Best "restaurant owner" Movies of All Time

24 movies found (page 1/1):

Rocky Balboa(2006)

| 1h 42min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 1,556 votes)

His Wife is dead and his Son hates him but this old man still has fight in him! When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger, and thirty years his junior.

Directed by Sylvester Stallone - With Burt Young, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia, Tony Burton, Lou DiBella, Sylvester Stallone, ...

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Chef(2014)

Κ-12

| 1h 54min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 1,435 votes)

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.

Directed by Jon Favreau - With Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Bobby Cannavale, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Sofía Vergara, ...

You May Not Kiss the Bride(2011)

1h 37min | Action, Crime, Comedy, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 80 votes)

Bryan, an unassuming pet photographer has action and adventure thrust upon him when he is forced to wed Masha, a Croatian crime lord's daughter, and she is subsequently kidnapped while on their honeymoon in a tropical paradise.

Directed by Rob Hedden - With Dave Annable, Katharine McPhee, Rob Schneider, Mena Suvari, Kathy Bates, Tia Carrere, ...

Always Be My Maybe(2019)

1h 41min | Romance / Love, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 597 votes)

Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.

Directed by Nahnatchka Khan - With Ali Wong, Randall Park, James Saito, Michelle Buteau, Vivian Bang, Keanu Reeves, ...

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The Restaurant(1966)

1h 22min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 203 votes)

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

Directed by Jacques Besnard - With Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Folco Lulli, Venantino Venantini, Noël Roquevert, Paul Préboist, ...

In My Dreams(2015)

1h 34min | Romance / Love, Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie

3.3/5 (with 97 votes)

Natalie and Nick are frustrated with their luck in romance. After tossing coins into a fountain, the two then begin dreaming about each other. But, according to fountain mythology, they only have a week to turn those dreams into reality.

Directed by Kenny Leon

Tequila Sunrise(1988)

K-16

| 1h 55min | Crime, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 211 votes)

In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.

Directed by Robert Towne - With Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J. T. Walsh, Gabriel Damon, ...

2 Days in Paris(2007)

1h 36min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 162 votes)

Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents — and several of her ex-boyfriends.

Directed by Julie Delpy - With Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Daniel Brühl, Marie Pillet, Adán Jodorowsky, Albert Delpy, ...

Kamome Diner(2006)

1h 42min | Drama, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her, and meets Masako, a formal and ethereal middle-aged woman whose luggage has gone missing. The three women work in the diner, interact, and serve customers. A somewhat brusque man teaches Sachie to make delicious coffee, then he returns under other circumstances. Three neighborhood women inspect the empty diner every day; will anything bring them inside? We learn why Sachie serves rice balls; but why Finland?

Directed by Naoko Ogigami - With Satomi Kobayashi, Markku Peltola

Razzia(1955)

1h 41min | Crime, Drama

3.4/5 (with 30 votes)

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.

Directed by Henri Decoin - With Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Lino Ventura, Magali Noël, Paul Frankeur, Lila Kedrova, ...

In the Game(2018)

1h 25min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 110 votes)

A rebellious teenager must travel the country with his sick grandpa to get to his basketball game.

With Thierry Lhermitte, Rayane Bensetti, Émilie Caen, Lyes Salem, Cassiopée Mayance, Mark Grosy, ...

My Mother's Future Husband(2014)

1h 28min | Kids & Family, Romance / Love, Comedy, TV Movie

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Headly, a 15-year-old teenager, thinks her mother has mourned her father's death long enough, so she decides to find her a new husband by the end of the summer.

Directed by George Erschbamer

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East Side Story(2006)

1h 28min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

2.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Diego is a gay but closeted Hispanic chef living in East Los Angeles who works in the restaurant operated by his grandmother. Frustrated by the secretive lifestyle he shares with his similarly closeted lover, Pablo, Diego finds himself attracted to Wesley, one of the openly gay Caucasian men he feels are gentrifying his neighborhood. Their relationship pushes Diego to consider the possibility of a life he had never imagined.

