Best "tea" Movies of All Time

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

PG-13

| 2h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 5,674 votes)

I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Directed by David Fincher - With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Mahershala Ali, ...

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Closer(2004)

| 1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 1,471 votes)

Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

Directed by Mike Nichols - With Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen, Colin Stinton, Elizabeth Bower, ...

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Tokyo Story(1953)

2h 17min | Drama

4.1/5 (with 429 votes)

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama, Eijirō Tōno, Sugimura Haruko, Kyōko Kagawa, ...

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Fearless(2006)

PG-13

| 1h 43min | Drama, Action

3.7/5 (with 543 votes)

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.

Directed by Ronny Yu - With Jet Li, Susan Sun, Dong Yong, Nathan Jones, Nakamura Shidō II, Collin Chou, ...

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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels(1998)

| 1h 45min | Comedy, Crime

4.1/5 (with 2,902 votes)

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

Directed by Guy Ritchie - With Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, ...

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Red Cliff Part II(2009)

| 2h 16min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War

3.7/5 (with 191 votes)

The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?

El Siete Machos(1951)

1h 48min | Comedy, Western

4.1/5 (with 36 votes)

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Alma Rosa Aguirre, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Miguel Inclán, José Elías Moreno, Ernesto Finance, ...

Baran(2001)

| 1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 33 votes)

On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

Directed by Majid Majidi - With Hossein Abedini, Reza Naji, Hossein Mahjoub, Christopher Maleki

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Rikyu(1989)

2h 15min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara - With Rentarō Mikuni, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yoshiko Mita, Matsumoto Hakuō II, Nakamura Kichiemon II, Ryō Tamura, ...

Ask This of Rikyu(2013)

2h 4min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's award-winning novel of the same name received the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 37th Montréal World Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival, the 30th Fumiko Yamaji Cultural Award and the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in nine categories, including Best Art Direction, Excellent Film and Excellent Actor.

Directed by Mitsutoshi Tanaka - With Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII, Miki Nakatani, Ichikawa Danjūrō XII, Yūsuke Iseya

The Tea Trail with Simon Reeve(2014)

Documentary

Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Kenya and Uganda to uncover the stories behind Britain's favourite drink, meeting the people who pick, pack and transport tea.

Tea Fight(2008)

1h 42min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break the curse of a tribal rivalry. Meanwhile, in an "underground tea market" somewhere in Taiwan that sells rare expensive tea from around the world, tribe members have other motives up their sleeves regarding the black tea legacy. Each for their own cause, rival tribal members become tangled up in a web of love and hate.

Directed by Ye-Ming Wang

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Teen Cup Chaa(2018)

47min | Drama

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Three different stories blended in a single movie, are brewed and connected by the exemplary Bengali beverage, Chaa (Tea)

Tea War: The Adventures of Robert Fortune(2016)

52min | Documentary, History, TV Movie

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea. Inundated by the drugs, China was forced to open up its market, and the British consolidated their commercial dominance. In 1839, the Middle Empire introduced prohibition. The Opium War was declared… Great Britain emerged as the winner, but the warning was heeded: it could no longer depend on Chinese tea. The only alternative possible was to produce its own tea. The East India Company therefore entrusted one man with finding the secrets of the precious beverage. His mission was to develop the first plantations in Britain’s Indian colonies. This latter-day James Bond was called Robert Fortune – a botanist. After overcoming innumerable ordeals in the heart of imperial China, he brought back the plants and techniques that gave rise to Darjeeling tea.

Directed by Charles-Antoine de Rouvre, Jérôme Scemla

00:08(2014)

5min | Animation

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.

All In This Tea(2007)

1h 10min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer's collectives selling tea, ways to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's best friend, the earthworm.

Directed by Les Blank

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Maxwell(2015)

2min | Horror, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A man is kidnapped and wakes up tied and gagged inside a dark shed. While the media call out for witnesses, no one suspects the culprit; a black-coated man named Maxwell.

Karma(2012)

1h 30min

In a nunnery in the high desert mountains of Mustang, Nepal, a revered abbess dies, leaving signs that she will be reborn in the precious human form. Prayers and ritual must be done to help her consciousness into its next rebirth, but the nunnery coffers are empty. The senior nuns decide that the only way out is get back money loaned out by the nunnery. A mysterious loan was made out to an equally mysterious Mr. Tashi who visited the senior nun in her last days. Given the shady rumours about Mr. Tashi, the nuns are convinced he took advantage of her in her dying state. Two nuns are assigned to retrieve the money; Karma, a free-spirited nun, and her opposite, a textbook-sort of nun called Sonam. They journey from the cloistered world of the high mountains of Nepal, to the faraway cities of sin, to find the elusive Mr. Tashi.

Directed by Tsering Rhitar Sherpa

Stained(2015)

10min | Comedy, Horror

When Harris runs out of toilet paper, a nightmare is unleashed from which he may never escape.

Hikikomori(2016)

12min | Drama

A shut-in´s routine is disrupted by the visit of his older brother. The disruption leads to joy in the end.

Tea(2005)

1h 30min | Documentary

Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Scheffer interlaces the images with interviews with Dun, stage director Pierre Audi and librettist Xu Ying, about the opera and the role tea and oriental philosophy play in this work. Using monochrome, sometimes abstract images (in yellow, blue, red and green), close-ups of plants and flowers and images of the Chinese nature and people (sometimes accelerated or decelerated, sometimes in black-and-white), he mirrors the stylised opera performance and Dun's reflective music.

The Last Sip(2018)

10min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A man finds a way to travel to another dimension. It's beautiful and fascinating there...but not everything is what it seems.

Tea Making Tips(1941)

10min

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say 'orf' instead of 'off'. Tea connoisseurs will benefit from the six golden tips for making the perfect cuppa, as well as countless other handy hints (never store your tea next to cheese, for example). There's an assessment of the pros and cons of various teapots and words of wisdom about the tea bush itself. Slightly grotesque methods for producing tea en masse are demonstrated - it was wartime, after all - and tea had to be produced by the oceanful. As such, there are some top tips for cleaning that hard-to-reach tap in your tea urn. Remember: "a dirty tap means dirty tea".

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