importantly, what can be done to reverse it. Killer at Large also explores the human element of the problem with portions of the film that follow a 12-year old girl who has a controversial liposuction procedure to fix her weight gain and a number of others suffering from obesity, including filmmaker Neil Labute.

Directed by Steven Greenstreet

Les moissons du futur(2012)

52min | Documentary

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Marie-Monique Robin

Of the Land(2015)

1h 29min | Documentary

Within the last half century, our agriculture and food has changed more than it has changed before in several thousand years. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMO) and other novel foods. Some people have raised concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in the majority of our diet. Traditional, organic farmers, have consistently been under attack by large corporate farming interests, who seek to dominate the food industry and run family farms out of business. This film looks at our current food system as well as a variety of smaller, organic options available to consumers who want to support sustainable farming methods.

Jamie's Sugar Rush(2015)

47min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Jamie Oliver investigates sugar's huge contribution to global health problems like obesity and type 2 diabetes, reveals how much sugar is in healthy-looking food, and explores what can be done to help.

Food Coop(2016)

1h 37min | Documentary

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

In the middle of an economic crisis, in the shadow of Wall Street, an institution that represents a less well-known American tradition is booming. The Park Slope Food Coop: a cooperative supermarket where all 16,000 members work 3 hours per months to earn the right to buy the best food in New York at incredibly low prices. The success of this cooperative is a bad new for capitalism and aggro-alimentary business, and an opportunity to change the food production and distribution systems. We will see what has become of the Park Slope Food Coop, now a well-rooted institution in the heart of Brooklyn: the way it functions, its hundreds of rules, the diversity and eccentricity of its members. We'll see how the culture that has been created at the coop gives its members daily visceral lessons in democracy, how this could represent a potential change in mentality for Americans faced with increasingly difficult economic times.

Directed by Thomas Boothe, Maellanne Bonnicel

The Big Fat Lie(2018)

1h 27min | Documentary

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A New Zealand man discovers the health benefits of a plant-based diet after he suffers a heart attack.

The Dark Side of Chocolate(2010)

46min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera techniques to delve into the gritty world of cocoa plantations.

Directed by Miki Mistrati - With David Bateson

Until Further Notice(2021)

27min | Documentary

With his industry on lockdown and no end in sight, Toronto chef Luke Donato tries to keep his culinary passion alive during the COVID-19 pandemic - even if it means teaching a group of misfits online.

Guide: A Culinary Documentary(2020)

26min | Documentary

In this short documentary, Vedat Milor tries to uncover the complex processes behind some of the traditional Turkish dishes that seem simple at first glance.

Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison(2016)

1h 11min | Documentary, Crime

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.

Wonder Bakers at the World's Fair(1939)

4min | Comedy, Animation

Animated segments which might have originally framed live action footage of bakers at work making Wonder Bread and Hostess cakes.

Salt of the Earth(2022)

10min | Documentary

An Australian icon found on every supermarket shelf, and coating every game day pack of hot chips. But the story of the South Australian man who invented the famous Chicken Salt has never been told. While he sold the company in the late 70’s to the brand names you see in your cupboard today, he maintains that the original recipe, held secret for more than 40 years, tastes even better.

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