Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

Director

Alfonso Arau

Writers

Laura Esquivel

Themesbased on novel or bookcookingformer loversjealousylovers separatedmagic realismmarriagemexican revolutionplatonic lovesibling relationship