Movies: Meal

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think abou...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband....

A snake creature secretly lurks inside a shopping mall. A family is fed a meal that turns them into monsters. An airplane hijacking is interrupted by the birth of a tiyanak....

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings....

On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide. She's from the country and hasn't been able to find her boyfriend who came to the city earlier. The ex-con su...

A quiet morning unfolds as I prepare an andouille for breakfast. Simple and serene, “Breakfast” captures the start of the day in its most peaceful moments....

Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs his film by working backwards and finding the sources for these items and how they reach our plates. A...

A mother and her son find themselves in an awkward situation where they live in the same building but they're separated due to different reasons. Mahmood develops a system to solve this issue and the situation starts to heat up....

A man sits at the table and eats his meal...with rather unusual effects....

We follow the course of three meals in very different situations. Two friends who could become more, a tense work lunch and the family dinner we all know about....

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression....