Dark, white, with nuts, orange, minty, bars, buttons, chocolate fondue, shavings, hot chocolate, mousse†¦chocolate comes in as many shapes as love. Weddingsireland.com guides you through the best chocolate movies for Valentine’s week.
-Chocolat 2000
French romance with Johny Depp and Juliette Binoche. A young mother arrives at a repressed French village with her daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie. Her chocolate quickly changes the lives of villagers.
-Like water for chocolate 1992
Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel, Like water for chocolate is a sensual dramatic comedy of young Tita’s story. She is condemned by family tradition never to marry her lover but to care for her mother. Tita takes revenge by allowing her passions to surface through her cooking with some magical results.
-Charlie and the chocolate factory 2005
The second adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel, directed by Tim Burton. Cute, great cast and a whole world of chocolate and wonder.
-Chocolate (Bollywood).
Bollywood thriller set in London, sweet taste for Hindi cinema lovers.
-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 1971
The original adaptation. Dark pure chocolate.
-Strawberry and Chocolate 1994
This Cuban movie is a classic of Latin American cinema. The film sent Jorge Perugorria to international stardom and the level of Latin heart-throb. Diego, a cultivated homosexual, falls for a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinary ideas.
-DAY OFF – Take him/her for dinner, or the cinema!
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