Directed by Carlos Portugal - With René Alvarado

Km. 0(2000)

1h 48min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Located in Madrid's Plaza del Sol, Km. 0 is the point from which all distances in Spain are measured from the capital. In Km. 0, it is also the meeting point for a gallery of characters. Bored, affluent housewife Marga meets up with gigolo Miguel, who co-habitates with gay Benjamin. Sergio, a soon-to-be-married office clerk who can't wait to lose his virginity, makes the acquaintance of prostitute Tatiana, while gay dancer Bruno meets Maximo. Meanwhile, wannabe director Pedro arranges to meet up with Silvia, an actress who wants to work in musicals directed by Gerardo, and bartender Mario is caught between Amor, who wants to marry him, and her little sister Roma, who is truly in love with him.

Directed by Yolanda García Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra - With Concha Velasco, Georges Corraface, Silke, Mercè Pons, Alberto San Juan, Carlos Fuentes, ...

Another Woman(1994)

1h 26min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

After a brutal attack leaves Lisa Temple without her memory, her husband declares that she is another woman. She begins to find out just what that means when she begins to try to recover that lost memory. The life that emerges is one of a bitter and depressed woman who who has apparently alienated everyone, including her husband. He has already filed for divorce. This new woman that she has become though, convinces him to put his plans on hold. As she rebuilds her life Lisa and husband fall in love again. There is danger lurking however, and one last angry memory waiting to surface. Will their love survive?

Directed by Alan Smythe - With Justine Bateman

Buffet Titanic(1979)

1h 1min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.

Directed by Emir Kusturica - With Boro Stjepanović, Bogdan Diklić, Ranko Gučevac

Gajimaru Restaurant's Love(2014)

1h 37min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Mizuho takes over a restaurant in Nago, Okinawa, which was left to her by her grandmother. She single-handedly runs “Gajimaru Diner”, named after the large, deeply-rooted Gajimaru (banyan) tree in the area. Eventually, circumstances lead to her being brought together with an unknown traveler named Hayato, her ex-boyfriend Shota who returns after living in Tokyo for the past seven years, and a woman named Riko who shares something with both of them. As they work at the diner together, their relationships reveal themselves differently than what they had in mind.

Gardenia(1979)

1h 40min | Crime

A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.

Directed by Domenico Paolella - With Franco Califano, Lory Del Santo, Martin Balsam, Eleonora Vallone, Lorraine De Selle, Melissa Chimenti, ...

Steal America(1992)

1h 22min

A Swiss tourist named Stella meets Christophe, a French drifter, on a Greyhound bus traveling from Chicago to San Francisco. Settling in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Stella and Christophe develop a sexual relationship. In time, she gets a job as a cashier in a postcard shop, while he parks cars at an expensive restaurant. Stella dreams of going to Japan and singing in clubs, while Christophe wants to explore “the Wild West” he imagines from the American movies of his childhood. The couple befriends Maria, a bisexual Italian immigrant who works in the kitchen at Christophe’s restaurant. In their spare time, the three foreigners complain about their low-wage jobs, criticize Americans, and dream of going someplace else. After Christophe is fired from his valet job, an incoming customer hands him the keys to his car. Christophe takes the vehicle and convinces Stella and Maria to flee with him to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the trio embarks on a new adventure.

Navy Secrets(1939)

1h 2min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.

Directed by Howard Bretherton

Strictly in the Groove(1942)

1h | Comedy

College student, cattle baron, confused love story.

Directed by Vernon Keays

Unlucky Plaza(2014)

2h 2min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

The lives of an arrogant young motivational speaker in debt to the Chinese mafia, his lookin’-to-get-out girlfriend, and a single father in dire straits fatefully intertwine in this nail-biting thriller from Singapore that is based, almost unbelievably, on a true story.

Directed by Ken Kwek - With Epi Quizon, Adrian Pang, Guo Liang, Janice Koh, Pam Oei

Belle Vie(2022)

1h 17min | Documentary, Drama, Comedy

4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A much loved Parisian-style bistro located in Los Angeles between a thriving McDonalds and KFC, Belle Vie is owned and operated by the charming and hopeful Vincent Samarco, who struggles to adapt, survive and keep the bistro alive in the midst of a pandemic that has ravaged small businesses everywhere.

Family Album: The Rama Jama's Story(2023)

20min | Documentary

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In the shadow of Bryant-Denny Stadium stands one of the most iconic Tuscaloosa restaurants, Rama Jama's. This local diner is a key tradition in the Alabama Football season, and its own story has much to tell.

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